Chapter 150: Charles' Tank Is the Real Tank

La Fox, the German defenses faced another gloomy evening.

The autumn wind brought cold rain to Colonel Jurgen Khalil. He tightened his coat and continued to wading through the stagnant water.

A group of German soldiers were working hard to scoop out water with their spiked helmets. When they saw Colonel Khalil approaching, they quickly stopped what they were doing and stood up to salute.

"Don't stop, boys!" Colonel Khalil said expressionlessly: "It's more important to scoop water than to show respect to me. They may kill you, but I won't!"

The soldiers laughed.

Several gophers as big as cats scurried past. After getting along with them for a long time, they were no longer afraid of humans. Sometimes the corpses were not cleaned up in time, and they would be found early the next morning after they had chewed them beyond recognition.

But Colonel Khalil could do nothing about them.

He murmured: "I would rather deal with France's attack than this thing!"

"Hey!" Colonel Khalil shouted at the two soldiers who were lazing under the machine gun position: "If you don't want to eat bullets, make your parapets thicker. They are almost washed away by the rain!"

The tired soldier responded, hurriedly finding his engineering shovel and climbing into the mud-filled trench.

Colonel Khalil warned them a few more words, then turned into the traffic trench, walked deeper and came to the headquarters of the Second Infantry Regiment.

Colonel Khalil, who was all wet, lowered his head and got in. He had no idea of ​​sitting down. He was worried that he would get wet in the only remaining place without water, although it would only be a matter of time.

"Colonel!" Just as Khalil stood at the entrance of the cave and shook his body nervously, the staff officer carefully handed him a document.

Colonel Khalil took the document and realized it was a newspaper.

"What is this?" Colonel Khalil looked at the staff member in confusion.

The staff officer replied: "This is the newspaper brought by the intelligence agent from France. He thinks it may be useful to you!"

Khalil first put the newspaper aside, took off his poncho and helmet and dried his hands, then picked up the newspaper again and walked under the dim light.

After just one glance, Khalil looked up at the staff officer in surprise: "Char's tank?"

"Yes, Colonel!" the staff officer replied: "Our intelligence officer said that after Charles said these words, he realized that he had made a mistake. He left the scene in a panic, and was later scolded by Galieni! "

Colonel Khalil nodded and turned his gaze back to the newspaper. After reading it for a while, he chuckled: "He is right. The tanks attacking us these days do have such a problem. They are like blind men in front of us. Turning around, shooting randomly without seeing the target, but we can destroy it easily!”

"That's not what's important, Colonel!" the staff officer reminded.

Colonel Khalil was stunned for a moment, and then nodded thoughtfully: "You are right, Wolfe. If Charles knew this, he would not make this mistake, so..."

The staff officer continued: "So his tank must have a faster speed, so that it will be difficult for our artillery to hit it. It may also have stronger defense, and even our K bombs may not be able to hit it. wear!"

Khalil said "Yeah": "This means that his tanks will lead the French people to rush in front of us and use machine guns to shoot at us wildly!"

"We should be lucky that France has a stupid parliament, colonel!" the staff officer said: "They eliminated Charles's tanks and bought two tanks that were not tanks at a high price to charge at us. Otherwise, we would have become a cold corpse long ago. 's body!"

"That's right, Wolf!" Khalil replied with a smile: "The French Parliament saved us, but it's a pity that I can't write them a letter of thanks!"

The staff officers and several officers in the headquarters all laughed when they heard this.

"Now!" Colonel Khalil raised the newspaper to the officers: "What we have to consider is how to deal with this tank, Charles's tank, a real tank!"

After a brief silence, Wolfe was the first to put forward his idea: "Although we want to increase the inventory of K bombs, we don't seem to have much hope for it!"

"Yes!" Colonel Khalil clicked his finger in the void to agree: "Char will strengthen the thickness of the frontal armor, and our K-bombs may not be able to penetrate it. The side may be able to, but when we see the side, The enemy's infantry is already in front of us!"

Colonel Khalil nodded to the recorder: "Write it down, Knig, we can't ignore every detail!"

The recorder responded and quickly wrote down this important point on the document.

"Then there's only artillery!" the staff officer continued his analysis: "But if Charles' tanks also have speed..."

The command headquarters fell into silence for a moment.

They don't know the speed of the tank, and the target is fast and slow, and it is unlikely to move in a straight line. It is difficult to destroy such an irregularly moving target with artillery.

After thinking for a while, Colonel Khalil said: "Perhaps, we can carry out a wider range of strikes on the target, or shoot in stages!"

Segmented shooting is an artillery tactic, which is actually the modern calibration coordinate.

It uses an artillery group to set up the elements before the war and complete the test firing to confirm that the artillery group's shells will fall into a known area in front of the position and prepare for it.

When a war begins, when the enemy target enters or is about to enter this area, you only need to shout "Fire!" on the phone, and the artillery shells will immediately come out and explode the area into a sea of ​​​​fire.

Obviously, this method saves all the intermediate steps, greatly shortens the firing time, and significantly improves the accuracy.

The disadvantage is that this artillery group must always remain on standby at the set parameters and cannot fire at other positions, otherwise it will lose its meaning.

Therefore, it is necessary to implement this static calibration of many artillery groups to divide the wide battlefield front completely.

Colonel Khalil murmured to himself: "We need more artillery and a lot of shells!"

Someone worriedly said: "There is a shortage of artillery and shells everywhere, Colonel! They won't give us!"

At this time, the defense line has been stabilized, and the entire defense line of hundreds of kilometers is in combat. In addition, transportation is difficult during the rainy season. Scarce resources such as artillery and shells cannot be obtained just by wanting them!

The staff silently took the newspaper on the table and raised it to everyone: "Or, we can report this intelligence to General Waldeck and listen to his ideas?"

Colonel Khalil understood what the staff meant. If General Waldeck realized that Charles' tanks would launch an attack on the La Fox Line, he would definitely be willing to transfer the artillery!

(The second one from the left in the picture above is a K bullet. Usually each soldier is equipped with 5 rounds, and the machine gunner is equipped with a belt of 250 rounds)