The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

"boom---!"

The dull loud noise that prolongs the lingering sound lingers over Moscow for a long time. The historical ancient city is submerged in thick dust and fog. Thousands of dilapidated buildings are trembling. And a larger number of residents shrank their necks subconsciously, no matter where they were hiding.For those who are close, you can't help but shake your head twice, and pick your ears, so as to restore a little hearing to the humming sound.

That movement is really too big!

The perpetrator was dragged from the rear and was used as the backbone of the train gun!

The Б-37 main gun was originally intended to be used on the "Soviet-class" battleships. Before the war broke out, considering that the ship type must be outdated, and the ground needed a strong boost, the old men used the 4 cannons that had already been manufactured. Two train guns were built, and the other two were removed from the fortress to build a train chassis!

The first super train guns were transported to Moscow long after the outbreak of the war, and were adjusted after Zhukov came here from Leningrad as a firefighter.Not to mention that the previous defense was in a mess, the officials led the way, and the panic and retreat caused a series of troubles. He corrected them one by one, and launched a project where three-quarters of the total number of women were involved in fortifications and excavations. Then the tank forces on the two wings were ambushed and delayed, and the various designs finally withstood the craziest initial stage of the attack.

The super train gun is regarded as the backbone of the morale of the army. Against all kinds of doubts and pressures, Zhukov directly dragged it to the city center for deployment. With its basic range of up to 45 kilometers, it suppressed the enemy attacking in all directions.

The input of this 406mm super killer weapon, and every firing of its 1150 kg heavy shells, made the hearts of the people in the whole city shake.People within a radius of one kilometer can't stand the terrible roar without covering their ears, but if you really cheer up, it sounds like a heartfelt sense of power!

The movement of the launch alone can overwhelm the explosion of the shells fired by the German army here, and the smoke of gunpowder boils again and again, causing explosions in the distance.Even though the vast majority of people couldn't see it, the propaganda force immediately gave a number without blushing, claiming how many German troops were killed, how many tanks or artillery were blown up.

The exaggerated rhetoric in the early days was not convincing. The Germans were attacking extremely sharply, and the pressure to fight was huge. If your thing is really useful, why didn’t you block it?

But as the battle entered a stalemate, the Germans were dragged alive by mud and a sudden drop in temperature.The spirit was lost, and the most terrible thing was that they used the wrong tactics. Most of the Russians who took a breath of relief immediately paid attention!As a result, the glorious deeds of various snipers, hero artillery, fearless fighters, meritorious machine guns, and super train guns are gradually accepted by most people, and they are sought after as role models, which inspires the morale of the army!

Undoubtedly, the most dynamic train gun.It must be the most appealing among them.Because of every roar, the soldiers and people on the entire battlefield can hear it.In the direction of the attack, the soldiers at the front can also see the exploding pyrotechnic column. This thing is definitely refreshing!

Facts have proved that Zhukov's strategic thinking is really awesome to the extreme, the entire Soviet-German battlefield.There is probably no senior commander who is busier than him, and no one can grasp the big strategy and guide the battlefield situation better than him!

In reality, the number of enemy troops killed by this train gun is really pitiful, and the shells fired tens of kilometers are not accurate at all.A little attention from the Germans and there would be no major trouble.But no one can tell about this, and Zhukov didn’t expect that this slow-moving, old-nosed guy would have much effect, and he couldn’t shoot ten rounds a day—the lifespan of the medicine room is only 100. repeatedly.

What he played was the effect of spiritual warfare.As long as the behemoth roars, the people and soldiers of Moscow have the courage to continue fighting against the harsh environment.

The Germans naturally also discovered the existence of this guy, the unstoppable 406mm shells are too threatening!A crater the size of a football field can be blasted at every turn, and an earth-shattering explosion may erupt not far away at any time, which will have a great impact on the morale of the army.Targeted, launched multiple air strikes, precise long-range artillery bombardment and so on.

