The decisive battle against the Third Reich

Hearing this, Colonel Slaine and Colonel Becker couldn't help but be stunned.

The next second, Colonel Slain agreed: "This method seems feasible. We are located upstream of the middle section of the river. If you drop the artillery shells from us, you will reach the middle section of the river in a few minutes..."

As he spoke, Colonel Slain turned to Colonel Becker and asked, "Do we have a time-delay fuse?"

"Of course!" Colonel Becker replied: "We have a lot of anti-aircraft artillery shells, and of course we have time-delay fuses! In addition, we also have time bombs, and the fuse can also be used, as long as we calculate the length!"

Then, without saying a word, several people got out of the command post and entered a fort located at a high place for easy observation.

He raised his telescope and looked through the observation hole towards the middle section of the river. Sure enough, he saw that the US military was using amphibious landing ships to transport ammunition back and forth.

Colonel Slain ordered: "Measure the water velocity in the river!"

"Yes, sir!" Colonel Becker responded and led the adjutant down.

Not long after, Colonel Becker came back and reported: "The river flow is 5 meters/second, and it will take six minutes to reach the middle section of the river!"

"Test it with a few shells!" Colonel Slaine ordered.

"Yes, sir!" Of course it was Colonel Becker who took charge of this matter.

The method is very simple, just install a delay fuse on the cannonball and set the estimated time, then tie the cannonball to a piece of wood so that it can float in the water, and then slide it into the river through a slide rail, which is relatively turbulent. area to let it flow down the river.

It took Colonel Becker and his men less than ten minutes to make five such shells and slide them from the fort into the river.

Several staff officers around him were holding stopwatches, and Colonel Qin Chuan and Colonel Slain were holding telescopes and staring at the sections of wooden piles going down the river... Since the cannonballs were heavier and the wooden piles were lighter, the shells were perfectly submerged. Only the upper end of the wooden pile is exposed in the water, and there is no danger at all from the surface. Only occasionally when the water flow is strong, part of the cannonball will be exposed when it rolls over.

But who will pay attention to these wooden piles? What's more important is that even if they know about it, there is nothing they can do about it... because by then "wooden piles" like this will be flowing downstream in large numbers, and no one can stop them. .

Two minutes later, the "cannonball stakes" disappeared from sight as the river turned a corner, but several people continued to observe with binoculars.

Colonel Becker asked in a low voice, still anxiously:

"Where is it? I can't see it!"

"How many more minutes?"

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Finally, the staff officer looked at the stopwatch and started counting down: "Ten, nine, eight..."

When I counted to 1, I only heard two "boom" sounds, followed by several more explosions. The cannonballs exploded near the middle section of the river. However, the water speed was somewhat inconsistent, some were near and some were far away. There was only one cannonball. Exploded at the exact location.

The American troops who were transporting supplies back and forth were a little baffled because they didn't hear the whistling of artillery shells but there were explosions.

But this was a battlefield, so after a small commotion, no one took it seriously.

"The hit rate seems a bit low!" Colonel Becker was a little frustrated: "Not even a single amphibious landing ship was hit!"

"Idiot!" Colonel Slain said, "That's because we only had five shells floating down. What if there were a hundred, two hundred or even more?"

Colonel Becker couldn't help but said "Oh", and then replied excitedly: "I'll make arrangements right away!"

"Wait!" Qin Chuan stopped Colonel Becker who was about to leave: "We should set the time in order!"

"Set by order?" Colonel Becker didn't understand what this meant.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan explained: "Set the ones in the front for one or two seconds longer, and the ones at the back for one or two seconds less, so that they can cover an area!"

Colonel Becker quickly understood this and nodded: "Understood, Lieutenant Colonel, that's a good idea!"

After Colonel Becker left, Colonel Slain sighed: "It is indeed a good method, Lieutenant Colonel. In this way, it will be difficult for the Americans to transport ammunition and fuel to the Moselle River, which is also This means that... the armored troops that penetrate deep into our army’s hinterland will not only be unable to capture Chambier Island, but will be surrounded by us due to lack of ammunition!”

As he spoke, Colonel Slaine shook his head and said with a smile, "It's just bad luck for Patton to run into you!"

"Colonel!" Qin Chuan said, "We may not succeed yet!"

"Come on, Lieutenant Colonel!" Colonel Sline said, "This is no place for modesty. The Americans are in trouble!"

Colonel Slain was right, the Americans were indeed in trouble.

Because this kind of "wooden pile cannonball" is easy to make, and the required materials are available everywhere. Even ammunition boxes can be used as raw materials. Just ask a group of student soldiers to make hundreds of them in less than half an hour.

Then the first batch of one hundred shells was successfully "launched" and flowed downstream along the river... Just like Qin Chuan said, they were set at different times.

The specific time is calculated. The calculation method is very simple, which is the speed of the water flow and the distance of the river.

Because the delay time is different, some shells will float farther and explode, while some will explode closer. In addition, the water speed is also different, so it can form a section of the river coverage instead of just Concentrated in one place.

As the staff countdown began, the atmosphere became tense again. Only Qin Chuan felt that it didn't matter, because he felt that it was just a matter of another attempt... If the detonation time is early or late, only the delay time of the shell is needed Just make adjustments.

Then, there were just a few "boom" explosions... These were a few exceptions. Obviously someone did not adjust the delay time correctly during operation. It was a full seven seconds earlier than the fastest detonation time.

The American soldiers who were busy transporting on the river also discovered wooden piles floating from the river... Pieces of wooden piles, which itself is very eye-catching.

"What is that?" asked an American soldier.

A U.S. military officer leaned out and pulled out the wooden stake, and found that the weight was wrong. Then he turned it over, and then discovered the cannonball tied underneath.

The officer couldn't help but widen his eyes, and the next second he shouted: "They are artillery shells, get out of here, get out of here quickly!"

But then it was obviously too late to realize this.

"Five, four, three..."

The countdown seconds quickly came to an end, so shells exploded in the water. When they raised water columns, they also blasted amphibious landing ships loaded with ammunition and fuel into the sky.

Some of them even exploded, bursting into flames on the river, and the leaked fuel quickly burned the entire river into a sea of ​​flames.