C2675 Walters defeat (1/2)
Of course, McMahon did not doubt his subordinates who had been under him for many years. He knew that his subordinates would not dare to lie about this sort of thing.
Before aviation weapons were invented, cannons would always be the god of war. The most important thing for a country's military prowess was to see how many cannons they had.
This was a good tradition laid down by Napoleon. Back then, when he swept continental Europe, he relied on his Three Axes.
The cannons rumbled, the infantrymen fired, and the cavalrymen raided! Just these three axes, because of his mysterious use of the results of all the countries of Europe have suffered.
But Napoleon III obviously didn't have his uncle's Inherent Skill. Before the Franco-Prussian war, this guy had completely pointed out the wrong technology tree!
He should have invested everything he had into the weapon, but he had ignored this point and invested a lot of money into upgrading his rifle and heavy machine gun.
Of course, it could also be that among the Poo War, he had been provoked by Prussia's Potion Rifle, so he had been bitterly looking for a weapon that could break the Prussian army's strategy.
Never would he have thought that Bismark was so much more cunning than him. After the Poo War finished, he immediately stopped upgrading the equipment on his rifles and heavy machine guns, and forcefully stopped this technology tree.
Instead, he invested all of his limited funds into cannon research and development, allowing the Krupp to develop a new type of field steel gun.
This kind of cannon's firing speed was fast. After all, it was loaded from the back and its firing speed was four to five times faster than that of the artillery!
The other point was the pure steel gun s, their structure was stronger, and their range was more accurate!
There were clearly only sixty Krupp steel gun, but they actually produced two hundred in actual combat. The commander of the French army did not know the ins and outs of the situation, and really thought that the Prussian army was equipped with two hundred cannons.
In the end, McMahon had once again wrongly estimated the enemy's strength!
”As expected, the main battlefield is on my side!” Your Majesty has miscalculated, your Majesty has miscalculated, he has been deceived! ”
”Xiao Letian played a fool with Steinmetz. They lured His Majesty into investing heavily in the western front. In fact, their main target is me!”
”Damnit …” ”Dammit, what should I do …”
Just as McMahon was in a dilemma, he suddenly heard the sound of cannons coming from afar. Prince Karl's vanguard unit finally appeared outside of the city and the two armies immediately fell into a battle.
Walking out of the HQ, McMahon climbed up to the tall wooden tower and looked at the battlefield through his binoculars.
”Sure enough, they didn't lie to me. The enemy's cannons are indeed overequipped!”
In his line of sight, his front line of defense had already been covered by smoke. Explosions exploded one after another, and the defensive position was in chaos.
The French artillery was also fighting back, but it was unexpected that the enemy's artillery range was really far enough. As long as the French artillery position exposed the target, they would normally be suppressed by the enemy's concentrated fire after five minutes.
These veterans of wars were not pushovers. They crawled forward to fully utilize the advantage of the Shasped-type Rifle, and counterattacked the Prussian army in the wilderness.
The French lying on the ground reduced their target, and they used the mecha shovels to create a number of horizontal shooting bunkers, on which the rifles began to strike back.
When both sides started shooting at each other, the Prussian army began to have a large number of casualties.