Film and Television: Starting from the Journey to Guandong

Chapter 138

Compared with the original "Leningrad" class destroyers, the "Minsk" class destroyers have not made many changes in the appearance of the ship, only the shape of the forecastle is slightly different.

Although the power system of the "Minsk" class still uses the alternating arrangement of steam turbines and boilers, it solves the problems of propeller design flaws and insufficient hull strength existing on the "Leningrad" class.

A total of four "Minsk" class destroyers, including the lead ship "Minsk", were built. Because they are not very different from the "Leningrad" class, they are often confused with the "Leningrad" class destroyers. Used by editor.

The first ship "Minsk" once participated in the Soviet-Finnish War. After the outbreak of the Patriotic War, it was first bombed and sunk by the Luftwaffe. It was later picked up and repaired and continued to serve until the war.

Among the four "Minsk" class ships, the best performing one is the "Baku" ship.

After being transferred to the Northern Fleet of the Mao Xiong Red Navy, the ship participated in several large-scale escort operations and made a certain contribution to the security of the Arctic routes during the Mao Xiong war. It was also awarded the Order of the Red Flag.

Generally speaking, the "Minsk" class is more of a "technology verification ship".

The Mao Xiong Red Navy will verify the problems exposed on the "Leningrad" class destroyer on the "Minsk" class destroyer to observe whether the improvement measures are effective.

Although the "Minsk" class destroyer also successfully survived until the end of the war, because the improvement was of little significance, it was converted into a new technology maritime verification platform for the Mao Xiong Red Navy after the war, which can be regarded as exerting its remaining heat.

(The number of Soviet destroyers with pure woolly bear blood has been cut off so far. The woolly bear destroyers starting from the "Wrath" class are all of Italian origin, not to mention that the "Tashkent" is an authentic Italian ship)

As the third domestically produced destroyer equipped by Mao Xiong's Red Navy, the birth of the "Angry" class destroyer is closely related to Mao Xiong's five-year plan.

Because of the great success brought by the first Five-Year Plan, relevant decision-makers in Mao Xiong believed that the Soviet Union had the ability to build excellent domestic destroyers on a large scale.

Therefore, the 1st Central Shipbuilding and Design Bureau was instructed to start relevant designs.

Although the 1932st Central Ship Design Bureau began relevant designs in 1, it was not until the end of 1934 that the relevant design plans were confirmed by the relevant management agencies.

The new destroyer was classified as Project 7, and a total of 53 ships were built. The first ship was named "Wrath", and the "Wrath" class destroyer was born.

Strictly speaking, the "Wrath" class destroyer is not a purely furry bear design destroyer.

Because Mao Xiong still lacked experience in the design of modern destroyers at this time, and the relationship between Mao Xiong and Italy was not bad at this time, Italy not only allowed Mao Xiong’s design team to visit its "Mistral" class destroyer in detail, but also gave the Mao Xiong provided a complete set of design plans and related drawings for the "Mistral" class destroyer.

And Mao Xiong is not polite. Since the performance of Italy's "Mistral" class destroyer looks good, let's copy it.

Therefore, except that the weapons, equipment and supporting facilities on the "Wrath" class are made in China, the mechanical power layout and shipboard design of the "Wrath" class destroyer are exactly the same as the "Mistral" class destroyer.

The "Wrath" class is full of strong Italian style, that is, high rate of fire and high speed design style.

In terms of power, it adopts a large single chimney structure mechanical power layout and a short forecastle design.

其主要武备为4门130毫米舰炮和2座三联装533毫米鱼雷发射装置，防空武器方面则比较丰富，除了2门76.2毫米高射炮和2门45毫米高射炮之外，还根据各舰的实际情况布置数量不等的高射机枪。

When the first ship "Wrath" joined the Mao Xiong Red Navy in 1938, the problems of the "Wrath" class destroyers gradually became apparent.

First of all, the short forecastle design still leads to insufficient space inside the ship. Many sailors even have to squeeze two people into one bed.

Secondly, the center of gravity is unstable when sailing at high speed, and the hull may even vibrate.

