"It's all sunk in, do you want me to dig it out by hand?" The driver, Sergeant Polka, stood on the front armor plate of the Type 4G tank, pointing to the mud underneath with one hand on his waist and the other.

"Drive the tractor over and have some firewood ready." The tank company commander, Captain Elson, crouched on the edge of the pit, the branch in his hand poking hard into the quagmire.

"Hell, I don't know where the water is leaking, do we still have a car behind us?" At this time, the commander lifted the armored hatch on the conning tower.

"You held out to the end, and I should congratulate you, Second Lieutenant Hull." Elson threw the branch into the mud puddle and stood up in response with a wry smile.

"Did you see it all? Ladies and gentlemen, this is the trouble you may have. From the watchtower in the center of the proving ground, Keitel pointed to armored vehicles stuck in the mud and unable to move.

"The runway was built to the most common road standards in Eastern Europe, and as far as I know, the further east you go, the worse it gets." Rundstead banged the fence with the marshal's cane.

"We have all checked before the experiment, and the road is completely unusual, and it is completely suitable for heavy vehicles." Manstein's face was ugly, he was the only one of the generals present who fed purely on tanks, he had never missed Guderian more than he did now, and he really wanted to see how the guy behaved when he witnessed this scene.

"It's going to be marked on your map, and your scouts are going to report it to you, and the road is fine, and by the time an armored battalion walks through, you've got a muddy puddle in which an elephant can roll." Kluge was pleased with what he saw today, and it was a specially designed test plan for the Führer, which made him feel that he had gained a lot.

"Fifty percent of the roads on the map are of this standard, and the rest are worse than that. Normally, it can carry cars and people, but as soon as the number of units passing through is large, the ground that has been fully hydrated during the snowmelt or rainy season begins to dissolve, and the result becomes something like this, which is called the muddy season in the Soviet Union. An army major wearing a motorcycle rubber raincoat introduced.

"It reminds me of the Somme, when we were in a very similar situation. Artillery ploughs loosened the soil throughout the area, and after the autumn rains, soldiers, artillery, logistics wagons, everything struggled in the mud. Bock's expression was unusually serious, and he recalled a time when his troops had suffered heavy losses at the Battle of the Somme.

"When you draw up your battle plan, you must take these factors into account, and the problems we are seeing today have been specifically pointed out by the Führer, who asked all army commanders to go to the scene and see for themselves." Keitel announced loudly to the officers.

"If you don't see it with your own eyes, you can't imagine that there will be so many problems, but luckily our Führer is an unparalleled military genius." Manstein genuinely admired the Führer's keen sense of war.

"I ask everyone to keep these shooting rules in mind, and I ask each of you to learn to use this weapon skillfully, I'm not kidding, it's going to be a direct matter of your life. So I don't want to see any idiots slacking in here, don't say I didn't warn you, and all the guys who didn't pass the exam will be transferred to the bread company. "An armored captain walked in front of a group of tank crews with his hands behind his back, holding an anti-infantry S-mine.

This is a very terrible anti-infantry melee grenade, which appeared at the end of the war in history, in order to deal with the tide of Soviet soldiers from all directions, the German army equipped the armored units with this equipment, after firing, this small grenade will explode in mid-air, scattering a dead rain of steel balls and shrapnel around, and the Soviet anti-tank fighters who are holding anti-tank grenades or explosive packs and rushing towards the tank are full of holes.

It was an indiscriminate weapon of destruction, and no one in the range was spared, including German combatants who coordinated the tank attack, except for the crew members who were protected by the tank's armor.

Since Xu Jun has taken out this weapon, of course, he has made corresponding preparations, and when tankers use this weapon, they must abide by strict rules and regulations. However, with the commander's circumferential periscope, the commander has the ability to grasp the surrounding situation, and the possibility of accidental injury is reduced a lot.

At the same time, the main tanks of the German army will be equipped with external telephones, which can be used by the infantry outside the vehicle to communicate with the crew in the vehicle to communicate the situation on the battlefield in a timely manner, and the infantry can also borrow the tank's radio to make emergency contact with the superior unit.

The first to equip such a telephone was the US armored forces, and the M4 tank of the Marine Corps had this modification, which was indeed quite a clever idea in an era when radio equipment was difficult to be miniatized and generalized. When some infantry units have a radio failure, he only needs to find the nearest armored vehicle to restore communication with his superiors, whether it is to request aerial bombardment or artillery support, it will become very convenient.

The most important thing is that the soldier does not need to enter the inside of the tank, and the crew does not have to risk opening the hatch, but only needs to unscrew an armored box cover attached to the rear of the hull, and everything is solved.

The S mines on the tank are installed in a honeycomb-shaped launch canister, the launch tube has a fixed angle, ensuring that the exploding shrapnel can cover every direction around the hull, and the middle three are fired vertically upwards, covering the entire hull, which is the last means of defense, targeting the enemy infantry who have climbed up the tank hull.

