Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 285 Guiding the Artillery Strike
However, in actual flight, pilots must coordinate the operation of multiple mechanisms to maintain helicopter stability. For example, when the helicopter is flying forward, pushing the cyclic pitch control stick forward will tilt the rotor thrust, which not only accelerates the helicopter but also generates a pitching moment, causing the fuselage to tilt downward.

Therefore, pilots need to pull back on the stick in a timely manner to balance the pitch moment; otherwise, the helicopter will continue to pitch down and may lose control. Simultaneously, the asymmetrical thrust during forward acceleration will cause the fuselage to tilt, requiring pilots to push back on the stick to maintain balance. Under the influence of complex airflow, maintaining stable helicopter flight becomes even more difficult, requiring pilots to constantly adjust the control mechanisms to maintain dynamic balance.

Of course, the most crucial thing is that there can be no mistakes. Unlike a manual transmission car, where a mistake might just stall the engine, a mistake in mid-air could be fatal.

Moreover, unlike winged aircraft, helicopters cannot glide to a landing even if the engine stops. Once the engine stops working, a helicopter becomes a weight and has no possibility of gliding.

Of course, although helicopters are several times more dangerous than winged aircraft, their ability to land and take off directly without needing a runway makes them very popular.

In particular, its ultra-low-altitude flight and hovering capabilities allow it to use treetops to directly evade radar detection, even flying several meters close to the ground without any problems. Unlike winged aircraft, which have a stall and therefore cannot fly too slowly, it can maintain speeds of several hundred kilometers per hour.

Trying to fly close to the ground to find terrain and avoid radar detection is basically impossible; doing so would result in crashing into trees or mountains, causing the plane to be destroyed and the pilot killed.

Therefore, if Wang Gensheng had a large number of helicopters, he could use low-altitude flights to carry out targeted elimination missions.

For example, when the US military used Black Hawk helicopters to directly transport special forces teams to certain locations, it was done by using helicopters to transport the special forces teams.

As Wang Gensheng recalled the helicopter piloting instruction he had seen before his time travel, he slowly began to try to take off, even though this was his first time piloting a helicopter.

However, due to the theoretical basis and excellent neural response, the enhancement of physical fitness by more than six times is not only in strength, but also in reaction ability and brain thinking ability.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng can quickly detect whether the helicopter is veering off course and then correct it in time with the fastest reaction speed.

So what seemed like a difficult helicopter to fly was easily mastered by Wang Gensheng in less than two hours.

However, just as Wang Gensheng was gloating over how quickly he had learned to fly a helicopter, Li Xiu, who had been observing the repair progress of Hagaru-ri Airport, spoke up:

"Si Ling, something bad has happened! The Hagaru-ri airport we bombed is almost repaired. The three big craters we just created have been filled in!"

Wang Gensheng was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect that the US military would be able to repair it in just two hours. He also realized that there would be no chance to attack again.

After all, Hagaru-ri Airport had already taken in many US troops who had retreated from places like Shinshin-ri, and it was no longer the weak and undefended Hagaru-ri Airport it had been before.

If Wang Gensheng were to lead the Marines to attack Hagaru-ri Airport at this point, it would undoubtedly be tantamount to lambs to the slaughter.

However, Wang Gensheng naturally couldn't just stand by and watch Smith restore the airport runway.

Just as Wang Gensheng was about to pilot the H5 helicopter with some explosives to bomb the airport runway, he suddenly saw searchlights shining into the sky on both sides of the runway. Clearly, Smith was also afraid of bombing. The H5 helicopter couldn't carry many bombs for bombing, but Wang Gensheng immediately thought of the eight M1 155mm howitzers he had captured when he wiped out the Polar Bear Regiment.

An idea immediately formed in his mind, so he promptly spoke to the communications officer:
"Immediately send a telegram to the Lion Chief of the Eighty-Nine Lions and ask them where the howitzers from the Polar Bear Regiment that they captured are, and whether they can reach the Hagaru-ri Airport!"

Indeed, after Wang Gensheng and Wu Qianli took over the Polar Bear Regiment, the Polar Bear Regiment's eight M1 155mm howitzers naturally became the Eighty-Ninth Lion Artillery Battalion.

It's worth noting that in the sequel to the movie "The Battle of Chosin Reservoir," the howitzers that Shiro 89 had painstakingly captured were being transported to the Hagaru-ri area!
However, because they were in a hurry, the transport was carried out during the day, and the planes were bombed by the US military.

Shortly after, the leader of the Eighty-Nine Lions responded to Wang Gensheng, saying that the eight captured 155mm howitzers had been transported by the Eighty-Nine Lions' artillery battalion to a location 13 kilometers from Hagaru-ri Airport.

Upon hearing this, Wang Gensheng instructed the lion chief of the Eighty-Nine Lions to establish an artillery position. After all, it would be dawn in a few hours, and by the time the artillery was delivered, it would be daylight. By then, the artillery position would be wiped out by American planes as soon as the cannons were set up.

So, at Wang Gensheng's urging, Battalion Commander Yang set up cannons on the spot and began preparing to bombard Hagaru-ri Airport.

Despite the distance of thirteen kilometers, Wang Gensheng knew that the M1 155mm howitzer had a maximum range of fifteen kilometers, so a distance of thirteen kilometers was certainly enough to reach Hagaru-ri Airport.

Of course, at this time, it was thirteen kilometers away from Hagaru-ri Airport. At such a distance, let alone at night, it would be impossible to see the target clearly even during the day, as it was beyond visual range.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng was naturally tasked with guiding the artillery fire. So, Wang Gensheng piloted a helicopter directly to the artillery position established by Battalion Commander Yang.

Honestly, having a helicopter is great; it's much faster than skiing. Battalion Commander Yang looked at Wang Gensheng, who was getting off the helicopter, with a shocked expression and said:

"Wang Siling, did you capture this uniquely shaped plane at Hagaru-ri Airport?"

"That's right, it was captured at Hagaru-ri Airport. My Marines had already taken advantage of the weakened state of Hagaru-ri Airport to occupy it, but as more and more US troops retreated to Hagaru-ri Airport, we destroyed the airport runway and withdrew. However, the US military has almost finished repairing the airport runway, so I hope your artillery battalion will use howitzers to blow up the airport that the US military has repaired again!"

However, no sooner had Wang Gensheng finished speaking than Battalion Commander Yang interjected:

"But Wang Siling, we're so far away now, we can't even see the target, so we can't aim accurately and have no way to calibrate the gun!"

Wang Gensheng waved his hand and said:
"Don't worry, I'll fly a helicopter into the air and report the shell impact points to you, then you can calibrate! Use this to establish communication, and make sure to bomb the Hagaru-ri airport to pieces before dawn!"

After Wang Gensheng finished speaking, he handed Battalion Commander Yang a backpack walkie-talkie!

(End of this chapter)