At noon on the 25th, a report came from the front.

The two German units met under the city of Antwerp and had captured most of the outlying strongholds of Antwerp after a fierce battle last night, with the British and Belgian forces already confined to the city.

Before Lin Youde and Isabella could get a sey, another report was also sent to Lin Youde.

In this report, Heinz and other front-line commanders made it clear that the current condition of the troops was not good, and they might not be able to attack the city of Antwerp, which was defended by more than 30,000 Belgian troops and more than 10,000 British troops.

The report pointed out that the front-line troops were very tired from the long journey, and only about half of the armored vehicles were left to be put into operation due to battle damage and mechanical problems, and the magic armor of the warrior queens was also in urgent need of thorough maintenance. In addition, the supply of the troops could not keep up, most of the troops could only feed their hunger with dry food, and there was only half of the base or even less ammunition left.

Heinz and others believed that the troops had to rest for three to five days before they could regain their combat effectiveness, so they built on-site fortifications and waited for follow-up troops and supplies to keep up.

Isabella was standing behind Lin Youde when he read the report, and when Lin Youde finished reading the report, Isabella immediately snorted: "In the end, it won't take more than two weeks to capture Antwerp." ”

"But I'm betting with you to go down to Antwerp." Lin Youde turned around and smiled at Isabella, "So I won this bet by wisdom." ”

Isabella rolled her eyes.

Lin Youde continued: "You also have to use your own wisdom, don't always think about playing smart like just now, my fox is compared to you, I don't know where it is." You, still the pattern, Tucson broken. ”

Lin Youde deliberately made the English pronunciation weird, which made Isabella very unhappy.

As soon as Isabella opened her mouth, Sissi coughed.

"How do you reply to them?"

Lin Youde hurriedly withdrew his gaze from the "new favorite" Isabella, cleared his throat and asked in a serious voice: "What about the opinion of the command?" ”

"They believe that the opinions of the front-line commanders should be taken into account." Sissi paused, pointed to the report in Lin Youde's hand and said, "Isn't the opinion of the command attached to the end of the report in the form of an annex?" ”

"Huh?" Lin Youde looked down, and sure enough, he found that there was a paper clip on the last page of the report, so there was still a piece of paper behind it, "Uh, I didn't pay attention to it just now." ”

"yes, because there's a beautiful woman behind you tugging at your heartstrings." Viola complained coldly, and then turned back to the topic, "But since the front-line commanders all think that they can't move forward, then they really can't move forward." The distance and speed of our advance this time have exceeded that of any other battle in human history, and it is the best policy to consolidate the results when we see a good situation. Anyway, even if the British start to retreat now, it will take at least two weeks for them to evacuate. ”

Viola said and glanced up at Lin Youde, her eyes were meaningful. Of course, Lin Youde understood what Isabella meant, he had already told his harem about the retreat of Dunkirk in another time and space, and Isabella's two-week estimate was actually a little longer than the actual time taken by the retreat from Dunkirk.

After listening to Viola's opinion, Lin Youde looked down at the report on the table, and pondered in a muffled voice. In his mind, the possibilities of the troops coming to a halt flooded through his mind.

Eventually, he nodded, "Then stop." This is also more secure, after all, we cannot be sure that the British army has completely lost the ability to counterattack. If you force an attack, it would be bad if the British seized the opportunity to counterattack. In addition, I think that only the armored troops and the armored hunters accompanying the battle may not be able to cope with the urban battle, and the siege of the city should still wait for the infantry units to keep up. ”

"Is that so? I thought your armored forces were an invincible all-round class. Isabella's voice came from behind.

Lin Youde smiled: "How can there be an all-powerful class of troops in this world, each weapon has its own strengths and weaknesses." The same goes for the vehicle, which has many, many flaws, such as a very poor view. The driver has only a small observation window, which is located above the inclined front armor of the hull, and the driver cannot even see the ground under the cover of the front armor, and the left and right vision areas are also very small. So in the city, if the chariot just turns the corner and comes across a big pothole, the driver simply doesn't have time to react, because he can't see the pit at all. ”

“…… And such a thing? Isabella forgot for a moment that she was planning to mock Lin Youde, and judging from her tone, she had just listened seriously.

"Of course," Lin Youde glanced back at Isabella, "That's why I emphasized in my own Armored Corps Tactical Drill that the crew of the chariot should check the road conditions as much as possible before making a move, so as to ensure that their chariot does not fall into craters or something like that inexplicably." And it is necessary to ensure that the two vehicles work together during the operation, so that they can take care of each other. ”

Lin Youde saw that Isabella was very interested, so he continued: "In addition to the driver, in fact, the field of vision of the commander of the chariot is also very narrow. The magic armor piloted by your god and war queen has an omnidirectional viewfinder at the top, so if you remove that viewfinder and let you rely on the backup viewfinder to fight, then you must feel very uncomfortable, right? ”

Isabella nodded.

