Chapter 954 The End 1

Like a gray tide, the German army crushed the resistance of the Japanese soldiers at an extremely fast speed. In Europe, which has entered the era of automatic weapons and heavy artillery confrontation, the bravery and fearlessness of the Japanese army during the Russo-Japanese War not only made the other side feel some psychological discomfort. , has limited meaning. What's more, the Japanese army during the Taisho period was far less stubborn than the Showa period. When they found that they were surrounded by aggressive German troops, it was not difficult to accept that they would throw away their weapons and surrender.

In addition to the German troops on the front, the German troops holding on to strong points also became a nightmare for the Japanese army. These soldiers took advantage of the familiar terrain to appear and disappear. Elite special shooters shot their opponents in hidden personal bunkers. Large-scale companies used terrain and Falling into position to ambush the retreating Japanese troops, the German defense line that seemed to have been penetrated was re-closed at this moment! A huge encirclement surrounded most of the Japanese troops.

The only regret is that it seems that a Japanese general-level general was not captured.

"The three divisions of the Japanese army had about 15,000 to 18,000 casualties and captured personnel. More than half of the troops did not withdraw. As for the destroyed artillery, there were about 60 to 70 artillery pieces." The staff officer sent the collected battle reports. Arriving in front of Major General Hans von Seeckt. The latter just nodded slightly, indicating that the latter could go down. Now, he was thinking about a question, how to write a summary of this battle.

Major General Sekter's plan was successful, and it was definitely a great victory in terms of the number of Japanese troops annihilated, but the whole process and results were still a bit lackluster. To put it more clearly, Major General Sekter felt that his iron fist hit a rotten cabbage, and then the cabbage turned into a puddle of mud. As a warrior, naturally he would not flaunt how awesome he was when he hit a cabbage. Well, the Japanese army's combat effectiveness was so weak that even Major General Sekter felt that they should have won.

"The Japanese are not adapted to the European war situation in terms of training or tactical system. From the highest level to the grassroots units, there is a huge gap between them and us and Britain and France." Sekter thought for a while and picked up his pen to write. The first sentence.

"The Japanese lack understanding of war. They prefer to win by playing some clever tricks. It may be useful when facing the Russians, but on the Western Front with unprecedented strength and firepower, this kind of behavior can only bring disastrous consequences. Failure. Their infantry had a spirit of sacrifice and a relatively complete will to fight, but the officers above the middle level lacked understanding of battlefield attempts. They did not hesitate to get into the complete set I designed, ignoring the British and French forces here. Experience over the course of several months.”

"The level of the Japanese army's senior leadership is hard to say. After all, we did not capture any generals. This is the biggest regret of this battle. I will pay attention to it next time. In my opinion, if the grassroots Japanese army is equipped with British and French commanders and has If they have enough equipment, they are still quite threatening, but if the Japanese are allowed to command by themselves, it can only be said that they will not be able to adapt to the European battlefield within half a year!" Sekter finally made an assertion to the Japanese army. Then, the summary of Japan's combat effectiveness ends here. He turned around and started talking about another question.

"In this battle,

Fast, mobile artillery using wheeled or light chassis plays an important role, which is of great significance for supplementing direct firepower on the battlefield and anti-armor combat. Although the Hu Feng assault gun is easy to use, this powerful one While weapons have powerful offensive and defensive capabilities and cross-country capabilities, they also mean they are expensive and scarce in quantity. Because the Kingdom of Bavaria has a small army, its industry is enough to equip its troops with these powerful heavily armored knights. But the Prussian Army is different. We need more cheap mobile artillery. "Sekter thought of this, paused and then wrote.

"I personally think that a tank that uses a cheap chassis, has armor that can defend against shrapnel and machine guns, and is equipped with a 77mm cannon is of great significance to our future wars. The powerful Bavarian armored group has arrived on the Eastern Front. We are facing The British and French armored forces are at a numerical disadvantage, and we need to use this armored unit that can be mass-produced to close the numerical gap between the two sides."

"It is also of great significance to disperse this kind of cheap equipment to infantry units. At least they can provide timely and effective direct firepower for infantry. Each of our divisions has a storm commando team, and these storm commando teams use Towed artillery provided support, but these artillery simply could not keep up with the pace of the troops. After breaking through the initial defense line, the attacking troops slowed down their advance due to lack of fire support."

"As the main offensive direction, the troops can naturally be assigned powerful armored units, but a limited breakthrough is not fatal to the opponent. Both sides have tens of kilometers in depth, and the opponent has enough time to mobilize their troops to attack a small number of breakthroughs. For blockade, if we can add some direct-aiming artillery to enable some non-key targets to have certain attack capabilities, then it will be a very important factor in improving the combat effectiveness of our army."

Surprisingly, Major General Sekter's greatest impression in this battle was not that he recognized the weak nature of the current Japanese army, but that after referring to the record of "Kruger's Circus", he There is a new feeling! Originally, the German army also had some truck guns, but most of these truck guns had no defense, and most of them were used as indirect fire support firepower. However, after several months of fighting, more and more German front-line army officers discovered that the offensive troops needed to accompany them. The issue of direct firepower has never been resolved.

In other words, this problem has reached the point where it must be kicked away. At this time, Major General Sekter proposed the idea of ​​a "cheap version of the assault gun". From this point of view, the changes it brought to the German Army were even more significant than the discovery that the Japanese army was currently relatively weak!

Is this concept right? Of course it is right, because there were many tanks with relatively poor protection in World War II. For example, the German Rhino had an 88mml71 anti-tank gun installed on a Panzer IV tank. Another example is the Soviet Union's su-76. In fact, to a certain extent, the American m10 and m36 should also be considered such products. Although the latter has better protection, it is still worse than the Cheetah, Ferdinand, and Russian su122, su100 and the like. Some. These vehicles use the territory of medium tanks and are relatively cheap to build (American TDs are not cheap), but because they have a pretty good or even incredible artillery, they are a huge threat to various targets.

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