Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

"boom!"

There was a loud noise in the distance, and faintly heart-rending screams could be heard. Fred, who was sleeping soundly, was woken up and muttered something. "These fools are demining again."

After many difficulties and obstacles, the British army finally advanced to the outskirts of Bumare, and what they saw were long and wide anti-tank trenches. There are three trenches behind the anti-tank trenches. In the trenches are German paratroopers who have been waiting for a long time.

The British army immediately launched an attack, but when they attacked during the day, they were bombed by German attack planes taking off from Boumare Airport and suffered heavy casualties. Attacking at night, several tanks were destroyed by planted anti-tank mines.

In this way, the British army lost more than a dozen tanks and hundreds of soldiers without even getting close to the anti-tank trenches.

They wanted to use bombers to bomb Boumare, but the Germans had already set up a radar on the hill next to Bumare. Although it was only small and had a limited detection range, it was enough to take off fighter jets to intercept the British bombers before they arrived.

It's not that they haven't tried artillery bombardment, but German reconnaissance planes have been hovering over Boumale. Let alone firing, there is a risk of being attacked by German attack planes even if they gather several cannons.

The British army had no choice but to continue their ground offensive, but they had to clear mines first.

There are many methods for demining. The simplest and crudest method is shelling. Various artillery shells are thrown into the minefield to detonate the mines. However, this approach is not comprehensive and may leave landmines behind. The safest method is for soldiers to use tools to clear mines, but this method is also the slowest and most inefficient on a tense battlefield.

However, at this time, the British army could only send engineers to clear mines.

But the German mines are not so easy to clear.

The first is anti-tank mines. Ordinary anti-tank mines have a large size and detonation pressure, and are relatively easy to remove manually. However, the German anti-tank mines were equipped with two fuses to prevent engineers from demining them. One is the main fuze and the other is the secondary fuze. The first fuse is used to detonate the mine when the tank runs over it, blowing up the tank. The second fuze is generally an anti-infantry demining pull fuze. The original fuze is replaced by a secondary detonating tube, which is used to detonate mines during manual demining, kill and injure engineers, and improve the survivability of the minefield.

What's even more terrible is that the Germans laid not only anti-tank mines, but a mixture of various types of mines to form a huge minefield.

The most famous of them is the S-type mine. During World War II, Germany produced a total of 1.93 million S-type mines. These mines inflicted heavy casualties on enemy troops and slowed or even stopped their advance. The abnormality of the S-type jumping mine is that it can be installed with a triple fuze interface, allowing a mine to have three detonation methods. It is equipped with an anti-disassembly wire-cutting fuse and is specially used to deal with Allied engineers.

Successfully designed and deadly, this type of mine was one of the iconic weapons of World War II and a nightmare for Allied infantry. The Allies gave it a very cute nickname - "Betty Jumping Thunder". With its excellent killing effect, "Betty" has caused countries to imitate and improve it.

After the jumping mine is triggered, it will first ignite the projectile charge at the bottom of the warhead through the fire tube (some jumping mines will be delayed for a few seconds in order to explode in the middle of the team), and at the same time trigger the short-delay fuse in the mine body. In the air, a short-delay fuse ignites the explosive, pushing more than 300 small steel balls on the outside of the warhead, and then sieves the people around it. This is a very vicious weapon. Because it explodes at almost waist height, the injured person can easily lose the fun of the rest of his life. For a man, this is simply a pain that is worse than death.

However, this type of landmine is easily detected by detectors. Once discovered, it is quite easy to disarm. Bomb disposal personnel can insert a needle into the small hole of the pressure sensor. If trip wires or electronic initiators are used for tripping mines, simply cut them.

For this reason, the German army also invented ceramic landmines, glass landmines, and even wood landmines. Because these are non-metals, it is difficult for the metal detectors of demining engineers to find them. This kind of strange landmine caused the British engineers to suffer a lot.

However, the explosion sounded like an anti-tank mine exploding. Fred turned over and continued to sleep soundly.

He slept soundly, but Churchill, who was far away in the basement of the Prime Minister's Office in London, suffered from insomnia again.

"Why, why haven't those damn Germans been eliminated?!" He gritted his teeth, his eyes were as red as wild beasts, and he looked extremely crazy. He hadn't seen the sun for a long time, and his skin was an unhealthy white.

Outside the office door, listening to Churchill's hysterical yelling, several secretaries looked worried and talked in low voices. "Do we have to find Dr. Smith?"

"Didn't Dr. Smith already prescribe medicine?"

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, you must not have taken any medicine?"

"How about you go in and remind him?"

"I wouldn't dare."

Churchill, who lived in time and space, wrote in an article during World War II: "When I stand on the platform, I dare not look at the passing train. I will try to hide behind a pillar. When taking a boat, I don't dare to look at the passing train. Dare to walk to the side of the ship and look at the sea below. If you do, I'm afraid everything will be over (jump off)."

Churchill was a patient with severe depression. He would be troubled by sudden and dangerous thoughts throughout his life. He used the code name "Black Dog" to cover up the disease. From the medical records left by his personal doctor, we can see that Churchill's physical appearance I experienced various strange symptoms, but the treatment plan column was blank, because there was no better solution for this disease except sleeping pills at that time.

In 1911, a friend of Churchill's suffered from this disease and got better after treatment by a German doctor. Churchill wrote in the letter: "I think this doctor is also useful to me. My black dog has not come to see me recently. He is away from home." When I am far away, I feel that the oil paint returns to the oil painting." The letter suggests that depression caused Churchill to suffer temporary hallucinations.

"Black dog" will frequently appear in Churchill's articles. Churchill's choice of this title has a profound meaning, because dogs can be tamed after all. However, the fact was beyond his expectation. His battle with the black dog never It lasted from the age of 35 until his death at the age of 90. He never allowed the other party to obey him. From official records, it can be found that Churchill would suddenly become bedridden. The longest period of time was more than two months. No one knew what disease he had. Nothing seemed to have happened when he returned to work, but after a while he would disappear without warning for a few days. In fact, whenever the black dog came again, Churchill's body would become stiff and it would take a lot of courage to get out of bed. , my mind is full of all kinds of strange thoughts, and I even think that death is the best relief.

At the same time, the black dog also brought miracles. The most glorious years of Churchill's life were exactly the darkest moments of depression. Every time his condition was relieved, his judgment became more accurate and his willpower became more powerful. Tenacious, experts from the London Society for Psychiatric Research gave a scientific explanation for this phenomenon: "Depression itself is painful, but fundamentally it brings a new experience to the body, and it allows us to face challenges. Produce a positive reaction, which can remind you that your original thoughts and practices are wrong. In order to relieve the pain of depression, people have to actively change their thinking patterns and behavioral habits. They will no longer waste time on sentimentality and become more pragmatic. , be more clear about your goals.”

After venting, the office finally became quiet. Just when the secretaries thought the Prime Minister had fallen asleep, the office door opened and Churchill walked out. "Go get ready, I'm going to give a radio speech."