Chapter 16 Bearing Walls
"You have a way to deal with them?" asked Blazel.
"Yes..." Qin Chuan looked around and asked, "Sir, I need paper and pen."
Bazer raised his head to the side, and a serviceman opened his bag and took out a notebook. Bazer gracefully pulled out a pen from his left chest pocket and handed it to Qin Chuan... It is said that German officers maintained the habit of learning while fighting, and Qin Chuan believed it at this time.
Qin Chuan took the pen and notebook, turned to the middle, quickly drew the school's sketch on the blank page, and then sent it to Bazer and said, "Sir, the school uses brick walls as load-bearing walls, especially the middle one..."
Qin Chuan pointed to the main wall that was protruding in the middle of the sketch and said, "As long as we destroy this main wall..."
"The whole building will collapse?" Bazer looked at Qin Chuan in surprise.
"Yes, sir!" Qin Chuan replied: "Although it may not all collapse, because other parts have load-bearing walls, at least the middle part will collapse. This will not only bury the British in the ruins, but their tanks will also be pressed down and unable to move! Then we can break through their defense!"
Bazel glanced at Qin Chuan with appreciation, and his eyes fell on the sketch again for a while. After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Good suggestions, Private, you should come with me!"
Bazer took Qin Chuan and turned a corner along the street, passed through a pile of ruins and entered a building.
As soon as he walked into the building, Qin Chuan realized that it was the temporary command of the German army, because there were several radio stations inside that were "beeping" and there were also communication soldiers shouting in front of the phone.
Bazer brought Qin Chuan to a person. He was wearing a wide-brimmed cap, with a pistol on his belt, and stared at Qin Chuan at the map on the table, as if he was having a headache for the British defense line in front of him.
Bazel stood up and saluted in front of the officer, saying, "Major!"
So Qin Chuan knew that this officer was his battalion commander.
The major raised his head and looked at Bazel in confusion, frowned and said, "Lieutenant, the troops will attack in a few minutes. You should command the front line, right?"
"Major!" Bazel explained: "My soldiers have some ideas about attacking the enemy's defense line, and I think you are interested in listening!"
"Oh?" The major glanced at Qin Chuan standing next to Bazel, and then turned his eyes to the map on the desktop again: "If you have any suggestions, just say it, I'm listening!"
Bazer raised his chin at Qin Chuan and handed the notebook in front of Qin Chuan.
Qin Chuan walked to the major with his notebook, but he found that the major's eyes were not looking at them at all.
This made Qin Chuan a little embarrassed, but he continued: "My idea is this... The focus of our attack should be the school, which is the commanding heights of the enemy. We can use snipers to cover several anti-tank guns to bombard the school's load-bearing walls, so that we can blow it up..."
"Yeah!" The major responded casually, but soon realized what Qin Chuan was talking about, and couldn't help but look up in shock: "You just said... can we blow up the school?"
"Yes, sir!" Qin Chuan replied.
"How to do it?" The major obviously didn't listen to Qin Chuan carefully just now.
"Use anti-tank guns to bombard the school's load-bearing wall, sir!" Qin Chuan replied.
As he said that, Qin Chuan handed over the notebook and pointed at the location of the load-bearing wall: "That's it. We'd better bombard its middle and lower part, and it was exposed directly opposite a street. We can bomb it at a long distance, but the enemy's tanks and firepower are difficult to pose a threat to our anti-tank guns due to the construction blocking!"
The major looked carefully at the sketch on the notebook and asked, "Are you sure you can blow it up if you do this?"
"Yes, I'm sure!" Qin Chuan nodded.
Qin Chuan has studied engineering...Articleologists must understand some basic engineering knowledge, otherwise they may encounter unpredictable dangers when entering an ancient tomb or a cave to archaeology.
The major's forehead frown slowly stretched out. He looked at the sketch and said "very good", then looked at the watch, and immediately ordered the staff officer: "Order, postpone the attack for twenty minutes, we have better plans!"
"yes!"
"Second Lieutenant!" Then the major turned to Bazel and said, "Your soldiers are good, and the task of bombing the school will be handed over to you. I will contact the Anti-Tank Battalion and ask them to send a few anti-tank guns to cooperate with your operations!"
"Yes, sir!" Bazel stepped forward and accepted the task.
As we walked out of the command center, Bazer said with some concern: "I hope you are right, otherwise, if we can't destroy the school, do you know what responsibility we will bear?"
Qin Chuan shook his head: "I don't know, sir!"
"It's almost a mistake, do you understand?" Bazer said.
Qin Chuan was stunned. This was a big charge... but thinking about it, the major was originally using another offensive plan, but he overturned the original plan because of himself. If it was not successful... it would definitely affect the attack of the entire army and even the entire army.
Thinking of Qin Chuan's back, he couldn't help but feel cold. He was "almost mistakenly fighting plane" but was going to be shot. He wouldn't have died on the battlefield but died at the hands of his own people because of a suggestion!
But at this time, these things seemed useless, so Qin Chuan could only stick to his plan.
The German army was moving very quickly, and the tank guns were sent over and deployed opposite the school as Qin Chuan wanted.
Of course, this is also related to the strong maneuverability of the German anti-tank gun... The PAK36 anti-tank gun is only 432 kilograms. This kind of gun is placed on the large wheels of two air pressure tires. Only two to three German soldiers can drag it around.
What made Qin Chuan a little worried was that he got news from the gunner about the insufficient tank shells... The biggest problem in desert combat was supply, and at this time the PAK36 anti-tank gun encountered a very embarrassing problem: on the one hand, its shells were much heavier than other supplies, such as rifle bullets, and on the other hand, it could not penetrate the enemy's "Matilda" tank... The PAK36's penetration depth was only 36MM at a distance of 500 meters, which was less than half the thickness of the front armor of the "Matilda".
As a result, many troops, especially artillery, have already spoken to the logistics forces, asking them to transport less or even less PAK36 shells.
They would rather exchange these shells for some howitzer shells or 88 anti-aircraft gun shells.
But the battlefield is often so magical, and when everyone thinks it is not important, they just need it.
In the end, the anti-tank artillery battalion only transported fifty-three shells, which was the result of their "plundering" everywhere.
Chapter completed!