Chapter 269 Bazooka

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'?"

...

"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 all 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, then it still has 140MM penetration?"

The person who asked this question was obviously worried 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 appearance of rocket launchers 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 opened the safety and aimed at a steel plate a hundred meters away, and then pulled the trigger.

With a "chi", as the rear rocket spewed out a long stream of smoke, the warhead hit the target and exploded. After the green 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 160-meter range, which can completely get rid of the days when infantrymen blew up tanks at close range.

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

"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, a hurried whistle was heard 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 combat!"

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

"Here's what happened!" After the soldiers had assembled, Bazel said, "At eight o'clock last night, the enemy launched an attack on our defense line... The Alexandria Line, the British deceived us, their focus has always been there, so we have to rush back to support, is there any problem?"

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

"No!" Bazel replied, "The military situation is urgent, you have no preparation time, get on the plane now, immediately!"

"Yes, sir!" The German soldier responded.

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

Werner nodded silently, this is how soldiers are, they never know where they will be in the next second, and they have no right to decide.

Five minutes later, the soldiers boarded the Caproni transport plane. Due to the previous reduction in the battlefield, a Caproni transport plane was enough to accommodate Qin Chuan's platoon... Qin Chuan's platoon had only eleven people left in the previous battle, and only five people were added during this period, 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 it is difficult to supplement the First Infantry Regiment because it is a special unit at this time. 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 new recruits who have been added... They are not actually new recruits. They were originally paratroopers. They returned to Berlin because of injuries. After recovering from their injuries, they were sent to Crete to join the First Infantry Regiment.

"Have any of you participated in the Eastern Front War?" The baker asked the five new recruits in the noise of the plane.

"Yes, sir!" replied one of the recruits: "I participated in the attack on Grodno, and that's where I was wounded!"

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

"Dominique, Sergeant!" the recruit replied.

"So, Sergeant Dominic!" The baker stood up and moved closer so that the other party would not be so strenuous: "Tell me about the situation over there!"

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

"The Eastern Front battlefield!" said the baker: "How are you doing?"

"Our attack went very smoothly, Sergeant!" Dominic replied with some pride: "The enemy is vulnerable, and there are even riots in some places. I mean... many of their people welcome us!"

"Oh!" These words could not help but make the German soldiers in the plane feel relieved. This can be said to be a good thing anyway.

Sergeant Dominic was right. The German offensive in the Soviet Union did go smoothly at first. They assaulted 600 kilometers within 10 days. 24 Soviet divisions were completely defeated within two weeks, and 20 of them lost more than half. of troops and equipment.

However, Qinchuan knew that this was only the early stage. As time went by... the Soviet war machine would soon regain its breath and fight back against the German army.