Although relevant design agencies have adopted some remedial measures on subsequent ships, they have generally failed to improve these fatal shortcomings of the "Wrath" class destroyers.

As a last resort, the Mao Xiong Red Navy could only reduce the planned number of 53 ships to 28 ships.

During the Great Patriotic War, the "Wrath" class destroyers, like the "Leningrad" class and "Minsk" class destroyers, due to the loss of important ports, in most cases, in addition to serving as mobile forts to provide fire support to the land, Participate in escort activities on the Arctic route.

By the end of the war, a total of 28 of the 10 "Wrath" class destroyers had been sunk or destroyed.

Compared with the destroyer force that has lost its Mao Xiong style and has obvious shortcomings, Mao Xiong's submarine force is more worthy of praise.

You must know that Mao Xiong is one of the earliest countries in the world to independently develop submarines.

In 1717, Yefim Nikonov, who lived in the village of Bakrovsky in Moscow Province, wrote a letter to the then Emperor Peter I, reporting to him that he had designed a ship that could A ship that sails underwater. This special ship can dive underwater and sink enemy ships.

As a result, Yefim Nikonov was summoned to Petersburg by Emperor Peter I.

In 1724, some technicians built a submarine based on Yefim Nikonov's design. This was Russia's first submarine.

In May 1834, Russian engineer Alexander Andreevich Hild designed and built a submarine in Petersburg. The submarine had a displacement of 5t and a main dimension of 16m×6.0m×1.5m. , the diving depth is 2.0m.

The hull plating material of this submarine is iron plate with a thickness of 5mm.

A long rod extends forward from the bow of the submarine, and the end of the long rod is loaded with a mine with a mass of 16kg.

In 1876, engineer Stepan Kondzevitsky of the Bear designed a submarine, which was successfully built in 1879 and conducted submersible and underwater navigation tests in Lake Gatschinsky. The test results are very satisfactory.

In 1903, the "Dolphin" submarine designed by engineers Babunov and others was built at the Baltic Shipyard in Petersburg. The "Dolphin" submarine is a combat submarine truly used by Mao Xiong for military purposes.

The boat has a surface displacement of 113t, an underwater displacement of 123t, a length of 19.7m, and a width of 3.4m. The boat is equipped with two torpedo launchers. It uses two 300-horsepower gasoline engines when sailing on the surface. The speed is 10kn. Underwater When sailing, the propulsion motor on the boat is used, and the speed is 6kn.

From 1905 to 1912, Mao Xiong built the "Eel", "Shark", and "Leopard" class submarines. The completion of these submarines marked the further development and improvement of Mao Xiong's submarine technology at that time.

During the First World War, the performance of the "Black Duck" class submarines built by Mao Xiong was approved by the submarine force of the Mao Xiong Navy at that time, so the Mao Xiong Navy decided to build "Black Duck" class submarines in batches.

The mass construction plan of the "Black Duck" class submarines was implemented in 1915. However, due to the outbreak of disaster in October 1917, the mass construction work of the "Black Duck" class submarines was suspended.

In October 1908, the mine-laying submarine "Crab" was built at the Narfali shipyard in Nikolayev. This was the world's first mine-laying submarine. The practice of using submarines to lay mines at sea was called Mao Xiong. First of its kind.

After the "Crab" submarine was completed, it attracted the attention and interest of many navies in the world.

In 1915, the mines laid by the submarine "Crab" had successively sunk the cruiser "Breslav", torpedo boat and internal combustion engine ship, and played a significant role in the first world war.

After the fateful victory in October, the Soviets attached great importance to the construction and development of submarines.

In March 1926, the Soviets and Germany held secret talks on naval development in Berlin, after which Germany agreed to provide the Soviets with design drawings for the submarines that Germany had built during World War I.

In July 1926, the complete design drawings of four German submarines were sent to Moscow.

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While the Soviets were in contact with Germany to seek help from Germany, they were also formulating a Soviet naval development plan.

