You must know that in Li Le's plan, it was not equipped with 45 Hunter tank destroyers that could be called a mechanized infantry division......

The reason why the grenadier unit is called grenadier is that it is to be equipped with armored vehicles and other various supporting weapons and equipment. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In the same way, in Li Le's conception, the mechanized infantry division should also be equipped with a large number of trucks as a powerful supplement to the armored troops and grenadiers.

In fact, these mechanized infantry divisions are simplified panzergrenadiers, but there are not so many armored vehicles, so they are barely replaced by trucks.

At least part of the artillery should use self-propelled guns, right? Either with modified 105 or 150 mm guns, or with some No. 3 assault guns?

At least equip trucks and motorcycles to get around, right? Even if you don't give these, what's the matter with sending 1,000 carriages to recharge?

However, according to Brauchitsch's idea, in the future, the German army should popularize the pursuers into the infantry divisions as much as possible and provide anti-tank support for each infantry division.

The Führer's recent supply of weapons and equipment to him has already overjoyed the field marshal. He ambitiously expanded his army mechanized troops, and the results were "gratifying."

Guderian and Manstein and other generals were staring at the construction of tank forces -- as the father of German armored forces, Guderian's main concern was to increase the number of German armored forces as much as possible.

In his opinion, there must be 30 armored divisions on the Eastern Front to barely reach a sufficient state. Therefore, the newly arrived tanks became the material basis for him to form more armored divisions.

Of course, his 30 armored divisions are obviously watery. In fact, the number of tanks in the German Panzer Division has always been very unstable, and generally speaking, 100 tanks dare to be pulled out and called the XX Panzer Division.

Therefore, Li Le's regulations for the Eastern Front are very clear: an armored division must have at least 240 tanks under its jurisdiction before it can continue to expand the next armored division.

Coming from the 21st century, he was really afraid of the Wehrmacht's indiscriminate tricks. This has reached the point of influencing decision-making, so Li Le has to guard against it.

In 44, it was difficult for an armored division with 100 tanks to hold its position, and as a result, the Führer ordered a counterattack - this is not to blame Hitler, the map clearly reads "XX Panzer Division......

If this can still win the war, then Germany's tank troops will inevitably have to be one hundred, or at least seventy or eighty enemies.

Almost exactly as in history, under the urging of the Führer and the influence of the self-aggrandizement of the army, and in the infinite hope for the future, the German armored forces were expanded to 26 divisions in one go, which was twice the original number.

At the same time, 5 armored divisions of the SS were equipped, which increased the tank units of the German Army to 31 in one fell swoop.

"Can't keep up with the production capacity of artillery? It's not just that the production capacity of anti-tank artillery can't keep up, right? Li Le glanced at Speer, who was already ashamed, and asked with a frown.

According to statistics, with the continuous increase and expansion of the German Army, artillery in the traditional sense has also begun to be insufficient.

Speaking of which, the performance of the German Army's own artillery is not so impressive. Because of the 20 years of suppression of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany lacked experience in many weapons design.

In order to arm their troops as soon as possible and reimburse the stock of artillery shells, the German military even pulled out all the 75-mm field guns of the First World War.

Brauchitsch, along with most of the senior German generals, had only one requirement for the artillery to be used - it could be fired.

A large number of 75 mm caliber field guns overlapped with the German large-caliber mortars in terms of use range, so they could not be said to have excellent performance.

The value of the existence of this thing can be summed up in one sentence - something is better than nothing!

As for whether it can compete with the enemy's artillery, it will depend on new artillery of a larger caliber.

When the 105 mm caliber gun was designed, in order to pursue the advantage of performance, the weight was really criticized, and in desperation, the short-barreled self-propelled gun could only be developed to improve mobility.

As for the remaining 150 cannons, they are not as powerful as the Allied 155 guns, and their actual performance is barely half a pound or two of the Soviet 152 guns - but it is still the same old problem, these goods are all overweight!

Further up, there are 210 mm mortars, as well as railway guns with a wide variety of models and limited quantities, and of course, the ancestor of the cannon, the Gustav who can be used as a confession......

Regarding artillery, Li Le actually made his own instructions. On the one hand, a new lightweight artillery was developed to meet the needs of the German armored forces in terms of propulsion speed.

