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522 Bazooka

No matter what the problem is, as long as it reaches the height of international relations, it is not an ordinary small problem. Even when Trotsky faces such a big problem of "big right and wrong", he has to consider it more. He doesn't even need to make a speech from the Politburo, he has to make concessions obediently.

Soon Tukhachevsky apologized solemnly, admitting that he was insufficient to estimate the actual situation in East Prussia and mistakenly estimated the actual situation in East Prussia. As for the "Aid List" as thick as Ciyuan, he obediently took it back.

Of course, this does not mean that a certain immortal can be snatched away. In fact, everyone knows very well that it is necessary to assist the Belarusian Front, otherwise the people of Warsaw will rise up, and the Belarusian Front will also go hungry. The most important thing is that this will affect the overall layout of the central government, and no one can bear this responsibility.

Anyway, Trotsky had a bit of a desire to retreat to advance. He deliberately made Tukhachevsky say nothing and pretended to be pitiful. Once the assistance given by a certain immortal was not in place, it would immediately turn into a firecracker - exploded!

"A Katyusha rocket launcher brigade, 50,000 rockets, fifty pieces of food..."

Tukhachevsky said it was fake not to disappoint. What could an artillery brigade do? In his opinion, it would take two artillery divisions to break through the defense line of Poznan. As for the food, a truck of grain was only 30 tons and 1,500 tons of grain, not all flour, how many days could it be eaten? Moreover, not all of this food was given to him, and the big head had to be transported to Warsaw, where the Polish foot cloth was about to rise up.

", I want to send us such a little thing!"

"Do you want to send a telegram to the central government and report them a lawsuit?"

Tukhachevsky thought for a while and sighed. No matter what, Ubolevic has a good relationship with him. Moreover, he had a happy cooperation with Li Xiaofeng in Finland. He is not the kind of villain who forgets his righteousness when he sees profit.

"Send the list to Comrade Trotsky, see what he means!"

Tukhachevsky rubbed his temples and finally decided not to interfere. Both sides had something to do with him. It was not appropriate to offend either side, so he simply put on the wall to observe.

It has to be said that Tukhachevsky is extremely naive in politics, and he made the most wrong choice. For him, he cannot be a wall-by-wall viewer, he must express his opinion! The idea of ​​not offending both sides and wanting to be a good man is a political taboo. Neither side offends both sides, and the final result is that both sides offend.

Think about it, Trotsky had high hopes for him. The fundamental reason why Tukhachevsky was promoted like a helicopter was Trotsky's strong promotion. It can be said that without Trotsky, there would be no Tukhachevsky today.

At this time, Tukhachevsky's choice of neutrality was in a sense equivalent to betraying Trotsky and letting down this mentor.

Even Li Xiaofeng and Ubolevic are unlikely to read Tukhachevsky's goodness. Tukhachevsky has maintained neutrality, but your neutrality is really just a bowl of water? East Prussia can bring out these supplies to support you, you should express gratitude, but what did you do? There was nothing. I didn't even say thank you.

Anyway, Tukhachevsky regretted it many years later. He wrote in his diary: "I made two mistakes on the aid issue in East Prussia. First of all, I should not remain so-called neutral, but it turned out that it was not human inside and outside... Secondly, I have no objective understanding of the new weapon of rocket launcher, and I do not know what a rocket launcher brigade is equivalent to... This directly led to some embarrassing unhappiness between the Belarusian Front and the Baltic Front..."

Indeed, Tukhachevsky did not understand rocket launchers. He did not know that such terrifying weapons could shoot 16 rounds of ammunition 8 kilometers away in one breath. One brigade belonged to two regiments, each regiment had three battalions. Each battalion had 18 guns. A brigade had a total of 108 guns and 1728 launch tracks. In other words, a rocket launcher brigade could pour 1728 rockets in 10 seconds. This firepower intensity is quite amazing!

Unfortunately, Tukhachevsky didn't understand all this. He thought Li Xiaofeng had just sent 108 artillery pieces, which was a drop in the bucket for the Belarusian Front, which had four armies. Of course, he would be dissatisfied.

But in fact, Li Xiaofeng had saved up for more than a year and had only three such rocket artillery brigades. He took out one-third of his possessions to support the Belarusian Front in one go. To be honest, this was quite generous.

At least Li Xiaofeng and Ubolevic feel that being kind and righteous is the most righteous. If Tukhachevsky is allowed to live with them, can Tukhachevsky come up with so many people to support them?

The answer is probably no. On the issue of the Three Baltic Kingdoms, Trotsky instructed Tukhachevsky to do something bad, and what he did was not ordinary stingy.

Of course, Trotsky is still quite stingy now. After receiving the list sent by Tukhachevsky, he immediately became surprisingly angry, thinking that a certain immortal was sending him by sending beggars. He immediately raised a strong protest to the Politburo.

In an instant, things got very big again. A certain immortal was under strong pressure from Lenin because the mentor felt that someone was a little indifferent to the seriousness. At this decisive battle, everything was put as the overall situation first. I clearly told you to help the Belarusian front as much as possible. How could you be careless?

