Chapter 927： A dead friend is not dead (1/2)

Due to the shift of Austria's strategic focus, the confusing situation on the battlefield in China and Europe suddenly became clear.

The coalition forces that were eager to try to counterattack are now completely defensive. As if being dragged by the refugees, no matter how provoked by the French army, they could not stand firm.

There are planes + airships in the sky, and trenches and steel barbed wire + machine guns on the ground. Facing such an enemy, the French army is also very helpless.

Attack, the price to be paid is too great, and it is difficult to achieve satisfactory results.

After all, there is no technical content in the trenches, one breakthrough and the next, simply filling the upper with infantry, that is irresponsible for the safety of the soldiers.

Although it is worth the heavy casualties as long as the war can be won; the problem is that the Battle of the Rhine is only a microcosm of the European War.

If you lose this battle, France is dead; if you win this battle, there will be another battle. When you open the map, you know that France wants to win the war, without fighting three or five battles, don't expect to be able to bring the anti-French alliance to submission.

If you run out of money here, how can you fight the war? Any commander knows that winning first is not winning, only the final winner is the real winner.

On one side is the battle line that has been unable to break through, on the other side is the number of casualties that are accumulating every day, Marshal Patrice McMahon in the command only feels pressured.

”Has the anti-aircraft weapons been delivered?”

The coalition forces are only the army, and the air force with absolute superiority still comes out to check in from time to time every day. Whether it is a bomb falling from the sky or a bullet flying out, it is a big trouble for the French army.

Simply calculating the results of an airship or an airplane is inconspicuous, but once the unit is enlarged a hundred times, the situation is different.

Even if the record of a single flight is only one, for the French army, that is hundreds of casualties every day, and it is not a small number under the accumulation of time.

Especially the blow to the morale of the army is hard to make up. In order to get rid of this predicament as soon as possible, Marshal Patrice McMahon immediately requested air defense weapons from the country.

Regardless of the advancement of the time when the airship is put into military use, countries have developed anti-aircraft weapons ahead of schedule. In fact, the power of anti-aircraft weapons these years is still very limited.

In addition to the role of anti-aircraft artillery, other anti-aircraft weapons have been born to increase the comic color.

For example: the legendary anti-aircraft rifle.

In theory, this specially developed anti-aircraft rifle has a limit range of up to thousands of meters, which can pose a threat to the enemy in the sky.

As for the actual combat effect, it is a pity that the French army did not shoot down an airplane or airship by this thing for so long after the European War broke out.

Maybe it hit the target, but it's a pity that they don't fall. No way, the power of bullets these years is too small, and being able to fly more than a kilometer does not mean that it has a lethality of more than a kilometer, unless the enemy is flying at a low altitude, otherwise it is useless.

The air defense machine guns that were widely circulated in later generations are like myths in this era. Maxim machine guns are all new equipment. Soldiers can't be allowed to shoot into the sky with Gatling?

Compared with the black technology that is responsible for the funny, the artillery is still powerful. Although the hit rate is pitiful, as long as it is hit, it can basically get the result.

”The anti-aircraft weapons have been shipped here, but, Marshal, just these hundreds of anti-aircraft artillery I'm afraid...”

There is no way. The two million French army counts on hundreds of anti-aircraft artillery to ensure the safety of their heads. No matter how they are distributed, it is impossible to do so.

In order to compete for the ownership of these anti-aircraft artillery, the French army was about to fight internally, which caused a headache for Lieutenant General Amedé who was in charge of logistics.

Patrice McMahon nodded thoughtfully: ”The number of anti-aircraft artillery is insufficient, so there is no need to allocate it to the troops for the time being. First gather together and act with the artillery.

The enemy is in the sky, and it is impossible to distinguish so clearly. When the time comes, let other artillery be clamped together and fired, just to scare them.

As long as the enemy does not bomb at low altitudes, the losses caused to us will be within the tolerable range.

We must know that the cost of air force deployment is not low, and the results achieved by high-altitude harassment may not be enough for their gas.

Didn’t China say that fighter jets have already begun production, and the problem will be resolved in a while.

At the moment, we should speed up the progress and try our best to create more refugees and increase the logistics pressure on the enemy before the international community interferes. ”

This is a fact. From a purely economic calculation, the cost of high-altitude bombing is indeed low.

Hundreds of tons of ammunition every day, plus one hundred tons of fuel, and a large amount of maintenance costs, just the result of annihilating a hundred and eighty enemies is definitely a blood loss.

The war is fighting money. If you can't get the results, no one can withstand it after a long time, and the frequency of bombing will naturally drop.

No, to be precise, the frequency of the Austrian bombing has dropped. Aircraft harassment most of the time.

The reason is naturally logistics. The emergence of refugees has forced the Austrian army to save ammunition and reduce logistics consumption as much as possible.

The airship unit that was originally used to bomb the French army now takes on more logistics and transportation tasks. Hundreds of airships go back and forth between the two places every day to ensure sufficient front-line supplies.

The cost of the horse has long been beyond the consideration of the Vienna government. At present, Austria is moving on three lines, waterways and airways, making every effort to transport supplies to the front lines.

As for the international interference that Patrice McMahon worries about, it is actually a fan of the authorities. The French government is scaring itself.

Countries that are capable of interfering in the European War do not want to intervene, and besides, they are still engaged in a ”friendship” and cannot stop at all for a while.

The rest of the countries that want to interfere in the European War do not have enough strength, and apart from shouting, they have no actual interference ability at all.

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