His Royal Highness the Prince really has no way to explain to Moltke the steel behemoths that only appeared after the 1st World War! If you don't go through World War 1, it's hard to imagine how far humanity can go on the road of killing under the pressure of life and death! You know, where the war began, the Germans took out the fortress of Liège with only 4 large Belsha howitzers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info And after arriving at Verdun, even more than 30 guns of more than 15 inches, which fought for a full 10 months, did not solve Verdun! Both sides did everything in their power to produce more powerful artillery to overwhelm their opponents.

"The Western Front is too cruel, let's go to the Eastern Front." His Royal Highness said this to himself more than once.

"We need artillery with a longer range, we need more powerful artillery, and the German Army will not be able to maintain an advantage by relying solely on the close range of large-caliber howitzers." Moltke said after deducing on the huge sand table on his own.

"The 305mm class heavy siege guns we ordered in Krupp may no longer be able to meet our needs, the fortress of Liège is no longer the standard, if we want to win this war, we must use this fortress on the sand table as the standard! So we need more powerful heavy artillery! Moltke threw away the pencil in his hand and let out a long breath.

"Our field troops also need long-range heavy artillery when facing non-fortified areas, and cannons alone can no longer meet our needs." The prince nodded and said.

Invisibly, the prince has changed the tactics of the future German army, and the German army has been trying to end the war by quick victory at the beginning, so except for a very small number of siege guns, the largest artillery of the general military unit is the 150mm heavy howitzer. There will be 210mm heavy howitzers at the army level or army group level. These weapons are characterized by a large projection, but a short range. The firing range of the 13mm guns of the SFH150 type of the Germans was no more than 8600 meters. And the 210mm heavy howitzer is only 9600 meters. The weight of the artillery is not large, and the weight of the 210mm heavy howitzer is just over 7 tons.

But soon, after the war was destined to end quickly, the Germans suddenly found themselves with insufficient range ...... artillery. So they came up with 3 large-caliber long-range cannons, the earliest of which was the 150mmL40 cannon, which was born in 1915.

The performance of this artillery is actually quite good, weighing only 5360kg, but it can shoot 44.2kg shells out 18.7km! It is very satisfying both in terms of weight and range. Of course, this satisfaction was only temporary, and soon, in 1917, the Germans made the pinnacle of the 6-inch army cannon of World War 1 - the K16 long-range gun!

The 10.87-ton cannon has a 6.41-meter-long barrel that can shoot 51.4kg shells up to 22 kilometers away and has a terrifying rate of fire of three rounds per minute! This artillery was so good that until the beginning of World War II, some German armies still used this artillery as a long-range suppression artillery.

However, there is no end to the pursuit of advanced weapons by the soldiers, although the 155mm GPF Mighty Firou gun of the same level of artillery produced by the French is inferior to the K16 in terms of projectile weight and range, (the bullet weight is 43kg, the maximum range is 19500 meters), but it still makes the Germans feel great pressure.

So the Germans decided to remove the 17cm guns from the former dreadnoughts. This is the longest-range and most powerful gun owned by the German Army's field artillery in history, and the 170mm SKL/40 gun is here. This artillery can be used as both an ordinary artillery of the army and a train gun, and many so-called 170mm train guns are thrown army-type guns on flatbed cars, and then stuck to become train ......guns. This heavy artillery with a maximum range of up to 24km can be described as the king of ordinary artillery in World War I! Except for a few long-barreled train cannons, there are few that can threaten his existence!

In fact, a certain amount of long-range artillery is indeed needed as counter-battery firepower in World War 1, and if you simply compete with the projection volume, Germany and Britain and France will definitely suffer a loss, and the prince invisibly made the future chief of the general staff of the German Army pay attention to the role of long-range cannons, although it may not be able to turn things around, but it is still possible to gain some tactical advantages.

"If everything is as you say, it's really difficult for us to get a quick fix, we need longer range heavy artillery to overwhelm our opponents, and if we are equipped with these heavy guns in large quantities, it will naturally put a huge strain on our fragile logistical supplies. Personally, I feel that 150mm long-range heavy artillery is already the limit of large-scale land transportation at present. If you want to get more powerful and bigger guns, you have to rely on the rails! Moltke said.

Moltke Jr. did not mean that long-range artillery over 150mm could not be transported, historically things like Skoda's 12-inch siege guns and the Germans' Great Bersha could be transported by road. Moltke means this, but the number of these guns is relatively small after all, and the number of siege guns with this specific role is far less than the number of guns like K15 or 150mmL40, and these artillery for long-range counter-battery tasks are attached as regular units, and the addition of these equipment will definitely increase the difficulty of the troops' march and will further drag down the breakthrough speed of the troops.

So, at this time, the German army was stuck in an endless loop, and if it wanted to overwhelm the opponent, it needed heavier artillery, and heavier artillery made it difficult for the Germans to fight quickly. In the end, it will still turn into a trench battle, which is a dead end, a dead end that cannot be solved in 1 battle!

However, this is also what the prince needs, because only by making Moltke realize that the Western Front cannot be solved quickly can the Eastern Front begin to receive more resources. In fact, Germany did very well after entering the protracted war, whether it was the integration of resources or the allocation of materials, it was much stronger than the mustache of the second war, but the only problem was that there was no preparation, and there was no real establishment of a national strategic resource reserve system with the standard of a protracted war!

"From the very beginning I thought that any quick solution would not be possible, and then I realised that we would not have an overwhelming advantage when Germany and England and France played each other. The two sides will enter a long phase of stalemate on the Western Front, and this continuous attrition will be detrimental to Germany, so I hope that after the settlement of the Eastern Front, the Western Front can be stopped in due course. But alas, many people do not see the seriousness of this problem, they fantasize about victory, fantasize about solving the problem once and for all, until they bring the empire into the abyss! The prince said helplessly.

"I believe your speculation now7, we do need to make some strategic preparations for a protracted war, but at the same time, wouldn't it be better if there was a glimmer of hope for a quick victory? And what you just said is nothing more than a strong line of defense and a lack of vitality, and I believe that if we have a powerful train cannon, it will completely solve the problem! Little Moltke said a little unwillingly.

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