With a "boom", the rocket fell to the ground and exploded halfway.

Conrad looked at Qin Chuan awkwardly and looked at Manstein, and said, "Sorry, Marshal, this is a human operation error! If you are not skilled in controlling the bullet body too low... this will happen!"

"Hmm!" Manstein nodded: "I saw it, try again!"

In fact, although he failed to hit the target this time, he was half successful because Marshal Manstein had seen the rocket adjusting its trajectory in the hands of the operator.

Conrad went up and kicked the operator, shouting without hesitation: "Get out, you idiot, go call Bidman!"

"Yes, Colonel!" The operator dared not reply, so he got up and went to find someone.

Conrad walked back to Qin Chuan and whispered: "The control department was designed by Bidman, and he is very good at this. This once again proves that he is worthy of your rescue, right?"

Qin Chuan just smiled, but unexpectedly Conrad was still remembering this.

Bidman came up shortly after, maybe because Manstein was present, so he looked a little nervous.

Manstein felt this, and he comforted: "Don't worry, Lieutenant... I won't kick your ass like a colonel!"

Several people couldn't help laughing, Bidman was no exception.

So the ME63 lived up to expectations. With a "chubby" sound, it flew towards the target under the obviously much more flexible control of Bedman, and then hit the steel plate with a tank cross-section shape on the opposite side with a "boom".

Manstein and Qin Chuan jumped into the jeep, drove to the steel plate and stopped. In the smell of gunpowder, there were several charred irregular perforations on the back of the steel plate, which was 100MM thick, and a few wisps of blue smoke were faintly emitted from the hole.

"Very good, colonel!" Manstein was very satisfied with the experiment: "So, you must train a group of qualified operators as soon as possible. Of course, we must make this right away..."

"ME63, Marshal!"

"Yes, ME63!" said Manstein. "We're going to mass-produce it right away!"

"Wait, Lord Marshal!" said Conrad, "It still has some flaws that have not been resolved!"

"What, for example?" asked Manstein.

"For example..." Conrad thought for a while and replied: "Although its range is two thousand meters, it is actually difficult to hit the target at a distance of two thousand meters, because its size is not large enough, and it is difficult for the operator to observe it even if he uses a telescope!"

Manstein and Qin Chuan understood this and could do it by controlling it, but if you can't see the rocket, you can't tell how far it deviates from the target or which direction it deviates, so you can't explore it.

"We don't need a range of two thousand meters!" Manstein replied: "Just one thousand meters is enough!"

"I don't think this is enough, Mr. Marshal!" Conrad replied: "Because there are a lot of interference on the battlefield, such as dust, gunpowder, smoke bombs, etc., which will make the operator unable to accurately control the warhead to hit the target!"

Conrad is right, tank targets are larger and easier to see, but rockets are another matter, not to mention that the rocket itself will produce a lot of smoke at its tail that affects sight.

"Then solve it..." Manstein said: "Or produce one part first, and wait until the problem is solved before producing another part!"

"But..." Conrad spread his hands, which showed that he had no solution.

After thinking about it, Qin Chuan said, "Col. Why don't we install a tracer tube at the tail of ME63?"

"Tractectron?" Conrad looked at Qin Chuan in confusion.

"Yes, it's the tracer!" Qin Chuan said: "Just like tracer bombs, we can clearly see this highlight even in smoke, dust or in darkness!"

"Oh, yes!" Conrad couldn't help but open his eyes widened after hearing this: "Then we knew the location of the rocket, and then we could control it normally... You are simply a genius, Lieutenant Colonel! This is a simple and practical solution!"

Of course, Qin Chuan was not a genius, but the early wired guided anti-tank missiles did this. The highlights generated by installing a tracer at the tail were used for observation and aiming.

Then Conrad said to Manstein: "Marson, I think it can be put into mass production!"

"Very good!" Manstein nodded.

After thinking about it, Manstein invited Qin Chuan aside and asked, "Lieutenant Colonel, did you originally plan to go back in a few days, right?"

"Yes, Your Excellency Marshal!" Qin Chuan replied: "There is still a lot to be improved in the Magino Plan!"

"I think you should turn your attention here for the time being, Lieutenant Colonel!" said Manstein.

"Have the Soviets moved?" Qin Chuan asked.

Manstein nodded: "Or what if you think...why am I so anxious to let the colonel produce ME63?"

"But..." Qin Chuan couldn't help but wonder: "We destroyed their roads and railways, and it's still winter now, so the Soviets shouldn't attack so quickly!"

"You're right!" Manstein replied: "They only completed one-third of the road construction, and the rate of temperature drops in series!"

"So, how do they attack?" Qin Chuan expressed his confusion about this.

"It's not attacking us!" Manstein handed a cigarette to Qin Chuan: "It's attacking the Central Army Group!"

Qin Chuan couldn't help but say "Oh"... The main force of the German army was concentrated in the Southern Army Group, and most of the recruits and equipment were supplemented to enter the Southern Army Group to prepare for another attack on the Soviet Union next year.

However, the Central Army Group's vitality has not been restored due to the disastrous defeat in the Defense of Moscow. At the same time, the Soviet Union's transportation to the Central Army Group has not been destroyed, so the Soviet army has the conditions to launch an attack from the central region.

"We did not retreat back to the original line of defense!" Manstein continued: "We set up defense along the Don River, which extends from west to east. In this way, our defense line is not a straight line, and a sag area is formed at the Central Army. Originally, there would be no problem, because the sag area is beneficial to us. If the Soviet Union attacked this sag area... it would be surrounded by the Southern Army Group at any time. But..."

"The roads and railways we destroyed?!" Qin Chuan seemed to understand something.

"Yes, we destroyed the roads and railways!" Manstein replied: "With heavy snow, the Soviets could hardly march in areas that had not been built before. The Soviets thought it was an opportunity to attack our weak areas. So, they gathered a large number of troops in the Kursk area!"
Chapter completed!