Chapter 1056: Strong crossbow chapter

Chapter 1056 The end of the strong crossbow (1)

"Well, in fact, when you came here, there are other things you can learn from. For example, we made a deep breakthrough and outflank the Russian positions. Mackensen's troops will also participate in this operation. This will be the Prussian Army in It’s the first performance after changing into a dress-up, I think you are also very interested.” After a while, the prince decided to calm down with the minister of war, and said.

"I'm looking forward to it. But it is said that General Mackenson's troops will arrive in one week. Do you plan to wait for their arrival before acting?" Falkingham asked.

"No, at most 5 days, we will start the operation. By that time, the Russians are exhausted. Before they decide to abandon the offense and turn to the defense, we must attack!" The prince shook his head and said.

The so-called steel can't last, it's the Russians. If you use too much drugs, there will be problems. Now, the Russians have shown a state of fatigue. The loss of personnel is not great. What worries the Russians most is the damage to the equipment and the loss of horses!

At this time, Major General Arkady, the commander of the Fourth Assault Cavalry Division, was looking at a group of people in the distance around an elephant tank destroyer, helpless. This self-propelled artillery equipped with the 107MM cannon is very easy to use. It is not only used to ambush German tanks and assault guns, but also a rare weapon for attacking tough. The powerful 15KG armor-piercing projectile is enough to deal with most targets. But now, the inventory of this expensive weapon is continuing to decline, and today, his assault division's last elephant-style self-propelled artillery is also forced to prepare to discard it!

"Is it really impossible? Even if it can be towed away, we still need it." Major General Arkady walked to the front and said as he looked at the steel behemoth with two broken axles.

"This tank was not only destroyed by the road wheels. After hitting a landmine, the tank gearbox was also destroyed. He can't move at all now. Unless we find a gearbox for it, we can find it again. A crane was repaired in half a day, but we don’t have any cranes and spare parts accompanying it.” said a greasy ensign next to him.

War is always accompanied by huge consumption. The Russian elephant-style self-propelled artillery is indeed powerful and powerful enough, whether it is anti-tank or bunker, it is first-class. But as an emergency product in a hurry, this tank always has various problems from design to use. In order to be able to carry a heavy 107MM heavy gun. This tank has reduced other performances to a minimum, and its protection has become dispensable. A near-missing mortar shell may severely damage the tank.

In addition to the fact that these elephants used the ambush to gain some advantages at the beginning, in the subsequent engagement, the battle damage rate of the elephant-style self-propelled artillery was higher, because the German war The continuous hit of the 12.7MM machine gun on the car can destroy it! A hurriedly erected steel plate cannot stop the 12.7MM machine gun’s armor-piercing incendiary attack at a distance of 500 meters. What's more, most of the time, the Russians put down the baffle for easy aiming. This act of death The result is often that before the artillery is destroyed, the personnel on the vehicle are instead slaughtered.

Therefore, it turns out that Pianke’s design may be practical, but it is definitely not a classic. As a result, after a few days of **** battles, more than 20 self-propelled artillery pieces that were strengthened to the Fourth Assault Division have been lost to this day. In addition to battle damage, the reliability of the equipment is also a big problem. After all, it was made up temporarily. After modern industrial products came out, it was a bit hasty to go to the battlefield without a period of running-in, not to mention Russia has little background In many countries, the things that are made are not normal but not wrong!

The problems of engine overheating, intermittent failure of gearbox, broken track, and deformation of walking equipment due to fatigue have never been broken. It was really not easy for the Russians to drive these tanks, which are full of problems, to about 40 kilometers behind enemy lines....

In addition to its technical failure, there are also problems in the system. Simply put, the Russians only thought about how to solve the problems on the battlefield, but did not think about how to solve the problems outside the battlefield, such as arranging repairs. Unit or something.

Bavaria has been engaged in armored forces for more than ten years. This is not only for researching equipment, formulating tactics and organization, but also learning how to ensure that tanks can be used under war conditions. But even so, on the Western Front Under the harsher loop, and in the harsher battlefield environment on the Western Front, 20% of the tanks still cannot be put into battle due to maintenance and wear problems. The technical conditions of the First World War determined that maintenance and maintenance difficulties are the second enemy of tanks. What's more, the Russian who caught the ducks on the shelves for the first time?

Arkadi’s fourth assault division was not bad. After the five-day assault battle ended, the number of self-propelled artillery that could be used by several other assault divisions was less than 30% of the initial number. Up to now, the number of self-propelled artillery that can be used by all the 6 deepest assault divisions is not more than 2 dozen... The Russians were naturally reluctant to bear these precious artillery, so they planned to dismantle these artillery and see if they could be converted into towed ones, but it is a pity that the 122MM howitzer equipped by the Assault Cavalry Division still had a smaller frame and could not fit. ......

In addition to the expensive and sophisticated automatic artillery, the combat effectiveness of the Russian 122MM howitzer is also rapidly declining. In addition to being destroyed in battle, the biggest problem is that the ammunition reserve has been greatly reduced~www.wuxiaspot.com~howitzer A shell weighs about 20KG. If you add the propellant pack, you have to add a few kilograms. If you count the packaging, then the weight that needs to be transported to launch a shell is nearly 30KG or more! And a four-wheeled carriage can hold about 30 shells at most! After all, these vehicles only move about 30% of the distance on a hard surface.

With the step-by-step extension of the battle line, and the Luftwaffe’s indiscriminate bombardment of logistics and the loss of a large number of horses, the amount of ammunition prepared by the 122MM howitzer unit plummeted, so that by now, a certain 4th gun of the 4th Assault Cavalry Division Including the amount of ammunition available does not exceed 30 rounds! This amount of ammunition is not to say that it has defeated the immediate support point, even a field battle is not enough!

"I regret it now. If I had known this, I would rather walk by myself and load two cannonballs with a horse!" Major General Arkady said sadly. Of course, this is just his angry words. In fact, there are not enough horses in Arkady's army now! If we say that before departure, in order to ensure mobility, Arkady’s cavalry unit can average two horses per person. (Including the horses of the heavy vehicles) And the fourth assault division alone, the Russians were assigned 23,000 horses!

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