Chapter 4 Crawler Transporter Comes In

Three months had passed since Hindenburg invited Adrian.

On the battlefield of the Eastern Front, at a command post, Adrian was roasting his pair of long cotton socks that could not be washed back to their original color, and the cold wind outside was blowing harshly, and hearing this sound in this weather would make his spine chill unconsciously.

"Time flies so slowly..." Adrian's mind was now full of Dinah's various appearances······ He hadn't seen the opposite sex in three months...

On the first day of Adrian's arrival on the Eastern Front, Hindenburg no longer had a smile, and a series of Mustard orders pressed on Adrian's body like a giant mountain. Rudolph is completely generous to Adrian as the head of logistics, and he wants to give him anything, of course, he can't get anything, he just needs manpower, and Rudolph will always meet him as soon as possible.

Adrian didn't know why at first, but he understood when he took office.

I don't need to look at the telegram of demand that can crush him now, because to put it simply, I want it! I'm going to! I'm going to! And his reply is always, wait! Wait! Wait! Or either I don't have it at all! Me neither! Me neither!

Day after day of ripping and bargaining has made him develop a shameless face, and the reputation of Iron Rooster Adrian began to slowly spread among the officer class on the Eastern Front...

Adrian couldn't understand why Ludendorff was so hearty because he was so stupid, but he didn't turn back, so he had to bite the bullet.

In the first few days of his appointment, Adrian did not have time to play the old routine of playing with three fires, so he began to take the surveyors of all the staff offices of the Eastern Front Army to survey the roads and terrain, and then immediately asked for manpower to cut down trees and pave the roads along the road. Muddy roads, bad weather, freezing weather and having to step on a puddle from time to time, this bad life experience is also due to his physical fitness far beyond the average person, otherwise he would really shrink into the command post and not come out.

Then, on February 7 of that year, on the fifth day of his tenure, Hindenburg's battle plan was not approved by Falkingham, and he privately found Emperor Wilhelm II, and finally the emperor compromised and let Falkingham give in and allowed Hindenburg to lead the existing army to launch an active attack on Tsarist Russia, Hindenburg launched an attack on February 7 in the area of Lake Masuri, but due to various factors, it was unable to cross the Naziv River to Bialystok. Unable to reach Bialystok, the German and Austro-Hungarian armies in southern Poland were unable to complete their deployment on the encirclement, and the operation ended in failure. And Adrian, who is already the chief of logistics, cannot escape the blame, and the reason for this is the lack of supply. Although Adrian was made to carry the black cauldron, there was no punishment, the reason, less than five days after taking office, what does it matter to him? You just have to talk about it, do you really want to hold you responsible? Then the words of the investigation must not fall on Ludendorff's head?

Adrian, who had finished carrying the black cauldron, did not work with emotions, but began to get busy with his feet on the ground. No, after stepping on a few puddles and surveying the last few forks, he finally returned to the camp command post to bake socks to warm up, and he wanted to bake comfortably, but he was woken up by his own order officer while he was sleeping.

"Sir, the tracked car has arrived. Are you going to check it out? The childish-looking Hans Kruger had met him by chance from the front, and after a few casual conversations, he found that he knew more about some new things, and that he was a serious 800 graduate of the Danzig Royal Cadet Academy, so he asked his commander to come. Taking advantage of his position, he bought Hans Kruger in a spot trade of fifty MP14s.

Adrian had just been lying in the quilt for a few minutes to warm up, and it was the time to be comfortable, but now he had to get up again, and his mother really didn't play like this. However, the military aircraft had important tasks and could not be delayed at any time, so they had to get up and get dressed tremblingly.

The crawler was the kind of object he could think of that could pass the highest rate in the eastern sparse lands. The reason why the sample car is sent to the eastern line is actually to have the effect of field testing, otherwise no matter how good the design is, it will be a waste of production capacity if it does not pass the test in a down-to-earth manner. It took four days from the city of Dresden in eastern Germany, and the tracked car was empty to reach the command post, and this was enough, in this case, he could only do it first, time waited for no one, but he knew how much and how difficult it was before the next campaign was launched.

He did not participate in the design of this tracked transport vehicle, but conveyed the design concept to Eric's Eric Arms Company to develop it by itself, and then put it into trial production at the Dresden Arsenal. In fact, there are many people who have doubts about the need for the design and production of this completely ineffective tracked vehicle, but no one dares to ask. Eric has his own plans, but it's not good to say them now, he has been waiting for the situation on the Western Front, waiting for a weapon that will completely disappear the positional warfare in the long river of history.

It's not that he didn't think about designing and producing in advance and then delivering it to the Western Front for use and then changing the tide of the war, but he felt that this war was not at all the key point where such a weapon could turn the empire around.

The terrain of eastern Europe is relatively flat compared to Central Europe, but it lacks solid hard pavement, and it has been affected by long-term freezing weather since ancient times. The occupiers who broke the cans and broke them are used to it, where will they step on the muddy ground when they go out on horseback? But this is a difficult logistics, and it is simply a nightmare that cannot be completed.

When Adrian arrived at the camp slowly, it was already overcrowded, and everyone was looking at the car without wheels, some saying that it was not practical at all, and some were staunch Eric factions, believing that as long as Eric made it, it was a good thing.

"Old driver, oh no, where's the operator?" After seeing Adrian arrive, the soldiers who watched the excitement spread out in a larger circle, leaving enough space for him. Several operators instantly stood out from the crowd and covered up after receiving Adrian's instructions, and the soldiers around them saw that the tracked vehicle had climbed over the earthen wall that was supposed to be used to defend against the enemy, and instantly understood the value. I also understand why a lot of people are cut down trees and paved the road along the survey road, all for this big guy.

"Mr. Eric, a total of 6 tracked transporters have been produced, and this is the third prototype, the previous 2 were stuck in the ground because the tracks were not wide enough. According to your instructions, the prototype will start production as soon as it arrives at the camp, so it will take a few days before it can be put into use. ”

"Well, you can contact Kruger later, and he will arrange and distribute the transportation of supplies." After watching the demonstration, Adrian simply assigned the task and rushed back to the command post. This is a temporary requisitioned two-story house, and it is not easy to find such a house in this vicinity, although many people oppose him living in such a "high-profile" house, but they can't bear his attitude of crushing people to death at the level of the official.

The next day, Adrian, who was lazy and terminally ill, rode a vehicle and started another day of reconnaissance work, and now the task is to expand the scope of supply as much as possible, broaden it, expand the base, and make the weapons and equipment reach everyone as much as possible, otherwise it will be scrap metal hoarded in the warehouse.

In fact, he is not lazy, at least Kruger thinks so, during the day, he leads the team to conduct field surveys, and at night he has to work overtime to meet to constantly change and improve the transportation plan, and often stay up late.

"Ahh Time flies so slowly! I'm afraid I didn't wait for the end of the war to die suddenly because I stayed up too late!···" Adrian finally couldn't help but rant loudly when he was finally at work one night.

Just as he complained that time was passing too slowly, the combat machine in the base camp of the Eastern Front began to run at high speed, and a major battle was approaching.