Chapter 711: The Clash of Steel

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After World War II, due to economic difficulties, the German Union was no match for the Chinese Empire in the navy, air force and space army. But in terms of army equipment www.biquge.info Delian did not lag behind the Chinese Empire, but far surpassed the Chinese Imperial Army in terms of equipment scale.

China and Germany were in opposite directions in the direction of their post-war land developments. The Imperial Chinese Army continued to pursue the line of elite troops, and the Imperial Standing Army remained at about 2 million and was extremely well-equipped. The entire Warsaw Pact bloc has more than 9.3 million troops, which are well-equipped but slightly lower than the Imperial Chinese Army, and have become the main force to contain NATO. 【】The novel chapters are updated the fastest

In other words, the Imperial Chinese Army feared that it would be attacked in the first round of fierce attacks in a military conflict with NATO, and the Imperial Chinese Army learned the lessons of the blitzkrieg in World War II, and the main forces of the Imperial Chinese Army were not deployed close to the NATO region, but deployed in depth to avoid a surprise attack by NATO. And on the front line, it was the other Warsaw Pact units that acted as cannon fodder to directly confront NATO troops.

The German Union, on the other hand, more than doubled its total army strength after the war. Mainly because of the economic difficulties after the German Alliance, a large number of soldiers had nothing to do when they were disarmed and returned to the fields, but they became an evil force in society because they could not live with food and clothing. The German Union then adopted the strategy of resuming corps production in the former Soviet Union after World War I, and carried out war readiness while producing most of the army. ""Novel chapters are updated the fastest

When the Imperial Chinese Army returned to the level of peace readiness, the total strength of the German army increased to 6.3 million, and the total strength of the entire NATO army was as high as 13.8 million.

With such a large army, the army equipment required is also amazing. In the early post-war period, NATO countries had 18,000 tanks and combat vehicles of various types. Since it was difficult for the German Union to catch up with the Chinese Empire in a short period of time in terms of navy, air force and space equipment, Hitler vigorously built up the army. Strive to become the world's number one army power.

As an important symbol of the army, the tank has become a key development object of the German Union.

During World War II. The German tanks suffered from the Allied tanks. In addition to the technological lag behind the Chinese Empire, it was more due to the high cost of production that led to the lack of quantity. The cost of tank production in the USSR was low. The tank group had a huge impact on the Germans in the later period.

After the war, the German Army learned its lesson. With the liberalization of the market for raw materials, the cost of producing tanks in the German army fell rapidly. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the accession of Tsarist Russia to the German Union made a great integration of German and Russian tank technology. The cost-effective Soviet tank and the powerful engine of the German tank finally made the German tank achieve a breakthrough.

In March 1949, the T44 main battle tank of the former Soviet Union was combined with the German No. 6 tank to become the first main battle tank T50 after the German Union War.

The T50 main battle tank weighs 39.7 tons, has turret armor of 203 mm (only at the bottom of the turret) and a hull of 99 mm. The main armament is a 100-mm rifled gun of the PD9 type. 2 x 12.7 mm heavy machine guns. It uses the V8 diesel engine of the German tank No. 6 with a maximum range of 600 km (with auxiliary fuel tanks) and a maximum speed of 55 km per hour.

Overall, the T50 main battle tank has its significant advantages, as well as its significant disadvantages. Different countries, different camps have different evaluations of it. In several wars in the Middle East, the tanks of the Arab armies suffered a Waterloo-style defeat, and among them were destroyed and damaged by the Persian Empire and the Kuwaiti army. Countless were seized. In fact, the shortcomings of the war are manifested in the fact that due to the tight economic relationship, the German Union one-sidedly pursues the bulletproof appearance, shrinks and reduces the size of the car body, causing inconvenience in operation. Lack of protection in the location of ammunition depots and fuel bunkers. Once the tank is hit, its survivability is poor, and it is prone to the outbreak of the "secondary effect" (that is, the legendary internal explosion. Particularly dangerous).

But the most fundamental thing is that the German tank artillery lacks an advanced fire control system, and the shooting accuracy is average. Loading ammunition is a great physical drain on the tanker, and the quality of the engine is much behind that of the Eastern Warsaw Pact tanks.

But. Due to the extremely low production cost of the T50 tank, Hitler successively produced up to 40,000 units in the fifties and sixties in order to form NATO's absolute superiority over the Warsaw Pact army in a short period of time. During this period, the T50 tank was continuously improved, and more than 100 models were derived to adapt to the war of different terrains. Due to the large number of T50 tanks, although the German army lost in the Middle East in the future, it showed its might in the African battlefield and became a cost-effective tank favored by African countries.

At the same time as the German Army launched the T50 main battle tank, the Chinese Empire began a targeted tank program in response to the absolute superiority of the German Union tank forces.

First of all, the Chinese Empire concentrated its efforts on mass production of the M36 King Tiger heavy tank, the M28A3 Cheetah medium tank and the M35 Hound light tank, and on this basis, it improved and developed the M43 main battle tank with outstanding comprehensive performance, which served as the main battle tank of the Chinese Imperial Army in the fifties.

The M43 tank uses a 120 mm gun, which gives the M50 an advantage over the 100 mm gun used by the T43 tank. Moreover, the Chinese Empire is in an absolute leading position in the research and development and manufacturing of electronic equipment, which makes the M43 tank have an advanced fire control system, high shooting accuracy, and automatic loading of shells to save the gunner's physical strength. Judging from the fact that the M43 has only two crews, it is much more intelligent than the T50, which requires four crews.

However, although the M43 tank was ahead of the T50 in performance, from the overall strategic situation of the fifties, the key to the disparity in strength was the number of tanks, and the Chinese Empire only produced 14,500 M43 tanks, which was more than three times worse than the 40,000 T50 tanks. Both sides belong to the second generation tank, and the M43's performance lead is also expensive, which is why Deutsche Union's cheap T50 tank finally leads the way with absolute numerical superiority.

In 1951, the German Union, which was recovering day by day, began to show its aggressive minions. But in the fifties, the German coalition was in a weak position in the Sino-German Cold War, so Hitler did not dare to provoke a new world war, but invaded Armenia by supporting and arming the Georgian army.

Hitler's goal was to take out Armenia, thereby ending the Chinese Empire's control of Transcaucasia and clearing the way for the German Union to seize the Black Sea Caspian oil zone of the Transcaucasia.

For Hitler's ambitions, the Chinese empire was prepared for a long time. Emperor Wang Chenhao issued an edict to fully support Armenia, including exporting a variety of advanced weapons and equipment in service with the Chinese Emperor to Armenia, among which the M43 main battle tank was the first to be launched.

On November 2, 1951, Georgia launched an attack on Armenia with 70,000 Georgian troops without declaring war. Armenia immediately declared war on Georgia.

In this way, in the context of the Cold War, two Transcaucasian countries supported by the two major military blocs of China and Germany began a high-intensity local war. (To be continued.) )