The decisive battle against the Third Reich

"Do you have a way to deal with them?" Bazel Halfhand asked.

"Yes..." Qin Chuan looked around and demanded, "Sir, I need paper and pen."

Bazel raised his head to the side, and an orderly opened his bag and took out a notebook. Bazel elegantly took out a pen from his left breast pocket and handed it to Qin Chuan... It is said that German officers kept fighting on one side. Qin Chuan now began to believe in his habit of studying while studying.

Qin Chuan took the pen and book, turned to the middle, quickly drew a sketch of the school on the blank page, then sent it to Bazel and said: "Sir, the school uses brick walls as load-bearing walls, especially the middle one. …”

Qin Chuan pointed to the main wall protruding in the middle of the sketch and said, "As long as we destroy this main wall..."

"Will the whole building collapse?" Bazel looked at Qin Chuan in surprise.

"Yes, sir!" Qin Chuan replied: "Although it may not completely collapse because there are load-bearing walls in other parts, at least the middle part will collapse. This will not only bury the British in the ruins, but also their tanks. We will be pinned down and unable to move! Then we can break through their defenses!"

Bazel glanced at Qin Chuan appreciatively, and looked at the sketch again for a while. After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "That's a good suggestion, private, you should come with me!"

Bazel led Qin Chuan around a corner along the street, passed through a pile of ruins, and then entered a building.

As soon as he entered the building, Qin Chuan realized that it was a temporary headquarters of the German army, because there were several radio stations beeping inside, and at the same time there were communication soldiers shouting in front of the phone.

Bazel led Qin Chuan to a man. He was wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a pistol on his belt. He was facing Qin Chuan and staring at the map on the table, as if he was looking for the British defense line in front of him. Headache.

Bazel stood up in front of the officer, saluted, and said, "Major!"

So Qin Chuan knew that this officer was his battalion commander.

The major raised his head and glanced at Bazel in confusion, frowned and said: "Second Lieutenant, the troops will attack in a few minutes. You should be commanding from the front line, right?"

"Major!" Bazel explained: "My soldiers have some ideas about attacking the enemy's defenses. I think you are interested in hearing them!"

"Oh?" The major glanced at Qin Chuan, who was standing next to Bazel, and then cast his eyes on the map on the table again: "If you have any suggestions, just tell me, I'm listening!"

Bazel raised his chin to Qin Chuan and handed the notebook to Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan walked to the major with his notebook, but he found that the major's eyes did not look over at all.

This made Qin Chuan a little embarrassed, but he continued: "My idea is this... The focus of our attack should be the school, which is the enemy's commanding heights. We can use snipers to cover several anti-tank guns to bombard the school's load-bearing wall, so you can blow it down..."

"Yeah!" the major responded casually, but soon realized what Qin Chuan was talking about, and couldn't help but raise his head in shock: "Did you just say... we can blow up the school?"

"Yes, sir!" Qin Chuan replied.

"What to do?" The major clearly didn't listen to Qin Chuan's words carefully just now.

"Use anti-tank guns to bombard the school's load-bearing walls, sir!" Qin Chuan replied.

As he spoke, Qin Chuan handed over the notebook and pointed to the position of the load-bearing wall: "This is it. We'd better bombard its middle and lower parts, and it's just exposed directly opposite a street. We can bomb it from a long distance. The enemy's tanks and firepower are difficult to pose a threat to our anti-tank guns because of the obstruction of the buildings!"

The major looked at the sketch in the notebook carefully, and then asked: "Are you sure you can blow it up by doing this?"

"Yes, I'm sure!" Qin Chuan nodded.

Qin Chuan studied engineering... Archaeologists must understand some basic engineering knowledge, otherwise they may encounter unpredictable dangers when entering ancient tombs or caves for archaeology.

The major's frowning forehead slowly relaxed. He looked at the sketch and said "very good", then looked at his watch and immediately gave the order to the staff: "Order, postpone the attack for twenty minutes. We There’s a better plan!”

"yes!"

"Second Lieutenant!" Then the Major turned to Bazel and said: "Your soldiers are good. I will leave the task of bombing the school to you. I will contact the anti-tank battalion and ask them to send a few anti-tank guns. Come and cooperate with your actions!”

"Yes, sir!" Bazel stepped forward and accepted the task.

When walking out of the command post, Bazelle said with some worry: "I hope you are right, otherwise, if we cannot destroy the school, do you know what responsibility we will bear?"

Qin Chuan shook his head: "I don't know, sir!"

"It's a missed opportunity, understand?" Bazel said.

Qin Chuan couldn't help but be stunned. This was a big crime...but think about it. The major originally used another attack plan, but he completely overturned the original plan because of himself. If it didn't succeed...then it would definitely be punished. An entire unit or even an entire army's attack has consequences.

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan couldn't help but feel chills running down his spine. Those who "missed the opportunity" would be shot. He wouldn't have died on the battlefield but at the hands of his own people because of a suggestion!

But it seemed useless to think about it at this time. Qin Chuan could only stick to his plan.

The German army moved quickly, and tanks and artillery were quickly sent over and deployed opposite the school according to Qin Chuan's wishes.

Of course, this is also related to the strong mobility of the German anti-tank gun... The PAK36 anti-tank gun is only 432 kilograms. This artillery is placed on two large wheels with pneumatic tires, and only two to three German soldiers can drag it Run around.

What worries Qin Chuan is that he got news from the gunner about the shortage of tank gun shells... The biggest problem in desert operations is supply, and at this time, the PAK36 anti-tank gun encountered a very embarrassing problem: on the one hand, it The artillery shell is much heavier than other supplies such as rifle bullets. On the other hand, it cannot penetrate the enemy's "Matilda" tank... The penetration depth of PAK36 at a distance of 500 meters is only 36MM, which is less than Half the thickness of the frontal armor of the "Matilda".

As a result, many troops, especially the artillery, have spoken to the logistics troops, asking them to transport less or even no PAK36 shells.

They would rather trade these shells for some howitzer shells or 88 anti-aircraft gun shells.

But the battlefield is often so magical. It is needed when everyone thinks it is not important.

In the end, the anti-tank artillery battalion only delivered fifty-three rounds of artillery shells, which was the result of their "scavenging" everywhere.

In other words, Qin Chuan could only look forward to using these fifty-three shells to blow up the school.