After everyone heard Lord Gott's words, they couldn't help but feel a little confused.
In this situation, what else can be done to make a difference?
Lord Gott did not show off, and immediately expressed his idea: "If we follow the usual way of fighting, even if we gather all the local army together, we may not be able to repel the German attack. In this case, we might as well
Spread out the troops..."
Spread out the deployment! Wouldn’t this make it more difficult to form a combat effectiveness?
When many generals heard this, they couldn't help but shook their heads and sighed.
Although Lord Gott is the general with the most experience in fighting the German army among everyone here, the response plan he proposed is not at all as convincing as his lofty title.
"Commander Gott, our regular army troops are already sparse in number. If we divide them up, it will be more difficult to form combat effectiveness." An anxious major general couldn't help but refute his superior.
The generals here are basically top students who graduated from regular military academies. No matter which country's military academies they are in, they will teach their students the same basic truth: in a war, once the weak side divides its troops, it will have huge negative effects.
.No matter what kind of arms they are, they can only exert their due combat effectiveness when used intensively. Unless the troops are abundant, no qualified general will disperse his own troops as if he wasted his military power in front of a strong enemy.
However, Gott did not immediately refute the impatient major general. He just waved his hand lightly to signal the major general to stop talking.
"It's not that I haven't noticed the question you raised. Listen to me first..." Lord Gott paused, and then revealed the answer: "The dispersed deployment of troops I mentioned is not just for us.
All troops, and only against the insufficient regular army."
Only split up the regular army?
Hearing this, many generals who reacted quickly realized something.
After all, where there are formalities, there are also irregularities. Since Commander Gott said that only the regular army is targeted, then among the Home Defense Forces, those that do not apply to this rule will naturally belong to the irregular National Guard.
Sure enough, Gott continued to explain: "Due to insufficient training time, lack of weapons and equipment, and lack of competent officers to command, the National Guard's combat effectiveness has always been very limited. In a battle, when we have fortifications, we can even
We cannot expect the National Guard with 10,000 troops to stop the attack of 1,000 enemy troops."
"The reason for this situation lies in the three points I mentioned above!" Gott knocked on the table and said seriously.
Indeed, the three reasons he just mentioned are basically recognized as common problems of the National Guard, a group of temporarily recruited militias.
After all, people with some military literacy, including retired veterans who were recalled to the army and reserve soldiers with a certain foundation, were all ordered by Churchill to be transferred to form a new government army.
From the very beginning, the only resources left for the National Guard were those "white melons" with no foundation.
Sure enough, when Gott said this, almost all the generals couldn't help but nodded secretly.
This is something that goes deep into their hearts!
Those British politicians who don't understand military affairs always think that the expansion of hundreds of thousands of National Guardsmen can play a big role. Not to mention too many people, at least they can block the enemy's attack by piling them up.
Bar?
But only the remaining generals of the British Empire who were not captured at Dunkirk understood that if they really hoped that the National Guard cannon fodder alone could block the Allied attack, then the most likely result would be
It was the collective surrender of the National Guardsmen who were driven to the front line...
What a joke, even professional soldiers like them, a huge number of more than 200,000 people, chose to surrender. How can those militiamen who have only had guns for a few days do better?
After arousing the resonance of everyone, Gott continued to explain his "stupid method": "We cannot change the shortcomings of the National Guard immediately. But at least, we can try our best to make up for it..."
Gott stretched out three fingers of his right hand and analyzed: "The first point is about the shortage of equipment for the National Guard. We cannot transfer this from the army. After all, the army has already been seriously short of weapons and ammunition.
In the Army, many newly formed units have assembled their personnel, but not even half of their equipment is in place. Therefore, I am preparing to produce as much as possible and equip the National Guard with heavy weapons such as Iron Palm bazookas."
The "Iron Palm" rocket launcher in Gott's sky was actually developed by experts from the British Empire in desperate situations. It is a simple anti-tank weapon similar to the Iron Fist rocket launcher of the doomsday Third Reich in history.
However, the British Iron Palm bazooka, which has just been developed, is almost crude and ugly compared to the German Iron Fist bazooka.
Its main body, which is an ordinary iron pipe, becomes a launcher that can push grenades after adding a simple breech block.
Because it was a temporary invention and the demand was huge, this weapon, which originally still needed improvement in many areas, was immediately mass-produced without a crosshair for aiming or the production of special shells.
, and then gave it to the National Guard.
The lack of a center of aim meant that his accuracy was basically non-existent. The lack of artillery shells and the use of grenades instead meant that the British militiamen had to fire quickly in a very short time after pulling the fuse.
After all, if the launch is completed, these poor people will be blown to pieces by the grenade they fired.
However, this dangerous and intense psychological pressure, coupled with the extremely short aiming time, will further reduce the already low hit rate.
Therefore, this iron palm rocket launcher is just a waste of excellent creativity.
Although this weapon was very unreliable, everyone from the National Guard soldiers to Lord Gott had to believe in its practical value. After all, they didn't have much left to reassure themselves of.
After determining a large number of plans to supplement the rights and interests of the Iron Palm Bazooka, Lord Gott continued: "The second point is also the most important point. Regarding the low combat quality of the National Guard and the incompetence of the officers, I am prepared to split the regular army.
, by decentralizing the regular army into the National Guard sequence, it will drive the improvement of their overall combat quality."
I see!
Now, everyone finally fully understood Lord Gott's intention of splitting up and deploying the regular army.
Instead of carefully deploying a sparse regular army, it is better to break up the regular army and mix it into the militia, trying to integrate it into a large force with decent combat effectiveness.
Although the effect may not be very good, no one expects the integrated National Guard to have the same combat effectiveness as the regular army. They only need to be able to rely on positions and fortifications and fight defensive warfare, and that is enough!
Speaking of which, wasn't this the same stupid method that Berlant used when fighting the British army in Algeria?
Almost everyone, at this moment, had been rekindled by their commander's golden idea. As for the third flaw of the National Guard, it seemed to be understandable.
Sure enough, even Gott did not deliberately solve this third flaw. He just mentioned it in conclusion: "As for the shortcoming of insufficient training of the National Guard, when the time comes, let the young men fight on the battlefield,