The first day's report gave Hoffman great confidence, and he explained: "Why do I keep emphasizing the rapid reaction force? This is because the value of time will become more and more prominent in future wars. If you still have an impression of history, you know that the army is being organized and mobilized faster and faster: in the last war, we had been fighting with the French on the Western Front for six weeks, and we were almost in Paris, and the Russians were still slowly swallowing up on the Eastern Front, and we had defeated the French for the same six weeks...... If you play again in 20 years, you may not need to use 10 days to determine the winner or loser. ”

Although everyone agrees with the continuous acceleration, they do not believe that the next 10 days of playing France can determine the winner - France is not South Africa! Guderian now takes 10-15 days against the Allies in South Africa with Blitzkrieg 2.0, and it definitely takes more time to deal with France.

"Don't believe me?" Hoffman laughed, "The future conventional war may start like this: in the first hour, thousands of missiles hit all important targets in France, using saturation attacks to cover strikes, and within 5 minutes, all major airports, transportation nodes, radar networks, and key targets in France were paralyzed; At the same time, the Air Force dispatched high-performance jets to take out the opponent's aircraft that took off in an emergency, seized absolute air supremacy, and dispatched ground attack aircraft to drop precision-guided bombs to strike at all secondary tactical targets; Then our army landed in Paris and directly beheaded the French Führer - at this time the French did not even gather their troops.

During the whole process, the special operations forces and electronic information forces launched simultaneous raids, paralyzing the French electricity network, communication network, data link exchange and command network.

The next day, the army's helicopter cluster covered the advance of the armored troops, and a large number of panzergrenadiers were airdropped by airplanes - now the planes can only airdrop light infantry, but in the future, infantry fighting vehicles, artillery and even light tanks can be airdropped, so as to directly realize the deployment and advancement of armored groups behind enemy lines and divide and encircle enemy forces; On the third day, the large transport plane carried out the landing and quickly deployed the remaining troops......

The so-called fast column not only refers to the fast march, but also refers to the fast collection of all information, intelligence judgment, attack rhythm and command path - in the future, the data link must be equipped in the hands of the front-line squad and platoon level......"

"This ...... What is a datalink? Jodel struggled to repeat the new term from Hoffman's mouth and asked, "Target designation system?" ”

"Target designation is one aspect, but it is more about collecting, sorting, transmitting and feeding back battlefield information. For example, what if the infantry advances and finds that the enemy's artillery position is difficult to destroy by its own strength, and needs to call in the air force or rear long-range artillery support? ”

"Long-range artillery fire can only be used at the division level, and the air force can only rely on telegraphs and air contact boards for instructions and dispatch." Yodel introduced the current ground-air synergy.

Hoffman smiled: "Suppose the infantry has an instrument in their hands, which can mark the enemy's position, fire intensity, distribution direction and required support, and then transmit it directly to the air plane through an encrypted information channel, what do you think?" ”

"This is equivalent to this infantry platoon carrying air force units with it!"

Yodel shook his head in confusion: "If this platoon also calls, and that platoon also calls, the Air Force will not be able to tell which is the main target, and then it will be at a loss......"

"It is necessary for the computer to make a quick judgment, platoon A, platoon B, platoon C have all transmitted instructions through instruments, it may be that the goals and mission requirements of A and C overlap, but B is different, the computer will judge which request has higher urgency, and the rear command headquarters will directly make the final choice according to the positioning and requirements of the front-line troops, which will be much more efficient."

Keitel and Yodl both believe this: the current high-ranking generals rely on the situation reports of the front-line troops and the staff officers form a map of the strength and campaign progress on the sand table, and then rely on the new situation to make the next operational decision, if these battle reports can be transmitted in real time, then it is much easier to command.

"Think about it, in the future, if one side can freely transmit information, and the other side is tied up and at a loss for what to do, what is the use of having more troops? The lower the level of technical equipment, the higher the requirements for quantity, and the higher the level of equipment, the requirements for quantity will be greatly reduced - in this world war, whether we or the United States, the use of aircraft in wars is consumed in units of 10,000 every year, and in the future, I am afraid that having 1-2 thousand high-performance aircraft will be enough to be called a world power.

Therefore, the number of fast columns does not need to be very large - many are not only bloated and difficult to support, but the combat effectiveness will be very strong, such as Western Europe, there are 20-250,000 troops in the early stage, and 15-200,000 troops in the later stage are more powerful than the current million-level army group, which is enough to quickly bulldoze a medium-level country. Hoffman quipped, "Maybe the people of this country have just reacted that the war is over......

