Chapter 946： Depressed Frederick (1/2)
The roar of artillery fire, the spinning of the engine, and the screams of soldiers from time to time, played a **** march together.
The French army command, watching the increasing casualties reports, the well-informed Marshal Patrice McMahon couldn't help shaking.
After sorting out his thoughts, McMahon forced himself to calm down. He knew he couldn't panic now, and if he couldn't deal with it calmly, France would be finished.
As one of the founders of the Second French Empire, McMahon's feelings for this country surpassed his life.
”You all know what happened on the front line. The top priority now is to find a way to deal with the enemy's armored forces. Only by solving them can the great France have a future.
From now on, the destiny of the empire is in our hands. Behind us is home, and now we have nowhere to go.
If you don't want the war to burn to our hometown, and don't want to see wives and children drifting away, then keep the enemy out of the country!
Time does not wait for me, the international situation is getting worse and worse, leaving France running out of time. You are all elites in the French army, and now the responsibility for dealing with enemy armored forces falls on you. ”
The cruel reality teaches McMahon deeply. With the rapid development of military technology today, traditional tactics and tactics have been swept into the garbage dump, and they are becoming less and less able to keep up with the times.
For example, in this newly emerged Austrian armored unit, McMahon used the method of dealing with the cavalry, and the result was naturally disastrous.
To deal with cavalry, you can shoot people or horses; when encountering armored tanks, ordinary bullets can only tickle them, and there is no threat at all.
Past experience is not reliable, McMahon had to brainstorm and find countermeasures.
”Marshal, after fighting over the past few days, we found that the enemy's armored forces are not afraid of bullets. To destroy them, they must use artillery.
Ordinary artillery has a low hit rate due to the elevation angle, and it is best to produce a gun that can fire flat.
In addition to destruction by force, tunnels and mountains can block the advance of enemy armored forces. Generally speaking, the worse the road, the more the enemy's armored forces can be delayed. ”
To be precise, this should be regarded as battlefield experience, not a countermeasure. On the surface, they all seem good, but in fact they are not feasible at all.
Soldiers are extremely fast on the battlefield, and the war is mostly over without waiting for the domestic flat-fire artillery to come out.
The mountains are the magical work of nature, and unless they are changed by human will, it is impossible for the French army to withdraw the main force to the mountains.
Digging tunnels and damaging roads seem to be the most effective countermeasures. In fact, the biggest problem is that they cannot be dug.
The French army expelled most of the people in Belgium and the Rhineland area, and the rest were either rivals or villains. The Allies could let go of their hands and feet. If the road was damaged, it would be better to go through the farmland.
Other areas are uncertain, anyway, in the Flemish plains along the coast, armored forces can pass directly. No matter how hard the French army works, it is impossible to dig a trench of hundreds of kilometers in a short time.
Even if it is dug out, it is useless. With the armored forces, there are also infantry, who can be sent to fill them.
Of course, delaying time can still be done. It's just that this is not what the French army wants. Just delaying time will not win the war.
Especially under the premise that Russia, Spain, and Switzerland are likely to send troops to war at any time, the French dare not delay time.
”Is there any other way? These measures alone are not enough to turn things around.”
McMahon asked frowning. Now he only has victory in his eyes. As long as he can win this battle, everything else is easy to say.
The middle-aged officer added: ”The enemy's armored units are divided into two categories, one is slow and high-defense special pimple; the other is fast, but thin, like a layer of armor on the outside of a car. .
The former can only be destroyed by an artillery with a caliber of 120mm or more; the latter can be destroyed by only a 60mm light gun. ”
The speed of the tank is slow, and the movement speed of the heavy artillery is also slow. No one is much better than anyone. The hit rate is naturally not expected.
Armored vehicles seem to be easy to destroy, but they move fast and are very difficult to aim. Aiming is difficult, and the hit rate is of course touching.
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A series of opinions are similar, but no satisfactory answer was obtained. The elderly McMahon waved his hand and said: ”Try your own method first and see the effect.”
If it were not for political pressure, McMahon really wanted to withdraw his troops back to the country in one go and fight a homeland defense battle.
However, this can only be thought of. If you really do this, the Chinese people's spit stars can kill him.