Chapter 715: English and French preparation two

If the French's efforts have to a certain extent found the advantage of the German Army in armored forces, then the British have made up for the deficiencies of the Allied Army in heavy artillery! The reason why the British did such a thing was because of battlefield experience on the one hand, and waste utilization on the other.

  The British Legion can be said to be the most experienced army before the start of the war. Some people may argue that the scale of the battle between Japan and Russia in the Russo-Japanese War was larger. But the British have fought in South Africa for four full years. Haven't anyone fought in positional, mobile, fortified, and defensive?

  If you want to compare the combat effectiveness of troops of the same size, the Boers who have been trained in Bavaria for years and all adopt German equipment are obviously much stronger than the Russian and Japanese troops of the same size. Not to mention, one person has two horses. The 150MM heavy artillery at the division level is enough to make the Japanese and Russian troops jealous!

  In the vast area of ​​millions of square kilometers in Southern Africa, fighting against such a highly mobile and well-equipped force is also a challenge for the British. Although the overall scale of the British army is large, every time it arrives on a local battlefield, the strength and equipment of the British army are at a disadvantage. After being beaten more, the British will also sum up their experience and lessons, after paying hundreds of millions of pounds and tens of thousands of lives. The British actually established a world-leading mobile artillery force!

In order to completely suppress the Boer’s artillery and at the same time to make up for the shortage of the Army’s artillery, the British decisively removed more and more naval guns from the battleship, and then mounted an army artillery mount to fight guerrillas with the infantry. , These are all naval guns. In terms of performance, just take out a 4.7-inch secondary gun for a third-class cruiser and can crush the 150MM heavy howitzer used by the Boers in range.

   And then, when attacking some fortresses and strongholds, the British even removed the 7.5-inch naval guns from the first-class cruisers, and then used tractors or trains for mobile transportation. Used as a siege gun, think about it, a 7.5-inch L45 cannon with a barrel weight of 14 tons! A 15-degree elevation angle can reach a range of 13 kilometers. This level of artillery has exceeded the scope of military artillery, and can even be used as a train gun!

  After more than a year of war training, the British finally filled up the science and technology books on naval guns! After the end of the Boer War, the artillery pieces that were dismantled from warships and then shortened were not returned to the Navy or abandoned, but were directly stored in the Army’s arsenal for use in the next war.

  Don't underestimate the potential of any great power. The British are also top-notch when they are engaged in cars and artillery. Relying on their strong national power, they even come up with a model that allows the 7.5-inch cannon to move quickly without using a train! Of course, there is still some gap between this artillery and the famous GPF194MM self-propelled cannon in France during the First World War, but at this time period, it is quite powerful.

  The method adopted by the British is this. The entire 7.5-inch artillery fleet consists of 4 heavy tractors and 8 trucks. First, the 7.5-inch L40 artillery is placed on a trailer. Secondly, the gun carriage of the artillery was fixed on a flatbed tractor. This tractor has undergone a special transformation, and there are jacks around the car body, so you can put down the hoe. One of the third and other two tractors is equipped with a crane and engineering equipment for the installation of artillery, while the last tractor is responsible for transporting large accessories. The remaining eight trucks are responsible for transporting various supplies such as shells, personnel, and fuel.

Although this artillery is not self-propelled, although this artillery takes 2 hours from entering the position to the completion of deployment, it relies on shells weighing more than 90 kilograms and a range of more than 24 kilometers at 45 degrees. This artillery still became the most NB mobile artillery for the Allies on the Western Front at the beginning of World War I! The British are even more powerful. They considered that this artillery will be deployed on the western front, and the most important thing for artillery maneuvering is to rely on vehicles. They even purchased a batch of French vehicles as auxiliary vehicles for this artillery. A large part of the logistics problem.

  Because of such a series of efforts, after the British started the war, in the first large-scale border battle between the two sides, the British had deployed 36 such artillery in France. And it caused a great threat to the offensive German army.

As for the 6-inch and 4.7-inch guns, which are much smaller than the 7.5-inch gun, it is amazing. Some British expeditionary forces even use the land version of the 6-inch naval gun as a military-grade artillery, and the 4.7-inch rapid-fire gun is even more necessary. When he was sent to the division level!

  As for smaller artillery? For example, there are more 12-pounder and 15-pounder guns. Although these are a little heavy, the artillery with a long enough range is much better than the 77MM rapid-fire cannon and 105MM light howitzer equipped by the Prussian Army. In the early days of the war, when the number of British legions was not large, their firepower caused much trouble to the Germans.

  However, the only thing that makes Ruprecht feel gratified is that the air forces of Britain and France have not developed much~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It is not to say that Germany's secrecy of the air force is really to the point of no leakage. It is because, whether it is an armored vehicle or a long-range mobile artillery, these things have been tested in actual combat.

  Whether it’s the Russian armored vehicles that rammed into the Russo-Japanese War, or the heavy artillery that slaughtered the country in the Boer War, their effects are visible and tangible, but the plane? Well, it can also be called Flying Bookshelf. Who knows what the effect is? Is there a practical test? And the biggest difference between aircraft and artillery armored vehicles is that it is a new type of technology, unlike artillery and armor that can produce good products through simple integration, the direction is wrong, and there is no strict scientific theoretical guidance. I really think that the aircraft is based on an engine. Just become something?

   Therefore, the British and French attitude towards the air force is mainly investigation. The design concept of the aircraft is actually not much higher than in history. However, Ruprecht, after obtaining relevant information, believes that even so, the probability that Germany will directly kill the Allies on the Western Front has dropped to less than 20%. The only difference is to see where the front can be stabilized. Up.

"Hopefully, Xiao Moqi can pay attention to this information and make the offensive more stable." Ruprecht thought about it and decided to write another letter to Xiao Moqi to let him pay attention to the changes in the British and French forces, as for the British and French forces. Will the change affect the Russians? Ruprecht doesn't mind, because he knows that the Russians don't have this ability!

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