But these, Zhukov considered in advance, and made a lot of corresponding deployment.

First of all, the cannon is in the center of Moscow, and if you want to attack directly, you must penetrate the heavy defense line. This is a difficulty, which is equivalent to blocking the possibility of the German Army's attack.

Secondly, there is a huge building-like protective shell on the outside of the cannon, and the thickness of the armor exceeds that of a battleship. Unless you use a special super-heavy tandem armor-piercing shell, or a battleship main gun of the same caliber, you can't easily penetrate it!This basically prevents shells fired from a long distance, or bombs dropped in the sky.

Furthermore, there are a large number of stone buildings around the artillery carriage, which makes it impossible for the artillery shells with low trajectory to hit, and the carriage body has also been camouflaged to a certain extent, and it can often move along the rails. It is even more difficult to hit accurately. !

In the end, Zhukov carefully built a huge air defense array around the train guns!There are hundreds of anti-aircraft guns of various calibers and multiple heavy machine guns deployed in a staggered manner, weaving into a multiple firepower network, covering all layers of airspace below 1 meters.It is extremely difficult for the German army to raid and attack from the air!

It can be said that unless the Germans have Zhu Bin's cruise missiles, or ballistic missiles, high-altitude laser-guided missiles and the like, it will be difficult to destroy this train gun!too difficult!

The German army, who believed too much in armored raids, faced the desperate group mobilization of the Soviets and Russians, and abruptly built a [-]-kilometer multiple deep defense line outside the city. As soon as the torrent stopped, it was immediately hit by hundreds of heavy artillery!

In the early days of the war, Lao Maozi’s large-caliber heavy artillery was seriously insufficient. Advanced heavy artillery with a caliber of 4mm like the b-203 could not even make up 100 pieces. The huge number of 122mm howitzers was not powerful enough. The old antique 152mm guns moved Difficult, poor accuracy, poorly deployed, and not easy to use.

Zhukov simply flattened a large number of anti-aircraft guns, and deployed them on all sides in the front of the position in the same way as the German 88mm guns.When the tank comes, it will be bombarded!

In the past two months, the tank group charges launched by the German army many times were held back by the muddy terrain, wide anti-tank trenches, a large number of cannons, and the T34 tank group that rushed out from the side to attack from time to time, and the progress was slow. .Not to mention advancing 1 kilometer a day, every step will leave tens of thousands of soldiers casualties!

Although they killed more Soviet soldiers and civilians, this exchange ratio is extremely unfavorable to them on the offensive side.In particular, the lightning raid was useless, and a series of army plans were completely disrupted. With the coming of severe cold, the trouble was big!

The stubbornness of the Germans led to failure again!

Guderian, who is the main offensive force of the central cluster.Like Manstein, they are overly superstitious about the power of armored clusters. From the beginning of the war to the present, the invincible attacks have given them paranoid confidence, thinking that a set of tactics can conquer the world, but they cannot respond flexibly according to the battlefield situation like Rommel. The result is now like this, a dilemma!

In fact, what Luo Zhendong represents is the experience of China, which is similar to the defensive position warfare of the Soviets and Russians who "strengthen the stronghold and fight silently".Either directly destroy it with brute force, or fight for the number of infantry.The heavy armored soldiers and artillery are used as auxiliary forces to press the formation, and a huge number of infantry competes for positions layer by layer, advancing steadily, controlling the rhythm, and finally forming a tidal effect, completely crushing the opponent's fighting spirit.at last.Carry out brutal city alleyway offensive and defensive battles again!

This kind of tactic will inevitably involve huge casualties, but the speed is not necessarily slow, and small victories can be accumulated into big victories, advancing steadily layer by layer.The results of the battle have been consolidated, the morale of the army has remained high, and the pressure has always been on the enemy's side.

But Hitler has already been dazzled by the previous victory!Bolan, France, the Netherlands, these countries were all quickly defeated by lightning raids. He completely ignored the strategic depth of Soviet Russia, which started at thousands of kilometers, and did not consider the influence of climate and location, so that he fell into today's embarrassing situation !

