Four Hundred and Sixty One Artillery Battle
It was just the beginning of the month, and the weather in Poland was actually still very cool, but on a German artillery position, most of them were naked to the upper body, and it seemed that the whole scene was so hot.
A burly man with chest hair was holding the shell and pushing it into the barrel, and the soldiers behind pushed the stacked charges into it, and then the soldiers helped close the breech block, and the whole action was done in one go. Then after a brief aiming and adjustment, as the semaphore officer not far away waved the red flag in his hand, five 150mm cannons on this position roared at the same time.
The German artillery is slightly stronger than the Japanese artillery, but it is basically at the same level. The German conventional artillery has an advantage in the number of 105 and 150 mm caliber artillery, but it is inferior to the Japanese army in the number of 75 mm and even 37 mm caliber artillery. This result is also directly related to the establishment and weaponry of the German army.
In terms of equipment, the German army has a large number of anti-tank guns with a caliber of 75 mm. However, although these guns are large in number, they cannot be compared with the Japanese 75 mm mountain guns, which are the main caliber of field artillery. At the same time, the 40mm caliber anti-aircraft guns of the German army are pure anti-aircraft weapons, so they are not as large as the 37mm caliber artillery of the Japanese army, because the 37mm caliber artillery of the Japanese army has both anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank guns.
On the other hand, the German infantry support weapons are mainly 60mm mortars and 80mm mortars, and the direct support weapons at close range are rocket launchers. Artillery troops - it is impossible to judge which artillery support firepower is better.
Of course, if you count the No. 3 assault gun used to support the infantry and the Friedrich rocket launcher of the rocket launcher unit, the German army's artillery strength alone is enough to overwhelm the Japanese army. Of course, this is not something to boast about, because the Japanese army The strength of their artillery is only a little bit stronger than their tank troops.
On the whole, during the French campaign, the overall strength of the German artillery was only slightly better than that of Japan, but now the German artillery is "not what it used to be". They captured thousands of French cannons in France, and there are still enough A reserve of tens of thousands of shells. These munitions naturally became the weapons of the German army, and they continued to exert their residual heat where they were needed.
If you add the Belgian artillery and the artillery produced as war reparations in the French occupied area, then this number is very impressive. Although this kind of seized weapons caused the German logistics force to collapse, the already messy logistics classification was doubled. But the benefits obtained are obvious, that is, in just a few months, the German artillery has one-third more than the original.
Sometimes the accumulation of quantity will eventually lead to a leap in quality. This is a simple truth that everyone knows. Now the artillery units of the German army rely on the accumulation of quantity in this way, and quality changes have taken place-they are actually comparable to the huge artillery of the Soviet Union. The troops fought forty-six to open accounts, and the scene was not inferior.
"Boom!" Another volley,
The shells flew into the distance at a speed invisible to the naked eye. These long-range artillery units could not see their own results. They could only repeat their actions mechanically, firing shells one after another at the coordinates provided to them by the front line. near the parameters.
"Coordinates, 75, 44! Adjust the parameters!" A second lieutenant standing next to the radio held the headset hanging on his ear with one hand, while recording the position of the enemy's position provided by the front-line observation post with a pencil.
"Adjust the artillery parameters! Coordinates: 75, 44! Load the shells!" A captain next to him ordered loudly.
Following the officer's command, a group of German soldiers with their upper bodies naked got busy again, and loaded the shells and powder in their hands into their cannons in a series of commands.
Then the flag flew, and another round was fired, over the fields and farmhouses, over the woods and the creek, over the barracks and the tanks parked by the side, over the heads of the soldiers in the trenches at the front, over the front of the trenches The densely packed craters and corpses landed precisely on a land full of Soviet attacking soldiers.
In a carefully camouflaged artillery observation post on the front line, a soldier was using a scissor periscope to observe the opposite Soviet position, and then he excitedly stated the result of the shelling: "The target was hit! It's really accurate! Extended shooting is about 15 meters, and the direction does not change."
"04, 04! I am 01, I am 01, the direction remains unchanged, and the distance is corrected by 76! Repeat: The direction remains unchanged, and the distance is revised by 76!" Another soldier picked up the radio and reported loudly.
On the other side of the radio, the second lieutenant once again shouted out the calculated coordinates: "Coordinates, 76, 44! Adjust the parameters! Shoot now!"
