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Chapter 684 Military Advice Provided by Rokossov

While Olga and Prime Minister Leonard Spencer were reviewing the guard of honor, Wang Zhong and the Allied generals went to the viewing platform nearby.

Next to Wang Zhong stood a four-star general from the United States. As soon as the ceremony began, he asked in a low voice: "How did you deal with Plosson's powerful armored forces?"

"Ah?" Wang Zhong cut to the bird's-eye view and confirmed that he had never seen this four-star admiral when he went to the United States. His title was Commander-in-Chief of the Aegean Allied Forces. This person's name also included his nickname "Ike", which was added in double quotation marks in the middle of his name like this.

Admiral "Ike" repeated the question.

Wang Zhong: "The Plossen armored forces are good at long-range combat. When they are equipped with long-barreled guns, our ordinary T34 troops have no way to deal with them. We are often beaten by a 10 to 170 exchange ratio."

Ike: "So how did you win?"

"First, dig bunkers to hide the tanks and launch armored ambushes. Second, build a tank destroyer with a lot of frontal defense to deal with the task first. Third, the comprehensive performance of the new tank exceeds that of Proson's tank."

Ike: "Their new tanks, your new tanks won? We have no chance against tanks like that on the front line."

Wang Zhong: "Try the United Kingdom's 90-pounder guns and your mm anti-aircraft guns."

Ike: "Did you read the weapons information we sent over?"

The allies shared most of the performance parameters of their weapons and equipment, and some samples of their main battle equipment were sent to their allies. So Ante also got the United States' 90mm gun and its matching shells, and after testing, he was very satisfied with the performance of this weapon.

Wang Zhong: "Not only have I seen it, but the test was organized by someone I trust. I am the chairman of the Ante Equipment Review Committee. These two weapons in the Allied arsenal will be able to deal with the enemy's new tanks more easily. Of course, you can also choose to improve the bazooka rockets and enhance their penetration ability."

On Earth, the U.S. military eventually developed the Super Bazooka rocket, which had no problem dealing with the King Tiger, but required infantry to risk their lives to get within 200 meters to fire.

Therefore, this tactic probably wouldn't work in the Kingdom of Sardinia, as the Prosens could use the terrain to shoot from a distance, preventing the allied infantry from getting close.

But in the "hedge hell" of Normandy, the ones who had the most headaches were the Plossons.

Ike: Any other suggestions?

Wang Zhong: "Yes, don't think about firing at the enemy's armored forces, and use the advantages of artillery and air force. No matter how powerful the armored forces are, if the field repair plant and supplies are bombed, they are just a pile of scrap metal. We did this when we had no armored advantage to counter Proson.

"Use Mustangs with rockets to attack trains, and use P47s with bombs to attack train stations. You can even use Liberator bombers to bomb enemy train stations and supply depots."

Ike smiled: "That's a good idea."

At this time, the lieutenant general of the Army Air Force who had been listening nearby spoke up: "To put it simply, our Eighth Air Force can no longer carry out its bombing mission. The losses are too great. Plossen's pilots are going crazy and want to shoot down our bombers."

Wang Zhong immediately switched to a bird's-eye view and discovered that the lieutenant general of the aviation team was called Doolittle.

He hurriedly asked, "Are you the Doolittle who bombed the Fuso Empire?"

"Yes, it's me. And I will soon take over as the commander of the Eighth Air Force. I heard that His Excellency the Marshal has some research on aircraft. I wonder if you have any suggestions for the next action of the Air Force?"

Wang Zhong: “My suggestion is to have the guys in the fighter unit not escort the damn bombers, but to have them look for pilots from the Plosson Air Force to duel.

"Fighter pilots are cowboys. They want to fight the enemy's best pilots. It's too demoralizing to let them follow the bombers and act as escort machine guns for the bombers."

Doolittle laughed, "I thought so too, but everyone thought I was crazy. I also want the fighter boys to strafe the enemy's airport. The planes parked at the airport and the ground crews around are also very good targets. As long as the attack continues, the combat effectiveness of the Plosson Air Force will continue to decline, and our bombing will be more successful!"

Wang Zhong: "You can also ask the guys who attack the airport to bring some time bombs and drop them on the runway."

Doolittle: "That makes sense. We can mix time bombs with real bombs. The real bombs will destroy the runway, and the time bombs will prevent the enemy from repairing the runway."

Wang Zhong: “That’s right.”

Admiral Ike sighed, "Have you ever thought about the guys flying the bombers?"

Wang Zhong: "Admiral, it is very inefficient to have fighter units escort bombers. Instead, it would be more efficient to have fighter units enter the airspace before the bombers, attack enemy airports, and engage in chivalrous combat with enemy fighter pilots."

Lieutenant General Doolittle also echoed: "Yes, mixing fighters and bombers actually slowed down the fighter pilots. They could neither occupy better positions nor reach higher speeds because they had to accompany those bulky bombers.