Every shock of the cannon means that the strength of the Soviet army has recovered by one point.Marshal Ferdo von Bock, the commander of the German army at the forefront of the battlefield, was devastated. After being reprimanded by Hitler many times, he had no choice but to follow the rigid tactics.

Hitler, on the other hand, was eager to capture Moscow quickly, and took out all the big killers he could use, including four p1000 giant rats commanded by Guderian, two k280e train guns equipped with 5mm main guns, and another The 800mm Gustav Super Train Cannon is also in the process of moving here---it is really not easy to move it. It takes three months to toss back and forth. The roads along the way are reinforced and the railway is repaired. Many people are alert, that is a trouble!

When it will be delivered, it is hard to say now, but Krupp was ordered to upgrade the p380 super giant mouse equipped with a 1500mm main gun. The prototype vehicle has come out, and the test has proved that the performance is good. It was requested by Teller to transport it to the front line as soon as possible. , no matter what, we must suppress the Russian cannons and break through the front line of defense!

The wrong tactics are still being implemented forcefully!

Thanks to Zhu Bin who brought in millions of pieces of various cold-proof clothing and sent ships of high-priced equipment, the German army was able to barely survive the horrific winter invasion.

Today's German soldiers, basically everyone wears fleece thermal underwear, thick woolen sweaters, and thick cotton clothes. The clothing is made of blended wear-resistant and waterproof materials. They are all wrapped in a whole piece of suede animal skin, which has first-class anti-freeze effect.

On each person's feet is a pair of thick-soled leather shoes. Although they are heavy, they are guaranteed not to damage their legs and feet passively. In addition, a black and white, waterproof and durable camouflage cloth cape and woolen gloves are added. The Germans are covered from head to toe by the Chinese. cargo occupation.

On the barracks, there are a large number of solid alcohol blocks and press alcohol pots, self-heating canned lunch boxes, high-energy compressed biscuits, etc. to support the daily needs of German soldiers.This is many times better than what the Germans made by themselves. Although the cost is low, it is sold at a sky-high price to them, but it still cannot stop the love of German soldiers.

Think about it, in the weather of dozens of degrees below zero, waist-deep snow covers the battlefield, hiding in thick snow caves, burning alcohol pots, eating hot cans or biscuits, it is warm from the inside out .

It’s just that the quality of the tools made in China is really not good. They are not as beautiful as those made in Germany, and they are not as thick. The thin stainless steel pots make people worry that they may be crushed at any time.But they have no choice, at least it is better than nothing!

These high-priced materials exchanged for gold allowed the Germans to survive the most terrible winter until early 1942.The exhausted German army, which had not yet been replaced, finally began to attack weakly.

Zhukov, who was keenly aware of this change, certainly would not miss the good opportunity. He immediately organized 30 army groups to launch a sudden counterattack from the flanks, and charged Rogachevo, Istria, Solnechnogorsk, Klin and others in one fell swoop. The German offensive was reversed and the defense became precarious!

Hitler certainly refused to accept such a defeat.He removed Brauchitsch, the commander-in-chief of the army, and issued a strong order: "Don't retreat a step! Wherever you are attacked, fight back! No one can retreat until the rear has not built a good fortification!"

But compulsion is not worth the reality after all.Guderian and Heppner finally realized their tactical problems, and took the initiative to retreat the non-functioning armored cluster under pressure to make enough buffer space, but they were dismissed by the furious Hitler.

However, it was Hitler's stubbornness and toughness that forced the German army to use supply stations as strongholds to fortify layer by layer, and to fight hard to prevent the German army from repeating the mistakes of Napoleon.Not only did it not collapse, but it was successfully nailed to the vicinity of the battlefield. Zhukov, who was powerless and lacked high-speed maneuvering power, could not overcome the bad snowy battlefield.

