Upon arrival at the manor, an ensign immediately guided Otto to Colonel Hoffmann.

"Colonel, Otto? Kali Woods reports to you. ”

"Oh, good." The Colonel, who was writing something down, looked up, immediately put down his pen and stood up, walked around his desk to shake Otto's hand, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Otto. The road is still smooth. ”

"Yes, it's still smooth." Otto remembered what he saw on the way and asked, "What ......did we see on the way here?"

"Right, I saw people falling from trees, those were done by Russians, because these people are Jews." Colonel Hoffman said slowly, "The wooden signs around their necks are clearly written in Russian, some of them are 'I should not resell supplies to make war money,' some are 'I am a witch who summons demons,' and one is most straightforward, 'I am a Jew.'" ”

"It's so miserable, why are they doing this?" Otto frowned, very incomprehensible.

"Because the Prime Minister of Russia, the Iron Lady, thinks that the Jews are a big problem and will affect the future of Russia. When she cleaned up the great aristocracy in the country, she also cleaned up the Jews, not only confiscated the property of the Jews, but also moved them all to the other side of Siberia, where she created a Jewish reservation in the Far East. So in the eyes of the Russians, the Jews are all ...... That's what they did, anyway. Colonel Hoffman shrugged.

"Then why don't we take the dead down and bury them?"

"We've only been here for more than ten hours, and we've been so busy that many of our dead brothers have no one to bury them, so they can only be neatly placed in the open space." Colonel Hoffman shook his head, "We are still in offensive operations, and ensuring that the troops advance forward is the most important thing, so some things have been lowered in priority. ”

Otto had actually accepted Colonel Hoffmann's claims, but he questioned: "But we have time to bring me here for propaganda." ”

Colonel Hoffman squinted, stared at Otto, and was silent for a long time before saying, "Otto? Mr. Callie Woods, I called you here because, we don't know if you were alive near the end of the attack, you may have played well that night, but I think you know very well that your survival has a lot to do with your good fortune. This is war, combat quality is only the basis for good results, without the blessing of luck, there is no need to talk about it. ”

Otto was silent.

Indeed, as Colonel Hoffman said, Otto's survival did have an element of luck in it, although he carefully planned the entire attack, and his car group showed a very high combat quality, but there were still uncontrollable factors in the course of the battle, if it wasn't for the luck to survive these uncontrollable factors and these emergencies, now it would be someone else to report to Hoffman.

Otto pursed his lips and decided not to mention the corpses again, and he replied to Colonel Hoffmann in a stern and serious voice: "You have said a lot, please allow me to apologize to you. So, what are we called here to do? ”

Hoffman made a "follow me" gesture.

He then led Otto to the curtained window on the other side of the room, and pulled the curtain open.

Otto was slightly taken aback, for he saw that in the back garden of the manor, there were about a dozen people preparing what looked like a set board by the light.

"First of all, you and your crew have to cooperate with us to take a series of photos, today is too late, we can only take them again tomorrow morning. We were instructed to try to show as much of a thrilling battle as possible. ”

"But when we fight, it's at night......"

Hoffman shook his head: "It doesn't matter, we'll make it feel like a night in post-processing, the key is to capture the atmosphere of the battlefield, so that people can feel the high morale from the photos." ”

Otto frowned and asked suspiciously, "Is it possible to achieve this through guò photos?" ”

"That's not something you have to worry about, you just have to do our instructions and pose in front of the set board and wait for us to press the shutter." Hoffman paused, "In addition to taking pictures, you're also going to help us record an audio clip that shows your conversations during the battle, including your contact with a wrench in the car, and the conversation on the radio......"

"We never use a wrench to knock on something to connect." Otto habitually corrected, only to find that the colonel's expression was a little displeased, so he hurriedly added, "Of course, many people will have such a misunderstanding after listening to the roar of the engine of the chariot, but in fact, we use the telecommunication system in the car, which is similar to the telephone. ”

"Well, the recent technological advances have made it a bit unbearable for an old man like me. But fortunately, the propaganda industry is still the same, although Mr. Lin has equipped us with better equipment, but the basic skills and techniques are still the same. Hoffman paused, curling a smile at Otto, "You don't have to be so respectful to me. You are now a colonel that I can't afford to provoke, you know, this propaganda mission, but the big man who ordered the whole of Germany in Potsdam to directly name you, you have already been on the big man list, and you will soon rise to the top. ”

