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The change in the situation immediately caused a chain reaction. Britain, France and the United States immediately changed their strength of their attack on Germany, but this was useless. After enduring for more than a year, the Germans finally showed their sharp minions. The tiger still had to eat people in the end. Britain, France and the United States did not understand this principle, so they repeatedly compromised with Germany. In fact, blind compromise did not bring any gains. The glass of bitter wine that the Allies drank in the end was brewed by the Allies themselves!

This transformation of Germany is a great thing for China. Although the population loss in the war is not very large, the consumption of national strength is not a small number. The country has begun to operate overload and the people's living standards have begun to decline. If it is not adjusted properly, then the next stage of war will be very unfavorable.

However, when he saw Germany's sudden rise, Zhao Gang was also a little surprised. He originally thought that Germany must have been weak because of its own problems. Now it seems that this is more like a kind of indulgence in the French attack, and then uses the advantage of defense to consume France's spirit, and finally takes advantage of the momentum to counterattack. This kind of forbearance is not something that ordinary people can achieve. Hitler of World War II did a very bad job in this regard, seizing the initiative everywhere, but he still lost a lot in the end. Different history, Germany became so scary, which made Zhao Gang a little worried. After seeing the German offensive plan, Zhao Gang couldn't help but smile bitterly. Isn't this a variant of Schliffen's plan? Why didn't the French remember and ended up being hit!

Maybe it was the Maginot line that attracted pride in the French, that Zhao Gang secretly speculated in his heart.

World War I caused nearly 500 deaths and injuries to the French army. After the war, the painful lessons caused the French people to fall into an extreme mood. That is, they must stop the enemy's re-invasion at all costs. Against this background, a military defense line of about 700 miles long and cost nearly 50 francs was built. This is the world-famous Maginot Line named after the French Minister of War Andre Maginot at the time. But such a steel defense line that once claimed to be "imperfect" has become the biggest laughing stock in world military history.

The Maginot Line of Defense was built in 1906 and was built in c. From north to south, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and is 700 kilometers long. This concept is probably only the Great Wall of China. The Maginot Line of Defense Project is beyond imagination. It has 44 large fortresses and 100 underground tunnels, with a size of ~|: 3. The total earthwork of the project is square meters. A large number of workers from the French colonies worked day and night. From 1906 to 1910, it took a total of 6 hours to basically complete the main part of the project. The total cost of the project is as high as Lang, which is equivalent to the total fiscal budget of France at that time.

In addition, the advanced technology of Maginot Line of Defense is also amazing. In the fortification, the command center, dormitory, canteen, turret, ammunition room, repair shop, hospital and even special dentist clinics, everything is available. The most powerful level of Maginot Line of Defense is probably its artillery command system. The movable turret that extends out of the ground weighs several tons can be lifted and lowered up and down freely and rotated up and down. These can be easily completed with the help of a huge earth mechanical equipment. In wartime, the turret lifts out of the ground and can shoot at enemies from any direction. In peacetime, the turret can be lowered to the ground. If you are not careful, you will not find a cannon hidden here. When the enemy attacks, soldiers distributed in important observation posts of the fortification can use periscopes to observe the enemy situation and report to the artillery command inside the fortification. The command center will turn the enemy situation into a position.

The location is analyzed, and then the data is transmitted to the turret command post through a mechanical transmission system. The command post adjusts the angle of the artillery according to the command of the command post and performs accurate strikes on the enemy. This series of actions can be completed in just a few minutes. A narrow-gauge train is built inside the fortifications, which can transport ammunition supplies to various combat points in a timely manner. Ammunition, food, and power generation fuel can ensure that soldiers stay in March without having to step out of the hole. In order to avoid long-term life in dark and humid underground, the soldiers also installed heating systems inside the fortress to ensure the dryness and constant temperature of the cave. Each fortress has a hall, which is usually used to play movies and play dramas. Once the war is in trouble, the soldiers can come here to receive "sunlight" illumination simulated by the strong light of high-power bulbs.

The ridiculous thing is that such a huge, advanced and unprecedented fortification was easily captured by the German army without wasting a shot. In 5th of 1917, the German mechanized troops raided Belgium, crossed the Ardennes, invaded France, and directly penetrated behind the Maginot Line of Defense, and at the same time approached the city of Paris. At this time, the French soldiers who were defending the Maginot Line of Defense did not draw any soldiers and soldiers in the direction of the capital, and were still waiting tenaciously for the enemy to attack head-on. The result was naturally imagined.

When a country no longer spends military expenses to attack forces, but instead tries to focus its strength on prevention and fortifications, the country is unwilling to be defeated. It is as far away as Qin Shihuang, unifying the six countries, with the same tracks and writings. How heroic, it is broken by the construction of the Great Wall, and the people's power is overthrown by Liu Bang and others. Sometimes, once the thoughts are bound, the country will decline soon.

However, the French battle was not without highlights. In the naval battle with six German super battleships, the four French battleships performed beyond the standard. Although the last four were all sunk to the bottom of the sea, they still achieved good results in sinking two "William III" and battleships, which made Zhao Gang amazed.

How it is done.

