In fact, when the leading troops of the German 30th Division, which had just captured a hundred French B1 tanks, continued to advance less than 10 kilometers, they captured another batch of "good things."
On a huge French train carriage, Battalion Commander Hoffman of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment of the 30th Infantry Division, led his troops to discover two quite well-camouflaged French train guns.
Around here, the French covered up a lot of canvas, and also deliberately built an earthen wall next to it, which meant that there was no silver in this place.
Of course, in the end, the French army gave up and took away the two big guys in the rout. Just like the British did at Dunkirk, they discarded important weapons and equipment everywhere in order to increase the speed of retreat.
"According to a senior French staff officer we captured on the Somme River, this is a French train gun with a caliber of 400 mm and a range of about 15 kilometers. They originally planned to use these two big guys as Weigang's
The defense line is supported by firepower." Hoffman's adjutant smiled and reported to his battalion commander: "It's a pity that the French were too slow. They didn't have time to deploy the train guns to the Weygand defense line. We
This line of defense has already been broken through.”
Hoffman walked to the captured train gun and observed it carefully, and secretly speculated: "If a super cannon of this caliber is really used by the French to bombard German positions, it will probably cause a lot of losses."
As a member of the 30th Infantry Division, Hoffman, who experienced a 1:10 inferior artillery battle in the Battle of Poland, knew very well how much the disadvantaged side would suffer.
It can be said that if the Polish counterattack force had not relied on the suppressive advantage of the number of artillery, it would have been impossible to defeat the 30th Infantry Division so badly.
Hoffman even believed that if the level of artillery fire was comparable, his 30th Division could completely withstand a longer infantry attack by a Polish group on its own.
In short, Hoffman was lucky that these two guns were not used by the French in battle.
However, if Reinhard were here, he would definitely sneer at these two "super cannons" of the French. Because in another time and space, the Third Reich built two bigger cannons-that is, in history
The famous war beasts Gustav train gun and Dora train gun.
Their barrels are 32 meters long, with a range of 28 to 47 kilometers. The total combat length is 53 meters, and the height is 12 meters, which is as high as a 4-story building. Its total weight is as high as 1,488 tons. To give a simple example
Liezi, it is about the same weight as the German Navy destroyer of the same period.
And their artillery shells are even more amazing. Each armor-piercing shell weighs 7.1 tons, and a high-explosive shell weighs 4.8 tons. The propellant fuel is 1.8 to 2 tons. Such heavy shells can only be hoisted up by cranes and then hit by tanks.
into the barrel.
A Gustav cannonball is taller than the combined height of two adults.
And its barrel can easily accommodate four adults.
With such data, even a 1-meter-thick steel plate or a 7-meter-thick reinforced concrete building will be easily penetrated. It can be said that these two super cannons are the nemesis of the French Maginot Line!
But it is a pity that due to Reinhardt's personal intervention, there are no more Dora train guns and Gustav train guns, the two kings of era-class cannons, in this world.
Anyone who has played Red Alert knows that France has a powerful exclusive weapon - a giant cannon!
Although the French cannon consumes a lot of electricity, it is equivalent to the Allied Forces' ore refinery or super weapon, requiring a large number of power plants to support it. However, as long as it is the target targeted by it, the moment it is bombarded, it is already destined to be destroyed.
become a tragedy.
Of course, the conditions in real combat are not as simple as in the game, and weapons such as giant cannons are not as convenient to use as in the game. But it is undeniable that giant cannons are absolutely worthy of awe in terms of attack power.
In this generation of the Third Reich, because Reinhard knew early on that there was no need to attack the Maginot Line, and deliberately emphasized that the artillery unit should increase its mobility, Germany no longer had the kind of slow but powerful delivery.
Cannon manufacturing plan.
Therefore, these two French train guns are undoubtedly the largest artillery pieces that ordinary German soldiers have ever seen. After all, most of the German fast mobile troops use 60mm, 80mm and 120mm caliber mortars.
There are also 75 mm caliber and 105 mm caliber towed artillery, as well as self-propelled artillery such as the No. 3 assault gun and Stalker, which are modified from tank chassis. The largest caliber support weapons are only 150 mm caliber heavy artillery.
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But compared with the 400mm caliber train gun made in France, the German 150mm caliber heavy artillery seems to be only insignificant and has nothing to praise.
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The good news that Captain Hoffman had captured the giant French train gun quickly reached Major General Hans's division headquarters.
In shock, Hans could not believe his good luck. Their division had just captured 100 French heavy tanks, and now they had captured 2 French giant cannons. Although I have never heard of the Eastern saying called "Unparalleled blessings come to you"
" is an old saying, but Major General Hans also knows how uncommon it is to achieve two easy and huge achievements in a short period of time.
"This thing should be deployed behind the Maginot Line." He was excited. Even though he was extremely happy, Hans still calmed down and analyzed: "This type of cannon is usually used to deal with fixed targets, and it is extremely strong.
fixed target."
"Is it possible that the French want to use these two giant guns to deal with our Siegfried Line of defense?" Captain Lyon, the commander of the division's direct battalion who was staying next to Hans, joked playfully.
Due to the vigorous exaggeration and propaganda of the Socialist Newspaper, the joke that the Siegfried Line, the non-existent German defense line, scared off the million-strong French army has long been spread among the German army. In war, jokes about the enemy are always
Being talked about by people, almost all walks of life in Germany are full of pride for this non-existent Siegfried Line of Defense.
"The Social Work Newspaper is public, and it is easy for the French to get it from our country. From the Social Work Newspaper, the French must also know that our Siegfried Line of Defense does not exist, so they brought this kind of cannon to us.
Trouble."
Hans calmly analyzed: "It is impossible for the French army to just transfer two cannons from the Maginot Line. I speculate that they should also transfer some troops from the Maginot Line to stabilize the current new position."
"It looks like we have to fight for a while longer." When the adjutant heard this, he shook his head with a smile and said, "Who told the French to find another group of cannon fodder troops?"
