Chapter 829： Canned food during World War 1

This cannot be blamed on the United States.

For a country like the United States, the threat on the mainland is very small. Therefore, the United States mainly develops the Navy and Army Air Force. They do not pay much attention to the original ground weapons.

As a result, the Germans galloped horizontally and horizontally in Europe, which surprised the Americans. France, known as the "Europe's First Army Power", quickly lost under the impact of the German armored cluster. This has been listed as the thesis topic of various military experts.

Tanks are already the most terrifying existence of this era, and the US Army lacks modern anti-tank guns. This has created a strong sense of crisis. The U.S. Department of Ordnance has begun to develop new anti-tank guns.

It is too late to develop from scratch. Therefore, the Americans and the Germans have the same thinking. They use the T9 76.2 mm anti-aircraft gun as the basis to develop a new type of anti-tank gun. After all, the anti-tank gun and the anti-tank gun have the same characteristics. Chamber pressure, high initial velocity, straight ballistic.

They hurriedly brought in the anti-aircraft artillery, but they lacked a suitable gun mount, and it was too late to develop a new gun mount.

It just so happened that the M2 105mm howitzer was just installed. Therefore, the hungry ordnance department could only temporarily hold the Buddha's feet, and installed the T9 76.2 mm anti-aircraft gun on the M2 gun mount, forming this unique M5 anti-tank gun.

It is installed with a howitzer mount, which is the source of cheating!

Anti-tank guns usually pursue low profile contours to facilitate concealment, while howitzers do not have such requirements. Therefore, it seems that the tall and mighty M5 anti-tank gun would be a living target for enemy tanks!

The U.S. Army is very disgusted with this kind of thing. Needless to say, it is not easy to get this artillery to the front line!

However, the Ordnance Department disagrees. The German 88mm anti-aircraft artillery can level the tanks. Why not use our own 76.2mm antiaircraft artillery?

This project was finally submitted to Lieutenant General Leslie James McNair of the Ground Force Command.

This general pays more attention to anti-tank operations, but his military thinking is conservative and rigid. He was born in artillery, so he loves towed artillery and believes that the cost of tank destroyers is too high.

Therefore, when he saw the M5 76.2mm anti-tank gun, he almost immediately issued the order to put it into production!

After the first batch was produced, it was not concealed and pulled to the Middle East battlefield. I wanted to test the effectiveness of this anti-tank gun, especially, can it directly compete with the German tanks?

If it can, then the US Army can breathe a sigh of relief.

And now, after these anti-tank guns hurriedly pushed into position, the British soldiers can at least breathe a sigh of relief, no matter how bad the shape of this gun looks, at least the long barrel of this gun, It gives people a sense of security. Now, don’t be afraid of German tanks anymore?

One after another, anti-tank guns continued to move up to the position to supplement the lack of defense. The hearts of the British soldiers became more and more secure.

Moreover, the arrival of American reinforcements in large numbers means that the offensive and defensive on the battlefield will gradually reverse!

"It's dinner, it's dinner!" After the anti-tank gun was installed, a voice came from behind, and with the sound, they smelled a scent.

"The taste of beef!" Geffrey couldn't help but said very excitedly. Their supply was not very sufficient, especially when more and more soldiers arrived here, the supply became even more tense.

Now, there is beef, which is great!

"American canned food, one box per person!" said the fire-headed army who was in charge of distributing food: "The supplies that the United States has given us have arrived. "

In World War II, when American soldiers complained about eating canned beef every day, British soldiers were envious.

And now, they are equally happy.

Mike took the first step, took two boxes of cans, handed them to Geffrey, and then he saw the production date on it.

In 1914.

"God, this is a can of World War I!"

Mike suddenly became speechless. How did the Americans provide such things?

"Eat, it's good to have canned food." Geffrey opened the can and used a bayonet to pick out a piece of minced beef inside and put it in his mouth. Not bad, it still tastes authentic!

The canned food can be stored for many years after being sealed. You can rest assured that it is a good meal if you put it in the bread.

However, no one knows that for many people, this is their last meal.

Seeing Geffrey taking a big mouthful, Mike also gave up his vigilance and followed his big mouthful.

After just two bites, Geffrey's ears suddenly stood up, and he heard the peculiar howling in the air, which was the sound of a high-speed cannonball piercing the air!

"Damn it, shelling, fast, fast forward to the bunker!"

Following Geffrey's call, countless flying rockets appeared in the distant sky, densely packed like an ancient rain of arrows!

Cyric organ! When seeing this kind of thing, Geffrey was suddenly frightened.

Recruits are afraid of artillery, and veterans are afraid of machine guns. However, no matter whether they are recruits or veterans, they are afraid of rocket launchers. This kind of thing is a covering attack. As long as they fly over, there is no grass in the covered area, and no life can survive!

The surrounding scenes were suddenly chaotic, everyone was looking for suitable bunkers everywhere, and at this moment, those rockets had already flown!

"Boom, boom, boom!" When it came into contact with the ground there was a loud explosion. With the explosion, blocks of land were lifted up.

The trenches were buried, the ammunition box was detonated, and various fortifications collapsed. Accompanied by screams, countless lives disappeared at this time.

The German's first round of artillery coverage was quite violent! In addition to repairing, Rommel is still waiting for the arrival of these ammunition, and now he can finally have a good time!

The first round of artillery coverage lasted for a full 15 minutes. In addition to the rocket launchers, various howitzers also greeted the British positions. The British defensive positions seemed to have been ploughed.

However, in this process, the British artillery did not dare to fight back.

The Germans in the sky, if they open fire, expose the target. After a few minutes, Stuka will scream and drop the death-like bomb.

Finally, the gunfire stopped.

"Quickly, quickly, go back to your position, the Germans are coming up soon!" the commander on the position shouted loudly.