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Chapter VII Beneficiaries of Science and Technology (2)

The train will sound an alarm 20 minutes before launch. At this time, the soldiers responsible for the operation will carry out the loading procedure. Such a giant encountered great difficulties in assembly, transportation and shooting tests. When testing the ballistic performance, the loading machine was not perfect, so it had to use a crane to lift a few tons of shells to the rear of the gun body and use a light tank to push it into the barrel. In order to transport the gun to the test site, three giant transport trains with special structures were specially designed. The bridges along the way could not bear such a large weight, so the train had to bypass a long detour. After reaching the position, two giant liftings were first used to lift the base, and then install the gun mount, barrel and loading mechanism. All the work was commanded by a major general and more than 1,400 people to fight for three weeks before it was completed. The tall and stunning ** was very majestic.

At present, the device for lifting shells has been improved. A movable hoisting platform specially used for lifting shells has been built on the side of the train gun. The only troublesome thing is that when lifting the rear barrel of the train gun, the transverse plate of the light tank specially used for filling shells needs to be lifted in mid-air to help fill the tank and send the extended special shells into the barrel.

The warhead used to shell Paris has been modified. Over the long years of research, hundreds of experts designed a thrust that can be installed at the tail of the warhead. In the previous tests, the warhead often had an accident where it was pushed out by gunpowder, and the tail device was immature and directly broke out of the ballistic and bombarded the ground. Even worse, there was a serious accident in which the gunbore of the train exploded on its own.

In order to solve this problem, German scientists specially held a scholar meeting and concluded that there was a problem with the rocket push-out device. Because the metal structure of the tail rocket could not withstand the heat of gunpowder burning, there was a problem of softening, which caused the tail rocket push-out device to burn in advance. At this time, the tail device had not reached the time to escape from the warhead. The two push-out devices were pushed and fired at the same time, causing the warhead to fail to stabilize the ballistics and fall directly, or explode directly at high altitude.

After solving the problem of the tail combustion system, experts discovered a metal that is highly resistant to combustion. With the support of this metal, new pushing equipment was developed, so that the warhead was pushed out of the barrel by gunpowder and then with inertia, the air pressure pushing device at the tail began to function after about 3 minutes. At this time, the warhead would continue to fly at a slow speed at a ballistic trajectory. Since it was a ballistic shooting, the ballistic trajectory would make a strange howling sound, as if something flew over in advance, similar to the sound of a bullet fired at a high speed.

German scientists have always been so imaginative. When they were studying submachine guns, they once developed a "sound fog" system that confuses the enemy. The 40 is a submachine gun that confuses the enemy's "sound fog". When it is fired, the sound is ethereal and uncertain. It usually has the illusion of "enemy" shooting from a very far place. Therefore, the German army holding 40 usually uses a trick tactic, which is to fire a few shots on the spot and then quickly change positions. The special "sound fog" will make the enemy have the illusion of "the enemy is everywhere".

The maturity of ballistics and the theory of rockets have been recognized, and research funds have been increased, which has directly improved the quality of German military technology. In the current atmosphere, scientists have proposed a warhead that can be propelled by liquid fuel. With the permission of the government, it is also under research.

When Xu Yang learned about this news, he was completely stunned. He is still in Arden Forest. When he learned that Congress passed the huge research cost of rocket propellers, his first thought was: missiles! The second thought was: it's over!

Xu Yang never thought that after the ballistic theory that high school students knew in the future would cause such a strong effect. After the first mature "Ballistic Theory" was published by Xu Yang in 1934, Germany, with a solid military foundation and the German nation with extreme imagination and creativity, are now practicing "ballistics" research. Ballistics has absolutely great influence on world war history. Sometimes Xu Yang even thinks of the scene where ballistics are flying all over the sky as shells.

Before World War I, the theory of ballistics existed, which directly greatly improved the hit rate of the artillery troops. However, this was only a preliminary ballistic study, that is, it was immature and did not touch on rocket research. It was not until 1936 that the first air pressure push-out device was invented that the scientific geeks were attracted by the sight of them. They watched the shoulder-type rocket launchers and hit the target with their own eyes. After rigorous discussion, they proposed a bold theory, that is, the train cannons that had been widely used in World War I would likely reappear again because of the invention of the push-out device.

