This was not the first time the German army defended. In fact, most of the previous battles were the German army defending first and then counterattacking to gain an advantage.

From this we can also see that Rommel is not a person who only knows attacking but does not know how to defend. In fact, he has a good defensive style, such as using two armored divisions to defend themselves... using the high-speed maneuverability of tanks to defend the defense line and prepare for offense, so that a defensive battle can be turned into an offensive battle that is beneficial to him. The British armored division was defeated again and again under such a strategy.

But this move is no longer useful now, because the Germans have too few tanks, and most of them are the extremely mobile "Matilda" and "Valentine" seized from the British.

In addition, there are 26 "Crusader" tanks, which may be able to meet the German mobile defense requirements, but this tank also has frequent failures, and three of them have failed before they even started fighting. Of course, the German army cannot pin their hopes on them.

"We need a single anti-tank weapon!" Qin Chuan said.

Qin Chuan remembered his previous thoughts about "Iron Fist".

"What are you referring to, Lieutenant?" Rommel asked.

"Just like the 'English Crossbow' we saw in Alexander!" Qin Chuan replied: "It caused us considerable losses in Alexander!"

"Yes!" said Colonel Albridge: "If it weren't for the Second Lieutenant's propaganda offensive, we might not have been able to conquer Alexander...our tanks can do nothing about it in street fighting!"

"But we are not street fighting with the British!" Rommel said: "We all know that the 'English crossbow' will not perform much better in the trenches than anti-tank grenades, and we don't have that many 'English crossbow'!"

Rommel is right. The "English crossbow" has a range of only 100 meters and is very large. If used in trenches, it will be easily discovered and suppressed by rifles, machine guns, and mortars. This is also the reason why the German army disdained it.

"No, General!" Qin Chuan said: "I am not talking about using the seized 'English crossbow'!"

"Hmm!" Rommel signaled Qin Chuan to continue.

"I mean...we should start producing a new equipment!" Qin Chuan said: "This equipment is similar to the 'English crossbow', but we can learn from our strengths and weaknesses, for example, its warhead is excellent!"

"Is it too late to think about producing a piece of equipment now, Lieutenant?" Colonel Albridge said: "It is very likely that the British attack in more than a dozen days or even less, and we cannot produce it in this time!"

"Yes!" This is also what Qin Chuan was upset. He should have put forward this idea long ago: "But we should prepare early, right? Otherwise, we will regret it forever!"

"The equipment you mentioned..." Rommel asked: "What would it look like?"

The reason why Rommel was interested in Qin Chuan's idea was because he considered that when supplies were difficult to transport from Italy, this small equipment might be the only way out for the German army, because the weight and space of transporting a tank can transport dozens or even hundreds of such individual anti-tank equipment.

This is also what Qin Chuan considered... In the near future, as long as a ship of "iron fist" can be transported over, it is probably enough for the German army to block the offensive of British tanks.

"General!" Qin Chuan asked Rommel: "Can you borrow your pen?"

"Of course!" Rommel handed the pen on the desktop to Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan held the pen cover and the pen body and raised it at the officers, saying, "This is the warhead of the 'English Crossbow', this is its body tube. We know that the 'English Crossbow'' is very thick and it is difficult to fire, so..."

As he said that, Qin Chuan put his pen aside: "Why don't we give up on this body that has many shortcomings?"

"So how do we launch this warhead?" Colonel Slain asked curiously.

"It's very simple!" Qin Chuan replied: "We just need to install a pipe behind the warhead, install gunpowder, and then 'boom'... The warhead was shot out!"

Hearing this, the officers couldn't help looking at each other. They didn't expect that the new equipment Qin Chuan mentioned would be so simple.

But the simpler thing is, the more likely it is to become a reality, and the production cycle will not be too long... The "iron fist" in history only took only four months from design to the military to obtaining a large number of samples.

Qin Chuan has even done the design part now.

Then, Qin Chuan simply took a pen and drew a sketch of "Iron Fist" on the paper.

"It's almost that's it!" Qin Chuan handed the sketch to Rommel after drawing: "Its advantages are obvious, easy to launch, simple to operate, small size and not easy to find, and light weight and easy to carry. Of course, it may have the disadvantage of not being high precision and not far range, but the point is... it can easily penetrate 75MM or even thicker armor!"

"This is exactly what we need!" Colonel Slain said with wide eyes: "Infantrymen are often powerless when dealing with enemy tanks, because they have to throw anti-tank grenades close to each other and even rush to the tank with explosive bags to blow it up... If we have this equipment, we don't need to do this, which will give us more opportunities to blow up tanks and there are more possibilities to survive!"

Rommel nodded, handed the sketch to the adjutant and ordered: "Send the sketch back to the German R&D department immediately. I want to know the feasibility and production cycle of this equipment. Now!"

"Yes, General!" the adjutant responded, holding the sketch without daring to stop and heading straight to the communication room.

It took some time to use a radio to draw sketches, their functions and requirements. At the same time, the German R&D department also had to argue its feasibility, so it was not until half an hour later that the adjutant ran back in a hurry.

"General!" The adjutant looked surprised: "They said that the idea is very feasible, but because they do not have experience in this area, they cannot guarantee whether it can be produced or how much time it will take!"

"Tell them!" said Rommel: "Produce as much as possible at the fastest speed!"

"Yes, General!"

After pausing for a while, Rommel said to Qin Chuan: "It's really impressive. Sergeant, I found that your fantasy ideas are not limited to command, but also equipment development... just like the minesweeping tank you thought of before!"

"This may have something to do with my timidity!" Qin Chuan replied half-truely: "Because I am always facing the threat of death, I urgently need a piece of equipment to save my life!"
Chapter completed!