Chapter 220: Armored Battalion Drill

When Germany got the shooting coordinator designed by Romania, no one thought that a simple gadget could make a fighter fighter capable of being operated by only one person.

A week after receiving the Shooting Coordinator, the Fokker E-III, equipped with the Coordinator and a machine gun mounted on the nose, began to show its might, sweeping away the Allied planes over the battlefield. The Allied air fighters were ill-prepared for the new type of air combat that could shoot from the nose, and a large number of fighters that still required two men to operate were shot down. By a month later, there were no pilots willing to take to the skies to reconnoiter and fight. As a result, a "Fokker disaster" that was mentioned in advance came ahead of schedule.

However, fortunately, a Fokker E-III aircraft equipped with a shooting coordinator crashed due to engine failure within the control of France, and the Allies were overjoyed and transported the wreckage to the rear overnight for study, and finally they found that it was a gadget of the shooting coordinator, which caused their pilots to lose a lot of money. As a result, a large number of aircraft suitable for air combat were urgently equipped with firing coordinators, which allowed the Entente to slowly regain a little disadvantage.

And Eder, who was behind the scenes, had long ignored this, and now he, accompanied by Admiral Prigshan, saw the tank of his dreams in a military camp outside Constanta. Of course, now it is not called by this name, but by Hoffman, the commander who does not know how to adapt, it is called a "tracked armored fighting vehicle". Eder had been considering whether to change the name to tank. If he really wants to change his name, I believe that Hoffman will be puzzled by why the king called his imposing chariot a water tank.

The armored experimental battalion now led by Hoffman is fully manned. The 24 tracked combat vehicles ordered from the Volkswagen factory, which had also been familiar to the officers and soldiers under him for more than a week, and now, of course, he wanted to show his hand in front of the king and the chief of the General Staff. However, because he had only recently obtained it, he could only use a group of four vehicles to briefly demonstrate the movement of the king and the chief of the general staff on the roads and in the wilderness. This is still Hoffman's mobilization of the four best learned car crews in the whole camp to be able to complete this simple task.

Admiral Eder and Admiral Prieshan watched with interest the performance of the experimental armored battalion. Because they have only been getting the tracked combat vehicle for a short time, these officers and soldiers who are unfamiliar with the operation are also full of loopholes in the cooperation of the tracked combat vehicle, of course, this is the view of Eder who has seen too many tank combat vehicle exercises on the Internet in later generations. And now the Romanian military is amazed by this novel pattern, which can be seen from the facial expression of Admiral Prij.

When he saw a tracked chariot climb over a trench, Admiral Pletsan spoke to Eder in surprise. "Your Majesty, I didn't expect this tracked chariot to have such a role. It is completely possible to let the infantry follow and occupy the entire trench. This is really a terrific new piece of equipment that will reduce the army's losses in capturing trenches. ”

Now trench warfare in France is also the focus of the Romanian military. The number of hundreds of thousands of casualties in a battle between Germany and Britain and France made Prissan, who was the main leader of the Romanian army, also anxious, because now other countries are learning from the war. However, trenches and machine guns as a means of defense are all methods that everyone has learned consistently.

And as the chief of the general staff of the Romanian army, Prishan also had to figure out how to break this defense, and now he saw this possibility during the drills of the armored battalion.

Hearing the words of the Chief of the General Staff, Eder felt that it was the right time for Laplesh to come to see the exercise, which at least made him start to pay attention to the seeds of this armored force. This armored force, Eder was mainly prepared for the future Red Empire in the east, and in the mountains of Bulgaria and Transylvania, it was mainly reliant on infantry artillery.

Of course, if Romania was able to break through into the Hungarian plain in the future, then he would not mind letting the Austro-Hungarians taste its might. If you want to achieve your idea, then the replacement of tracked vehicles will also continue, and reducing the level of their failures will become a top priority.

As Eder was thinking, a tracked vehicle in practice suddenly let out a low roar, then a pitch-black smoke rose from its tailpipe, and then lay down in the motionless wilderness. Several crew members climbed out of the roof exit with a face of oil smoke, and at this time several maintenance soldiers ran towards the broken tank with tools on their backs, apparently intending to check what was wrong.

Lieutenant Colonel Hoffman, the head of the armored battalion, who had been with Eder and Prysan all the time, explained to the two with an embarrassed expression. "It's just a minor issue and it will be rectified very quickly."

Neither Eder nor Prissan were dissatisfied, they knew that every new weapon would come with problems of one kind or another. Seeing that the two bigwigs had no intention of blaming, Hoffman could only stay by the side and continue to wait for news.

The fault checked by the maintenance team was that there were damaged parts of the transmission system, which had to be towed back to the camp for repairs. Perhaps Hoffman didn't pray today, because God didn't care, and then another tracked chariot suddenly stopped, but within a few minutes it started again. Hoffman had experience expecting that this should be just a minor problem, and was immediately repaired by the crew members.

Despite the bumps in the drill, Eder and Prissan watched the entire drill, and did not repent Lieutenant Colonel Hoffman, who had always been upset, but encouraged him to keep up the hard work and try to show real strength next time. Moreover, Eder also proposed to him that since the failure rate of tracked armored vehicles is now high, it is also a good choice to let the crew members learn more about the main maintenance methods.

Hoffman was also grateful to Eder and Prisan for their tolerance, and repeatedly said that the next exercise would definitely allow them to see a different armored training camp. In order to train Hoffman more attentively to the armored battalion, Eder promised him that if the next drill satisfied him, he could add a company of tracked combat vehicles to the armored battalion.

Eder, of course, was not making random promises, he was methodically making changes to the Romanian army according to his own ideas. Including this visit to the armored battalion to see their exercises, it was all part of the efforts of Eder and Prishan to inspect the results of the great expansion of the Romanian army. Just to satisfy Eder's desire to see the first tracked combat vehicle developed by Volkswagen, they started with Constanta.

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