If the efforts of the French to a certain extent found the superiority of the German legions in armored forces, then the British made up for the lack of heavy artillery of the Entente legions! And the British did such a thing, on the one hand, because of the battlefield experience, and on the other hand, because of the ...... of waste utilization. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The current British Legion is arguably the most experienced in actual combat before the start of the war, and some may argue that the Russo-Japanese War was fought on a larger scale. But the British fought in South Africa for four years, and what did they not fight in positional warfare, movement warfare, offensive warfare, and defensive warfare?

If you want to look at the comparison of the combat effectiveness of troops of the same size, the Boers, who have been trained by Bavaria for many years and all use German equipment, are obviously much stronger than the Russian and Japanese troops of the same size, not to mention that there are two horses for one person. The 150mm heavy artillery of the division level is enough to make the Japanese and Russian troops red-eyed!

In the vast territory of millions of square kilometers in southern Africa, it must have been a challenge for the British to engage such a highly mobile and well-equipped force. Although the overall size of the British army was very large, every time it went to a local battlefield, the British army was inferior in strength and equipment. And after being beaten too much, the British will also learn their lessons, after paying the price of hundreds of millions of pounds and tens of thousands of lives. The British actually built a world-class mobile artillery unit!

In order to completely suppress the artillery of the Boers, but also to make up for the lack of army artillery, the British decisively removed more and more naval guns from the battleship, and then pressed an army gun mount, and followed the infantry units to fight guerrilla attacks everywhere, this is all naval artillery, in terms of performance, just take out a 4.7-inch secondary gun used by a third-class cruiser in the firing range can crush the 150mm heavy howitzer used by the Boers.

Subsequently, when attacking some fortresses and strongholds, the British even removed the 7.5-inch naval guns from the cruisers of the first rank and transported them by tractor or train. Used as a siege gun, think about it, a 7.5-inch L45 gun weighs 14 tons in barrel alone! An elevation angle of 15 degrees can hit a range of 13 kilometers, and this level of artillery has exceeded the scope of military-level artillery, and can even be used as a train gun!

After more than 1 year of war training, the British have finally filled up the science and technology books on the armyization of naval artillery! After the end of the Boer War, the guns that were dismantled from battleships and then truncated did not return to the Navy or scrapped, but were stored directly 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-level when it comes to automobiles and artillery, and relying on their strong national strength, they even came up with a set of modes that can make 7.5-inch cannons move quickly without trains! Of course, there is still some gap between this artillery and the GPF1mm self-propelled cannon that was famous in France during the 194th World War, but in this time period, it is quite powerful.

The approach adopted by the British was such that the entire fleet of 7.5-inch guns consisted of 4 heavy tractors and 8 trucks, first of all, the 7.5-inch L40 guns were placed using a trailer. Secondly, the artillery carriage of the gun was fixed on a flatbed tractor. The tractor has been specially modified and has jacks around the body to allow for the hoaxing. Thirdly, two more tractors, one of which was equipped with a crane and engineering equipment, was used for the installation of artillery, while the last one was responsible for transporting large accessories. The remaining eight trucks are responsible for transporting various supplies such as artillery shells, personnel, and fuel.

Although this artillery is not self-propelled, although it takes 2 hours from entering the position to being deployed, relying on shells weighing more than 90 kilograms, and at 45 degrees, the firing range of up to more than 24 kilometers, this artillery still became the most mobile artillery of the Allies on the Western Front at the beginning of World War 1! What is even more powerful for the British is that they consider that this artillery will be deployed on the Western Front, and the most important thing for artillery mobility depends on vehicles, and they even purchased a number of French vehicles as auxiliary vehicles for this artillery, which solved a large part of the logistics problem.

And because of such a series of efforts, after the start of the war, the British had already deployed 36 such guns in France in the first large-scale battle between the two sides, the Battle of the Border. And posed a great threat to the attacking German troops.

As for the 6-inch and 4.7-inch guns, which are much smaller than the 7.5-inch guns, there are even more amazing, and some British expeditionary forces even used the land version of the 6-inch naval guns as army-level guns, and the 4.7-inch rapid-fire guns were even relegated to the division level when necessary!

As for talking about smaller artillery? For example, the 12-pounder guns and 15-pounder guns were more numerous, although these were a bit bulky, but the guns with a long enough range were much better than the 77mm rapid-fire guns and 105mm light howitzers equipped with the Prussian regiments, so that in the early days of the war, when the British regiments were not numerous, their firepower caused great problems for the Germans.

However, the only thing that made Ruprecht happy was that the air forces of Britain and France had not developed much, not that Germany kept the air force secret to the point of leakage. Rather, it is because, whether it is an armored vehicle or a long-range mobile artillery, these things have more or less been tested in actual combat.

Whether it was the Russian armored vehicles that went on a rampage in the Russo-Japanese War, or the heavy artillery that slaughtered cities and destroyed countries in the Boer War, their effects can be seen and touched, but this thing is an airplane? Well, it can also be called a flying bookshelf. Who knows what the effect will be? Is there a combat 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 come up with good products through simple integration, the direction is not right, there is no strict scientific theoretical guidance, do you really think that the aircraft is something that is made by an engine?

Therefore, the attitude of Britain and France towards the air force was mainly reconnaissance. And the design concept of the aircraft is actually not much higher than in history. However, after receiving relevant information, Ruprecht believed that even so, the possibility of Germany directly killing the Entente on the Western Front had dropped to less than 20%, and the only difference was to see how stable the front was.

"Hopefully, Moltke Jr. can pay attention to this information and make the attack more stable." Ruprecht thought about it and decided to write another letter to Moltke Jr., asking him to pay attention to the changes in the British and French armies, as for whether the changes in Britain and France would affect the Russians? Ruprecht didn't mind, because he knew that the Russians didn't have the ability to do it!

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