The impact of horses on modern warfare was so great that most armies in World War II had to succumb to the fact that without enough Ocean horses, artillery units really couldn't fight field artillery.
The largest artillery of the Second World War was the Dora Cannon, which was the pride of Germany, but this oversized caliber "Gun King" was not for the field army. Dora's cannon weighed 1350 tons, and the combat targets were the fortress of Sevaskopol and the city of Warsaw, and it would not participate in field marches at all. The German army has the ability to produce super cannons, the Japanese army is actually not bad, the main gun of the Japanese Yamato is three triple-mounted Type 94 45 times diameter 460 mm naval guns, and the weight of the shells is also about 1.4 tons.
The Japanese had the technology to make giant artillery, but the Japanese Army's large-caliber artillery was far from comparable to the Germans. From 1941 to 1945, Germany produced 16,568 105mm howitzers, 5,848 150mm howitzers, and 393 heavy howitzers of 210mm or more; the Japanese produced only 1,200 Type 91 105 howitzers, 280 Type 450 howitzers, 440 Type 96 150 howitzers, 64 105 Cannons of Type 14, 180 Type 92 105 Cannons, 150 Type 89 150 Cannons, and 30 Type 96 150 Cannons There are 80 Type 45 240 howitzers, 2 Type 96 240 howitzers, 1 Type 90 240 train gun, 30 7-year Type 305 howitzers, and 1 410 howitzer, the number is only about 1/10 of the German fascist counterparts.
The Japanese Army's large-caliber artillery was not only inferior to that of the Germans, but even the Polish army had no advantage. Poland had 100 mm caliber fire 1300 guns before the start of World War II, Poland also imported 341 WZ1917 155 mm howitzers from the French Schneider company, the Polish army faced the German army is the scum of the war, facing the Japanese army that really has a world war.
The Japanese army has few large-caliber artillery, the root cause is horses, the Japanese army seriously lacks heavy horses that can pull more than two tons of artillery. Japan's Type 38 10 cm field gun is the product of the copycat German Krupp gun, which was authorized to be produced by Germany in 1911, weighing 2594 kg and transporting 3214 kg. The biggest resentment of the Japanese army for this kind of artillery is that it is too heavy, the German horse can pull the cannon, the Japanese mainland three horses and six horses can not pull at all, Japan even came up with four horses and eight horses against the sky combination, the result is still not OK. The Japanese only switched to 5-ton tractors in 1922 to tow the ranks, which barely made it possible to use the cannon.
The Japanese army then mass-produced Type 91 105 howitzer, technology from the French Schneider company, adhering to the characteristics of the French artillery light, the weight is 1750 kg, the Japanese army's horse can just pull, so it has been loved by the Japanese army. Poland is also a buyer of French artillery, although the polish artillery production technology is not as good as Japan, but Poland just produced 160 cm heavy pulling horses, the number of Polish horses also exceeded Japan, in 1921 just independent Poland had more than 3289,000 horses, and the horse reserves thereafter are about 4 million.
Japan's horse reserves, on the other hand, were 1.52 million in 1921 and have hovered between 1.1 million and 1.3 million thereafter. Japan's heavy horses are far less numerous than Germany and Poland, and its automobile production is also pitifully small, Japan only produced 4,000 cars in the year of the September 18 Incident, and Japan only produced 17,800 cars at the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. In addition to the necessary vehicles for production, life, and logistics, the Japanese army can only use thousands of cars to pull artillery, so the number of large-caliber guns of the Japanese army is also pitifully small.
Although the German army in World War II was ridiculed by contemporary military fans as the Mule And Horse Empire, its artillery mobility was still very strong, and the number of large-caliber artillery naturally far exceeded that of Japan.