stonecrandall Chapter 477
Chapter 477
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: 0.044s Scan: 0.028sAfter entering the second half of 1927, the situation in Europe became extremely tense!
Although the German army has never increased its troops in the border area, the worries of the Gauls and the British are getting worse day by day.
After Hans and the Eagle Sauce formed an alliance, both countries smelled the smell of war.
Therefore, both countries increased their attention to Hans and kept a close eye on every move in Hans.
This time, Hans’s long-distance raid of cavalry and armored forces was originally a matter of particular concern to them, because such a long-distance raid, once achieved good results in the exercise, would most likely be used in actual combat!
A distance of 500 miles, Hans can go straight to the Gaul capital of Iron Tower City!
Therefore, this exercise made the Gauls extremely nervous and concerned. They did not have a strait to protect them like the British, and the German tanks could not cross the sea. They and the Germans were land neighbors. As long as the Germans could break through their defenses, their capital would be within the threat range of the Germans!
Therefore, after learning about the exercise, the Gauls immediately thought that this was an exercise held by Hans against them, with themselves as the imaginary enemy.
They were frightened by their own speculation, and hurriedly sent troops to the front line to raise the war preparedness of the entire Maginot Line and be ready for war at any time.
On the other hand, they kept watching Hans’ every move 24 hours a day, intending to see the results of Hans’s exercise this time!
The result was very good for Gaul!
The German armored forces exposed many problems in this exercise. In just a short distance of 500 kilometers, Hans had at least more than 200 tanks broken down, and at least half of the troops of an armored division lost their combat capability!
This result almost made the Gauls laugh!
That’s it?
Can such a force be called elite?
At this level, dare to attack their impregnable Maginot Line?
So, after seeing this result, the Gauls were completely relieved, and their original vigilance disappeared without a trace.
They felt that the armored forces that the Hans had spent so much money to create were almost no match for the ancient cavalry.
This showed that the so-called armored forces were just embroidered pillows.
They looked very powerful, but in fact they were vulnerable and not worth worrying about!
It was not only the Gauls who had such thoughts.
Even the Sun Never Sets and the Bears began to doubt after seeing this result:
Can armored forces really replace the mobile and flexible cavalry?
Is it really right for me to follow Hans to engage in armor and mechanization?
Thinking of this, the Sun Never Sets people paid much less attention to tanks, canceled the development of several types of tanks, and only retained light tanks such as the Crusaders!
On the Bear side, after hearing Hans’s result, Starlin did not doubt the value of tanks.
He felt that in the terrain of the Bear, they had to choose either cavalry or armored forces. They could not be like the heavy infantry of European countries, especially the Gauls and the Sun Never Sets people!
Those countries have small land areas and convenient transportation, so even infantry can be quickly deployed to various places with the help of a well-developed transportation network.
The bear is too big, and their railway coverage area is too small to cover the entire country. Therefore, if their troops want to mobilize and deploy quickly, they must have extremely strong mobility!
So they actually have no choice!
However, this exercise also made Starlin confirm one thing: tanks are not suitable for fighting in mountainous areas!
The Hans forced tanks to enter mountainous areas to fight, which is a very stupid decision in itself. Since tanks, like cavalry, are troops that replace cavalry, they naturally meet the characteristics of cavalry!
As we all know, cavalry can only have the strongest combat effectiveness in plains or open areas. In other areas, the combat capability of cavalry will be greatly reduced! The Hans don’t know this truth. Since the Prussian era, their cavalry has not been very strong. Prussia is strong in their infantry, so they lack experience in using cavalry. It would be strange if there were no problems if they used cavalry in the way they used infantry!
“Adjust the deployment of tank units, transfer our tank units from the Caucasus region, deploy them to the Western Front, and replace them with mountain infantry in the Caucasus region, which is more suitable for mountain infantry combat!”
Starling did not give up tanks for this reason, but adjusted his military deployment, placing tanks and infantry in places that are more suitable for them to fight and perform.
This adjustment was originally no problem. His judgment of future wars was very accurate. If the Russian Bear is invaded by foreign enemies in the future, or if it wants to invade other countries, it will definitely start in the west. It is impossible to fight with the foot basin people in a rotten land like Siberia.
Therefore, sending the most elite troops of the entire army to the Western Front to prepare is to prepare for war in advance, so as not to be caught off guard after the war starts.
According to the experience of World War I, even if the party that initiated the war launched an attack, it is impossible to start from the beginning. Immediately advance dozens or hundreds of kilometers, so these troops deployed on the front line, as long as they are slightly away from the border line, about 200 kilometers away, they can not only ensure their own safety. They can also be transferred to the front line immediately after the war starts and put into the counterattack.
At that time, the sooner they prepare and launch a counterattack, the greater the results they will get.
However, Starling obviously didn’t know that modern warfare is no longer the war situation of World War I. In the future of air-ground integration, the sign of the outbreak of war is not the first shot fired by the troops on the ground, but the moment when the bomber cluster in the air drops the bomb!
The range of 200 miles is within the combat radius of German fighters and bombers. The Soviet troops deployed in this area are not as safe as he thought!
Of course, Starling made this mistake in the original history, and that was when he clearly knew that Hans had bombers that could threaten him!
After adjusting the military deployment of the bear and hearing the good news that Hans’s ace troops were defeated, Starling’s mood suddenly became much better!
Sure enough, seeing others in trouble can make you feel a lot happier!
It feels so good to gloat over others’ misfortunes!
“The Hans are much weaker than we thought. In this case, we can’t continue to make the relationship with them awkward. If our relationship with him doesn’t ease, Hans will not dare to take action against Western Europe, and the situation will remain deadlocked.”
Starling said to Motolov and a group of confidants.
Hearing his words, Motolov was shocked. Did Starling make a decision?
Sure enough, Starling continued to say:”It is not good for us to continue the stalemate. If Hans and Eagle Sauce form an alliance, the two countries will inevitably erode the world hegemony step by step. By then, it is very likely that the war will not even start, and the two countries will smoothly take over the dominance of the world order. Once this happens, we will be completely locked in Eastern Europe and will never be able to make a breakthrough!”