Volume 36, Chapter 17, Part 2
The solution is always thought of, but only when facing difficulties, people will think of the solution. They must take down the fortress on the isolated island of the sea, jump off the plane, and directly enter the fortress to create chaos, and then attack inside and outside is the best strategy. The former Penghu Magong Fortress strategy was eventually a paper draft because the Japanese took the initiative to evacuate, but it is appropriate to move this plan to Metz. The only problem is, are there so many planes? And is the one thousand elite soldiers enough for this huge fortress?
The lights in the war room of the Armored Army Command were on until midnight, and the next day, in the medical department, Lieutenant Colonel Fuller and Colonel Etienna, who were still exhausted all night, were dizzy and started to whisper early in the morning. Yesterday when they were on the tank, they thought the Chinese were really enthusiastic, but they fainted from the translator, and the tank drove faster and faster. They couldn't move and had to shout. However, the driver couldn't understand English and French, so the tank ran until both of them rolled their eyes before stopping.
As for what happened later, both of them were so vague that they couldn't remember it clearly. The first thing they did when they woke up in the morning was that the wise British thought that yesterday was simply fooled by the cunning Chinese, and they had no intention of letting themselves visit the tank at all, so they tortured themselves like this. The French were born into artillery, and have studied tanks in recent years and had a very professional understanding of machinery. When the British complained, he suddenly said: "If it was a French tank, then there would be only two results yesterday. One is that the tank suddenly disintegrated, and then we died, or if the tank did not disintegrate, we still died."
Through the reminder of the French, Lieutenant Colonel Fuller immediately shifted his attention from the Chinese trick to the wolf tank. Yesterday, the Mercedes-Benz should have been more than fifteen miles. It was off-road speed, which was very terrible. Under that kind of road conditions, the Racing Dog Cavalry Tank was probably less than eight miles and would soon break down. Lieutenant Colonel Fuller put away his complaint and asked for advice: "College husband, why can Chinese wolf drive so fast?"
The question happened to ask the Frenchman's itch. Colonel Etienna endured a headache and said, "In my impression, the Chinese wolf's horsepower is very strong. I think the engine power will not be lower than that of the Mark Four; the rotation mechanism is very stable and the operation is flexible. It does not require one of the dual transmissions to stop the rotation of a certain side track to achieve steering. It may be a dual differential inside. I heard that Americans are studying this dual differential. It is rumored that it is very complicated. The most peculiar thing is that the engine and transmission are placed behind the car, but the driver is still sitting in front..."
Colonel Etienna began to faint again, and he could tell the nonsense about why the driver was sitting in front of the tank. As for the current interior layout of the tank, the transmission transfer consisting of the engine, transmission box and transmission, the driver was all front-mounted. However, the Chinese suddenly moved the engine and transmission transfer to the back and only left the driver in the front, which gave people a very strange feeling. The colonel could not know how the driver operated the transmission device at the rear; and so many devices moved to the back, occupying the lower half of the space inside the tank, which made the turret able to be arranged forward, which was very likely to cause the longitudinal center of gravity of the entire vehicle to be unbalanced...
Two shortcomings were thought of in an instant. The colonel was secretly happy and could not help but think of the benefits of doing so. His experience lasted for him was that the hell had become heaven. The occupants who had a headache and dizziness by the engine and gearbox, and their throats were finally able to avoid fighting in the high temperature, huge noise, toxic smoke, and the unique sharp creaking of the gearbox's spur gears; at the same time, the unreliable transmission components would not break down just because of the shooting and vibration of machine gun bullets. It was at the safe rear at this time. Moreover, it was more convenient to place and repair the tank in this way. There was always a tailgate at the rear. Once the tailgate was opened, the repair of these easily malfunctioning machinery should not crawl into the tank again...
As an artillery officer who is deeply aware of tank structure and machinery, Colonel Etienna discovered its three advantages and extremely important advantages just when he thought of the two shortcomings of Chinese tanks. He could guarantee that once his subordinates had used Chinese tanks, the original Schneider, Saint Shamon, and even the current Renault would be abandoned by the tankers. Schneider and Saint Shamon were fine, but Renault was his private cooperation with Renault...
When the French were worried, yesterday's fierce driver Li Mengpei came to comfort the two patients before Commander Wang Shiqian. After he smiled and handed them a book, the British complaints stopped.
"This is the training manual for our armored troops..." Li Mengpei's face was very serious, but he smiled in his bones. "It is mainly composed of the works of many military masters more than two thousand years ago in our country, and it is very practical..."
"Water?" "More than two thousand years ago" made Fuller's face look ugly. He would never believe that the Chinese had tanks in more than two thousand years. At that time, even Rome was just a small country.
"Lieutenant Colonel husband, what kind of team should the chariot be used when you break through the German trenches?" Li Mengpei understood the surprise of the foreigners, so he asked a question.
"Of course..." Fuller paused slightly. He didn't want to talk about triangular formations, but said: "I usually use rectangular formations, which can break through German defenses better than triangular formations."
"That's right. When we were studying the attack formation of chariots, we also believed that this formation was more conducive to the attack of the large army." Li Mengpei nodded seriously, and then said: "You and I only knew about it today, but Sun Bin, an ancient Chinese military craftsman, knew this more than 2,200 years ago. In his book Sun Bin's Art of War, he said in the ten formations: 'The square formation is the reason for interception!', 'Seal' means tearing apart; another book of Yi Zhou's book of the same period. The Ming Dynasty Wu Jie also said: 'The square formation attacks together, how can we control it?' The general meaning is that the square formation is invincible and irresistible."
Without expecting the foreigners to be stunned, Li Mengpei said again: "In addition to the square formation, there were also the geese formation, the fish li formation, the jing corpse formation, and the hook formation in ancient China... These formations and usages have given us a lot of ready-made tactics. It can be said that the chariots were not invented at this time for the Fuxing Army, but were just sorted out from the museum."
Li Mengpei's words were half true and half false, but he still didn't say "Foreign Russians, I see you are gifted and have a stunning bone. I think you must be a chariot war genius that is rare in a century...'. When the foreigners were stupid, he gave up with a few more words of concern and greetings, leaving them to pull the translator and working hard with the chariot training manual that was more than two thousand years ago. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!