Rebirth of the National Marshal

Since they had to defend on the spot, these artillery pieces had to be disassembled from the vehicles and arranged at various positions. In the past, they would concentrate the artillery pieces for use. This was also an old Soviet tradition. It was imperative to deal the greatest blow to the enemy as soon as possible so that they could achieve the greatest results. However, this time was different from before. In order to avoid attacks by the Chinese Air Force, all the artillery pieces were dispersed among the infantry.

This is not impossible. If the communication system in your army is very smooth, it is absolutely possible. Moreover, with the cover of the infantry, it will not be easy for the air force to find the target unit. But the problem is that in the Soviet army, there is no connection between each artillery, and even there is no connection between their regiment commanders. The lack of communication equipment has reached a great extent.

In fact, at this stage, European countries attach great importance to the development of communication equipment. Most developed countries have already installed wired telephones at the first level. However, the Soviet Union is different. Their country is relatively poor. Although on the surface they advertise themselves as the second most powerful country in the world, only they themselves know what the situation is. If it is really the second most powerful country in the world, then the people in rural areas will not have to go hungry.

At this stage, the life of the Soviet people was like this. These people in the rural areas sacrificed a lot of their own interests for the benefit of the country. The country required them to transport all some things to the cities, especially some agricultural products. In addition to supplying food for the workers in the cities, these agricultural products must also be exported to Europe, which can buy these things. Other things are useless. This is the only thing they can exchange for foreign exchange.

So from this perspective, it is a bit ridiculous to say that China is the second most powerful country in the world. Which second most powerful country in the world still relies on exporting agricultural products to exchange for foreign exchange? Look at what Americans and Germans export. All their things are mechanized. Compared with the Soviets, there is a world of difference. Only the Soviets, who are so concerned about their reputation, would export agricultural products and call themselves the second most powerful country in the world.

However, there is one thing that the Soviets said was very correct, that is, they manufactured all of their weapons and ammunition themselves, especially the large-caliber artillery. Speaking of their large-caliber artillery, there is also a very interesting piece of information here, that is, in the early days of World War II, the failure rate of the artillery they manufactured was as high as 40%, so they were the best friends of the Germans.

In the early days of World War II, many German officers said that the workers in the Soviet weapons manufacturing factories were their most beloved friends. Without these workers, they would not have been able to deal with so many Soviet soldiers. After these cannons were dragged out of the factory, they exploded before causing any harm to the Germans.

You know, these are all large-caliber artillery, and the shells they use are very powerful. The damage caused by the explosion in their own gun barrels is very huge. Not only will the surrounding artillery be eliminated, but even the surrounding infantry defending the artillery positions will be eliminated.

So there was a very strange phenomenon during World War II. The German soldiers tried their best to find the Soviet artillery positions, but some of the more deeply hidden artillery positions were exposed by themselves, and their artillery exploded by themselves, which scared the Germans. They didn't understand what the Soviets were doing and thought it was a secret weapon.

All the artillery of the Far East Military District was destroyed by the air force last time. This time, all the artillery were directly pulled from the Moscow Military District, and many were directly pulled from the munitions factory. These things should not have been tested yet.

Many artillerymen requested that their superiors test these artillery pieces, but the political commissars said, why test these artillery pieces? They were all assembled by our best workers and do not need any testing at all. Besides, every artillery shell is the hard-earned money of the people. How much money would it cost to test them? These shells should be thrown on the heads of the Chinese people.

At the beginning, it was just a group of soldiers making a fuss, and the political commissars could scare them with a combination of coaxing and intimidation. But later, some military commanders in the army also wanted to pull out the cannons for a try. They were all of such a large caliber, and they would always feel uneasy if they didn't take them out for a try. Who knew that this test would give them a shock, and two of the ten cannons pulled out had problems before they could even fire, and two of the remaining eight cannons had their barrels exploded, which means that there was a 40% failure rate. If they were sent to the army, how many soldiers would die at the hands of these cannons.

We don't know how many enemies died, but we lost so many of our own people. What kind of war is this? We were killed by our own artillery. What a ridiculous thing.

Normally, if something like this happened in other countries, it would definitely be a very serious incident. It should be checked from top to bottom, and no one from the arms companies to the officers received by the government would escape it. But the Soviet Union was a magical country. Even if something so serious happened, as long as you were willing to spend money, as long as you had connections, as long as you had connections with the top leader, no matter how big the matter was, it could be suppressed. Just like the current incident, not many people were implicated.

We have to sigh at the Soviets' power. These Soviets never thought about finding out the problems with these artillery pieces from the beginning to the end. These artillery pieces in the Far East are the ones with problems. Now they pulled the artillery pieces off the cars and were preparing to build positions. A new recruit discovered a strange problem, that is, there was a slight crack on the barrel of their artillery piece.

You should know that the steel used to make these artillery barrels are all special steels, just like the German Krupp cannons imported by the Chinese, all of which are special steels produced by German steel mills.

It is much harder than ordinary steel and has a much longer service life, but the Soviets used only ordinary steel. It's not that the workers in the munitions factories cut corners, but it's because the Soviets have not yet produced special steel.