Chapter 752: Major General of Transport
"General!" Qin Chuan took the phone and identified himself.
"Major!" Major General Lex said on the other end of the phone: "I admire your victory on the battlefield, but as soldiers, we must abide by military discipline, and violations must be severely punished." Ensign Biedman may have contributed to his part, but that is not a reason for him to escape punishment. Do you say yes, Major? ”
Major General Lex accentuated his tone when he said the word "Major."
Qin Chuan knew what Major General Lex meant, and what he was saying on the surface was that Biedman could not disobey orders on the grounds of contribution, but in fact he was saying that Qin Chuan was proud of his victory on the battlefield.
In some ways, Qin Chuan and Biederman did disobey orders as Major General Lex claimed...... Biedman did not throw away his pipe according to Major General Lex's order, and Qin Chuan did not hand over Biedman according to Major General Lex's order.
If you look at the general truth, it is the duty of a soldier to obey orders, that is, they must obey whether the order is reasonable or not, so it is indeed Qin Chuan and Biedman who are wrong.
This made Qin Chuan feel disgusted, because some incompetent officers were always able to whitewash their own personal vendetta and narrow-mindedness into military regulations, and then shamelessly stand on the moral high ground and condescendingly demand that others obey.
Apparently Major General Lex was one of them.
"I'm sorry, General!" Of course, Qin Chuan would not let Lex take advantage, and he replied: "What Biedman did was indeed wrong, so I warned him very strictly...... In the army, especially on the battlefield, if you want to win the respect of others, you must have real skills, otherwise he will not be able to survive on the battlefield! ”
Conrad listened to this and couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
Like Major General Lex, this statement is ostensibly referring to Biedman, but it is actually talking about Lex.
Of course, Major General Lex would understand the meaning of Qin Chuan's words.
He was silent for a moment, then replied, "Very well, Major, we will meet later!" ”
As he spoke, he hung up the phone.
After Qin Chuan hung up the phone, he said a little incredulously: "How did a person like him become a major general?" ”
"Major General Lex's full name is Von. Lex! Conrad replied.
Qin Chuan couldn't help but let out an "oh", the characters with the word "Feng" are basically from noble backgrounds, they have received a good education since childhood and entered the military academy to study, and then it is easier to obtain high military ranks.
"Let him go!" Qin Chuan said that he still didn't take this matter to heart, because he thought that as a nobleman, Major General Lex should have this kind of demeanor and bearing.
On the other hand, it was Qin Chuan who believed that in this battlefield of common hatred, there should really be no unpleasantness between each other because of such a trivial matter.
But it turns out that Qin Chuan still underestimated Major General Lex's character of being a blind man who will repay all the way to the black.
A few days later, Alexander found Qin Chuan and Colonel Slain.
"I have to tell you that we may not be able to continue our training!" Alexander said.
"What? What's going on? Colonel Slain asked.
"They say that because of the tension of the war, the fuel supply is insufficient!" Alexander replied: "We only have enough fuel for two days!" ”
"What a ridiculous reason for this!" Colonel Slain scolded: "Next to us is the Baku oil field, and we are running out of fuel? Who told you this?! ”
"Fort Kinov command!" Alexander replied: "They are in charge of our logistics!" ”
Colonel Slane left the training he was doing and headed for the headquarters.
Qin Chuan seemed to understand something, chased after him in a few steps, and said, "Colonel, I don't think it's a problem of lack of fuel!" ”
"What's the problem then?"
"I offended Major General Lex!" Qin Chuan replied: "The commander of the 192nd Infantry Division is also the supreme commander of Fort Kinov!" ”
Colonel Slain couldn't help but be stunned.
Then Qin Chuan told Colonel Slane the whole thing.
"Fuck the major general!" After hearing this, Colonel Slane couldn't help but scold: "He is just a 'transport major general', all they need to do is to drink red wine with the sea breeze here, and then deal with the guerrillas, he dares to ......"
Colonel Slain was so angry that he turned pale and couldn't speak.
Colonel Slein's reference to 'Major General of Transport' is a disparaging term for the Logistics Support Force...... The Germans fought on Soviet soil, and it was inevitable that they would be attacked by partisans during transport.
At the same time, this kind of guerrilla force is quite special, many of them are regular troops, and there are many veterans, and some of them are quite well equipped because they have received assistance from the Soviet army.
These guerrilla security divisions are not able to catch them, and they often need several regular armies to ensure the safety of railways and roads.
The troops tasked with these tasks were often less combat-effective, so the Germans jokingly referred to them as transport units.
Major General Lex's 192nd Division is such a unit, and what Qin Chuan said last time seemed to have hit Major General Lex's pain point, and this time he actually used the lack of fuel as an excuse to intervene.
For this reason, Major General Lex also found a series of excuses, such as the first division of the army uses aviation fuel, and the front-line aviation fuel is relatively scarce and needs to be reserved, etc., and even how to answer the questions from the first step regiment have been considered.
As I said before, if you have the heart, you can always find an excuse.
For example, in case of wartime, it is necessary to reserve fuel...... How much to reserve, how long to reserve, it is completely as much as you say, there is no standard, whatever Major General Lex says.
But what Major General Lex didn't expect was that the First Rank Corps didn't call back at all.
This made Major General Lex a little puzzled, didn't the First Infantry Corps need this fuel?
At this moment, the phone rang, and Major General Lex couldn't help but feel proud in his heart, and the secret path finally came.
He deliberately waited for the bell to ring for a while before picking up the phone, but to Major General Lex's surprise, the commander-in-chief of Army Group South, von Lee, came from the other end of the phone. Manstein's voice.
(Note: Former Commander of the Group Army Group Feng Murphy. Bock was ordered to retire by Hitler because he disagreed with Hitler during the attack on Stalingrad and did not act on Hitler's orders, while Manstein took over as commander of Army Group because of his outstanding performance)
"General!" Manstein asked: "What about our fuel situation?" ”
"Your Excellency, Marshal!" Major General Lex stepped forward and replied, "We have plenty of fuel!" ”
"So...... Are they telling the truth? Manstein said: "The story about Ensign Biedermann! ”
As soon as Lex heard this, he felt like falling into an ice cave, he didn't expect that during the time he was waiting, this matter had reached the headquarters of the army group.