"The situation faced by the commander of the vehicle is similar to that of fighting with only the spare viewfinder. Although my engineers designed a conning tower for them, the tower provided only a small slit-like opening, and there was very little to see. That's why I asked the commanders to poke their heads out of the vehicle as much as possible to observe the situation when the situation allows. In addition, I will install a phone in the rear of the tank, also because of the view. The vehicle needs the infantry to provide reconnaissance, and in order for the infantry to easily report the results of the reconnaissance, a telephone in the box at the rear of the hull is necessary. ”

In fact, the idea of installing a phone was learned by Lin Youde from the United States Marine Corps, and the first time he saw this configuration was in the American Vietnam War movie "Full Metal Jacket", when the "cowboy" used the phone on the M60 butt to talk to the people in the tank, which left a deep impression on Lin Youde.

Later, Lin Youde learned that this was a lesson that the Marines had learned with their blood when fighting for the islands with the Japanese, compared to the Army fighting in Europe without this configuration, so in movies depicting the European battlefield, U.S. Army soldiers are often seen climbing on Sherman to knock on the top cover of the tank.

By the way, 90% of the experience in the armored corps tactical drill code compiled by Lin Youde is not original to him, for example, the member group should fully understand the terrain and landform before fighting, which is actually another time and space German armored ace, "Tiger King" Otto? Karius concludes that Karius liked to ride a motorcycle to personally go to the predetermined combat area to reconnoitre, and was injured for this - these experiences and related experience summaries are all in Karius's autobiography "Tiger in the Mud", which is one of Lin Youde's favorite autobiographies of World War II, and this book is placed on the bookcase of Lin Youde's school together with Pokryshkin's autobiography "Blue Sky and Iron Blood" and Kozhdub's autobiography "Serving the Motherland", which has been turned over countless times.

Of course, in this time and space, these experiences are all summarized by Lin Youde, his wives know that he is plagiarized, and others can probably only sigh at Lin Youde's unpredictable prophet.

Isabella is now in this state of exclamation.

"I said," she said, "did you say that the tactical drill was written on the basis of summing up the experience of Turkey?" ”

"No, my troops were trained according to this code until then."

"Then how do you know ......"

Lin Youde pointed to his head: "I rely on imagination, Miss." As a world-recognized musician and painter, my imagination is very strong. ”

Isabella raised her eyebrows, it seemed that she wanted to complain about Lin Youde saying that she was a great musician and a great painter, but in the end she still didn't speak.

"In short," Lin Youde saw that Isabella did not speak, so he continued, "It is very dangerous for the tank troops to enter the city alone without the cooperation of enough infantry, and that little panzergrenadier alone will be consumed in the street battle in three or two strokes. From this point of view, we must also wait for the infantry and armored units to converge before we can continue the offensive. ”

"What water tank?" Isabella asked suddenly.

"Uh, I mean, chariots." Only then did Lin Youde realize that he had leaked his mouth, and hurriedly changed his words.

But Isabella had obviously sensed that there was something wrong with this, and her gaze staring at the back of Lin Youde's head was full of suspicion.

"How on earth can you mistake a chariot for a water tank? It's okay for me to say that it's a tractor, but the water tank or something is too far away, right? Although they are all square iron boxes. ”

"Well," Lin Youde had an idea, "Actually, the water tank was our original code name for secrecy. ”

"Isn't your camouflage codenamed a field tractor? There are any battlefield heavy construction machinery or something, I've never heard of any water tanks. ”

It's over, Lin Youde thought, and as soon as he moved, he moved himself into the ditch.

Just when Lin Youde racked his brains and thought about how to prevaricate, Sissi reached out to help.

"The meaning behind this codename, it's very simple for you to want to know, just fall in love with Lin and join our family, and you'll know it soon."

Isabella raised an eyebrow.

"You're trying to make me think it's something that was deliberately revealed to lure me, aren't you? It's a pity I'm not that easy to deceive. ”

"No, I'm just telling the truth."

After Sissi finished speaking, Viola glanced up at Isabella and said, "I can testify to this, and indeed after you become one of us, you will immediately know what happened to this guy's slip of the tongue just now." ”

Isabella looked back and forth at Viola and Sissi, her face suspicious and suspicious.

Finally, Isabella snorted and turned her face away.