Chapter 158 Tank Trio

After breaking through the defense line, Colonel Estiny's troops marched southward without stopping.

On the other side, Colonel Browne in Tamun also broke through the German defense line and moved north along the road.

One in the south and one in the north, this was clearly a pincer attack on LaFox.

Colonel Brownie also fought a brilliant battle. He didn’t know what the lesson was. He only knew that Charles’ tactics had won again. So he excitedly climbed onto a tank and shouted to the soldiers below: “Salute to Charles!”

As he said this, he raised his revolver and fired two bullets into the air.

The soldiers cheered loudly and followed suit by firing their guns into the air.

…

Colonel Estinis, who broke through Andlusi, did not behave so radically. He sat in the sidecar of his three-wheeled vehicle and watched the cheering soldiers, the tanks carrying soldiers onto the road, and the teams of prisoners being taken back. He felt deeply moved.

That means there are at least two thousand prisoners, which is even more than the troops he brought with him!

A sense of pride that I had never felt before arose from my heart.

He had won battles before, but never so easily and so thoroughly as today.

Those arrogant German troops who once invaded Paris and plunged France into decades of humiliation were now being trampled under his feet!

However, what impressed Estiny the most was Charr's tactics, which perfectly coordinated infantry and tanks, and the same was true for tanks.

Those tank soldiers were even novices. After only two days of simple training, they were ruthlessly thrown into the tanks, which were like mobile coffins. They vomited crazily when they first got on the tanks. But two weeks later, they had achieved a perfect victory.

This is the charm of the "three-three system", Estiny thought, recalling Charles' "teachings" in his mind.

"We should use the three-thirds system!" said Charles.

"Three-three system?" Estiny guessed: "You mean, every three tanks form a group?"

"Yes!" Charles nodded. "A platoon has three tanks, a tank company has three platoons, plus the company headquarters, a total of 12 tanks."

Istiny asked in confusion: "Why three? And not two or four or five?"

He didn't think it made any difference.

"Because the tank soldiers are all rookies, Colonel!" Charles replied calmly, "and the tanks have no communication equipment, so it's difficult for them to coordinate!"

Estiny was confused by Charles's nonsensical words. Does this have anything to do with the three-three system?

As if Charles saw through Estiny's thoughts, he smiled and took a few small flags to represent tanks, arranged them in a triangle on the table and explained:

"The three tanks can be arranged in a triangle, and we can select the best tank commander to be placed at the front!"

Estiny said, "Oh!" "The two tanks at the back don't need to think or communicate. They just need to follow the tanks in front!"

"That's right!" Charles replied, "The tanks in the front are responsible for attacking and breaking through, the left wing is responsible for providing cover, and the right wing is responsible for reinforcement!"

It suddenly dawned on Estinis: "Their tasks had been detailed before the war and rehearsed many times during training, which enabled them to know what to do on the battlefield, even if no one gave them orders!"

"Yes!" Charles added, "Even if we have to issue an order, we only need to give instructions to the leading tank, which will be much easier!"

Without communication equipment, the necessity of communication is compressed to the extreme, which is the advantage of the three-three system.

Another advantage is that it can quickly form combat effectiveness: recruits do not need to know how to fight or why to fight in this way, they only need to know how to follow the platoon leader and do their own thing.

This may be a bit dull, but it is much better than rushing, barging, and fighting randomly without knowing what to do.

As long as the enemy doesn't figure out this routine, the new recruits will be no different from the old soldiers in fighting, and they can still unleash the same combat effectiveness as the old soldiers!

Colonel Estiny was deeply impressed by Charles's organization and training methods.

Facts proved that Charles was right. The tanks advanced in an orderly manner and coordinated with each other. The command was very smooth and easy. There were no casualties in the entire battle except for a tank whose track broke when crossing a trench.

Estiny couldn't believe that these were tank soldiers who had only been trained for two weeks. He exclaimed: "Char is not only a genius in building tanks and equipment, he can also build an army, the strongest army in the world! He was born for war!"

Then, Estinni had another thought: if the tank unit before him grew into experienced veterans on the battlefield one day, according to the principle of the three-three system, they could immediately be divided into three, with one "veteran" and two "recruits" becoming three tank units.

Then send them into the battlefield to learn in battle, and soon they will become more and more numerous and stronger, with no end in sight!

God, will there be anyone who can rival him in the future?

If the French army were given to Charles to command, it would not only be Germany that would be despised, but the whole world!

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La Forks, Fairview Township.

Joffre's headquarters was in chaos. Staff officers kept calling each other on the phone. Intelligence was flying back and forth between the signalman and Joffre's desk, but all the information seemed to be reduced to two things:

"They broke through the Andrusi Line, and the Germans were routed!"

"They broke through the Tamon Line, and about 3,000 German soldiers surrendered!"

In addition, there are some data on casualty ratio and prisoners.

However, these data were shocking enough. Kanais looked at the document in disbelief: "Did they make a mistake? A force of more than a thousand captured more than three thousand German soldiers?"

Kanais firmly believed that either the attacking force was missing a zero, or there was an extra zero after the capture, and the more reasonable conclusion was that it was both.

Xia Fei didn't care about that. He glanced at the blank map and asked anxiously, "I need to know their exact location now. Is our reconnaissance capability so pathetic? We don't even know where our own troops are?"

A staff officer stepped forward to explain, his tone full of helplessness: "General, these two Charles troops have penetrated into the enemy's rear, and they are marching very fast. We can't even keep up and learn more!"

"Plane, send the plane up!" Joffre ordered loudly, furiously.

But Kanais stopped him and said, "General, General Gallieni has warned us that once the battle begins, Charles' fighters will shoot down all the planes taking off from La Fox and nearby, and our planes are no exception!"

Joffre stood there in a daze with his mouth half open. He found that although he was the commander-in-chief of France and had the power to command a million troops, he could not set foot in this small battlefield dominated by Charles!

(End of this chapter)