"Marshal Rokossov's suggestion is more reasonable."

Wang Zhong thought, damn, you just said you thought so too, but others disagreed. Now you’re trying to take advantage of me?
At present, the United States has not established an independent air force. The Eighth Air Force responsible for bombing Plossom is a unit under the name of the Army Air Force. Lieutenant General Doolittle is also a lieutenant general of the Army Air Force. He is also under the jurisdiction of senior army officials like Ike. Ike glanced at Wang Zhong's profile and said, "Okay, you can try to go to the Eighth Air Force, but if the bomber unit suffers too much loss, we may call off the bombing of Plossom."

Wang Zhong: "No! It's true that the bombing is bleeding your pilots, but it's also bleeding the Plossen Air Force. We have rarely been attacked by the Plossen Air Force on the Eastern Front. The Ante Air Force is gradually gaining air superiority. This is the significance of your bombing.

"That's how war works, Admiral Davarish. Losing pilots doesn't matter. What matters is being able to replace more pilots on the other side."

Ike remained silent.

Wang Zhong continued: "Think about what would happen if we failed."

Ike: "I know we have to win and we will win."

At this time, the ceremony reached the stage where the leaders of both sides gave speeches. Wang Zhong watched Olga walk up to the podium and begin to read from the script.

Ike suddenly said, "I heard that you brought the repaired new Proson tank?"

"Yes, it should be unloaded at the port, and then transported to the front line using a Dragon trailer. But that thing is unlucky. The Prosen people are good at wasting tonnage. The empty weight of a heavy tank is 40 tons, and a medium-sized one is more than tons."

Ike frowned. "Our heavy tank test vehicle is only 40 tons! How did they do that?"

Wang Zhong: "You should ask the engineers at Proson. So you have a plan for a new tank?"

Ike hesitated.

At this time, President Luo, who was sitting in the front row and listening, turned around and said, "Just say whatever you want to say. The man standing in front of you is the marshal who defeated those new Proson tanks."

Ike nodded. "Okay, Mr. President. Before we joined the war, we inspected Plosson's tanks. At that time, we believed that Plosson's Type 3 and Type 4 tanks had no advantage over our Shermans."

Contrary to many people's impressions, Sherman is actually a very good tank. Its protection was also quite reliable in the year when it first entered the war. Many Plossen tanks on that large slope would have a headache when encountering it.

The Sherman on Earth was treated as trash, that was against the Tiger, King Tiger and Panther.

Ike continued, "But at the time, the newspapers controlled by the Proson people had been hyping up the fact that Proson technology was the best in the world and that the tanks it built were invincible, so the army proposed a plan for a new tank to prepare for a rainy day.

"But then you kept winning, and the Mamluk M4 performed very well, achieving a good exchange ratio against the Plosson tank, so the development progress was delayed."

Wang Zhong was a little surprised. How could this be blamed on me?
Ike: "But after the failure of the Sardinian landing operation, the Army increased the authority of the project and lowered some technical specifications in order to produce a finished product as soon as possible."

Wang Zhong: "Instead of doing this, you should make substantial improvements to the Sherman."

As a fan of military games, Wang Zhong knows that the "Big Mac" tank modified from Sherman is widely praised by players in War Thunder and World of Tanks.

Wang Zhong continued, "Replacing the artillery is troublesome, but adding armor to the front is not a problem. After defending against the enemy's artillery fire, you can use your mass-produced white phosphorus bombs to cover the enemy tanks, which may make the enemy tanks lose their combat effectiveness."

At this time, the tank has no three-defense system and cannot maintain positive pressure inside the vehicle, so it has basically no defense capability against white phosphorus bombs and poison gas bombs.

The white phosphorus bullet covered his face. Apart from anything else, Captain Prossen, who was looking out of the observation port, probably lost his eyes.

Ike: "White phosphorus bombs in the face!"

"Yes, and then use infantry to go around the flank. All your infantrymen are equipped with semi-automatic rifles, and their firepower is stronger than that of the current Prosons. The firepower of the Proson infantry squad depends entirely on the machine guns in the squad. In addition to the machine guns, the only automatic firepower is the MP40 in the squad leader's hand.

"Even if white phosphorus bombs can't damage tanks, they can clear out the surrounding infantry. Tanks without infantry are very vulnerable, especially in cities."

Ike fell into deep thought: "It does make sense."

Wang Zhong: "The Plossans have strong armored forces, so find a way to prevent them from taking advantage of their armored forces. You should avoid the strong and attack the weak, and play to your strengths. This is all said in the Seres's military book "The Art of War". I suggest that your West Point Military Academy list this ancient book as a must-read."

Before Ike could answer, the United Kingdom general wearing a beret beside him spoke up: "Does Marshal Rokossov mean to say that he defeated Prosen because he read that ancient Seris military book?"

if not?
I am a Seres!
But Wang Zhong smiled and said, "Of course not, I just said that reading this military book can bring inspiration to people."

(End of this chapter)