The decisive battle against the Third Reich

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At the first moment, Qin Chuan realized that the Soviets had discovered the weaknesses of ME63.

The reason is simple. Being able to suppress artillery fire on the ME63 launch site in such a short period of time was obviously prepared in advance.

Therefore, Qin Chuan immediately shouted into the walkie-talkie: "Mortar, be careful to hide!"

In Qin Chuan's view, the most important thing is always the lives of these elite soldiers, and the ME63 or whether it can hit the target is secondary, because the time and energy required to train a group of elite soldiers cannot be compensated by these equipment.

However, this thing is often in a contradictory state on the battlefield. For example, right now, blindly protecting soldiers means letting Soviet tanks break into the defense line and start massacres.

Perhaps because of this, or because they were unwilling to give up their goals and stick to their posts, quite a few operators did not obey Qin Chuan's orders and continued to control ME63 to fly towards the target...

You can't blame them for this, because there is such a subject in training, which is to eliminate all distractions and concentrate on aiming at the target, which also includes bullets and artillery shells fired at them.

As a result, with a burst of explosions, more than 20 Soviet tanks rushing ahead were blown up, but almost immediately after, mortar shells hit the ME63 position hard, emitting bursts of radiating smoke.

"There are casualties in a row!"

"The second company's controller sacrificed two people!"

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Casualties were reported to Qinchuan one after another through the small walkie-talkie.

"Move the position!" Qin Chuan ordered: "Pay attention to concealment!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded and immediately moved their positions along the traffic trench.

The next second, swarms of artillery shells roared in the direction of the Soviet army... They were Soviet large-caliber howitzers. These dense shells almost turned the ME63 firing array upside down.

"Attention all units!" Qin Chuan ordered into the walkie-talkie: "The enemy may already know the weakness of ME63, so spread out the defense!"

"Yes, disperse the defense!"

"Disperse the defense!"

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This is the benefit of the small walkie-talkie. Its communication allows Qin Chuan to pass orders to the 1st Infantry Regiment anytime and anywhere, allowing the 1st Infantry Regiment to make flexible and targeted responses according to the situation.

The ME63 does have weaknesses. As mentioned before, it requires continuous control and is easily susceptible to interference and artillery fire suppression.

If it were before, the German army would have easily solved this problem... The German army has always occupied air supremacy, and air supremacy will affect the artillery battle.

Because as soon as the Soviet artillery fires, its artillery positions will be immediately exposed to the sight of German pilots, and then the Germans can use bombers, fighter jets, and artillery to suppress the Soviet artillery positions.

On the contrary, the Soviet army, which had lost air superiority, could not do this.

But now the Soviet Air Force has a numerical advantage: 1,500 fighter planes of various types against the 700 German fighters.

Although the 1,500 Soviet fighter planes may still be defeated, the reason is that the performance of the German fighter planes, especially the quality of the pilots, is much better than that of the Soviet pilots. As a result, most of the downed planes that were smoking black in the sky were Soviet ones. Air Force.

The problem is...

The numerical advantage determines that what the German Air Force can do, the Soviet Air Force can also do.

To put it simply, the Soviet Air Force was previously unable to suppress German artillery and could not even use reconnaissance aircraft to guide its own artillery to suppress enemy artillery positions. But now this is no longer a problem.

As a result, it was difficult to tell the winner with the back-and-forth artillery fire between the enemy and ourselves. Even the Soviet army, which had a large number of artillery pieces and was also equipped with a large number of "Katyusha" rocket launchers, had an advantage.

The result of this is that ME63 will be suppressed by Soviet artillery fire just like before.

But as the saying goes, "The Tao is as high as the devil."

Qinchuan had long considered that such a weakness would be discovered by the enemy and then suppressed by artillery fire.

To deal with this kind of artillery suppression is actually very simple, that is, the Me63 can no longer be used more concentratedly as before but should be dispersed across the entire front.

The low accuracy of artillery fire determines that it is more used for coverage bombing of targets. If the targets are broken into pieces and scattered, then artillery coverage and suppression will basically be ineffective...unless the Soviet army can cover every scattered ME63 launch point on the front line.

But if the Soviet army had so many artillery and shells to do this, there would be no need to do this, because these artillery and shells were enough to knock out all the German tanks and win easily.

Therefore, originally ME63 built several ME63 positions on favorable terrain in units of battalions or companies depending on the situation. After receiving the order, they immediately spread out to the two wings with the original position as the center.

Soon, ME63's tracks flashed out from the German position again, accurately destroying the tanks one by one on the way to the attack.

But objectively speaking, there are still great weaknesses in decentralized defense and the previous centralized defense.

This weakness is mainly due to logistical supply issues:

When concentrating defense, the ME63 position can be marked to the logistics troops in advance, so the logistics troops know exactly where the ammunition supplies should be sent or when they will be sent forward, especially ME63.

Decentralized defense is not so easy. Anti-tank teams often find a suitable position at random. Some teams even adopt guerrilla tactics and move while fighting. The logistics troops did not know their specific location at all, so they did not know where to send the ammunition.

And because the ME63 itself is not light, weighing more than 20 kilograms, the eight members of the team not only have their own guns and ammunition, but also two rocket launchers (used for close anti-tank, which is very heavy for the anti-tank team). Very necessary), it is already good to be able to bring two or three ME63.

So overall, the role that ME63 can play will definitely be limited.

On the other hand, the Soviet army's suppression of ME63 was not just artillery coverage.

When Rotmistrov launched the attack, he told everyone about the weakness of the enemy's "tracking rockets"... This was a good opportunity for the Soviet army to increase their morale. Of course, as a commander, he would not let it go easily. Passed.

"We captured two 'tracking rockets' from the Germans!" Rotmistrov said with a proud tone: "Then we discovered its secret, which is why it was able to change its trajectory and finally hit us. The secret of the tank... Do you believe it? The Germans added a wire behind the rocket and then controlled the flight direction of the rocket through this wire!”

These words caused great repercussions among Soviet officers.

Although they generally think this approach is very creative, at least once they know how it works, they will not believe that the Germans have any magic.

"Comrade Rotmistrov!" someone asked: "Even though we know this, how are we going to solve this problem? I mean, when this rocket is coming towards us... we can't avoid it because it It will change the trajectory, which means that no matter how we avoid it, it will be useless!”

"It's very simple!" Rotmistrov replied: "You have to know that they have a person controlling this rocket in the launching position. Therefore, if you can use a machine gun to hit the place where the rocket is launched in time, A round of bullets..."