A book recommended by a friend: "Behind the Scenes", a happy article about the spy war between World War II in the wind.

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Crime is Crimea.

Needless to mention its strategic position, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack on land, and because its terrain extends into the Black Sea like a hook on the sea, it becomes an excellent location to block the Black Sea... As long as an air force base is built in Crimea, it can be used to block and control the entire Black Sea. It can almost be said that whoever occupys Crimea has the Black Sea.

What's more, Soviet bombers can take off from Crimea to bomb Romania, Germany's oil base... Crimea and Romania on the other side of the Black Sea are only 300 kilometers along the coast. The Soviet Union did do this before, bombing Romanian oil fields and refineries made it difficult for the German army to import fuel.

Of course, it is not just important, for example, it can also protect the Caucasus oil fields from being bombed, etc.

However, these advantages cannot be reflected because the German army occupied air supremacy.

Three days later, Colonel Slein and Qin Chuan led their troops to the Crim Peninsula to report to Manstein.

The distance from Kyiv to Krim Peninsula is only more than 800 kilometers.

It only takes about one day to transport a distance of more than 800 kilometers by car, but the First Infantry Regiment still walked for three days... The spring of the Soviet Union was when the ice and snow melted, and it often rained. In addition, the Soviets were not concerned about the maintenance of the road, so there was mud everywhere along the way.

This left the soldiers of the First Infantry Regiment fed up the marching pain. They were more likely to fall asleep comfortably in the car while listening to the sound of the car's motor, but instead pushed the car forward with difficulty in stepping on the mud that was not over the calf.

Of course, at this time, the MP43 was equipped with it, and everyone changed into this thing called assault rifle, and Colonel Slain actively organized the soldiers to practice its use and maintenance during the rest.

Colonel Slein said: "Maybe we will be in the battle the day we arrive at Krim. I don't think they can go to the battlefield without knowing how to use the rifle in their hands!"

Colonel Slein's statement makes sense, but Marshal Von Bock didn't give the First Infantry Regiment any time to adapt and train, or he still didn't know what MP43 was.

Fortunately, the safety and maintenance of MP43 are quite good. The biggest advantage is its ease of operation. Soldiers can master its key points in just a few hours of training... At this time, MP43 is actually closer to AK47, and AK47 can easily master a few days of training for a person who has never played a gun. This is also one of the reasons why modern guerrillas generally prefer AK47.

The result of running around like this was that when the soldiers arrived at the Krim base, they were covered in mud and water.

Qin Chuan was about to sit down and drink water like everyone else, when Colonel Slein waved to Qin Chuan and said, "Captain, go see the general with me!"

"Why, Colonel?" Qin Chuan asked.

He was just a captain, and in principle, Colonel Slain needed to go.

"It's a matter of time sooner or later, isn't it?" Colonel Slain replied: "I don't want to come back and repeat it to you!"

Slain said this correctly, and in the end, he still had to ask Qin Chuan to give advice. It would be better to bring him with him from the beginning.

So Qin Chuan and Colonel Slein stood in front of Manstein.

Of course, Qin Chuan knew Manstein, who, together with Rommel and Guderian, was called the three famous generals in Germany. From this perspective, Qin Chuan was still looking forward to meeting this general who was as famous as Rommel.

At this time, Manstein was discussing something with the staff based on the documents and maps. Seeing Colonel Slein and Qin Chuan standing in front of him, he raised his eyebrows and nodded and said, "You go back and prepare for battle. I will assign you tasks!"

"Yes, General!" said Colonel Slain.

"Oh, by the way!" Manstein asked a lot when the two were about to turn and leave: "I heard from the Marshal that you are very confident in your new equipment submachine gun, and even think that it can play a more important role than a tank... I'm a little curious about this!"

Colonel Slain didn't know how to answer.

General Manstein continued: "To be honest, although I don't believe this, I have some expectations for it. I think you have learned a little when you came. The roads are not suitable for tank combat, so we have some trouble!"

Although Manstein said this, Qin Chuan knew that this was not a "slight trouble"... Although Manstein won the Crim Peninsula War in history and was promoted to marshal, he delayed here for too long, which even directly affected the Battle of Stalingrad.

(Note: The German army originally planned to take four days to defeat Sevastopol, but in fact it took one month)

"General!" Qin Chuan replied: "I think if you really want to know what kind of submachine gun this is, you should take a look for it yourself!"

After thinking about it, Manstein handed over the documents in his hand to the staff officer, spread his hands and said, "Then what are we waiting for?"

From this we can also see that Manstein is different from other generals, at least this is different from Feng Boke... Feng Boke's first reaction to new things was to refuse. He thought that these soldiers were too arrogant to the ideas and requirements of the low-level officers of the First Infantry Regiment, or it could be said that Feng Boke had a sense of superiority. He took it for granted that this was the one-sided pursuit of firepower and ignored other things.

But Manstein was not the case. The logic in his mind was: these veterans who were long-standing, and they were unlikely to make such low-level mistakes, so there was a reason for them to do so.

So General Manstein and Qin Chuan and others came to the shooting range.

Manstein's eyes lit up as soon as he saw MP43.

"It looks like a good gun!" Manstein said as he played with it: "How is it compared to the Soviets' Poposa submachine gun?"

"I think it can suppress Bobosha in all respects, General!" Qin Chuan replied: "Because it has a fire rate comparable to it and a longer range!"

"Far more range?" asked Manstein: "How many?"

"The actual range of Poposa is 100 to 200 meters!" Qin Chuan replied: "And this MP43 has a range of 350 meters!"
Chapter completed!