Chapter 759: Major General of Transportation

"General!" Qin Chuan took the phone and stated his identity.

"Major!" Major General Lex said on the other end of the phone: "I admire your victory on the battlefield, but as soldiers, we must abide by military discipline, and violations must be severely punished. Lieutenant Biederman may have made his contribution, but this cannot be used as a reason for him to escape punishment. Don't you think so, Major?"

Major General Lex emphasized the word "Major".

Qin Chuan knew what Major General Lex meant. On the surface, he said that Biederman could not disobey orders on the grounds of contribution, but in fact, he said that Qin Chuan was proud of his victory on the battlefield.

In a sense, Qin Chuan and Biederman did disobey orders as Major General Lex said... Biederman did not throw away the pipe according to Major General Lex's order, and Qin Chuan did not hand over Biederman according to Major General Lex's order.

If we talk about it from a general principle, it is the duty of soldiers to obey orders, that is, they must obey orders regardless of whether the orders are reasonable, so Qin Chuan and Biederman are indeed wrong.

This made Qin Chuan feel sick, because some incompetent officers always managed to whitewash their private revenge and narrow-minded practices as military regulations, and then shamelessly stood on the moral high ground and condescendingly demanded others to obey.

Obviously, Major General Lex was one of them.

"Sorry, General!" Qin Chuan certainly would not let Lex take advantage, he replied: "Biederman did it wrong, so I warned him very sternly... In the army, especially on the battlefield, to win the respect of others, you must have real skills, otherwise he will not be able to survive on the battlefield!"

Conrad listened to this and gave a thumbs up.

Like Major General Lex, this statement was about Biederman on the surface, but it was actually about Lex.

Major General Lex would certainly understand what Qin Chuan meant.

He was silent for a while, and then replied: "Very good, Major, we will see you later!"

Then he hung up the phone.

After Qin Chuan hung up the phone, he said in disbelief: "How did someone like him become a major general?"

"Major General Lex's full name is Von Lex!" Conrad replied.

Qin Chuan couldn't help but say "Oh". Those with the word "Von" in their names are basically of noble origin. They received a good education since childhood and entered the military academy, and then it was easier for them to obtain high military ranks.

"Let him go!" Qin Chuan said. He still didn't take it to heart, because he thought that as a noble, Major General Lex should have this kind of grace and tolerance.

On the other hand, Qin Chuan thought that on this battlefield where people shared the same hatred and enemies, they should not be unhappy with each other because of such a small matter.

But the facts proved that Qin Chuan still underestimated Major General Lex's character of revenge and going all the way to the end.

A few days later, Alexander found Qin Chuan and Colonel Slaine.

"I have to tell you that our training may not be able to continue!" Alexander said.

"What? What happened?" Colonel Slaine asked.

"They said that the fuel supply is insufficient due to the intense war!" Alexander replied: "We only have enough fuel for two days!"

"What a ridiculous reason!" Colonel Slaine cursed: "We are next to the Baku oil field, and we are actually short of fuel? Who told you this?!"

"Kinov Fort Command!" Alexander replied: "They are responsible for our logistics!"

Colonel Slaine left the training at hand and walked towards the command.

Qin Chuan seemed to understand something, chased after him in a few steps, and said: "Colonel, I don't think this is a problem of insufficient fuel!"

"What is the problem?"

"I offended Major General Lex!" Qin Chuan replied: "The commander of the 192nd Infantry Division is also the highest commander of Kinov Fort!"

Colonel Slaine was stunned.

Then Qin Chuan told Colonel Slaine the whole thing.

"Fuck the Major General!" Colonel Slain couldn't help cursing after hearing this: "He is just a 'Major General of Transportation'. All they need to do is to enjoy the sea breeze and drink red wine here, and then deal with the guerrillas. He dares..."

Colonel Slain was so angry that his face turned pale and he couldn't speak.

The 'Major General of Transportation' mentioned by Colonel Slain was a derogatory term for the logistics support troops... The German army was fighting on Soviet land, and it was inevitable that they would be attacked by guerrillas during transportation.

At the same time, this kind of guerrillas was quite special. Many of them were organized by regular troops, and there were many veterans among them. Some of them were well-equipped because of the assistance from the Soviet army.

For these guerrilla security divisions, they were not strong enough, and often needed several regular troops to ensure the safety of railways and roads.

The troops responsible for these tasks were often troops with poor combat effectiveness, so the German army jokingly called them transportation troops.

Major General Lex's 192nd Division is such a unit, and Qin Chuan's words last time seemed to have hit Major General Lex's sore spot, and this time he even used the excuse of insufficient fuel to interfere.

For this reason, Major General Lex also found a series of excuses, such as the First Infantry Regiment used aviation fuel, and the front-line aviation fuel was in short supply and needed to be reserved, and even considered how to answer the questions from the First Infantry Regiment.

As mentioned before, if you are willing, you can always find an excuse.

For example, consider the need to reserve fuel for wartime... How much to reserve and how long to reserve, it's completely a matter of how much to reserve, there is no standard, and Major General Lex can say whatever he wants.

But what Major General Lex didn't expect was that the First Infantry Regiment didn't call back at all.

This made Major General Lex a little confused. Didn't the First Infantry Regiment need this fuel?

At this time, the phone rang, and Major General Lex couldn't help but feel proud in his heart, thinking that it finally came.

He deliberately waited for the ring to ring for a while before answering the phone, but what surprised Major General Lex was that the voice of the commander-in-chief of the Southern Army Group, von Manstein, came from the other end of the phone.

(Note: The former Army Group Commander von Bock was ordered to retire by Hitler because he disagreed with Hitler and did not follow Hitler's orders during the attack on Stalingrad. Manstein took over as the Army Group Commander because of his outstanding performance)

"General!" Manstein asked: "How is our fuel situation?"

"Your Excellency the Marshal!" Major General Lex stepped forward and answered: "We have enough fuel!"

"So... what they said is true?" Manstein said: "The story about Lieutenant Biedermann!"

When Lex heard this, he felt like he fell into an ice cave. He did not expect that during the time he was waiting, this matter had reached the Army Group Headquarters directly.