Five Hundred and Ten Demons or Angels
Accardo leaned against the wall of the most advanced nursing home in Berlin, looking at Dr. Einstein who was still in a coma. This scientist who has not been very cooperative is now lying quietly on his hospital bed, as if asleep In general, no longer worry about the war.
A shot in the chest left him in a very bad physical condition. In order to save his life, a lot of food is now made into paste and then poured into Einstein's stomach with equipment. He looked much older, as if he had aged ten years all of a sudden.
All kinds of bad news came from all directions these days, which made Akado feel that he was really powerless. Rommel fought Patton in Africa and lost nearly 200 tanks of various types, and these tanks were not just tanks.
You must know that if these equipment want to be transported to remote North Africa, they need to be produced in the factory and loaded on the train, all the way south to the southern port of Italy, and then pass through the Mediterranean Sea before they can be delivered to North Africa and handed over to the African Army. Along the way, trains, ships, and corresponding escort ships are required. The cost of transporting one tank to Africa may become two or even three.
In order for such a tank to operate, there must be corresponding desert modification parts, spare parts for the tank, engine and supporting gearbox, worn out gears and tracks, as well as corresponding maintenance technicians, and fuel for the front line. In order for a tank to go to the front line in North Africa, the German army had to pay a huge price.
As a result, Rommel wiped out the 200 tanks accumulated so hard in the first battle. How can it not make people feel distressed? You must know that this is not just as simple as 200 tanks, but also includes almost 1,000 well-trained tank crew members. This loss is huge for Germany.
On the other hand, discordant voices appeared in the sky on the Eastern Front. The Soviet Air Force began to put into service a new type of fighter jet on a large scale. This kind of fighter jet appeared in the skies of various regions at the same time. A new type of aircraft more advanced than the i-16 improved fighter 100.
Although the performance of this new type of weapon called the MiG 1 fighter is still not as good as the existing German fw-190d fighter, it has successfully shortened the generation gap in air force equipment just like the American p-40 fighter in North Africa. This made the Luftwaffe's struggle for air supremacy more costly and longer.
Although after a series of air strikes and counterattacks, the Luftwaffe claimed to have destroyed 7,000 Soviet aircraft of various types, but everyone knew that most of these aircraft were actually old-fashioned biplanes that could not compete with the Luftwaffe. The number of improved i-16 aircraft and new MiG-1 fighter jets that are really used to fight against the Luftwaffe is slowly increasing.
In order to counter the various weapons and equipment of the German army, the Soviet Union served new kv-2 tanks and MiG-1 fighter jets. The United States also put into production m4 Sherman tanks and more advanced p-40 fighter jets.
War is like the best teacher, allowing students all over the world to master and proficiently use the various science and technology they have mastered in the fastest time.
Akado knew in his heart that soon more advanced T-34 tanks would appear on the Soviet battlefield, and with the help of British engineers, American fighter jets would become more advanced and mature. The cruelty of war makes people bravely try the changes brought about by advanced technology, and then use it in war to gain the initiative and advantages.
That kind of battle between tanks and cavalry will become less and less in the days to come, and more often it will be a brutal collision of equal forces. The number of casualties skyrocketed and the war was difficult to end in the short term - all of this explained a simple truth, that is, the technological gap between the world and Germany was getting smaller and smaller.
It's not that Germany's progress is too slow, but that there will be a technical bottleneck period after World War II. In this period, there will be no essential technological leap. A new development period will not come until the maturity and development of computers. It's a pity that Akado and his Germany don't have time to wait for decades of development, they can only bite the bullet and take steps forward to explore.
Fortunately, with Akado, who is familiar with the future, Germany only needs to bravely take the steps of its own exploration, because they don’t need to worry about making mistakes in their direction, and they won’t take detours and won’t go wrong. go a long way.
However, the development of technology is a systematic and complex system, and it is not the advancement of a certain technology that can drive the leap forward of the entire system. Those plots of metallurgical production of guns and ammunition in ancient times can only appear in novels, because in real life, if metallurgical technology alone can produce thermal weapons, all steel factories will be considered military enterprises.
