On the night of August 19th, Xiang Xiaoqiang came out of the Purple Mountain Fortress and sat in the back seat of the car. Before he had dinner, Hu Jiong had already handed over an insulated rice tube. Hu Jiong said with a smile:
"It was sent here at Madam's command."
Xiang Xiaoqiang opened the vacuum-filled rice tube, and a burst of fragrant hot air came out. It turned out to be his favorite soup-filled dumplings.
He asked casually:
"Which lady?"
Hu Jiong hesitated and said with a smile:
"It's Mrs. Shang."
Well, it turned out to be Xiu Xiu. Although every time Xiang Xiaoqiang eats soup dumplings, the heartwarming scene with Qiu Qiu always comes to mind, but Xiu Xiu is obviously more attentive than Qiu Qiu. Ever since Qiu Qiu shared with her
After that sweet memory, Xiu Xiu remembered it in her heart.
Xiang Xiaoqiang took the Xiao Long Bao brought by Xiu Xiu with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth. He closed his eyes and felt the hot, thick and sweet juice. However, he always recalled the first time he and Qiu Qiu had dinner in his mind.
The scene of "shooting" Qiu Qiu's face...
"Where are you going, sir?" Hu Jiong drove for him personally and asked after getting into the driver's seat, "To the headquarters or the military camp?"
"Where is General Guderian training now?"
Hu Jiong said immediately:
"Sir, General Guderian is currently training at the Tangshan Field. This week he is training the First Division."
Xiang Xiaoqiang took out his pocket watch and looked at it. It was seven o'clock in the evening. He nodded:
"Now go to the Tangshan site for inspection. Don't say hello, we will go directly."
Then he stretched out his hand out of the car window and called a Guards officer over, asking him to call his home and tell the two ladies that he had something to do tonight and would not be coming back.
The Tangshan site is actually the area of the Tangshan Sniper School. Tangshan is far away from the urban area of Nanjing, with a road distance of fifty or sixty kilometers. With the round trip and time there, I will definitely stay there tonight.
…
The training ground of Tangshan Sniper School covers an area of hundreds of square kilometers, with various landforms including mountains, hills, plains, woodlands, shrubs, rivers, ponds, training villages, simulated ruins, etc. This is the Ming Dynasty on the Yangtze River.
It is a military training ground with the best conditions in the middle and lower reaches of the plains. It is not only a good place for training snipers, but also many other military units often come here for training and exercises as needed.
For several months, Guderian led a group of German armored officers to train the armored mechanized forces of the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that the armored forces are Guderian's most beloved cause. There is such a powerful armored force for him in the Ming Dynasty.
One-hand training, largely eliminates
This caused his dissatisfaction with coming to the Ming Dynasty. After all, he did not want to leave Germany and come to the Ming Dynasty. In addition to being a German himself, the more important reason was that Hitler valued him and let him build the German armored corps. And now,
Daming could still satisfy him with this condition.
Since the beginning of this month, the Ming Dynasty's top decision-makers have decided to secretly order the 11 divisions of the People's Guard from Xiaoqiang to increase the training intensity, increase the training time, and conduct fatigue training for the troops after the battle against the Qing Dynasty in October. Now the venue of the Tangshan Sniper School is almost
Being contracted by the People's Guard, they train 24 hours a day and night. No matter day or night, hundreds of square kilometers of training grounds are filled with the roar of engines. This has never happened before.
The so-called fatigue training targets both people and vehicles. In order to keep it confidential and try to give the outside world the impression of "the Ming army is madly preparing for war", recent training sessions have been confined to this training ground of more than 100 square kilometers, without leaking any information.
Go outside.
The two most commonly trained items are "long-distance attack" and "tactical maneuver". A division has hundreds of tanks and more than a thousand armored vehicles and cars. There are two to three thousand steel guys lined up in a long queue, giving way to these one hundred tanks.
