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Orleans, August 2, 1916, 2757 AD.
France is a very flat country.
Most of its land is located in the plains of Western Europe. 80% of the country's territory is plain and hilly.
Among them, the plain areas below 250 meters above sea level account for 60% of the total area of France, the hilly areas above 250,500 meters account for 20%, and the hilly areas above 500 meters.
The mountainous areas above 20 meters only account for 20% of the total area.
Such a place is particularly suitable for tank operations.
Today, tanks from Britain, France and Germany were gathered near Orleans, with a total of nearly 2,000 tanks.
At this time, on the side of the German position, several young officers wearing armored uniforms were talking next to a group of tanks.
They are all captain-level officers, and among them is a major of the Chinese Army.
Judging from his service badge, he is also an armored soldier.
"You should have used tanks a long time ago.
If you had used tanks from the beginning, it would have been impossible to delay the delay until now.
I have told you long ago that tanks should be used intensively and as the main assault.
Strength, rather than being a babysitter for the infantry, that's a matter for the armored personnel carrier."
The Chinese officer looked excited and kept making powerful gestures, speaking until he was spitting.
This guy looked furious and said angrily: "Why don't you listen?
I don't understand.
You have made so many tanks, why don't you put them there and they won't spawn.
If it hadn't been for this Anglo-French coalition, Prepare to use chariots, but you may not take it seriously."
The German officers all looked embarrassed, and the oldest lieutenant colonel among them said helplessly: "Major Long, there is nothing we can do about this matter.
Marshal Moltke and many generals have always doubted the combat effectiveness of our armored forces. so" "Okay, Major Rundstedt, let's not talk about the past.
But there are some problems with your current tactics.
Your tanks should not carry infantry now, otherwise they will be targets once a battle begins with the opponent's tanks."
Major Long shook his finger, showing his full "brick style" and began to lecture these Germans.
This Chinese Army Major is called Long Xiaofei.
He is one of the first batch of officers in China to learn the profession of armored force command, and one of the indigenous backbones of the army trained by the Party of Science and Socialism.
Long Xiaofei was born in a businessman family in Chenzhou, Hunan.
He was the first graduate of Southwest Military University, the predecessor of "Xingke Security School".
After graduation, he worked in a certain department of the army.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the central government prepared to form an armored force.
Long Xiaofei, then a lieutenant, was selected to attend the armored force professional course at the former Wuchang Revolutionary Army Command College of China Military University due to his strength, intelligence, and flexible brain.
During the Sino-Japanese Guichou War, he served as captain and commander of a certain tank company.
After the war, he was promoted to major based on merit and served as commander of a certain tank battalion.
He and this group of Germans met during the military exchanges between China and Germany.
At that time, Germany also took a fancy to new weapons such as tanks, and sent many officers to learn armored tactics, and these were among them.
Calling it "communication" is just to save Er Dezi's face.
In fact, they are here to learn.
So although these people are about the same age as him, some are even much older than him, such as the one who is taking the lead now.
But strictly speaking, they are all Long Xiaofei's students.
Now that he had the opportunity, Major Long naturally had to act like a teacher.
"Mr.
Major, I remember you said before that the tank's field of vision is limited and requires infantry cover.
We do this to allow them to cover the tank."
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A captain named Guderian said.
Long Xiaofei smiled and said: "Captain Guderian, you are right.
Tanks do need infantry cover, but it depends on the specific situation.
The current situation is a direct confrontation between tanks.
In this case, The role of infantry is very small.
Not only does it not serve as a cover, but it is a burden to the tank.
In this case, the infantry should ride in the armored personnel carrier and follow the tank into the battlefield."
"Mr.
Major, what if there are no armored personnel carriers?
Our country has very few armored personnel carriers," asked Captain Manstein next to him.
Long Xiaofei thought for a while and replied: "The armored personnel carrier is very important.
It is an important auxiliary to the tank.
This thing cannot be missing.
Otherwise, how can your infantry keep up with the tank?
If you really lack armored personnel carriers now, Then just take a car for the time being.
If possible, it is best to modify the car and add some steel plates to the key parts of the car.
In short, infantry should not be hung on the chariot during combat.
This can be done during normal driving. " "What about the cavalry, Major Long?
Can we use cavalry instead of armored personnel carriers?"
asked another captain.
Long Xiaofei took a look and found that it was also an acquaintance who went to China for "exchanges" back then.
He said: "Captain Rommel, if you are not afraid of too much loss, of course you can use cavalry.
The opponent's tanks also have machine guns."
Allied positions.
While Long Xiaofei was working as a "brick master" on Er Dezi's side, another armored officer from China, Colonel Yang Ning, was also working as a "brick master" on the Allied side.
Of course, because of his high military rank, he acted as a "strategist" at the coalition headquarters, and his audiences were such as General Ferdinand Foch, commander of the French "South" Army Group, and General Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force.
Wait for the senior officials.
"Mr.
Colonel, the armored fighting vehicles currently used by Germany were imported from your country.
You must be very familiar with its performance."
General Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, looked at Yang Ning and said.
Yang Ning smiled and said: "Of course, General.
The Germans use our country's tanks.
This kind of tank is also our country's active equipment.
I have been using it."
Haig nodded and continued to ask: "Mr.
Colonel, you are your country's tank expert.
In your opinion, do our tanks have an advantage compared to German tanks?"
"Well, General, please forgive me, your country's tanks have their own advantages with our Wolverine tanks in terms of performance, especially your country's Mark 2 tank, which has more powerful firepower."
Yang Ning first complimented In one sentence, he said: "However, the armor and speed of your country's tanks are not as good as those of the Wolf Badger tanks, if the two confront each other, it depends on the specific tactics used.
In my opinion, your tank number is more than double that of the German army.
If the Allies can make full use of their advantages in numbers and firepower, Coupled with the cooperation of other arms, it is not difficult to win.”
Yang Ning said it politely, but in his heart he had complete disdain for British and French tanks.
If it's just better than the performance on paper, it's true as he just said, each has its own strengths.
Vickers water-cooled heavy machine gun, while China's Wolverine tank only has one 45mm gun and two 81909 air-cooled heavy machine guns.
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The early version of the Wolverine also has 25mm and 35mm guns.
On paper, Niuniu's tanks do have more firepower, but weapons are based on overall performance.
Taken together, this is not the case at all.
The biggest difference is speed.
The Wolverine's road speed is as high as 60 kilometers per hour, and it can reach 40 kilometers per hour even on the battlefield.
As for the current tanks of the Allied Powers, the fastest Renault tank has a maximum speed of only 30 kilometers.
This is the latest model of Renault, and the previous one was only 12 kilometers.
The speed difference between the two is doubled, which means that the Erdezi can use various maneuver tactics such as outflanking and detours at will, while the Rooster and Niu Niu can only eat dust from behind.
Not to mention, the Wolverine's armor far exceeds that of British and French tanks, and its survivability is much higher.
Based on the deductions made by Yang Ning and his comrades, if the Wolverines on the opposite side were commanded by him, they would be able to achieve at least one versus three.
This is still the German version of the Wolverine.
If it were the genuine Chinese Wolverine, it would be fine against five.
Moreover, according to his observation, the British and French armored forces have great problems.
There are many loopholes in both command and tactics.
Of course, this is the first time for this person to play with such a large-scale armored cluster, which is understandable.
However, Yang Ning would not say this, he just recorded these things.
After all, we are observers of a neutral country now.
We must remain neutral and remain neutral.
As for why Long Xiaofei, who is also a Chinese observer, is there to teach the Erdezi his experience.
Ahem, well, that's just his personal behavior.
Yang Ning talked with the senior officials of the Allied Powers for a while, talked about some relatively popular things, and even pulled out the 2c super-heavy tanks equipped by France and praised them, and then started talking nonsense.
He had studied in France before and had a lot to brag about.
After talking about the Eiffel Tower for a while, he started talking about the similarities and differences between French food and Chinese food, which made the British and French officers present have to be patient and brag with him.
Seeing that they couldn't find anything useful, the British and French officers had no choice but to forget it.
In fact, they don't expect to get much useful information from the Chinese.
We are not allies now, so why should we tell you?
After Yang Ning left, Foch said with a cold face: "In my opinion, the performance of the Chinese tank may be better, but in a large-scale war, this difference in performance is not significant.
Nothing” "It's true.
We have more than double the number of tanks than Germany.
We also have many more tactics to choose from."
Haig also agreed.
Although he was the main planner of this battle, he did not have the nerve to say that his own tanks were better than China's.
They are all veterans.
Even if they have never touched a tank before, they can still do basic reasoning, not to mention he is not that kind of conservative.
Like the original time and space, Britain in this dimension did not pay much attention to tanks at the beginning.
Even with the precedent of China's use, they were still suspicious of this weapon.
Churchill, the Lord of the Admiralty, had some foresight.
He felt that this kind of weapon was very promising, so he secretly embezzled Navy funds to build a batch.
But these things were not accepted by the army bosses.
They contemptuously called them "Churchill's tractors", especially the Secretary of War.
He was very angry about Churchill's behavior of extending his hands to the army.
File a lawsuit against Fatty Qiu.
In the end, Fatty Qiu was so frustrated that he had to allocate those tanks to the Marine Corps.
Therefore, after the war broke out, the British Army did not use this new weapon.
But later on, the war situation on the Western Front was extremely unfavorable to the Allies.
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The fierce fighting caused staggering casualties, and the losses of the British army reached an intolerable level.
At this time, the Army could no longer care about face, especially the British frontline commander Haig.
After learning that the German army also had a large number of tanks, he could not sit still.
In February this year, despite the opposition of many colleagues, he directly made a request to the cabinet for tanks to participate in the battle.
He planned a counterattack in which tanks played the leading role, requiring large numbers of tanks.
In this case, the British cabinet did not say anything and directly agreed.