For example: the barrel of a gun is made of steel, so the improvement of steelmaking technology can improve the quality of guns? In fact, this is not the case, because the barrel is not solid, so the production of the barrel also involves the casting process. What happens after the casting process? Matchlock or flintlock? Only then did I realize that the processing of moving parts such as triggers and springs was involved, right? And what do you get this time? A musket that can't hit people within 50 paces, because there is no rifling technology-when a musket team of the Napoleon era is really armed, it is almost considered that the entire ancient production technology has been improved.
And why is China, an ancient country of inventions, gradually falling behind? The reason is because the closer to modern science and technology, the more an innovation requires cross-field collaboration and progress. The invention of gunpowder can be gradually improved and improved by continuous experimentation and improvement of the formula, but if you want to develop nitroglycerin, you can't rely on throwing ore into the furnace to make alchemy by chance.
Don't underestimate any science and technology. These are not superficial experimental principles that you can check on Baidu. Everyone knows that boats run faster with propellers, but is it better to use propellers with a few blades? Why are airplanes made of wood at first, and later developed into metal? How is a metal airplane better than a wooden airplane?
There is no way for one person to change the technological environment, even if he has a PhD in engineering. Therefore, it is impossible for a traverser like Akado to change the speed of technological development in Germany by himself. What he can do is to make Germany avoid detours and use the fastest speed to reach the goal that has been proven correct by later generations.
He will not improve the Tiger tank, he just chose a simple and feasible running mechanism for the German tank, and then simplified the complex design of some German engineers, and finally turned the complex Tiger tank into a simple and easy-to-produce Alternative products only. But if he is asked to give advice on how to develop and develop computers, his level is the same as most people, and he is a layman without the slightest foundation.
Fortunately, Germany has been accumulating technology very well, and the technical level of its workers is also world-class. Akado doesn't need to worry about some details of craftsmanship. In this way, between a traverser and a country that lacks guidance, there is a good basis for cooperation that complements each other: Acador does not understand technology, but Germany has technology; Germany has taken too many detours in technology development, and it happens that Cardo knows how to cut corners.
In other words, if a time traveler like Akado is thrown into China, apart from being able to write a shocking article called "The Eight-Year War of Resistance is Coming to an End" to inspire everyone to grit their teeth, he may There is no good way to change the direction of the war. Who do you think is likely to lead a country with an annual output of 50,000 tons of steel to fight against an enemy with an annual output of 35 million tons of steel?
Germany's strength is strong because the National Defense Forces use almost hundreds of millions of bullets for training every year, and after the expansion of the army, it will be hundreds of millions of bullets. Such a large number of live ammunition drills has made the German Wehrmacht famous on the battlefield. The most elite grenadiers in Germany each carry almost 200 rounds of ammunition, which is why Akado dared to clamor that the German army is invincible.
At the same time, the squadron distributed 4 bullets per capita per year. In other words, if the squadron shoots one shot during training, there will be no bullets for a quarter... If it were anyone, who would dare to take such a troop that can only fire 4 shots a year to go to war? Is Rommel great? Let him try it! Is Barton awesome or not? Let him try it!
So now Akado can only wait, waiting for the accumulation of German industrial technology, and waiting for the new industrial revolution he carefully planned to bloom beautiful flowers. At that time, Germany's weapons will have a new leap, and after this leap, Germany's war weapons will actually be ten years ahead of its opponents, an unsurpassable ten years.
Akado looked at Einstein lying on the bed, his heart was full of sighs. In the original script, the ten years after Germany's industrial technology took off will be the golden decade led by Einstein. Once Germany's nuclear industry and new material industry are completed, the world will enter a more brilliant stage of development.
It's a pity that this former friend is now lying on the hospital bed, relying on the nurse's massage every day to ensure that the muscles do not fester and sore. This star, who should have stood at the pinnacle of science and technology in the world, is having difficulty even breathing at this moment. Akado really wanted to help Einstein and let him die peacefully, but after thinking about it, he finally couldn't bear it.
Einstein was not Hitler after all, even if he did something that betrayed Akado's friendship, he would not be guilty of death. Every time Akado recalled the afternoon when he sat drinking tea with Einstein, he felt that Einstein should not have died by his own hands.
Why? Why do so many people leave me, and why do so many people follow me around while shouting my name? Am I a demon, or a gift from God to the German people?