The bearded man once said that artillery was the king of war, which was debatable during the Cold War, and in the 2nd World War he was more than half right, and in the 1st World War on the land, that was completely true! Why was the German Army strong? Isn't it because of a dozen artillery batteries in one division? The military level can also be supported by such as 210mm heavy howitzers and K16 long-range artillery. The field artillery of the www.biquge.info is the best in the world. Why couldn't the Germans move in the later period? Not because the French and British came up in terms of the quantity and quality of artillery? Why are the Russians cowardly? No, or because the artillery is not good? What about Austria-Hungary? This is a man-made disaster greater than a natural disaster, not to mention him.......

Therefore, in terms of investment, Ruprecht's investment in artillery is greater than that of armored units, because artillery is the decisive force on the battlefield of World War 1, and the role of armored forces in breaking through and outflanking in World War 1 is relatively limited. Because during World War II, the German armored forces were able to quickly advance hundreds of kilometers, but this plane is not good, the technology of armored units is not good is one aspect, and there are not enough motorized infantry to follow the breakthrough is another aspect, if the former can still be used, if the latter is to build a large number of large-scale motorized troops, the vehicle production capacity and the prince's purse will not be enough.

It is unrealistic and uneconomical to use Bavaria's national strength to build a large and comprehensive artillery force. Is the train gun good? Naturally, it's good. But this thing is too expensive, and the logistics maintenance and maneuver are also very troublesome, train guns, train guns, as the name suggests, it is not only artillery that operates this artillery, but also a large number of railway soldiers. If nothing else, you need to build a ring railway when you need a ring shot. And if you want to move forward, you have to build a narrow-gauge railway, and Bavaria doesn't have so many railroad soldiers to serve these things.

And it's really unnecessary, because there aren't so many strong bunkers and long-range artillery on the Eastern Front that you need to deal with with train guns, and even if there is, just let Austria-Hungary equip it, and the Bavarian Corps, which is mainly mobile combat, doesn't need to equip it, and if it really doesn't work, you can ask Prussia for .......

The prince decided already at the very beginning of the development of the plan that the maximum weight of the Bavarian artillery armament should not exceed the limits of the maximum tracked territory. And what was the maximum weight limit of the tracked site during World War 1? The prince estimated that more than 30 tons was still okay. After all, the British over-the-top tracked series tanks MK have this weight, and they still cross trenches and obstacles in front of the battlefield. Long-range artillery vehicles don't have to work so hard, and they are still ten kilometers away from the front line. To be able to bring artillery over is victory!

And if we talk about self-propelled guns, then we have to mention the GPF self-propelled cannon that the French changed from a 194mm naval cannon. The strength of this self-propelled gun is not due to his 194mm naval gun, which is actually average in performance, and can shoot a 78.83kg shell with a muzzle velocity of 725 meters per second, and the maximum range is more than 20 kilometers. What is really powerful is that this gun is self-propelled, and the total combat weight of this gun reaches 29.6 tons under the load of a huge tracked territory! But under the towing of a 120-horsepower engine, this gun could maneuver at a speed of 8 to 10 kilometers per hour. It's not fast, but it's good that it has a strong ability to pass through the terrain. And it can keep up with the speed of tank maneuvering in this plane. 8 km in one hour. It is impossible for a division-level unit in any country to have this speed.

Of course, it is impossible for all artillery to use tracked turf, because after all, the crawled turf has a complex structure, production is troublesome, and tanks will grab production capacity. So most of the self-propelled guns in this part of the use of tracked turf accompanied the advance of the armored forces. It is used to provide direct fire support. The artillery of large corps, such as those belonging to infantry divisions and group armies, is still carried by tractors, cars and horses, of course, this is the distance from the station to the battlefield.

In the end, the composition of the prince's German heavy artillery was set in such a way that the 150mm howitzer would serve as the backbone of the division's firepower, and the howitzer of this class generally weighed around 3 tons. The firing range is about 10 km, and the weight of the shells is about 42 to 50 kg. It can be towed by the current 1.5-ton truck or used as a truck gun directly on a 3-ton truck.

Generally speaking, at the beginning of the war, a division had 9 77mm rapid-fire gun batteries, 3 105mm light howitzer batteries and 2 150mm heavy howitzer batteries, which was already the limit of the mule and horse division, and when it came to the 2nd World War in time, looking at the firepower of the Japanese division-level units, it would not exceed this level too much (the division was larger than the German division. ）

However, in the Bavarian army, due to the large use of cars to replace horses, the number of horses, grooms, and the consumption of grain and grass plummeted, but the number of available horsepower was on the rise, so it was possible to have more and larger caliber guns, and the artillery was more mobile!

Considering that the Eastern Front almost did not have to touch tanks except for armored vehicles, and even if they ran into armored vehicles, they could be done with 50 machine guns, and considering that all Bavarian 77mm class artillery had been packaged to Russia, the prince formulated an idea that from 1904, all Bavarian divisional support artillery units would stop being equipped with 77mm rapid-fire guns. All 14 artillery batteries of a division are 105mm howitzers and 150mm heavy howitzers!

10 of the 14 companies are equipped with 105mm light howitzers, 4 companies are 150mm heavy howitzers, and the artillery of all infantry divisions is in principle towed artillery, and the part with the title of rapid mobile division will mix and match a certain amount of truck guns. However, what the prince did not expect was that this plan was rarely resisted by the Bavarian military. Of course, this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

At the army level, the artillery is composed of 210mm heavy howitzers and 150mm cannons. The M10 210mm howitzer and the M16 210mm howitzer in the history of the Germans played a huge role in the early days of the war, but in fact, the performance of this gun is really average, the projection is really large, a shell weighs 110kg, but the range is too close, the range of the M16 gun is 11 kilometers, and the range of the M10 gun is only 9400 meters!

Although Maozi does not have any ultra-long-range heavy artillery, there are still some large-caliber guns with a long range, such as the M1910 107mm heavy gun, the barrel length is 2.9 meters, the elevation angle is not very large, only 37 degrees, but it still has a range of 12.5km, which is enough to suppress the 210mm heavy howitzer.

If this howitzer is used on the front line, it will undoubtedly take a greater risk, so it is more important to increase the range, at least to more than 12km, and this range increase may not be of much significance on the Western Front, because the French and British have too much heavy artillery to hit this distance, but it is different for Russia, because Russian heavy artillery that can reach a range of 15km is simply rare! If you can meet, the odds of winning 5 million in a lottery ticket are .......

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