Chapter 493: 493 Dry Land Boating
Chapter 493 Chapter 493 Sailing on Dry Land
"Adjust the artillery firing angle, no matter how many, directly bombard the first-line defense position! Try to keep those iron lumps as much as possible! If they are allowed to calmly organize the next attack, the defense line may not be able to hold on!" After hearing this After the situation on the front line, General Bolton immediately responded.
He does not have a dazzling array of anti-tank weapons in his hands now, nor does he have a tank to counterattack the enemy's tanks.
He didn't even know if the Datang Group had similar weapons, so naturally he didn't know how to deal with it.
However, because of his rich combat experience, he responded immediately—at least, his troops still had many sets of tactics when dealing with enemy armored vehicles.
It's just that when dealing with armored vehicles, the most reliable tactic of digging holes to trap the opponent and then deploying mortars and the like to repeatedly fire and blow up the target is unlikely to work.
Judging from the descriptions of his men, simple improvised tactics such as using light weapons to attack the wheels are probably useless.
Now he can only use a more traditional and dangerous method: let soldiers hold grenades or explosives to attack these behemoths at close range.
It is a pity that this tactic is still a temporary tactic after all. What he needs is a stronger weapon to withstand the opponent's attack with such a weapon!
The frontline troops were in dire straits and were beaten to a pulp by the sudden appearance of Cyric bombers. The first-line defensive positions were penetrated almost instantly. The battlefield was filled with huge and terrifying monsters like Cyric tanks.
The Goblins almost thought they were going to win this war! They have already fantasized about taking over the lands of the previous kingdoms of Shiron and Taron, taking over the most evolved Kingdom of Dorne, and expanding their industrial strength.
They all seem to have seen the dawn of becoming the Gobel Empire and the most powerful country in the world.
Unfortunately, the cannonballs from the Kingdom of Dorne fell like raindrops, suddenly waking up the commanders of the Gobel Kingdom who were still immersed in the joy of victory.
Their new weapons were effective at the beginning of the attack, but because the movement speed was too slow and the technology was too lagging, it was still a little bit behind.
There is no way around this: due to the scarcity of track steel and the design of the track to protect it, the off-road capabilities of the behemoth Cyric Chariot are actually very average.
A water tank with a design similar to the German A7V actually follows a completely different design idea from the British World War I water tank.
For the tanks designed by the British during World War I, the first idea was to use the tracks to cross obstacles as much as possible and cover the troops to break through the enemy's defensive positions.
Hence, the British water tank uses radical overhead crawlers to expand the forward tilt angle of the tank crawlers in order to enhance the tank's ability to overcome obstacles.
Germany’s design ideas for World War I tanks were similar to those of the Land Cruiser. Protect your own running mechanism as much as possible, preferring to give up some off-road capabilities and pursue an overall defense idea.
Of course, due to technical reasons, the German A7V tank design idea is completely wrong and inefficient, but this is understandable.
Because in the era when tanks were just born, no one could tell what a tank was. Everyone had their own understanding and ideas.
When Germany is researching tanks, it is inevitable to refer to known weapon designs: the one that comes to mind the most is a battleship.
So, German designers used the design ideas of battleships to strengthen defense, or at least in their opinion, strengthen the defense of weapons...
The design ideas of weapons are actually of the same origin, and the roots and core design ideas can be found. This root may not be correct, but it must be buried deep in the bones of weapon designers and users.
Many people criticized the German tank design concept during World War II. They felt that it was complicated and expensive, affected production capacity, and placed too much emphasis on comprehensive protection.
However, everyone knows that the design idea of comprehensive protection was inherited from the battleships of the High Seas Fleet in World War I, and it took some advantage in the Battle of Jutland.
The German Army can rely on the simplest and cheapest method of increasing the thickness of steel plates to avoid the loss of talent. This is actually the most reasonable and optimal solution.
Those who naively think that the Germans do not copy the T-34, or that they do not adopt the T-34 design ideas are caused by arrogance and prejudice, actually do not see the difficulties facing the Germans.
Could Germany produce a large number of vulnerable Santoku version T-34s to be consumed by the Soviet army during World War II? The answer is obviously no. It can't afford it!
Didn’t you see that the German Air Force, which had been forced by the American B-17 to take the lead in a war of attrition in the air, persisted until 1943 and was almost flat?
As a result, in 1945, the German army had thousands of fighter jets in the air, but there were no fuel pilots to get these planes into the air for combat.
