There is a detail Rommel did not tell Hitler the truth. The fuel of the German and Italian troops was not as unbearable as he said... Fuel was indeed difficult to transport, especially the fuel was easily burned and exploded, and it was difficult to escape when attacked by British fighter jets.

However, when the German army captured Tobrook, Matruk and Alexander, they seized a large amount of fuel in the warehouse of the port. This fuel was enough for the Germans and the Italian army to use it for several months. Of course, the German army did not have many tanks in their hands, so the fuel consumption was small.

This makes it possible for transport aircraft to land and train in North Africa.

What surprised Qin Chuan was that the First Infantry Regiment also participated in this training, and was also an airborne soldier... Rommel did not believe in the Italians.

"Considering the importance of this airborne operation!" Rommel said: "We must put the best troops into parachute training and airdrop them to the battlefield as soon as possible!"

On the battlefield, another meaning of "excellence" is that the troops with the most achievements and the greatest achievements in battle, so the first infantry regiment where Qin Chuan is located is the unscrupulous one.

The training location is near Alexander Airport, which was originally an airport warehouse, but because the amount of materials transported by the plane decreased, many warehouses were empty and could not be used, so they were transformed into training camps.

There, the soldiers of the First Infantry Regiment were given two new military uniforms, including a paratrooper suit, better boots and different styles of steel helmets... These were German paratrooper equipment brought from Italy with the transport plane.

There is nothing to complain about about the others, because the soldiers' uniforms were ragged in the desert battle and should have been replaced long ago, but the helmet looked so ugly that it was round and not as round as half a watermelon skin on its head.

"Uh..." Yakop complained with the helmet: "I don't know what you think. I'm not in a hurry to fight with this thing!"

"I think this is pretty good!" Werner said as he brought his helmet to his head: "Because our enemies may laugh and forget to pull the trigger when they see our funny looks!"

The German soldiers couldn't help laughing.

"Do you think this is necessary?" said Yakopp. "I mean... when it's so difficult to supply, they'll still bring us this ugly piece of equipment. I'd rather they bring some chocolate!"

"Of course it's necessary, Sgt.!" Qin Chuan said: "Because we are going to conduct paratrooper training, our former helmet with a trailing edge..."

As he said that, Qin Chuan raised his head to the pile of tattered helmets he had just changed, and said, "They can't protect us when they are skydiving. The bulges on the edges will seriously damage your neck or other parts when they fall to the ground!"

"Oh!" The soldiers couldn't help but realize it, and then put the paratrooper helmets on their heads one by one... Although ugly, the law of the battlefield is to survive, and the soldiers all know this.

Sure enough, the first sentence of the instructor during class was: "You must never wear a standard steel helmet when you skydiving, unless you want your neck to be twisted!"

The instructor was a German who was urgently airlifted from Berlin.

This surprised Qin Chuan because there was a paratrooper division in Italy, which was in Tripoli, and even the Italians had a paratrooper school in Tripoli... The Italian 185 paratrooper division was studied, trained and formed in Tripoli.

Since North Africa has such good resources and the German army will fight with the 185th Paratrooper Division in the near future, why not let Italian instructors train the German army?

The reason is that Rommel does not trust Italians.

Not only because of this, Rommel also considered that the German soldiers did not trust the Italians either.

Not believing is second, and what's worse is that the German soldiers look down on the Italians.

In fact, objectively speaking, the Italian instructor is fully capable of teaching German soldiers parachutes... This training is a short-term quick training, and only German soldiers need to learn to parachute and successfully send to the target airport. The others are the infantry.

The problem is that German soldiers generally look down on Italians, so how can Italian instructors suppress German soldiers and let them study hard!

In this regard, Rommel's considerations are indeed correct.

The parachuting training is carried out step by step. First, learn the key points of parachuting in steps. After getting familiar with it, the instructor will use a homemade pulley device to hang the soldiers into the air one by one, and then place the people down at a certain speed, so that the soldiers can make landing actions one second before landing.

Movement is not difficult, and it is difficult to be difficult in many cases. If you do it faster or slower, you may cause varying degrees of damage to the body.

At this time, the instructor would yell at the side: "Hey, that guy who hits the ground, you can never get up because of a broken spine. Do we still want to rely on idiots like you to fight? You better wait for the enemy to deal with you!"

"The sergeant who tilted his head to the side... your neck is broken!"

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Amid the instructor's scolding, the soldiers gradually realized the danger of skydiving.

In fact, the danger of skydiving is far more than these, and it is much more terrifying than training, especially when hanging in the air and having no ability to resist the ground firepower, they can only watch them point their muzzles and muzzles at themselves.

Due to the tight time, I underwent the first parachuting training a week later.

At that time, when it was Qin Chuan's turn to jump, Qin Chuan hesitated for a moment and looked at the land thousands of meters below... a void, and no one knew what would happen if he jumped down.

"Jump down!" the instructor shouted from behind: "Remember: the enemy's anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns are aiming at you, and any hesitation may kill the people behind!"

Qin Chuan could only jump down because he could not be the one who dragged the troops, especially he was still a second lieutenant.

The moment he jumped out of the cabin, Qin Chuan fell down like a stone. When he lost weight, he felt dizzy and could not control his direction. Then the nine-meter-long forced umbrella rope opened and opened the parachute...

This process is very scary and a little thrilling, because you seem to have completely handed over your life to a few ropes and a piece of cloth.

But this process is also beautiful, because the sky is empty, and in addition to the blue, there are parachutes like dandelions.
Chapter completed!