During the First Five-Year Plan from 1928 to 1932, submarines were listed as the focus of Soviet naval development. The naval ship construction plan initially formulated in the First Five-Year Plan included 18 large submarines and 5 small submarines. submarine.

Not long after the first Five-Year Plan was implemented, senior Soviet leaders quickly made significant adjustments to the number of submarines planned to be built during the First Five-Year Plan. After the adjustment, the goal was to Build 88 submarines.

其中“十二月党人”级潜艇6艘、L级潜艇6艘、“梭鱼”级系列Ⅲ型潜艇4艘、“真理”级潜艇 3艘、“梭鱼”级系列V型潜艇 12艘、“梭鱼”级系列V-1型潜艇 14艘、“梭鱼”级系列V-2型潜艇 13艘、“马留特加”级潜艇30艘。

After the Mao Xiong victory in October 1917, in less than ten years, the Soviet Navy had many submarines, and those submarines were basically designed and built by the Soviets after the October victory. submarine.

Mao Xiong’s capabilities in submarine design and construction have been recognized and noticed by countries around the world.

Mao Xiong's designers and engineers have gradually accumulated a lot of experience in the design and construction of submarines. In this process, Mao Xiong has not relaxed its efforts to obtain German submarine technology.

At that time, the Germans were unwilling to provide more submarine technology to Mao Xiong, and only agreed to provide limited assistance to help Mao Xiong design submarines.

So, in 1933, the Germans sold the blueprints of the S-class submarine to Mao Xiong.

Then, in the following years, the Germans sold a limited number of MAN diesel engines to Mao Xiong so that they could be equipped on Mao Xiong's submarines.

As the number of submarines continues to increase, the Mao Xiong Navy has gradually clarified the performance and use methods of various submarines, and divided the submarines they own.

After division, Soviet submarines are divided into four types - ocean-going submarines, large submarines, medium submarines and small submarines.

In order to distinguish these four types of submarines, the Bear Navy prefixes the numbers of these four types of submarines with the letters K, B, S, and M, respectively.

That is, K represents an ocean-going submarine, B represents a large submarine, S represents a medium submarine, and M represents a small submarine.

In July 1933, Mao Xiong approved the naval construction plan for the period 7-1933.

According to this construction plan, Mao Xiong intends to build a total of 369 submarines, including 69 large submarines, 200 medium submarines, and 100 small submarines.

In completing this massive construction project, the Woolly Bears used improved and refined construction techniques.

Most of the submarine's hull was welded instead of the riveting process used in the past, and an all-welded submarine was successfully built in 1934.

Due to the use of welding technology, the strength of the Mao Xiong Navy submarine hull has been unprecedentedly improved. At the same time, a large amount of steel was saved during the construction of the submarine, and the submarine construction cycle was also greatly shortened.

后来，毛熊对最初制定的潜艇发展规划的具体内容进行了修改，决定在 1933年—1938年期间计划建造的潜艇总数为198艘，其中M级系列Ⅵ型潜艇26艘、M级系列Ⅵ-1型潜艇 20艘、S级系列I型潜艇 3艘、S级系列列-1型潜艇 47艘、SHCH级系列X型潜艇32艘、L级系列XI型潜艇 6艘、M级系列X型潜艇 5艘、M级系列X-1型潜艇 46艘、L级系列Ⅷ型潜艇7艘、K级系列XIV型潜艇6艘。

The S-class submarine built by the Mao Xiong Navy actually used design drawings provided by Germany.

Before the construction of S-class submarines, some Mao Xiong submarine designers were sent to Germany to negotiate with German submarine designers on design modifications to this class of submarines.

Then, three German engineers were sent to Leningrad in the Bear to help the Bears build the first S-class submarine.

The first S-class submarine was officially built at the Ordzhonikidze Shipyard in Leningrad on December 1934, 12.

There were three S-class submarines built in the first batch. They were originally named S-3, S-1 and S-2 submarines.

The M-class, SHCH, L-class and K-class submarines are all designed and built by Mao Xiong's submarine designers.

During this period, in addition to building submarines, the Soviet Navy also conducted in-depth research on air-independent propulsion systems on submarines.

