Chapter 128: Bloody Graduation Exam

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On the evening of 25 May, all the cadets from the 10 armored divisions arrived, and the training class officially began.

Chen Dao and Mandol disorganized all the more than 500 trainees in the training class, regardless of unit, and reorganized them into four groups according to the tank models used by each vehicle group before.

The trainees assigned to the first group were all tankers who had used the No. 4D tank, because the performance of the No. 4D tank and the No. 4G tank were very similar, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were "twin brothers", so Chen Dao and Mandol gave them the shortest training time, only two days.

The trainees of the second group were tankmen who had used tank No. 3, and their training lasted three days.

The trainees of the fourth group were tankmen who had used tanks No. 1 and No. 2, and their training lasted for the longest time, five days.

At 10:20 a.m. on 27 May, on the No. 1 training ground of the temporary training course run by the Herman Goering Regiment on the northwestern outskirts of the city of Vosule, 17 No. 4G tanks were constantly moving forward, reversing, and steering.

Chen Dao's Bandit No. 1 rushed into the training ground with a gust of wind and stopped at the southwest corner of the training ground.

Captain Lorenz was the first to open the back door of the carriage and get off the train, and then stood at the back door of the carriage and waited for Chen Dao.

Chen Dao did not go through the back door of the carriage. He pressed his left hand on the top of the wall of the carriage. Push under your feet. He jumped out of the carriage and landed in front of Mandolfer.

Mandolfil waited for Chen Dao to stand up straight, raised his hand and pointed to Captain Lorenz who was standing at the back door of the carriage and said, "I will say hello to him when I take a shortcut in the future, you can see that he waited in vain again." ”

"It's okay, just let him exercise." Chen Dao said disappreciatively.

As the two walked to the front of the Bandit One, Mandol pointed to the four Type 4G tanks in the southwest corner of the training ground and said, "You're here to see them, aren't you?" They were veterans of the No. 4D tank, and it only took one day to familiarize themselves with the use of the No. 4G tank. ”

Chen Dao raised his eyes and saw that the four No. 4G tanks were driving some distance and suddenly stopped to shoot. Or stop and shoot after reversing for a certain distance.

"Are they training to shoot with short stops? This is already the last subject. Chen Dao asked with his hands behind his back.

"They're moving much faster than I expected, and they'll be able to finish training this morning, how is your exam venue ready?" Mandolfil asked.

"I just came back from there, the terrain is perfect, and I have coordinated with the 42nd Infantry Division, so I'll wait for them to pass." Chen Dao said.

"In that case, when they have completed this round of training, we will inform them of the content of the exam." Mandolfil said.

"Okay." After Chen Dao finished speaking, he watched the training of the four No. 4G tanks intently

At 1:30 p.m., the first primary school in Vosule, northwest of the city of Vosule.

When the fighting reached the city, all schools in the city were closed. The academic building was also left unused.

Chen Dao and Mandol requisitioned the four-storey school building as the temporary headquarters of the Herman Golin Regiment after the training course began. It was also the venue for the training course.

On the first floor of the teaching building, in a classroom with a class number of the first class hanging on the door, the 20 tankmen of the first group of the training class sat neatly behind their desks like a group of obedient elementary school students, staring at Chen Dao on the podium.

Chen Dao stood on the podium with his hands behind his back, wearing an ironed blue Air Force colonel uniform, his blonde hair meticulously combed into a big back, and a pair of black-framed glasses on the bridge of his nose that he had gotten out of nowhere.

Chen Dao stretched out his right index finger and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, stared condescendingly at the students in the classroom and said: "It's a war time, there is not much time for you to familiarize yourself with the performance of the equipment, your study is up to today, tomorrow you will take an exam, if you pass the exam, you can get the driver's license of the No. 4G tank." If you fail the exam, you will be placed on probation to see what will happen. ”

One of the highest-ranking ensigns in the cadets raised his right hand and asked, "Colonel Rosen."

"Boulter, call me Mr. Rosen." Chen Dao interrupted the second lieutenant.

"Mr. Rosen, if we pass the exam, when will we get our own Type 4G tank?" Ensign Boult asked.

"If I'm not mistaken, you served in the 3rd Panzer Division of the 16th Panzer Corps, and you fought in Belgium?" Chen Dao asked.

"Yes." Bauer nodded and said.

