Chapter 1528: The American Choice
Quarrels, abuse, and finding their respective responsibilities have become the current focus. The UK has always been careful. Compared with the United States, the UK is more likely to leak. After all, the reconnaissance planes and airships sent by Germany have also flew over the assembly plant several times. Even if there is some disguise, who can guarantee that they will not be discovered.
Britain lowered its attitude and made huge concessions on some issues, and even took out real money to compensate the United States and France, which eventually made the two countries give up the idea of retreating immediately. In fact, the war has entered this stage. The United States and France also know that this is like a fight between two bulls. The one who fails must be the one who lets go first. Germany itself has a considerable advantage. As long as France and the United States take away their strength slightly, Germany will sweep the entire France with an overwhelming advantage, and the situation on the European continent will be irreversible.
After several days of mediation, a consensus was reached at the cost of Britain paying a huge price. At least this year, the United States will not draw large-scale transfers, but there is no supplement. It will even draw some backbone personnel, non-commissioned officers, elite soldiers and officers to return to the United States to organize troops. It is difficult for Alaska to pass, and if it does not pass, it does not mean that next, when the US navy recovers, the Battle of Alaska and even the Battle of the Pacific will be inevitable, and they must prepare.
At this moment, of course, how did the UK come about? As long as there are no large-scale mistakes in the current situation or front line, it is acceptable to the UK. After signing a large number of agreements, the UK finally had the time to clean up its mess. The results of the domestic inspection have come out, but there are not many clues. The carpet-style inspection has found some German spies, but none of them point to tanks. As for Germany, there are not many clues, so the UK can't figure out which link is wrong.
What was even more hit was the General Staff. The United States and the British military made a three-month plan to prepare for the attack. Because the tanks showed strong attack performance, especially during the British exercise, 300 tanks were enough to destroy the two or three divisions' garrisons. Therefore, the United Kingdom and the United States drew a large number of soldiers and staff members and made a lot of plans, such as what will happen after breaking through Germany's first line of defense. For example, what will they do if Germany retreats, whether they will pursue or encircle the tanks, whether they are capable of long-distance travel, how to avoid them, and so on.
Perhaps it was too excited, perhaps it was because the tanks really showed strength but did not show weakness. The Allies invested huge financial and material resources, built tens of thousands of tanks, and made huge plans. In their opinion, if everything went well, the war would end in 1916, but the plan could not keep up with the form. It was just that the plan itself had hundreds of pages of magnificent work. The plan of these hundreds of pages came to an abrupt end at the initial place, which was like a blow to the head. In the strongest place, it was beaten to a halt. This was the worst, because the whole plan was in vain and there was no way to proceed.
The strongest part of the entire plan is that such an epoch-making weapon is such an epoch-making weapon. The tank is completely restrained by the opponent. The 20,000 tanks are completely killed. What's the use of more? An attempt to armor will be smashed to pieces at the first time, which may have a bad impact on the armor power of the entire world.
Britain and the United States may not give up, because there are still 30,000 sets of tanks. How to use them cannot be used as scrap iron and then refined. This is a naked waste. As for Germany, especially Germany, they personally experienced the participation of tanks in the war, and the enemy tanks that were destroyed by anti-tank bazooka. It was the powerful power of this bazooka that made Germany think that the tank was useless and eventually gave up its armored power.
In Germany's view, tanks basically have no effect on the premise of concentrating a large number of rocket launchers, unless the number of tanks reaches a certain level. However, such a high-priced thing will risk 80% or even 90% of the possibility of losing a defense every time it is invested in battle. Even if the results are achieved, it cannot be supported. A tank costs 43,000 US dollars, and 50,000 vehicles is more than 2 billion US dollars. Isn't that an idiot to lose more than 1.5 billion to capture a line of defense?
As the user of the anti-tank bazooka, Germany also analyzed the weaknesses of the anti-tank bazooka. On the one hand, it is weak in range, and on the other hand, it is not very powerful. If a tank has a thick enough armor and a warship with huge armor, the anti-tank bazooka will no longer have the effect, because it cannot damage the tank without breaking the defense.
