Chapter 220： Armored battalion drill

After Germany got the shooting and writing coordinator designed by Romania, no one thought that just a simple gadget would be able to make a fighter jet capable of being operated by only one person.

A week after getting the firing coordinator, the Fokker e-iii aircraft with the coordinator and the machine gun mounted on the nose of the coordinator began to show its power, sweeping the Allied aircraft from the battlefield. The air fighters of the Allies were not prepared for the new air combat that could shoot from the nose, and a large number of fighters that still needed two people to operate were shot down. By the end of a month, no pilots were willing to take off to detect and fight. So a "Fokker disaster" that was mentioned in advance by people came ahead of schedule.

Fortunately, a Fokker e-iii aircraft equipped with a shooting coordinator crashed due to an engine failure within the control area of ​​France. The Allied countries were overjoyed and transported the wreckage to the rear for study overnight. They finally discovered that it was the shooting coordinator. Gadgets, make yourself a pilot loss. As a result, a large number of aircraft suitable for air combat were urgently equipped with firing coordinators, which allowed the Allied powers to slowly break back a little disadvantage.

And Edel, who is behind the scenes, has long ignored this. Now, accompanied by General Prie, in the military camp on the outskirts of Constanta, he sees his dream tank. Of course, it is not called this name now, but by Hoffman, a commander who does not know how to work, it is called a "tracked armored fighting vehicle." Edel has been considering whether to change it to the name tank. If he really wants to change his name, I believe Hoffman will definitely be puzzled by why the king called his majestic chariot a water tank.

The armored experimental battalion currently led by Hoffman is fully staffed. The 24 tracked tanks ordered from the Volkswagen factory have been familiar to his officers and soldiers for more than a week, and now he certainly wants to show his hand in front of the king and the chief of staff. However, because it was not long before he got it, he could only use a four-car model to give the king and the chief of staff a simple demonstration of its progress on the road and the wilderness. This is Hoffman mobilizing the four best-learned vehicles in the camp to complete this simple task.

Admiral Edel and Preeshan watched with interest the performance of the experimental armored battalion. Because it was not long after getting the tracked tank, these unfamiliar officers and soldiers driving the tracked tank were also full of loopholes in their cooperation. Of course, this is the view of later generations who have seen more tank and tank exercises on the Internet. And now the Romanian military feels incredible about this novel model, which can be seen from the facial expressions of General Prie.

When he saw a tracked tank surging over a trench, Prieshan would be surprised to tell Edel. "Your Majesty, I didn't expect this tracked chariot to have such a role. It can completely allow the infantry to follow and occupy the entire trench. This is really an amazing new equipment that can reduce the army's losses in capturing the trench."

The current trench warfare in France is also the focus of the Romanian military. The number of hundreds of thousands of casualties in a battle between Germany and Britain and France made Prieshan, the main head of the Romanian army, also very anxious, because now other countries are learning their own things from this war. However, trenches and machine guns as defensive methods are all methods that everyone has learned unanimously.

As the chief of staff of the Romanian army, Prieshan also has to figure out how to crack this defense. He now sees this possibility in the drill of the armored battalion.

After hearing the words of the Chief of Staff, Edel felt that it was the right time for Mount Lapri to watch the drill, which at least made him begin to pay attention to the seeds of this armored unit. This armored unit, Edel is mainly prepared for the future east of the Red Empire, in Bulgaria and Transylvania mountains, mainly relying on infantry artillery.

Of course, if Romania can penetrate the Hungarian Great Plains in the future, then he doesn't mind letting the Austro-Hungarians taste its power. If you want to achieve your own ideas, then the replacement of tracked tanks will continue, and reducing the level of failure will become a top priority.

As Edel was thinking, a crawler tank in the exercise suddenly roared in a low voice, and then thick black smoke came out of the tail pipe, and then it slumped in the unmoving wilderness. Several crew members climbed out from the exit of the car roof with a look of oily smoke. At this time, several maintenance soldiers ran to the malfunctioning tank with their tools on their backs. It seemed that they were going to check where it went. problem.

Lieutenant Colonel Hoffman, the head of the armored battalion who had been with Edel and Preeshan, explained to the two with embarrassment. "This is just a small problem, and the fault will be rectified soon."

Neither Edel nor Preeshan were dissatisfied. They knew that every new weapon appeared with problems of one kind or another. Seeing that the two tycoons didn't mean to blame, Hoffman could only accompany him and continue to wait for news.

The fault checked by the maintenance soldier is that there are parts damaged in the transmission system. uukanshu.com can only be dragged back to the camp for repairs. Maybe Hoffman didn't pray today, because God didn't care, and then another tracked chariot stopped suddenly, but within a few minutes the chariot started to move again. Hoffman had long experienced that this should be just a minor problem, and was repaired immediately by the crew.

Although this exercise has been bumping and bumping, Edel and Preyshan have been watching the entire exercise, and they did not blame Hoffman for always feeling upset, but encouraged him to continue to strive for the next real strength. . And Edel also pointed out to him that since the failure rate of tracked armored vehicles is now high, it is a good choice to let the crew members learn more about the main maintenance methods.

Hoffman was also extremely grateful for the tolerance of Edel and Preeshan to him, and repeatedly stated that the next drill will definitely show them different armor training camps. In order to allow Hoffman to train the armored battalion more carefully, before leaving, Edel promised to him that if the next drill satisfies him, he can add a new company of tracked tanks to the armored battalion.

Of course, Edel was not making random promises. He was orderly letting the Romanian army make changes based on his own ideas. Including this visit to the armored battalion to visit their drills, it was part of Edel and Prieshan to check the results of Romania's large-scale army expansion. Just to satisfy Edel's desire to see the first tracked tank developed by Volkswagen, they started with Constanta.

ps: Mantou, let’s talk about it. No. 4 Mantou needs to go back for a few days, so there have been two changes these days, mainly to ensure the update when I go back. Hope everyone understands. When I come back, I will send as much as I can.