Otto discovered that Colonel Hoffmann was probably the kind of German soldier who would never call Mr. Lin directly. In order to ensure the loyalty of the German army, Lin Youde did not attack the families of these officers in the "Night of the Long Knives", but also restricted their families through various means - in fact, most of the Junker nobles were not wealthy, and only relied on the special preferential policies of the German Empire in the past to maintain the balance of the family's income and expenditure. Because of this, most of the German Junker aristocracy were quite frugal, and even the high-ranking goddess like Hindenburg was infected with a thrifty and strict character. Only those Junker aristocrats, who were integrated with the modern capitalists, lived a life of luxury and erosiveness, like the aristocrats of the rest of Europe.

These big nobles are Lin Youde's targets.

But Lin Youde's economic reforms, in effect, abolished the state's economic care for the Junker aristocracy, which made it impossible for the vast majority of Junker families to maintain their decent aristocratic life. Otto had heard of many officers from the old aristocracy, whose wives and families had to enter the market to hold positions in order to survive.

For example, when Otto was the battalion commander of the armored replenishment battalion, his wife worked as a typist in the city to subsidize the family, and the fiefdom in his hometown had long been deserted, and the mansion accumulated over several generations could not afford to be taken care of by a servant, and it was becoming increasingly depressed.

Presumably, this Colonel Hoffman was also one of these old officers, who had always had a prejudice against the "new officers" who had been promoted because of Lin Youde's favor.

Otto decided that he might as well keep his mouth shut and concentrate on what he had to do.

"I already know the details of this mission," Otto said to Colonel Hoffmann in a tone that perfectly suited the style of a German soldier, "and will we start the mission tomorrow?" ”

"No, it starts tonight. You and your crew are going to clean up and dress up decently tonight. I don't want you to wear this oil-stained uniform again when you take pictures tomorrow. Take out your military uniform and put it on. ”

"We don't wear military uniforms to the battlefield."

"That's right, but it's not a war, it's a photo, a propaganda. You have to be glamorous and eye-catching like those women who advertise with their thighs exposed. ”

"Okay, I see."

Otto saluted Hoffmann and turned to leave the room.

**

Over the next two days, Otto and his comrades cooperated with Hoffman's men to complete the photo shoot. The photographer asked to start shooting from the pre-war preparations, and he seemed to believe that the pre-war preparation of the combat vehicle was all about refueling and ammunition. When Otto told the photographer that the most important preparation before the war was to overhaul the chariot, the photographer shook his head and said: "Readers will not like to see you dirty and fiddling with your chariots, but they will only have to see you handing shells next to the chariot and you carrying large oil drums, and they will have the idea that this is the pre-battle preparation." ”

After shooting the pre-war preparations, it was natural to take photos of the assault.

The photographer asked Otto to straighten his back on the turret of the chariot, and in order to make him appear tall enough, they added a small stool at his feet for him to stand on. This allowed Otto to to expose his entire upper body to the outside of the turret, which the photographer thought looked like a charging general, while the armorers thought it was a death and stupidity.

"Actually, I was only a little bit out of the car with the top of my head in the fight, and the bullets were whizzing over my head, which made me want to put the hatch on and go back to the car." Otto explained this to the person in charge of photography, but naturally, no one listened to him.

After the photographs were taken, Hoffman's men began to record the audio of what was called a "battlefield call log."

Otto was given a thick notebook full of dramatic lines.

This time Otto did not offer an opinion at all.

It is said that in order to ensure the effect, the recordings were arranged in two places at the same time, and Hoffman's technicians installed a microphone inside Otto's vehicle to pick up the sound inside the vehicle, while a set of equipment was prepared in another small house for Kosher to play the role of an infantry officer in communication.

The recording went on several times, and after Hoffman finally nodded, Otto and the others were allowed to listen to the tape.

"Damn," Kosher said first, "is this ****** my voice?" ”

"I don't even recognize it," Otto replied, "but has my voice really become so strange after it has been radioed?" ”

**

The day after the recording was completed, Hoffman told them that they had to re-record it because "Upper Peak" didn't think it was impactful enough.

Hoffman's team then decided to injure one of Otto's men in the car and burp the infantry officer played by Kosher on the other side of the radio.

And so, a week later, the sensational German field record was born.