These air-independent propulsion systems are currently what people call submarine AIP systems.

The Mao Xiong Navy started developing air-independent propulsion systems for submarines in the mid-20s.

In August 1938, Mao Xiong made a REDO-type diesel engine that did not rely on outside air, and equipped the engine on the S-8 submarine.

The S-92 submarine had conducted several navigation tests and dive tests, but the war broke out before the boat had time to conduct more sea trials.

As a result, the S-92 submarine was stored in the Sudamikh Shipyard in Leningrad in 1941. It was not until the end of the Second World War that the test work of the S-92 submarine was continued.

From the first three years of the Third Five-Year Plan, plus the first two Five-Year Plans, to June 3, when the German Nazi army attacked the Bear, during this 1941-year period (that is, from 6 to 14, the German Nazi army By the time of the attack on Mao Xiong), Mao Xiong Navy had built a total of 1928 submarines.

In September 1939, when the European continent was involved in the Second World War, Mao Xiong already had the largest submarine force in the world. At this time, the Mao Xiong Navy had a total of 9 submarines in service.

In addition, there are 37 submarines under construction or outfitting in various shipyards in Leningrad.

On June 1941, 6, when the German Nazi troops invaded the Bear and the war between the two countries broke out, the Bear Navy had a total of 22 submarines.

In terms of quantity, Mao Xiong had the largest underwater combat force in the world at that time. In addition, there are still 22 submarines in the construction stage at several shipyards in Leningrad.

During the entire Second World War, the submarines of the Mao Xiong fleets sank a total of 322 German and Axis warships and auxiliary ships, with a total tonnage of 938313 tons.

However, the losses of Mao Xiong Navy submarines during the Second World War were also very serious.

On June 1941, 6, when the German army invaded Mao Xiong, the Mao Xiong Navy had a total of 22 submarines in service. However, by May 215, there were only 1945 submarines left, and a total of 5 submarines were lost during the war.

After the Second World War, some experts from Western countries analyzed and evaluated the combat activities of Mao Xiong's submarines during the second World War. These experts pointed out that the performance and armament of Mao Xiong's submarines were very good. Relatively outstanding.

However, the results achieved by Amoxian submarine operations during the second station were not ideal.

There are certainly many reasons for this situation, but the basic reason is that the crews of Soviet submarines did not have enough training.

Although the crew of the Mao Xiong Navy submarine performed very bravely in the war, their brave actions and fearless spirit could not make up for the losses caused by the insufficient training of the Soviet submarine crews.

Among these submarines, the C-13 submarine is undoubtedly the best. The Stalin-class submarine (because C is the pronunciation of S in Russian) is a C-class medium-sized submarine built in large quantities by the Mao Xiong Navy before the Second Station. The length of the submarine is 78 meters and the water displacement 780 tons, with an underwater displacement of 1070 tons, a maximum water speed of 19.5 knots, and a maximum underwater speed of 9 knots.

主要武器有6具533毫米鱼雷发射管（前４后２），备12枚鱼雷，甲板上有1门100毫米高平两用炮、1门45毫米高射炮，另备有水雷。

It has an endurance of 10.4 nautical miles on the water at a cruising speed of 9800 knots, an endurance of 3 nautical miles at a speed of 148 knots underwater, a submersible depth of 100 meters, a crew of 45 (8 officers), a continuous underwater stay of 72 hours, and a self-sustainability of 30 days.

But the irony is that the C-class submarine is not of pure Soviet origin. The design of the boat originated from a cooperation between the Soviet and German military industries before the Second Station. Mao Xiong basically copied the design of the E-1 class ocean-going submarine of the German IVS (Netherlands) company. drawing.

Therefore, the C-class submarine is a standard Soviet-German hybrid.

During the second stop, a cruise ship was converted into a submarine patrol ship and docked at the Gdynia pier for a long time.

Thousands of soldiers and officers of the German Navy underwent rigorous training on the "Wilhelm Gustloff" to become terrifying "underwater killers", and the "Wilhelm Gustloff" also Known as the "Wolf's Den".

