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There was a smell of meat wafting in the conference room, Li Le had no intention of wasting time at all, he had to seize all the time to brainwash his generals and strive for more support for his commanders. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
For example, Marshal Liszt in the conference room, as well as the wavering Marshal Rundstedt, are all objects that the fake Führer Li Le wants to woo.
Even Brauchitsch and Li Le, before implementing the Barbarossa plan, planned to find an opportunity to control and win over these generals so that they could be used for themselves.
Now in the army, Guderian is a complete Führer's gang, but he is a tactical command genius with too low emotional intelligence.
Manstein was useful, but not strong enough to command an Eastern Front on his own.
Therefore, Li Le still needs all kinds of generals to work hard for his huge plan - at least, there must be a few "reliable" generals.
Kluger, the man who held Hitler's thigh to the end in history, is the one Li Le is more willing to believe.
At least until it is known that Li Le is the fake head of Li Dai Taozhuang, Klug's loyalty should be unquestionable. It should still be reassuring to hand over a group army to Klug and let him honestly take care of the home and nursing home.
And because in the Cretan landing operation plan, Liszt, who chose to obey the orders of the Supreme Command, now Li Le plans to reuse it.
The Führer waved his fork and fooled his senior commanders with the eyes of the afterlife. His set of theories is absolutely advanced and desirable, at least the marshals and generals in front of him are obsessed.
"The sky of the future belongs to faster and more powerful jet fighters! According to the data provided in the laboratory, the jet is likely to fly close to the speed of sound. Li Le happily chewed the meatballs as he opened his mouth to Brauchitsch.
Seeing the Führer eating meatballs with a fork, the expressions on the faces of Marshals such as Brauchitsch and Rundstedt were very embarrassed.
Although they were preparing for war on the Eastern Front, they heard the news that the Führer had begun to eat meat. But what I heard was heard, and the impact I saw with my own eyes was another matter.
The original Hitler was a persistent vegetarian. He doesn't eat meat, he's only interested in vegetables and potatoes and things like that.
As a result, Li Le is now simply meatless, and he enjoys a variety of meat delicacies every day. Seeing the mustache writhing because of chewing meatballs, Brauchitsch was indescribably awkward.
"So, if the Air Force had faster fighter jets, it would be easier to fight for air supremacy?" Rundstedt was clearly curious about it.
He didn't mind whether the Führer ate meat or not, what he cared about was whether the air force cover was stronger when his troops were advancing.
"Trust me! Soon, the Empire's new weapons will emerge one after another! The Army will also get a lot of unexpected goodies. When Li Le mentioned the matter of new weapons, he became very interested.
Unlike Germany's weak sea-crossing and landing combat capability, Germany has a profound industrial heritage, and it can be said that it is absolutely a matter of course to engage in some technological innovations.
Li Le said this, looked at Brauchitsch, who was immersed in eating and hiding his messy thoughts, and said by name: "Marshal Brauchitsch, how is the effect of the army's experiment on the 'pipe organ' that was recently sent to the Eastern Front?" ”
The so-called organ is, in fact, the German version of the Katyusha rocket launcher. This thing is not technically difficult to develop at all, and the attack accuracy is very average.
However, this thing has several performance advantages that Li Le likes very much, and these performance advantages also make the army unbearable.
The first is the instantaneous firepower pouring ability of this weapon, which is indeed very lethal against unprotected targets in a wide area.
With only four or five of these organs, the opposing infantry's charging infantry could be completely suppressed at once. This was a good support weapon for the Germans, although it was not very accurate......
The second thing that attracts attention is that this weapon system can be carried by trucks! The same truck can also tow another set of ammunition, and if it is stingy, it is not impossible to load another salvo of ammunition.
It can follow the tank troops at the same time, providing effective fire suppression support to the tank troops - much more effective than artillery!
As mentioned earlier, although the German artillery is barely backward in terms of performance, it is completely backward in terms of weight.
Dragging heavy artillery is in itself a headache for armored forces. Now that there is a simple alternative version, it is natural to consider using it.
Of course, the German army was not stupid, and they also found the shortcomings of this weapon: it was impossible for this thing to shoot accurately, so the point fire at the critical moment still had to rely on traditional artillery.
