Alien Arms Empire

Chapter 497 Chapter 497
Sometimes things are so fantastic: Tang Mo's troops are equipped with M35 steel helmets, but they use improved vest-style equipment.

Because no one in this world has used poison gas, the gas mask tubes full of vertical stripes unique to the German army did not appear.

The tactical shovels used by these soldiers from the Tang Kingdom were Huaxia sapper shovels, and their leggings were the American version made of leather.

Their assaulters use Thomson submachine guns and M1911 self-defense pistols, but the rifles are G43 semi-automatic and Mauser Kar98K!

In terms of the choice of grenades, Tang Mo finally eliminated the German wooden handle black technology and chose American grenades that are more portable, but after changing hands, he equipped his soldiers with MG42 machine guns—a mix of German and American styles. Didn't take advantage of it either.

All soldiers are equipped with the standard patterned and colored camouflage raincoats of the German army, as well as the most classic reversible camouflage coveralls of the German army in World War II.However, in winter, the standard long overcoat style of these soldiers comes from the Soviet Red Army.

Because of Tang Mo's "hobbies", this team is now completely different.Five points resemble the German army, three points resemble the U.S. Army, and two points resemble the Soviet army.

Don't look at Tang Mo's preference for the German army in the choice of tanks and planes, but he directly fell to the United States in the choice of cars.

Most of the various models of cars equipped by Datang Kingdom are American models, except for the cars used by senior military officers.

In addition, Tang Jun will also have a large number of American aircraft in the air force in the future, such as the B-17 strategic bomber he is already engaged in, and the C47 transport aircraft responsible for transportation.

As a more practical model, the C47 transport aircraft has been in operation since the mass production of the Camel fighter jets. Now in Longdao, the number of C47 transport aircraft is actually quite a lot.

When it comes to the choice of artillery, Tang Mo is also a big fan. The artillery calibers he equips his troops are Western-style 105 and 155.

The main reason for this choice is that Tang Mo intends to return to the Huaxia route in the later stage. After all, the later the development, the stronger the Huaxia artillery that adheres to the artillery theory, and the more advanced the technology.

As for the choice of anti-aircraft artillery, the anti-aircraft artillery of the U.S. Army in World War II can only be said to be very average (the navy counts separately).Because it has air supremacy as soon as it enters the war, the US Army's air defense firepower is actually not strong.

In comparison, the German ground forces, which have been ravaged by the U.S. Air Force for several years and have been tempered for a long time, seem to have the right to speak.

The well-known 88mm anti-everything gun of the German army is very good, the only drawback is that it is a bit bulky.

In addition, San Dezi's various self-propelled anti-aircraft guns are also a dazzling array of models, and it is no problem to make a few casually.

With the experience and lessons of World War II, it is naturally impossible for Tang Mo to waste resources on half-track armored vehicles. He is more inclined to engage in tracked armored vehicles.

Therefore, the half-track armored vehicles that were active on various battlefields in World War II probably will not appear in this different world.

Instead, it is likely to be a lightweight armored personnel carrier similar to the M3 or BMP-they will cooperate with tanks on the battlefield, protecting infantry and allowing them to keep up with the speed of tank assaults.

Then count the self-propelled artillery that accompanied the tanks, the assault guns that covered the infantry's assault, and the tank destroyers that were distributed to the infantry...

The troops Tang Mo imagined to form had too many armored vehicles, and the production capacity required was astonishingly large.It will take more time to be fully realized.

Now, this is all an idea, and it is far from being realized: Tang Mo doesn't have the extra production capacity to make infantry fighting vehicles, which seriously occupy the production capacity of tanks.

So now Tang Mo can only honestly engage in motorized troops, and try to increase the penetration rate of trucks in the troops as much as possible.

This is actually a huge project, because if you want to equip more than a dozen divisions with trucks and realize the motorization of the troops, the number of trucks needed is really amazing.

According to the establishment, the number of cars in a division is as many as several hundred, and counting the tractors of the artillery regiment, troop carriers, trucks for logistics supplies, and ammunition vehicles... so many vehicles are accumulated, and an infantry division is equipped with A thousand trucks is not much.

By analogy, Tang Mo's main force needs at least 2 cars to realize motorization, and the parts needed for the maintenance of these cars alone can fill up several warehouses.

Such a combination finally produced such a classic scene that made Tang Mo a little bit dumbfounded: During an exercise on Dragon Island, he saw soldiers with Thomson submachine guns and M35 helmets covering a No. 4 tank slowly moving. go ahead.

