The Rise of the Empire

The use of support points to defend is an important part of the new defense concept brought by the prince. It does not care about the gains and losses of non-key defense lines, but stuck a few key points. Limited forces are concentrated to offset the offensive's quantitative advantage.

;His Royal Highness, who had visited the General Staff of Prussia, shared this tactic with his Prussian counterparts, and was endorsed by the latter, but unfortunately, Hindenburg and others only learned something. The true essence is not comprehended.

; Hindenburg ordered the heavy weapons squadron to fight in front of it. It wanted to rely on firepower to crush those important support points, at least to suppress these firepower points, and to provide opportunities for close blasting and division. After all, the core of battalion-level defense is machine guns and mortars, and these weapons are few in number. Considering a certain attack direction, it is not difficult to suppress these firepower points.

; But what Hindenburg could not think of was that the cover position built with semi-automatic rifle firepower could take on the blockade task when the main firepower point was suppressed! The time for strong firepower suppression is limited. After all, there are so many ammunition. If you can't break through before the fight, you can only withdraw it.

; Hindenburg, who had anticipated this situation a long time ago, decisively arranged the flanks to detour, but due to limited heavy weapons and mobility, the flanks’ support firepower was much weaker, but Hindenburg still believed that he could open a gap. , Because the opponent's forces and equipment are even more lacking!

"The formation mode of the opponent’s frontal defense line is centered on machine guns and mortar firepower points. A large number of double and 3-person bunkers are interspersed to make up for the lack of firepower points. According to the opponent’s equipment, they cannot maintain on the flanks With this configuration, they don't have that much equipment." Before the attack, Hindenburg had said this.

On the flanks, the prince blocked the opponent’s attack with another defensive posture. The support points established by squads replaced the coordination of fire points and foxholes. Although there were not enough machine guns and mortars, he relied on The firepower of 4 semi-automatic rifles and one grenadier per squad can still suppress the immobility of colleagues who have the same insufficient firepower on the front.

; Different from the frontal multi-layer defense model, the side forces are almost concentrated in one line of defense. The original defense composed of three lines of defense has become two. When the force is greatly enriched, relying on stronger infantry firepower to allow defense Fang has better battlefield control.

"If you drag it any longer, there will be no results. The position they chose is too good. The heavy fire can only be deployed in the front, and the flanking space is not enough. So the other party does not need to judge our main attack direction." An officer said in dissatisfaction.

"Even if we attack from the side, even if the opponent makes a mistake in judging our attack direction, the result will not be too deviated. The flanking attack distance is relatively long, and the opponent's concentrated defense will eventually cause some trouble for our breakthrough. The stage of going to the trenches will also be blocked by the opponent. This period of time is enough for them to relocate their heavy weapons and then suppress our backup."

"In all fairness, the other party is also very prudent. There are no minefields and barbed wire fences. This saves us a lot of trouble. Let's go ahead. There will be no results if we continue to fight." Xiao Maoqi came out to the round. When the power gap is not too great, if the offensive force cannot break through the line of defense in a short time, then time will stand on the side of the opponent.

; If you just look at the exchange ratio of troops, your side is not too disadvantaged, the other side has saved face, and there is no need to fight to the end. But overall, the future chief of staff of the German Army is aware of the shift between the advantages of offense and defense in war. Before the emergence of powerful, high-speed breakthrough units, facing a defender with sufficient depth and a large number of artillery, the attacking side is becoming more and more difficult!

; But Hindenburg still wants to give it a try. The Prussian Army also has a commando composed of elite personnel, although it is not as highly integrated as the later Stormtroopers, which integrates elite infantry, engineering and artillery, and then After the artillery turned a certain position into an island, these elite infantry opened the gap.

An infantry carrying a mine-thrower named trench began to sneak in from the flanks under the cover of firepower. They succeeded in finding the blind spot of the opponent's firepower, crossing the blockade in a place that was absolutely not wide enough, relying on excellent individual qualities, they got close to the trench, and used their handguns to clean up the remnants in the trench.

; They even formed a breakthrough on the front, but it is a pity that they turned around and fell into the siege of their dominant opponents. After this elite force hit the wedge, the following troops did not keep up. The offensive on the frontal battlefield has already shown signs of decline, while the defending side has more reserves that can be transferred to the flank. Hindenburg's final troops were like a sharp arrow, successfully penetrating the outer steel armor of the knight. But at the same time the arrow was also broken.

The result of the final exercise was not as expected by the prince. The offensive team failed to break through the line of defense within 5 hours, and could not even lay two nails in the core position. The wedge that was easily penetrated was then removed. With the advancement of technology, the offensive and defensive situation on the battlefield is gradually changing. And because of the prince, the senior German army has a certain understanding of what will happen in the foreign war.

"I am less and less optimistic about the situation on the Western Front now. Our quick-to-fight and quick-decision strategy cannot be realized because of the supply problem. If I am not just an enemy in France, then we can still rely on strong industry and huge The population base of China overwhelms the opponent, but if the opponent becomes France and Russia ~www.readwn.com~, then we can only defeat one of them, and then reach an agreement with the other that is more favorable to Germany.

After the exercise, even Xiao Moqi admitted that the form facing Germany in the future will be far more difficult than expected. The French can't beat Germany, but relying on distance and defensive advantages can still delay a considerable amount of time, while the Russians The terrible war potential makes Germany desperate. At least the Prussian staff did not think of a way to crack under the existing system.

; "War is not an end, it is just a tool, not even the only tool. If I don't want to win, then besides the blood and fire on the battlefield, I have no other way. Through some means Let the fortress disintegrate from the inside. The probability of this situation in France is not high, but the Russians are different. Their ethnic problems and social contradictions do not have to be Austrian-Hungarian at all. There may be problems without the breakthrough that I looked for at the beginning. ."

; When Schlieffen asked the prince what he thought about the prospects of fighting on the two fronts in Germany, the prince decisively stated his plan. For more than ten years after crossing, the prince has been thinking about if a war breaks out. How to fight, and now he can finally inform the top German army of his ideas, and gradually exert his influence to finally implement it.

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