The kind of thing that had to fire a salvo of rockets because there was a machine-gun pillbox on the opposite side to block it, only to find out that it was unlucky and did not hit, was no longer news in the German rocket artillery experiments.
Therefore, the authoritative statement given by the German artillery unit is: this thing can be used, but it is only a supplement to traditional artillery......
But for the German Army, which is eager to expand its own troops and arm more soldiers, such an assessment is already tantamount to saying, "Equip it quickly!" "That's it.
Speaking of this, Brauchitsch hurriedly spoke, praised the Führer and said: "My Führer, this weapon is simply a genius design!" The Army has decided to purchase 500 'pipe organs'. ”
In fact, neither the previous advantages nor disadvantages affected Brauchitsch's attitude towards this new weapon.
In the end, he was ecstatic, and then resolutely purchased 500 sets, in fact, it was the convenience of production!
When the performance of any weapon is uncompromising, the key to the fate of this weapon is often transferred to production logistics and other aspects.
Obviously, that's what the organ is! One of its biggest advantages, and the reason why Brauchitsch ignored any shortcomings and purchased 500 sets in one go, is that its production is parallel!
The organ does not occupy any existing weapons production line, its core equipment is the guide rail and rockets, and the launch vehicle is the finished product in service!
The German army's current 150 mm, 105 mm, 88 mm and 75 mm caliber cannons have long been produced at full capacity, and it will not be possible to significantly increase production capacity in a short time.
But the pipe organ is different in that it does not require precise design and does not require precise and complex barrel processing, so it can be produced very quickly and does not take up valuable barrels.
It is for this reason that Brauchitsch decided to supplement the artillery with rocket artillery at the army level and reduce the number of equipment for conventional artillery.
"The Army intends to deploy 20 pipe organs in 20 corps, with 20 units per corps artillery unit...... Of course, the corresponding number of 150 mm caliber guns was to be cut. He told Li Le about the details of the army's artillery reform.
In fact, Brauchitsch's calculation was that no army could be fully equipped with 150 mm howitzers anyway, so he simply used rocket artillery to fill the gap.
In this way, at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, at least the army's traditional infantry units, nominally support artillery was "full-fledged".
Although the things are not necessarily those things, after all, they are much better than the "missing number" state. It's about the same as the Stalker tank destroyer - it's free, love it or not.
Don't be a fool! Since 1939, when the German army began to expand and start the war, it has never had enough weapons. Historically, a third of the establishment has been empty until the end of the empire, and now the Führer has found a bunch of rags to make up for it, but it is all additional benefits.
In fact, this kind of thing of entering the war with no way and empty formation was quite common in the German army.
In 1941, the German army had a total of 17 panzer divisions on the Eastern Front, sharing less than 4,000 tanks, and the average division only had about 200 tanks.
This state of affairs is seriously inconsistent with the requirements of more than 300 tanks of the German armored division planned by Guderian in those years. Some divisions are even less than half, and can only be counted as half a division.
Li Le is now trying his best to make up for the remaining half, although it is an "inferior product" without a turret and can only be regarded as an "inferior product" for tank destroyers, but most of it is made up in quantity.
In this way, although the tanks in the panzer division were still in a state of dissatisfaction, the German senior commanders on the Eastern Front had more than a dozen divisions of mechanized infantry.
These mechanized infantry divisions have an anti-tank battalion of 45 Stalker tank destroyers, which can be used as part of the armored force at critical times.
The use of improvised armoured weapons, which appeared in 1944, appeared in 1940. The difference is that this time it was the Germans themselves who came up with it first, and not the measures that were forced to do so by the situation.
Since it is subjectively made by oneself, it is an improvement that can be subjectively controlled. It's much better to have success or failure under your control than to be forced to make a choice.
"My Führer, if you count all sorts of simple cars, our army can already do it, and at the beginning of the Barbarossa program, there was twice as much heavy equipment as expected!" Brauchitsch spoke, and promised.
Li Le nodded, and accepted his statement as the commander-in-chief of the army. He looked at Rundstedt, and Liszt, and spoke
"My Führer, if you count all sorts of simple cars, our army can already do it, and at the beginning of the Barbarossa program, there was twice as much heavy equipment as expected!" Brauchitsch spoke, and promised.
Li Le nodded, and accepted his statement as the commander-in-chief of the army. He looked at Rundstedt, and Liszt, and spoke