Chapter 77: Rescue Pod
Two front-line generals and Chief of Staff of the Federal State United Front Work Department, Max? Hoffman, and even Vice President of the Federal State, Paul? Feng? Hindenburg didn't even know about Eric? Where did Adrian's intelligence on the deployment of troops on both sides come from? Because Adrian had something to hide, he would never have told anyone that he still had a survival pod that he had used to escape. This rescue capsule is his tool to reach Earth, and this time the intelligence source is to use the scanning system in the rescue capsule.
The scanning system in the rescue capsule is a very advanced and complex reconnaissance device, which is originally intended to provide security reconnaissance for the evacuees when the parent system setup fails, so that the evacuees can conduct a comprehensive scan of the terrain, landforms, threatening objects and ground organisms before reaching the surface of the planet, and at the same time distinguish the species and categories that have been recorded. Human beings are naturally a separate species, so he can accurately calculate how many people are on both sides of the Western Front or how many French troops there are, fortunately, the positions of the two sides are a long distance away, and there is no melee together, otherwise it will be difficult to distinguish the different troop data between Germany and France.
Some people may think so, if the rescue pod is so easy to use, why Eric? Did Adrian not use it to help the Germans win? That's a big mistake, because the energy of the rescue chamber is seriously insufficient, and the energy required is very complex and huge, so the ball is currently unable to provide effective energy for the lifeboat. Adrian was interested in Fritz? Haber's battery research attaches great importance to it, even if the resources of the German Federal Republic are exploited to the point of exhaustion, even if the financial resources required for the war are used to the point of poverty, he has never owed Haber the research center any resources and funds, just to find a way to replenish energy for the rescue capsule. The rescue pod was the only vehicle he could use to get off Earth, and the only energy he had left was enough to return to the transport ship that docked on the moon. After the launch of this scanning system, even the energy to reach the moon is not enough, and unless he can replenish enough energy, he will no longer be able to leave the earth and Germany. However, in order to give his leadership to the Federal Republic of Germany the advantage in this major military operation, he chose to take risks, and he also chose to believe in Fritz? Haber's research will be successful.
Under the pretext of going south to the Eric Arsenal to inspect the work, he quietly returned to his rescue pod without realizing it. After obtaining the deployment of troops and weapons on the Western Front, he drew a map of the deployment of troops by himself according to the operational map. Give it to Max? Hoffman's map was drawn by Adrian himself. With such a huge strategic deployment, it is impossible to change much in a short period of time, after all, the mobilization of troops and the transfer of materials require extremely high manpower and material resources, and there is no need to change, because there is no change in the German army.
Adrian codenamed the operation "Operation Paris".
In order to confuse the enemy in order to better combat the enemy, Hoffmann, chief of staff of the United Front Work Department of the Federal State, used a trick to create the illusion that all the top German leaders were in Berlin to receive foreign guests from the Soviet Union and Poland.
On November 17, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Eric ? Adrian, Vice President Paul? Feng? Hindenburg and the Chief of Staff of the United Front Work Department, Max? Hoffmann, and even the commander-in-chief of the armies of the front were still in Berlin. However, who did not think of the Chief of Staff Max? Hoffmann took advantage of the gap in the banquet to rush to the Western Front, and in a very brief meeting, Hoffmann only addressed Friedrich Friedrich, deputy commander-in-chief of the C Army stationed there. Woolf? Feng? General Bartlet and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Army Group D, Elvis? Feng? Admiral Ulysses gave several key questions and returned to Berlin overnight.
On the morning of November 18, an exhausted Hoffmann struggled to support himself for the entire morning of German-Soviet diplomatic talks, without letting anyone notice any difference.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Army Group C Friedrich? Woolf? Feng? At 10 a.m. on November 18, Admiral Bartlet urgently summoned the new commander of the 501st Tank Battalion, William? Guderian conscientiously analyzed the current situation of confrontation between the German and French armies and conscientiously explained the training tasks for the next step.