While Hoffmann was talking about future warfare and guiding the design of Blitzkrieg 3.0, Guderian and Paulus were working overnight to investigate the effects of Blitzkrieg 2.0.

On the first day of sortie, the Germans not only crushed, but succeeded in beating their opponents so stupidly that the battle went unexpectedly well, and in the words of Dietrich, the commander of the left flank cluster, complained, "the panzers seemed to be dispensable!" ”

Several first-class SS panzer divisions advanced smoothly without encountering strong resistance, and even the expected large-scale tank battle did not take place, and the American tanks that had finally gathered were beaten on their backs by German ground attack planes and helicopters, and a total of 279 Allied tanks were destroyed in one day, more than 180 were killed under attack planes and helicopters, more than 30 were overturned by self-propelled guns and long-range artillery, and only more than 60 tanks were destroyed by armored vehicles. This pitiful result has to be divided by thousands of Tiger 2, Tiger 3, Leopard and hundreds of Tan Annihilation, which is indeed a bit of a wolf with more meat and less meat.

So much so that the Tiger 3, which was really bored, was forced to use 128mm armor-piercing shells to attack the ground fortifications of the US army, experience the power of armor-piercing shells and armor-shattering shells, but without firing a few times, the Americans or South Africans guarding it put up a white flag and surrendered. At the end of the day today, 70% of the tanks did not fire and only consumed fuel.

Guderian and Paulus could only laugh at Dietrich's complaints, but there were still battles at night, with tigers and leopards in the night, and the sound of explosions and rising flares in the distance also showed that the night battle was quite fierce.

The reason Guderian insisted on moving the headquarters forward was that there was a period of time during the day to carry out full-band jamming, and he could only sit stupidly in the rear command headquarters, and could not do anything other than issue orders according to the combat plan. This made him very uncomfortable, although he did not like to follow the attack in the front line with tanks like Rommel, but he could only sit in the headquarters and read the telegram, and even the state of not being able to read the telegram also made him uncomfortable, and it happened that Paulus, Hausser and others also wanted to check the situation of the attack on the ground, so they used the night to carry out field patrols.

"Sir, please look, this is the scene of today's cloud burst bomb attack...... Everyone in the command first checked the fortification group of the first line of defense of the Allied army, and looked at the Allied officers and soldiers who died in the painful struggle and the bodies were all intact, Guderian and the others were obviously extremely surprised, "All dead?" ”

"Yes, all dead. The Cloudburst Bomb attack works well, but there are some practical problems with its use......"

According to the operation specifications, after the explosion of the large-yield cloudburst bomb, it will form a state of high temperature and high pressure and hypoxic suffocation that lasts for about 4 minutes, and a strong convection will be formed in about 6 minutes, and the air drifting from other airspace in 8 minutes will replenish the explosion site and quickly recover, but in fact, the Germans found that at the time of the second explosion, because the smoke and dust had not yet dissipated, and the oxygen supplement was not as rich as the first one, although the throwing position was slightly offset, the field effect was not as good as the first one, and the third and fourth were even more so.

"80% of the personnel should have been eliminated by the first one, and the rest of the personnel were the result of the remaining ones...... The consequence of stacking is overpower. ”

Paulus nodded: "Anyway, the effect is still good?" ”

"Of course, how could it be called 'Doomsday Judgment'?" Kesselring laughed, "I've written a report suggesting that the Cloud Burst and Goblet be used as regular bomb preparation configurations, the Grand Slam is too heavy, I think it's okay, just leave a few pretends." ”

"By the way, those Australians still won't surrender?" Guderian turned his head and asked Wink, the commander of the right-wing cluster, "How many are there?" ”

"No! There were quite a few of them, about 2,000 people, mainly Australians, but also some New Zealanders, who relied on fortifications to resist stubbornly......"

"Then let's get a few for the ANZ division...... Guderian said expressionlessly, but then his words were full of regret, "These are the last elites that Monty exchanged for his life, but after all, he will die...... It would be more decent to leave them with a whole corpse with this weapon. ”

Everyone was silent, the ANZ Division fought with the German army in 1942, and fought for two and a half years, from North Africa to Egypt, from East Africa to Kenya, and finally to South Africa......

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