Chapter 556

What really brought trouble to the German soldiers was the Soviet Union's large-scale artillery with various calibres. Stalin liked artillery very much, just as akado preferred tanks. He personally asked and ordered the production of no less than 20 kinds of cannons, including an amazing super train gun.

Soviet spies stole a valuable piece of information from a factory safe in Czechoslovakia in 1935. This information shows that Germany is going to produce a huge gun carrying train at a factory in Czechoslovakia. The huge train carriage is about the size of a pair of shoes under the body of the giant gun to be built.

Then the Soviet Union used all the strength they could find and began to search for all the drawings of the German secret weapon. Finally, they paid off a technical engineer in Krupp factory and got all the parameters and details of the gun - excellent - excellent - small - say - Update - the fastest. Even bought a drawing, a complete "super cannon drawing".

Stalin never moved his eyes after reading the drawing. He pointed to the drawing and sighed to his secretary: "this is the real God of war!", So the great leader of the Soviet Union, comrade Stalin, ordered the production of the Soviet Union's own super weapon. A super train gun named "big pipe" was secretly developed and produced in the Soviet Union. Naming this super cannon after his favorite pipe also reflects Stalin's love for this giant cannon.

The caliber of the German train gun has reached an astonishing 800 mm, and the shell is about the size of a car. A shell is more than a ton, and can fly tens of kilometers away, blowing up a reinforced concrete defensive fortress the size of a football field into ruins.

However, what depressed Stalin was that the Soviet factories could not complete the production of this kind of Artillery: no matter the level of steel-making or precision processing, several Soviet factories formed with the assistance of Germany did not have enough strength to complete the production of this super artillery.

You know, not everyone has the ability to produce super large caliber guns. The Soviet Union did not produce many large caliber guns before, and the technology was very immature, so the whole project finally fell into a very embarrassing suspension stage. With the outbreak of the Soviet German war, this project was recalled by Stalin. He asked the factory in charge to produce the Soviet's own super weapons in front of the German.

Don't tell him no! The Soviets must surpass their opponents! This is what Stalin tried to prove, and what he worked for. He needs a victory and a transcendence to add a perfect note to his greatness. Driven by this idea, this vigorous artillery building movement began.

It can't be said that this campaign is wrong, because in this huge plan, there are many kinds of artillery that have proved to be very good. For example, the 122 mm caliber gun that dazzled the Japanese shanpao in nomonkan; There are air defense weapons, 85 mm caliber anti-aircraft guns; There are also various kinds of small caliber mortars that are now regarded as artifact by the Soviet Red Army. Of course, we can't simply say that the gun making campaign is right, because there is a super gun in it, which is caused by wishful thinking.

When the layman excessively intervened in the professional field, there would be many strange jokes. It was not how stupid the parties were, but just political shows born under absolute power. Someone once said to Hitler that train guns could be used to fight tanks, but was finally scolded by the then armored commander goodrian. Just imagine that Hitler, who once personally supported the development of German armored forces, believed that a gun with a caliber close to 300 mm could hit a tank. It is not that Hitler became stupid, but that the person who sold him tanks or guns was not to his liking.

So when the Ukrainians peacefully handed over Kiev to the Germans, the German engineers saw a huge Soviet super gun. The gun has a caliber of 810mm (Stalin insisted that the caliber of the Soviet gun is larger than that of the German super gun...). It needs 45 carriages to transport parts and bear the recoil weight. The gun can not pass any known bridges being used or built by the Soviet Union. Of course, only the railway tracks laid by Germany can barely make the 45 trains run.

There is a whole regiment taking care of the cannon, including an air defense battalion and a guard battalion, and an Engineering Battalion responsible for loading and unloading the super cannon. Of course, it was originally expected that it would take three months for the artillery to be transported from Kiev to the Soviet German front, and then it would be installed for another month. If the battle is not finished by this time, it will have completed the shooting preparation.

