Chapter 401: The Prince's Ambition

"Ruprecht, you are doing very well. You have provided Germany with a very good assault weapon. Our soldiers no longer have to risk the rain of guns and bullets and use explosive kits and flamethrowers to clean up those annoying trenches and bunkers. After using heavy artillery to attack the opponent's position, your new weapon supplemented the last link in breaking the enemy's line of defense!" After the observation, Prince Leopold expressed his appreciation for the prince without hesitation.

Prince Leopold had worked in artillery before, and he firmly believed in the combat thinking of artillery conquest and infantry occupation. And very sensitive to the development of technology and the change of war mode. He had discovered a problem earlier than other colleagues, a problem that has been running through the first battle and cannot be solved. That is on the Western Front. This kind of front line is relatively narrow, but in areas where troops and firepower are concentrated, the defenders are in trenches and bunkers. Gained a big advantage with the help of. Even this advantage applies to areas with long fronts, such as the Eastern Front.

In the future, the German army will eventually act as the offensive side. Germany has limited resources. If it fails to win the opponent, the final result can only be consumed by the opponent. So this year, His Royal Highness has been studying how to break through the opponent’s key defenses. Then shake the opponent's entire defense line!

The prince's years of military experience and research have basically shaped his strategy. Although the overall idea is similar to the past, he is more delicate in operation.

The firepower preparation for the offensive consists of two parts. The first part is a long-range artillery arc fire attack. These artillery are used to attack ordinary targets to achieve calibration and to strike in depth. The second part was the direct-targeted attack by the heavy artillery troops.

With the development of technology, there will always be some bunkers that will be repaired well. They are low and low and are outside the attack range of most curved artillery. They are strong and can even block the attack of 210mm heavy artillery. They are powerful and possess a large number of machine guns. And rapid-fire artillery, they now have a brand-new name-point of support!

Therefore, in order to deal with these strong fortresses, in addition to using a small number of super siege artillery, it is necessary to use flat-fire artillery to concentrate and carry out repeated strikes. For example, level the 150mm cannon and 210mm howitzer, and then deploy to the front line before the attack begins, and conduct intensive direct shooting!

(It is said in history that during the Battle of Verdun, at key locations, the German artillery deployed its own heavy artillery at the scale of a 210mm heavy howitzer company every 150 meters!)

Subsequently, the elite infantry will break through under the cover of direct firepower and machine guns, and strive to lay several wedges on the opposing front. The long-range artillery unit immediately shifted to suppression and isolation, using bullet rain to suppress the opponent's long-range artillery, reducing the pressure on our offensive troops. On the other hand, shells are used to isolate the attack site to prevent reinforcements from the other side.

In the last step, the natural force followed the road opened by the commando and artillery to occupy the opponent’s position and expand to the surroundings. Of course, the expansion here is not to penetrate deep but to attack both sides on the front horizontally, trying to tear the opponent’s defense line. Annihilate as many enemies as possible on the line of defense.

Leopold's entire plan is almost complete, but before he sees the breakthrough tank, he still lacks one link, that is, what kind of weapon to accompany the infantry forward and destroy the ubiquitous machine gun points. Artillery cannot solve all problems. No matter how fierce the firepower is, there are always some firepower points and trenches that can survive the fierce shelling.

And even if only one-tenth of the firepower can be survived, it is a big trouble for the attacking team! A machine gun with sufficient ammunition and a good position can block a company’s offensive path. Soldiers themselves are too vulnerable to these firepower. Maybe they will have mortars and flat-fire guns to destroy these firepower points, but these things move too slowly. , And itself is very fragile. In this confrontation between the enemy and the enemy, the defender itself has a chance!

More importantly, the battlefield situation can change at any time. As time goes by, the defender can concentrate more powerful firepower and troops to close the gap. The offensive side’s advantage is time-limited. In the event of a situation, it will inevitably be squeezed out by the defending side.

And now, the emergence of Breakthrough Tank 2 completes this last link! With this vehicle that can withstand more than 90% of the battlefield firepower and is equipped with a 75mm howitzer, these vehicles can accompany the infantry, block bullets for the infantry, destroy firepower points for the infantry along the way, and even carry supplies for the infantry (in history, the British The human mk1 tank once carried a large amount of food and ammunition, not only for its own vehicle group, but also for the accompanying infantry to solve the supply problem.)

Prince Leopold is like those decision-makers in the novel. He has no chance for a moment, and then breaks into a new realm. What the prince did was to help the prince fill the last shortcoming, and the prince who thought he had no regrets in tactics, very proudly shared this tactic with the prince. And that night, I gave the prince a deduction on the sand table.

After listening to the introduction of the prince, the prince was both happy and proud. Happily, his uncle ~www.wuxiaspot.com~In history, the commander-in-chief of the German Eastern Front had already learned the essence of the German Army's tactics in World War I in advance. Commando tactics, centralized use and isolation of artillery, and suppression. These cheats that frustrated the Allies in World War 1 are extremely valuable, which means that the Bavarian Legion will reduce unnecessary sacrifices in World War 1 in the future.

As for proud? That is based entirely on the accumulation of the traversers over a hundred years! In the eyes of the prince, his uncle’s tactics are indeed very powerful, but there is still room for improvement, especially when it is placed on the eastern battlefield. Even if Prince Leopold’s tactics are successful, all he can achieve is nothing but A tactical breakthrough cannot be transformed into a strategic victory!

"Just one step away." The prince secretly said a pity. It would be even better if Prince Leopold could change the last step to develop in the depth direction and complete the division and encirclement of the opponent instead of spreading out in the horizontal direction. If the Prince could be composed of cavalry, armored troops and elite infantry A fast assault group, and then equipped with car transportation, then this is an original fast mobile strike force, and even an original version of the blitz in the first battle is promising. It feels a pity that its uncle is limited. Otherwise, his uncle is very likely to be the first among the aborigines to comprehend the high treasures of the 2nd war of Germany!

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