Chapter 1073: Midfield Adjustment
"This time, the Bavarian corps did not concentrate its forces at a certain point, they attacked on a wide surface, and they attacked from several directions at the same time, and even a regimental combat unit dared to attack us. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Of course, after a long period of fighting, our troops also suffered heavy losses, and the severe decline in combat effectiveness may also be an important reason why they dared to attack in an all-out way. But other than that, I can't think of anything different from them. Alekseev said.
"On the surface, the Bavarians are accustomed to tank assaults, artillery to clear the way, and then to harass and suppress our artillery with aircraft, and after using up tons of ammunition, their infantry will step on the rubble and shrapnel to take position. I don't feel any different. Kulopatkin's words were full of envy, jealousy and hatred, in his view, the fighting power of the Bavarian Legion was completely piled up with industry and money, and there was no special tactic in fighting, it was just hard to death. To paraphrase a phrase from later generations, that is, RMB players beat the ...... of free players.
"If I had to say something different, then my feeling is that they have added a lot of half-tracks, as well as armored vehicles. If you only look at the number of tanks, the number used by the other side is not much, not to mention compared with the Western Front, and even far less than the tanks used in the first border battle on the Eastern Front, but because of the addition of a large number of armored vehicles, their firepower on the battlefield has increased by a notch. It seems that Bavaria may replace tanks with a large number of armored vehicles in the future? Another feature is that they have a lot of bikes and light troops. This gives their troops a big increase in overall movement speed. Alekseev said.
"That's right, it's the speed of movement, I found the crux of the problem, in the previous battle, the only ones in the Bavarian Army who could complete rapid maneuvering were the Breakthrough Division and the Rapid Division. And such divisions are only about one-third of the total number of divisions, which makes it easy for them to encircle the combat surface in shallow depth, but they can't do it in large depth, but this time, we can find that the 3 Bavarian divisions in the front line and the 4 divisions in the back are advancing very fast, and even the slowest division has an average distance of more than 35 kilometers per day! "It seems that Borusinov suddenly found the crux of the problem!
If before, the Bavarian Army was only partially faster, then this time, the Germans seem to be faster overall! By optimizing the configuration, the Germans used the relatively fast but not long-lasting bicycle troops to break through the front line, while the mechanized troops with a large number of motor vehicles directly crossed the line opened by the bicycle troops and developed in depth. That's what good steel means when used on the blade. Those who can't run far go first, open the initial pay-off line for those who run far, and the mechanized troops that save power can advance further!
In short, this time, the Bavarian Army still played a game of speed, and the result of this was that the opponent cleanly routed the Russian Seventh Army! So much so that one of the Russian legions once said afterwards: "I feel that the Bavarian legion does not seem to have time to fight, and they can only catch up with us so quickly if they keep hurrying!" ”
"I see, but if you dare to keep going, I guarantee you'll be hit on the head and bleeding!" Feeling that he had found the core of the problem, Borusinov breathed a sigh of relief. He believed that the reason why the battle was like this was due solely to the excessive attrition of the Russian Seventh Army in previous engagements.
Under certain technical conditions, the speed and combat effectiveness of the troops are actually inversely proportional, if the bicycle troops directly collide with the fully equipped Russian front-line infantry division, not to mention that the latter will definitely be able to block it, but the former will definitely not be very smooth, after all, the latter's artillery and machine guns are not for fun. The bicycle units were still lightly armed in the end, and they lacked the heavy artillery and tanks that the Germans relied on to win. And without these things, at least at the level of equipment, they have no advantage over the Russians. This time, the fundamental reason why the Bavarian regiment dared to play like this was the weakness of the Russian army.
But not in the future, although the Russian Eighth Army also lost some of it some time ago, its strength and artillery are still much stronger than the average Russian army. This trick of the Germans will hardly work, at least in Borushinov's opinion!
Brusinov did have some truth in what he said, as it stands, after the heavy defeat of the Russian Seventh Army, the strength of the seven divisions of the Bavarian and Bohemian corps was very exhausted. The loss of equipment and the consumption of supplies make it difficult for them to break through in depth.
However, fortunately, Prince Ruprecht finally left behind, and following in the footsteps of the Bavarian Legion, the Mackensen Legion, which had not fought a hard battle, was already in place, and the forward troops had approached the Russian line. The battle could be seen as a two-stage attack, with the Bavarian Army taking out the Seventh Army and the Mackensen Army extending the victory.
"All the rearmament troops should hand over the surplus transport and fuel to Mackensen. That's what he used. Tell the Hungarians that if they want us to deal with the Romanians, then we will have all the military stations and supplies along the way, and that we will help them when we have solved the problem of Galicia. The prince commanded.
"The Russian Eighth Army is equipped with a large number of heavy artillery, and even a lot of train guns, our firepower is actually at a disadvantage, although the air force has controlled the sky, but it is very difficult for the current air force to suppress the artillery group of a group army by relying on a limited amount of bombs." Calyput said with a frown.
The Air Force's own battle damage and mechanical wear and tear are one aspect, and more importantly, an increase in range will inevitably lead to a decrease in bomb load, which is even more terrible. If each K4 wants to make trouble in the rear of the Eighth Army, then the bomb load is only 6% of the previous one, which invisibly reduces the output of the bomber by about half. You know, the Air Force's battle losses are now less than 15%!
"Armored forces, air force, a large number of cars and armored vehicles, it seems that we have played all the hole cards, and the only thing left is toughness?" The prince sighed and said, in fact, as a traverser, if you can't win by intelligence, but can only win by toughness, it is a very unpleasant experience.
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