On the first day of September, Lille, the fake head of Germany, returned to Berlin, the heart of Germany, on the famous Asia train. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Now that it has been decided that the large-scale bombing of Britain has been suspended, Li Le has little interest in staying in France, and his return to Berlin has some intention of taking care of the Eastern Front.

Although in his bones he is against the fact that the war is on all sides and involves troops. But the international game is definitely not a simple conversion, even if he does not go to the Soviets for trouble, it is inevitable that there will be no Soviets who will trouble him.

In the twenty-first century, much literature says that the Soviet Union had a plan called Thunderstorm to attack Germany.

Today, although this statement is not necessarily true, it can confirm the problem that the Eastern Front is far from being as simple as it seems.

There are many assumptions in history about how and how the German army would have been in 41 if it had not invaded the USSR...... But in fact, it is also possible that the Soviet Union invaded Germany first!

I don't know how likely this is to be, but the existence of this possibility is a fact -- Li Le must be prepared for war against the Soviet Union.

In order to prepare for this, Li Le's most direct purpose was to double the number of German armored forces on the Eastern Front to deal with the Soviet Union's armored flood.

It was not simple, the armored forces composed of Stalin and T-34 tanks were familiar to later generations, and the KV-1 and KV-2 were also included in the early stage, as well as a large number of light tanks such as the T-26.

These tanks, both in numbers and in some performance, were going to cause problems for the German armored forces.

The elite German armored divisions were ground into powder little by little in the process of repeatedly competing with these fierce enemies of the Soviet Union.

However, it is important to know that there are many things in history that have been exaggerated by the victors, and the shortcomings of some of the victors' weapons have also been overshadowed by a brilliant victory.

For example, how huge were the Soviet armored forces, which have historically exaggerated their threats?

One statistic is very simple: the Soviet Union produced a total of 50,000 T-34 tanks in World War II.

And there are many types of tanks in Germany, how many tanks of similar models are combined? There are almost 20,000 units.

After the United States entered the war, the total production of tanks M4 Sherman also had 50,000 units, which was not lower than the Soviet Union's tank production.

If you take into account the production of assault guns and tank destroyers of the same period, the ratio of production numbers between the Soviet Union, Germany, and the United States is 7 to 4 to 8.

It can be clearly seen that if you count tanks such as assault guns, the proportion of German numbers has increased slightly.

Such a ratio is actually not too ugly for Germany, which mobilized late and was short of supplies.

At the same time, the German tank forces lost 1 to 2 against Soviet tanks in any case. That is, if German tanks were concentrated for use on the Eastern Front, the Soviet tank forces would not have the so-called "advantage".

Therefore, those who believe that after the end of World War II, the Soviet tank forces had absolute superiority over the British and American tank forces are completely wrong.

In terms of the number of tank units, the two sides actually really half a pound and eight taels, and the Soviet Union won a slight victory in terms of combat experience, but in the comparison of air forces, the two sides are not at the same level at all.

If we talk about the comparison of troops, the combined war mobilization of the United States and Britain is more than 15 million, plus the remaining 1.8 million German prisoners, it is not worse than the Soviet Red Army.

As for the T-34 tank, with its average performance and excellent design, it is indeed a very good medium tank.

However, this does not mean that this type of tank is perfect, it is far from being as good as later generations believed. Copying the T-34 tank for the German armored forces was definitely not a good idea.

To sum up, the reason for Germany's complete collapse was that it had to keep a part of its armored forces for the defense of the Western Front, and in the later period, it really had to consume a large number of tanks on the Western Front at the same time.

Because of this, Li Le's idea is very simple, concentrate materials and not waste time on other equipment, but seize the time to mobilize and make every effort to produce more useful excellent tanks like the Leopard.

His order to speed up production and massively improve tank No. 4 was nothing more than an expedient measure, and a very efficient expedient one.

In fact, to put it simply, Li Le's plan was: since eighty percent of the Soviet-German war was to be fought, he should try his best to avoid consuming his own armored forces.

As long as the German armored forces really have the advantage of equipment at the beginning of the war, instead of relying on experience to fight hard, the essence of the German armored forces can be preserved.

