Expedition to Europe

At night, the battle resumed.

Compared to the French and Germans, the night belongs to the scouts.

Among the three armored vehicles assigned to Hu Tingfeng, one is a special communication vehicle, which is equipped with a radio transceiver.

War is the best driving force for the development of science and technology. At present, there are telephones that can freely convert sound and electrical pulses, and radios that can transmit signals in the air. It can be said that wireless communication technology has the objective conditions for realization.

In Qin Zhiyuan's laboratory on Corsica, a team specializing in wireless communication has been established. Their first research project is to miniaturize the relevant equipment, at least to be able to be used on vehicles so that it can be installed on tanks and other vehicles. Of course, this is not an easy task, and it is estimated that there will be no results in a short time. For now, they can only use radios that are large enough to fill a car.

Fortunately, Qin Zhiyuan is not paying for it.

With the help of radio, it is much easier for scouts to carry out harassment. They no longer need to drive motorcycles and risk being strafed by MG08 to approach and harass, but use guided artillery to give the Germans a greater blow.

You know, during the day, the German artillery was raging, while the artillery of the 1st and 32nd divisions remained silent. The reason why they endured for a whole day was for this moment.

In addition to the large-caliber artillery of the 32nd Division, Qin Zhiyuan can command more than 100 heavy artillery. If small-caliber artillery like "Miss 75" is added, Qin Zhiyuan can command more than 300 artillery.

Speaking of artillery, the French actually fell into a misunderstanding before World War I.

When "Miss 75" was first born, its firing rate was well-deserved to be the world's first, and the French artillery was very arrogant for a while, especially after the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China in 1900. Almost all countries that saw the power of "Miss 75" asked the French to buy "Miss 75". There is no reason not to make money that is delivered to the door, so the French sold "Miss 75" all over the world, but not to the Germans, their arch-enemy.

The "Miss 75" has a firing rate that is two to three times higher than all similar weapons. This advantage is so great that the French changed their tactics. They added steel shields to the "Miss 75" and used shrapnel shells that rely on steel balls and fragments to kill the enemy. In the war, they required the "Miss 75" to be pushed to 1,000 meters away from the enemy line, and defeated the enemy with an unparalleled ultra-fast firing rate, and then launched an infantry charge.

The Germans who could not buy the "Miss 75" were helpless. Since they could not beat the French in terms of firing rate, the Germans simply took a different approach to research large-caliber artillery that surpassed the "Miss 75" in both power and range.

Different routes led to different results. After the start of World War I, the "Miss 75" that the French were proud of was destroyed by German heavy artillery before it was pushed to the preset position. The shells used by the Germans were no longer shrapnel shells, but full-charged high-explosive shells. At this time, the shells no longer relied on steel balls and fragments to kill the enemy, but relied on impact to give the enemy invisible damage.

The defeated French learned from their mistakes and began to shift their focus to large-caliber artillery at the end of 1916. After all, the French still had a foundation in artillery, and soon they produced heavy artillery that was as powerful as the German heavy artillery, but had an upper hand in range and rate of fire.

In fact, if you look closely at the artillery during World War I and World War II, the French were not inferior to anyone in technology, but unfortunately the gap in tactics was getting bigger and bigger, which fully demonstrated the importance of people.

Qin Zhiyuan happened to catch up with the period when the French were catching up, so most of the equipment in the troops was large-caliber artillery.

The power of large-caliber artillery is incomparable to that of small-caliber artillery. Although the range has been greatly improved, the accuracy is not much different. It only took three test shots for the artillery to complete the landing point test, and then it was a salvo of 300 artillery.

What does it mean to fire 300 artillery pieces at once? Each round of firing means that 15 tons of steel can be thrown into the German camp. If calculated based on one-fifth of the charge, each volley means that about three tons of T·N·T explosives explode in the German camp.

So the Germans were in tragedy.

The Germans were awakened by the violent explosion almost as soon as they fell asleep. At this time, they did not care about the "Night Camping Regulations" and first found cover to avoid the French artillery fire. Not everyone has this opportunity. Many people were directly killed in their sleep. There are always strange red spots on their skin. There are no wounds on the surface, but their internal organs have been shattered.

Don't think that the Germans are all steel warriors. When they encounter irresistible firepower attacks, the Germans will also be busy, panic, and collapse.

At this point in the war, the skilled and courageous soldiers are about to be exhausted. Now those who are sent to the battlefield are either veterans who have retired and re-enlisted, who have skills but no physical strength, or children who have just reached adulthood and have not received enough training.

Last year's Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme completely exhausted the last bit of courage of the Germans, British and French. Now they are just holding on with their last breath. It is better to say that they are fighting themselves than fighting the enemy.

In the second half of last year, 100,000 German troops fled. They could not bear to be ready to die all day long. They would rather be dishonorable deserters than suffer in the trenches.

The French are in a better situation because the French army is not short of food, and the French government has enough money to maintain stability. With the support of the Americans, the French can sell anything they want. But there are problems. The mutiny in France is a big explosion of French soldiers under pressure.

The Russians are even worse. Since Christmas, an average of 35,000 Russian soldiers have fled every month, and this is under the premise that there is no large-scale war on the Western Front.

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The British look good, because the British are continuously mobilizing colonial soldiers to give blood transfusions to Britain. Now in Europe, there are more than one million Indian soldiers alone, and there are also Canadian Corps, Australian Corps, New Zealand Corps, Irish Corps, etc.

The Chinese represented by Qin Zhiyuan are also giving blood transfusions to France, so they are valued by the French, and they are almost responsive to every request in terms of equipment.

The manifestation of responsiveness is that there are enough shells and cannons. Now, the French investment has paid off.

The firing rate of heavy artillery is much slower than that of "Miss 75", about two to four rounds per minute. If it is measured in hours, the firing rate will continue to decrease. Generally speaking, it can fire about two shells per minute. So in five minutes at most, a German division-level camp will become a sea of ​​fire.

It is really a sea of ​​fire. All tents, fences, cars, wood, and even ammunition boxes, as long as they can be ignited, are basically burning. From time to time, concentrated ammunition will explode. There are flames everywhere, and soldiers running around with flames everywhere. They will eventually be burned to death, their bodies curled up into a ball, their limbs will shrink, and they will become a strange posture, and their bodies will become charred.

Lava sea of ​​fire, blazing hell, probably describes this kind of scene.