This made Li Xiaofeng so angry that he turned the table off. He felt that he was really enough to take into account the overall situation. East Prussia was also very helpful. The Belarusian Front wanted to fight and the materials were in short supply. Could it be that the Baltic Front would not fight, and hundreds of thousands of people in East Prussia should not eat?

Li Xiaofeng, who was full of anger, immediately sent a strong protest telegram to the Politburo, directly denying the Belarusian Front and Trotsky as greedy, and calling them only caring about their own lives and death without understanding the difficulties of others. He even made a harsh statement, if the Belarusian Front feels that the assistance is too little, don't ask for it and return the assistance directly. They don't cherish it, the people of East Prussia will cherish it themselves!

Seeing that a certain immortal had been overturned the table, Lenin was also stunned. He immediately realized that something was wrong. He immediately sent Luzutak to find out the actual situation. Later, when Luzutak proved that a certain immortal had indeed tried his best. Trotsky didn't know how to restrain himself, the mentor became angry.

Lenin felt that since my people had compromised and tried their best to take the overall situation into consideration, the problem could only be with Trotsky. This is your boy too much! That's right, Lenin did take the overall situation into consideration. He didn't want to lose his internal struggle at the moment of this decisive battle, but this does not mean that he would give in unlimited concessions!

Soon, Lenin sent Trotsky a sharp telegram. Although he did not criticize Lao Tuo explicitly, everyone knew what was going on. After receiving this telegram, Trotsky was also very angry, but what made him even more angry was the telegram that Tukhachevsky sent him again next.

In this telegram, Tukhachevsky took back what he had said before. After understanding the performance of the rocket launcher, he praised this new weapon very much. He almost praised a flower.

Think about it, what was Trotsky feeling when he saw this telegram? If he was happy, it would be strange. The one who secretly expressed his dissatisfaction before was that you, Tukhachevsky, you don’t want to be this bad guy, I, Trotsky, helped you. As a result, you didn’t even understand the basic facts, and even made Lenin scold him again. In the end, you were so naughty again, what exactly did you want to do?

Trotsky was so angry that Lenin was unwilling to cause trouble when the decisive battle was about to break out. How could he even want to destroy the overall situation? As long as Li Xiaofeng could do it, he was not prepared to do it in vain. As a result, all the things were disturbed by Tukhachevsky, and he was finally letting him be a bad guy.

If it weren't for Tukhachevsky's military talent and appreciation of this kid, it wasn't for Tukhachevsky to see that the decisive battle was about to come, Trotsky would definitely catch Tukhachevsky and teach him a lesson.

"Tell Comrade Tukhachevsky that if you find out the truth in the future, don't make such inexplicable mistakes again!"

When Tukhachevsky received this warning, he felt a little embarrassed. He didn't expect things to become like this. He really wanted to explain to Ubolevic and Trotsky that he really didn't intend to make trouble.

However, he had no time to explain. The Allied Army's speed of re-increasing troops was completely beyond his expectations. In just three or five days, the defenders of Poznan more than doubled. In addition to Pisusky's little cannon fodder force, the Allied Army rose to two divisions and one ** brigade in one fell swoop.

What's even more terrifying is that the Allied Group's reinforcements are still coming. Every time one more day is delayed, the situation on the battlefield will deteriorate a little. Anyway, Tukhachevsky is completely unwilling to think about how to apologize, and he is thinking about how to tear open the enemy's defense line.

At dawn on September 20, after a sharp whistling sound, the Belarusian Front's strong attack started. More than 1,700 rocket launchers poured out more than 1,700 rockets in one breath, turning the Allied Position into a sea of ​​fire.

The violent shelling wiped out the mine array and barbed wire set up by the Allies, causing many soldiers of the Allies who were completely unprepared to be "evaporated". Fennes, a French veteran who participated in the Battle of the Somme, was lucky to escape, but he could never forget the scene at that time:

"The Russians' artillery fire was too fierce. Our position was plowed by bullets. More than 70% of the brothers disappeared from the shelling. When I lifted the mud covered on my head and raised my head to scan the position again, I could hardly recognize it..."

Tukhachevsky was also quite satisfied with this round of artillery attacks, and praised the rocket launcher with great praise, and even couldn't wait to report to Trotsky and the Military Commission: "The arsenal in the rear should give up the production of those heavy and low-fire traditional artillery, and should fully convert to rocket launchers. This is a real weapon belonging to infantry, which represents the future trend... As long as there are ten thousand such artillery, we can easily sweep away all imperialist enemies!"

Of course, Tukhachevsky was not without objection to rocket launchers. He suggested: "We should find a way to improve the loading efficiency of rocket launchers. It is a waste of time to load this weapon. If it can be fired once every five minutes, it would be perfect... In addition, can we develop rockets with a longer range and better accuracy? This weapon is too smoke and dust when it is launched, and it is almost impossible to hide. Many times we have to use this weapon against the enemy's artillery fire. If the range can be farther and can avoid the harassment of enemy field artillery and infantry artillery, it would be quite perfect!"

