Chapter 57: Self-righteousness

"Ah, how do you write this!"

Trood threw the pencil in his hand onto the table, and he fell backwards and immediately leaned forward on the table, and began to make a "woo~woo~" sound to the coquettish

What makes this tantrum kitten lying on the table so painful is a battlefield report, which is relevant to the summary of yesterday's battle.

The day before yesterday, Trode and others, under the guidance of Vincent, searched for a new punching bag, several relatively isolated outposts on the French position. And, they attacked a few of them yesterday, but to less effect.

Because Batna's defenders are indeed too short of mobile troops, Trode's tank squad is the only armored force, and the other mobile troops are trucks, motorcycles, etc., they have no ability to guard places outside Patna, and those trucks can only come in handy when they escape, so Trode and they only temporarily drove the French away.

For this kind of operation with only such small results, Trode really didn't know how to write, because even if the previous operations were not very smooth, the results were obvious, on the contrary, this simple and impossible task was only to destroy a few enemy non-main tanks. To put it simply, they burned a lot of gasoline and then consumed a small amount of shells to destroy a small number of enemies. If this battle had been placed in the early stages of the war, it would have been a loss-making business.

The Ruhr area, located in southwestern Germany, produces the best iron ore in Europe, and is home to the strongest steel industrial park in Europe, which has made the armored forces one of the leading ground forces in Europe.

Of course, everything in the world has advantages and disadvantages, in order to be able to drive the heavily armored German tanks, and make it overwhelm most of the British and French tanks in speed, the German-made engine has obvious advantages over the products of other countries in the same period, but the fuel consumption is also unattainable by the products of the same period.

Although Germany was rich in iron ore, it was extremely short of oil resources, and before the war, Germany generally imported oil from the United States of America on the other side of the Atlantic. As the tension in Europe grew, the United States began to raise the price of oil, which made Germany complain about it but had to accept the status quo. At the beginning of the war, the United States cut off oil supplies to Germany due to protests from Britain and France and the lure of heavy money. If it weren't for the speed of the blitzkrieg on France, it would have put the Germans' armored forces in an embarrassing situation.

Of course, wars cannot be won by weapons alone, and without sufficient resources, it is impossible to supply a large army. The eagerness to obtain oil and the blockade of oil brought Britain and France and Germany against each other again on the battlefield in North Africa.

Algeria, where Trode was based, was an oil-rich country, where France had the upper hand by virtue of its military superiority, but Germany was also firmly guarding several large cities along the northeastern coast, ensuring that its supply lines to Tunisia were not attacked.

Trood thought so, and suddenly an idea came to him, and he wrote the battle process hastily. At the end, there is a line in larger letters:

We replaced six enemy heavy tanks with three barrels of gasoline!

If this sentence appeared in the report of the attack on France, it would have to be dragged out by the commander and severely educated, but now, it has appeared in Algeria, the oil-producing country, and this is a sure deal. As for the heavy armored tank, reasonable people know that there is no tank of the French that is not heavy armor, even if it is defined as a light tank, it seems to be quite unworthy of the name in terms of mobility and protection. Trode's statement is actually a disguised misleading, of course, I am very confident that he can pass the above level with this, and it may be a good score!

Life in Batna was actually very boring, but Trod and they were attacking the enemy or blocking the enemy's attack every day. Of course, there has never been a real fight like last time

Two days after that day, a letter sent back from Constantine attracted the attention of all of them in Trode. The recipient is Lieutenant Trode, and the sender is Lieutenant General Schneider, commander of the 7th Panzer Army!

The fact that such a big man sent a letter to Trode, an obscure squad leader, undoubtedly does not show his importance.

Everyone, including Vincent, was forced to ask what earth-shattering things Trode had done during this time, but of course, Tlot, as the person concerned, was also very confused and shocked.

Trood opened the letter under the gaze of the crowd and found only a few lines

"Dear Lieutenant Valtrod Jonas, I have the honour to receive your report on the battlefield from my old friend and commander of the 16th Division, Gertner."

When they saw this, everyone's eyes were on Trode, and they were very interested in how he wrote the "battle report", how it was sent to the division commander, and finally let the army commander read it himself! However, Trode, who was in the center of the crowd, was already sweating profusely, not because it was too hot today, but because he remembered the summary in his letter!

"The details of the battle are not fully expressed, although there may really be nothing to fill in if you look closely, but I hope you can improve this point."

When everyone saw this, they began to wonder what Trode had written, if it was

"Okay, that's not why I'm writing this time, okay, let's get to the point. We are very interested in the last sentence of your report, and this kind of business is indeed a sure deal. We are short of nimble commanders like you. On the battlefield in Algeria, although the French have the initiative and we have the advantage of equipment, we are in need of a spirit like yours, and you have made me realize another virtue of the Germanic people in addition to tenacity. I will pay more attention to you in the future, and I hope you will continue to shine with new brilliance in the future. ”

Two days after that, someone's famous quote appeared in the newspapers of the army in Algeria - we replaced six enemy heavy tanks with three barrels of gasoline!