Soon the detailed description of the Richelieu battleship reached the Zhao Gang case, and the Richelieu-class ship No. 1, "Riceliu", started construction in Brest in 1022 in 1911. In the following four years, the second ship "Jean Barr" and the third ship "Clermontso" started construction one after another. Before World War II, the French Navy, because its colonies were mainly concentrated in North Africa, was mainly to seize the local sea rights of the Mediterranean and the East Atlantic, and to ensure the maritime alliance between the colonies and France.

Therefore, as the core of the local main fleet, the Richelieu-class battleship, its combat idea is to be able to fight the Italian main ship fleet in the Mediterranean, and at the same time carry out escort, break the diploma and support for land fire, and suppress tasks. Based on this, the Richelieu-class has the following characteristics in design: it has high speed but does not require too high endurance; it has a main gun that can deal with the new Italian battleship; it has a strong horizontal armor belt, and also has to enhance air protection capabilities.

Starting from the Dunkirk class, French battleships adopted a very unique layout method: all four-unit main guns are arranged on the fore deck. There is no main gun on the rear deck, and only several secondary turrets are arranged on the stack. The Richelieu-class battleship also adopted this overall layout plan: its front deck is equipped with 2 434-meter main guns, and no main guns are installed on the rear deck. Three triple-unit secondary guns are arranged in a font shape. The layout of the two main turrets is all arranged in front of the bridge, reducing the area of ​​heavy armor protection and saving weight to strengthen the defense capabilities of key areas. The disadvantage of this main turret layout is that there are blind spots when the main gun is fired.

At the beginning of the Richelieu-class design, France planned to install 480-meter main guns on it: 9 meters main guns were installed on a 3 triple turret, arranged in "two seats on the front deck back". Later, it was discovered that this plan greatly exceeded the tonnage of the battleship, and the construction cost was unbearable. Then it was changed to a 6480 mm main gun with 2 turrets in front. But in this way, the number of main guns in the entire ship was too small and the fire density was insufficient. Finally, after careful weighing, a 434-meter caliber main gun was used on the Richelieu. Its weight is light and can install 8 artillery in a 4-connected manner, which correspondingly increases the fire density.

The barrels of artillery in France and the United Kingdom are the shortest, 45 times the caliber; Italy has 50 caliber, and Germany has 52 times (typically 47 times) caliber. However, the loading of the fired medicine in France is the largest, so although the barrels of the legal artillery are the shortest and the projectiles are heavier, the initial velocity, range and armor-piercing ability are not lower than those of similar artillery. Each quadron turret of the 434-meter naval gun is heavy ton. The turret is hydraulically controlled and an electric hydraulic pump is used as the driving power. The turret is 4 in the turret.

The artillery is divided into two groups, with two cannons in each group connected and relatively independent from the other group of ground 2 cannons. Therefore, from a structural perspective, the layout of the Richelieu-class artillery is actually 222, rather than 42 appearance. Another feature of the 434-meter artillery turret is that it can be loaded at any angle. Due to the use of a land loading system called "elastic loading", the combat rate of fire of the artillery is increased, which is significantly higher than that of other battleships loaded at fixed angles.

At the beginning of the design, the Richelieu class also required its main armor to be able to withstand the bombardment of 434 meters of artillery at meters (at this time, the 434 mm armor-piercing shell can penetrate 431 mm armor plates). The front of the gun saved a lot of weight, so the "Richelieu" had enough weight indicators for armor protection. The armor plate near its waterline was 428 meters thick and had a 15 inclination angle. There was also a 18-mm thick anti-collapse liner after the armor plate. In non-important parts at the head and tail of the ship, the armor thickness was 127-152 meters.: mm, 370 meters thick on the side, and the seat armor thickness was 505 meters. The standard for armor protection of the command tower should not be lower than that at the waterline, and the armor thickness of the "Richelieu" ground command tower armor thickness reached 540 mm.

When the "Richelieu" was designed, the threat from the air was increasing. Therefore, in addition to installing a large number of air-to-air artillery, it also strengthened horizontal armor. There were two decks on the ship, with the first layer being 150-170 meters thick and the second layer being 40-100 meters thick, which can effectively reduce the damage of missiles to warships. The armor on the top of the turret is also thicker than that of ordinary battleships, which is meters. After enhancing horizontal armor, the protection ability of the hull has been effectively improved.

When France designed the Richelieu class ship, it required a higher speed. The Richelieu used a steam turbine with a total power of 15 horsepower and a 4 propulsion. The designed speed was as follows: The Jean-Bar, the second ship of this class, was completed after the war, and adopted a new host of 176,000 horsepower, with a speed of 32 knots. In the test after the launch of the Richelieu class, the host reached a peak power of 15. The maximum speed reached 32 knots, and could sail at a speed of 30 for 60 hours. Compared with high speed, the endurance of the Richelieu class is not outstanding. However, fighting in the Mediterranean waters, the endurance of the warship is not high, so this disadvantage has little impact on combat effectiveness.

In the decisive battle with William III, French warships always used this fierce fighting method to fight the enemy with their heads, and finally sank the German warships that were not predominant in number, completely defeating the German myth of undefeated. The number of German super battleships was also reduced to ships at once. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Allies to use the dominant battleships to sink the remaining four super battleships in Germany.!
Chapter completed!