"Shoot immediately! Coordinates 76, 44!" The officer standing aside ordered loudly again.
The semaphore continued to wave, this time the cannon did not wait for the salvo, but roared slightly differently. The deafening and orderly sound also turned into a series of bangs.
On the front line, a German veteran was just squatting in the trench dug by himself. Beside him, a few young soldiers were holding their rifles and trembling in fright, praying for God to bless them. Kind of crap.
The veteran, with a cigarette in his mouth and his own assault rifle, gently wiped the two field medals hanging on his chest. One came from Poland, and it was a commemorative medal of the Polish War. Anyone who participated in the Polish campaign had a One such commemorative medal is actually very rough in workmanship; the other is a commemorative medal of the Battle of France, which does not look very good in workmanship, but is still wiped clean by veterans.
The sound of shells falling with a different sound suddenly appeared, and the veteran who had been acting as if nothing had happened suddenly frowned, and he shouted: "Lie down and hide!" Pounced on the anti-bomb trenches on the other side.
Although the German army did not prepare for permanent fortifications, the positions were still carefully constructed. Compared with 20 years ago, their skills in digging trenches and fighting trench warfare have not declined at all. There are countless retired masters in the National Defense Forces who are best at digging pits. Li despises the current blitzkrieg of the Wehrmacht.
These people criticize the blitzkrieg tactics that the head of state regards as a treasure in almost every meeting, assuming countless times that if they have time to set up their own defense lines, how they will arrange them is enough to make the blitzkrieg defeat a complete mess. And when the head of state threw out the theory of great defense in depth on the Eastern Front, these people stood unswervingly by the side of head of state Akado, and they were very generous in promoting the head of state to the altar of the master of tactics.
Therefore, the position where the German army is hiding now can be said to be "the strongest defense system among the non-permanent fortifications". This sentence is the original words of an infantry general in his report. Since they can be so praised by the most authoritative old antiques of trench warfare, these lines of defense are not as simple as some shallow pits anyway.
All defensive positions are required to be constructed in the shape of an m, rather than a simple straight line. On both sides of these m-shaped trenches, there are shallow pit communication trenches for transferring troops, and behind these trenches, they are constructed in a T-shape anti-explosion unloading pit body. As long as the shells do not hit the multi-point joints of these tunnels, a slight deviation will reduce the power of these shells by more than 70%. If they deviate by a few meters, then even large-caliber heavy artillery shells will not be able to attack these simple ones. Trenches wreak havoc.
After the key parts have been reinforced with wood and cement, several defensive points of this line of defense have the ability to resist artillery coverage. If you count the 20 kilometers of elastic defense area preset by the large-depth defense theory at the front end of the entire main line of defense, This line of defense is sufficient to deal with any means of attack from the Soviet Union.
Of course Akado is not a god, but at least he stood on the shoulders of giants. The big hole dug by the Soviet military experts for the German armored forces in Kursk was blown by the victors for half a century. Now he used it and used it on the Soviet Red Army. Shibi body pleasure.
The German veteran fell into a branch of the T-shaped anti-explosion tunnel. At about the same time, a shell also landed in another corner of the tunnel. Soldiers in the middle were buried. After a long while, the aftermath of the explosion finally passed. The German veteran got out of the soft soil and shook off the gravel and black mud hanging from his helmet.
His ears were still buzzing due to the loud noise. Although he covered his ears in time, it would take at least a few minutes to recover. This was his experience after being shelled by the French before. He shook his head, then picked up his gun from the floating soil, then turned back to his trench, and saw several comrades who had also just returned.
These soldiers have long been told to follow the advice of the veterans as much as possible. Although they are afraid, they have been training in the trenches they dug on the Eastern Front for 3 months. Heeding the reminders of the veterans to avoid the shells that may hit them is that they have penetrated into the bone marrow. Instinct, so just now they all fell to the ground without hesitation, avoiding the huge shock wave and countless shrapnel of the Soviet artillery shells.
If the Soviet artillery sees this result, it is estimated that they may go crazy, because a German artillery shell hits an attacking Soviet army position, and basically can take away a dozen or even dozens of lives, but the shells they fired, despite their power Larger, but only occasionally added a few wounded soldiers to the German army.