By 1945, the German army was retreating steadily, the German mainland was being bombed indiscriminately, and the military factories could no longer manufacture submarines. The training mission of the "Wilhelm Gustloff" was no longer busy.

In early 1945, Mao Xiong's major counterattack forced a large number of German wounded soldiers and refugees into the Gothafen area of ​​East Prussia, and they were in urgent need of withdrawal to Germany.

Soon, "Wilhelm Gustloff" received an order to set sail from the port of Gothafen at noon on January 1 to transport wounded soldiers and refugees in the area to the port of Kiel in western Germany.

Because everyone wanted to escape the death zone as soon as possible, there was chaos when the German refugees were evacuated and boarded the ship. The number of people boarding the "Wilhelm Gustloff" exceeded the approved passenger capacity by more than five times.

经事后统计，这艘船上有173名船员、918名海军第二潜艇教导师学员、373名海军女医护人员、162名伤兵、8956名难民（大部分是妇女儿童），总人数为10582人。

Overloading is overloading. Wartime conditions are special. But after the huge "Wilhelm Gustloff" set sail, it was accompanied only by the "Hansa" passenger ship full of refugees and two torpedo boats, and the "Hansa" The USS and one of the torpedo boats broke down and did not continue moving forward, leaving only the "Lion", a torpedo boat with no anti-submarine capabilities, to escort.

Because the German Baltic Submarine Fleet Headquarters believed that there were no Soviet warships in the area, it sent a telegram to inform the "Wilhelm Gustloff" that it could sail with confidence.

Derek Peterson, the 63-year-old captain of the Wilhelm Gustloff, has just taken office. He has not commanded a ship for many years and has little experience in dealing with wars.

At around 18: that day, Captain Peterson received a telegram from the German Navy, informing him that a fleet of small minesweepers of the German Navy was heading towards the "Wilhelm Gustloff" and be careful to avoid it.

After reading the telegram, Captain Peterson without hesitation gave the order to turn on the lights on the ship to avoid collision with the incoming ship.

It was Captain Peterson's stupid order that attracted the lurking hunter - the Soviet C-13 submarine.

The C-13 submarine of the Baltic Fleet of the Mao Xiong Navy, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Alexander Malinesco, left the home port of Leningrad, the Mao Xiong Navy, and headed for the sea coast between the Gulf of Gdansk in Poland and the Gulf of Pomerania in Germany. Land lines of communication, carrying out routine combat missions of single-boat hunting and waiting for opportunities to attack German naval ships. To put it bluntly, they just wait and see and take advantage of any advantage.

This sea area is basically controlled by the German Navy. In order to conceal its operations, the C-13 submarine sailed slowly in shallow water along the narrow Baltic Sea coastline, using seabed echoes to avoid detection by enemy anti-submarine equipment.

On the evening of January 1, the submarine C-30 kept sailing at periscope depth to the waters near the Black Ear Peninsula in Poland. The officer on duty on the boat reported to the captain Malinesco:

A large moving target with flashing lights is found on the left front.

Due to the extremely poor visibility at sea at that time, Major Malinesco could not determine the nature of the target after careful observation. However, based on experience, there were no Soviet ships in this area. The incoming ship was about 200 meters long. It should be a German ship. Heavy cruiser or large troop carrier.

At the same time, Malinesco also discovered the escort of small ships.

This large ship did not implement a blackout. Instead, the lights were brightly lit. It sailed at a slow speed and had no evasive action at all. It was a living target. However, the large ship did not realize that the disaster was right in front of it.

After discovering the target, the Mao Xiong C-13 submarine turned and sailed into the waters between the port side of the "William Gustloff" and the coastline. In order to maintain speed, the C-13 kept sailing in the snorkel state.

At this time, the escorting torpedo escort boat "Lo" was sailing on the starboard side of the "Wilhelm Gustloff" and was blocked from sight. In addition, there were rolling hills on the coastline. When looking from the sea to the land, it was dark visually. Germany No one has discovered the periscope of the Wooly Bear submarine.

