"Adjust the artillery firing angle, no matter how many, directly bombard the front-line defense positions! Try to keep those iron lumps as much as possible! If they are allowed to calmly organize the next attack, the defense line may not be able to hold on." After hearing this
After the situation on the front line, General Burton immediately responded.
He does not have a dazzling array of anti-tank weapons in his hands now, nor does he have a tank to counterattack the enemy's tanks.
He didn't even know if Datang Group had similar weapons, so naturally he didn't know how to deal with it.
However, because of his rich combat experience, he responded immediately - at least, his troops still had many tactics to deal with enemy armored vehicles.
It's just that when dealing with armored vehicles, the most reliable tactic of digging holes to trap the opponent and then deploying mortars and the like to repeatedly fire and blow up the target is unlikely to work.
Judging from the descriptions of his men, a simple improvised tactic like using light weapons to attack the wheels was probably useless.
Now he can only use a more traditional and dangerous method: let the soldiers hold grenades or explosives to attack these behemoths at close range.
It's a pity that this tactic is still a temporary tactic after all. What he needs is a stronger weapon to withstand the opponent's attack with such a weapon!
The front-line troops were in dire straits, being beaten to a pulp by the sudden appearance of Cyric bombers. The front-line defensive positions were penetrated almost instantly. The battlefield was filled with huge and terrifying monsters like Cyric tanks.
The Goblins almost thought they were going to win this war! They had already imagined that they could seize the land of the previous two kingdoms of Shiron and Taron, seize the most evolved Kingdom of Dorne, and expand their industrial strength.
Already.
They all seem to have seen the dawn of becoming the Gobel Empire and the most powerful country in the world.
Unfortunately, the cannonballs from the Kingdom of Dorne fell like raindrops, suddenly waking up the commanders of the Goblin Kingdom who were still immersed in the joy of victory.
Their new weapons were effective at the beginning of the attack, but because the movement speed was too slow and the technology was too lagging, it was still a little bit behind.
There is no way around this: due to the scarcity of track steel and the design concept of protecting the track, the off-road capability of this behemoth Cyric tank is actually very average.
A water tank with a design similar to the German A7V actually follows a completely different design idea from the British World War I water tank.
The first idea of the tanks designed by the British during World War I was to use the tracks to cross obstacles as much as possible and cover the troops to break through the enemy's defensive positions.
Therefore, the British water tank uses radical overhead crawlers to expand the forward tilt angle of the tank crawlers in order to enhance the tank's ability to overcome obstacles.
Germany's World War I tank design ideas were similar to those of the Land Cruiser. They tried their best to protect their running gear, preferring to give up some off-road capabilities and pursue an overall defense idea.
Of course, due to technical reasons, the German A7V tank design idea is completely wrong and inefficient, but this is understandable.
Because in the era when tanks were just born, no one could tell what a tank was, and everyone had their own understanding and ideas.
When Germany was researching tanks, it was inevitable to refer to known weapon design plans: the one that most came to mind with regard to tanks was probably battleships.
Therefore, German designers referred to the design ideas of battleships to strengthen defense, or at least in their opinion, strengthened the defense of weapons...
The design ideas of weapons actually come from the same origin, and the roots and core design ideas can be found. This root may not be correct, but it must be deeply buried in the bones of weapon designers and users.
Many people criticize Germany's tank design ideas during World War II. They feel that it is complicated and expensive, affects production capacity, and places too much emphasis on comprehensive protection.
But everyone knows that the design idea of comprehensive protection was inherited from the battleships of the High Seas Fleet in World War I, and it took some advantage in the Battle of Jutland.
The German Army can rely on the simplest and cheapest method of increasing the thickness of steel plates to avoid the loss of talent, which is actually the most reasonable and optimal solution.
Those who naively think that the Germans do not copy the T-34, or that they do not adopt the T-34 design ideas are caused by pride and prejudice, actually do not see the difficulties facing the Germans.
During World War II, could Germany produce a large number of fragile Santoku T-34s to be consumed by the Soviet army? The answer is obviously no. It cannot afford it!
Didn’t you see that the German Air Force, which had been forced by the American B-17 to take the lead in a war of attrition in the air, persisted until 1943 and was almost flat?
As a result, in 1945, the German army had thousands of fighter jets in the air, but there were no fuel pilots to launch these planes into the air for combat.
If the Army also adopts the T-34 attrition model, then in 1944, the problem that the Wehrmacht will probably have to face is that although it has tanks, it has lost all its crews like Carlus Wittmann...
