The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1034

“This old guy Pershing is quite something, he actually came up with such a solution!”

In Vienna, Europe, in the summer palace, during a visit to Marshal Hindenburg, Mainz mentioned the situation in North America.

Marshal Hindenburg has always been very concerned about major events in North America. Although he had handed over the empire to Mainz a long time ago, it did not mean that he did not care about what happened in the empire.

On the contrary, he was extremely concerned about what happened in the empire, because Mainz looked too young, so young that people were a little worried.

However, over the years, Mainz’s performance has been witnessed by all, so Hindenburg gradually felt relieved.

The climate and environment in Vienna are more suitable for health preservation than Berlin, and Vienna’s entertainment activities are also obviously More.

Because it is located on the edge of the Alps, he can take his family to climb the mountains at any time. In his spare time, he can also go to the Vienna Golden Hall to listen to symphonies performed by the world’s top orchestras.

Moreover, there is everything in the summer palace. Mainz has never deducted his pension, and even sets aside a sum of money every year to subsidize him.

So the current days are undoubtedly the most suitable for an old man like Hindenburg who is over 80 years old.

Marshal Hindenburg has become accustomed to the current comfortable life. If he is asked to handle government affairs now, I am afraid he will be exhausted!

However, although he no longer needs to worry about national affairs, Hindenburg, who was born a soldier, still has He was restless and paid close attention to the German military operations.

When Mainz’s blitzkrieg against Poland sparked the Second World War, Hindenburg was quite worried, because once the war started, they would not only have to face Poland.

Behind Poland stood the two great powers, the British Empire and Gaul. Declaring war on Poland was actually declaring war on these two countries. Although the Third Reich’s national strength had greatly improved under the leadership of Mainz, Hindenburg was not sure whether the Third Reich alone could deal with the combined forces of the two countries!

However, the subsequent series of brilliant victories of the German army completely dispelled his worries. The doubts in his heart also made him completely relieved about Mainz!

Out of the interest of a military strategist, he was curious about how the German army achieved such a brilliant victory!

So like General Pershing after retirement, Hindenburg also studied Mainz’s armored warfare tactics and methods in his spare time.

However, the conclusion he came to was different from that of General Pershing. General Pershing came up with a composite armored division, which improved the tactics of World War I and integrated some of the characteristics of armored warfare, but it was essentially a defensive battle of World War I, and the tactical innovation was very limited. However, what

Hindenburg had in mind was not this kind of tactic to counter the German armored warfare, but another kind!

“The composite armored division has strong defense and decent offensive capabilities, but because it carries a large number of artillery, its mobility is very poor. Although it is an armored division in name, it does not actually have the mobility of an armored division.”

Mainz was actually a little surprised by what General Pershing came up with, because in his opinion this tactic was too retro and completely deviated from the core of armored tactics!

The core element of armored warfare is speed, and everything else is auxiliary. Speed is the most critical!

“After all, this old guy is old, so it is a little difficult for him to accept the young people’s things all of a sudden. Moreover, although the mobility of this thing he made is not strong, its defense and firepower are not weak. If we encounter their composite armored division, I am afraid it will be difficult to fight!”

Although Hindenburg felt that Admiral Pershing had gone astray, he did not deny the combat capability of the composite armored division. This thing has a large number of artillery and a large number of tanks. Moreover, it is said that the tanks equipped by the US military now are Pershing tanks with performance that is not inferior to the German army. This is a kind of heavy tank. It is said that the front armor is 90 mm thick. This thickness is obviously used to restrain the fourth tank!

“Not necessarily.

Although this thing has strong firepower, its speed is very slow.

If we encounter them on the battlefield, we don’t have to fight them head-on.

We can bypass their defense line and go straight to their rear supply line.

If they send tank troops to chase us, we can turn around and encircle and annihilate their tank troops.

As long as we run, their heavy artillery will be disconnected from the tank troops.

Without the protection of heavy artillery, these tanks will be completely annihilated no matter how powerful they are!

”

Mainz almost didn’t think about it and directly gave a solution.

The German armored tactics are already quite mature. When encountering such a hard bone with strong frontal defense capabilities and not easy to chew, the German army basically adopts a roundabout tactic, launching an attack on the enemy from the flank, or simply going around the enemy’s rear, cutting off their supply lines, and then besieging them, and then slowly eating them up!

“If the U.S. military wants to deal with our armored tactics, what is the right way?”

Hindenburg suddenly became curious. According to Mainz’s statement, is it true that the German armored forces are invincible?

There should be no such thing as invincible in this world, so he is very skeptical about this matter.

“Air supremacy!”

Mainz smiled slightly, satisfying the old marshal’s curiosity.

“Sure enough! The two aircrafts defending our armored forces should be BF-109 and JU-87, right?”

Hindenburg laughed.

“That’s right, with air superiority, we can be the first to discover the enemy, and then prepare for battle before the enemy. When necessary, we can also send bombers to attack the enemy and disrupt the enemy’s formation. When fighting, a large number of Stukas that dive-bomb from the sky are our air artillery clusters!”

Armored tactics are certainly not invincible. What is invincible is that after the German army has mastered air superiority, it has fully utilized the power of the air-to-ground coordinated combat system!

If the enemy wants to defeat the German armored forces, it must first gain air superiority. Without air superiority, they will never be able to defeat the German army!

In this regard, Moscow’s Starlin sees it more thoroughly than the Eagle Sauce people!

Under Starlin’s leadership, although the Russian bears are desperately developing weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles, they attach no less importance to the air force, especially fighters, than tank forces.