The issue that the German Army is most concerned about now is whether the armored warfare theory proposed by Xu Jie can solve the problem of the French direction facing Germany's Western Front. This is an underground defense line composed of countless trenches and fortresses built over several years, and is equipped with

Europe's most elite army corps possesses a large number of fortress artillery, field artillery, machine guns and other terrifying weapons. This direction firmly blocks the path of the German regiment, and now, Schlieffen needs to theoretically judge this line of defense.

Which is stronger or the armored corps' attack is sharper?

Xu Jie has already given the answer to this question, that is, in the First World War environment, even armored troops cannot break through the already formed trench system and reinforced concrete fortifications! Especially when facing a relatively narrow front, and

The opponent's defense line is composed of a complete fortification system without any loopholes, for example, just like the defense system currently being built by the French.

In Xu Jie's dimension, there are many junior military fans and German fans who are obsessed with the invincibility and efficiency of Germany's early blitzkrieg. The German Armored Corps defeated Poland in just a few weeks, and then marched westward in just a few months.

Let the former enemy, the French mainland, known as the number one in Europe,

The army was wiped out. The armored blades passing through Belgium cut through the hastily deployed defense lines of the French and British, and then pointed directly at Paris. The Maginot Line, which was built at a huge cost, did not play any role. From then on, it was "unbreakable"

"The defense line has become the laughing stock of history.

Those junior military fans have since become obsessed with the invincibility of armored forces, and have since believed that as long as there are armored forces, any defense line and fortress can be breached. This view is extremely wrong! From the perspective of the French Campaign, let’s not talk about the entry point of the German attack.

It is an undefended section of the Maginot Line. Judging from its attack methods, a large number of heavy artillery and the support of the Luftwaffe are indispensable. Without the elite Luftwaffe to guarantee air supremacy, there is no J

U87, ju88, these excellent ground attack aircraft and heavy artillery groups are responsible for clearing nails on the way forward and implementing battlefield cover. What can the No. 4 tank equipped with a short-barreled 75mm gun and the No. 3 tank equipped with a 50mm long-barreled gun do?

?What is a real fortress attack and defense battle? The Sevastopol Fortress attack and defense battle on the Soviet-German battlefield will tell you how to break through a fortress that is well-defended and cannot be bypassed!

Strategically speaking, if the opponent's fortresses are scattered on the front, then the armored troops can quickly penetrate into the opponent's rear and eliminate the opponent's effective forces. When the opponent's fortress loses rear support,

Finally, the fortress defenders who have run out of ammunition and food will be eaten sooner or later. But if you cannot cross the opponent's fortress and must capture it by force, what should you do? German Marshal Manstein will tell you how.

"Use a large number of heavy artillery and bombers with an absolute advantage to slowly blow up, there is no other way!" This is Xu Jie's evaluation of this battle after watching the attack and defense of Sevastopol. In this history

In the largest fortress offensive and defensive battle in the world. In this stunning battle known for its use of a large number of heavy artillery, let us see how much heavy firepower the Germans invested in winning victory.

The Dora cannon, known as the king of artillery, is naturally indispensable. This gun has a diameter of 800mm and a weight of more than 1,400 tons. The war machine operated by a regiment of soldiers can drive a 7.1-ton concrete armor-piercing projectile 37km or a 4.8-ton armor-piercing projectile.

The high-explosive bomb traveled 47km. And this terrifying weapon certainly lived up to expectations.

One shot penetrated the 30-meter soil layer and concrete dome, setting fire to the ammunition depot of the Sevastopol Fortress, greatly shortening the course of the battle. Then there were two heavy mortars named "Karl Machinery"!

These two guns weigh 124 tons and have a caliber of 600mm. They can shoot a 2.4-ton concrete armor-piercing projectile 4,000 meters!

In addition to these three big guys, the Germans also have the following super-heavy artillery. 9 283mm long-range train guns, 2 420mm heavy guns, two 355mm heavy guns and 4 305mm long-range guns. Although many of these artillery

Artillery from the First World War. However, their ultra-long range and huge power did not prevent them from continuing to serve the German Army.

Are these big guys all the German artillery in the Sevastopol Fortress? The answer is no. The Germans also have as many as 268 105mm howitzers and 80 150mm howitzers. These are only the German army. Romania

Indicates that he still has 2

0 100mm guns and 30 150mm guns plus 2 122mm guns and 2 152mm guns participated in this battle! As for how many small and medium-caliber combat artillery and mortars the Germans used? Sorry, there is really no way to count this.

, at least Xu Jie doesn’t know.