After that, scientists began to pay attention to the shells of train guns. Previously, the shells were inertially pushed by the pressure of gunpowder, that is, after being fired, they flew directly according to the trajectory of the gun barrel. This is the preliminary ballistic theory that was found in World War I. With the tail pushing device, everything was different. With the mature ballistic theory, scientists invented a tail pushing device that can increase the range of the probe. This pushing device directly affects the ballistic problem of the warhead. That is to say, after the warhead is pushed out of the gunpowder from the barrel bore, it flew out at high altitude until the pushing effect of the gunpowder stops, the tail pushing equipment is started and continues to fly with the warhead until the action of the pushing device is lost. At present, this pushing device is still a preliminary design and cannot accurately hit the target. Its function is only to increase the range.

In addition, with the maturity of the rocket principle, a new weapon is also being studied. The rocket launch principle was studied as early as the 12th century in the ancient Eastern Kingdoms. At that time, it was just a primitive propulsion launch, which means that the hot air flow generated by gunpowder is sprayed backward at a high speed and the reaction force generated is used to move forward.

As early as the late 19th and early 20th centuries, liquid rocket technology began to rise. In 1903, Russia's K.E. Thiorkovsky proposed the idea and design principles for manufacturing large liquid rockets. In 1926, American rocket expert and physicist R. Goddard tested the first uncontrolled liquid rocket.

Now, German experts are thinking about what impact it will have on Germany if the rocket is redeveloped and become a long-range weapon. Of course, all of this is still under study. According to the plan, this is just a new weapon in German research and is not included in the main development direction. When we realized that the rocket has important military potential, the Army began to organize a group of scientists led by von Braun to engage in liquid rocket research. So far, the rocket temporarily named '1' has indeed been manufactured. Unfortunately, it exploded in an experiment with historical facts. Compared with the urgent hope of weapons in "fantasy", Germany currently needs a more complete land weapon and a weapon that can provide long-term survival on the seabed.

Of course, the land's weapons are tanks. After the V-type tank is produced, it has been sent to the Western Front battlefield for actual testing. At present, the performance of the V-type tank cannot be obtained. When the combat report of the V-type tank is sent back to the country, experts will rely on the weaknesses mentioned by the report or in excellent places for further research.

In fact, after the ii tank was designed, German tank experts had a preliminary understanding, that is, how to improve the maneuverability of the tank. In order to improve the maneuverability of the tank, for a long time, German engine experts gathered together to design a powerful heart for the tank and work hard without leaving it.

On the other hand, when the German Air Force was developed, the commander has developed an urgent sense of crisis, which of course comes from the sky. Humans are a very strange creature. After they have powerful weapons, they will definitely fear that others have powerful weapons like themselves, so they will definitely develop weapons to compete with those powerful weapons. When Germany had a completely dominant air force, air defense equipment was also included in the research focus, the reason was that the allies would definitely vigorously develop aviation weapons, and Germany must have a land-to-air weapon.

Of course, more sharp air defense weapons will be developed when needed. Several self-propelled air defense guns were quickly studied and manufactured. This self-propelled air defense gun was equipped with a special chassis, but it was destined to have no defense facilities on the top. 20, 47, 12... and other dual-connected air defense guns were installed in various mobile chassis and sent to the battlefield.

Among each armored army, air defense units with at least two battalions and at most one regiment are usually arranged. This is to prevent air strikes and from being driven away by no one's own aircraft.

This extremely imaginative and creative German nation has been at the forefront of the world's science and technology forest in this era. Someone has always been worried about a fact that Germany has too few resources, but it is too many things to create. If most people cannot recognize the fact that Germany lacks resources, and blindly develop all kinds of strange things, and it is difficult to say whether it will be used, it is really hard to imagine what Germany will become.

For example: Germany has the ability to create a landmark weapon, but that weapon is not suitable for current use, but Germany uses most of its resources to build that thing and abandons the mature technical weapon. Then this behavior can be called "suicide".

This person is Xu Yang. He is a "future man". He knows all the weapons that have advantages will appear in the future. So, why did Xu Yang agree with the development of train cannons and give up on researching more advanced weapons? The reason is that train cannons are things that have been used. As long as you use very little resources to improve the warhead, you can use the horse and it is also very useful.

In today's war history, psychological warfare has not been accepted by many people in Europe. In Europe, it seems that frontal attack is more popular. Just as in the 14th and 16th centuries, artillery has been invented, but no matter which country's army is still using one type: let the infantry be arranged into neat infantry phalanxes, and then advance neatly with the rhythm of the drum beats, lift the gun at the same time under the command of the officers, and shoot at the same time with the enemy troops arranged in the opposite direction, completely ignoring the distance advantage of the artillery and the advantages of large-scale killing. Therefore, we can usually see from the graphic movies of various documents that the neatly arranged infantry were flattened by the cannons and flowed into residue.

