Lieutenant General Bian Chunsong is the deputy commander of the newly formed Armored Forces Command and the commander of the 4th Armored Division of the Royal Imperial Guards. He once led the armored corps to bypass the front of the Washington defense line. The light cavalry advanced and used a beautiful left hook, attacking the US capital Washington, DC, and made great achievements.

He was once the honorary major general commander of the First Division of the Great Red Division (according to the rotational position, senior generals are not allowed to hold a certain leadership position for a long time after a period of five years, and will not be repeated in the future). He is the dual authority in the field of theoretical and practical armored forces in the field of imperial army. He is also the honorary dean of the Royal Army's Armored Forces College. The armored forces theory textbook compiled is one of the must-read books for the general class.

Lieutenant General Bian Chunsong is also one of the newly emerging middle-aged generals of the Royal Army. He just turned 49 this year. Due to his outstanding performance, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the future.

In the classroom

Lieutenant General Bian Chunsong held a slender command pole in his hand to comment on the recent large-scale land war in Europe and discuss its advantages and disadvantages in detail.

He pointed to the German "Schliffen Plan" march route and said;

"For more than a month in the early stage of the war, the German army rigorously implemented the "Schliffen Military Plan". In the previous attack on Belgium, the German-French border battles and more than 130 battles, it showed high military literacy, strong execution ability, tenacious fighting will, and excellent military command capabilities of the Juncker military aristocrats. It is worthy of being a world-class land military power.

According to the rigorous mathematical model analysis at the Army University;

Taking into account the additional factors of various military equipment, the combat effectiveness of each German soldier was finally concluded that the combat effectiveness of each German soldier was about 1.36 French soldiers and 1.47 British soldiers, and the general combat effectiveness of individual soldiers was more than one-third higher.

The German army achieved remarkable military success on the Western Front battlefield, which does not mean that there are no shortcomings.

Based on the performance of military powers such as Germany, Britain, France and other European battlefields, we can draw conclusions;

Its army tactical theory is still at the level of the end of the last century and the beginning of this century. Although they are equipped with tank armored troops, the senior generals have backward tactical awareness and lack theoretical and practical levels. They still use the new attack power of tank armored troops as vassals of the infantry group.

Specifically manifested as;

The German army dismantled the armored troops into a company-level scale, and was equipped with infantry divisions as attack vanguards to conquer the enemy's strong defense lines, villages, bridges and hills. Therefore, under the counterattack of the British and French armies of a large number of 37mm war defense artillery, 60mm and 76mm field artillery, the armored power was greatly lost.

It has a total of more than 1,200 tank and armored vehicles of various types. It has lost about 550 units so far in combat, and has lost more than 70 units due to breaking down in the middle or other reasons. The overall armored combat effectiveness has been weakened by half. This is a huge waste and a completely unsustainable combat mode.

Small-scale armored forces accompanied by infantry attacks are easily destroyed by direct attacks from hidden artillery fire during frontal attacks on land, and the losses are worthless.

As we all know

Tank armored vehicles are very expensive army equipment. The price of a wild wolf light tank can be equipped with an entire infantry company, while the value of a cheetah medium tank can be equipped with an infantry battalion.

From the perspective of cost ratio, it is wrong to easily be destroyed by a 37mm war defense cannon, which is not just money, but to repeat backward army tactics over and over again.

You should know that tank armored vehicles have unparalleled high maneuverability, strong bulletproof capabilities, fierce artillery fire and extremely strong breakthrough capabilities. Using them as an auxiliary force of the army greatly limits the advantages of tank armored vehicles.

Use a figurative metaphor;

We have to let a tiger and a kitten eat in the same trough instead of letting it hunt freely in the mountains and forests. In the end, the tiger can only become a larger cat, and become indifferent to the public."

Having said this

Lieutenant General Bian Chunsong put the baton in his hand on the podium, looked around the students who were shining with stars below, and asked his own questions;

"So... how can we make the armored forces fully utilize their advantages, form an organic and unified overall military force with the infantry group, and exert their maximum power in the European battlefield, such as the large plain terrain?"

More than 30 generals from Class B independently looked at the textbook "Theory of Armored Soldiers' Depth Tactics" placed on the desk. With a smile on the corner of his lips, he replied at the same time. "Concentrate on the use of armored soldiers to implement large-scale interludes, detours, divide and defeat the enemy's heavy army groups, defeat the organized resistance forces, and cooperate with the infantry to wipe out them."

Hearing the uniform answers of the students, Lieutenant General Bian Chunsong smiled with satisfaction, knocked on the podium with his hand and said in a stronger tone;

"The students who answered very well, which means that you have read this textbook seriously. This is actually an enhanced version of the organic combination of infantry tactics and cavalry tactics. It is also a general's clever work. I hope everyone will give advice and jointly improve the tactical theory of armored soldiers.

I believe many people already know

The T-5 "Tiger" heavy tank developed by the Royal Army has been equipped with several armored divisions one after another. This is a heavy tank with a weight of 38.5 tons. The front armor has a powerful ability to defend against 60mm shells. It is equipped with a 42-caliber long tube 76mm cannon. It has powerful destruction ability and is an absolute killer.

At present, our army has only equipped one and a half T-5 tank regiments, and my Royal Guard Armored 4th Division has only equipped one tank battalion to use it as a heavy tank teaching battalion, accumulating and promoting the use experience.