"Long-distance running" in a venue covering more than square kilometers often lasts for most of the day without stopping. Various terrains and landforms are constantly passed by. Gasoline is used as if it is free, and various common mechanical failures are also exposed.
This kind of "long-distance training" trains the shortcomings of mechanized troops in large-scale deep raids-maintenance and logistics. The experience of World War II deeply reminded Xiang Xiaoqiang that the best mechanized troops are often not defeated by the enemy, but are defeated by the enemy.
Lost in maintenance and logistics.
…
At around eight o'clock in the evening, Xiang Xiaoqiang's car drove into the training ground of the Tangshan Sniper School. Xiang Xiaoqiang and several guards climbed into an armored vehicle and, led by a military policeman from the sniper school, went directly to Guderian's training
land.
Soon, the rumbling sound of artillery in the distance came over. Experienced ears can tell at a glance that this is the unique sound of a tank cannon. It is different from a howitzer. It goes "dang, dang" with a slightly metallic texture.
.
After a while, the rumbling sound of the engine also reached my ears. The armored vehicle climbed over a small hillside, revealing a large mountain basin below, a large area of bright car lights, and black steel flashed in the light and shadow.
Figures, and soldiers shouting loud commands.
A lively scene.
Xiang Xiaoqiang stood in the armored vehicle on the hillside, picked up the telescope on his chest and looked down, and discovered a rather strange scene.
The ground seemed to be covered with some kind of wooden planks. It was a large piece, about a few meters wide and more than ten meters long. An armored officer stood on the plank and walked backwards, while directing a tank to carefully drive up the plank with his hands, and slowly
Drive forward. The turret roof of the tank is opened. The commander leans out and stares at the gesture of the officer in front, while talking to the driver using the radio in the car. There are more than a dozen tanks lined up behind, all with their lights on, slowly
Drive forward as if passing a toll booth.
Xiang Xiaoqiang squinted his eyes and guessed for a while, but he really couldn't guess what he was doing.
"What is this training for?" He turned his head and asked the military policeman in the car.
The military policeman scratched the back of his head, hesitated for a while, and finally said loudly:
"Sir, I don't know!"
He nodded to Xiaoqiang, waved his hand and said:
"Go, get down."
The armored vehicle puffed out blue smoke and rushed down the hillside.
The appearance of Xiang Xiaoqiang caused a burst of cheers on the training ground. This time Xiang Xiaoqiang went deep into Beiqing and retrieved more than a thousand captured brothers, which undoubtedly won him a lot of points in the hearts of the officers and soldiers.
"Sir, this is a new project arranged by General Guderian," a military policeman from the First Division of the People's Guard saluted Xiaoqiang and replied, "We are training to cross the river on ice in winter."
"Ice crossing the river in winter?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang was very surprised and glanced at the long row of tanks crossing the "river" one after another. The ground was made of bricks to form low ridges, and these low ridges were covered with wooden slats.
The shape of a "river" that is more than ten meters wide, and then the tank carefully drives up... What is this if it is not "crossing the river"?
Why did Guderian train his troops to cross the river on the ice?
Xiang Xiaoqiang murmured in his heart: The battle against the Qing is still top secret and has not been disclosed to the officers of the Foreign Legion, not even Guderian. Did he estimate it himself?
Although the winter in the south of the Yangtze River is also very cold, rivers and lakes generally do not freeze. This is different in North China. The winter in the 1930s was very cold, and almost all rivers in the north would freeze. Smaller rivers and ditches would freeze.
to the bottom, and wider rivers will form thick
It is very realistic to cross the ice and tanks. If you raid Beiqing, you will have to face the winter battle in North China, and you will have to cross the river on the ice. A mechanized force that is good at crossing the river on the ice will save a lot of money for the pontoon troops.
Things will advance much faster.
In Guderian's works after World War II, there was also a quite detailed discussion of tank troops crossing the river on the ice.
Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at the "ice surface" in front of him, looking at these wooden boards that were too thin to be used as furniture, placed one by one on a few brick piers, and the steel giants of ten to twenty tons rumbled over them.