It's ridiculous that this huge guy didn't have any shells. The Soviet Union's shell factory didn't have such a huge production workshop. Finally, this cannon had a strictly confidential internal operation manual of Kiev factory, which reminded the troops that this huge cannon can only open about five guns at most. No matter how many, it may cause the danger of explosion or collapse. Can you imagine that a super weapon, which costs a lot of money to build, can only shoot five shots, which is such a poor data?

This thing, which cost countless Soviets, is now waiting to be dealt with by the German army in Kiev. Many generals feel that they can use this thing to attack the Soviet stronghold of Sevastopol, but obviously it is not an easy thing to get this thing there. Whether this bad debt is worthwhile or not, we need to analyze and infer it.

In the original time and space, Sevastopol fortress became a solid fortress group through the efforts of several generations of tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union. There were heavily armored fort, dense blockhouses and underground fortifications everywhere, and the German made great efforts to capture it. However, at this moment, the fortress group in Sevastopol area is not so large at all, which is due to Germany's 10-year fatigue policy towards the Soviet Union. Most of the steel plates and armor originally used to build the fortress were used to lay the Soviet railway, which had become the bag of Germany. The heavy armor used in those fortresses has now been installed on the battleships of the Soviet Union, so the whole Sevastopol area is still the fortification system in the era of Czarist Russia, and it is not worth developing the 800 mm cannon "Gustav" for this place. At the instigation of akkado, the whole German artillery construction plan is a hoax. Germany itself has never produced a cannon with a caliber of more than 300 mm. Several large caliber train guns are masterpieces of the captured French * * team. Of course, Germany's abandonment of train guns has the advantage of large caliber guns, which is a huge increase in the number of German 150 mm caliber guns, 105 mm caliber guns and 75 mm caliber field guns. Although the German army lost a lot in the unit caliber, the German army still maintained a strong firepower density in the number of artillery. In the later period, the 140mm caliber artillery of Britain, the artillery of France and Belgium were added. The number of medium caliber artillery of Germany could compete with that of the Soviet Union, and even had a certain advantage in small caliber field artillery. At the cost of sacrificing part of the artillery superiority, the German armored forces were larger in quantity and better in quality than the Nazi armored forces in another time and space. At the present stage, German armored forces are based on the advanced leopard tanks, with more and more Tiger tanks as the core. Their performance is completely superior to the Nazi's No. 3 tank and No. 4 tank. At the same time, at this moment, Germany has produced 8900 leopard tanks. Taking into account the loss and the number of maintenance, the German front line has more than 6000 leopard tanks. The number of such tanks alone has exceeded the total number of Nazi armored tanks in the same period. If we take into account the more than 400 No. 3 tanks and 1700 Tiger tanks still in use, the total number of tanks in front-line operations of the German armored forces is about 8000. The statistics are only tanks, not other armored combat vehicles. All kinds of tanks of such a large scale were scattered in China, North Africa, the United Kingdom, the Soviet German front and other areas. Together with the No. 3 assault gun, No. 2 modified self-propelled anti tank gun and leopard tank destroyer, they formed 29 Armored Divisions and 51 infantry self-propelled artillery battalions in the 13 armored forces of the third empire. This data also shows that the number of German armored forces is still seriously insufficient. The German armored division should have about 360 tanks at full capacity, but the actual situation is that the 29 Armored Divisions now have only 275 tanks on average. According to the establishment, the infantry armored battalion should be equipped with 45 self-propelled guns or assault guns, most of which only have about 30 No. 3 assault guns and other messy weapons. For example, the leopard tank originally planned to aid Romania was eventually replaced by the French B1 improved version. These tanks were the spoils of the French captured by Germany and were originally used for training tank groups in the German French border area. The captured French fighter planes were also sent to Finland and Turkey as aid materials, and the Vichy government of France now relies on the production of shells and the 105 mm caliber howitzer of Germany to repay the war debt to Germany, which is also part of the German French economic cooperation. This is a cruel war, using everything you can find on the battlefield to deprive others of their lives. Although some weapons have been proved to be backward or unsuitable, they will continue to be used as long as there are no substitutes, or there are not enough substitutes, until they are damaged or repaired