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Xu Jie's "buffet" military aid plan for the Russians surprised the Russians. This part of the military aid is divided into two types, one is the low-end products with technology transfer, which will become the basis of Russia's own equipment and be used to arm ordinary Russian troops. The other is aimed at the Russian troops stationed in China and fighting for China, they are more like a group of mercenaries, except that their main family is the Russian government, and it is Huaxia who hires them. For the Russian veterans who shed blood and sweat for themselves, China naturally cannot be treated badly.

It turns out that a general who can stand out from the hardships of the war environment is definitely not an ordinary person, although the conditions have changed, but those famous marshals and generals of the Soviet Union in history still show great ability in this plane. Huaxia gave the Russian army the task of holding some key cities, including Qom. The purpose of the Chinese was not only to stabilize the defensive line on the western border of Iran, but to launch a surprise attack when necessary, so it was necessary to concentrate forces. Therefore, the task of the Russians is to defend passively, and when the Anglo-American forces on the flank cannot stop it, the Russians will take over from them to hold important nodes, and even if they can't hold it, they will delay for a while. So the main task of the Russian Army in this campaign was defense. The size of the force is tentatively set at about 2 divisions. If the situation so calls for it, or if the Russians are willing to send more troops to serve as mercenaries, then the size of the force can be further expanded.

"There is a very obvious contradiction in defensive operations. This contradiction is that on the one hand, the defending forces want to rely on strong defensive positions, especially permanent fortifications, to weaken the opponent's attack. We will deploy reinforced concrete fortifications in key areas. And put valuable heavy equipment in it. On the other hand, when the defenders deployed a large number of troops in permanent fortifications, they undoubtedly reduced their mobile forces. Moreover, because the defense must ensure that there is a complete front, our forces are too scattered relative to the attacking side, and if there are not enough mobile forces, then the opponent only needs to break through a little bit and cause irreparable consequences. When we design the defensive line, we try to deploy our forces as much as possible at key points, but in practice we always feel that simply emphasizing the defense of key points will not solve the problem. Vatutin said.

"Especially when we are facing the German army, the strong firepower of the opposing side can sooner or later tear apart our defenses. No matter how strong the offensive we build at key points, and no matter how much heavy artillery we deploy, sooner or later the opponent will knock it out. In our previous defensive battles, we always set up a cordon first. Then there is the first line of defense, the main purpose of these two layers of defense is not to stop the opponent, but to delay the opponent, and after the opponent has broken through these two areas, the second line of defense is the focus of our defense. However, with the progress of technology, these things are of limited significance to long-range artillery, and the effective firing range of large-caliber cannons can reach about 25 kilometers, and the firing range of large-caliber howitzers is also more than 15 kilometers. Konev said helplessly. Deploy according to the standards of previous defenses. It is impossible for a division-sized defense to reach a depth of more than 10 kilometers, so there is no depth in division-level defense for the opponent's long-range strike forces.

The key to solving this problem is also the defense against the opponent's long-range firepower. The Russian generals had little idea about the opposing air forces. The Air Force is not under their control, and whether they can block the enemy's bombers or not can only be left to fate. The opposing tanks are also not so terrible. Anyway, there are anti-tank guns, there are mines, and if necessary, infantry death squads. But for the long-range artillery of the other side, the Russians have nothing to do.

What the Russians lacked most was counter-battery firepower. And because Russia plans to send only division-sized troops to the war this time, the number of heavy artillery will be very small. And then consider the overall balance of power in the Iran war. The heavy artillery that Huaxia gave to the Russian troops would not theoretically surpass the opponent, don't forget. A division of the opposing side can receive army-level fire support, but the Russians may not. If you talk purely about division-level firepower. HUAXIA WILL EQUIP THE RUSSIAN DIVISION WITH A MAXIMUM OF 32 122MM HOWITZERS AND 12 152MM HOWITZERS, WITH A RANGE OF NO MORE THAN 17KM. With this amount of artillery and tragic range, it can't reach the opponent's long-range artillery at all!

"Guys, let's see if we can do this, the key problem to solve the opponent's long-range artillery is to make them unable to reach the depth, but everyone knows that this level of artillery generally has a range of more than 25KM. Even when they attack front-line positions, they will open fire at a distance of 10 to 15 kilometers to prevent the opponent's howitzers deployed in the front line from suppressing fire. Generally, there are two types of targets that need to be solved by long-range artillery, one is a relatively strong defensive bunker, and at the same time, there is a certain amount of artillery in this kind of bunker, which cannot be solved with large-caliber mortars. And the other category is the opponent's long-range artillery. We don't have the latter, but we have the former, and we can allow the opponent to deploy forces in advance, so that the opponent's starting position will be a longer distance from us, which is equivalent to weakening the opponent's firepower range advantage in disguise. Zhukov on the side said.

