81_81266 Just in early April, the weather in Poland is still very cool, but on a German artillery position, most of them are ****, and it looks like the whole scene is so hot.

A big man with chest hair held the cannonball into the barrel, and the soldiers behind pushed the already stacked charges into it, and then the soldiers helped close the bolts, and the whole action was done in one go. Then, after a short period of aiming and adjustment, as the flag officer not far away waved the red flag in his hand, five 150 mm cannons on this position roared at the same time.

German artillery was slightly stronger than Japanese artillery, but it was basically above a level. The German conventional artillery had an advantage in the number of guns of 105 and 150 mm caliber, but was inferior to the Japanese army in the number of 75 mm and even 37 mm caliber guns. This result is also directly related to the establishment of the German army and its armament.

In terms of equipment, the German army's large number of anti-tank guns were 75 mm caliber, but although these guns were large in number, they could not be compared with the Japanese 75 mm mountain guns, which were the main caliber of field artillery. At the same time, the German 40 mm anti-aircraft guns were purely anti-aircraft weapons, so they were not as good as the Japanese 37 mm guns in terms of quantity, because the Japanese 37 mm caliber had anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank guns.

On the other hand, the German infantry support weapons were mainly 60 mm mortars and 80 mm mortars, and the direct support weapons at close range were rocket launchers, while the Japanese used grenadiers as the primary support weapons, and combined with a large number of mortar units -- it is really impossible to judge whose artillery support firepower is better.

Of course, if you include the No. 3 assault gun used to support the infantry and the Frederick rocket launcher of the rocket artillery unit, the German army's strength in artillery alone is enough to overwhelm the Japanese army, of course, this is not something to boast about, because the artillery strength of the Japanese army is only a little stronger than their tank troops.

On the whole, at the time of the French campaign, the overall strength of the German artillery was only better than that of the Japanese, but now the German artillery is "not what it used to be", they have captured thousands of French cannons in France, as well as a million rounds of reserve shells. These munitions naturally became the weapons of the German army, and they continued to exert their residual heat where they were used.

If you add the Belgian artillery, the artillery produced by the French occupation zone as war reparations, then this amount is very impressive. Although this captured weapon caused some collapse of the German logistics units, the already messy logistics classification was fully doubled. But the benefit was obvious, that is, in just 2 months, the German artillery was a third more than before.

Sometimes the accumulation of quantity will eventually lead to a leap in quality, and this is a simple truth that everyone knows, but now the artillery units of the German army have relied on the accumulation of quantity and have undergone qualitative changes -- they have even made a four-six deal with the huge artillery units of the Soviet Union, and the scene is not inferior.

"Boom!" Another salvo, the shells flew into the distance at a speed invisible to the naked eye, these long-range artillery units could not see their own results, they could only mechanically repeat their movements, hitting one shell after another near the coordinate parameters provided to them by the front line.

"Coordinates, 75, 44!Adjust the parameters!" a second lieutenant standing next to the radio held a headset on his ear in one hand as he recorded with a pencil the position of the enemy positions provided by the forward observation post.

"Artillery parameter adjustment!Coordinates: 75,44!Shell loading!" a captain officer next to him ordered loudly.

With the officer's command, a group of **** German soldiers with their upper bodies were busy again, and in one after another, they loaded the shells and charges in their hands into their cannons.

Then the flag flew, another round of shells were fired, over fields and farmhouses, over woods and rivers, over barracks and tanks parked on the side of the road, over the heads of soldiers in the trenches on the front line, over the craters and corpses in front of the trenches, and then landed precisely on a land crowded with Soviet attacking soldiers.

At a well-camouflaged artillery observation post on the front line, a soldier was using a scissor periscope to observe the Soviet positions opposite, and then excitedly stated the results of the shelling: "Hit the target! Hit the target! Shoot about 15 meters in an extended direction." ”

"04, 04! I'm 01, I'm 01, direction doesn't change, distance correction 76!Repeat: direction doesn't change, distance correction 76!" another soldier reported loudly over the radio.

On the other end of the radio, the second lieutenant shouted out the calculated coordinates again: "Coordinates, 76, 44! Adjust the parameters! Shoot now!"

"Shoot now!Coordinates 76,44!" the officer who was standing by ordered again in a loud voice.

