Chapter 228

The significance of sending troops to Europe or something, these are all for the people below, and the officers present here have another account. First of all, there are seven more positions of army commanders, and if you take a closer look, these army commanders and army chiefs of staff are either seniors in the army with high prestige, or they are the descendants of Fang Dashuai. There are also many people from the teaching team, and there are many people in Anhui. Who said that Fang Dashuai employs people on the basis of merit?

Of course, these words, that is, muttering in the stomach, that it is not fun to go to Europe to fight, and the opponent is the German army, the first army in the world. It is enough to say a few simple words about the meaning, and the next thing is more important, Fang Dashuai personally gave everyone a tactical lesson. This is a good thing, being able to listen to a day's class is even if it leaves a shadow in the mind of the handsome.

At least the people present are all brigade commanders, who don't want to hug the thighs of the big handsome and put on the mark of the big handsome. Of course, there are people who disdain to hug their thighs, but they are certainly in the minority.

"First of all, I want to talk about equipment, any tactic is based on equipment. The equipment of the German army, the officers from the First Division, should be very clear in their hearts. Divisions are basically the same as us, if the French can be equipped with a 105 heavy artillery battalion in each division, it will be about the same, and even we are better than the Germans. The Germans were not armed with 70-mm infantry guns. Don't compare the equipment at the military level, we will definitely die ugly. The large-caliber artillery that the German army was equipped with was not at all a luxury that we could hope for. The second is tactics, and today I will mainly talk about group assault tactics in trench warfare. On the current European battlefield, ravines are crisscrossed, and both warring sides are digging trenches. This situation was due to the terrain of Europe and the equal strength of the warring parties. The so-called group assault tactics are, to put it bluntly, a kind of assault tactics based on squads. This tactic is characterized by a clear division of labor, and in trench warfare, there are groups responsible for fire cover. There's a team for white-knuckle combat, there's a team for bomb dropping, there's a team for pick-up, and if there's a flamethrower team, that's even better. The specific tactics are clearly written in the booklet in everyone's hand, and they must hurry up and practice this after they go back. Next, let's talk about how to deal with tanks, the best way to deal with tanks is a direct-fire gun. Armor-piercing shells. The current German tanks can be knocked out with 70mm infantry guns with armor-piercing shells, and after returning home, all units must pay close attention to practicing this. And how to use a Molotov cocktail? That is to let the tank go. Throw the Molotov cocktail like the tail of a tank, and the specific technique of making incendiary bottles will be taught back. ………………。 ”

Everyone in the conference room was silent, and their hands kept taking notes. At the beginning, some officers who were not from the teaching team system may not be convinced by the commander. But once the lecture started, the little ninety-nine in my heart was put away. These are all life-saving tricks. The power of tanks, everyone knows, the cruelty of trench warfare, look at the European battlefields have been beaten to the point of hoping that China will send troops. The officers who participated in the Qingdao Campaign have even more spectrum in their hearts. The Japanese army is fierce enough, right? Enough to play with your life, right? With a little advantage in equipment, it was impossible to stop the reunion of the Japanese army, and it was all relying on strong fortifications to defuse the impact of the Japanese army. Every time I think of the Japanese army taking people in front of the barbed wire fence to block bullets. Take the corpses of their comrades to block bullets, and these officers will have a chilling feeling. European theater. It will only be more brutal than the Sino-Japanese war.

"The war in Europe is at least ten times more brutal than the war between China and Japan, and you must be prepared for this in your heart. When we fight, we have to worry about the shells after two hours of artillery preparation. In the European theater, the day of artillery preparation is short. The artillery preparation for a campaign, firing millions of shells, that is polite, whoever uses the domestic combat experience to measure the European battle formation, as soon as possible to report and ask to resign. Today, after everyone goes back, they will take up the pre-war training. In Tianjin and Shanghai, we set up false battlefields and began to practice when we went back. Practice for two months first. Finally, a new tactic that emerged on the battlefield on the Eastern Front was that the Germans concentrated their armored assault forces, carried out large-scale armored assaults, tore open the gaps in the defensive line, and carried out a large-scale roundabout outflanking. The Russians have suffered enough of this tactic, and when we get to Europe, we must guard against this move of the Germans. Therefore, all units must be prepared to deal with such possible tactics. Whether or not you can defeat the German tanks will determine your life and death on the European battlefield. The General Logistics Department has already transported a large number of infantry guns to Tianjin and Shanghai, and each brigade has a separate company of infantry guns, which is specially used to fight tanks. ”

At the mention of this, some officers had in their minds the scene of the battlefield outside Pingdu City, where the Japanese army was driven back to the river by Wehrmacht tanks after crossing the Gilai River. When it comes to the individual soldier's character, the Wehrmacht certainly cannot be compared with those madmen of the Japanese army. The Japanese army is still like this, and it will definitely be even worse if it is replaced by its own subordinates.

At the end of the meeting, the commanders of the units returned one after another. Then, on the opportunity to send troops to Europe, the Wehrmacht entered Tianjin in a grand manner, dug trenches near Dagukou, and built a huge training ground. More than 100,000 national defense troops entered the vicinity of Dagukou one after another, causing some controversy. But these controversies, very

It's almost gone. Britain, France and Russia do not speak, who can say anything? The provisions of the Xinchou Treaty were invisibly broken again.

