Chapter 14 We Need Tanks, We Need Anti-Tank Guns, We Need Ammunition...
"The enemy is coming."
On the Eastern Front, dense shelling sounds came and went, and this was the artillery groups of both sides fighting.
A company commander of a certain regiment held a telescope and looked at the group of tanks that were rushing at high speed about 3.5 kilometers away, and issued a warning to his subordinates.
"Prepare for battle."
The voice fell, and the platoon commander and squad leader began to mobilize further.
Soldiers rushed into bunkers, pulled bolts, set up machine guns, unscrewed anti-tank grenade safety, and removed the latest anti-tank rocket launchers from wooden boxes, supplied from abroad.
On the flanks of the position, the battalion's anti-tank guns also lifted their barrel camouflage.
"Ten."
During this period, the company commander also saw the number of enemy tanks rushing in the distance, no more, no less than ten, followed by more than 60 infantry, judging from the clothing, it seems that most of them were the troops of the German devil servant army - Lomaria.
He couldn't help but swallow his throat with difficulty.
The enemy has ten tanks, and his company, including him, is only one hundred and ten men, which means that he has to deal with one tank and six infantry with eleven men.
He didn't have any important positions here, as can be seen from the fact that it was the German devil servant army that attacked.
But still a full ten tanks came.
It's also all the main tank four.
It can be inferred from this that the other positions were attacked by the enemy in a similar way, and each company-level position was the size of ten tanks.
Are there so many enemy tanks?
And that's just the Servant Army!
The company commander swallowed his throat again, he felt very bad about the future direction of this battle.
The marching speed of these tanks was very slow, and it seemed that the tank crews were somewhat inexperienced, but the infantry and tank coordination were very standard, and the formation was also standard, apparently trained by the Germans.
Boom Boom...
At a distance of three kilometers, artillery fire from the rear opened fire, and dense shells fell on the positions of this company, kicking up patches of dust, many trenches, foxholes were destroyed.
The company commander judged from the sound and the explosion that this was 120 mortars, which were also equipped with their own regiments, but the enemy's fire density was very large, and the number of their regiments alone was equivalent to three regiments.
Fortunately, the accuracy is not good.
Obviously inexperienced.
At the same time, their own regimental mortars also opened fire, and shells fell behind enemy tank groups, or on artillery positions.
However, compared with the enemy, its own artillery fire is sparse and sparse, and the density of firepower is only one-sixth of that of the opponent, and after fighting for a while, it seems that it will be suppressed by the opponent by virtue of its numerical superiority.
Of course, it is also possible that there is a lack of ammunition.
Although the amount of ammunition is not something that a company commander can know, from the analysis of the number of bullets and grenades assigned to the troops, the company commander knows very well that his own logistics have given a big problem.
When the tank was 1.5 kilometers away from the position, the enemy stopped shelling, but it seemed that it was inexperienced, and the tank did not launch a straight line of shelling, and continued to advance slowly.
Taking advantage of the interval, the company commander counted his casualties.
Although the enemy's artillery was very poor, the fire was fierce and the ammunition was sufficient, his company lost a squad, five people lost their combat effectiveness, and quite a few recruits were frightened by the artillery fire.
Since it is not the main position, it is natural to garrison here
By the way, the company commander and the officers at all levels boosted a wave of morale, and the recruits also recovered, picked up their guns and looked at the enemy angrily.
Boom ·····
At a distance of one kilometer, the enemy tank still did not fire, but had already raised its barrel, at this time the regimental anti-tank gun opened fire, and one shell accurately hit the front of the turret of one of the tanks.
And it happened to be the tank opposite their company's position.
The tank was parked right there.
"Hit."
Inside the position, there were cheers.
It's a pity that after more than ten seconds, the tank started again, and the company commander with the telescope could see very clearly that the turret of the tank was only wiped off, which had no effect on combat effectiveness.
"Waste."
The company commander spoke on the spot about Slavic trash talk.
After getting a large number of No. 4 tanks in June last year, not to mention the No. 2 and No. 3 tanks, the Germans and even the three bulks were completely withdrawn, so that the 45-mm anti-tank gun, which had the highest production of beards, was greatly reduced on the battlefield.
However, before its own armor had an absolute advantage, there were very few large-caliber anti-tank guns, as for the ZIS-2 anti-tank guns, as well as the 85 anti-tank guns, the power was sufficient, but the production was difficult, the production capacity was seriously insufficient, and only a small number of elite troops were equipped.
As a last resort, the bearded man could only pull the ZIZ2 type 76 field gun to make up the number.
A large number of second-line troops were armed with such artillery, with an average of only two per regiment,
The armor-piercing power of this artillery is also good, the AP shell can penetrate a hundred mm of armor at 500 meters, but now it is a distance of one kilometer, which is obviously not enough to penetrate the slightest tank turret.
Of course, there are a dozen or so 45 anti-tank guns, but this thing, even the flanks need to be penetrated at close range.
