Barton finally couldn't help but slap the table, and the old cowboy slapped it and nearly knocked it down.

"How could you be crippled directly? That's impossible! Twenty minutes ago, I was on the phone with their division commander! What is it that can cripple half a division in twenty minutes? Could it be that our aerial reconnaissance missed a large number of German armored units that were running wildly in the desert and kicking up billowing smoke? ”

Of course, aerial reconnaissance could not have missed such an obvious thing, and Patton was actually venting when he said this, and he would always say all kinds of very uncomfortable things in such situations.

"It is said that the Germans used a new weapon."

"The Germans always have new weapons, and this can't even be explained, so tell the commander of the front that it is best to send his soldiers to send one of the new German weapons that have been captured, picked up, or obtained by any other means to my headquarters before saying this, so that I can deal with Ike, understand?"

"Okay, I'll go and give the order."

After the staff officer left, Barton stood in front of the map and stared at it for a long time.

"This will not work," he said suddenly, "Guderian will seize the gap created by the sudden collapse of this division." ”

Now Patton and Guderian are in a stage of desperate attrition, and suddenly a division that has begun to rush forward to replace the friendly forces and continue to consume the German army is disabled, which will directly lead to problems with Patton's force replacement. If the Germans perceived this and seized the opportunity to make an all-out assault, Patton's deployment would have been completely broken.

Barton, of course, could not tolerate such a thing.

"We need to stop the troops that are now moving towards the intended position and deploy on the spot, and if we can, choose the terrain that is easy to defend and start laying simple fortifications."

At this time, the chief of staff, who had sent back samples and wreckage of the new weapons, had returned, and after listening to the second half of Patton's words, he asked: "We don't have a lot of anti-armor weapons, and the construction of fortifications is of little use, right?" At most, the German infantry was opposed, but the German infantry generally fought on foot, and machine guns could not stop them in front of their positions. ”

"Better than nothing," Barton shrugged, "bury all the mines, mark the location on the map and send it back to headquarters, we'll put together a full map of the minefield." ”

Patton's request for a full map of the minefield is obviously planning for a counterattack later, otherwise his chariot will step on his own mine when counterattacking, which would be a shame.

As the orders were given one after another, Patton's feelings gradually calmed down, and although he was still full of foul language, all the staff officers could see that these foul words were just Barton's personal habits, not from the anger in his heart.

By about 6 p.m., the Germans were operating almost as Patton had expected, seizing the favorable opportunity of the lack of American troops, and the pig burst through the zone where they had been fighting with the American troops for the past two days, and then crashed head-on with the American troops who were already on standby.

Fortunately, night fell quickly, and the exchange of fire between the two sides did not last long, and soon the German tank unit reversed and withdrew from the firing range of the American army, and the entire battlefield was temporarily calm.

**

Barton scrutinized the things that had been sent back from the front.

He picked up a piece of saucer-shaped weapon wreckage and found it to be very light.

"Is this the thing that wiped out our armored forces?" Barton frowned, looking very unconvinced.

"It was a missed shot that landed on the sand," explained the officer in charge of transporting the things, "and I was there, and when they hit the ground, the core of the thing burned violently, and it melted all the molten steel and the sand on the ground into glass." General, what you see is the residual insulation, judging from the condition of the scene, this is an alchemical product, even if the sand on the ground is not completely solidified and the temperature is still very high, this thing can be picked up directly by hand. ”

"Hmph, alchemical product." Barton left the saucer-shaped wreckage on the table and turned his gaze to the other large thing.

The officer next to him immediately explained: "This is the armor on the top of the turret of the tank that was hit, and we asked the engineering troops to dismantle and transport it." ”

Barton observed carefully, and reached out to touch the alchemy insulation material on the steel plate, which had been completely burned with the steel plate.

"It burned through the top armor?"

"In fact, the top armor was melted into molten steel, and the hot molten steel dripped onto the floor of the fighting compartment below, and luckily only made a hole in the chassis, and the tank was able to start as usual. If you're unlucky, it will end up on the wires or the driveshaft or whatever. In addition, this weapon is not very powerful when it hits the armor on the top of the turret, and the terrible thing is that it falls on the engine box at the rear of the vehicle, or on the ammunition racks on the sides of the hull. ”

Barton smacked his lips.

"After reading this thing, I still don't understand, why can a division be defeated in such a short time? It may be a very effective anti-armor weapon, but how on earth can so many combat vehicles in a division be destroyed by more than half in such a short time? ”

"General," the officer who came back from the front paused, "the bombs dropped by the Germans, each loaded with thousands of discs of this kind (actually two thousand BY Eggs), the bombs had gliders, and they dropped the discs in turn as they skimmed over our troops, and one such bomb could cover a long area, and they dropped fifty or sixty of these bombs. ”

"You're saying that they dropped fifty or sixty thousand of these things in order to destroy your division?" Barton's tone was visibly full of surprise, "This thing is very expensive just because of the insulation layer made of alchemy materials, right?" Doing such an uneconomical thing, is Lin Youde crazy? ”

But Barton immediately pulled the conversation back on his own.

"No, war itself is an uneconomic act." Barton shook his head, "I don't think Lin Youde will have too many of these bombs, and we can continue to carry out combat operations with confidence." Fortunately, the Germans did not make much progress today. ”

Patton said and waved his hand, signaling that the officer in charge of the explanation could leave, so the officer immediately instructed his men to remove the wreckage of the German "bomb" and the penetrated top armor and leave Patton's headquarters together.

Barton's attention had turned back to the map.

"The Germans advanced here, which made it necessary to readjust the deployment of all the troops, and tomorrow's battle is critical, well, critical. Well, gentlemen, I know you've had a busy day, but tonight we have to complete the troop scheduling plan, it must be done. So get moving now! ”