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With Qin Chuan's creativity, German soldiers also invented various other "wooden pile shells" with great imagination.

For example, in response to the tactics of US military reconnaissance and rapid passage, German soldiers developed a suspended "wooden pile shell"... This requires a little skill. Simply put, it is to calculate the buoyancy of the wooden pile so that the buoyancy of the wooden pile is equal to the total weight of the shell and the wooden pile. In this way, the "wooden pile shell" tied together is suspended in water rather than floating on the water surface. It is even difficult to find its existence from the water surface unless it is washed out of the water by the water flow.

Of course, it will also reach near a designated area like other "stake shells" and then explode.

The US military has come up with many ways to try to change all of this.

For example, they sprinkle barbed wire into the river... This seems to be very effective because it can indeed stop those "stake bombs".

But first of all, this operation is done upstream of the river, that is, within the range of German firepower, so a certain amount of casualties must be paid to achieve it.

Secondly, the effect of this method is only temporary... Although the "wooden pile bomb" was stopped, nothing could stop it from explosion, so the barbed wire mesh was quickly blown into pieces, and the "wooden pile bombs" that followed continued to float down one after another.

The most serious thing is that the US military does not have many amphibious landing ships, and they cannot bear such losses.

Even this kind of "wooden pile bomb" appeared on Xiangbier Island...

In some ways, Xiangbier Island is not suitable for using "wooden pile bombs". The reason is that the "moat" in front of Xiangbier Island has a slow flow rate and the river channel is narrower, only about fifty meters.

But as long as you are willing to think, you can always come up with a solution.

German soldiers on Shanbier Island improved the "wooden pile bomb" into two parts, one is the "anchor" and the other is the "bullet body".

To put it nicely, "anchor" is "anchor", but it is actually a stone used to sink in water.

The "bomb" is similar to the "wooden pile bomb", except that it is not controlled by delayed fuses, but by electrical conductors.

Tie a rope of different lengths between the "bomb body" and the "anchor"... The length is calculated, and I hope the "wooden pile bomb" will use the rope of the length when it stops.

After making it, you just need to throw it into the river, and then the "wooden pile bomb" will move downward with the water until it is pulled by the rope and stops at the designated position and floats there.

Simply put, it is the invisible simple "water mines" that are laid in the river.

These "water mines" may not be used to deal with other things, because even the German soldiers themselves are not sure where these "water mines" are, so of course they cannot detonate them directly above or near the enemy ships.

The problem is that the Allies used to force the crossing were amphibious tanks with extremely poor sink resistance... They were heavy (the total combat weight was 33.6 tons), and simply because the fragile external enclosure provided buoyancy, making them barely float on the water surface. Slight wind and waves or shaking into the water will cause them to sink.

The worst thing is that the US military still knows nothing about these actions of the German army.

"General!" said the staff officer to Patton: "It will be dark in two hours, and it seems that we should withdraw the 17th Armored Regiment!"

"Retreat?" said Patton. "They blocked the river with shells. Do you think we can still withdraw the armored regiment?"

The staff officer was speechless.

But it is certainly not a solution to continue like this, because when the sky is dark, the armored regiment will be dangerous. The Germans may launch sneak attacks on the 17th Armored Regiment from any direction, and tanks are difficult to play a role in the dark, especially when there is insufficient ammunition.

After thinking about it, Patton ordered: "Let the transport planes drop ammunition for them and tell Nathan to occupy the island of Shanbier in the shortest time, otherwise he would wait to be surrounded by the Germans!"

"Yes, General!"

Transporting airdrops to transport supplies to the 17th Armored Regiment is not a good way.

This is not because the airdrop target is unclear.

In fact, the pilot could easily find the airdrop location in the air... It was in the center of the three "islands" of the Fortress of Metz, and more than 100 tanks of the 17th Armored Regiment gathered in rows.

The problem is that when airdropping, the supply cannot be accurately dropped to the center, which is the location of the 17th Armored Regiment. They will always deviate from the airdrop point due to height, wind direction and other problems.

The result is that most of the supplies either fall on the three "islands" stationed by the German army or fall within the scope of German firepower control.

The former, the German army smiled and said that it was a gift from Roosevelt to bribe them, hoping that they could show mercy to the US soldiers... Although most of these supplies are useless, because of the different standards, the German army could not use bullets, unless those shells were made into "wooden pile bombs."

In the latter case, the US soldiers had to work hard to regain the supplies... Sometimes they consumed more ammunition to regain these supplies than the supplies themselves.

However, in the end, the 17th Armored Regiment still accumulated enough ammunition to launch an attack.

At this time, Colonel Torres gave Colonel Nathan the leader of the 17th Armored Regiment a suggestion.

"I don't think you should launch an attack!" said Colonel Torres. "On the contrary, you should defend, use your ammunition to organize defense... Otherwise, once you can't capture the island of Cembir, then all will be over, and your ammunition will not be enough to defend until dawn the next day. Then you will face two choices, either surrender or be annihilated by the Germans!"

Colonel Torres's advice was contrary to General Patton's order, and Colonel Nathan did not take this advice to heart.

"The last time, we almost succeeded!" Colonel Nathan replied: "I believe this time we will be easier. And as long as we take down the island of Shanbier, I believe that the German supplies and the fortifications of Shanbier will solve all the problems we face!"

But, a few minutes after Colonel Nathan ordered the attack, he completely changed his mind.

The US military's attack was still like before, carrying infantry on an amphibious landing ship to launch an attack first, and then the amphibious tank followed him and forced a cruising force... As long as the amphibious tank came ashore, it would be difficult to have anything to block the impact of its tracks, armor and firepower.

However, just as the amphibious tanks entered the river channel, the river suddenly burst into water columns of soaring into the sky, and more than a dozen amphibious tanks disappeared from Colonel Nathan's sight in an instant.

"Stop the attack!" Colonel Nathan shouted in anger: "Stop the attack! Fuck, these bombs from the Germans are already everywhere!"
Chapter completed!