You call me a big treacherous evil?

What's more, Anton still has a large number of knight troops in his hands.

Therefore, Victor believes that the ideal time to launch a counterattack is after Joseph has completed the training of the [-] divisions with the rest of the original Western Front troops.

As for whether Anton can break through his defense line...

The mechas destroyed by the anti-mech teams on the front line are already a good example of this problem.

Due to this walking structure, the mecha is not a stable mobile shooting platform, and the towering fuselage is an excellent target.

In addition, General Anton still used the mechs scatteredly.

This means that each mecha basically has to face two to three anti-mecha teams from the Flame Army, and it is difficult to make a breakthrough in the attack.



057 The end of the tank is Daiying

The winter of 1917 seemed to be colder than usual.

Whether in the vast lands of Lucia, or in the fields of Franche.

Soldiers in all kinds of military uniforms huddled in trenches covered in ice and snow, cursing the damn weather while scratching the seemingly endless lice on their bodies.

Due to poor sanitation, the trenches became a haven for lice and rats.

Even in the cold winter, these lice still lie on the soldiers and suck one by one like autumn blueberries.

Victor, who was huddled in front of the stove of the frontline headquarters, had long been accustomed to the pests that bred in these trenches.

While skillfully grabbing these annoying little bugs from his body, he threw them into a shoe polish box hanging over the stove.

Ever since he first got lice a few years ago, Victor has had an unrealistic idea.

He wanted to see if he could polish his boots with oil boiled in a shoebox with lice he had caught before the war was over.

"Victor, what are you doing?"

Lifting the curtain hanging at the entrance of the headquarters, Joseph, who was wearing a clean military uniform, walked into the headquarters.

Then he saw Victor opened his collar, picking lice in front of the stove like an ordinary worker, but it was different from other people who caught lice and threw them into the fire or strangled them to death.

Victor threw these lice into a shoebox, and listening to the sound of these lice exploding, it seemed that the old farmer was happy looking at his granary after the autumn harvest.

Out of curiosity, Joseph asked Victor what he was doing.

"Nothing, nothing."

Victor was a little embarrassed about his childish behavior, so he took out a handkerchief and put it on his hand, and took the shoe polish box off the fire and put it away.

During the period, he was grinning from the heat of the hot shoe polish box.

"You're not training recruits at Fort St. Nicholas, how come you have time to come to the front to find me? There's nothing but lice and rats."

"How can you say that there is nothing."

Joseph pulled up a chair, went to the fire and sat down.

He began to roast his half-wet legs after trekking in the snow by the fire.

When a strange smell began to permeate in the headquarters, Joseph said to Victor with a relaxed expression.

"Aren't you here? And isn't this the victory line?"

Victor waved to Joseph.

"Don't use those things in the newspaper to make fun of me."

After Victor arrived here with a large force, Victor has blocked two large-scale offensives by General Anton.

Especially the offensive half a month ago. On the day the offensive was launched, General Anton told the Brandonian reporters who came to report on the Lucian Civil War that they would completely destroy the resistance of the Flame Army.

Hang those mud legs who dare to resist on street lamps and hang them to death.

Then Victor showed him what is called artilleryism.

Although the Western Front troops ended the war with Teutonic, many soldiers chose to retire.

However, most of the retired soldiers were concentrated in the infantry, and there were still many technical arms such as artillery.

In addition, the original establishment of the Western Front Army was much larger than that of the Southern Front Army, so even after experiencing the consumption of the Battle of the Bulge.

The artillery power in Victor's hands is also far stronger than that of the Southern Front Army in Anton's hands.

Not to mention that the workers in Tsaritsin started skillful fishing because they did not support the war.

The waste rate of the factory's military supplies increased by [-]% during production, and the efficiency became extremely low.

As a result, General Anton's front-line troops found that the supply of running orders began to lag behind.