Ordinary Class A infantry divisions should not think about this good thing. In the expected 5 to 8 years, the T-5 heavy tank will only be equipped with six armored divisions.

That is, the 4th Division of the Royal Guards, the 1st Division of the Great Red, the Royal Armored Dragoon Division, the Royal Armored Tiger Cavalry Division, the Royal Armored Leopard Cavalry Division and the Royal Armored Wolf Cavalry Division.

Each armored division is equipped with a t5 tiger heavy tank regiment, two t-2 cheetah medium tank regiments, one mobile regiment, containing a wild wolf light tank reconnaissance battalion, a mechanized repair battalion, an automobile battalion, and an artillery battalion.

A mechanized infantry regiment is equipped with 262 armored wheel-type trucks, 86 semi-track trucks, and more than 100 tricycles, which can accompany the armored division to conduct high-speed maneuver combat.

The division headquarters is directly under the guard battalion, engineer battalion, division-level hospital, military police company, band company, communication company, cavalry company, and equipped with more than 400 jeeps, motorcycles and trucks.

It can be said

Once all the equipment of the armored division is in place, it will form the world's first fully mechanized combat force to achieve high maneuverability, large-depth armored combat theory, and truly liberate the powerful combat capabilities of armored forces."

Speaking of this, looking at the hot envious eyes in the eyes of the generals and students below, Lieutenant General Bian Chunsong couldn't help laughing.

Although he is almost 50 years old, who doesn’t have the mentality of showing off his wealth?

Such an armored division is all treasures accumulated by money. Nowadays, the cheetah medium-sized tanks are produced on a large scale, and the technology is very mature, and the unit price is also reduced.

From the original purchase cost of 34,000 gold oceans per unit, it has been reduced to the current level of 26,500 gold oceans per unit. Even so, equipping a cheetah medium tank regiment with nearly 200 tanks is equivalent to the cost of a "Princess Elizabeth-class battleship.

The T-5 "Tiger" heavy tank has to be multiplied by 2 on this basis, which is extremely expensive.

An armored division can be compared to a powerful fleet of four "Princess Elizabeth-class battleships, only one on land and the other in the sea.

The Army grant amount of the Ocean Empire today can only be equipped with one armored division every year. According to the current production speed of T5 "Tiger" tanks, the monthly output is about 16 to 18 units, and it will take three years to fully marshall all six armored divisions.

Based on the results of the sand table

A few years later, the Imperial Land Armed Forces took these six armored divisions as the core, cooperated with 37 Class A and Class B field divisions (the number of soldiers of Class A and Class B divisions is different, and the Class C divisions is not counted) about 550,000. They can organize 6 powerful armored armies and have the ability to compete with 82 German divisions (about one million people). The combat effectiveness of individual soldiers reaches 1 to 1.8.

The prerequisite is that the six armored divisions of the Imperial Royal Army were all filled with personnel, regardless of the high morale of the German local operations and the German commander's performance of the super-level performance, the results of the sand table deduction were made.

It is not that the soldiers of the Royal Army of the Ocean Empire are twice as strong as German soldiers in military skills and qualities, but that through advanced technology, the crushing advantages (semi-automatic rifles, advanced tank and armored vehicles), correct strategies and tactics (high maneuvering and large-depth theory), coupled with the mechanized corps power bonus, the overall effect can be achieved by 1 to 1:87.

"Hello, is it possible that the troops led by General Clark, the current German 1st Army, deliberately exposed the side to the French 6th Army to attract them to take the initiative, and then look for an opportunity to use the armored corps to intersperse and cut off their retreat, encircle and annihilate them?" This question raised by Major General Wu Shixun caused discussion among the students present.

If you think about it carefully, there is really this possibility.

"Report your name and unit, position."

"Reporting instructor, Wu Shixun, is currently the major general commander of the 4th Division of Kalimantan, and the report is completed."

"Well, the questions raised by this student are very interesting and worth in-depth discussion. Does the German army have such a strategic intention to lure the enemy? We can wait and see, but we might as well do an in-depth analysis first." Lieutenant General Bian Chunsong nodded with praise, signaling Major General Wu Shixun to sit down, then picked up the baton and pointed at the situation chart behind him and said;

“There are three possibilities for German commanders;

First, General Clark strictly followed the instructions of the General Staff of the German Army to pursue the remnants of the French Fifth Army and the British Expeditionary Force, trying to join with the 2nd Army led by General Biro, attacked front and back, and jointly annihilated the British and French heavy army.

From beginning to end

The 1st Army did not expect to expose the weakness on the side to the French 6th Army. It may be because of the Germans' pride and contempt for the French combat effectiveness, and it may be just unexpected.

No matter what, General Wu’s assumption does not exist.

The second type is that General Clark deliberately exposed his flanks, inducing the French 6th Army to leave Paris's inherent position, attack rashly, and then cut off the French return route through the armored corps with high mobility, encirclement and annihilation.

If this is the case, then we must give a high score to the strategic planning ability of senior German generals and pay great attention to it.

The third type is that General Clark has no intention of exposing his weak flanks, but after the French Sixth Army attacked, he was able to quickly find a way to break the deadlock in the crisis, and instead suffered heavy damage to the French army.

If this is the case, then a high score must be given to the German army's art of battlefield command and resilience.

What is the real situation?
Chapter completed!