"Congratulations, Second Lieutenant Boult, when you return to the 3rd Panzer Division, you will find the brand new Type 4G Tank already waiting for you. Cadets from the 4th Panzer Division were given equal treatment, while cadets from the other eight Panzer Divisions were not allowed to receive new tanks until the defenders of the Maginot Line surrendered. ”

Hearing Chen Dao's answer, Ensign Boult couldn't help but be ecstatic, although it was only a day and a half, he had already fallen in love with the handsome and powerful Type 4G tank, and he couldn't wait to have a Type 4G tank of his own.

Ensign Boult excitedly asked, "What is our exam about?" ”

"Your exam is a real battle."

Chen Dao picked up the whip as he spoke, pointed to the French map hanging on the blackboard, and said: "On May 22, the 19th Panzer Corps captured the city of Belfort, a transportation hub in southeastern France, and the French Second Army Group stationed on the Maginot Line was encircled, and according to our preliminary investigation, their strength was about forty divisions. From 22 May to today, the units of Army Group A have launched two limited offensives, compressing the area of the encirclement. At the same time, they were constantly attacked by means of leaflets, shelling, aerial bombardment, etc. Put pressure on them. Strive to get them to surrender as soon as possible. But they don't give face, so the test I set for you is to go to the front and teach the French a lesson, so that they know that there is only one way to die if they continue to resist.

I have already secured the venue for the examination, in the area of Luhr, twenty-five kilometres east of the city of Vauxolle, where the 42nd Infantry Division is confronting the French. You set out at two o'clock on time, go to the town of Luhr to familiarize yourself with the terrain, and then enter the position at night. Tomorrow after dawn, the assessment will begin. ”

"I still don't understand, what is the specific content of the exam? A limited offensive with the 42nd Infantry Division? Boulter asked.

"It's not that complicated." Chen Dao denied with a smile: "Your task is to be a sniper. ”

At 7 o'clock in the morning of 28 May, in the town of Roy, three kilometers northeast of the city of Luhr, the first class of the 7th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 214th Infantry Regiment of the 72nd Infantry Division of the French Infantry Division, Georges Brown. Michelle walked out of the bedroom sleepily and looked up at the eastern sky.

"Are you waiting for the paper?". A gruff voice came from behind him.

Michelle stared at the sky and said, "John, it's not your style to get up so early. ”

It doesn't take one look at Michelle to know that the owner of this voice is his comrade-in-arms and roommate John. Garcia.

"I'm short of cigarette paper again, and I need the Germans to airdrop some for me." Garcia said.

Before Garcia could finish speaking, a discordant sound rang out.

Michelle's attention was also drawn to the discordant voice, and she looked back at Garcia.

Michelle stared at Garcia's stomach without saying a word, five seconds later. Garcia was defeated by Michelle's pure eyes.

Garcia clutched his stomach with a look of shame on his face. "I confess, I woke up hungry."

Garcia is a tall man with a whopping muscle, a beard on his face and a three-centimeter-long centipede-shaped scar on his right cheek, adding a bit of hideousness to his appearance.

Garcia's meal size is directly proportional to his size, and Michelle has calculated that his own meal size multiplied by 25 percent is Garcia's meal.

Since the encirclement, strict rationing has been in place in the French Second Army Group.

Michelle's meal is relatively small, and the food he gets is barely enough to eat, not to mention a strong man like Garcia, although the company commander Captain Dupont has taken special care of Garcia and specially approved him with food equivalent to one and a half times that of others, but it still can't satisfy Garcia, a big-bellied man.

"Hold on for another half an hour and you'll be able to eat." Michelle reassured.

Garcia didn't speak, just touched his stomach and nodded.

The roar of an airplane's engine could be heard faintly in the sky, and Michelle and Garcia looked up to the east in unison.

Four black dots appeared in the sky, and as the roar grew louder, the four black dots gradually revealed their true colors.

"The Germans were really punctual and handed out paper to us every day before the meal." Michel looked at the four German planes flying closer and closer, and couldn't help but mock.

Although the German planes had swaggered over the town of Rowa, there was no panic in the town, neither the roar of 13.2 mm machine guns nor the roar of 25 mm anti-aircraft guns.

Since being cut off from the interior of France, every shell and bullet was extremely precious to Army Group II and could not be wasted on German planes that had come to drop paper with good intentions.