At this time, members of the military observer group sent by China.The first summaries were handed over one after another, and they were submitted to Hitler's desk.

Looking at the opinions and suggestions of Luo Zhendong and other generals and officers above.Hitler couldn't accept it at first.He couldn't admit that his strategy and tactics were wrong, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of German casualties. It took half a year to make no progress. Instead, he gave the Soviet army ample opportunities to train millions of civilians into qualified soldiers!

General Yu Baoguo, the leader of the observation team, said very frankly that they used this method when they were weak.Fighting the Japanese army, and through a year-long stalemate, investing astronomical resources, finally using thousands of miles of mountains and rivers to hone a full 200 ​​million qualified soldiers.Thus laying a solid foundation for the Northeast counterattack.

Hitler was inconceivable about this at first, but the facts were before his eyes. The Chinese defeated all the armed forces of the United States, Russia, Japan, Britain and France except Germany. No matter how proud the Germans looked down on others, they knew how difficult it was.Putting aside the equipment factor, the key is to choose the right strategy and tactics!

"Don't compare us with the nasty Japs!"

Behind the scenes, Hitler yelled in displeasure. He hated the idea of ​​being criticized by an inferior nation and being used as an equal to Japan.

However, compared with Generalissimo Jiang, Mustache's military ability is sometimes slightly better.He secretly convened a group of National Defense Forces to discuss the views of the Chinese. The respected Marshal Seekert first expressed his support: "We can launch an attack according to the proposal of our Chinese friends!"

Thanks to the medical treatment in the City of Light, this meritorious old man did not die, and became a town house auspicious in the German Wehrmacht. Hitler had to show respect, and his appeal was unmatched in the entire German army. Said, immediately received a voice of support.

Hitler didn't have a good solution other than going crazy, so he had to twist his nose and order Loeb and Manstein to try to return to infantry tactics in the northern group, and mobilized the navy to send a force to enter The Baltic supported the operation.

In addition, it was to force Goering to mobilize a large number of fighters and bombers to form a huge force of 1500 fighters of various types and 300 bombers to launch an attack on Leningrad in early February 1942!

After the Fourth Armored Army was withdrawn, the northern group had quite a number of people, and the artillery was still there. It was nothing more than the weakened impact of the armored group. In the new tactics, their role was not so important.

The German North Sea Squadron headed by the battleship Tirpitz quickly rushed to the Baltic Sea, cooperated with the submarine force and air force, and suddenly launched an unprecedented onslaught against the Soviet Russian Navy!

The German artillery deployed along the Gulf of Finland is also rushing forward. The long-range artillery of the Littoral Battle Group is suppressing the formation. Two K5E train guns continue to bombard the ships in the bay with extended-range bombs, especially the addition of two hundred V2 missiles, intensive strikes The Soviet-Russian Navy was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses. The overwhelming "Peregrine" attack aircraft displayed terrifying precision strike capabilities, and the dense anti-aircraft guns equipped with the German version of heavy glide bombs bombed out of range, almost completely paralyzing the previous great contribution. sea ​​power!

The artillery suppression that has been interfering with and obstructing the ground attack has been cleared up!Manstein seized this precious opportunity, mobilized artillery throughout the southwest, and launched intensive carpet bombing on a front that was no more than ten kilometers wide!

The artillery shells advancing layer by layer extend forward continuously from the 10-kilometer position, covering more than one hundred heavy engineering vehicles, pushing through the snow to create a wide passage, and clearing all obstacles, anti-tank trenches, etc. Once it was filled, it was accompanied by more than a hundred Tiger heavy tanks and large-caliber assault guns with thicker armor, while intensively bombarding the Soviet fortress, while pushing steadily.

In the rear, there are a full 30 infantry, more than [-]% of them are equipped with automatic weapons and barrier-breaking rocket launchers, forming up to ten waves of offensive echelons, and the tide is rushing towards the gap that is definitely not wide! (To be continued..)