The flag continued to wave, and this time the cannon did not wait for a salvo, but let out a roar with a slight difference in front and back. The deafening sound also turned into a series of roars.

On the front line, a German veteran squatted in a trench dug by his own hands, and beside him, several young soldiers were trembling with their rifles, and their mouths were chanting words of prayer for God's blessing and other nonsense.

The veteran held a cigarette in his mouth, held his own assault rifle, and gently wiped the two field medals hanging on his chest, one from Poland, which was a Polish War Medal, and everyone who participated in the Polish campaign had a medal that was actually very rough in doing so, and the other was a French Battle Medal, which did not look very good, but it was still wiped clean by the veteran.

The sound of a cannonball falling with a different sound suddenly appeared, and the veteran, who had been doing nothing, suddenly frowned, and he shouted: "Lie down and hide!" At the same time as the sound came out, he threw himself into the bomb-proof trench on the other side.

Although the Germans did not prepare permanent fortifications, their positions were still carefully constructed. Compared with 20 years ago, their skills in digging trenches and trench warfare have not declined in the slightest, and there are countless old men in the Wehrmacht who are about to retire who are best at digging pits, and they have studied and used even the trenches they have seen with their own eyes for a lifetime, and they look down on the current blitzkrieg of the Wehrmacht.

Almost every time they met, they had to criticize the Führer's flattered blitzkrieg tactics, assuming countless times how they would lay them out if they had given themselves time to set up their defenses, enough to make a blitzkrieg a mess. And when the Führer threw out the theory of defense in depth on the Eastern Front, these people unswervingly stood by the side of Führer Accardo, and did not hesitate to put the Führer on the altar of tacticians.

So now the position where the German army is hiding can be said to be "the strongest defense system in non-permanent fortifications", this sentence is the original words of an infantry general in the report. Since they can be so praised by the most authoritative antiques of trench warfare, these lines of defense are not as simple as shallow pits anyway.

All defensive positions were required to be constructed in the shape of M, rather than a simple straight line, and these M-shaped trenches were flanked by shallow pits for the transfer of troops, and behind these trenches were T-shaped anti-explosion pits were constructed. As long as the shells do not hit the multi-point junction of these tunnels, a slight deviation will reduce the power of these shells by more than seventy percent, and if they deviate by a few meters, then even large-caliber heavy artillery shells will not cause fatal damage to these simple trenches.

After the key parts were reinforced with wood and cement, several points of the defense line were capable of resisting artillery coverage, and if you count the 20 km elastic defense zone preset at the front end of the entire main defense line by the defense theory in depth, this line of defense was sufficient to deal with any means of attack on the Soviet side.

Accardo wasn't a god, of course, but he at least stood on the shoulders of giants. In the previous life, the Soviet military experts dug the big hole for the German armored forces in Kursk and were blown by the victors for half a century, and now he uses it on the body of the Soviet Red Army, and it seems that he suddenly feels a pleasure of returning the favor to the other.

The German veteran threw himself into a fork in the T-shaped tunnel, and at about the same moment a shell landed in another corner of the tunnel, and the explosion kicked up countless clouds of dirt at once, burying the soldiers hiding in other corners. When the aftermath of the explosion finally passed, the German veteran emerged from the soft earth and shook off the rubble and black mud hanging from his helmet.

There was still a loud buzzing in his ears, and although he covered his ears in time, it would take at least a few minutes to recover, as he had learned from the previous shelling by the French. He shook his head, then picked up his gun from the floating dirt, then turned back into his trench and saw several of his comrades, who had also just returned.

These soldiers had long been told to try to obey the veterans' advice, although they were afraid, they had been training for 3 months on the Eastern Front with the trenches they had dug, and they had followed the veterans' reminders to avoid the shells that might hit them, it was their instinct that had penetrated deep into the bone marrow, so just now they all threw themselves on the ground without hesitation, avoiding the huge shock wave and countless shrapnel of the Soviet shells.

If the Soviet artillery saw this result, it was estimated that they might go crazy, because the German artillery shell could basically take a dozen or even dozens of lives when it hit the attacking Soviet army's position, but although the shells they fired were more powerful, they could only occasionally add a few wounded soldiers to the German army