The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 735

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“General, Sun Liren’s armored division is dispatched!”

A young German officer who had just got off the reconnaissance plane walked up to Seckt and whispered to him.

Seckt nodded. He was the one who formulated the battle plan for this battle. If he lost, it would have a great impact on him, and it might shake the confidence of President Chiang and the generals of the Celestial Empire in him and the Hans Officer Corps. So Seckt has been paying close attention to the direction of this war since the war began.

There were only 150,000 Japanese troops, but the National Army dispatched a total of 800,000 troops to attack them. Even if Chen Cheng’s 180,000 troops who were responsible for the blocking mission were deducted, there would be at least 600,000 troops on the front battlefield that could be used for the attack. So under normal circumstances, victory should be a foregone conclusion!

However, It was such a war that he thought should be a foregone conclusion, but it was fought in an extremely tense manner.

Although Hans had provided a lot of weapons to the Celestial Empire, greatly improving their firepower, they lacked excellent artillery and artillery commanders.

As a result, although they had a large number of artillery, it was difficult to fully exert the power of the artillery.

Their infantry-artillery coordination tactics with the infantry could only be said to be quite poor.

Either the artillery fired too early, and by the time the infantry attacked, the bombardment had already ended, and the enemy had recovered from the suppression and chaos of the bombardment, and was ready to wait for their own infantry to attack.

In this case, the infantry’s offensive effect was naturally quite poor, and after suffering a large number of casualties, they did not achieve much. Great effect.

After the infantry raised their opinions, the artillery made changes. As a result, due to lack of communication and coordination, the artillery bombardment did not stop when the infantry attacked. As a result, the attack of their own infantry was affected. Some shells even accidentally bombed their own people, causing chaos among the infantry of the National Army!

There are many similar problems. These problems that would not occur in the German army appeared one after another in the National Army. This opened Seckt’s eyes and made him wonder in his heart.

The strength of the National Army is much weaker than he expected. During the Battle of Songhu, relying on its inherent positions, the National Army’s performance in the defensive battle was remarkable. Although it was not as good as the German army, it was at least a capable force. Army.

However, this time when it was the turn of the National Army to attack, all their weaknesses were exposed.

The National Army was really not good at attacking.

They had a four or five times advantage in manpower, thousands of artillery pieces and even 200 tanks.

Even the Air Force tried hard to prevent the enemy from gaining air superiority.

With so many favorable conditions added together, the National Army fought so fiercely.

This made Seckt understand that the National Army must have never conducted offensive training before, or they lacked the experience of dealing with well-equipped and tenacious enemies like the Japanese army.

Offense and defense are two completely different ways of fighting. Relatively speaking, defense is much easier, while offense is very difficult.

The National Army is obviously good at defense and not good at it.

In layman’s terms, the defense is still good, but the offense is a mess!

This made Seckt a little worried. Would the National Army let the Japanese army in the encirclement escape this time?

If so, then his army’s transformation plan would have to be adjusted comprehensively!

However, it was not the most pessimistic time yet.

Chen Cheng had ordered General Sun Liren, the commander of the First Armored Division, to lead the troops to attack.

Although this armored unit was equipped with French tanks, the quality and quantity could not be compared with the German tanks, but the Japanese army on the opposite side did not even have such backward tanks, and lacked experience in dealing with such weapons attacks, so the armored unit might be able to play a miraculous effect on the battlefield!

This made Seckt’s heart a little more stable. Speaking of which, he still knew Sun Liren.

This person once traveled around the Western countries in 1924 and went to Eagle Sauce, the Sun Never Sets, Gaul, the Bear and Hans.

Historically, Sun Liren finally chose to study at the Military Academy of Eagle Sauce and completed his transformation from writing to joining the army.

But in this time and space, after he arrived in Hans, he was noticed by Mainz, so he was specially approved to enter the Berlin Military Academy and became a student of the Armored Department of Berlin Military Academy. What’s more rare is that after graduation, he briefly joined the German army and participated in the military operation of the Battle of Jake, and had some experience in armored warfare!

This valuable study abroad experience allowed Sun Liren to see the armored tactics of the German army, which had the most advanced armored warfare concepts in Europe. Therefore, after receiving military assistance from Hans, Sun Liren naturally became the commander of the first armored force in the Celestial Empire. He is currently the only person in the Celestial Empire who understands and is familiar with armored warfare.

Thinking of this, Seckt had to doubt in his heart: The head of state specially added 200 tanks to the military aid to the Celestial Empire, and even released Sun Liren back to the Celestial Empire in advance, reducing his service period in the German army. Was it to help him get promoted and help him become the main general of the Celestial Empire’s armored forces?

With the invincibility of the German army in Europe, armored forces have now become the most popular new type of arms in various countries. All capable countries in the world are working hard to develop their own armored forces, expand the scale and strength of armored forces, and continuously invest huge amounts of money in the development of new tanks.

For a long time in the future, the popularity of armored forces will remain high. This type of disease will even replace infantry and become the mainstay of the army of various countries.

Therefore, the status of the main general of the armored forces will surely rise in the future. Although Sun Liren is less than 30 years old at this time and is only a major general division commander, as the Celestial Empire attaches importance to armored warfare, the scale of their armored forces will surely expand and their status will also be improved. At that time, Sun Liren’s influence in the Celestial Empire will inevitably rise sharply!

Sun Liren completed his studies and accumulated combat experience in Hans. Hans is his staunch supporter behind him, so his position will naturally be close to Hans!

In this way, it can be foreseen that once Sun Liren ascends to a high position, Hans’ influence in the Celestial Empire will inevitably rise with his status and become more stable!

If this is true, then the far-reaching and long-term vision of the head of state is a bit terrifying!

However, Seckt couldn’t think so much at this time. He was more concerned about whether General Sun Liren could lead the First Armored Division to break through the enemy’s defense line.

If he couldn’t do it, the result of this battle was doomed, and the national army would not be able to eat up the Japanese troops in the encirclement.