Chapter 14, "Inspection" (1) (3rd Update)
But since Lu Qiang said so, then he wouldn't be embarrassed if he didn't get something out, so he expressed his opinion, in fact, it was to reduce the logistical pressure, change Lu Qiang's mixed division into a mountain division, and reorganize those artillery tanks into an artillery brigade and an armored brigade.
"Good idea." Lu Qiang praised, "But I'm not going to fight a mountain war, my battlefield is not in Dabie Mountain, Dabie Mountain has now become my bag, and I can't fight a mountain war with devils." Fighting a mountain war, it's better to fight an offensive war, I have all kinds of tanks and cars, on the move, the Japanese army is not my opponent, I have so many good things, don't go to the attack, what are you doing guarding Dabie Mountain, you say, isn't it? ”
"Uh, yes!"
"But now that the strength of the 250th Division is insufficient, and it is still making such a show, aren't you afraid that the devils will come to fight you?" Bai Yiren asked rhetorically.
"Why be afraid? So far, we have destroyed almost four divisions. Lu Qiang said.
"Four divisions? Isn't it half a division? Bai Yiren frowned, he thought that this was the other party's bragging, even though his equipment was very good, but he could say that he had eliminated four divisions.
"Half a division? What year is your intelligence? Didn't your principal tell you that we fought a battle at the pass, fought with the Japanese army for half a month, and fought out nearly four divisions of the Japanese army. Uh, yes, you should have been on your way here, and I don't know. Lu Qiang said.
Hearing Lu Qiang's words, Bai Yiren was startled, four divisions, nearly 100,000 people, were actually wiped out by them, and only more than 10,000 people were eliminated in the first battle of Taierzhuang, and Wanjialing only eliminated one division, and he actually ate four divisions at once.
"Of course, there is also the credit of the Fourth Army, we provide weapons and ammunition, we are responsible for all their fire support, and they are responsible for blocking the devils." Lu Qiang explained.
Hearing Lu Qiang's explanation, he was relieved, it would be right to have other armies, otherwise it would be too terrifying if they could really destroy more than ten times the devils who were with him. But even so, it is very powerful, the Fourth Army is only twenty or thirty thousand, and it can block the Japanese attack in the front, which also shows that the weapons and equipment given to them by Lu Qiang are definitely not bad, and they are excellent, so how much equipment does this 250 Division have, how strong are the individual soldiers, and what is the firepower configuration, after all, what is written on paper is on paper, and what is actually it.
"I'll tell you the truth, I didn't like you very much, for the simple reason that no one wants to have an explosive in their hand that could explode at any time." Lu Qiang said, "But now it seems that you still have some ability, so it's none of your business, but I will put two people next to you, no opinion." ”
"You ......" Bai Yiren was a little happy when he heard that he didn't care about himself, but when he heard that he actually wanted to put two people next to him, wouldn't it be much worse than house arrest.
"If you want to have an opinion, then I have to continue to lock you up, but I don't raise waste people here, and your food will be halved." Lu Qiang said indifferently, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.
Bai Yiren blushed, speechless, and seemed to be very angry, but he was very calm in his heart, his mind was flying, thinking about the pros and cons of these two options, and after a few seconds, he gave the answer, choose the first option, compared to the second option, the first one is more "free", and he can do a lot of things.
......On the playground, the recruits have not yet finished learning the basics, although they have been on the battlefield once, but the recruits are recruits, and they still have to honestly walk the right steps and stand in a military posture, according to Lu Qiang, they are now in the recruit camp, after two weeks of training, and then they will be assigned to each squad and each platoon.
Bai Yiren as a division deputy, of course, there is a two-story building, in the center of the village, there is a street, holding a street is not long, only less than 50 meters, but idlers are prohibited from entering, this street is on both sides of the two-story small building, is specially for senior generals to live, at present, plus Bai Yiren, there are only 8 people, and there are a lot of empty houses. At the end of the street, there is their conference room, that is, the general command post, which is equivalent to the future Pentagon of the United States/Imperialism.
Bai Yiren moved into a new house with his hair and toiletries, a two-story small building, the first floor is for the office, a desk has long been prepared, and the second floor is for accommodation, with only one room and bathroom. The bathroom has only one toilet and a shower head for bathing, and the room has a double-layer iron bed, a desk placed by the window, and a bookshelf next to it.
Bai Yiren took a look and found that the decoration here was very simple, I don't know if it was only his own.
After putting everything into the room, he 'tole' the two tails and went to the barracks to have a look, which had been locked up in the house until now, and could see nothing.
Locked in the house for the past few days, he has been listening to the slogan of "one two one", he is very curious about what this is, and now he comes to take a look, it is actually just walking the right step, but it is very beautiful to walk neatly, but I just don't know what it is for.
"Well, do you say it's been trained like that?" Bai Yiren asked the tail beside him.
"Yes, this is the basic training for new recruits to join the army, generally in a week to two weeks or so, they are trained to stand in a military posture and walk in the right step." The tail sent by Lu Qiang replied honestly, before they followed Bai Yiren, Lu Qiang had told them, what the other party wanted to ask, it didn't matter what he could say, but important things, I felt that I couldn't leak them.
"What about after the basic training?" Bai Yiren asked.
"Go down to the company, divide it into each company, and then train other skills." Tail replied.
Bai Yiren nodded, didn't ask any more, and took the two tails and walked around.