At this time, although the tanks of this group of mustache servants were inexperienced, after all, they had been under the hands of the Germans for so long, and they had some strength, so they turned their guns and aimed at the position of the anti-tank guns.
One company was attacked by ten tanks, and one can imagine how many tanks a regimental position would face.
In the face of the absolute number ratio, even if these servant armies were seriously inexperienced, they only lost two No. 4 tanks, and after five were wounded and incapacitated, two 76 anti-tank guns and a dozen 45 anti-tank guns were destroyed.
Then the remaining tanks continued to rush to the positions.
A large number of resources were smashed down, and after getting the benefits, the combat effectiveness of these servant armies increased dramatically, and they were not afraid at all.
"Ulla."
The company commander looked at the nine tanks that continued to rush in, and only one tank in front of their position had lost one, so he carried an American-made 'bazooka' and jumped towards the tank under the cover of smoke grenades.
True.
The bazooka from the RPG2 was so powerful that it only took 100 meters for a hollow charge to penetrate the front of Tank IV head-on.
Even if it's the No. 4 tank produced by the system.
But the Germans are not fools either.
To deal with shaped armor-piercing bullets, you only need to help a few sandbags or add a track sandwich to greatly strengthen the defense capability, which is understood by any weapon technician of a certain level, and the 330-horsepower diesel engine is full of power and has the ability to add more external protective layers.
As a result, it actually takes about 50 meters to kill effectively, or it is okay to shoot from the flanks.
However, the fire network formed by the nine tanks and the infantry behind them made it very rare to shoot, and as for the anti-tank grenades, this thing had almost no chance.
It's not a mountainous peninsula, and it's not at night.
Only three and a half hours later, the regiment's position was broken by a cluster of tanks, but there were also nearly twenty No. 4 tanks left on the position, which seemed like a lot, but in fact it was only two companies.
With this is just a marginal position, the second-line troops, but also a microcosm of the entire battlefield.
On the first day of the attack, the mustache advanced thirty kilometers, and the first line of positions on the entire eastern front of the bearded man was completely broken, and the next day the bearded man was unwilling and pushed the reserves to launch a counterattack, but the strength was not as good as the man, and the mobile cluster was almost surrounded and annihilated.
Thanks to the support of the Air Force, an opening was opened, otherwise the little remaining mobile force would have been lost, but a large number of weapons and equipment were also lost.
And the mustache's attack still did not weaken in the slightest, and the five-figure No. 4 tank swarm swarmed in.
At this time, an urgent telegram from the front came to the bearded man.
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"Our fighters need tanks, they need artillery, they need shells, they need medicine, they need food."
The pipe banged on the table, and the bearded man spoke in a serious tone.
The core reason for the rout of the front line, it can even be said that the only reason is because of weapons and equipment and logistical supplies, as for the mistakes in command, the war has been fought for so long, and the command has rarely made mistakes in the general direction.
The reason for such a miserable defeat was the underestimation of the enemy's armored strength.
I really didn't expect that even a servant army like Lomaria was equipped with a large number of tanks, several times more than its own, and an armored regiment had more than 100 vehicles. Throughout the Eastern Front, the number of enemy tanks reached five figures, and all of them were four-digits.
Troop mobile force machine guns.
According to intelligence personnel and aerial reconnaissance, tens of thousands of heavy vehicles and tracked transport vehicles are in the rear to transport ammunition, fuel and other materials for these troops.
If you want to block such a force, you must have a mobile armored cluster of the same level, not to mention 10,000, at least 5,000 main tanks, as well as strong anti-tank firepower, and you also need sufficient logistics supplies.
After all, the enemy not only has strong armor, but also has strong logistics and supplies, and can repair or replenish lost tanks in time.
"The Trans-Siberian railway was cut off, we were not able to open it in a short time, the Arctic Ocean route was also threatened by enemy aviation, the transport capacity was only half of the previous one, and the Black Sea route was cut off."
One of the generals said, his tone low.
The little devils suddenly went north, attacked the Far Eastern Army, cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway, and their own side could not do anything. The Germans bombed the Arctic Ocean, the shipping volume was greatly reduced, Gibraltar was cut off, the Allies lost most of the Imperial Sea, and most of the boots in Europe were reassigned to the Germans, and the Black Sea route was impossible to go.
Suddenly, there was a long silence in the room.
"According to reports from the front, the performance of the weapons they provide is very good, especially the anti-tank guns."
After a long time, a general broke the silence:
"And their trucks, which have a lot of horsepower and a low failure rate, are perfect for the battlefield."
Grand Master Li exchanged a lot of 48 times the diameter 75 anti-tank guns modified from the No. 4 tank, which were relatively mediocre in performance, the only advantage was that they were light and easy to maneuver, but thanks to the excellent tungsten alloy shells and high chamber pressure, the armor-piercing performance was excellent.
It can directly penetrate the 80 mm armor of tank No. 4 at a distance of 1,000 meters.
Because it is almost useless at home, it is sold to 'allies'.
In the conference room, everyone's eyes lit up, but everyone fell silent.
Things are good, but the price of these things...
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