The Rise of the Empire

"This is a document that I obtained through a secret channel. It is written about the French's new defense ideas and their opinions on the improvement of the Fortress of Verdun and the Fortress of Belfort. I have to say that the French are about defense and defense. The anti-artillery is doing very well!" The prince handed a document to Little Moqi, and brought it to a huge sand table.

"Although the French advocate offense, they also pay attention to the defense of fortress areas and key nodes. The French know that we can't stop us in head-to-head field battles. So they designed fortresses and a kind of fortification zone in key areas. This system relies on the fortress and integrates it into the field defense system. The heavy artillery group of the fortress can be used to support field units within a radius of more than ten kilometers, while the field troops filled in the fortification area can Restrict the penetration of the opponent's troops, the deployment of artillery, and outflank!" The prince said with a swipe of the push rod in his hand.

Does the French have this level? The answer is yes, but that was after the start of the First World War. In order to make Little Mochi aware of the crisis of the Western Front War in advance, and to dispel the idea of ​​flattening France as much as possible, the prince can only lie that this is now France. People's plan!

The former fortresses were actually very easy to break. As long as the surrounding field troops can be killed and the fortresses isolated, it will be easier to deal with. Is it just to smash it with heavy artillery anyway? As long as it is not sturdy enough, the 210mm gun will not work, so use the 280mm heavy howitzer. It is not possible to use the 305mm heavy howitzer. The German siege artillery unit has formed a perfect tortoise shell smashing system. The fortresses of Liege are nothing terrible at all.

But this time the fortress system presented to Xiao Maoqi is not the case at all! On this sand table that simulates the fortress of Verdun in France, what Xiao Moqi sees is a brand new defense system. If the previous fortresses were just points stuck in the main transportation hubs and passages, this defense system is a facet. ! A defensive zone built with reinforced concrete relying on the terrain!

In addition to the main fort of Verdun, the French also built 4 lines of defense based on the terrain. This line of defense is about 6 to 7 kilometers away from the main fort of Verdun. In the eyes of most people, this distance is just a number, but In the eyes of Xiao Maoqi, he discovered the hidden crisis!

After the French built a defensive position at this distance, it was equivalent to excluding most of the German siege artillery from the effective range. You must know that artillery has two key indicators, one is the weight of the bomb, the other is the range. If you want high bomb weight, you must sacrifice range, and if you want high range, you must sacrifice bomb weight. If you don't want to sacrifice, then add money...

And this is not something that can be done with money. Judging from the current situation of the German Army, the depth of defense alone can eliminate almost all of the siege artillery from the range! The maximum firing distance of the current siege artillery is about 8 kilometers. If you look at the effective range, it should be shorter. It is certain that the siege artillery cannot be placed to the front. In this case, the artillery generally cannot reach the fortress, but the long-range cannon on the fortress takes advantage of the altitude and its own length. The physical advantage is enough to threaten the siege gun. If you can't crack the opponent's tortoise shell, then this siege is still a fart!

Some people may have said that the siege gun can be pushed forward continuously. It is theoretically feasible, but in fact it is still very difficult. The weight of the siege gun has always been very large, and it is very difficult to move the 210mm heavy gun, let alone move these at every turn. It’s a big guy with dozens of tons, and it’s a hassle to use a special trailer to pull it into position and reassemble it to shoot. And also worry about being hit by the opponent’s artillery while moving...

After looking at the cross-sectional view of the important French fortress facilities, Little Moqi was even more disappointed! Because the French’s main turret was a defense product that was a combination of armored turrets and underground multi-layer structures, the French’s turret was small in shape, and the top defense was specially strengthened for the top guns, using armored steel instead of steel bars. Concrete is used as a defensive material. You know, the 90mm steel armor can defend a 15-inch naval gun from a long-range potion attack. The Germans' large-caliber siege guns are definitely not as powerful as naval guns...

There was no big Belsa artillery in this era, but even if there were Belsa artillery, the bullet weight of this thing was only 810kg, and the muzzle speed was not high. Although it has the advantage of falling angle, it is still a question whether it can be better than the Queen's 15-inch artillery. For this kind of armored turret, Xiao Moqi had to admit that it was quite difficult to destroy.

If the various turrets on the ground that are difficult to destroy are just dots, then the underground fortress system with a multi-layer layout forms a network, and the fortresses with three to six floors can almost make the fortress destroyed by gunfire. It became impossible! The only solution is to use soldiers to occupy...

"This fortress is almost impossible to build!" Xiao Maoqi lost his voice after seeing it.

"How is it impossible? We can think of, why the French can't think of it? Since the Franco-Prussian War, they have spent decades perfecting their military system. They allocate some money every year, and it has been repaired now!" The prince lied at this time. There is no psychological pressure at all!

"We have to say ~www.NovelMTL.com~ The advantage of the defender in this era is really too great." The prince made a knife on Little Moqi's wound again.... The French are fighting locally, so they can rely on defense lines and fortresses, and the French can also get a variety of train cannons to provide long-range fire support, and our train cannons have to advance about 350 kilometers from Germany if they want to push to the front line. In order to reach the position, and then hit a railway and an available circular shooting position to use...

Some people have said that the historical French army artillery is not as good as the Germans. The army’s ordinary artillery is a large number of 75 rapid-fire artillery, and the effect in the eastern region is not as good as the German 105mm and 150mm howitzers. So why is the French artillery still very fierce, except for being relatively passive at the beginning?

What is certain is that the French Army's heavy artillery in the usual sense has a certain gap with Germany in terms of the quantity and quality of equipment. But there is a French artillery that is quite advantageous! That is the railway artillery! You must know that even the mighty siege guns of the Germans in the Battle of Verdun were not railway guns. If you look at the weight and range of the guns, these fixed siege guns and railway guns are still one level worse!

Looking at the entire battlefield of Battle 1, from the perspective of artillery alone, the Germans have a huge advantage in howitzers and short- and medium-range projections. This is because the Germans are equipped with heavy howitzers such as 150mm and 210mm in the general army. A powerful short-range artillery.

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