In addition, winter was not a season suitable for launching a large-scale offensive, so it was three days after General Anton finished saying that he would hang the mud legs that dared to resist on the street lamps.

Victor not only withstood General Anton's two rounds of large-scale attacks jointly launched by cavalry and mechs, he also obtained a protrusion ten kilometers wide and eight kilometers deep in the White Army's position.

The acquisition of this protrusion is also interesting.

After General Anton launched a strong offensive for three consecutive days, the veterans who had previously fought against the Bryansk Empire on the front line were almost exhausted.

In fact, General Anton, who had failed in the attack, mobilized the two semi-infantry divisions newly formed in Tsaritsin to replace his old troops that had suffered heavy casualties.

But what General Anton didn't expect was that these two troops had already been infiltrated by Commie when they were in the recruit camp.

In addition, when I went to the front line to change defenses, I saw the miserable situation of General Anton, who had previously fought against the Kangmi army.

So on the night when the defense change was completed, under the organization of the Soldiers Committee, all the superior officers were arrested and a change of flag was announced.

Grandpa voted Kang!

After the big victory, Kanglian's newspapers blew Victor into a flaming god of war, and blew up the line of defense laid by Victor into an unbreakable line of defense for victory.

As soon as this report came out, Victor was so frightened that he began to inspect the entire defense line that night to see if he would be attacked by someone directly.

Now Victor would subconsciously feel uncomfortable whenever someone told him about the victory line.

"What's the matter with you coming here this time?"

"As for the things that were code-named water tanks last time, the research team at Phelps Institute of Technology has already taken a prototype, but there are some differences in technical solutions. I want you, the proposer, to take a look."

Joseph took out a stack of documents from his handbag and handed it to Victor.

"Oh, this kind of thing still needs you to go there yourself? Let a confidential officer go there once."

Victor took the information and began to quickly flip through it.

"Although the troops have started training with wooden models, there are still a lot of gaps in terms of tactics and use of troops. I'm going to come over and have a touch with you. You should read the information first."

Due to the existence of high calorific value fuel such as crystallization in ancient times, the steam engine in this world has developed very rapidly, and it seems that no similar oil has been found so far.

The flamethrowers used by field engineers before were all made of a kind of flame cavity unique to Yalong.

So there is no oil as a raw material, and naturally there is no such technology as the internal combustion engine.

Without a compact internal combustion engine, if a steam engine is to be stuffed into the car body, the car body will become very large in size.

This is one of the reasons why the development of automobiles in this world has been very slow.

The Phelps Institute of Technology research team, which undertook the task of designing water tanks or tanks, came up with three design proposals after receiving Victor's design concept and specific indicators.

Then these three plans make Victor look like a book-burner.

Although he knew that such a prototype would generally be unreliable, Victor did not expect that these three solutions would be so unreliable.

The first plan, from the appearance, looks a bit like the MK series tanks produced by the British in different worlds, or the A(♂) V7 tanks of the independent people, all of which are a huge metal box.

Judging from the scale diagram, the height of this car including the main turret is basically as high as three people.

But anyway, they added a turret to the car body according to Victor's request for a turret.

However, on the issue of the turret, they obviously used too much force as they designed the size of the body. They stuffed five turrets in one breath, from the main turret equipped with a 152mm heavy gun to the small turret stuffed with a heavy machine gun. Everything is available.

Then the sane part of the car stops here.

Because on the running gear, the design team gave Victor a big job.

They not only designed six huge driving wheels for this tank like paddle wheels, but also added two strange looking wheels on the front and rear of the vehicle in order to meet the design requirements of Victor's vehicle that can overcome obstacles by itself. mechanical legs.

According to the notes, they planned to use these two mechanical legs to make the chariot walk like a crab to get out of trouble after the wheels of the chariot got stuck.

Victor really didn't know how to evaluate this design.

The second plan is finally a little more normal than the first plan.

It is also an oversized iron box, but it is much lower than the first plan, and the height of the turret is only two people.

