In fact, when the German 30th Division, which had just captured a hundred French B1 tanks, had continued to advance less than 10 kilometers, they captured another batch of "goodies".

On a huge French train car, Battalion Commander Hoffmann of the 30th Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division, led his troops to discover two fairly well-camouflaged French train guns.

Around here, the French covered a lot of canvas, and deliberately built an earthen wall next to it, which is quite a bit of a place without three hundred taels of silver.

Of course, in the end, the French army gave up in the rout and took the two big guys with them. As the British did at Dunkirk, they threw away important weaponry everywhere in order to speed up their retreat.

"According to a senior French staff officer we captured in the Somme, this is a French train gun, with a caliber of 400 mm and a range of about 15 kilometers, and they originally intended to use these two big guys as a fire support for the Weygand Line." Hoffman's adjutant smiled and reported to his battalion commander: "It's a pity that the French are too slow. Before they could deploy the train guns to the Weigang line, we had already broken through the line. ”

Hoffmann walked to the captured train cannon and took a closer look, and secretly speculated: "If this caliber super cannon is really used by the French to shell the German positions, it is estimated that it will cause a great degree of loss." ”

As a member of the 30th Infantry Division, Hoffmann, who had experienced the 1-to-10 inferior artillery battle in the Polish campaign, knew how much the inferior side would suffer.

It can be said that if the Polish counteroffensive forces at that time had not relied on the suppressive superiority in the number of artillery, it would not have been possible to defeat the 30th Infantry Division so badly.

Hoffman even believed that his 30th Division could have singled out a Polish army group for a longer infantry onslaught if the level of artillery fire was comparable.

In short, Hoffmann was glad that the two guns were not thrown into battle by the French.

However, if Reinhardt were here, he would definitely have scoffed at the two "super cannons" of the French. Because in another time and space, the Third Reich built two bigger ones - that is, the famous war monsters in history, Gustav Train Cannon and Dora Train Cannon.

Their barrels are 32 meters long, their range is 28 to 47 kilometers, and they are 53 meters long and 12 meters high, which is equivalent to the height of a four-story building. Its full weight, up to 1488 tons, to put it simply, is about the same weight as the destroyers of the German Navy of the same period.

Their shells are even more impressive, each armor-piercing shell weighs 7.1 tons, a high-explosive shell weighs 4.8 tons, and the propulsion fuel ranges from 1.8 tons to 2 tons. Such a heavy shell could only be hoisted up with a crane and then smashed into the chamber with a tank.

A Gustav shell, a little taller than the height of two adults combined.

And its cannon chamber can easily accommodate four adults to get into it.

With such data, even a full 1-meter-thick steel plate or a 7-meter-thick reinforced concrete building can be easily penetrated. It can be said that these two super cannons are the nemesis of the Maginot Line of France!

However, it is a pity that because of Reinhardt's personal intervention, there are no more Dora Train Cannon and Gustav Train Cannon in this world, the two kings of the era of giant cannons.

Anyone who has played Red Alert knows that France has an exclusive weapon of great power - the cannon!

Although the French cannon was quite power-intensive, it was equivalent to an Allied ore refinery or a superweapon, and required a large number of power plants to support it. However, as long as it is the target he aims, at the moment of being bombarded, it is already destined to become a tragedy.

Of course, in real combat, the conditions are not as single as in the game, and weapons such as giant cannons are not as convenient to use as in the game. But it is undeniable that the giant cannon, in terms of attack power alone, is an existence that is absolutely worthy of awe.

In this Third Reich, because Reinhardt knew early on that there was no need to attack the Maginot Line, and deliberately emphasized that artillery units should be more mobile, Germany did not have the kind of slow-moving, but powerful artillery manufacturing plan.

Therefore, these two French train guns are undoubtedly the largest artillery guns that ordinary German soldiers have ever seen. After all, most of the German rapid mobile units used 60 mm, 80 mm and 120 mm mortars, 75 mm and 105 mm towed guns, as well as No. 3 assault guns and self-propelled guns such as the Hunter modified from tank chassis, and the largest caliber of support weapons was only 150 mm heavy guns.

But compared with the French-made 400 mm caliber train gun in front of him, the German 150 mm caliber heavy gun seems to be nothing more than a small thing, and there is nothing to praise.

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The good news of Captain Hoffmann's capture of the French giant train guns soon reached the divisional headquarters of Major General Hans.

Shocked, Hans couldn't believe his good fortune. Their division had just captured 100 French heavy tanks, and now they had captured 2 French giant cannons in quick succession. Although he had not heard of the old saying in the East called "Happiness is unequaled", Major General Hans also knew how uncommon it would be to reap two easy and great feats in a short period of time.

"This thing should be deployed behind the Maginot Line." Excitement is excitement, even if the joy is incomparable, but Hans still calmed down and analyzed: "This kind of cannon is usually used against fixed targets, and it is also a very strong fixed target. ”

"Could it be that the French want to use these two huge cannons against our Siegfried Line?" The commander of the battalion directly under the division who stayed beside Hans, Captain Lyon, joked playfully.

Because of the vigorous propaganda of the social work newspaper, the joke that the Siegfried Line, a non-existent German defense line, scared off the million-strong French army, has long been spread among the German army. During the war, jokes about the enemy were always talked about, and almost all walks of life in Germany were full of pride in the non-existent Siegfried Line.

"The social work newspaper is public, and the French can easily get it from our country. From the social worker's newspaper, the French must have known that our Siegfried Line did not exist, so they brought this kind of cannon to us for trouble. ”

Hans calmly analyzed: "It is impossible for the French army to transfer only two guns from the Maginot Line. I suspect that they must have also drawn some troops from the Maginot Line to stabilize their new positions. ”

"So it looks like we're going to have to fight a little longer." When the adjutant heard this, he shook his head with a smile and said, "Who told the French to find another batch of cannon fodder troops?" ”