The decisive battle against the Third Reich

During routine training the next day, Instructor Lange took something out of a wooden box and waved it in front of the soldiers, saying proudly: "Hey, look at this!"

"What is it?"

"It looks like a cannon, but it's held in the hand!"

"Is it the 'Iron Fist'?"

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"You guessed it right!" Instructor Lange replied: "But this is an improved version of the 'Iron Fist', guess its range..."

"Fifty meters!" The baker said: "Or sixty meters!"

"Come on!" Yakop said: "Such a small tube can't be sixty meters!"

"I guess seventy meters!" Werner, who is good at observing people's expressions, said: "The instructor's expression gave me the answer! Am I right, instructor?"

"No, sergeant!" Instructor Lange laughed: "But I think Lieutenant Frick should know the answer!"

"What? Is this another lieutenant's idea?" The soldiers cast an unbelievable look at Qin Chuan.

Werner looked at Qin Chuan's helpless expression and said, "We should be used to this, right? The lieutenant always surprises us!"

"So, lieutenant, how far can it hit?" the baker asked.

"I don't know!" Qin Chuan spread his hands: "I hope it can hit 100 meters or 200 meters, but who knows if they can make it!"

"Yes, lieutenant!" Instructor Lange said, "They made it, it can hit 160 meters, and there is still room for improvement!"

"Wow!" The German soldiers looked at each other in surprise.

After a long time, someone asked, "160 meters, so does it still have 140MM penetration?"

The person who asked this question was obviously worried about whether the new rocket launcher sacrificed penetration in order to increase the range.

"Why don't you try it yourself?" Lange waved to the soldiers.

The soldiers who had been rubbing their hands for a long time rushed forward, and one by one they picked up the rocket launcher.

Qin Chuan also picked up one, which looked similar to the modern ones... But Qin Chuan couldn't be sure, because he had only seen the rocket launcher on TV and in movies.

"Good guy!" Werner looked at the rocket launcher and said, "Second Lieutenant, compared to it, the 'Iron Fist' is like a toy. How did you come up with this?"

"I just want it to be more like a gun!" Qin Chuan replied, then turned on the safety and aimed at a steel plate a hundred meters away, and then pulled the trigger.

"Chiu" sound, as the rear end rocket spewed out a long smoke, the warhead hit the target and exploded. After the smoke, several small holes appeared on the steel plate, and the German soldiers cheered.

"Gentlemen!" Instructor Lange said, "I have to remind you that what you have in front of you is a 200MM steel plate!"

The soldiers were stunned, and then cheered again.

They all knew what this meant. The range of 160 meters plus the penetration of 200MM was enough to destroy any enemy tank. Especially the range of 160 meters, which can completely get rid of the days when infantrymen blew up tanks at close range.

"Chiu!" There was another whistle, and the rocket fired by Alfredo accurately hit the steel plate.

"Great!" Alfredo said, "Now I really miss the battlefield!"

Maybe Alfredo just said it casually, but what he said soon became a reality.

Before dawn the next morning, there was a hurried whistle outside the barracks.

"Get up!" Bazel shouted outside the barracks: "Boys, the vacation is over, I hope you haven't forgotten the skills of desert warfare!"

So the soldiers knew that they would be transferred back to the Alexander Line again.

"Here's the thing!" After the soldiers gathered, Bazel said: "The enemy attacked our defense line at 8 o'clock last night... The Alexander Line, the British deceived us, their focus has always been there, so we have to rush back to support now, is there any problem?"

"Captain!" Werner asked, "How much time do we have to prepare?"

"No!" Bazel replied: "The military situation is urgent, you have no time to prepare, get on the plane now, right away!"

"Yes, sir!" The German soldier responded.

Qin Chuan patted Werner on the shoulder and said, "She can understand!"

Werner nodded silently. Soldiers are like this. They never know where they will be in the next second. They have no right to decide.

Five minutes later, the soldiers boarded the Caproni transport plane. Due to the previous casualties on the battlefield, a Caproni transport plane was enough to accommodate Qin Chuan's platoon... Qin Chuan's platoon only had eleven people in the previous battle. During this period, only five people were added, so there were only sixteen people.

This is not because of the shortage of troops. In fact, other troops have been supplemented to a considerable extent. The African Corps has received reinforcements from a supplementary regiment from Germany.

But the First Infantry Regiment is difficult to supplement because the First Infantry Regiment at this time is a special unit. Soldiers must have the military qualities of both desert combat and airborne combat, otherwise they will only hinder the troops.

From this point of view, it is not a good thing for a unit to learn too many skills.

The five newly added recruits...they are not actually recruits. They were originally paratroopers. They returned to Berlin because of injuries. After recovering from their injuries, they were sent to Crete to be incorporated into the First Infantry Regiment.

"Have any of you ever served in the Eastern Front?" the baker asked the five recruits amid the noise of the planes.

"Yes, sir!" a recruit answered, "I participated in the war to attack Grodno, and I was injured there!"

"What's your name, sergeant?" the baker asked.

"Dominic, sergeant!" the recruit answered.

"Well, Sergeant Dominic!" the baker stood up and moved closer to make it easier for the other party: "Tell me about the situation over there!"

"What?" Dominic didn't quite understand what he meant.

"The Eastern Front!" the baker said, "How did you fight?"

"Our attack went smoothly, sergeant!" Dominic answered proudly, "The enemy was vulnerable, and some places even rioted. I mean... many of their people welcomed us!"

"Oh!" These words made the German soldiers in the plane feel relieved, which was a good thing anyway.

Sergeant Dominic was right. The German attack on the Soviet Union was indeed very smooth at first. It attacked 600 kilometers in 10 days. The Soviet Union's 24 divisions were completely defeated within two weeks, and 20 of them lost more than half of their troops and equipment.

However, Qin Chuan knew that this was only the early stage. As time went by... the Soviet war machine would soon recover and fight back against the German army.