The suggestion made by Tukhachevsky is very reasonable. In fact, both Li Xiaofeng and Ubolevic are quite clear about Katyusha's weakness. The problem is that if you know it, it does not mean that you can change it. For example, Tukhachevsky is struggling with the range problem, and if you want to increase the range, you can. The easiest way is to thicken and lengthen the rocket and accommodate a little more propellant.

The problem is that the bullet weight of nearly 45 kilograms is very fatal. If it gets worse, even the polar bear with a big and round waist can't hold on. It's already slow to hang the bullet, but will it be slower after it becomes bigger and heavier?

Anyway, Li Xiaofeng knew that with Russia's current industrial capabilities, the range was basically the limit under the current bullet body limit. Unless a better solid propellant or rocket engine could be developed, there would be no potential at all.

As for the loading speed, it is basically impossible to improve. Rocket launchers are just this virtue, and slow loading is a difficult problem. Even in the 21st century, they can only use modular loading to alleviate this problem. There is basically no chance to solve it fundamentally.

Of course, Tukhachevsky did not ask a certain immortal to correct these problems immediately. It was already a surprise for him to have rocket launchers available, and he could not ask for more. Moreover, even if there was rocket launchers cheering, after the attack on this day, the results he achieved could only be considered a matter of course.

After successfully breaking through the first line of defense set up by the Allies on the outermost periphery, under the Allies' desperate counterattack, the Belarusian Front could only stop and consolidate its position. It was their turn to be depressed. For a while, the rocket launcher could not keep up, the range was not enough, and it could not provide artillery fire support. However, the heavy artillery set up in the rear of the Allies did not have such concerns and could openly greet the Belarusian Front.

"Damn it!"

Tukhachevsky pounded the table hard. He was originally planning to break through the enemy's two lines of defense in one breath, but now it seems basically impossible. And tomorrow, the Allies will definitely strengthen their defense in the direction of the breakthrough, and the next battle will become very difficult.

"Do you want to launch a night attack at night?" the staff advised.

Tukhachevsky shook his head and denied the suggestion: "We are not good at night fighting, and the darkness will cause less trouble to the enemy than us. According to today's plan, move the rocket launcher position forward in the darkness and come again tomorrow!"

Tukhachevsky did not change his tactics. He was preparing to use the same trick again the next day and use the amazing firepower advantage of the rocket launcher to open up the situation. However, his enemy was not stupid, and he expected that he would do so.

"Put the artillery observer in the front line and let the air force help the school shooting. My request is that as long as the enemy fires, we will use artillery counterattack to suppress it within ten minutes at the latest!"

It should be said that the Allies' countermeasures are reasonable, but reasonable does not mean that they can succeed. After all, Tukhachevsky is not a fool. He is very clear about the disadvantages of rocket launchers. He never imagined using rocket launchers like using traditional body-barred artillery.

"Quick is our greatest advantage!" Tukhachevsky said to the rocket artillery very seriously: "My request is to quickly withdraw from the position immediately after the launch is completed, and don't hesitate for a second. The enemy's artillery counterattack will be covered soon, so you must fight quickly and run."

Of course, it is unrealistic to just ask for artillery fast. Tukhachevsky suggested to the engineers: "You should ensure smooth traffic as much as possible and ensure that the artillery brothers can quickly withdraw from the position. Secondly, they should build more solid fortifications. Your performance will directly determine the outcome of tomorrow's battle!"

Tukhachevsky knew very well that using the cover of the night to enter the position and running after the battle could only ensure that he could succeed for the first time. However, combat is not a one-time transaction, and no one can guarantee that the rocket launcher can settle the enemy on the opposite side with a single volley. Fighting is often caught in a tug of war, and infantry needs to continuously and reliably support firepower. And he cannot ignore the enemy's heavy artillery threat. The only way is to ensure smooth traffic between the launching position and the rear, quickly enter the position, launch quickly, and retreat quickly.

It should be said that rocket launchers are really more adaptable to this tactic. Traditional body-manned artillery enters the position slowly, launches slowly, and withdraws slowly. After a few tossing back and forth, the artillery will have to urinate blood. However, such tactics are a great challenge for the rocket launchers who have just been born. The training they received before was similar to traditional artillery, but suddenly they changed, and they really couldn't adapt.

However, you have to adapt if you can't adapt. You will never be given a chance to adjust slowly on the battlefield. Survival or destruction is often a matter of seconds. When the next day at dawn, when the rocket launcher shows its power again, a race about time begins.

The artillery observers of the Allied Powers quickly report observation parameters to the back positions, which will be quickly solved and converted into shooting elements. The artillery will then shake the high and low aircraft, bind the fuze, load the shells and finally fire.

For skilled artillery, this set of procedures is only a matter of more than ten minutes. In the environment of World War I, this speed is enough. Unfortunately, rocket launchers are not weapons of World War I. They are fast, efficient and violent, making them able to escape before the artillery counterattack comes... (To be continued)

ps: Bow and thank me for your words, gd4255 and comrade Juventus!
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