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People say that the Russian nation is a fighting nation, and Xu Jie agrees with this very much, not only because the history of Russia is a history of war expansion, nor simply because of the excellent physique and will of the Russian soldiers. Rather, it is because the Russian nation will put the military in a very important position as long as it can solve the problem of the supply of potatoes and vodka. Historically, Tsarist Russia's reckless militarism and the former Soviet Union's arms race, which can be called a desperate weapon, can illustrate this problem. Although Russia has become a medium-sized country on this plane, and although it has lost the material basis for building a strong army, the Russians are still thinking about how to fight the war in the future!

Historically, the Russians were working on the tactics of great depth. This set of tactics is to concentrate superior infantry in the breakthrough area, take the armored forces as the lead, break through the opponent's frontal defense line with the support of aviation and artillery, and then follow the development of the victory echelon into the breakthrough, completely destroy the opponent's defense system, and finally encircle the opponent's heavy troop cluster, and turn the tactical victory into a strategic victory. This tactical system is very advanced, although due to practical operational problems and some details of the grasp of the early stage of the table Xiàn did not be satisfactory (such as the Suzhino Gate Barrier Battle and the Soviet-Finnish War). But in terms of ideas, this set of strategies and tactics is still very successful. It eventually became an important theoretical basis for the victory of the Soviet Red Army.

But in this plane, due to the change of environment, the Russians can no longer continue their tactics of excessive concentration of forces and firepower. The reason is simple, in the Russian army in this plane they lack everything! It's not just a lack of technical equipment and production capacity. Even the human resources that were once the most proud of the Russians were not enough, in the 1 war. Russia lost more than half of its population. In any sense of the word, the Russians cannot afford to fight a large-scale war of attrition,

Withered on their own, and look at the enemies of Russia again? Whether it is following Germany to fight China, or standing on China's side to knock Germany, Russia's situation seems to be facing the world's first-class power. Neither Germany nor China is a country that is willing to give, and whoever they follow must pay the corresponding combat power as a bargaining chip in exchange for what Russia needs. To put it bluntly, the battle mode of the Russian army can be described as someone else's gun and its own money. Of course, the other side will naturally not provide its best equipment to the Russians on a large scale. At least not at first.

And Huaxia was also more entangled in providing equipment to the Russians. At the beginning, some people suggested that Iran be treated the same way, after all, if Russia were on the side of China, then its role would definitely be much greater than that of Iran. Such allies deserve a lot of effort to cultivate. And there are those who think that Russia's behavior is speculative, and even if they end up on our side, they will wait and see in the early stages of the war. For such an ally who is both ends of the ladder and full of uncertainty, Huaxia is not worth paying too much for it. Not to mention that now it's just training, and there is still a long way to go before the large-scale arming of the Russian army. Both factions analyzed the issue of equipment from the perspective of the relationship between China and Russia, and what they said made sense, but unfortunately the direction was wrong!

"Remember. Russia will be our ally, at least in this war, so we need to think about how to get the most out of the Russians, not anything else. We have 10,000 ways to prevent the betrayal of this army. Even Denikin's combat effectiveness declined rapidly after losing the help of Huaxia. If the Russian army is a big tree, then China's assistance is sunshine, water and nourishment! Xu Jie said with some displeasure.

"The biggest difference between the Russian army and the Iranian army is that the Russian army is a force with a soul. They have their own history and their own glory. They have their own systematic system of strategy and tactics, and more importantly, they have ambitions. They will go to learn the strategic and tactical theories of other countries. will learn each other's skills. But they can't copy it all. Our military system may not necessarily be adapted to the realities of the Russians. And the Iranian army is different. He was too young, he had no past legacy, no glory, no ambitions, and they were very distrustful of their military power. So we can not only equip them, but also shape a soul for the Iranian army. This is the difference between the armies of large countries and the armies of small ones. It is also an important condition for determining whether a country can eventually become a military power. Xu Jie said with emotion.

"We can open up most of China's arsenal to the Russians, but the equipment supplied is subject to a general limit according to factors such as cost and man-hours, just like we eat a buffet, the total amount is certain, and the Russians can choose what they want." In the end, Xu Jie came up with a seemingly joking solution. However, if you think about it, it makes sense to do so, and the Russians still have to know better than the Chinese what kind of equipment the Russian army needs. The superiority of the combat effectiveness of the Huaxia Army is largely based on the superiority of equipment, and it is impossible for Huaxia to arm a large number of Russian troops completely according to its own standards, so it is undoubtedly the best choice for them to choose a cheap equipment system by themselves.

What Xu Jie didn't expect was that the Russians were very grateful for this kind of military aid plan with the characteristics of a "buffet". Then, before the Chinese side could give a proposal, the Russian army began to argue, and it is said that the way of argument was not limited to ...... words.