Zhukov's idea, to put it bluntly, is the guiding ideology of forcing the opposing troops to advance in the historical defensive elements of the fortified area. It is important to know that it is very troublesome to advance further to the starting position after the deployment of a large force, and the artillery needs to find a new position, and it is necessary to reconstruct artillery bunkers and ammunition storage points. And the logistics force also needs to redesign the supply depot. The air defense forces should also follow the above two forces. If the road equipment is miserable, then it is normal to directly cause the road to be blocked once it is blindly moved. Perhaps the other side can finally complete the transfer of troops, but for the defending side, this undoubtedly buys time.

It is not very difficult to do this, although the Russians have fewer weapons, but fortunately, there are enough reinforced concrete pipes and enough time. If the front of the fortifications is more than 1 meter thick, there is no other way to solve it except for large-caliber cannon close-range fire and heavy bombs of aviation. HOW DO YOU SAY A 75MM TANK GUN? Let's wash and sleep. For such fortifications, the Germans could only solve the problem of spreading their troops and knocking them out little by little with heavy firepower. (THIS IS NOT MADE UP BY THE AUTHOR, THE HISTORICAL HISTORY OF THE M2 ARTILLERY FORTIFICATIONS BUILT BY THE RUSSIANS FOR 122MM HOWITZERS AND 76MM GUNS DURING THE 2ND WAR HAS A CONCRETE THICKNESS OF ABOUT 1.3 METERS ON THE FRONT, 0.9 METERS ON THE TOP, AND EVEN 0.6 METERS ON THE BACK!) ）

Of course, the number of such strengthened defensive barriers will not be very large, and they can only be used for key point defense, so what about the remaining areas? The solution is simple, that is, to use mines, anti-tank obstacle areas, trenches, barbed wire and other fortifications to block these areas, these areas do not have many troops, and rely entirely on various fortifications to slow down the advance of the opponent. In this way, you can use fewer troops to force the opponent to deploy forces as soon as possible, and then put the opponent's long-range artillery in a relatively backward position.

But that's clearly not enough. In order to keep the enemy's long-range support fire out of the main battlefield as much as possible, the Russians came up with another method, that is, to leave a distance of about 4 to 6 kilometers between the fortified area and the main defense line, which is an open space without any troops. The purpose of this was that the opposing side would have to regroup its forces after smashing the fortified area. The howitzers, which were originally intended for support, had to pass through the fortified area in order to bring the Russian positions back into the effective strike range. And even more so with mortars and mortars. In this clearing, the Russian defense forces would clear the firing boundary and mark the firing elements in advance in order to kill and injure the opposing side as they regrouped. Even if the Russian Army misses this opportunity for damage for various reasons, this open space will still delay the pace of the opponent's attack and buy time for the defenders. (The setting of a wide open space between the two lines of defense was seen in the historical Battle of Kursk.) And it is also a defensive position on the scale of a division. The depth of the Soviet defense system is simply fatal! ）

When the opponent has rushed through the forward fortification area and the open space area, it is time to face the main defense line established by the city. The Russians, on the other hand, used a system of trenches and fortresses to defend themselves against German attacks. The last pillar of fire of the defense system will be various anti-tank guns and mortars. Howitzer units will be deployed on a mobile basis. Avoid the opponent's fire suppression. As for the armored units assigned to the Russians, they did not want to throw these highly mobile units into wars of attrition and urban street fighting.

"Judging from the current analysis, Germany will not invest a particularly large number of troops, and compared to the vast territory of Iran, the German army of less than 10 divisions will not be able to form a coherent front at all, and there must be a large number of gaps between divisions. If we can avoid the opponent's attack line and then go behind them to attack the heavy artillery positions and supply centers behind them, then it will definitely fundamentally shake the opponent's line. The Germans were on the attacking side, and because of the time they could not have systematically dug a trench system. "Vatu Jingjian yì said.

"The travel of tank units can be a problem, and our logistics are difficult to support tanks in long-distance operations. With the same fuel consumption, wheeled and half-track vehicles have a longer range than tracked vehicles. However, the defense of the former is weaker than that of tanks, and the result of being alone is that once damaged, it cannot be recovered, and half of the complete loss of technical equipment is caused by being unable to recover. This is a question worth pondering for us, which is not very expensive. "Konev wasn't very enthusiastic about this construction.

In any case, the Russians finally decided to side with China, and as China and most of its allies began to prepare for war in Iran. So what are the French people who have always been more negative are busy with?

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