Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 181: New tactics

The convoy of the heads of state is usually parked in the underground garage of the Prime Minister’s Office, and usually enters and exits from the dedicated passage on the west side of the Prime Minister’s Office. In addition, there is a hidden vehicle elevator beside the sidewalk on the side of the Prime Minister’s Office building. It looks like an ordinary floor.

This elevator is usually used by trucks that transport supplies, and the food and materials on the truck can be directly sent to the underground warehouse. Xu Jun rarely enters the underground garage. He only needs to give orders and the team will naturally wait in front of the agreed door.

The head of the empire currently owns twenty luxury cars exclusively for him. In addition to various Mercedes-Benz, he also has a Citroen, a Rover, a Rolls-Royce Phantom and a Daim Le DB18, some of these cars are gifts given to him by foreign governments, while others are purchased by private individuals, all of which have undergone enhanced modification.

Originally, Mercedes-Benz complied with Hitler's request and replaced the head of state with a high-horsepower supercharged engine and a mine-resistant armored chassis. The windows used five-centimeter-thick bullet-proof glass, and bulletproof steel plates were added to the inner layer of the door. The famous Mercedes-Benz 770K.

The new imperial head of state even put forward the concept of heavy protection, requiring that all his vehicles must be able to withstand the test of the German active light weapons attacks.

For safety reasons, Xu Jun doesn't like convertibles very much, but because of the needs of political propaganda, he has to take some risks. When he usually operates in Berlin, such as rushing from the Chancellery to the command headquarters, he likes to ride a hard-top Mercedes-Benz 770K. The roof is equipped with a 30mm thick hardened armor plate, which can withstand most of the current fighter jets.

Of course, some perverted modifications cannot be included, such as the Stuka JU87G cannon bird that was born early.

Currently, the Luftwaffe's research plan is full. The senior officials of the Air Force are convinced that the dive bomber will be eliminated by the multi-purpose attack aircraft. Therefore, the German army stopped the development of the Stuka replacement model and shifted its focus to more On the research and development project of the attack aircraft.

Xu Jun is not interested in making a German version of Il II. After the German army has strengthened its mid- and short-range air defense firepower, the myth of the Black Death cannot be repeated again. The Stuka Cannon Bird is just a transitional version. Before the new attack aircraft is fully reinstalled, the German Stuka will probably need to hold on for about a year.

However, with the current performance of Estuka, as long as the Luftwaffe firmly holds the air superiority in the field, this dive bomber is an awesome threat to all Soviet ground forces.

The German Army Air Force has begun to equip a new type of anti-tank cluster bomb. Each bomb box contains 40 to 80 butterfly bombs. It is the kind of small bomb called the Devil’s Egg. This time and space in the Dunkirk battle, he showed his face once, which caused a lot of psychological shadow on the British and French army in the encirclement.

The German army is now equipped with its anti-tank version, equipped with a bronze-cast shaped charge warhead. After detonation, the metal jet can penetrate 35 mm thick homogeneous steel armor.

The aircraft that dropped this bomb can be a single-shot dive bomber or a multi-shot horizontal bomber. After the bomb box leaves the carrier, the cover plate is bounced off at a preset height, and then the sub-bombs loaded inside are scattered. within the area.

The size of the specific scattered area depends on the opening height of the ammunition box. This value floats in a space of 500 to 50 meters. There was no technical threshold at the time, and only a simple air pressure was needed. The altimeter can do it.

After using gravity and centrifugal force to throw out the internal bomblets, the original bullet box is useless, and maybe one or two ground soldiers can be killed by luck. And the moment the devil’s egg leaves the mother bomb, the fuze insurance is torn off, and then the wings folded around the projectile are ejected outwards, and then use gravity to pull out the traction cable on the projectile, and the warhead hangs on the rotating projectile. The wing began to fall down steadily.

In layman’s terms, this thing is like a bamboo dragonfly. The opened wings of the bullet spins rapidly, effectively reducing the speed of the bullet’s fall, and at the same time creating a stable descending posture for the bullet, making one side of the bullet forever Towards the ground.

The attack direction of the shaped charge warhead is vertical downward, which means that it is attacking the most vulnerable top of the tank armor. Because the projectile does not rotate with the wings of the missile at high speed, the metal jet can perform the best penetration. A effect.

