The decisive battle against the Third Reich

The next day, a batch of ME63 live ammunition was delivered to the camp of the 1st Infantry Regiment, no more, no less, exactly 600.

"Gentlemen, it's time to test your training results!" Qin Chuan raised his head towards the pile of ME63s on the other side and said: "Just follow what you did during training, one for each person, only one ……Any questions?"

After a moment of silence, Werner raised his hand.

After getting Qin Chuan's permission, Werner replied loudly: "Lieutenant Colonel, can we use the simulator to train for some more time, and then use live ammunition when we are ready!"

This mentality is understandable, because live-fire shooting opportunities are rare, and each person only has one, so of course the soldiers will want to make more preparations.

Therefore, this can also be said to be the voice of all controllers.

Colonel Slain, who was standing aside, thought Qinchuan would definitely agree. In fact, the German soldiers thought so too. After all, it was beneficial to the training of the soldiers and even to the live ammunition shooting.

But he didn't expect Qin Chuan to refuse without thinking.

"Second Lieutenant!" Qin Chuan replied: "Please tell me what live ammunition shooting is!"

"Live fire means shooting with real ammunition, sir!" Werner replied.

"Wrong answer!" Qin Chuan said loudly while walking in front of the soldiers in neat formation: "Firing with live ammunition means going to the real battlefield to fight the enemy. This also means that what is standing in front of you is not a target. They are not a pile of tank wreckage, nor are they some moving steel plates! They are enemies, they are Soviet tanks. The turret is equipped with a 76.2MM caliber cannon and a 7.62MM caliber machine gun. They will pour out at you at any time. Shells and bullets... now, tell me, will they wait for you to be ready?"

"No, sir!" the soldiers replied.

"Will they wait for you to come back and practice again?"

"No, sir!"

"Are they going to prepare you for another attack?"

"No, sir!" the soldiers replied in unison.

"So..." Qin Chuan said, "You know what to do!"

So there was no preparation for this live-fire shooting. Not only was there no preparation, it was also artificially more difficult.

In fact, it cannot be said to increase the difficulty, but it should be said that it is something that should be faced on the battlefield... The First Infantry Regiment was originally supposed to be quickly deployed close to the front line under the transport of helicopters.

The reason why it is located "close to the front line" is that helicopters cannot be too close to the battlefield otherwise they will easily become targets of the enemy. They can only be deployed three to five kilometers away from the front line. If you are lucky, such as if there is a mountain blocking it, then It is possible to deploy closer.

But Qinchuan chose a distant location this time: it asked the First Infantry Regiment to rappel five kilometers away from the shooting range.

Of course, this is done in batches. Each time, 800 people carry 100 ME63s for coordinated rappel, while other troops watch from the firing range.

For this reason, Qinchuan even asked several Air Force fighter planes to coordinate with the First Infantry Regiment to provide cover.

Then, after carrying the ME63 rappel, the troops went straight to the shooting range from five kilometers away for live ammunition shooting.

Originally, Qin Chuan thought that such live-fire shooting results would be a mess... After all, this was the soldiers' first live-fire shooting, and this was also the first generation anti-tank missile, which still had many unresolved problems.

But the final result surprised Qin Chuan. 32 of the first batch of 100 missiles hit, with a hit rate of more than 30%.

Afterwards, soldiers came up in batches to conduct live ammunition shooting. The hit rate varied, but was basically around 30%.

"Well done, Lieutenant Colonel!" Colonel Slain nodded and said after seeing this situation: "You did it, this training method is effective!"

Qin Chuan did not speak. If the hit rate is indeed very high on the surface, it is roughly one-third of the hit rate. If this is the case, six thousand ME63s can destroy two thousand tanks. Then even if the Soviet army has another Even more tanks are not enough for the Germans to fight.

Things on the battlefield are sometimes not as simple as comparing simple numbers or adding and subtracting.

If we do addition and subtraction, the Soviet Army has 5,000 tanks and the German Army has 3,000 tanks. Even if 2,000 tanks were killed by the ME63, the Soviet Army still has 3,000 tanks.

On the other hand, many of the 3,000 German tanks are tanks with poor performance in the hands of slave countries. They are no match for the Soviet T34 tanks, so even so, the Soviet army still has the upper hand.

but……

If the ME63 has such a hit rate and can hit Soviet tanks accurately, then the Soviet tank battle on a certain battlefield will be completely suppressed by the German tank group. The German tank group can easily defeat it under the cover of the ME63. The enemy surrounded or attacked its flanks, and the ME63 psychologically shocked the Soviet army. This battle was basically won.

"Lieutenant Colonel, phone!" At this time, the correspondent handed the phone over: "Marshal Manstein!"

As the commander of Army Group South, Manstein was too busy to attend the live-fire firing in person, but he still took the time to call to inquire about the situation.

"How's the situation, Lieutenant Colonel?" Manstein asked: "I hope it's not bad news!"

"Our hit rate exceeds 30%, Marshal!" Qin Chuan replied.

"Thirty percent? Great, Lieutenant Colonel!" Manstein replied: "That's what I want!"

"Marshal!" Qin Chuan said: "But we didn't consider one thing... Our soldiers aim and shoot when there is no enemy threat, and the ME63 must continuously aim at the target. Therefore, even if the battlefield is changed to the soldiers, The psychological pressure is negligible, and it requires aiming for more than ten seconds...it is easily interrupted by the enemy, so the hit rate will be greatly reduced in the real battlefield!"

"You're right, Lieutenant Colonel!" Manstein nodded and said: "But this at least proves that we can counter the enemy's numerical advantage in armored forces, and rely on infantry, and more importantly...ours The ME63 can continue to be produced and is much cheaper than the Soviet T34!”

Qin Chuan had no objection to this.

Because what Manstein said is right. When a war reaches a certain level, it actually consumes national power. Whoever can survive to the end will win.

In addition to the strong national power, a very important point is... who can use cheaper equipment to suppress the enemy and keep the enemy in a state of high consumption. Because if this continues for a long time, the Soviet Union's national strength and industry will soon be unable to support this kind of consumption.

Obviously, the ME63 is such a piece of equipment.