Chapter 347: Show Strength
As soon as the connoisseur made a move, he knew if there was any, why did the prince bring a regiment of guards to Turkey? This is to show the Turks how strong the German Army is! If we say that the military parade looks at the mental outlook and fighting spirit of the troops, the weapons display looks at the hardware. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Then the military exercises that began later looked at the combat effectiveness of the army!
The strength of the German Army is not only because it has grasped the pulse of military change and strengthened the artillery and machine gun equipment in the troops, but more importantly, the Germans can make very effective use of the weapons in their hands.
In addition to artillery, the Germans also had a relatively successful tactic, that is, to use elite infantry with artillery and engineers to form an elite assault team to tear apart the opponent's defense, that is, the famous storm commando in the late World War I, which was regarded as the extreme use of infantry tactics at that time. Although the French had a similar idea, it was only Germany that really promoted it and achieved some success.
Naturally, the prince's guards regiment could not show the Turks a magnificent scene of hundreds or even thousands of artillery pieces used intensively, division of labor and cooperation, but it was still possible to simulate elite infantry to break through the opponent's defense line with the strength of one regiment, and this time, the selected Bavarian regiment elites will show the Turks the top infantry tactics of this era.
After 20 minutes of rapid firepower, the shells of four 75mm guns and two 105mm howitzers exploded a gap several hundred meters wide in the front of the opponent's position, and the barbed wire fence was destroyed by the sudden artillery, and the minefield was partially cleared.
Subsequently, the artillery attack did not stop, and part of it was suppressed towards the road leading to the defender, although it was not as fierce as when the attack began, but the victory was long-lasting, and the shells that fell from time to time greatly reduced the speed of reinforcements of the opposing troops. The entire defensive position was isolated under repeated German artillery fire.
"The role of artillery is not only to destroy, but also to control the situation on the battlefield, with the progress of the times, people have come up with more and more ways to deal with artillery, they will build fortifications very strong and difficult to find, it is not easy to find and destroy these targets simply using artillery, so at this time, the focus of artillery should be transformed from destruction to suppression, maybe there are not many direct kills, but it can create indispensable conditions for the breakthrough of infantry!"
Just as Mackensen was explaining to his Turkish counterparts, the elite infantry who had been preparing for a long time charged, carrying deminers, various tools, and explosives in addition to the infantry's normal weapons. They are a formed force, with a combination of various arms, and there are no shortcomings in the execution of their tasks.
The machine gunner quickly assumed the heavy machine gun in a bunker or crater, and suppressed the remaining fire on the opposite side with accurate long point fire, while the mortar attacked the enemy's bunker set up on the anti-slope and released smoke grenades to cover the advance of the attacking troops.
A series of fire snakes are intertwined, and a huge net will firmly suppress the remaining resistance, and under the cover of the smoke screen, a vigorous figure relies on the terrain and shelter to shuttle through the battlefield, the tacit understanding between the various troops is very good, they coordinated their own offensive steps, marching together, like an invisible wall full of pressure on the opponent.
After a long period of training, these selected commanders have been able to ensure that the attacking force and the firepower are not disconnected, and the entire assault team is like a pincer to the opponent, while the machine gun group and mortar group responsible for covering alternately cover the advance, forming a pincer formation with support fire in the middle and attacking troops on both sides.
The defenders rushed out of the trench and tried to drive the opponent out of their position, but the sudden sound of gunfire like bursting beans made the opponent's efforts instantly come to naught. I saw that the German infantry who was at the forefront of the charge took out a strange firearm that was only about one meter long and aimed it at the poisonous hand, and then, within a few seconds, the bullets fired by more than a dozen infantry directly overwhelmed the opponent who was counterattacking the front! After the re-attack was contained, the central fire support group easily used machine guns and mortars to crush the opponent's counterattack.
"This is our new melee weapon, and we call it a submachine gun. Using 9*25mm pistol bullets, although the range is short, at a distance of 150 meters, this little guy can top 10 rifles, so much so that some people turn it into a trench broom! ”
A German officer presented General Schefket with a rugged MP98 submachine gun, which was crudely made and seemed to the general to be a wooden butt (or plywood!). In front of it, a tube that looks like a pepper noodle tube and a magazine is made.
"This thing seems very simple." The Turk's eyes were very strange, "It's hard for me to imagine that this simple weapon could be so powerful. ”
"It's really simple, there are only 98 parts in total, but it can shoot these bullets out at a rate of 450 rounds per minute, and it's not afraid of humid environments or dust, and the really good design is to do extraordinary tasks with simple things, and this weapon fits that bill well!"
The prince said with some smugness. In addition to the fact that no stamping parts are used, and there are several more parts at the same time, this MP98 submachine gun is a copy of the famous Bobosha submachine gun in history! The old-fashioned original Germans may not look down on this shoddy stuff, but the prince is a pirated ...... The pragmatist prince was not limited by those rules, and at his insistence that all German infantry squads be equipped with at least two ....... The submachine gun configuration of the storm commando has reached more than 3 percent!
Long-range artillery divisions, machine guns and light artillery provide fire support, infantry squads armed with submachine guns and automatic rifles and grenadiers are responsible for assaults, and infantry is responsible for clearing obstacles and blasting. In the face of this art-like tactic, a rock-solid defensive system of bunkers, trenches, barbed wire, and minefields crumbled in an instant.
"Even if there is no major improvement in equipment in a short period of time, with the help of the German Empire, the combat effectiveness of your army will be greatly improved, at least there will be no problem in dealing with those ethnic separatists in the Balkans and the local forces in the two river valleys." After the exercise, the prince said this.
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