Zhu Erdian, Kant, and Kudashev came to the General Staff again and asked to see Marshal Fang. During this time, if you want to see the handsome during the day, you have to come here. Members of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission, composed of Fang Jianxiong, Jiang Fangzhen, Cai Yi, Zhang Xiaohuai, Huang Xing, and Sa Zhenbing, are holding a meeting. The content of the meeting was, naturally, how to take advantage of the European war to arm at least twenty more infantry divisions. As for where Fang Dashuai's confidence came from, the others were not very clear in their hearts, but the twenty infantry divisions in front of them, the British and French, who were equipped with something, were very simple. Within a month and a half, rifles, mortars, and machine guns shipped by Britain and France from the United States were in place.

The meeting was interrupted by the visit of the three ministers. Fang Jianxiong asked Yang Yongtai to directly lead the three of them to the conference room, and the entire Standing Committee met with the three ministers.

After the three envoys came in, they were very happy to see this scene, which showed that the Chinese were ready to keep their promises. Otherwise, it would not have been such a formal meeting.

After some politeness, Kant couldn't wait to speak: "Your Excellency, your country's army has completed the assembly, and the equipment we promised is basically in place, when will your army board the ship and go to Europe?" ”

Fang Jianxiong faced such a direct question and answered very simply: "Mr. Kant, the squadron needs some time to adapt to training. The European battlefield is not the same as the Asian theater, and if the necessary training is not carried out, the soldiers who are about to go to the battlefield are not responsible. ”

As soon as he heard this, Kant also felt that it made sense, so he asked, "How long will your army prepare?" ”

Fang Jianxiong smiled and said: "At least one to two months of training, there is still a problem, it just so happens that Mr. Kant is here, so I don't need to send someone to go." The advance team of our army to Europe called, and the heavy artillery you promised has only delivered ten battalions of 105 howitzers. This question is not implemented first. The expeditionary force had a total of seven infantry corps, twenty-one infantry divisions, and twenty-one battalions of heavy artillery were needed. The heavy artillery brigade to which the seven armies belong is also a legitimate request, and I hope that this equipment will be implemented as much as possible. ”

When Kant heard this, he subconsciously glanced at Zhu Erdian. There was an agreement between Britain and France that the two countries would each contribute half of the heavy artillery needed by the squadron. Now the French have delivered ten battalions of 105 howitzers, and the British have not seen a single shell.

"Your Excellency, you will urge the country to fulfill its agreement as much as possible. Your army should also make all the preparations and start loading ships to Europe on New Year's Day in 1916 at the latest. "Zhu Erdian is quite polite, and he doesn't put on a stand for the British Empire. Now I am begging others to go to war, and this realization is still there.

"The second group of personnel of our army will be able to board the ship tomorrow, and let me declare first that this group of people are artillery of various units. They go first and receive the corresponding equipment. There are more than 15,000 people in this group, and I hope you will be prepared accordingly. Fang Jianxiong once again expressed that he was very simple, Zhu Erdian and Kant were relieved, the artillery took the first step to take over the equipment, which is completely understandable. After all, there is still a certain difference between the legal system and the British artillery and the German one. You need to familiarize yourself with the process.

"Very good, in that case, we can truthfully reply to the country."

There was a reason why the French were anxious, and at the end of 1916, as New Year's Day approached, the war situation on the Eastern Front gradually stabilized. This is definitely not a good thing. The French Army was able to withstand the German army, and it was not a vegetarian. The Eastern Front was pacified, which meant that the Germans would launch an offensive on the Western Front. What's worse is that in order to contain the German army, the British and French forces launched many offensives in a row during the crisis on the Eastern Front, but the results were not ideal. In the last two months, the French army has added more than 500,000 casualties. The British army also suffered 100,000 casualties, and the effect of this offensive battle was really outrageous.

In order to get ahead of the Germans, the Anglo-French forces decided to launch a powerful offensive in the spring of 1916. It can be said that the last bit of money of the two armies has been smashed into it. The equipment promised to the Chinese, many of them were delayed because of this.

But there is something that Britain and France did not expect, and it is quietly brewing. The German army had basically completed the tactical deception and assembly, and the chief of the German General Staff, Falkingham, carried out a beautiful tactical deception. This gave the illusion that the Germans were about to launch an attack on the Shambany front, and in fact thirty-seven divisions, fifteen hundred artillery pieces, and five hundred tanks were assembled on the Verdun side.

That is to say, because the losses suffered by the German army in a series of battles in the European theater were far less than those of parallel history, the Battle of Verdun in this time and space was not only advanced, but also fatally ten more divisions and 500 artillery pieces than parallel history. The worst thing is still 500 tanks! The Germans used all the little money they had saved.

The Great War in Europe was imminent, and the French army was also preparing for a campaign, so naturally more troops were needed. According to the plan, more than 300,000 squadrons arrived in Europe, just in time for the campaign that the French army decided to launch at the end of February.