Chapter 307 This Is the Power of Medium Anti-Aircraft Guns

Jules January 16, 915, Kubinka, the station of the mobile army being formed.

At the same time, this is also the residence of the "Royal Yulin Army" among many Yebao people.

Kubinka was originally a royal training ground, with a status equivalent to that of Zhu Rihe in our army. Wang Zhong also made full use of this condition to train troops here every day while organizing his troops.

When the new tanks were delivered, the troops were practicing infantry-tank coordination, so when they saw these Shermans and Crusaders coming in, all the soldiers saw them.

Yegorov was organizing a drill. When he saw this scene, he directly ordered: "Take a 30-minute break and I'll go see what's going on."

"Can we go too?" the veteran asked, having been familiar with Yegorov for a long time.

Yegorov: "Stay! The general won't mind if you mess around, I will."

"You are also a general." Alexander Alexandrovich, who succeeded Pavlov as chief of staff of the 1st Guards, said.

Yegorov lowered his head and looked at his collar badge: "Indeed. I have never thought that I could be a general in my life. You and the military bishop look at them, and I'll go see what's going on."

Ivan Petrovich, who succeeded Popov as the commander of the 1st Infantry Guards Guards, said: "Go ahead. If there is good equipment, try to give it to our division."

Yegorov grinned: "Of course. When General Rokossov was the division commander, he led us everywhere to get equipment. Now it's his turn to be annoyed by me!"

Many old soldiers laughed.

Yegorov strutted towards the new equipment.

Chief of Staff Alexander asked Ivan Petrovich: "Vanya (Ivan's nickname), look at his swagger, can you imagine that he is the old man who drank drunkenly because he missed his dead wife last night?"

Before Bishop Ivan could speak, a soldier next to him joked: "Tell me more about drinking wine."

In the end, the person who asked the question was a new soldier, but he was slapped on the forehead by the veteran soldier: "Don't make fun of this kind of thing! The division commander's wife and children were all killed in the enemy's artillery fire!"

Ivan, the military bishop, glanced at the educated recruits and said, "The teacher may not care about your teasing, but you have to be polite, right? In addition to teaching you culture, the night school also teaches you etiquette!"

The night school was a night activity started by General Rokossov. Because the Ant Army did not have the practice of continuing to use time at night before, the soldiers had great objections at first.

Later, General Rokossov took two measures to increase everyone's enthusiasm. The first was to establish a system. As long as he passed the night school graduation assessment, he could be added to the glorious armored force and charge into battle with the general.

The second is that in the weekly night school summary, soldiers who receive excellent evaluations can get a bottle of vodka and are allowed to drink on the weekends and do not participate in additional training on the weekends.

It is not yet known whether the first measure is effective because no soldiers have passed the night school graduation exam.

The second measure was extremely effective. Every weekend, soldiers who performed well in night classes would get together to drink, making everyone else envious of them - and the others had to train extra.

Petrovich took this opportunity to educate the soldiers, and once again put his hands behind his back and looked in the direction of the new equipment: "I hope the division commander can get some good stuff."

Chief of Staff Alexander said: "I hope it will be a tank with a thick barrel. The barrel of another tank looks similar to our 45-gun, and it looks weak at first glance."

Immediately, a veteran said: "The protection doesn't look good. Tanks with thick barrels at least have a slanted front."

A considerable part of the infantry has not even graduated from the tenth grade, so they only know that the T34 has good protection because the armor is slanted, but they don't understand much more.

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Wang Zhong was arranging for people at the shooting range to set up dummies when he heard someone calling his name: "General!"

You don't need to think that the person who would call the general directly like this must be an old man with whom he is familiar. He turned around and saw it was Yegorov.

"Yegorov, you guy!" Wang Zhong said with a smile, "You are here to get equipment, right?"

Yegorov pointed at Sherman: "I want this!"

Wang Zhong: "This has been decided to be handed over to Davarisi of the Melania People's Army. They have people from the Free Melania Army in the United Kingdom who have used this."

Yegorov curled his lips: "When you get promoted, you won't care about the old troops any more!"

Wang Zhong: "What are you talking about! The first person to complete the T34W training field is Yijibu."

Yegorov: "I only have one battalion, it's not enough, let's get another battalion!"

Wang Zhong: "You are an infantry division, not a tank division. Although I think your division should be more effective than the Tukhachev tank division in combat."

I don’t know if it’s the result of someone’s active guidance. Now in the army, the tank divisions formed during the Tukhachev era that lacked everything except tanks are called Tukhachev tank divisions. And these tanks created by Wang Zhong are called Tukhachev tank divisions. A large-scale division composed of a battalion and a large number of other troops and arms is called a "new-style division" or a "Rokosov tank division."

After Yegorov knew that there was no hope of getting a new tank, he stopped looking at Sherman and turned to the Crusader anti-aircraft gun: "What is this ugly thing?"

Wang Zhong: "Crusader-style self-propelled anti-aircraft gun."

While speaking, he suddenly had an idea. If the 25mm anti-aircraft cannon is called light air defense and the 85mm anti-aircraft cannon is called heavy air defense, then is the 40mm Bofors like the Crusaders called medium air defense?