In the anticipation of countless French soldiers in the town of Roy, two of the four German bombers lowered their altitude above their heads, and then dropped countless "snowflakes".

Looking at the flyers flying in the sky and falling in the wind, Michelle and Garcia couldn't help but let out a cheer and pounced on them, picking up the flyers that had fallen in the yard one by one.

Michelle split the eight flyers he picked up in half, keeping four for himself and stuffing the other four for Garcia.

"With these four flyers, you'll be able to make ten of them, and you can exchange them for a small potato with Quasimodo's father."

Quasimodo's father, Michelle and Garcia's "landlord", is fifty-nine years old and an old bachelor. Since accepting Michelle and Garcia to stay at his home, he has often helped them all, especially Garcia, who has a lot of food. When they are not on a mission, Michelle and Garcia will also help Quasimodo with household chores or farm work in exchange for food. According to Quasimodo and their agreement. Collecting ten flyers can be exchanged for a small potato. Collect fifteen to exchange for a large potato.

Garcia took the four flyers handed over by Michelle and put them together with the flyers he had picked up.

"I'll go look for him when he gets up." Garcia said.

"It's time to go to the cafeteria to eat, let's go." Michelle said.

"When exactly did the Germans launch a general offensive? It's better to be quick. I hope to have a good fight with the Germans before I am starved to death, and after capturing seventeen or eighteen Germans alive, I will snatch everything they can eat and eat them all in front of them, and I will not leave them a piece of bread, so that they will die of envy. Garcia touched his stomach and said lewdly.

"When you get into a German prisoner of war camp, you won't think so." Michelle said.

"You are too pessimistic, our main forces outside the encirclement must be trying to find a way to save us. The encirclement of the Germans would not last long. Garcia said with a frown.

"It's you who are too optimistic, those troops outside the encirclement can't stop the Germans from encircling us, and there is certainly no way to save us, it's only a matter of time before we surrender." Michelle said.

"You're too pessimistic"

"You're too optimistic"

Michelle and Garcia argued as they walked into Lianli's cafeteria.

More than 500 meters southwest of the town of Roa is the position of the first battalion of the 116th Infantry Regiment of the German 42nd Infantry Division, and more than 300 meters behind the position of the first battalion there is a high raised dirt slope on the east side of the road, and the soil slope is covered with dense shrubs and trees.

At the northern edge of the woods, Second Lieutenant Boulter sat on top of a G-4 tank full of branches and shrubs with a piece of white bread in his mouth and a telescope in both hands.

Ensign Boult munched bread while looking out at the town of Rova in the distance.

At one o'clock last night, under the cover of night, Second Lieutenant Boult commanded his No. 042 tank to quietly drive up the dirt slope. Lurking in this wood.

After more than four hours of waiting, the sky turned white. The French positions in the town of Roy and south of the town gradually revealed their full picture.

Instead of rushing to fire at the French positions opposite, Ensign Boult unhurriedly drew a sketch of the town of Roy and the French positions, on which he marked the targets suspected of being valuable.

As time passed, more and more targets were marked on the sketch.

Swallowing the last piece of bread in his mouth, Poulter picked up the kettle and poured it up, and after a few sips of cold water, Poulter felt refreshed.

"Graduate No. 2, Graduate No. 2, this is Graduate No. 1, I'm ready for the exam, how are you preparing? Please answer if you receive it. Boulter said into the microphone of the radio.

"Graduate No. 1, I urgently need to go to the toilet, and I can't take the exam for the time being, you can start the exam first, don't wait for me, it's over."

Boulter rolled his eyes and reached out and knocked three times on the tank turret, and the gunner Reinhardt got out of the tank.

Boulter handed the telescope to Reinhardt, pointed to the town of Roy, and said, "There is a yellow-colored three-story building on the west side of the road in that town, about nine hundred meters away, have you seen it?" ”

Reinhardt picked up the binoculars and looked into the town, and after about a minute, said, "See, a lot of people in steel helmets have walked in." ”

"Our exams start in that building." Boulter said.

"Okay." Reinhardt stared at the building through the telescope for a while, remembering his orientation and shape before getting into the tank.

After a few seconds, the turret of the tank began to turn, and the muzzle was pointed in the direction of two o'clock in the body.

After the muzzle of the KWK40 tank gun swayed a few times, Reinhardt shouted: "I have taken aim at the target, I request to fire." (A pie-in-the-sky event, cool phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)