The Russians do have their own ideological system, and although the strategic environment has changed greatly, they can still find some traces of history in their current military thinking. Well, this should be a question of nationality, or rather a legacy of Russian military history. For example, in this plane, the Russian army's allocation of heavy weapons still tends to concentrate on a higher strength. This is the same as in history, in terms of equipment level, the firepower of German units at the battalion and company level has far exceeded that of the Russians, and the firepower at the regimental and division levels is relatively close. And to the level of army groups. The Russian army will be able to concentrate far more firepower than the Germans. (The comparison here is not just by name, but by the number of soldiers.) For example, Germany's armored divisions should correspond to the Soviet mechanized corps, not mechanized brigades. ）

The reason for this is simple. Because purely from the point of view of the number of equipment, whether in history or in this plane, the number of heavy support artillery equipment of the Soviet Army is not sufficient. If you look at the number of artillery pieces alone, the support artillery that the Soviet army has seems to be much stronger than the Germans, but when you look at the quantity alone, you also have to look at the quality, and this quality has two aspects, one is the composition of the artillery, and the other is the number of shells fired by the artillery. After all, sometimes the supply of ammunition will be insufficient, which will directly affect the firepower. Therefore, the most intuitive and accurate measure of a country's firepower level in a certain period of time should be the amount of artillery projected and the weight of projectiles. And not simply the number of artillery!

If you analyze the ammunition consumption of the ground artillery of the German and Soviet 2 wars, a very interesting problem can be found. The time period is 42 to 45 years. FIRST OF ALL, LET'S TAKE SMALL-CALIBER ARTILLERY AS AN EXAMPLE, GERMAN SMALL-CALIBER ANTI-TANK GUNS (37MM AND 50MM) FIRED A TOTAL OF 17 MILLION SHELLS. WHILE SOVIET SMALL-CALIBER ANTI-TANK GUNS (45MM AND 57MM) FIRED A TOTAL OF 48 MILLION SHELLS. The USSR had absolute superiority in this regard.

And then there was medium-caliber artillery. THIS CLASSIFICATION IS MORE MISCELLANEOUS, TAKE GERMANY AS AN EXAMPLE, NOT ONLY INCLUDE 75MM AND 88MM ANTI-TANK GUNS, BUT ALSO INCLUDE 75MM AND 105MM MOUNTAIN GUNS AND FIELD GUNS, AS FOR WHETHER THE 100MM CANNON IS INCLUDED, THIS IS A MATTER OF OPINION. Let's count it in here for now. IN THIS CLASS OF ARTILLERY, THE GERMANS FIRED A TOTAL OF 102.35 MILLION SHELLS DURING THIS PERIOD, AND THE MOST CALIBER SHELLS WERE 105MM GUNS, WHICH FIRED MORE THAN 79 MILLION ROUNDS IN TOTAL. And what about the Soviet side? FROM 76.2MM GUNS TO 107MM CANNONS, THE SOVIETS FIRED A TOTAL OF 83.2 MILLION SHELLS. THE LARGEST PROPORTION OF THEM WAS THE 76.2MM GUN, WITH A TOTAL OF 81.5 MILLION ROUNDS. Comparing the quantity and quality, you can imagine how weak the firepower of the Soviet Union was in this medium-caliber artillery! The quantitative gap is not very large. HOWEVER, THE 76.2MM GUN CORRESPONDS TO THE OPPONENT'S 105MM GUN, AND THIS GAP IS NOT ORDINARILY LARGE!

If the caliber is further up, it will be compared separately. FOR EXAMPLE, THE GERMAN'S 150MM HOWITZER FIRED A TOTAL OF ABOUT 18.5 MILLION SHELLS, WHILE THE SOVIET COUNTERPARTS WERE 122MM HOWITZERS AND 152MM GUNS. A total of about 14.1 million shells were fired. The Soviets were still inferior to the Germans in this regard, both qualitatively and quantitatively.

AND THE LARGEST CALIBER ARTILLERY, SUCH AS GERMAN 150 AND 170MM CANNONS, 210MM HEAVY HOWITZERS AND MORTARS, 240MM HEAVY HOWITZERS. THESE GUNS FIRED A TOTAL OF 1.93 MILLION SHELLS, WHILE THE SOVIET COUNTERPARTS WERE THE BR2 152MM CANNON, 203MM AND 210MM HEAVY GUNS, 280MM HEAVY MORTARS AND 305MM HEAVY GUNS, THESE GUNS FIRED A TOTAL OF 2.01 MILLION ROUNDS OF VARIOUS SHELLS, IN THIS LEVEL OF COMPETITION, THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF SHELLS DELIVERED BY BOTH SIDES WERE BASICALLY EQUAL.

As can be seen from the above numbers, if only the fire projection of howitzers, mountain guns, and cannons is counted, Germany far surpasses the Soviet Union. But in fact, the USSR did not project less shells on both sides than Germany, so what is the problem? The only explanation is mortars, the German consumption of mortar ammunition of all calibers was 73 million rounds, while the Soviet mortar ammunition consumption was more than 210 million rounds! In terms of mortar caliber, the Soviet Union also had a large advantage, so the Soviets completely relied on cheap mortars to catch up with the firepower gap between the two sides.

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