Bab 389: Chapter 1 The March Begins_2

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In order to achieve a range of over 15 kilometers, howitzers have long and thick barrels. To balance such heavy barrels and to prevent them from being overturned by the strong blast of the muzzle during firing, howitzers generally have very heavy trail spades.

Therefore, even if the caliber is the same, infantry guns are much lighter than howitzers, more mobile, and can keep up with the infantry battalions. For instance, Ante's 76mm infantry gun actually uses a similar carriage as the 45mm anti-tank gun, and can be operated by just two people when manpower is tight.

The artillery platoons in the Ante Army are very small, usually consisting of two sections, each with two guns. However, the artillery sections that Wang Zhong created have four guns each, making it 12 guns per platoon and close to 300 people in a company.

By cramming such units into infantry battalions, logistics are probably cursing already.

But he did it anyway.