Compared to the French and Germans, the night belongs to the scouts.
Among the three armored vehicles assigned to Hu Tingfeng, one was a specialized communications vehicle with a radio transceiver device installed in it.
War is the best driving force for the development of science and technology. At present, there are telephones that can freely convert sounds and electrical pulses, and there are also radios that can spread signals in the air. It can be said that wireless communication technology has met the objective conditions for implementation.
In Qin Zhiyuan's laboratory on the island of Corsica, a team specializing in wireless communications has been formed. Their first research project is to miniaturize the relevant equipment, at least for vehicle use, so that it can be installed on tanks and
On other vehicles. Of course, this is not an easy task, and it is unlikely to be fruitful in a short time. For now, we can only use radios that are large enough to fill a car.
Fortunately, Qin Zhiyuan is not footing the bill.
With the help of radios, it was much more convenient for the scouts to carry out harassment. They no longer had to drive motorcycles and risk being strafed by mg08 to approach the harassment. Instead, they could use guided artillery to inflict a greater blow on the Germans.
You know, the German artillery was raging all the time during the day, but the artillery of the 1st Division and the 32nd Division remained silent. The reason why they endured it all day was just for this moment.
Including the large-caliber artillery of the 32nd Division, Qin Zhiyuan can command more than 100 heavy artillery. If small-caliber artillery similar to Miss 75 is added, Qin Zhiyuan can command more than 300 artillery.
Speaking of artillery, the French actually fell into a misunderstanding before World War I.
When Miss 75 was first born, its rate of fire was undoubtedly the first in the world, and the French artillery was very proud of it for a while. Especially after the Eight-Nation Allied Forces invaded China in 1900, almost all countries that saw the power of Miss 75 were
Buying Miss 75 from the French. There is no reason why the money delivered to your door should not be unearned. Therefore, the French sold Miss 75 all over the world, but not to their feuding Germans.
The Miss 75 has a rate of fire that is two to three times higher than that of all similar weapons. This advantage is so great that the French changed their tactics. They installed a steel shield on the Miss 75 and used shrapnel grenades that relied on steel balls and fragments to kill the enemy. In the war
It is required to push Miss 75 to 1,000 meters away from the enemy's line, defeat the enemy with an unparalleled super-fast rate of fire, and then launch an infantry charge.
The Germans who couldn't buy Miss 75 were helpless. Since they couldn't beat the French in terms of rate of fire, the Germans simply found another way to research large-caliber artillery that surpassed Miss 75 in terms of power and range.
Different routes lead to different results. After the start of World War I, Miss 75, which the French were proud of, was destroyed by German heavy artillery before it could be pushed to the preset position. The artillery shells used by the Germans were no longer
Shrapnel shells are full-charge high-explosive shells. At this time, the shells no longer rely on steel balls and fragments to kill the enemy, but rely on impact to inflict invisible damage to the enemy.
The French learned from the painful defeat and began to shift their focus to large-caliber artillery at the end of 1916. After all, the French still had experience in artillery, and they soon built heavy artillery that was as powerful as the Germans, but had the same range and rate of fire.
All have the upper hand with heavy artillery.
In fact, if you carefully look at the artillery during World War I and World War II, the French are not inferior to anyone in terms of technology. Unfortunately, the gap in tactics is getting wider and wider, which fully illustrates the importance of people.
Qin Zhiyuan happened to catch up with the period when the French were catching up, so most of the equipment in the army were large-caliber artillery.
The power of large-caliber artillery is unmatched by small-caliber artillery. Although the range has been improved a lot, the accuracy is not much worse. It only took three test rounds, and the artillery completed the impact point test, and then the 300 artillery pieces were fired.
volley.
What is the concept of 300 artillery salvos? It is equivalent to throwing fifteen tons of steel into the German camp with each round of shooting. If calculated based on one-fifth of the charge, each salvo fire
This is equivalent to about three tons of TNT explosives exploding in the German camp.
So the Germans were in tragedy.
Almost as soon as the Germans fell asleep, they were awakened by the violent explosion. At this time, they ignored the night camping regulations and first found cover as quickly as possible to avoid the French bombardment. Not everyone had this opportunity, many people were sleeping
They were directly shocked to death. There were always strange red spots on their skin. On the surface, there were no wounds, but their internal organs had been shattered.
Don't think that the Germans are all steel warriors. When encountering irresistible firepower, the Germans will also be in a hurry, panic, and collapse.
At this point in the war, the skilled and courageous warriors are about to be exhausted. Now those sent to the battlefield are either those skilled but not physically strong veterans who have been discharged and have been re-enlisted, or those who have just come of age.
Children who have not received enough training.
Last year's Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme completely exhausted the last remaining courage of the Germans, British and French. Now they are just holding on with one breath. Rather than fighting the enemy, they are
Fight with yourself again.
In the second half of last year, 100,000 people in the entire German army fled. They could not bear to remain in a state of dying at any time all day long, and would rather become dishonorable deserters than suffer in the trenches.
The situation of the French is a little better, because the French team does not lack food, and the French government also has enough money to maintain stability. With the backing of the Americans, the French can sell whatever they want to buy. But it is not without problems. What is happening now
The mutiny in France was an outbreak of pressure from French soldiers.
The Russians are even worse. Since Christmas, an average of 35,000 Russian soldiers have deserted every month. This is assuming that there is no large-scale war on the Western Front.
The British look pretty good. That's because the British are constantly mobilizing colonial soldiers to provide blood transfusions for Britain. Now in Europe, India alone has borrowed more than one million soldiers. In addition, there is the Canadian Legion, the Australian Legion, the New Zealand Legion and the Irish Legion.
etc.
The Chinese represented by Qin Zhiyuan are also transfusing blood for France, so they are valued by the French, and they almost respond to every request in terms of equipment.
The sign of responding to requests is having enough artillery shells and cannons. Now, the French investment is paying off.
The rate of fire of the heavy artillery is much slower than that of Miss 75, about two to four rounds per minute. If it is measured in hours, the rate of fire will continue to decrease. In general, it can fire almost two shells per minute. So at most
In five minutes, a German divisional camp would turn into a sea of flames.
It was really a sea of fire. All the tents, fences, cars, wood, and even ammunition boxes, anything that could be ignited were basically burning. From time to time, concentrated stacks of ammunition would explode. There were flames everywhere, and the roar of fire was everywhere.
The soldiers who run around will eventually be burned alive, their bodies curled up into a ball, their limbs will shrink into a strange posture, and their bodies will turn into charcoal.
The sea of lava, fire, and flaming hell probably describe this kind of scene.