At 19: "Wilhelm Gustloff" turned off its side lights, but it was too late.

At 21:13, the captain Malinesco ordered the C-23 submarine to accelerate. At 90:, he successfully surpassed the parallel "Wilhelm Gustloff" and pointed the bow of the boat to the course to form the most ideal position between the submarine and the attack target. degree attack angle.

Malinesco prepared to launch the torpedoes in the four launch tubes at the bow of the boat at once to give the Germans a fatal blow.

According to the usual practice of the Mao Xiong Navy, the sailors had already written slogans on the bodies of these four torpedoes, which are: "For the motherland!", "For the Soviet people!", "For Leningrad!" ” and “For Stalin!”

The temperature in the Baltic Sea at the end of January was only minus 1 degrees, and there were a lot of ice floes on the sea. The "William Gustloff", which did not dare to drive at high speed, slowly sailed into the trap set by the Mao Bear Man.

At 21:08, following Captain Malinesco’s order, the torpedoes, one after another, ran straight towards the “William Gustloff” 700 meters away like wild horses at an interval of two seconds. Number.

Such a close distance, such a good angle, such a large and slow target, it is difficult for the launched torpedo not to hit.

One minute later, three torpedoes at a fixed depth of 1 meters exploded one after another. The first torpedo hit just below the rudder, and the ship was immediately unable to be controlled;

The location where the second torpedo exploded was in the cabin where the female naval medical staff slept, and many female soldiers were instantly frightened;

The third torpedo hit the engine room and lost power; only the torpedo with "For Stalin!" written on it was stuck in the launch tube due to malfunction and could not move.

However, three torpedoes were enough to send the "Wilhelm Gustloff" to the bottom of the sea.

The "Wilhelm Gustloff" surged into a large amount of seawater in the violent explosion. The hull quickly tilted to the left and ignited a raging fire. As a result, most of the lifeboats on the ship could not be lowered and used. The crew only lowered the only one. lifeboat.

At this time, the ship was in chaos. Everyone was scrambling to escape, and countless people died due to the crush. Only some women and children were escorted to the lifeboat by the officers and soldiers with guns.

Forty-five minutes after the explosion, the "Wilhelm Gustloff" completely sank, and everyone on the deck fell into the water. Even men who could swim in the cold and biting water could not last long, let alone women and children.

The torpedo escort boat "Lo" rushed into rescue, but its tonnage was too small and only rescued 472 people. Then several German ships came and rescued some people (Hipper arrived and rescued 564 people) , but worried that the submarine was still nearby, they left in a hurry), but most of the innocent refugees became martyrs of the German NC.

Skern, one of the survivors of the shipwreck, was in charge of training submarine trainees on the ship "Wilhelm Gustloff". He recalled the disaster:

"At that time, a torpedo hit the passenger ship, and I tried to climb to the upper deck through the gangway. Just below, I saw a scene that I will never forget: many adults struggling in the sea; thousands of children floating on the sea They all drowned with their heads down and their feet up! It turned out that the children’s heads were heavier than their feet, and the passenger ship did not have life jackets specially designed for children, so all these children drowned.”

According to subsequent statistics, only 1239 people were rescued and 9343 people were buried under the sea in this disaster.

The Soviet submarine C-13 had been observing not far away from the "Wilhelm Gustlov". After confirming that the behemoth had sunk, the captain Malinesco ordered the submarine C-13 to dive and speed away from the place. A sea area.

It was not until they returned to their home port that these Soviet officers and soldiers knew that they had sunk a large German training ship with a displacement of more than 25000 tons (because they had always thought that they had sunk a heavy cruiser). For this reason, the C-13 The submarine was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the highest award of the Soviet Navy. The entire crew received collective medals, and the captain Malinesco was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

The sinking of the "Wilhelm Gustloff" undoubtedly dealt a heavy blow to NC Germany, which was on the verge of destruction.

In order to prevent the German military and civilians from panicking, the supreme ruler strictly blocked the news. All survivors and insiders were warned not to disclose any information to outsiders. The German news media did not report on this incident.