If the Army also adopts the T-34 attrition model, then in 1944, the problem that the Wehrmacht must face is that although it has 2,000 T-34 tanks, it has no crews like Carlus Wittmann. All losses... So the Germans had to upgrade the defense and firepower of the T-34 tank to create a tank that comprehensively surpasses the T-34 tank and ensure that their precious crew members can survive the fierce battle.
Hence, the artillery is stronger, the armor is stronger, the ergonomics are better...well, isn't that just a zoo...
As for the doomsday weapons such as the E-series in the later period, their emergence was entirely due to emergency designs that gave up their own design ideas due to material shortages. That no longer belongs to the topic of inheritance of design ideas.
Therefore, in World War I, the British tank was essentially an innovation. It was the integration of a new technology, the position-breaking tank! German tanks are not innovative in nature.
To put it more bluntly, the Germans’ design idea for a water tank in World War I was: I wanted to make an iron shell so that it could walk on land. As for the German tanks in World War II, that is another story.
Going back to the Cyric tank in front of us, Cyric designers actually copied the design ideas of the battleship.
To be honest, Cyric's designers have actually worked very hard to come up with the prototype of a tank by themselves.
But they are still a little bit behind, and this little bit makes their tanks a little embarrassed in today's battle situation.
The shortcomings in speed, the slight lack of cross-country capabilities, and the artillery counterattack Dorn responded to were too fast, causing Gobl's tank troops to suffer unexpected losses in an instant.
While a Cyric chariot was advancing on the position, it was unexpectedly hit by a flying cannonball and was directly blown into a pile of scattered iron sheets.
Another tank was also hit by a shell and burst into flames. The members in the tank were reduced to charcoal before they had time to struggle.
Being hit by a large-caliber artillery, even a tank of the 21st century cannot guarantee the survival of the crew members, let alone the ancestor of this kind of land cruiser.
Subsequently, another tank was destroyed by shrapnel due to the explosion of artillery shells at close range. The huge vibration killed the members inside the tank, damaged the machinery, and paralyzed the tank on the way forward.
Steel plate armor with a thickness of only a few centimeters or even one centimeter was unable to completely defend against incoming artillery shells. Therefore, when Dorn's artillery counterattack began, seven or eight Gobel tanks were scrapped on the battlefield.
However, a dozen tanks still rushed into the defense line of the Dornish defenders, but they lacked infantry cover and had to face the counterattacks of Dornish soldiers rushing from all directions alone.
The battle suddenly became very fierce, so fierce that both parties involved in the battle were a little overwhelmed.
As for the Goblins, they have been preparing for this attack for a long time, and naturally they are not willing to give up easily. What's more, their tanks have already rushed into the enemy's position. They just need to work harder, and victory seems to belong to them.
The situation in Dorne was even more critical for the country's survival, and many soldiers would rather die in battle than give in. They held on to their second line of defense and tried to regain their lost first line of defense through flank counterattacks.
Both sides were constantly adding troops to the war zone. Goblin's troops were hindered by Dorn's artillery fire and were unable to expand their victory immediately. Dorn's soldiers were fighting fiercely with Goblin's tanks and were unable to block their own side for a while. gap.
The two sides were going back and forth, and the fight was lively: Goblin's follow-up troops were consuming Dorne's precious artillery shell inventory. Once the ammunition was tight or the firepower was weak, they might break through Dorne's defense line; Dorne was in a One destroys the Gobel tanks that invade the position. As long as they destroy these deadly guys, subsequent enemy attacks will naturally be nothing to fear.
Bullets from all directions hit the slow-moving Goblin tank, and the ammunition hit the steel plate and splashed countless sparks.
This is how it is on the battlefield. Soldiers will not stop shooting just because the bullets cannot penetrate the tank. They will only pour the ammunition in their hands crazily and find the easiest to hit or the target closest to them that poses the greatest threat.
No one would analyze rationally: If my bullets cannot penetrate the tank, then I will hit other targets. In fact, they dare not do this: because no one can guarantee whether the tank they do not take care of will be able to penetrate the tank. Keep an eye on yourself and shoot at other targets while you're at it.
Another reason is the general sense of luck. No one knows whether his bullet will hit the tank along the gap, thereby damaging the tank and preventing it from moving forward...
That’s why there is such a strange thing that a tank on the battlefield is full of bullet holes, and you can’t even see the paint on the surface.
Amidst the hail of bullets, the Goblin chariot stopped, and machine guns fired fiercely from all directions, like a steel bunker embedded in the middle of the enemy's position.
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Happy Army Day! May our great motherland be invincible!
(End of this chapter)