The Third Reich: I seized power

“Your Excellency, after the completion of the second round of enlargement, the Third Reich Army will reorganize thirty-five infantry divisions.” Admiral Bromberg said.

Hess nodded, thirty-five infantry divisions, which didn’t seem like much. However, with the strong combat effectiveness of these infantry divisions, they will undoubtedly be able to defeat more enemies.

You know, the army of the Third Reich has never won victories on the battlefield with superiority in forces. Instead, it directly crushes the enemy with powerful combat effectiveness.

Under Hess, the firepower of the infantry division was further strengthened. It is foreseeable that these infantry divisions will perform even better on the battlefield.

“Your Excellency, in addition to infantry divisions, the army also has armored divisions. At present, the 1st Panzer Division has formed combat effectiveness. The Second and Third Panzer Divisions are being formed. In the next three years, we also plan to form 7 armored divisions, bringing the number of armored divisions in the Imperial Army to ten! Admiral Bromberg said.

“Yes! Although the armored forces are huge. However, the role on the battlefield is also very large. Ten armored divisions were formed, that was completely necessary! Hess agreed with the Army’s plan to form ten armored divisions.

Hess then approved the Army’s proposal for the formation of armored forces.

Each armored division had a tank regiment and two mechanized infantry regiments.

The tank regiment had three tank battalions, each equipped with sixty tanks. Each tank company was equipped with 18 taels of tanks, plus six tanks at the battalion headquarters to form a tank battalion.

In total, each tank regiment had one hundred and eighty tanks.

Each mechanized infantry regiment has a tank battalion and two mechanized infantry battalions.

Mechanized infantry battalion armed with two combat vehicles. One is a hyena infantry fighting vehicle of tracked construction with a frontal armor thickness of 20 mm and side and rear armor of 15 mm. Armament is equipped with a 20 mm rapid-fire gun and a 7.92 mm universal machine gun. In addition to the driver and electromechanics, five members can be seated in the rear. There are shooting holes in the hull of the car, which make it possible to shoot inside the car and out.

The other is a Hound armored personnel carrier with a half-track structure. The frontal armor was 20 mm, the side and rear armor – 15 mm. Armament is one 12.7 mm heavy machine gun and one 7.92 mm universal machine gun. In addition to the driver and electromechanics, five members can be seated in the back. There are also firing holes in the hull for external shooting.

Each mechanized infantry squad is equipped with a hyena infantry fighting vehicle and a hound-type armored personnel carrier.

Thus, a mechanized infantry battalion equipped with fifty hyenas is an infantry fighting vehicle and fifty armored personnel carriers of the Hound type.

In this way, the armored divisions of the Third Reich were equipped with three hundred tanks, two hundred hyena infantry fighting vehicles and two hundred hound-type armored personnel carriers.

In addition to this, the armored division had an artillery regiment armed with 18 150-mm self-propelled howitzers and 36 105-mm self-propelled howitzers. Each tank regiment and mechanized infantry regiment was also armed with a company of six 105-mm self-propelled howitzers.

The division consisted of reconnaissance battalions and power search battalions, equipped with a small number of wolf tanks, hyena infantry fighting vehicles and hound-type armored personnel carriers.

Plus divisional headquarters, engineering battalions, heavy troops.

The strength of each armored division reached more than 12,000 men, and the number of tanks reached more than 300.

Currently, these tanks are all Wolf light tanks. When the Panther tanks are mass-produced, some tank battalions in the Panzer Division will be replaced with Panther tank battalions.

As for the future Tiger heavy tanks, whether they will be integrated into the various armored units or put into the battlefield as independent heavy tank battalions, we will have to see the specific situation of the time.

Compared with the armored division of the Third Reich in another time and space, the armored division of this time and space is undoubtedly larger and equipped with more tanks. Another armored division in time and space generally has only more than two hundred tanks.

The armored divisions in this time and space are half more.

Of course, there is no way to compare with the heavy armored divisions of the Eagle Sauce Country on the other side of the ocean, and the Eagle Sauce has a lot of money, and each heavy armored division is equipped with 152 light tanks and 232 medium tanks. The number of tanks armed with each division reached 380. Even the light armored division was armed with 77 light tanks and 168 medium tanks, bringing the number of tanks to 245.

In another time and space in World War II, Eagle Sauce formed 16 armored divisions, including two heavy armored divisions and 14 light armored divisions. In addition to this, there were a large number of independent tank battalions.

Of course, the tank performance of the eagle sauce is very bad, whether it is the M3 light tank, or the M3Lee medium tank, and the M4 medium tank, they are not opponents of the Panther medium tank of the Third Reich. Not to mention facing the Tiger heavy tank, it is even more vulnerable.

The only advantage is that Eagle Sauce’s strong industrial strength can drown the enemy in a sea of tanks by crazy rioters.