However, the number of tanks at that time was insufficient, because after all, they were built privately by Churchill using Navy funds, and less than fifty were built.
Even if it was later equipped to the Marine Corps, only more than a hundred vehicles were built.
The Marine Corps did not have much demand for such things.
Under the strong request of the frontline generals, the Minister of War had no choice but to hold his nose and admit it, and ran to find Fatty Qiu himself for help.
Fatty Qiu did not take the opportunity to slap him in the face, he still took the overall situation into consideration.
All the Navy's tanks were immediately transferred to the Army.
At the same time, the Army also spent its own money to expand the production line and began to work overtime.
The tanks at this time were relatively simple.
Once a major power like Britain broke out, they were still quite powerful.
Within a few months, seven or eight hundred tanks were built and shipped to the front line for Haig's use.
The situation in France is better than that in the UK.
They attach great importance to tanks.
Shortly after the Sino-Japanese War, they came up with a light tank called the Renault FT13, which is similar to the Renault FT17 of the original time and space, with slightly stronger performance.
There were already more than 500 vehicles before the war began.
But there is a big problem with the French guy's idea of using it.
They use this weapon as an infantry support weapon and distribute the tanks to various infantry battalions and infantry regiments.
In previous battles, they also used this weapon, but the effect was very poor. 13 is a very small two-man tank and is currently the simplest tank in the world.
The advantage is that the cost is low.
It is indeed the cheapest tank currently.
It is said that the unit price is only 20,000 francs (about 7,700 yuan).
But it is cheap but not good.
Not only does the Renault ft13 have poor firepower, it only has one machine gun.
And the defense is very low, because this tank does not use armored steel plates to make the body at all, but uses ordinary steel plates.
It is simply an example of fake and inferior products.
Therefore, French tanks suffered heavy losses in the battle with the German army, and the Renault ft13 with extremely low defense became a living target for the German army to improve their performance.
In combat, it cannot withstand the blows of heavy machine guns.
Even close-range rifle fire can damage the armor on the surface of the FT13 tank, and the broken pieces will cause secondary injuries to the crew members in the vehicle.
Some crew members Even blinded.
Moreover, the German army now has anti-materiel guns.
Under the attack of such guns, the ft13 is even more vulnerable.
There is also the threat from the sky.
After the German army gained the upper hand in the air battle, many fighter jets started to work as attack aircraft.
They used machine guns to shoot at ground targets.
However, the Renault tank ran slowly at only 14 kilometers per hour, and the target was quite large.
For infantry, something crispy is simply the best target.
As a result, in a series of battles, France, which was the first to use tanks, suffered a disastrous defeat.
They lost nearly 700 Renault FT13 tanks, but the results were too few to mention, causing their frontline troops to almost lose confidence in tanks.
This time, had it not been for the repeated insistence of General Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, they would not have wanted tanks to be the "pig's feet" of this battle.
Of course, the French are not fools.
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The tanks in front are so deceptive, so of course they need to be improved.
They quickly came up with an enhanced and improved version of the Renault ft12, the ft16.
The appearance of the 16 did not change much, but the main weapon was changed from the original machine gun to a 37mm cannon, and a new engine was installed, which increased the speed from the original 14 kilometers mentioned 30 kilometers.
At the same time, professional armored steel from warships was used to make the vehicle body, and the armor thickness was also greatly increased, doubling the average on average.
It is hard to say whether it can withstand the German tank guns, but at least it will not be damaged by rifles.
What a joke.
Moreover, the French also accelerated the development of their 2c super-heavy tanks, manufacturing 60 of them before this battle and incorporating them into the army.
Of course, the performance of the 2c super-heavy tank in this plane is much better than that of the original plane, and it is also equipped with a radio.
Compared with the original time and space, not only the performance of French tanks has been greatly improved, but the British Mark tank has also improved a lot compared to the product of the same name in the original time and space.
Mainly due to the stimulation of China, the great powers in this plane are clicking on the engine technology tree.
The time is earlier, the intensity is stronger, and the tank technology improves faster.
For example, the British main tank Mark 2, although it still has their signature diamond shape, the appearance and structure are similar to the Mark 4 of the original time and space, eliminating the cumbersome guide wheel trailing behind.
The armor and speed far exceed the Mark 4 of the original time and space.
Its speed reaches 20 kilometers per hour, and the armor reaches 1030 mm.
Of course, the weight has also increased by several tons, exceeding 30 tons.
What's more interesting is that Niuniu's tanks are still divided into "male and female" as in the original time and space.
The "male tank" has not changed much and is still developed according to the purpose of the main tank.
But what is different from the original time and space is that their current "mother tank" is more like an armored personnel carrier or an infantry fighting vehicle.
The "mother tank" only has 4 machine guns, but it has a troop transport cabin that can carry 10 infantrymen.
It has to be said that under the influence of Mr.
Wen, a little butterfly flapping its wings, the battle in this plane has become almost unrecognizable.
Now both warring parties are making final adjustments to their armored forces, preparing to destroy the other side in one fell swoop and break the current deadlock
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