Chapter 158 Tank Three-Three System

After breaking through the defense line, Colonel Estiny's troops moved south without stopping.

On the other side, Colonel Brownie in Tamon also broke through the German defense line, and they moved north along the road.

One south and one north, this was obviously a pincer attack on Lafox.

Colonel Brownie also fought a beautiful battle. He didn't know what the knowledge was. He only knew that Charles' tactics had won again, so he climbed onto a tank excitedly and shouted to the soldiers below: "Salute Charles!"

He raised his revolver and fired two bullets into the air.

The soldiers cheered loudly and fired into the air.

...

Colonel Estiny, who broke through Andruci, did not behave so radically. He sat in the sidecar of a three-wheeled vehicle and watched the cheering soldiers, the tanks carrying soldiers onto the road, and the teams of prisoners being taken back, and he was filled with emotion.

There were at least two thousand prisoners, which was even more than the troops he brought!

A sense of pride he had never felt before arose from his heart.

He had won battles before, but never so easily and thoroughly as today.

Those arrogant German troops, who had entered Paris and plunged France into decades of humiliation, were now trampled under his feet!

However, what impressed Estiny the most was Charles's tactics, which perfectly coordinated infantry and tanks, and the same was true for tanks.

Those tank soldiers were even novices. They were ruthlessly thrown into tanks after only two days of simple training. When they first rode the tanks, they would vomit crazily. Two weeks later, they had won a perfect victory.

This is the charm of the "three-three system", Estiny thought, and he recalled Charles' "teachings" in his mind.

"We should use the three-three system!" Charles said.

"Three-three system?" Estiny guessed: "You mean, every three tanks are organized into a group?"

"Yes!" Charles nodded: "A platoon has 3 tanks, a tank company has three platoons, plus the company headquarters, a total of 12 tanks."

Estiny asked puzzledly: "Why 3? Instead of 2 or 4 or 5?"

He didn't think it made any difference.

"Because the tank soldiers are all novices, Colonel!" Charles replied calmly: "And the tanks have no communication equipment, it's difficult for them to coordinate!"

Estiny was confused by Charles's nonsense. Does this have anything to do with the three-three system?

Charles seemed to have seen through Estiny's thoughts. He smiled and took a few small flags to represent tanks. He placed them in a triangle on the table and explained:

"The three tanks can be arranged in a triangle. We can choose the best tank commander to be in the front!"

Estiny said "Oh": "The two tanks in the back don't need to think or communicate. They just need to follow the tanks in front!"

"That's right!" Charles replied: "The tank in the front is responsible for attacking and breaking through, the left wing is responsible for providing cover for it, and the right wing is responsible for reinforcement!"

Estiny suddenly realized: "Their tasks have been detailed before the war, and they have been rehearsed many times in training. This makes them know what to do on the battlefield, even if no one gives them orders!"

"Yes!" Charles added: "Even if we have to give orders, we only need to give orders to the leading tank, which will be much less difficult!"

Without communication equipment, the necessity of communication is compressed to the extreme. This is the advantage of the three-three system.

Another advantage is that it can quickly form combat effectiveness: new recruits do not need to know how to fight or why to fight like this, they only need to know how to follow the platoon leader and do their own thing.

This may be a bit dull, but it is much better than rushing, rushing, and fighting randomly without knowing what to do.

As long as the enemy does not understand this routine, the new recruits will fight like veterans, and they can still exert the combat effectiveness of veterans!

Colonel Estiny admired Charles's organization and training methods.

Facts have proved that Charles is right. The tanks advanced in an orderly manner and cooperated with each other. The command was also very smooth. There were no casualties in the whole battle except for a tank whose track broke when crossing the trench.

Estiny couldn't believe that these were tank soldiers who had only trained for two weeks. He sighed: "Charles is not only a genius in building tanks and equipment, he can also build an army, the strongest army in the world! He was born for war!"

Then, Estiny thought of another point: one day this tank unit in front of him will grow into experienced veterans on the battlefield. According to the principle of three-three system, they can immediately be divided into three, and one "veteran" with two "recruits" will become three tank units.

Then put them into the battlefield to learn in battle, and soon they will become more and more, stronger and stronger, and there will be no end!

God, will there be anyone who can be his opponent in the future?

If the French army is handed over to Charles for command, it will not only be Germany that will be despised, but the whole world!

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La Fox, the small town of Fervois

Joffre's headquarters was in chaos, with staff officers calling one after another, and intelligence flying back and forth between the signalman and Joffre's desk, but all the information seemed to be summed up in two points:

"They broke through the Andrusi Line, and the German army was defeated!"

"They broke through the Tamon Line, and about 3,000 German soldiers surrendered!"

In addition, there are some data on battle damage ratio and prisoners.

However, these data were shocking enough. Kanais looked at the documents with an expression of disbelief: "Did they make a mistake? More than 1,000 troops captured more than 3,000 German soldiers?"

Kanais firmly believed that either the attacking force was missing a zero, or there was an extra zero after the capture, and more reasonably it was both.

Xiafei didn't care about this. He glanced at the blank map and asked anxiously: "I want to know their specific location now. How miserable is our reconnaissance capability? We can't even know where our own troops are?"

A staff officer stepped forward to explain, his tone full of helplessness: "General, these two troops of Shire have penetrated behind the enemy's rear, and they are marching very fast. We can't even keep up and know more!"

"Plane, send the plane up!" Xiafei ordered loudly, furious.

But Kanais stopped him and said: "General, General Galieni warned us that once the battle begins, Charles's fighter jets will shoot down all aircraft taking off from La Forks and nearby areas, and our aircraft will be no exception!"

Xiafei was stunned on the spot with his mouth half open. He found that although he was the commander-in-chief of France and had the command of millions of troops, he could not set foot on this small battlefield dominated by the Charles!