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Chapter 939 Do more with less

These days, my family has come and accompany them to stroll around. It has temporarily changed to two to three updates, and then resumed the fifth update in a few days. Sorry!

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The first thing the students do is to build fortifications.

Of course, it is not only the small Solsey Island where the National Defense Forces Academy is located, but also the large Solsey Island where the SS Academy is located.

Because Xiangbier Island is on the second line, some logistics troops were arranged to be stationed and managed.

Fortunately, several "islands" are surrounded by rivers, just like moats, only a few stone bridges on the river are passed through, but these stone bridges must be equipped with explosives for blasting, otherwise being occupied by the enemy will undoubtedly cause trouble for oneself.

Such terrain means that it is difficult for tanks, armored vehicles and other equipment to launch direct attacks on Metz Fortress.

The only ones who can attack are infantry, and these infantry must also cross the river by rubber boats, assault boats, etc., and then these infantry charge against the German fortress with their flesh and blood... This is obviously difficult.

However, the situation of the German army was not optimistic, mainly because it was a military academy and not a regular force, which made them not even standard weapons and equipment.

For example, artillery, there are 100mm, 150mm, 210mm, French, German, and even British, and the rifles are also varied... Becker's explanation for this is: "We use these equipment not for combat, but for teaching. We need to learn various equipment and understand their performance!"

This statement is correct, and officers do need to understand these, because only by understanding these can they judge the range of enemy artillery at the first time and issue correct instructions based on this information.

This is also one of the reasons why the German army is better than other armies.

However, although this is understandable, there is no reason to war. This will inevitably cause supply chaos to seriously affect combat effectiveness. In particular, some equipment is still seriously insufficient, such as the ammunition of only 23 rounds of ammunition left for a British 150mm cannon.

"Divide these artillery into groups by model!" Qin Chuan said: "The same unit uses a single model of equipment, and the same is true for rifles. Then make detailed records of the areas they are stationed in. These records require each officer of the logistics force to have a copy!"

"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel!" Colonel Becker replied.

This is necessary because only in this way can the logistics and transportation forces know which ammunition should be sent to where they should be sent.

But there are problems when making records.

The reason is that each fortification here has different names, including transliteration names left by the French, and the names given by the Germans themselves, and some are nicknames given by the students, and the nicknames given by each group of students are not the same, so the naming is very chaotic.

Qin Chuan simply named these fortifications uniformly and put them in serial numbers with Arabic numerals... Fortification No. 1, Fortification No. 2, Fortification No. 3, etc. After the detailed arrangement is completed, it will be sent to each army for them to familiarize themselves again.

I was busy all night, but the next day I finally looked a little bit. I started to lay lightning, pull barbed wire, and dig trenches at dawn.

Qin Chuan took the drawings and inspected and guided the deployment of firepower points while patrolling, and wherever he went, he could always attract the attention of the students.

During the break, even students asked Qin Chuan: "Lieutenant Colonel, are they all saying true?"

"What?" Qin Chuan asked, then suddenly thought of something and said, "You can't say that they really put my affairs in the textbook!"

"No, Lieutenant Colonel!" the student replied: "We used the textbooks from a few years ago and have not changed. You know, the war is tense, and they have no extra time and energy to rewrite the textbooks! If they have re-edited, I believe that your deeds will be added!"

"So, what are you referring to?" Qin Chuan asked.

The student replied: "Although it has not been compiled into the textbook, it is not far away, because the instructor always explains to us based on your deeds and examples."

"Yes!" Another student interrupted, "What the instructor said most often is: Do you know the 'Legend Sergeant'? He was just a sergeant at first..."

"We all know that the instructor is wrong!" the student corrected: "You were originally a corporal, right? You are an ammunition player!"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan nodded. It seemed that these students had figured out their own bottoms, and the instructor simply thought that Qin Chuan was originally a famous scholar because of the "Legendary Sergeant".

"The instructor talked about the tactics you used in Africa!" The student continued: "They talked about how you attacked Alexandria over and over again, and captured the Toulon fleet..."

"That battle was amazing, it gave us our own fleet, I mean... a really useful fleet, we even defended the Tunisian Strait with it!"

"Of course, you also have your performance on the Eastern Front! Each battle has become the focus of records in our notebooks. Look, the Battle of Holm is recorded here!"

...

The students were very excited and rushed to speak. If Qin Chuan hadn't stopped them, they would have been afraid that they would have been able to talk all day long, and even Qin Chuan himself would not remember clearly some things.

"Gentlemen!" Qin Chuan said: "I don't know if you realize that what you are doing now will likely be loaded with other people's notes in the future!"

The students answered excitedly:

"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel!"

"We're still discussing this just now, we may be going down in history!"

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"Do it well, gentlemen!" Qin Chuan inspired them: "I hope that what is recorded in history is your heroic deeds, not the shame of being defeated by the enemy!"

"Of course not, Lieutenant Colonel!"

"I swear with our lives that this will never happen!"

"Even if we fail, they will step over our bodies!"

...

Qin Chuan was very successful and once again inspired their fighting spirit and determination.

Suddenly, Qin Chuan understood the intention of Rommel sending him here.

This can be regarded as a celebrity effect.

Different two people do the same thing, the effect will be completely different.

For example, at this time, Rommel sent not Qin Chuan but Lieutenant General Rumanlin... Lieutenant General Rumanlin's rank was even much higher than Qin Chuan. He also gave a speech last night, just like Qin Chuan did some rectifications on military academy students, and also conducted inspections and guidance today.

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