Army aviation has done experiments. If a medium cluster bomb is well distributed, it can destroy all armored units in an area of ​​200 square meters. At the same time, the Germans believed that with the current power of this ammunition, no Soviet tank could withstand this terrible weapon that fell from the sky.

However, this weapon also has its use restrictions. The High Command believes that it is currently only suitable for German combat in an attacking situation to destroy armored groups on the enemy's front. Because the technical content of this bomb is not high, the Army Command is worried that if the unexploded bomblets fall into the hands of the enemy, this is a very common thing on the battlefield. The Soviet Union is likely to copy them and then use them in the German army. On the head of his armored unit. The command found that none of the tanks currently equipped by the German army could withstand the attack of this little demon.

In offensive operations, the German army holds the initiative on the battlefield. If used properly, it should be possible to ensure that this secret weapon will not fall into the hands of the enemy.

So what other method does the German army have to effectively curb the offensive momentum of the opponent's offensive troops when their own troops are retreating?

The answer is yes, and that is the newly developed aerial mine tactics developed by the German army.

This kind of tactics that only appeared during the Vietnam War is actually not mysterious. To put it bluntly, it is to throw mines from the air onto the ground, quickly creating a large open-air mine belt.

Everyone knows that the landmines in the concept are usually buried under the ground, which can be regarded as a camouflage trap using explosions as a means of killing, relying on the enemy’s fear of unknown threats to effectively delay the enemy’s actions.

The aerial mine-laying is entirely open-air, and the entire landmine is exposed on the ground, so the enemy can easily find it.

Everyone may think that the enemy is not idiots or blind men, how could anyone step on the mines that can be seen. In fact, this is the desired effect of aerial mine-laying tactics. The purpose of this tactic is to delay and block the actions of the enemy forces, or to force the enemy forces to detour, or to reduce the enemy's movement speed.

The mine clearance technology at the time was still primitive, and manual mine clearance was usually the main method. Even if the mines were placed in the open air, as long as the number and density were large enough, if the enemy wanted to clear a passage for large troops to pass, Must consume a lot of manpower, material resources and time. Intensive shelling may clear a minefield. The problem is that the ground ploughed by artillery will also hinder the movement of troops.

Of course, the simpler way is to bypass the minefield. In this way, the minefield's purpose is also achieved. If the commander operates properly, the enemy can even be forced into the ambush circle of his own.

The German army is currently developing a set of rocket mine-laying equipment according to the head of state's blueprint. By then, the rocket can be used to quickly lay a large minefield. The specific dispersion principle is similar to the cluster bomb above.

This kind of minefield also has an outstanding advantage, that is, after the battle is over, the mines are easier to clear and will not cause harm to your own troops.

In addition, on the winter battlefield on the Eastern Front, a lot of landmines thrown in the air will be buried by snow, and a line of mine defense can be quickly created at the front of the position. If these mines are equipped with timed self-detonation devices, even subsequent demining can be avoided.

The German army can set the time for the mine to self-destruct in a day or a week. During this time, it can be guaranteed that the front line is closed. After the predetermined time, the mine can self-destruct, and the German army can attack the enemy through the former minefield.

"Weiller, think about it again, is there anything else you have forgotten?" Xu Jun put the aerial mine-laying exercise report sent by the Army Command into the briefcase.

"Everything is ready, my head of state, Marshal Brausic has given notice." Weirler nodded and replied.

The imperial head stood up from behind his desk and pulled the hem of his uniform.

"How much time will it take on the road?" Xu Jun opened the drawer of the desk, took out his gun from the inside, and then took off the magazine skillfully.

"If all goes well~IndoMTL.com~ will not take more than twenty hours." Weierle handed the briefcase to Colonel Kirsten.

"I think you should think about it again, my head of state." Kirsten persuaded.

"Don't worry, Colonel Kirsten, the day after tomorrow...I'll be back the day after tomorrow at best." Xu Jun put the pistol into the cowhide holster after reloading the magazine and closing the insurance.

"Eric, are the guards ready?"

"The assembly is complete, my head of state." Disenhofen handed the military cap to Xu Jun's hand.

"Well, let's set off now." The imperial head put on his military cap, picked up the marshal's stick on the table, and flung a stick in a cool motion.

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The jet lag is finally reversed, but there is not much free time now, and it may be better in a while.

Next week, I will try my best to make more time to write more, and try to pay off the debts from last month.