, the board was so heavy that it was trembling and about to break at any time. Commanding people
The operator stood back a few meters in front of the tank to command. The commander leaned on the turret, keeping in touch with the driver through a headset at all times and controlling the speed of the tank. The machine gunner, loader and radio operator all got out of the tank, holding their respective
The weapon walks a few meters in front of the tank.
"Beside the river" stood a German armored officer with a hooked nose, golden hair, and knife-like eyes harshly staring at every movement of the tank crew. From time to time he would wave his arms and yell fiercely. The translator on the side would follow suit.
Shout loudly:
"Avoid the track marks of the vehicle in front! Idiot! Do you want the country to lose a tank?"
The commander of the tank on the "ice" immediately yelled at the driver through the headset, and then the tank deviated to one side, avoiding the place where the previous tank ran over when crossing the river.
Be sure to avoid the track marks left by the previous tank on the ice. This is an iron rule for tanks crossing glaciers in winter. Do not allow the same ice layer to bear the weight of the tank multiple times. This will cause the ice layer to collapse and the tank to
Falling into the water.
The German tank officer was dissatisfied again and shouted. The translator still translated:
"Stupid pig! Pull the joystick smoothly! Smoothly! Smoothly!!! Hell, be gentle! Tender!! Tender!!! Just like stroking your lover!...Are you a pig? Control the speed at eight kilometers per hour!
Eight kilometers! Eight kilometers! Eight kilometers!!! Don’t make me repeat it, I’ve repeated it enough!”
Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled. When these German instructors first came here, they were full of scruples and polite in every word and deed. And the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers were not too fond of them. When the German instructors guided training with them, they were all
I am still very dissatisfied. I feel that the German armored force has only been established for two years. The Ming Dynasty's armored force has been developed for more than ten years. Why do I still need to listen to your Germans' instructions?
But later, with the contact between the two sides, the German officers regarded themselves less and less as outsiders, and the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers also sincerely admired these Germans with superb tactics. No matter how harsh they were in training, they all failed in despair.
If you dare to talk back, you can only lower your head and do as you are told. Over the past few months, the quality of Ming Dynasty's armored soldiers has improved rapidly.
Sudden--
"boom!!!"
There was a loud noise, and a firework exploded almost a few meters away, followed by two or three loud noises nearby. Xiang Xiaoqiang was startled and instinctively hid behind the armored vehicle. The military police next to her heard the sound.
Someone shouted loudly:
"Sir! This is a training bomb! It is simulating enemy artillery fire! It is still dangerous. You can get into the armored vehicle!"
Nodding to Xiaoqiang, he climbed onto the armored vehicle and watched through the armored baffle. He knew that this kind of training bomb imitated artillery shells. It would make a loud noise and have pyrotechnic effects, but the explosive power was very small and there was no shrapnel. But if
If it explodes right next to people, it will still injure them.
Sure enough, from the moment the first "shell" exploded, there was a group of shouts on both sides of the river. The German officer squatted down, grabbed a helmet and put it on, waving his arms and shouting. The translator next to him also squatted and shouted.
road:
"The enemy shelled——!! People on both sides of the river lay down and took cover——!! People on the river ran across the river——!! Follow-up tanks stopped going on the ice——!! The tanks on the ice accelerated to 15 kilometers, put in medium speed, and stabilized
live--!!!"
But after all, it still failed to stabilize. Just as the tank spewed out green smoke and accelerated suddenly, there was a crisp "click" sound, the board broke, and the tank fell headlong into the "glacier".
"Damn it!!!" the translator continued to translate meticulously, "Stupid pig!!! The tank behind you is falling back! Save people quickly!!!"
In the tank that "fell into the water", the commander and driver hurriedly got out of the tank and "swam" to the shore in despair.
…
Xiang Xiaoqiang burst out laughing when he saw this, punched the armor plate with his fist and praised:
"Good! Very good training! ... Where is General Guderian? Take me to see him!"