However, this plan that seems to be somewhat possible is also impossible, and the reason is even simpler. The weight problem is that on land, the weight of the tank is limited, and it is impossible to grow by hundreds of tons or thousands of tons. In this way, the requirements for power will be terrible. On the premise that the weight of dozens of tons, even if all of them are armored, the armor can reach a certain level, so what can it be? It cannot block the bazooka? According to German estimates, with the current power of the bazooka, if you want to completely protect the bazooka, you must reach the heavy patrol level 300 mm armor. This is a 30 cm homogeneous armor. Converting to weight is an unimaginable number.
Even in the future, the power of armored steel will be improved, and tanks can increase armor strength. If the anti-tank rocket launcher continues to be improved, the upgrade speed will be much better than this. After all, under the premise of purchasing such a large number of rocket launchers, Germany has obtained some technologies and production methods of anti-tank rocket launchers, and has also invested in personnel research. If the initial speed and charge volume are increased, the weight of the anti-tank rocket launcher may increase, making it impossible for a person to launch alone, but the armor-breaking performance and power can be improved by two or three levels.
The conclusion made by Germany cannot be said to be incorrect. This is a correct method. Even in later generations, the protection of tanks is not large, and it can be equivalent to mean armor of 500 mm. It is already very good. Continuous development of anti-tank rocket launchers can easily surpass this point. However, in later generations, we will find a different approach, multi-layer combination armor, and use more precise methods to absorb kinetic energy to increase the protection force. In addition, reaction armor can form a very strong reaction force in a specific area. This force may not directly increase the degree of protection, but it is also equivalent to a layer of protection. However, unlike armor, it can be used endlessly. He can only use it once. If he attacks again, he must rely on himself.
The most important thing is not protection, but speed. The problem with the bazooka is that it cannot be too far. Within 1,000 meters, aiming will be a problem. However, when the speed of the tank exceeds 50 kilometers, or even reaches the limit of 70 or 80 kilometers, the power of the bazooka can be ignored. Under the premise of full avoidance and dodging, the possibility of the bazooka hitting is very small.
It is precisely because of this that in the next hundred years, tanks will continue to develop, from high to low, and eventually form a complete system. Germany does not know about this. Anti-tank bazooka, something far beyond the world, was created by Yang Yuanzhao, and in this era, I really don’t know what it would be like.
The United Kingdom suffered a huge blow, and the United States also changed its methods and began to form local troops. This time the scale was larger than the scale of the previous solicitation, and faced an attack that might be subject to the local area. Although, for the United States, Canada, a huge land area, is relatively a bit deeper than giving the United States a huge depth, in order to ensure that the other party does not directly attack the United States, they will give Canada the necessary support and raise at least 3 million troops.
The Canadian army crossed the border and fought with Canada together, striving to control the battle outside the border of the United States to prevent losses from the United States. At the same time, it also changed its previous combat methods and continued to increase investment in warships. It will start construction of 42 main battleships in 1916. In the future, it will not take a backward approach to the Pacific Ocean. It will press forward step by step, or even defend the enemy from the people, to prevent the Chinese from entering the United States.
To be honest, giving up Hawaii before was acceptable in the eyes of the US military. Now it seems that it is simply giving up the defense circle and there is a specific situation. However, if Hawaii had not given up so decisively, they would not have suffered challenges in North America. As long as the United States has enough love for the Pacific region, even if it gives China great courage, China will not dare to attack Alaska. Even if Hawaii has a small fleet, it will be enough to cut off their logistics line, which will at least cause great trouble.
In fact, this is not the case. Even if the United States has enough naval forces on the Pacific coast, and even needs to adjust its naval forces to protect it, China will not stop attacking Alaska. On the one hand, Alaska is too close to Japan, and from Sakhalin Island, it is closer. With a flight of less than 3,000 kilometers, if it is included in the Aleutian Islands, it is closer. Even if it is an ordinary merchant ship without escort, it is possible to land and other risks, let alone warship protection. Even if it is blocked by the United States, at most it will be killed or injured. For the Chinese, the Japanese are not that important. If it is really killed or injured, it can be accepted. At most, weaken the United States less, so that China and the United States will only pay more hands and feet in the future battle between China and the United States. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!