Civilians were the biggest victims of the war, although some people believed that the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff by the Soviet C-13 submarine, which killed a large number of women and children, was a war crime.

But once the war breaks out, it is impossible to completely distinguish between soldiers and civilians. Moreover, the "Wilhelm Gustloff" is not a civilian ship. It is a training ship for the German Navy. It is equipped with artillery, machine guns and other weapons. Carrying more than a thousand soldiers, it is a serious warship. The Soviet C-13 submarine should be responsible for attacking the enemy ship.

Even for refugee ships, it was inevitable to be sunk in the war environment at that time.

After the second station, for various reasons, the sinking of the "Wilhelm Gustloff" was never publicly disclosed, and people who knew about it gradually forgot about it.

But the most powerful thing about Mao Xiong is the Army. When the German Blitzkrieg invaded Mao Xiong, people marveled at the power of the German armored mechanized forces, but without exception ignored the equipment of Mao Xiong in the west and the overall equipment strength of Mao Xiong. Although in the early battles, The Mao Xiong was successfully attacked by Germany without any warning, so the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Minsk is basically understandable.

But during the Battle of Kiev, the situation may have been very different. Even though Mao Xiong's initial prediction of the war strategy was too late, he basically came to his senses in August. By this time, Mao Xiong already had millions of troops on the Kiev front. , and Uncle Xi was not very calm at this time, because after the battle began, the shortcomings in equipment between Su and Germany began to slowly become apparent.

In the early stages of the Battle of Minsk, Mao Xiong's KVI tanks appeared and basically crushed the German attack in some areas. The famous German 6th Armored Division was even stuck on the main road by a Soviet KV2 tank and failed to make any progress for three days.

The German army tried to use all the artillery on the front line except the 88mm anti-aircraft gun, but it was basically unable to effectively destroy this type of Soviet tank. The 2mm 150-fold heavy artillery of Mao Xiong's KV24 tank, coupled with the machine gun on the hull, formed an alternating firepower like a fortress. Efficiently kill German targets rushing in front of the tank.

The KV2 tank is a temporarily modified version of the Mao Xiong KV1 tank. Its front body armor is 80 mm and the turret armor is about 110 mm.

Germany did not have heavy tanks at the time. The heaviest tank was the Type IV D tank, which had a frontal armor of only 50 mm and was equipped with a 75 mm 24-caliber tank gun. Its tank positioning at that time was basically focused on fire support on the battlefield. The main anti-tank operations were the German Panzer III G and H tanks as the main force.

The maximum tonnage of the Type 20 H tank is only about 40 tons, and the armor protection is about 50 mm and does not meet the 50 mm standard. What shocked Mr. Xi was that in order to quickly produce tanks, the German military industry companies did not According to the priority instructions given by Uncle Xi to the main gun of the Panzer III tank, a German 60 mm -caliber tank gun was installed.

Instead, it installed a 50mm 42-diameter tank gun that is simpler and lighter to manufacture. Facts have proved that the combat capabilities of this type of tank gun are basically equivalent to the Soviet BT series fast tanks and the 26-mm 45-diameter tank equipped with the T46 tank. There is nothing outstanding. At least in terms of data, the main guns of tanks on both sides have the ability to penetrate 500 mm homogeneous armor at a distance of 50 meters.

Moreover, Maoxiong's BT7 series tanks had a top speed of 60 kilometers per hour and were one of the few in Europe at the time in terms of maneuverability. The T26 tank performed like the king of the field in the Battle of Nomenkan.

The Xiaobenzi Type 92 tank was basically completely defeated in the frontal confrontation with the Mao Xiong T26 tank. During the German Blitzkrieg invasion of Mao Xiong, Mao Xiong's cumulative production of this type of tank basically exceeded .

The actual situation at that time was that all Soviet T26 tanks in the border areas were completely lost during the war. Just three weeks after the war began, 3000 T26 tanks were completely missing on the border.