At 12 a.m. on 18 November, the deputy commander-in-chief of the D Army, Elvis ? Feng? Admiral Ulysses had a picnic in a forest north of Verdun, on the banks of the River Watts, and summoned Erwin, commander of the 502 Tank Battalion. General Rommel, the two studied the orders issued by the United Front Work Department of the People's Republic of China and formulated a training plan for the next step.
The 501st Tank Battalion was equipped with a tank designed and manufactured by the Fokker Aircraft Assembly Plant, with an angular body made of rivets, a single-shot 20 mm gun and an MG-16M machine gun in front of the right side of the body to form the tank's full firepower. The thickest part of the tank was the protective armor on the front of the body, which was 47 mm, the thickness of the side protective armor was 36 mm, and the protective armor at the rear was 12 mm. It is powered by a 160 hp PMV-160 gasoline engine supplied by Maybach. The naming convention for this model is prescribed by Adrian himself, and the initials are the type of use, for example, P is for army tank, S is for ship, and F is for military aircraft. The second letter is the technology provider, for example, M is the Maybach, and B is the Benz company. And the third letter is the engine type, for example V is the V-engine. The V-engine was also chosen for the V-engine to power the No. 1 tank, and Adrian refused to compromise on the need for a two-person walkie-talkie chassis inside the vehicle, so Fokker had to let the Maybach redesign the engine.
The redesign made the Tank I (turret) 3.84 meters high, 6.36 meters long and 2.14 meters wide. The turret of the single-shot 20 mm gun was mounted in the nose of the car. It was determined that the No. 1 tank would carry a crew of 5. Five soldiers were crammed into the small space, and the middle of the body was placed in the walkie-talkie case. Adrian was helpless about this design, because he had already been removed from his post at that time. The net weight of the No. 1 tank is 18.1 tons, the maximum travel speed is 21 kilometers per hour, and the maximum travel is 75 kilometers.
Because Adrian was dismissed shortly after the project was made, all plans could not be implemented, and in some cases the process was seriously disrupted by the military. Because there was no Adrian's system planning, the military hurriedly selected a manufacturer to take on the task of design and manufacturing, and then hastily accepted the matter.
These various tanks were basically put into the 501st Tank Battalion as a feint by Adrian with a stroke of his pen. Guderian was in charge. Unlike the No. 1 Tank I designed by Porsche in collaboration with Henschel, Adrian was relatively satisfied with the VH22. The welded body and front-mounted engine put the turret in the middle, and the same V-shaped engine, the rear of the car is 0.2 meters higher than the front of the car, and the net weight of the whole car is 21.7 tons. A single-shot 37 mm caliber gun developed and supplied by Krupp, with a Maxim heavy machine gun modified by the Mauser Arsenal mounted on the right front of the body. The VH22 experimental tank was classified as Tank II by Adrian and was uniformly assigned to the 502 Tank Battalion. The 501st Tank Battalion, which Rommel led during the Civil War, also had this model, and relatively speaking, he preferred the II to the stupid big I tank. The armor of the II tank was much less impressive than that of the I, with only 37 mm of frontal armor and 10 mm of side and tail armor. The 21.7-tonne weight of such thin armor was due to Henschel's preference for the Benz-designed PBV-320 engine, which had 320 hp and a larger fuel load that allowed the II to have more speed and travel than the I. Tank II was able to cover a distance of 110 kilometers at a speed of 32 km/h. With mechanical problems eliminated, the 502nd Tank Battalion only needed a brief refueling on the way to make a direct assault on the French capital, Paris.
In order to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the 502 tank battalion, Max? Hoffman also secretly relocated the 1st Panzer Division to the back of the 502nd Tank Battalion, streamlining the number of people on board and loading the fuel needed by the tank battalion.
The pre-war preparations were carried out quietly, and all the troops who received the order only received a training plan, even the commander of the 502nd Tank Battalion, Erwin? Rommel and the commander of the 501 tank battalion, William? Guderian simply dismissed the transfer as a routine exercise.
Eric? Adrian, Paul? Feng? Hindenburg and others were still entertaining Soviet representatives at the Dauphin's Palace in Berlin, and everything was so calm and peaceful.