The decisive battle against the Third Reich

"No, no, Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad said, "Hannah is fine, she is just injured!"

"And you didn't tell me!"

"She told me not to tell you, when you were lying on the hospital bed with a shoulder injury!" Conrad replied.

Qin Chuan couldn't help but fell silent, and after a while he asked: "How is Hannah's injury?"

"Don't worry, Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad said: "She was only scratched by shrapnel. She was lucky not to be there when ME163 was bombed. She was injured during another bombing. The Americans discovered our research base. , although they don’t know what we are studying!”

"Didn't we use the vehicle-mounted launch system?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Of course!" Conrad replied: "We got intelligence about the dispatch of American bombers, then refueled them in the cave, and then drove them out... But they had fighter jets escorting them at low altitude, and ME163 had a long The contrail revealed its position quickly after launching one, and an American fighter jet appeared in the sky above ME163 a few seconds later!”

After a pause, Conrad continued: "The ME163 explosion is not terrible. You know, it will be converted into non-toxic things after it explodes and burns. The problem is that one ME163 successfully escaped back to the tunnel, and this one The fuel of ME163 leaked, and more than a hundred people in the tunnel were not spared. All we could do was to ignite it and blow it up!"

This is the danger of ME163. Using liquid fuel is indeed cheap, but sometimes it is fatal to front-line combatants.

"It's not just a problem!" Conrad continued: "It will take about twenty minutes for us to refuel. If the enemy bombers change their routes during this time...do you know what will happen? All of our The ME163 is useless. The enemy bombers will fly safely past our defense line because we have no time to refuel. What’s worse is that the ME163 that has been refueled still needs to perform a lot of very troublesome and dangerous fuel recovery and Cleaning job!”

"So, we need to find an effective solid fuel!" Qin Chuan said.

"Yes, that's why I said it cannot be used on the Maginot Line!" Conrad replied: "At least until these problems are solved, it is not suitable for use on the battlefield!"

To a certain extent, Conrad is right, especially in the Maginot direction, it may be necessary to dispatch many ME163s at once, because when the US military dispatches bombers to bomb Germany, it is very likely that hundreds of them will be dispatched at once... This This means that the German army must deploy at least hundreds of ME163s to be able to cause serious damage.

In fact, if you want to effectively attack the US military, you need more, because it takes several ME163s to destroy a B17.

And if so many ME163s are dispatched, they will become targets with very good combat effectiveness for the United States and Britain.

but……

"You are wrong, Colonel!" Qin Chuan replied: "We can also use other methods to solve it, I mean... at least solve part of the problem!"

"Other methods?"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "Why don't we dig a silo for it?"

"Silo?" This was obviously the first time Conrad heard this term.

"Yes, a launch silo!" Qin Chuan explained: "As the name suggests, it is like a well. It can be constructed at an angle toward the enemy. It is equipped with an upper track. ME163 is arranged at the bottom of the well. The wellhead is usually covered with armor. Viewed from the outside It can't be found at all, and the pilot certainly can't find it until it's needed for launch..."

"Good idea, Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad said: "If you do this, even if the enemy planes are right above us, we won't be able to detect them, even if we fire a few ME163s!"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "This can very well avoid problems caused by enemy bombing and strafing. On the other hand, we can also take a series of protective measures at the bottom of the launch silo, such as the launch cabin and other Isolation of the place, so that even if the fuel leaks or even explodes, it will not cause much casualties and losses! "

"Great, Lieutenant Colonel!" Conrad said, "You should have told us this earlier so we wouldn't have to be in such a difficult situation!"

"But I didn't know there was such a problem in this project before!" Qin Chuan said, "This is a secret to me!"

"Okay!" Conrad apologized: "It's my fault, Lieutenant Colonel, I should have discussed this with you a long time ago!"

After walking a few steps, Conrad looked back: "But the desert doesn't seem to be suitable for building silos!"

"You can move your base to the Maginot Line of Defense!" Qin Chuan said, "I believe Lieutenant General Lu Manlin will definitely welcome you!"

There is no doubt about this, because the entire defense line seems to be waiting for ME163, and only it can stop the US military's high-altitude bombers... Otherwise, the Maginot Line of Defense is actually of little significance, because the US and British forces can use France as their base. Batch after batch of bombings are located in German industrial bases, and even the Algerian navy and any point they want to bomb. In this way, before long, the combat effectiveness of the German army will become weaker and weaker, while the Allied forces will do the opposite.

After solving the problem of ME163, Qin Chuan had time to turn his attention to the present.

Manstein was indeed a famous general, and Qin Chuan believed that he had accurately grasped the key point of the upcoming battle... individual anti-tank equipment.

The Soviet army has a terrifying number of tanks, more than 5,000... which is almost twice the total number of German tanks.

If it were before, the German army could still rely on its air superiority and tanks to attack the Soviet armored forces. However, the Soviet army also concentrated a large number of air forces to compete with the German army for air supremacy.

In this case, the German army was in an asymmetric danger:

Although the air force has advantages in quality and combat effectiveness, it will be held back by Soviet fighter planes and unable or difficult to reinforce ground troops. The Soviet army even has an advantage in this regard, because the Soviet air force has a numerical advantage, and they can use a Some of the fighters held back the Luftwaffe and then used other fighters to attack the German armored forces.

As a result, the German ground tank troops were undoubtedly at a disadvantage, even though the German armored troops were equipped with "Tiger" at this time.

If the German tanks are at a disadvantage and ultimately defeated, the same large number of infantrymen will break through the German defense lines like a tide under the cover of tanks and swamp the Germans.

Therefore, it is not fighter planes or tanks that can save the German army... With such a huge difference in the numbers of the enemy and ourselves, even if the country mobilizes hundreds of additional fighters or tanks, it will not have much effect.

What really works is infantry anti-tank equipment.