As an old player of Hearts of Iron 4, his favorite thing to do is to put a self-propelled medium anti-aircraft gun in the infantry division to improve the armor rating of the entire division, because the game only calculates the enemy's armor penetration ability by looking at the armor of the unit with the thickest armor in the division. If the enemy's armor penetration ability is not enough to penetrate the armor, the entire division will become harder.

This behavior is commonly known as mixing gold shields, so Hearts of Iron players have a unique preference for medium anti-aircraft guns that can provide gold shields, air defense and soft target killing, and are cheap.

Wang Zhong's Guards 1st Mechanized Infantry already has a battalion of tanks, and may add a tank destroyer battalion equipped with vortexes later. The armor strength is not weak. In the game, this kind of "Gundam Division" does not really need to use anti-aircraft guns to "mix gold shields".

But in reality, the armored forces of this elite division need reliable self-propelled anti-aircraft guns to provide accompanying air defense.

Wang Zhong: "This anti-aircraft gun will be strengthened to the Guards 1st Mechanized Infantry to provide accompanying air defense for the armored forces."

Yegorov immediately frowned: "This doesn't look strong!"

Wang Zhong: "Not strong?"

He turned his head and asked the officer of the shooting range: "Have the targets been set up?"

"General, the general has been set up, including the aerial targets suspended by balloons and the dummies on the ground."

Wang Zhong looked at the Crusader anti-aircraft guns - now they are driven by the United Kingdom military instructors who came by plane.

"Tell the instructor to shoot the aerial targets first, and be careful not to hit the balloons."

After he finished speaking, Vasily immediately translated.

The instructor made an OK gesture, and then the Crusader turned the muzzle and fired at the aerial targets.

Wang Zhong heard Yegorov next to him exclaim: "What a noise!"

After all, the Bofors is only 5 mm smaller than the caliber of the main 45 mm anti-tank gun of the Ant Army, and even larger than the caliber of the 37 mm gun equipped on the early Proson Type 3 tank. This thing is scary when it is fired continuously.

The target was shot down in a series of air explosions and fell to the ground with a bang.

Wang Zhong: "Let them shoot at the house."

The training ground has brick houses for practicing indoor close combat and testing the damage of various shells to targets in the house. Now dummies are also set up in these houses.

After Vasily conveyed the order, the Crusaders leveled the machine guns, aimed at the house, and started shooting.

When Bofors opened fire, a layer of dust would be blown up on the ground every time it fired. This thing is a dust generator, and it immediately made a large area of ​​smoke and dust around the Crusaders.

On the target side, high-explosive shells hit the brick wall continuously, tearing the solid brick wall apart piece by piece, and broken bricks flew everywhere.

The dummies placed outside the house were directly shattered, and the dummies in the room were not spared. The one standing at the window was directly shattered, and the one hiding inside was probably shot into a sieve.

The wall of the brick house facing Bofors was directly demolished.

Wang Zhong: "Cease fire!"

Vasily: "Sisfael!"

The shooting stopped.

The range personnel ran to the house to check the situation inside. Soon, a report came from the walkie-talkie in the hands of the range officer: "Ten dummies were damaged to varying degrees, and all were judged to be injured."

Wang Zhonggang looked at Yegorov, who said: "I want this! I just don't know if this thing is good for anti-armor."

Wang Zhong said to Vasily: "Let them change armor-piercing shells, bring one of the captured Type 3 and Type 4 tanks, and a half-track vehicle, and put the dummies in them."

This time the preparation time was a little longer, so Wang Zhong chatted with Yegorov: "How does it feel to be a division commander?"

"Great, I can't wait to beat up the Proshen devils." Yegorov said.

Wang Zhong: "I heard that you often drink alone?"

Yegorov: "The Japanese are idle when we don't fight Prosen. They will be fine when we fight."

Wang Zhong patted Yegorov on the shoulder: "It's still early. I estimate that the Prosen people will not start a new offensive until April."

Yegorov: "Are we going to attack the capital again?"

Many officers around looked over immediately after hearing this.

Wang Zhong: "No, the enemy's plot to force us to surrender quickly has failed. At this time, Yebao is not that important, at least not as important as our southern oil-producing areas. General Gorky and I both judged that the enemy's main attack direction this year is the south."

Yegorov: "Then there will be no attack on the central front and the north?"

"How is it possible? The enemy needs to delay our troops, so they will attack in the north, middle and south, but other directions are all diversionary operations."

At this time, the shooting range officer reported: "The target is ready."

Wang Zhong: "Aim at the half-track vehicle first and open fire."

Without waiting for Vasily to translate, the Crusaders opened fire directly, and the half-track vehicle caught fire after a few shots - this vehicle had just arrived at the shooting range, so there was naturally oil and engine oil in it that could burn.

Yegorov: "Oh, not bad."

Wang Zhong: "Aim at the Type 3 tank."

Soon the Crusaders opened fire, and the armor-piercing shells first raised the lights of the Type 3 tank, and then broke the tracks.

Yegorov: "Great, it can break the tracks!"

On the battlefield, the crew of a broken track vehicle will temporarily abandon the vehicle, and a towing vehicle will be summoned later to tow it.

Egorov was obviously very happy to be able to break the track, but the Crusader was still shooting, and he didn't know where he hit, and the No. 3 suddenly caught fire.

Egorov: "Oh, oh ...