"How could there be such a ship?" Manstein couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan replied: "But this is just one of my ideas, but I can't guarantee whether it will succeed!"

"This seems to be a little..." Manstein looked at Qin Chuan hesitantly.

“Is it a bit unrealistic?”

"Yes!"

"I think you should call Colonel Conrad, General!" Qin Chuan said: "He should be in Kiev now!"

Manstein nodded and said, "I think it's better to let him come here in person!"

As he said that, he called the adjutant and ordered: "Let Colonel Conrad come here immediately and arrange a plane for him as soon as possible!"

"Yes, General!" the adjutant responded and left.

"Captain!" said Manstein, pausing, "Although this sounds unbelievable, I am still willing to try and have hope for it. Do you know why?"

"Why?" Qin Chuan asked.

In fact, Qin Chuan could guess why. Qin Chuan asked this just to cooperate with Manstein.

"Because I know you have invented many useful things before!" Manstein said: "For example, the bazooka, the minesweeping tank, and that rifle... This is amazing. A soldier can invent these simple and practical new equipment!"

"General!" Qin Chuan replied: "It is precisely because I am a soldier that I can invent these things!"

"It's right!" Manstein agreed: "Because only soldiers fighting on the front line really know what we need!"

"Yes!"

"Like now!" said Manstein. "The ship you are talking about is exactly what we need, because it can help us avoid the complex terrain of the Caucasus and choose a much easier waterway, especially if it can also travel on land. Do you know what this means? When we encounter enemies at sea, we can go ashore when the fleet threatens, and when the roads on the shore are blocked or difficult to pass... God, this is simply another kind of blitzkrieg, blitzkrieg carried out with amphibious landing craft!"

This is exactly what Qin Chuan thought. The essence of blitzkrieg is actually to avoid the battle of frontal flat push as much as possible, but to constantly avoid the enemy's frontal defense and quickly penetrate the enemy's weaknesses.

Time flies quickly in the discussion of combat plans, and Conrad arrives more than an hour later.

At first, his face was a little unhappy, and he seemed not happy to be called by Manstein, but when he saw Qin Chuan, his eyes lit up and he asked, "Captain, if I guess correctly, you have the idea of ​​new equipment, right?"

"Hmm!" Qin Chuan handed over a sketch. Of course, the sketch was still ugly as usual.

"A ship with wheels?" Conrad looked confused.

"Yes!" Qin Chuan explained: "A spiral thruster is installed behind the back, and the engine can switch between the wheels and the thrusters so that it can travel at sea or on land!"

Conrad couldn't help but say "Oh" when he heard this, and then said repeatedly: "Great idea, Captain!"

"Is it difficult to produce?" asked Manstein.

"No, it's not difficult!" Conrad thought for a while and said, "In fact... we can even combine the chassis and hull and add a spiral to it. What we need to consider... is its sealing and counterweight!"

As he said that, Conrad laughed: "This is exactly what makes it incredible. It can even be said to be very simple, but why no one thought of it! Of course, this is not the first time the Captain has given me such a surprise!"

Manstein couldn't help but look at Qin Chuan with admiration, raised his glass and said to Qin Chuan: "Thank you, Captain, you may have helped us solve a big problem!"

As he said that, he said to Colonel Conrad, "Col. I hope you can get it out as soon as possible!"

"Okay, General!" Colonel Conrad replied: "I also hope to see the moment it works, how many do you need?"

"The more, the better!" Manstein replied: "In a month, we need at least five hundred such ships!"

"But General..." Conrad's face changed: "This is in the Soviet Union, we need to ship it from Germany..."

"You can make these things in the Soviet Union!" Manstein interrupted Conrad: "Transfer the people and things you need with planes!"

"General, I also need the shipyard to make the hull and the car factory to make the wheels and engines!" Conrad replied.

"You will have these!" Manstein said: "Although we didn't seize many things in the Soviet Union, it's more than enough to get the equipment and workers of a shipyard and a car factory!"

"Yes, General!" Conrad responded.

"It's not just these!" Qin Chuan said: "Maybe we can also... consider the tanks driving in the sea!"

"The tank driving in the sea?" Manstein and Conrad screamed at the same time.

These are nothing strange to Qin Chuan, because amphibious landing ships and amphibious tanks are too common in modern times, but they have just been invented or are about to be invented in this era, so it is no wonder they are so surprised.

Of course, Qin Chuan didn't come up with these things just by slapping his head. He knew that military equipment was not a joke. Sometimes, although the idea was very good, if it was really invented, it might have this and that problem.

Qin Chuansheng won because he knew the results of the improvements directly and was very sure that it was feasible. So telling Conrad about the design plan would avoid many detours and of course save a lot of time.

Both equipment exist in fact, but it was not Qin Chuan's invention, but new equipment invented by the Americans according to their needs when fighting against the Japanese in the Pacific: the former is an amphibious landing ship called the "Duck", and the latter is an amphibious tank called the "Donald Duck"!

Their characteristics are that they are simple and easy to produce, and with the current strength of Germany, they can be easily produced.

"The principle of amphibious and land tanks is similar!" Qin Chuan said: "First of all, we must do a good job of tank sealing, and then install a circle of floating screens to increase its buoyancy. As long as the floating screen is large enough, the tank can float on the water surface, and then install a thruster at the rear..."

Conrad nodded and said, "This may be easier to do than an amphibious landing vehicle, but... because of the weight of the tank, the speed may be slow and dangerous!"
Chapter completed!