Chapter 832: Disperse Defense
The first place in the classified monthly ticket list, thank you brothers for your support, but the second place will soon catch up...... The soldier just wanted to say, can the soldier stay in this position for a few more days to recuperate, saying that the soldier has been writing books for more than ten years, and has never been in the first place on the classification monthly ticket list, even if it is just classification.
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At the first time, Qin Chuan realized that the Soviets had discovered the weakness of ME63.
The reason is simple, being able to carry out artillery fire suppression on the ME63 firing position in such a short time was clearly prepared in advance.
Therefore, Qin Chuan immediately shouted at the walkie-talkie: "Mortar, pay attention to concealment!" ”
In Qin Chuan's view, the most important thing is always the lives of these elites, and whether ME63 can hit the target or not is secondary, because the time and energy consumed to train a group of elite soldiers cannot be compensated for with these equipment.
But on the battlefield this thing is often in a state of contradiction, as now, blindly protecting soldiers means allowing Soviet tanks to break into the line of defense and carry out massacres.
Perhaps because of this, or because they were unwilling to give up their goals and stick to their posts, a considerable part of the controllers did not obey Qin Chuan's orders and continued to control ME63 towards the target......
They can't be blamed for this, because during the training there is such a subject, which is to focus on the target without any distractions, and this includes the bullets and shells fired at them.
As a result, with a burst of explosions, more than 20 Soviet tanks rushing in front were blown up, but almost immediately after the mortar shells smashed into the ME63 position, bursting out bursts of radiant smoke.
"There are casualty in a row!"
"The second company of controllers sacrificed two people!"
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Casualties were reported one after another from small walkie-talkies to Qinchuan.
"Shift positions!" Qin Chuan ordered: "Pay attention to concealment!" ”
"Yes!" The soldiers answered and immediately shifted their positions along the communication trench.
In the next second, a field of shells whizzed in the direction of the Soviet troops...... It was the large-caliber howitzers of the Soviet army, and these dense shells almost turned the ME63 firing array upside down.
"Attention units!" Qin Chuan ordered at the walkie-talkie: "It is very likely that the enemy already knows the weakness of ME63 and disperses the defense!" ”
"Yes, disperse the defense!"
"Disperse the defense!"
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This is the advantage of the small walkie-talkie, its communication allows Qin Chuan to pass orders to the 1st Infantry Regiment anytime and anywhere, so that the 1st Infantry Regiment can make flexible and targeted responses according to the situation.
The ME63 does have weaknesses, as mentioned before, it requires constant control and is vulnerable to jamming and artillery suppression.
If it had been before, the Germans would have solved this problem very easily...... The Germans have always held air supremacy, and air supremacy will affect artillery battles next.
Because as soon as the Soviet artillery fired, its artillery positions were immediately exposed to the sight of the German pilots, and then the Germans could use bombers, fighters and artillery to suppress the Soviet artillery positions.
Conversely, the Soviet army, which lost air supremacy, could not do so.
But now the Soviet Air Force had a numerical superiority: 1,500 fighters of all types against 700 German fighters.
Although the 1,500 fighters of the Soviet army may still be defeated, the reason is that the performance of the German fighters, especially the quality of the pilots, is much better than that of the Soviet pilots, which leads to the fact that most of the planes shot down in the sky with black smoke are from the Soviet Air Force.
The problem is ......
Numerical superiority determined what the Luftwaffe could do, and the Soviet Air Force could do the same.
To put it simply, the Soviet Air Force was not able to suppress the German artillery and even to guide its own artillery with reconnaissance aircraft to suppress the enemy's artillery positions. But that's not a problem at all now.
As a result, it was difficult to distinguish the winner from the enemy and our artillery. Even the Soviet troops, which had a large number of artillery pieces and were also heavily armed with Katyusha rocket artillery, had an advantage.
As a result, ME63 will be suppressed by Soviet artillery as it was just now.
But as the saying goes, "the road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high".
Qin Chuan had long considered that there would be such a situation where the weakness would be discovered by the enemy and then suppressed by artillery fire.
To deal with this kind of artillery suppression, it is actually very simple, that is, the Me63 can no longer be used more intensively as before, but should be dispersed across the entire front.
The low accuracy of artillery fire determines that it is more used to cover and bomb targets. If the target is broken down into parts and dispersed, then the artillery fire covering and suppressing will basically lose its effect...... Unless the Soviets can cover every scattered ME63 launch point on the front line.
But if the Soviets had so many artillery shells to do this, they would not have to do it at all, because these guns and shells would have been enough to knock out all the German tanks and win easily.
As a result, ME63 originally built several ME63 positions on favorable terrain with battalions or companies as units, depending on the situation. Immediately after receiving the order, they scattered on both flanks with their original positions as the center.
Soon, the German positions flashed back to the trajectory of ME63, and one by one the tanks were destroyed on the way to attack.
However, objectively speaking, there are still great weaknesses between decentralized defense and the previous centralized defense.
This weakness is mainly due to logistical supply problems:
When concentrating on defense, the ME63 position can be identified in advance to the logistics troops, so the logistics troops are very clear about where to send ammunition supplies or when they are about to send them forward, especially ME63.
It is not so easy to disperse the defense, and the anti-tank teams often find a suitable position at random, and some groups even adopt guerrilla tactics, fighting and shifting at the same time. The logistics forces did not know their exact location and therefore did not know where to send the ammunition.
And because the ME63 itself is not light, a piece of more than 20 pounds, in addition to their own guns and ammunition, plus two bazookas (for close anti-tank, which is very necessary for the anti-tank team), it is already very good to be able to bring two or three ME63s.
As a result, on the whole, it will definitely limit the role that ME63 can play.
On the other hand, the suppression of ME63 by the Soviet army was not just covered by artillery fire.
Rotmistrov told everyone about the weakness of the enemy's "homing rockets" at the time of the attack...... This was a good opportunity to boost the morale of the Soviet army, and as a commander, of course, he would not let it go easily.
"We captured two 'homing rockets' from the Germans!" "Then we discovered its secret, the secret of why it was able to change its trajectory and finally hit our tank...... Can you believe it? The Germans added a wire to the rocket, and through this wire controlled the direction of flight of this rocket! ”
This remark caused a great reaction among the officers of the Soviet army.
Although they generally think that this practice is creative, at least knowing how it works makes them not believe that the Germans have any magic.
"Comrade Rotmistrov!" Someone asked, "While we know this, how are we going to fix this?" I mean, when this rocket is coming at us...... We can't dodge because it changes trajectory, which means it's useless no matter how much we dodge! ”
"It's easy!" Rotmistrov replied: "You know, they have one of them who is in control of this rocket from the firing position, so if you can use your machine gun to shoot a shuttle of bullets at the place where the rocket was fired in time......