Chapter 425: I can only work hard
Li Mo took advantage of the fact that it was time to replenish supplies, so he took a trip to Poland and convened a meeting of German arms dealers who had started factories in Poland, Li Mo's meeting was very simple, that is, to ask them to expand production, mainly "Leopard" tanks and "BF109", these two weapons Li Mo has a big gap, and now there are several divisions of the gap, there are not many armored divisions in Army Group South, and the result is that the No. 4 tank is still needed to make up the number, as long as there is money to be made, those businessmen in Germany are still very willing to expand production, It's just that the effect won't be seen until after June, and of course Li Mo has no opinion.
The research and development of other weapons Germany is also speeding up the process, such as V1 and V2 weapons have made a lot of progress, but the flight speed of these two weapons is too slow, even piston planes can shoot them down, the practicality is indeed not high, Li Mo suggested that they switch to solid fuel, this speed is definitely enough, but the span from liquid rocket engines to solid engines is not generally difficult, but difficult, don't think about it without two or three years, The scientists at the German National Weapons Research Center are still focusing on improving the liquid engine, which is completely unlimited.
The main purpose of Li Mo's return to Poland this time was to ask all German military enterprises to increase production on the one hand, so as to meet the needs of Germany to form and expand weapons, although the share of Germany itself Li Mo's Southern Army Group did not have a share, but as the successor of the German Krupp Company, Li Mo had the responsibility to make all the German armed forces weapons available.
As for the RPG, Li Mo is not going to use it yet, because at this time the Soviet tank iron fist will do. There is no need for an artifact like an RPG at all, and if Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union succeed in copying it, wouldn't it be asking for trouble for their own Leopard tanks? You must know that the vertical armor-piercing ability of the current German-made RPGs reaches 250 mm, and even the inclined armor is about 170 mm, which means that the German-made RPGs can easily penetrate any part of the side of the Leopard tank. Li Mo will not take out the RPG weapon as a last resort.
In addition, the FA223 has been upgraded and researched, and now it is being improved, plus the improved parts of production, Li Mo estimates that the improved FA223 helicopter will be hunted in three months, which makes Li Mo very happy. At that time, it was ordered to assemble its own FA223 helicopter. It doesn't matter if the assembled one can't be used, the later improvement is it, and it is much easier to assemble the whole machine than to assemble it at that time. Now the grandsons of the German High Command did not come to grab the spare parts of the "FA223 helicopter", and Li Mo bought all the spare parts produced in Germany at one time. The number is about fifteen hundred. Even if it's a few thousand workers. It will also take three months to assemble these "FA223 helicopters". When it comes to assembly workers, Germany has never been bad.
With all this in mind, when Limer returned to the Stalingrad front. It's already a week later, and Army Group South has already delivered a lot of supplies, but it will continue to wait for a few more days, because the next big battle, the ammunition needed is too huge, and it is absolutely impossible to start a war in a hurry when the supplies are insufficient.
On May 23, all of Vincent's defense lines were faced with the Soviet Union's indiscriminate bombardment, but fortunately, Vincent's various fortifications were still relatively perfect, and there were more anti-aircraft fires, and more than 100 Soviet planes were shot down during the air raid throughout the day, and Vincent's infantry was killed and wounded more than 1,000 people, and the square in Orsk was completely blown up by Soviet planes.
Vasilevsky didn't know why Army Group South suddenly retreated its air force units, Vasilevsky didn't know what kind of tricks Army Group South was playing, but these Army Group South had to be eliminated, and after completely blowing up the square in Orsk, Vasilevsky launched a full-scale attack the next day, for which Vasilevsky mobilized more than 500 aircraft, 2,000 tanks, 3,000 artillery, and all the troops attacked on all sides.
Vasilevsky used the first battle that was a decisive battle, and as soon as he came up, he attacked with all his strength without reservation, because at this time Vasilevsky already had this confidence, not only the 800,000 troops mobilized earlier were in place, but the 400,000 troops that were reinforced, and Vasilevsky only needed to divide his troops into three parts, each with 400,000 people, and the remaining two parts rested, and after six hours, he would rotate other troops to attack, so that the time for attacking could reach 18 hours a day.
Vincent's 120,000 men need to fight for eighteen hours a day, this battle time and task are completely beyond the limits of people, and I don't know what method Vincent uses to deal with it, and divide his troops into three parts to resist? Vincent can't do that.
"Boom...... Boom...... Buzzing...... Click......"
The Soviet army began to prepare for fierce artillery fire, there were still a large number of Soviet planes in the air to help in the battle, and the anti-aircraft artillery of Army Group South also fought back desperately.
Piper's rookie battalion is southeast of Orsk, when the Soviets began to shell, Piper had already called his soldiers into a variety of solid anti-artillery holes, in order to build these anti-artillery holes, Piper did not spend less effort, fortunately, the Soviet Union did not lack trees, everywhere, Piper cut down a lot of large logs in the first few days, and then dug a relatively deep anti-artillery hole in the trench, looking for cement or building stones, each anti-artillery hole was laid with several layers, and the thickness reached more than three meters, Piper's anti-artillery holes are large enough to withstand five rounds of 155mm howitzers, and the chances of five 155-caliber shells hitting the same position are slim.
"Boom, boom...... Boom...... Click......"
Soviet artillery of various calibers tilted the shells against Piper's position, and the violent explosion kicked up an overwhelming amount of dirt, and Piper also squatted in the anti-artillery hole, and the people were in the anti-artillery hole, and the soil on the anti-artillery hole fell down, and the people were constantly being crushed off the ground with the violent explosion, and the sound of the cannon was also deafening, and the chest cavity was as uncomfortable as a hammer blow, which was caused by the shock wave of the explosion.
Piper is still very confident in the anti-artillery holes he built, the Germans have always been rigorous in their work, and even small fortifications such as anti-artillery holes are not sloppy at all, and now its role is revealed.
Thirty minutes later, the shelling of the Soviets stopped, and as soon as Piper heard that the shelling had stopped, he quickly stood up and shouted:
"Quick, everyone immediately go to their combat posts, hurry up...... Pedal"
Piper was the first to run out of the gun hole, and the other soldiers also ran out quickly, rushing to their combat posts, and as soon as Piper came out of the gun hole, he looked at his battalion command post. It had long since been shattered, and only a few large craters were left there, so Piper had to sit right by the bombardment and take out his binoculars to observe the front of his position.
…… (To be continued......)