After Lin Wenqian finished speaking, Zhou Sixu nodded, and he quickly said the next question, that is, the issue of weapons.

Taking the British army as an example, there are 3,712 field artillery and howitzers and 2,258 artillery pieces of other calibers on the 130-kilometer defensive line, which is basically one artillery piece every 25 yards. Among these artillery, more than 100mm howitzers account for at least half of the configuration of the main artillery, and although our army has been strengthened, each division has strengthened only one light howitzer battalion, a total of twelve 105mm light howitzers, and the remaining forty-two are 75mm field artillery guns, which is still a big gap with the German army in terms of firepower, and the only hope is the army-level heavy artillery regiment.

In addition to breech guns, the armies of the Entente Alliance, both sides were armed with a large number of 80 mortars, which was not inferior to our army, and even more so with machine guns. I believe that the weapons of our infantry are in no way inferior to any of the participating armies, so let's not change too much in this regard, and the really noteworthy thing is the combat vehicles.

The British army further improved the previous Mark 1 chariot, it is said that it has been improved to the 4th type, and there is also a kind of hounds chariot, except for the turret, which is very similar to our army's wolf chariot, and France has also developed a similar jackal chariot, but the performance is extremely rudimentary, and it can only carry two soldiers.

Britain and France have both developed a variety of combat vehicles, and with Germany's industrial strength, it is impossible to develop a combat vehicle; Before the severance of diplomatic relations, we only knew that Germany had developed a lot of vehicles, and finally they bought our latest vehicles as a reference. Although it is only a monkey version, some of the ideas in it are the result of trial and error with the first type. From this point of view, if Germany were to use a tank on the front with which it was handing over to us, it would be an extraordinary weapon, and this would require us to be cautious and not sloppy. ”

After Zhou Sixu introduced the two important weapons of artillery and combat vehicles, and was about to introduce the transportation problem next, Qin Guoyong of the Air Force interjected: "What about the Luftwaffe, and how will the performance of the aircraft be improved in the future?" ”

"The Luftwaffe's Albatross-type fighters dominated the skies in previous months, but they were quickly pinned down by the British SE.5." Zhou Sixu said, "The horsepower of this aircraft engine is only one hundred and fifty horsepower, and the top speed of four thousand meters is one hundred and sixty-five kilometers. Judging by the parameters alone, this kind of aircraft is not at all an opponent of our fighters, but it is just ......"

Zhou Si looked at Lin Wenqian with some embarrassment, the Chinese Air Force's air-cooled non-rotating star-shaped cylinder engine has always been secret, and all the external sales are liquid-cooled engines, so that the Entente countries ridiculed the Chinese for not knowing how to build air-cooled engines. This time he went to Europe to participate in the war, I don't know if Lin Wenqian was allowed to participate in the war when he resigned from His Majesty.

"Don't worry, it's all right." Lieutenant General Lin Wenqian knew what Zhou Sixu meant, and just said lightly.

"There's really nothing to worry about with that plane." Zhou Sixu heard Lin Wenqian say that he didn't have to worry, and his heart suddenly rejoiced, and he began to talk about the next question.

"Since Marseille was chosen as the port of throughput, the best solution was to use the double-track railway connecting Marseille, but later we found a problem: if the submarines in the Mediterranean were cleared, then the French colonial supplies, and even the American and British supplies, would be disembarked from Marseille by the submarines of the Atlantic, which means that the entire country's supplies would have to be transported through these two railways, which would make it difficult to achieve our previous goal of arriving at 150,000 tons of supplies per day. The solution that can be thought of at the moment is to use the Rhône Canal, and at the same time to build a 280-kilometre monorail between Chalons and Nancy, the end of the canal, and a more than 70-kilometre first-class road at Epinale, so that the transport problem can be truly solved. (To be continued......)