And only one turret is designed, and it is planned to use the not so frustrating 152 naval gun as a weapon, but use the 76mm infantry gun as the main weapon.

At the same time, this tank also uses tracks as a driving form.

Although in terms of proportion, the track is as thin as a noodle compared to the body, but it is also a track, not a strange wheel-leg composite structure.

Then the rationality stops here, and the designer seems to think that since this thing is called a water tank, it must have something to do with the navy. If it has something to do with the navy, since the main gun does not use naval equipment, it must be in other places Get the Navy's face back.

Therefore, in addition to the front of the turret, at the rear of the body, they stuffed four open machine gun shooting positions in one breath, preparing to equip four machine guns to suppress infantry.

At the same time, a side turret was added on both sides of the body, and two 37mm howitzers were mounted.

Victor, who felt that this thing had a sense of déjà vu, stretched out his fingers to cover the four open machine gun positions, and immediately discovered the source of this déjà vu.

It's you! TOOOOOOOOOOOOOG!

Victor's blood pressure was a little unstable after reading two consecutive tank designs full of British flavor.

After all, according to Victor's previous thinking, even if you can't make something reliable like No. 34 and Special [-] now.

At least you should use something like BT5 or No. 95 to deliver the goods. If you really can't, I will accept that you use the [-]-type bean tank to deliver.

After all, they are only building training tanks and technical test vehicles, so it doesn't matter if their performance is poor.

The big deal is to change the assault gun later and use it to reduce the dimensionality to attack mech troops, which is not a loss anyway.

But after seeing the third design proposal, Victor couldn't stand it anymore.

Victor even guessed how the brain circuit of the proposal submitter conceived this thing.

It requires a high-armor ground vehicle code-named water tank, requires the use of a turret, and has off-road capabilities.

Hmm... other than that last requirement, armored trains aren't a perfect fit?

That being the case, can I solve this problem by adding tracks to the armored train?

So what Victor sees now is an armored train that is twice as tall as an ordinary armored train and has tracks because it is stuffed into a mobile machine.

After reading these plans, Victor took a deep breath.

He felt that if Anton was not dragging him here now, Victor would want to lead a team by himself and teach them how to tank and what to restrain.

However, considering the current industrial capabilities of Kanglian, it is better to transfer a project team and cultivate some talents in this area first.

Anyway, this kind of experimental weapon will not be mass-produced in a short period of time. It is enough to make some to train troops and cultivate seed officers. It is not necessary to fight Anton.

In other words, Anton should have died long ago by the time these things came out.

When spring comes and the training of the [-] cutting-edge divisions is over, Victor should let Anton understand what a f*cking wide battle line is, and what a f*cking key breakthrough is.

Judging from the news sent by the Kangmi branch in Tsaritsyn and the statistics after the two battles.

During these two large-scale attacks, Anton's Southern Army Group had already lost most of the original mechs.

And the workers in Tsaritsyn not only fished in the manufacture of mechs, but even in the maintenance of those salvaged mechas, they also fished in the same way.

Anyway, production accidents such as missed parts or wrong assembly emerge in endlessly.

It made it difficult for Anton's mech troops to get replenished.

After thinking about it, Victor still chose the second plan, which is the design plan that looks very similar to the TOOOOOOOOOG tank with the British.

However, Victor still made a certain degree of modification on their original design drawings.

The first is to remove the same open machine gun shooting points behind the turret, and then cut off the turrets on both sides of the body.

Then it was required to shorten the body structure of the tank a little and increase the width of the tracks.

But when it comes to the main gun...Looking at this huge turret, Victor couldn't help but want to stuff a 152mm cannon into it.

Just thinking about it, now that stuffing a 152mm cannon into it is completely excess firepower, Victor still gave up the idea of ​​summoning a reliable comrade with his hands.

After annotating this design plan, Victor wrote "shit doesn't make sense" on the other two plans.