"You have to learn how to operate this launcher, you have to be able to tell the commander the bearings, you can fire the corresponding grenade accurately and quickly, I don't want to see my own people suffer because of your stupidity, and the one who makes the mistake will be sent to the hard labor camp. Do you know what that place is? You wouldn't want to go there. There are no officers or soldiers, only criminals who break military rules, and they will be sent to the most dangerous posts to carry out the hardest, most tiring, most dangerous tasks, and in a week you will beg them to shoot you. The Panzer Captain frightened his men, but he was telling the truth, and the Germans were just as ruthless to their own soldiers who made mistakes.

"Now let's take a look at the structure of this machine gun, it's similar to the MG34, right?" An army sergeant disassembles a new machine gun in front of a soldier sitting neatly on a horse. If it is from later generations, you will recognize the model of this machine gun at a glance, this is the famous MG42 machine gun, but now it should be called MG40.

This machine gun is a simplified version of the MG34, which is more productive, a perfect infantry support weapon, and the sound of firing alone can make enemy soldiers pee in the crotch of their pants.

Historically, on the basis of the MG42, the U.S. military designed their M60 machine gun, which made a lot of fame in previous wars, but stole all the limelight of the MG3 equipped by the German army. Now this MG40 has traces of MG3 on it, such as a round muzzle cap and a new type of buffer, and Xu Jun also retains a modification margin in the design, which only needs to replace a few parts to change the caliber of the gun.

Although the MG34 is a sophisticated weapon, the production process is somewhat complicated, and the output has not been able to go up. Now not only the Mauser company is producing the MG40, but also several old gun factories in France and Britain are also producing this weapon, in the face of the terrible power of this machine gun, the generals of the French army are excited to say a word, even the lobster soldiers who have been holding on to their faces, are stunned by the terrifying sound of tearing cloth.

Knowing that the Germans would open this weapon to them, the top brass of the two armies were very happy, this thing was too suitable for use in the defense of the bunker, and the British Army immediately negotiated a production license with Germany for 5,000 MG40s, and the first batch of products would be sent to the Far East first.

The French are ready to replace the pile of antiques currently equipped with this machine gun, of course, those expensive fortress machine guns are not counted, the idea of this universal weapon is very interesting to the French, they have long been desperate for the versatility of the equipment of the French army, it seems that every time a war minister comes to power, he will buy a new pile of garbage like a ghost.

The French have begun to experiment with the production of the chassis of the German No. 4 tank, and they are still trying to equip it with a turret of their own design, but the specific performance is not yet clear, and the German technicians only think that the turret looks cute with a round shape.

The British, on the other hand, were busy refining the design of their aircraft engines, and their Griffon engines had great potential, and the Luftwaffe had already produced several Mercedes-Schmidt fighters with British engines, which were currently in full swing for test flights.

Wix. Super Marlin's Spitfire production line has resumed production, but the first production is for the Navy, and the German side has provided information about Japan's new carrier-based aircraft, which makes the British Navy feel deeply threatened, and they are ready to replace the sluggish "Buffalo" and "Fighter" deployed in South Asia with Spitfire, these aircraft are obviously outdated in the face of Japan's new fighters, and the British do not want their precious pilots to die in vain.

The British government also obtained a production license for the F190 from the German Führer, ready to be mass-produced to equip its own air force, and the British version of the "Shrike" had some minor improvements, replaced with British-made weapons, British-style flight joysticks, and the instrument panel was also changed to British-style units of measurement.

At the same time, the British Navy and the German Navy are cooperating in the development of a universal carrier-based attack aircraft capable of both dive bombing and horizontal torpedo attacks, and the Royal Navy has invested a lot of enthusiasm in this project.

The British Navy has accelerated the construction of the aircraft carriers on the slipway, and it is expected that two [Tejour-class] aircraft carriers will be completed by the end of the year. The two aircraft carriers were to be handed over to the German Navy in accordance with the treaty, but the British were not sloppy in their construction, even more serious than building their own warships, because it involved the face of the British naval shipbuilding, and they did not want to be humiliated by the Germans for their shoddy construction.

Officers and sailors from the German Navy have been stationed at the shipyard and will receive basic training under the guidance of their British counterparts on how to operate and use these huge flat-topped boats.

The German Navy had never had experience with aircraft carriers before, and to be honest, the British themselves had not used them several times in real combat, and the surprise attack on "Port Oran" was considered a great attempt, but the problem was that the final outcome was really sad.

Experienced naval pilots suffered heavy losses in the previous British air battles, and they don't know which string was wrong, and the Royal Navy had to add a navigator to the aircraft, and the result was that the developed planes were slower than the other, and when they encountered the nimble and high-speed Mercedes Schmidt, the survivors were either masters or gods with great luck.

Now that the Royal Navy is training carrier-based pilots for the Germans, using carrier-based versions of the F190, German naval pilots will learn how to maneuver the "Hyshkelau" to take off from the short deck of an aircraft carrier and safely land on deck.

They also have to learn how to use the latest radio navigators, and how to rely on instruments and slide rules to accurately make sorties and returns in the vast sea if the navigator fails.

They have to learn how to use clouds to conceal their tracks, rely on visual sight to spot small targets on the sea, learn how to make a forced landing on the sea, how to escape in an airplane that sinks underwater, and survive in a cramped life raft for more than a week.

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