Anyone who has really studied the Soviet-German war in World War II knows that in fact, a large amount of German armored forces began when the Germans won and drove straight into the heart of the Soviet Union.

There was still a lot of space on the road, which made the German armored units wear out in the process of rushing and consumed a lot of equipment.

The exhaustion of frequent battles, the depletion of weapons and equipment, the dispersion and loss of elite troops, finally became a hidden danger during the battles of Moscow and Stalingrad.

By the time Germany breathed a sigh of relief at the Battle of Kursk, the Soviet Union had already breathed a sigh of relief...... So a quick war was turned into an ugly war of attrition.

Imagine that if the German armored forces had a better environment at the beginning of the war, and more advanced weapons and equipment, the losses would have been compressed geometrically.

The armored units that are preserved by these savings will play a greater role when they are needed!

"The new tank had 6 pairs of medium load-bearing wheels with an asymmetrical torsion bar suspension design...... The weight was limited to 37 tons. On the Asia train, designers from several companies are reporting their latest design ideas to Li Le.

Whenever this time, Li Le is the most pleasant. As the world's most powerful industrial country, Germany is really bottomless.

Just looking at the design drawings hanging on the blackboard is a pleasure. In this era, there was no computer drawing, and the line drawings drawn by German engineers with a pen were as beautiful as if they were computer data.

And when Li Le made a request and clearly eliminated some of the mistakes that German designers like to make, the things that German designers took out almost scared Li Le's jaw off.

The design proposed by MAN and the style of the chassis are simply a replica of the T-59 tank - Li Le only made a few good suggestions, and they actually found the ultimate form of this suggestion.

Except that the chassis is slightly 15 centimeters taller than the 59 tank, except that it is exactly the same as the 59 tank.

The German designers, who were skilled in mechanics, completed the preliminary design of the tank with astonishing speed, and to Li Le's shock, they did not even raise the technical difficulties......

For example, the structure of the front transmission, which the Germans loved and did not give up until death, immediately gave in to Li Le's requirement to reduce the height of the car body, and became a classic structure of the whole rear.

It turns out that if it weren't for the Führer's and some individual designers, the German designers would have had a very good attitude towards trade-offs.

At least, there was no such extreme design as a joke in later generations, using a 56-ton tank to carry an 88 mm cannon.

Soon, the design that Krupp came up with was immediately selected as an alternative to the German No. 6 tank.

The stubborn Krupp designers had no intention of giving up their efforts on the Tiger tank.

After improving and eliminating the staggered load wheels, the fattened Tiger was resurrected in the same way as the Tank 5 Select.

However, Li Le preferred this 48-ton heavy tank to be used as Germany's future main battle tank, so after raising some requirements, it was pushed to the No. 6 tank project.

On the basis of the chassis design of the MAN company, the design of a box turret was tentatively designated as the No. 5 tank.

The box turret is a welded structure, and the front has a more secure shield design, so the difference from the turret appearance of modern main battle tanks is still very obvious.

After all, at that time, an artillery stabilization system could not be developed, nor could it be fired under driving conditions - so the shortcomings of the anti-shield were not so prominent.

To describe the appearance of the new Leopard tank more precisely, it is a slightly taller T-59 chassis with a slightly larger Leopard turret.

The new tank is equipped with an 88 mm caliber gun, which is almost the same cannon that the Tiger originally developed for shells and anti-aircraft guns.

Such a compromise design obviously has the limitations of the times, and it is not the best design result that Li Le wants - but after all, this is the most powerful ultimate tank that can be taken out at present!

Compared with the most classic T-34 tank, the new German tank No. 5 is just as simple in its mechanism of action and easy to produce......

Both the engine and gearbox are rear-mounted, which is also closer to the design of a modern tank and more in line with combat needs - but with a gasoline engine, it is slightly less safe but more maneuverable.

Winning in armor defense, after all, the weight and frontal armor protection have been greatly improved, and the weight of 5 tons is not more in vain.

In terms of firepower, there is a huge gap, and the armor-piercing ability of the German 88-mm cannon has been tested by history - by the end of World War II, it was enough to kill people.

The 76-caliber gun of the T-34 was soon forced to be changed to a T-34/85 tank due to insufficient power.