Chapter 322: Military Parade (Tank Regiment Directly under the Führer)
The two-meter-nine-wide, seven-meter-long armored chassis is covered under the chrome deck, even the carrier and load wheels are matte, and the white rubber rim is inlaid with a chrome washer, which looks like a round of mercury rings from a distance.
In order not to damage the asphalt road, the silver-gray manganese steel tracks are equipped with rubber pads, these two tracks are specially made for military parades, and will be replaced before participating in the ceremony.
When it was time to fight, the tanks of the regiment were replaced with standard tracks, and the fineicraft was kept in the rear warehouse.
This is the first time that the No. 4 R tank has been shown in front of the world, this tank customized for the head of the Reich, embodies the latest German military technology, she is Rheinland Steel and Krupp jointly created a fine product, and can even be said to represent the highest level of military manufacturing in the Third Reich, is a unique war craft in the world.
The gleaming mirror-like armor was not welded to death, and the Germans had always had a knack for this detail, with engineers attaching concealed buckles to the back of the armor plates, which could be disassembled with just a single mark coin.
Unless there is a need to bluff on the battlefield, the tank regiment directly under it will disassemble some easily damaged ornaments, such as those bright gold-plated copper carvings, because the carved line pattern is very finely made, so it is easy to be scratched and worn in the battlefield, so it is usually removed and stored and sealed after arriving at the front line.
Unless there is a need to reveal identity, officers and soldiers will spray a layer of paint on the body in peacetime, and the color is the same as that of ordinary German paint, but these paints are water-soluble and can be washed off with water afterwards.
This was done mainly for the sake of secrecy, the appearance of the tank regiment directly under the Führer was too dazzling, and it was easy to reveal its whereabouts, and then the enemy deduced the identity of the entire force, after all, where the tank regiment directly under the Führer was stationed, the Führer's Cypriot regiment was stationed.
In addition to paint, they have used camouflage nets, painted dirt, and simply removed mirrored armor. The soldiers found the last option to be the most troublesome, but also the most one-and-done.
To tell the truth, every time this unit is sent to the front, the commander is a little worried, even if it is destroyed by enemy artillery fire, and he is most worried that any vehicle will fall into the hands of the enemy completely, and then be used as a propaganda tool by the other government, so that not only the honor of the legion, but also the honor of the Führer will be damaged.
Something similar happened to the French, who used to use trucks to drag German HE111 bombers that had landed in a forced landing, while escorting captured German crew members through the streets of central Paris to boost the morale of the French military and civilians and humiliate the Wehrmacht.
Even if a battalion of German tanks was captured, it was not as good as a No. 4 tank regiment directly under the Führer, and the whole regiment understood this truth, so the first thing the recruits did after entering the camp was to solemnly swear in front of the Führer's photo that as long as there was still a breath left, they would never leave their tanks to the enemy.
The Cypriot regiment fought like a pack of mad dogs, and often as soon as the enemy command received a battle report from the front, half of the subordinate troops had already been reimbursed, so until now, the tank regiment directly under it has not encountered the problems that the superiors feared.
Since entering the battlefield, losses are inevitable, and so far the tank regiment has lost a total of six tanks, except for two that have been run over anti-tank mines on the outskirts of Brittany, and the remaining four have all been destroyed by various anti-tank weapons.
One of them was killed by German paratroopers outside London with an iron fist during the Battle of England, in a tragic night hit, the tank lost all power after being shot in the engine compartment, and the crew ignited the spare fuel tank inside the car before evacuating the tank, and then the detonated ammunition blew the entire tank into a pile of fragments.
The Führer's regiment was originally formed as a standard armored regiment, with the exception of a company of tank No. 4, with tanks No. 2 and No. 3, and a half-towed, half-self-propelled artillery battalion.
Now this unit has eliminated all the No. 2 tanks, and the number of No. 4 tanks has increased to a battalion, but in terms of the total number, the No. 3 tank is still the main model of this army, and although the production of the No. 4 tank has increased rapidly, it cannot completely replace the old models for the time being. Don't underestimate the No. 3 tanks, most of which have been converted to the latest firepower-enhanced versions.
In addition to this, a series of units such as command, communications, anti-tank, air defense, logistics, maintenance, guard, and reconnaissance, as well as two experimental armored grenadier companies that have recently been added, the total strength of this regiment is close to that of brigade-level units.
These troops will not all appear at the parade, and Xu Jun has only drawn two companies of No. 4 tanks and a platoon of support vehicles from the troops.
The silver-glittering double-chamber muzzle brake left a strangely shaped shadow on the asphalt, the thick barrel was entwined with golden ivy, the chrome shield armor was elegantly outlined with gold wire, and the turret of the fourth tank was very tough, every inch of armor was polished to a shiny, and the whole tank shimmered like silver in the sun.
The citizens of Berlin were constantly cheering, the Germans were not country buns, they would also be fascinated by gorgeous things, these delicate armored vehicles that did not look like weapons, it was simply the dream of every German man, the Germans at that time were keen on classicism mixed decorative style items, and these tanks took this style to the extreme, how not to be sought after by the audience.
"Again, this is a model that is not on the catalog, these cunning Germans." Dekanozov looked at the gorgeous tank driving in front of him, with a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were as cold as ice.
The Soviet ambassador took out a leather cigarette case from his coat pocket, took out a German cigarette with a filter from it, and took the opportunity to light a cigarette with his head down, and glanced at the right side of the back row.
I saw Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima sitting in his seat with a happy face, and a Japanese officer in a military uniform beside him was holding a camera and constantly taking pictures.
"Stupid Japanese monkeys." The corners of Dekanozov's eyes twitched unnaturally twice, then he turned his head and continued to look down the stands.
Dekanozov had already understood that the new German Führer was not prepared to continue to fulfill the annexes to the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, that the military-technical cooperation between the USSR and Germany had ceased to exist in name only, and that Germany had concealed from the Soviet Union a large number of the latest military-industrial technology and weapons projects, as the Soviet Union had done to Germany before.
The series of changes in Germany worried some in Moscow, but not the great Comrade Stalin, who was still optimistic about the non-aggression pact.
Stalin was convinced that the young German Führer was not a fool and that Germany would not tear up that treaty, because they were not prepared and they needed time to digest the spoils of the last war.
At the same time, there was a lot of hatred and contradictions between the countries of Europe, and it was absolutely impossible for Germany to grasp the balance between the countries in a short time. Even if Germany had established a European Union dominated by her, it would probably be inseparable from each other and would never be able to threaten a strong and united Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Now it is the Japanese Empire in the East that has attracted the attention of Moscow.
Although the Soviets won the final victory in the Far East at Nomenkan, the Japanese Army showed a tenacious fighting spirit in that battle, and many units even fought to the last man, which is rare in the Soviet Red Army.
Therefore, Moscow is very concerned about the development of relations between Germany and Japan, which directly affects the security of the entire Soviet Far East, because once Germany and Japan establish a military alliance, no one will dare to win the next Nomenkan War.
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