"What kind of tank is this?" Bai Yiren asked, standing in front of a tank parked there.
"This is the T-34 tank." Before the two tails could answer, the cover of the cockpit position of the tank was opened, and a driver's head with a hat stuck out and gave an answer.
"Is this the T-34?" Bai Yiren walked around the tank very strangely, he had seen this tank before, but he only saw it from a distance, and now this close contact made him see it more clearly. Circumventing the tank, he slapped some grass-green armor hard, and there was a "clang" sound. The body was not pretty, but it did not prevent him from admiring the car, he kicked the large-diameter load wheel, and after circling around the car, he stood on the front of the tank again, looked at the barrel, and asked, "What is the caliber of the barrel of this tank?" ”
"76.2mm," the driver replied weakly, "by the way, who are you, why don't you go to training and run to see my driver's seat." ”
"I'm ......" Bai Yiren was about to answer, but his tail rushed to answer.
"This is the new deputy division commander sent by Chongqing." One of the tails said.
"Ah, it turned out to be the deputy division commander, salute." The driver hurriedly straightened up and saluted.
"Yes." Bai Yiren nodded with satisfaction, as if he had found his majesty. He glanced at the driver with satisfaction, and then walked away with his hands behind his back. Just behind him, one of his tails gave a thumbs up from which driver. It seems that he was tricked, but he didn't know it himself, and he still enjoyed it.
"Do you have another tank called the 59?" Walking on the road, Bai Yiren suddenly asked.
"Yes." One tail replied.
The two tails looked at each other, and then the man who answered before said, "Yes!" ”
"Let's go, let's go see the 59 tank." Bai Yiren said, a little excited in his heart, he could finally see that kind of tank, a tank equipped with a 100mm caliber cannon, and it looked like all kinds of crazy coolers.
Led by the two tails, the three of them came to a tank warehouse, where all 59 tanks were parked, some logistics personnel were doing maintenance on the tank, or some crew members came by themselves, and each crew member had to learn simple maintenance techniques for the tank, so as to prevent no one from repairing it when it was damaged during the battle.
"Is this the 59 tank ?! So much. Seeing the grass-green tanks parked in the garage, Bai Yiren was surprised, but thinking about what was said on that piece of paper, preparing hundreds of 59 tanks is indeed a lot.
Standing in front of a 59 tank, Bai Yiren touched the cold armor, looked at the thick barrel, and was very excited, the cast semi-circular turret seemed very ugly to him, and he didn't understand how the designers of this tank designed the tank like this.
"Why is the turret of this tank semi-circular, isn't that ugly?" Bai Yiren asked the doubts in his heart.
"Who said it's ugly, it's not ugly at all." One tail replied, "And with such a semicircular shape, the ricochet rate is high, and the shells are not easy to penetrate." ”
"Oh." Bai Yiren nodded, but he still felt ugly in his heart, perhaps because he had stayed in Germany for a long time and unknowingly became infected with the aesthetics of the Germans.
German-made tanks are all large, vertically armoured, and aesthetic is only a small part of the reason, the main reason is the axle system running through the body, the comfort of the occupants.
The propeller shaft of the German tank runs through the entire hull from front to back, which has the advantage of good balance of the hull when maneuvering. Not only Germany, but also Sherman, Grant in the United States is also very high? And the same with German tanks.
The members are comfortable, and if you look at the historical photos, you will see that the Soviet tank crews all wore hard hats, but the Germans did not have hard hats until the end of the war. It was because the German tanks were stable, large in space, and comfortable.
German tank technology was not inferior to that of the USSR, but it was a matter of his design ideas. Germany has a small population and emphasizes elite soldiers, so it is necessary to improve the survivability of soldiers and the duration of the battle. The Germans could not afford it, so for the sake of comfort, they had to make the tank bigger, and as a result, the defense was lowered, and the armor was thickened, and as a result, the weight went up, and the staggered load wheels were added, and finally the tactical indicators were reached, and an expensive luxury item was born that was very complex and difficult to produce.
If the Soviets were to meet the kind of all-encompassing tactical requirements that the Germans demanded, they would have to make tanks big, bulky and complex. However, Maozi realistically sacrifices some performance to retain key performance. The performance sacrificed by Maozi such as the processing quality of the steel plate of the car body (bubble steel plate), the uncomfortable car body, the easy accumulation of shells, the IS-2 can only carry 28 shells, and most of them are high-explosive shells that cannot penetrate hard targets, the accuracy of the artillery is extremely poor, and the loading speed of the shells is extremely slow. Not to mention the reality, even in the case of the imbalance in the world of tanks that Maozi himself has been very partial to his own camp, Maozi's tanks still have poor artillery accuracy and slow rate of fire. The key properties it retains are its low body, excellent bulletproof shape, and simple structure that is convenient for mass production. As many netizens said, Maozi's tank design idea is to win by quantity. Individual mass 1v1 is no match for Germany at all.
It is impossible to say that German technology is inferior to Maozi. At best, it is a problem of thinking rather than technology, and the performance of Maozi's tank in the Gulf War and Chechnya shows that in terms of single vehicle performance, Maozi's technology is not so rebellious, and under the conditions of high-tech warfare, Maozi's past tactics of relying on numbers to win without fear of the dead are outdated. From 2002 to the present, it is internationally recognized that the world's strongest tank is still made in Germany or the United States!