Stay in battle formation! Medium speed! Advance! ”

"Number 107, you're too fast, 3rd gear! 3rd gear! ”

"Number 113, keep the direction, you're left behind!"

"Number 105, do you know what it means to turn off the fire on the battlefield? Step on the gas, throttle! ”

In a field shattered by track marks, the faint sound of the loudspeaker, the rude roar of the German diesel engine, the cacophony of metal parts rubbing against each other, and as far as the eye can see, the boxy tanks are painted a pale yellow-green that is quite similar to the environment, and they form a long, irregular horizontal line and sway forward.

"Oh God, 117, 118 and 119, where are they going? Restaurant or toilet? Yang, correct their direction, quick! ”

Holding the binoculars, Emir kept complaining, and standing next to him was a young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses and a lieutenant uniform of the National Revolutionary Army, which was "Yang" as Emir called it.

Yang is the Chinese interpreter of this training ground and the "spokesperson" of the emir, and the voice in the loudspeaker just now came from his throat, unlike the emir who was in a somewhat irritable mood, Yang was always gentle when he spoke, and automatically filtered the emir's foul language and swear words.

"No. 117, No. 118 and No. 119, you're on the left, turn right! Hurry up and turn right! ”

Half a minute later, the three "different" tanks were back on the right track, only more than 20 meters lower than the others, a sight that made the Emile, who had served in the German Army for many years and served as an instructor at the Konisbao Panzer Academy for three years, shake his head helplessly. Although these Chinese soldiers are very serious and hard-working in the training ground, the serious lack of quality is still evident in this basic queue training, and the overall training progress is obviously slowed down because of this. Whenever I thought about the shooting drills, squad tactical training, and long marching exercises that would follow, the emir's head would become bigger than the tank's tank.

"Alright, let them rest for half an hour! It's damn weather! Although wearing the short-sleeved summer uniform of the German Panzers, the Emile still took out his handkerchief every few minutes to wipe his sweat, standing on the pergola stage. You can imagine the sweltering heat of those who sit in the tanks – although air conditioning technology has developed considerably in the last decade, it will take a long time to make a small air conditioner that can be used in tank equipment.

This time, the tank, almost as soon as the translator's voice fell, the 24 Type III tanks on the training ground stopped in unison, and all the sounds related to machinery stopped abruptly in an instant, and the sound of unknown insects calling hot returned to people's ears, and the tankers climbed out of the tank cockpit for the first time. All of them were out of breath and sweating.

Putting on the German standard short-brimmed military cap, the emir walked briskly to the tank formation nearly a kilometer away, and just now, when he set off from Germany, he was told that he had 6 months to train a tank unit composed entirely of medium ** men, but after arriving at the training camp, the new order only left him 60 days. If it was just a group of German reserve troops before they were regularized, the Emir was fully confident that they would be able to master the equipment and tactics within 2 months, but in front of them were a group of car soldiers who had never even seen tanks before.

Although we haven't spent much time together. But Young clearly knows his German partner well.

He followed closely, twisting his military kettle and handing it over at the right time. - "Ensign." I know they weren't too good today, but they worked hard, didn't they? ”

"Effort?" Emir took the kettle and poured a sip of cold water, "What's the use of just working hard?"

Will they be able to go into battle with our best German tanks? Will it be able to defeat the Japanese? Sometimes I really don't understand, what the hell are these guys in their heads, mush? ”

"Second Lieutenant, they haven't even seen a tank before, we need to give them a little more time to get used to it!"

"Oh, well, Yang!" The emile turned his head to look at the very friendly interpreter, who was half a head shorter than himself. "If my superiors are willing to give us more time, I don't mind continuing to teach them here! However, as of today we only have 49 days left, and they will not shoot still, short stops of fire between marches, rational use of machine guns, detachment tactics, concealment, etc., etc., all of which will take time, many, many hours! ”

Translator Yang, who was angry with a bookish face, was speechless, so he had to sigh lowly, indeed, time is very precious. These newly formed armored units are still training in the rear, and the officers and men on the front line are already preparing to charge into battle - according to the high-level plan, the squadron will launch a combat operation aimed at recovering the three eastern provinces and eliminating the Kwantung Army in early September, when there will be 71 infantry divisions and 4 armored divisions on the battlefield, with a total strength of more than one million people, although the number of these troops is considerable, but only those 4 standard armored divisions upgraded by light armored divisions really have mechanized combat capabilities, However, the main tank battalions of these 4 armored divisions are still in full swing training, and these tank units in front of them are assigned to the 37th armored division of the National Revolutionary Army!

Looking at his partner with a depressed face, Emir patted the other party's shoulder, "Okay, Yang, I won't get angry for a while, promise not to get angry!" ”

Yang nodded, sometimes even if he knows how to translate, but the other party's expression is still obvious, just in the previous training, this German instructor several times because of the poor performance of the Chinese trainees1 officers and soldiers, if it continues again and again, I am afraid that the morale and enthusiasm of the officers and soldiers will be adversely affected.

Walking up to the tank numbered 102, the emir waved his hand and said a Chinese word that was not standard but enough for everyone to understand: "Come!" ”

"Everybody's here!" Yang added later, as usual.

24 tank crews, 96 carefully selected tankers, surrounded by oily faces and stinky sweat.

"It's very hot today, everyone has worked hard!" Emir glanced at Yang as he spoke, and motioned for him to translate the sentence to the crowd first.