And how much ammunition was consumed in this battle? We can look at the following set of data. In this fortress offensive and defensive battle, the Germans consumed a total of 46,480 tons of ammunition, including 410,000 rounds of 105mm artillery shells, and 100,000

fire 150mm artillery shells and 32,000 rocket rounds! Even if there are

With such powerful firepower, the Germans still paid a huge price of 4,264 deaths, 21,626 injuries and more than 1,500 missing. The total number of losses reached more than 27,000, not counting the 8,454 losses of the Romanian Allies.

, in order to capture this fortress, the Axis powers lost a total of 35,866 people!

Just seeing this, we can already appreciate the price of attacking a well-defended fortress. This is not over yet. Let us look at the efforts of the Luftwaffe! The Luftwaffe said that it also

Damn it! Without the help of the Air Force, do you think those bumpkins from the Army can conquer this fortress in a short time? Look at the defensive strength of the Russian defense line.

The mobile artillery owned by the Russians consists of 34 152 howitzers and 40 122 howitzers. What is truly terrifying are the fortress guns, which include 4 twin 305mm turrets (artillery removed from battleships), 10 152mm artillery and

17 130mm guns, 3 120mm guns, 8 100mm guns

, 1 180mm artillery. These fortress guns are very difficult to destroy in reinforced bunkers. Without the intervention of the air force, the German artillery was frightened by the ultra-long range of the 12-inch twin turrets and could only use Dora cannons and a few heavy artillery.

Knock out the fortress cannon first, and then you can give full play to your own firepower advantage. But with the air force, the speed of the attack is greatly increased.

It has to be said that the German Air Force was fully prepared for this battle and was very dedicated. The German Air Force dispatched an entire aviation force to support the battle, including 3 squadrons of 100 bf109s responsible for air control, and 5 squadrons of

168 ju88 and he111 bombers provide targeted killing! 3 of them

The fleet's 73 JU87s and BF110s are responsible for frontline support and sweeping the ground, 45 He111 torpedo bombers are responsible for attacking the fleet, plus 24 other aircraft for soy sauce. (Uh, okay, the author doesn't know what these 24 aircraft are for--!)

There are more than 400 aircraft of various types! The lineup is so powerful that it’s amazing!

In order to deal with the 12-inch heavy guns and reinforced bunkers hidden in the turrets, the German Air Force also specially obtained special reinforced concrete armor-piercing bombs weighing 1,700kg and 1,400kg, which ju88 was responsible for throwing. As for the bombs weighing 500 to 800kg, they were even worse! Every day

The bombing intensity of more than 1,000 sorties was enough to crush the entire fortress!

In this battle that shocked the world, tanks and assault guns played very little roles. Facing the solid fortress and sharp fortress guns, the small and medium-caliber artillery on tanks and assault guns were simply toys! There were not enough heavy artillery.

If you and the air force use explosives to kill your opponent, and you cannot bypass the fortress and cut off the opponent's supplies, then the fortress and trench system will be the myth of invincibility!

Let's take a look at the level of the two warring parties in World War 1. As for tanks, the maximum number of tanks equipped with a 75mm short-barreled gun is already the limit. This thing can do civil fortifications, but it is still useless against the reinforced concrete fortifications defended by the 75mm fast gun.

Go to sleep! The armor-piercing projectiles fired by the 75mm cannon can easily tear apart the protection of the tanks at that time! As for heavy artillery, the German

Compared with the United Kingdom and France, the United States is only half the best. Neither side can concentrate its overwhelming advantages to completely tear the other's position into pieces. It is possible to concentrate the advantages to tear apart a line of defense, but the subsequent defense lines will give the other side time to reorganize their armaments.

A long line of defense will eventually exhaust the energy of the attacking troops! Whoever attacks will be unlucky has become an iron rule in the late stages of a battle!

As for the air force, well, it was good if the aircraft could drop 100kg bombs at that time. Coupled with the tragic range and bomb load, the role of the air force in World War I was really limited. And compared to Britain and France, although Germany's Junkers aircraft

Yes, but it is not invincible, and there is no big gap in numbers. Therefore, in the case of World War 1, the trenches built over a long period of time plus various artillery and automatic weapons are absolutely invincible. Of course there is one

The premise is that the opposing commander is not stupid!

In addition, there is another very important factor, that is, the logistics support during World War I is far from compared with that during World War II. Although railway transportation can conveniently send troops to the front line, the railway can only be responsible for transportation along the line. How?

Transporting the supplies unloaded from the train to the front line was another serious problem! Cars were very rare at that time, and most of them could only

Large trucks are used for transportation, and the number of large trucks for a German army was 1,168 in 1914, and this number continued to increase in the following days. Even so, it still could not meet the consumption of the German army. It can be said that

, even if the firepower of the German Army is enough to tear apart the opponent's defense line, the isolation of logistics will still make the Germans ultimately defeated!
Chapter completed!