As the saying goes, it is better to ask for others than for yourself.

But what Reinhardt did on the Eastern Front seems to be exactly the opposite of this famous saying. He did everything he could, but he wanted to pull as many allies as he could.

Such a helpless move, in the final analysis, is to free up strength and solve the British Empire on the Western Front first.

Even, even in the future war against the British, Reinhardt did not intend to let the German army do it alone, although the early hard battles had to be handed over to the German army to eat. But after the successful landing, the input of follow-up troops, Reinhardt intended to be borne by the allies of Vichy France and the Kingdom of Norway.

22 German divisions, plus 2 French divisions and 1 Norwegian division, a total of 25 divisions, this is the "super gift" that Reinhardt prepared for Churchill!

If necessary, about 10 more divisions of the additional German units planned to be stationed in France could be squeezed out to increase the number of troops in the British Isles.

Moreover, in addition to the full preparation of troops, Reinhardt also worked combat equipment.

At the personal request of the Führer, the German Army's Joint Engineering Department has so far successfully converted the same number of diving tanks with the last 170 No. 3 tanks in Germany!

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On the outskirts of Berlin, a special factory for refurbishment.

"Hey, stop, what are you doing?" At the gate of Tank Factory No. 3, a guard stopped a young man.

"My name is Anderson, I am a graduate of the Technical University of Munich and I was sent to work as an associate engineer at this tank factory." The young man politely replied.

"Okay, please come with me." With that, the guard nodded, led the polite young man into the factory, and walked towards the office building on the right side of the factory.

After entering the office building, Anderson was guided by the guards and went directly to a room at the end of the second floor.

On the door of this room, in German, there are several large letters written in large letters: "Chief Engineer's Office".

The guard knocked on the door and said, "Mr. Green, is Mr. Green here?" There's one of your guests here. ”

"I'm here, okay, you wait, I'll be right there." An old man's voice came from inside. It sounds like the old man must be over 60 years old.

After a while, the door to the office was opened, and a very ordinary old man was greeted by him.

Just from the old man's face, there is no characteristic, and he does not feel that he is the famous German tank engineer, Mr. Green.

He was no different from an ordinary thin old man, except that his chin was more protruding, and he held a plain handkerchief that old people loved to carry with him.

The old man's clothes were even more interesting, I don't know if he was wearing pajamas or something else, and the sleeves and collar of the clothes were very unclean and shiny, like the proud boots of Yu Hepi, and there were not two pieces of clothing dragged behind him, but four of them, and some cotton balls were exposed on them.

The old man looks informal, but this is fine, but it seems more approachable.

The old man looked at this fair-skinned young man who was more than 1.8 meters tall, and he could not connect the young man with an honorable student and an outstanding engineer who had won several model-making competitions at a young age and won all the scholarships of the school.

On the contrary, looking at the young man dressed in a slightly tight black suit, flaxen-colored hair, smooth and fair face, angular-cut face, long eyelashes hanging down, deep eyes like blue crystal, and a tall nose, all of which exuded nobility and elegance, and had his own peculiar ethereal and handsome, all of this made him unrelated to an engineer who spent all his days in the laboratory, working with all kinds of machinery.

"You're the one Mr. Anderson who won all kinds of production competitions at a young age?" Mr. Green asked incredulously.

"That's right, it's me, Mr. Green, I'm the Anderson who was ordered to help you rebuild Tank 3, and I ask my seniors for advice." Anderson replied modestly.

"Don't dare to give advice, our old things are becoming more and more useless, and a stinky little hairy child was sent to assist me, isn't it a joke?" It was clear that Mr. Green was not happy with Anderson, and he did not think that the lad could do him any help.

"Come on, boy. I'll take you to the tank modification workshop first. Mr. Green said to Anderson, and Mr. Green led the door to the tank rebuild workshop.

Before arriving at the workshop, the roar of the engine was heard from the direction of the workshop, and the German workers worked in 24-hour shifts without stopping for a moment in order to complete the modification of the No. 3 tank as soon as possible.

Entering the workshop, Mr. Green, the old engineer, pointed to a tank being converted and asked Anderson, "Do you know what they are doing?" ”

Mr. Green spoke with contempt, and it was clear that he had come up with a difficult problem to test Anderson and give the young man a disadvantage.

But what he didn't expect was that Anderson thought for a few seconds and then said: "Seeing that the part of their modification is near the engine, I guess this is to seal the engine air intake of the tank, plus the protective cover." And I found that the hatches and other positions on the side of the turret have been waterproof sealed with rubber film. This protective film is both waterproof and can be easily thrown away after landing. It is worth mentioning that after that, it was also possible to install a snorkel and a gyrocompass for underwater navigation on the modified tank. ”

Green didn't expect that this kid would answer the question so easily, he was unwilling, he still felt that there was some luck in Anderson's correct answer to this question, after all, he had not revealed his transformation plan to anyone.

So Engineer Green continued: "What you just said is right, but the only disadvantage of this is that it will not solve the problem of ventilation of the tank, and there is nowhere to place the radio antenna of the tank, I wonder what Engineer Anderson thinks about this?" Tell me about it. ”

Anderson glanced at Green, then at the No. 3 tank in the renovation, and touched his head thoughtfully.

Seeing this, the old engineer Green smiled and said: "Haha, it's normal to not be able to think of a solution, this is indeed a problem, and our engineer team thought about it for a long time to solve this problem." ”

Actually, what Green had in mind was completely different from what he said. He thought that he had finally stumped this little hairy boy who didn't know the height of the sky, and the deputy chief engineer sent to him from above was nothing more than that.

But just as Green was secretly happy in his heart, Anderson spoke, and he said, "The submersible tank can be ventilated with a soft snorkel. But I think that the diameter of such a snorkel must be about 20 centimeters, and the length must be about 18 meters long. In addition, the snorkel is required to be flexible, because the tank has a sealed lid on the inside, a buoy at the front, and a suction port and a radio antenna are installed on the buoy. If the buoy floating on the surface of the water gets into the water, then the tank compartment will also get water. But if you switch to a soft material that can be adjusted at any time, this is almost unlikely. ”

Anderson was saying it very lightly, but he didn't realize that Green next to him was already in a cold sweat, and Anderson not only said the whole idea of their tank modification, but he also said other things that they had not thought of when they converted the tank. For example, the problem of waterproofing of the connection of the buoy with the tank compartment!