Train cannons are definitely a good thing in Xu Yang's eyes. After the warhead is improved, the range becomes longer and can directly hit the heart of another country from a long distance, that is, the capital. Although it cannot cause great losses to the enemy country, it will definitely cause the enemy to have the idea that "it turns out that our capital is within the range of the enemy's artillery", which will cause panic in the hearts of the people of the enemy.

Xu Yang called this "psychological attack" to hit the confidence of the grassroots people in a country that the war can be won. Although this effect cannot be achieved in a short period of time, if a long-term shelling is carried out, it will definitely cause a nation to collapse whether it is psychological or physiological!

Who said that the tactics of the East are useless? At least in the invisible place, in the distant Paris, under the repeated shelling of shelling, the people in the French capital have already become suspicious of whether the country can win.

Xu Yang, who continued to advance in the Arden Forest, was about to meet with Guderian's troops. At present, Guderian's troops had already penetrated the Arden Forest and arrived at the famous French fortress city Seandang. Judging from the speed of the march, Guderian's troops should still be in the process of attack.

Xu Yang looked up at the German Air Force flying towards the direction of Sesame. He guessed that Sesame must have been fighting fiercely, and he couldn't wait to rush to the battlefield.

In fact, the Allied forces had discovered and began to pay attention to the German army in the direction of Ardennes. On the way forward of Xuyang, a Belgian infantry division was marching towards the Ardennes Forest. This Belgian infantry division, which was originally stationed in France, was urgently dispatched to the Ardennes Forest, intending to establish a line of defense in the Ardennes Forest to cut off Guderian's supply line.

Xu Yang suddenly saw four Stukas turn around and fly back, and kept hovering in the 15th Army, as if conveying some information to the 15th Army. Xu Yang roughly saw the driver's sign language from the telescope, which roughly means that an unidentified army appeared at the kilometer, which made the 15th Army beware of it.

The red signal flare blooming in the blue sky and white clouds was so eye-catching that when the signal flare exploded, the group of Stuka bombers continued to fly in the direction of Sedan. They had their own tasks to be carried out.

Xu Yang patted the side of the tank. At this time, he was standing at the body of the type ii tank. After slapping the tank continuously, he finally stopped. Xu Yang jumped out of the tank quickly, and then quickly ran towards the command armored vehicle following behind the tank.

"Order all troops to cancel radio silence." Xu Yang ordered the troops to be ordered to disperse and form an assault formation. If the troops stopped at this time, it would not only affect the speed of the march, but also on the other hand, if they stopped on a narrow road, the troops were still in a long snake formation, which was not conducive to combat. Only by ordering the troops in the front to slow down, let the tanks behind plow the trees and spread the formation, would it be conducive to high-speed breakthrough.

A commanding armored vehicle can accommodate the military staff. These military staff received orders and the horse pushed open the back seat door of the armored vehicle and ran out. They needed to meet the commanders of each division within a certain period of time, and convey the orders issued by Xu Yang to cancel the radio silence.

In a forest area with many trees, it is very difficult for tanks to effectively expand their combat formation. At this time, Xu Yang's order was to quickly unfold, form a battle formation, break through quickly, and rush out of the forest. In the forest, the combat power of the tank cannot be exerted at all. First, the shells fired from the tank gun barrels in the forest area will hit the trunk of the forest; explosions will definitely damage infantrymen who follow the tank flanks and rear wings for defense tasks.

After the radio was silently cancelled, as the commander of the group army, Xu Yang did not need to issue orders to all combat units in person. What he had to do now was to issue the main combat orders to the commanders of each armored division. The specific combat plan would be discussed by each division commander himself with the division commander.

The German Armored Division has always had a complete combat tactic. Xuyang's Guard Division, which is the commander of the "Stark" Division, had already issued combat missions in a short period of time. The "Stark" Division's i-tanks have relatively high maneuverability. This single i-tank regiment, as the leading force of the trapezoidal battle formation, quickly plowed trees and advanced quickly in an interspersed formation. Following behind are ii-type medium tanks, which have a speed of 39k on the road, which is even more unbearable on relatively loose ground.

Xu Yang stood quietly and looked at the military map of the car wall and found a very bad situation. There was a river at the exit of the Arden Forest. Judging from the map, the width of the river could not be judged at all, which means there was an uncertain factor.

"Order the armored troops to move forward quickly and quickly cross the riverbed at all costs, and be sure to occupy the river section before that unknown army!"

"Your Excellency Commander, will the infantry follow you if you do this?" Rickma reminded.

Xu Yang decided: "If the river section is occupied by the enemy, it means that our armored troops will be targets in the forest. I will definitely not allow this to happen! Give an order!"
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