Tang Mo couldn't bear to look at this picture full of post-modern irony.Once some things have been understood, it is really unbearable to look directly at them after there is a mashup.

Fortunately, Tang Mo is still on Dragon Island, and he can't see the lively scene of the 2nd Armored Division near Tongcheng changing their outfits.

American trucks staggered to a stop, and soldiers were busy unloading boxes of German oil drums.Next to it is an early short-tube No. 4 tank painted with camouflage in the late World War II.

Wearing a small black lapel jacket, the soldiers of the Datang Armored Forces, who are heavily cosplaying German armored soldiers of World War II, use the unsubstituting white color for their troops...

This army is simply an offline gathering of an unproven amateur war reenactment club, full of weird sense of disobedience everywhere.

It's just that everyone except Tang Mo couldn't see it - in the eyes of other countries, the strangeness of the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom came from something else.

For example, when the armies of various countries generally used uniforms of a single color, the troops of the Tang Kingdom wore the same clothes as the beggar gang leaders.

For example, when the armies of various countries were stingy and did not have a large-scale equipment of metal-consuming steel helmets, the Datang Kingdom actually equipped the entire army with good-looking steel helmets.

For example, most of the soldiers in the Tang Kingdom have individual self-defense weapons, that is, pistols.No other country has equipped ordinary soldiers with similar weapons on a large scale.

Of course, there are also countries that have purchased Mauser pistols from Cyric to equip their troops, but these countries are obviously using this semi-automatic pistol as a substitute for a submachine gun.

In the eyes of other countries, the Tang army is mysterious and powerful, with weirdness everywhere.Everyone subconsciously avoided the idea of ​​fighting Tang Jun, as if there was a chain invisibly imprisoning everyone's hands and feet.

From this point of view, the dandelions that Tang Mo scattered had already started to have an effect.They are subtly affecting the judgment of high-level decision makers in various countries.

Trying not to provoke Tang Mo has become a subconscious consensus among everyone, and this consensus is more effective than 20 troops in many cases.

On the 4th day after the Goblin Kingdom put tanks into battle, many residents on Dongwan Island saw another sight they would never forget in their lifetime.

With a constant, oppressive hum, they saw swarms of things flying overhead.

These things are noticeably smaller than airships, and also faster than airships.In a blink of an eye, these black dots have turned into the shape of a person, and then gradually lowered the height, and it seems that they are about to land on the other side of the mountain.

The locals knew that their new consul had earlier ordered the construction of a quirky facility on the outskirts of East Bay City.A super huge flat land was built there, with towering buildings beside it, and warehouses of various shapes...

Now, these flying monsters making ominous noises are gathering there, and there are as many as a dozen if you count them casually.

"Is that a dragon?" A farmer on Dongwan Island looked up at the plane that landed in the military restricted area not far away, and asked the village chief who was standing on the ridge in surprise.

"I heard that Your Majesty is from Dragon Island...Dragon Island, there must be dragons?" Another farmer straightened up, looking at another shaky landing plane, he asked nervously, not sure.

The old village chief looked at the C47 transport planes landing on Dongwan Island one after another from afar, and couldn't explain why they came here.After all, he didn't know what to call these flying things.

"I don't know either, but...it belongs to His Majesty...so we have nothing to worry about, right? We know this, that's enough." After a while, the old village chief came to his senses and thought about it That's why he said so.

On this day, the C47 fleet carrying newly graduated students from Longcheng University arrived in Dongwan, where they will board the ship to Linshui to supplement the teaching staff of Linshui University.

Compared with Goblin's earth-shattering launch of a big killer like a tank on the battlefield, the landing of the fleet in front of him seems a bit silent.

But those who know what all this means know who is really changing the world.This is the first time someone in this world has leaped across the ocean. This is a feat that only dragons can accomplish in legend.

And these aircraft that can fly over 2500 kilometers in one breath have already led the world by two full eras before they are well known.

In the past, it took about half a year to transport people from Long Island to Dongwan Island, and a month had to be chosen to realize it.

Not long ago, it took a long month of sailing to get from Long Island to Dongwan Island by ship.

Now, with airport transfers on several smaller islands, it only takes 4 days to get there!This is the power of technology!

No one knew that these planes actually took off from Long Island, crossed half of the endless sea, and arrived in Dongwan, so everyone was just shocked, not frightened.

If they knew the truth, no one would doubt the technical strength of the Datang Corporation, and no one would care about those clumsy steel bodies writhing beside the bomb craters on the northern battlefield of Gobul.

(End of this chapter)