The only reason is that they were blown up and captured by the Germans before they could be used, or they were wiped out by German armored units in a rapid counterattack. This feels very incredible. These armored units were replaced by British and French soldiers on the battlefield. A direct loss, I'm afraid this might be a direct surrender, although France at the time was an example.

Only the Mao Xiong could withstand such a large-scale loss of armored units at that time, but it is difficult to explain why the Mao Xiong would be defeated so miserably when the equipment level was equivalent.

The reserve output of the T28 tank at that time was only a few thousand units. It was the medium-sized main battle tank model worthy of the name Maoxiong in the early days of the Second Station. Its tonnage and firepower were comparable to the German Panzer IV tank.

Its frontal armor also ranges from 35 mm to 40 mm. It is equipped with a main turret and is equipped with a Soviet 76 mm 26-caliber K28 tank gun. Its armor protection ranges from 20 mm to 40 mm. It has reinforced additional armor. Steel plates are not included, and its secondary turret is equipped with two 2mmDT machine guns.

The T28 tank has five cumulative secondary weapons (two turret machine guns, one coaxial machine gun, one spherical machine gun mount, and one anti-aircraft machine gun). It has 7938 rounds of ammunition. Its total tonnage is 32 tons, and its maximum highway speed reaches 45 kilometers per hour, and off-road capability is reduced to 19 kilometers per hour.

There are also a small number of black technology model Mao Xiong T35 heavy tanks, referred to as land battle cruisers. They appeared for the first time in the outskirts of the Battle of Stalingrad to frighten off a German attack, and were directly destroyed by the concentrated firepower of the German army. Apart from this, there are actual Except for the reported combat examples, the rest seemed to have been basically wasted and used as live targets by German Stuka bombers.

Including the later mass production of Mao Xiong, including the 1940 T34 tank that Mao Xiong served in the early days of World War II. Each tank taken individually seems to be more protective than the German series tanks, and its firepower is even more terrifying.

1940年的苏军T34坦克除主炮采用的是76毫米30.5倍径野战炮外，正面倾斜装甲也是45毫米，炮塔装甲在50毫米左右。

Such a comparison seems to make it clear who is stronger and has more war potential in the early stage of the second station. However, the actual situation was that Mao Xiong was almost suppressed by the German army from 1941 to 1942, except for the advanced T34 tanks and KVI tanks. The remaining tanks were completely wiped out by the German army and basically withdrawn from active service, or their chassis were converted to second-line support vehicles and second-line troops.

If these equipment of Mao Xiong were placed on the battlefield in Asia at that time, which one would not be the Far Eastern Leopard, the king of land warfare in the true sense.

Therefore, if we are not looking for shortcomings in weapons, we must look for reasons from Mao Xiong’s tactical literacy and tank warfare tactics. Facts have proved that a good and complete tactical system can basically crush everything and make up for the performance deficiencies of all weapons.

The German army basically did this to the extreme, allowing the German army to maintain its offensive momentum on the Eastern Front battlefield in a daze for 2 years. It was these two short years of Yu Mao Xiong's exhaustion on the frontal battlefield that allowed the German army to maintain the offensive momentum on the Eastern Front battlefield for years. Later, even the German army equipped the late Type IV tanks with stronger firepower.

Neither the Panther tank nor the Tiger tank could change the overall situation of the war. The fact that the Mao Bear completely reversed the situation strategically was that Germany was a medium-sized country after all. Even if it annexed France, the Czech Republic, and several other countries in Western and Eastern Europe, it could not change the situation. Basically increase Germany's war resource reserves, especially the shortage of rare earth resources and rare iron ore resources.

In fact, the Blitzkrieg had completely failed since Germany's defeat at the gates of Moscow in 1941. As a medium-sized country, Germany's little chance of becoming a superpower was basically exhausted.

And with the Neon wave of the most powerful team in Asia bombing Pearl Harbor, Italy miraculously collapsed thousands of miles in North Africa and could not even defeat more than half of the British mercenaries. This basically established that Germany had no possibility of victory. With the Ugly Kingdom's entry into the war, the era of the Third Reich that began with the Battle of Normandy was declared to be completely over.

(End of this chapter)