After conveying it word for word, the tankers' expressions were really invigorated.

"I know that everyone wants to master tank technology in the shortest possible time, but learning is always gradual, and being in a hurry does not mean being efficient!"

When translating the last sentence. Yang changed it to "I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry" according to local conditions.

"I want to harness them!" The emir patted the hot hull steel plate of tank 102 that could be fried eggs, "You must treat them as living companions, as your war horses!" ”

"Learn more about their habits, remember how to get them forward, backward, left, right, accelerate, slow down and shoot! Only by mastering them skillfully and flexibly will they be at their best on the battlefield! ”

"Today's queue training may seem boring and useless to you, but you can think about it. When you hide in the trenches with your rifles, and see such a group of steel chariots rushing in front of you, how magnificent the momentum is, will you feel frightened, will you be overwhelmed, will you turn around and run away? ”

"Of course, the purpose of platoon training is not just to make the other party feel fearful, as a team, you need to work together and cooperate with each other on the battlefield, although the tank is strong. But the power of a tank simply cannot be compared with a combat group.

This is the experience summed up by our German armored forces through many years of actual combat, and you may not understand it for a while, but since we are standing here sincerely. You have to trust each other! ”

"Okay, let's conduct group training, each company is a group, the training content is still marching in a queue, and we will conduct a joint training of the whole battalion tomorrow morning! You don't have to worry about fuel, you have to train a lot of them to get your hands on these tanks, you know? ”

Sure enough, most of the honest Chinese tankmen did not understand the meaning of the German instructor, but they all stored these words in their brains for slow digestion, after Emile I1 finished speaking. They replied with gusto:

"Understood!"

When the familiar voice resounded on the training ground, Emir's face was still strained, and Yang was still the same suave appearance. Time was ticking, the emir's shouting on the training ground continued unabated, Yang was always busy, and under the witness of many instructors and interpreters like them, China's most elite troops during the war with Japan were gradually taking shape.

Shenyang, China.

During the hottest time of the year, even the extremely cold winter in Northeast China has not escaped the scorching energy of the sun. The blazing sun made those who dared to be exposed to the outdoors sweat profusely, and there were few pedestrians on the streets, and occasionally a group of Japanese patrolmen with rifles on their backs hung weakly from the two strips of sunscreen and mosquito repellent cloth on their military caps.

Suddenly, the sharp air defense sirens pierced the only peace in people's hearts, and the half-dead city suddenly "lived", and people no longer cared about the scorching sun and abandoned their homes and poured into the streets, but don't think that they are here to meet the upcoming Sino-German coalition bomber group, these crowds, which are mostly Chinese mixed with some Japanese and North Koreans, just want to rush to the safest place in the city - the air defense station as quickly as possible, after all, even Mr. Jiang can't pat his chest and say that Chinese bombs don't blow up Chinese, Although the targets of the coalition aircraft group were Japanese military targets such as arsenals, mines, and ironworks in Shenyang, it was not uncommon for bombs to fall on urban areas.

171 German bombers, 66 Chinese bombers, a huge fleet almost obscured the sky, but all Chinese will feel sincerely happy when they see this scene, although such a topic is forbidden to talk about in the Japanese-occupied areas, but almost everyone knows that their army is about to fight back.

The iron mask rained down mercilessly, and the largest military and industrial base of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Northeast China trembled in a burst of explosions, and what was produced from here was the military supplies that hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army relied on for survival, and it was also the capital for them to continue to resist stubbornly.

Not only Shenyang, before the squadron began to counterattack, many important industrial towns and military important places in the three eastern provinces were heavily bombed by the aviation forces of the Sino-German coalition forces, and the superiors of the Nanjing government also frequently called on the people of Northeast China to cooperate with the government army to drive out the Japanese invaders through broadcasting, and the people in the enemy-occupied areas should do everything possible to report to their own troops military information such as the deployment and movement of the Japanese army, or resist the rule of the Japanese invaders by various means, if none of the above can be done, Then at least give silent support to your own air force when it is bombing.

With the "silent support" of the people of the three eastern provinces, the Sino-German coalition forces flew more than 10,000 sorties throughout August and dropped nearly 40,000 tons of bombs on the areas occupied by the Kwantung Army, killing and wounding thousands of Japanese soldiers and destroying a large number of Japanese factories, barracks, and railway lines. According to the plan of the Sino-German Joint Staff Headquarters in Nanjing, in the coming September, the bombing intensity of the coalition forces will be raised to a new level, so as to pave the way for the ground offensive of the squadron.

The upcoming September is also of great significance for Germany and the German royal family, the greatest monarch in German history will officially marry the princess of the neighboring Kingdom of the Netherlands and the heir to the throne of the Netherlands, and although the wedding scheduled for mid-July has been postponed for two months due to Dutch reasons, this has not frustrated the thousands of people of Germany and the Netherlands, although there is no indication that Germany and the Netherlands will have some kind of political and territorial merger, But the vast majority of Germans and Dutch people think that this is definitely a mutually beneficial thing, and long before the official wedding, the German and Dutch governments reached an agreement on the former Dutch East Indies, Germany will end the "escrow" of the region within the year and successively withdraw the naval, land and air forces stationed in the region, and the Dutch army will also resume the responsibility of guarding this colony, and maintain order throughout Southeast Asia together with the German troops stationed in Southeast Asia.