Therefore, the Germans had to upgrade the defense and firepower of the T-34 tank to create a tank that could comprehensively surpass the T-34 tank and ensure that their precious crew members could survive the brutal battle.
So, the artillery is stronger, the armor is stronger, the ergonomics are better... Well, isn't that just a zoo...
As for the doomsday battle weapons such as the later E series, their emergence was entirely due to emergency designs that gave up their own design ideas due to shortage of supplies. That no longer belongs to the topic of inheritance of design ideas.
Therefore, in World War I, British tanks were essentially an innovation. They were the integration of new technologies such as position-breaking tanks! But German tanks were not essentially innovative.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! To put it more bluntly, the Germans’ design idea for the water tank in World War I was: I wanted to make an iron shell so that it could walk on land. As for World War II, German tanks, that's another story.
Going back to the Cyric tank in front of us, Cyric designers actually copied the design ideas of the battleship.
Frankly speaking, Cyric's designers have actually worked very hard to be able to come up with the prototype of a tank on their own.
But after all, they were still a little bit behind, and this little bit made their tanks a little embarrassed in the current battle situation.
The shortcomings in speed, the slight lack of cross-country ability, and the artillery counterattack Dorn responded to were too fast, causing Gobl's tank troops to suffer unexpected losses in an instant.
When a Cyric chariot was advancing on the position, it was unexpectedly hit by a flying cannonball and was directly blown into a pile of scattered iron sheets.
Another tank was also hit by a shell and burst into flames. The members inside the tank were reduced to charcoal before they could even struggle.
If hit by a large-caliber artillery, even a tank of the 21st century cannot guarantee the survival of the crew members, let alone the grandfather of this kind of land cruiser.
Later, another tank was destroyed by shrapnel due to the explosion of artillery shells at close range. The huge vibration killed the members inside the tank, damaged the machinery, and paralyzed the tank on the way forward.
Steel plate armor with a thickness of only a few centimeters or even one centimeter was unable to completely defend against incoming artillery shells. Therefore, when Dorn's artillery counterattack began, seven or eight Gobel tanks were scrapped on the battlefield.
However, a dozen tanks still rushed into the defense line of the Dornish defenders, but they lacked infantry cover and had to face the counterattacks of Dornish soldiers rushing from all directions alone.
The battle suddenly became very fierce, so fierce that both parties involved in the battle were a little overwhelmed.
As for the Goblins, they have been preparing for this attack for a long time, and naturally they are not willing to give up easily. What's more, their tanks have already rushed into the enemy's position. They only need to work harder, and victory seems to belong to them.
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Dorne's side was at a critical moment of life and death for the country, and many soldiers would rather die fighting than give in. They held on to their second line of defense and tried to regain their lost first line of defense through flanking counterattacks.
Both sides were constantly adding troops to the war zone. Goblin's troops were hindered by Dorn's artillery fire and were unable to expand their victory immediately. Dorn's soldiers were fighting fiercely with Goblin's tanks and were unable to block their own side for a while.
of the gap.
The two sides are going back and forth, and the fight is lively: Goblin's follow-up troops are consuming Dorne's precious artillery shell inventory. Once the ammunition is tight or the firepower is weak, then they may break through Dorne's defense line; Dorne is in a
One destroys the Gobel tanks that invade the position. As long as they destroy these deadly guys, subsequent enemy attacks will naturally not be a big deal.
Bullets from all directions hit the slow-moving Gobel tank, and the ammunition hit the steel plate and splashed countless sparks.
This is how it is on the battlefield. Soldiers will not stop shooting just because bullets cannot penetrate the tank. They will only pour out the ammunition in their hands crazily and find the target that is easiest to hit or closest to the target that poses the greatest threat to them.
No one would rationally analyze: If my bullets cannot penetrate the tank, then I will hit other targets. In fact, they dare not do this: because no one can guarantee whether the tank they do not take care of will be able to penetrate the tank.
Keep an eye on yourself and shoot at other targets while you're at it.
Another reason is the general sense of luck. No one knows whether his bullet will hit the tank along the gap, thereby damaging the tank and preventing its progress...
That's why it happens that a tank on the battlefield is so full of bullet holes that you can't even see the paint on the surface.
Amidst the hail of bullets, the Goblin tank stopped, and machine guns fired fiercely from all directions, like a steel bunker embedded in the middle of the enemy's position.
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