On the other hand, in the armament of small-caliber artillery, Li Le was more keen to replace the existing 75-mm field guns in Germany with mortars.

"In terms of mortars, the number of production is quite large. The speed of supply in this area is closest to the needs of the military, and next year we will be able to produce at least 20,000 mortars of various calibers. Speer replied with difficulty.

What really bothered the de facto head of German industry was the more complex coordination of the production of equipment such as cars, tanks and submarines.

As for relatively simple mortars, the German industry could quickly produce them in large quantities, which was hardly technically difficult.

Anyway, it was used to replace the existing backward infantry artillery of Germany, as long as the power of the shells was about the same, weight reduction was inevitable.

In order to solve the problem of transporting large-caliber mortars with the same trouble, the Germans even installed wheels for these mortars, which could be dragged by war horses or motorcycles.

"Replacing the existing 80 mm caliber field guns with 75 mm or even 105 mm mortars and improving the suppressive firepower at the battalion and regimental levels is something that must be done." When Li Le mentioned these trivial things, he couldn't help but feel troubled.

He is a Führer, but he has to waste precious time on these details, and it is indeed strange enough to say it.

What makes Li Le helpless is that Germany owes too many debts in terms of weapon system requirements and equipment design experience, and he will go to the old road of history if he doesn't ask about some things.

And this old path in history has been proven to be a wrong path. Every time he thought of this, Li Le was firm in his idea of asking.

"Find a way to get those bulky weapons out of Romania as soon as possible and use them to pay part of the arrears for oil purchases." Li Le instructed the participants of the Army.

Li Le did not like the weapons and equipment that slowed down the advance of the German army. He would rather have the advancing German armored units supported only by 105 mm guns than advance dozens of kilometers a day and waste time with bulky 150 mm guns.

"Even so, in the Barbarossa plan, our army advanced along the enemy's road, and after 300 kilometers we could only rely on supplies from the motor unit to continue our advance." The officer of the army's logistics department opened his mouth to raise the problems in the plan.

Although Li Le is trying his best to reduce the baggage of his troops, he is also trying his best to provide more means of transportation for his troops.

But the problem remained, and it was very serious: in Barbarossa's offensive plan, the road and rail transportation lines relied on by the German armored forces were almost unusable.

"The roads are in very poor condition, and according to the relevant information provided by your intelligence department, the results of the revised survey of the current state of road transport in the Soviet Union are very desperate." The senior German general in charge of transportation explained to Li Le the seriousness of the problem.

"At a depth of about 500 kilometers, our vanguard will be forced to stop and wait for the supplies to arrive." He pointed to the map on the table, and everyone in the room could hear it in a depressed tone.

Li Le was not a fool, although he strengthened the mechanization of the German army, but he could not help the Soviet Union strengthen the railways and roads that this army needed when attacking......

Those lands were in the Soviet Union, including the eastern part of Poland, but also Ukraine and Belarus.

"The original offensive plan had to be adjusted accordingly." Li Le had to admit that the previously drawn up Barbarossa attack plan was really a vague letter of intent to the extreme.

How was this letter of intent written? It's like throwing a coin into the Trevi Fountain: if the army wants to attack Moscow, then arrange for an army group to fight Moscow; Hitler wanted to wipe out Leningrad, so he split his forces and went to fight Leningrad......

First of all, these plans rarely took into account real practical issues that needed to be considered, including the fact that there were few roads in the north of the USSR and could not sustain the continuous operation of large corps.

When the Soviet Union attacked Finland, the follow-up was so weak that it finally bitterly negotiated peace, which was also the reason why the region was not suitable for large-scale military battles.

Second, Barbarossa's judgment of the attack on the Soviet Union was too naïve, and Li Le had to correct this idea and make his generals as aware of the difficulties that would occur as much as possible.

If the German top brass had known in advance that the Soviet Union would continue to persist in the war and mobilize 10 million troops after losing 5 million front-line combat troops, the German generals would not have been so optimistic as to be blindly arrogant.

In the end, it was also what Li Le had in mind -- this war was a matter of life and death for the Third Reich. He was to control everything and concentrate all the forces he could unite to lead Germany down a different path.

This path is completely different from the one Hitler walked, and although it is not known how it ended, it is at least a different path that ends the experience of previous generations.

Li Le hopes that it is a ...... The road to victory.