Iron Fort, a name with a very posterity science fiction style, appeared on the map in the prince's bedroom. In a remote corner northwest of the Kingdom of Bavaria, at the suggestion of Prince Ruprecht, and with the full support of Prince Leopold, the first, Bavaria, and the world's first tank mechanization synthesis training center was officially established!

Well, it’s a bit early to talk about the mechanized synthesis training center. At present, there are only two training contents that this training center can implement. One is the coordinated combat of BTT and the other is the coordinated combat of first-level armored vehicles... The entire training center has only 5 various armored vehicles, and when conducting training, it is necessary to use trucks to make up the numbers.

In addition to the Iron Fort Training Center, the prince arranged his most elite Royal Guard Battalion to be responsible for security work. This Guard Battalion is equipped with 50 various vehicles, including but not limited to trucks, armored vehicles, trains... That's right, there are trains, and the horsepower of trucks in this era is still very strong. It is still difficult to transport a 15-ton to 18-ton assault gun from the factory to the test site, so they can only use flatbed trucks to transport a large amount of heavy equipment.

Because of this reason, Germany's first armored vehicle manufacturer was not far away. All personnel were responsible for food, accommodation, and militarized management. Even personal problems were solved as much as possible... There is no way, this is the prince's killer weapon. In the first battle, whether the prince eats meat or drinks soup depends entirely on how this is going.

So, a factory, a design institute, plus a railway and a synthetic training center cost the prince up to 8 million marks! This tm is 400,000 pounds! It is enough for 8,000 skilled workers to earn a year's salary! This money is so heartbreaking.

"All this is necessary! The Teutonic cavalry of the new era will be born here!" Looking at the painful numbers on the bill, the prince comforted himself like this. After investing a lot of money, it must be effective. Both the prince and Prince Leopold are very concerned about this. They go back to inspect every few days, which makes Major General Schmidt, who is temporarily responsible for the operation of the entire training center.

Breakthrough Tank No. 2 has become a key development target because of its heavy armor and the powerful 75mm short cannon. Now this 1-War version of the No. 3 assault gun has a more formal name, that is, the Wasp-style Breakthrough Tank. However, because the prince emphasized that as a tank, it must have a rotating turret, so the chariot was eventually renamed as the Wasp-style Assault gun. In addition, this assault gun was designed after three large-scale changes, and those who are good at making it a No. 3 assault gun...

As the chief tanker of Bavaria, Mike now has an extremely loud nickname, that is, Armored Mike! In addition to conducting various complex terrain tests on tanks, his current work is to study how to cooperate with a group of infantry brothers.

When the infantry who had just arrived at the Iron Fort saw this huge thing, the first thing they felt was even envious, and the second feeling was gladness. The former was because they envied Mike and others for being able to sit in this invulnerable iron guy without having to face the rain of bullets. These veterans have experienced many exercises, and now they know very well how fragile and unbearable human life is under the current firepower...

As for the glory, it is naturally because this big guy belongs to them, not to the enemy. Whether it is useful or not, it would be good to have such a big thing blocking bullets in front! At least before taking it seriously, everyone thought so. But in actual operation, it was not that true!

"Damn it! Where is the person?" Mike later became the first German armored man and was called the steel butcher. After he still remembered the scene when he first conducted a coordinated battle between the shore and Tan. Mike drove a wasp-like assault gun and then a whole platoon of soldiers followed his chariot, completely treating this big guy as a moving steel fortress.

After blindly relying on it, people will even lose some of the most basic reactions. For example, if there is no wasp-type assault gun, then the soldiers of this platoon can at least form an inverted triangle combat formation when attacking. Two infantry squads are on both wings, like crabs' pliers. The third squad with heavy weapons is located in the rear, using the machine gun and grenade launcher in their hands to support the troops' advance.

The battles between various combat teams in the squad will cooperate with each other. Under the fire of smoke bombs and rifle, the blaster and the submachine gunman approach the position. After successfully blasting the opponent's bunker, the submachine gunman cleaned the trench, and then the other members of the squad quickly followed the path opened by the former.

But now that we have this thing, the infantry subconsciously acted around the chariot, and everyone was crowded behind the chariot, as if relying on the chariot could solve all problems. The original agility disappeared, and according to Schmidt's words, he felt that the soldiers behind the chariot were a group of puppets!

When conducting experiments on a field close to the actual combat environment, Mike also felt that it was difficult to operate this giant beast! The huge chariot was moving on a simulated battlefield full of wooden stakes, wires, craters and trenches. The hornet-type assault gun was like a mud-footed giant. It struggled in the mud, avoiding the pits that were unknown to the depth and bypassing the wire and trenches, because after the former was wrapped in the track, it might entangle the walking equipment, and it was difficult to eliminate the fault in actual combat. The trenches were even more troublesome. A slightly wider trenches might cause the chariot to get stuck when they crossed the trenches.

"But we walked for 70 minutes in a 900-meter simulation battlefield! The people in the training center were so cruel. They actually used 5 water pumps to create a swamp for us!" Mike said in his diary.

Tank and bicycle combat has no future. Mike realized this from the beginning because the hornet assault gun is not invincible. According to his estimate, if the Russians' 3-inch guns were equipped with armor-piercing shells, they could easily penetrate the frontal armor of the assault gun within a distance of 500 meters. Moreover, mines and cluster grenades can easily destroy the fragile walking part of the chariot, and even a wooden stake or a bundle of viper wire will make it difficult to move. Even without these, muddy land will greatly consume the fuel and poor engine life of the chariot.

"It's time to formulate a more detailed rule," Ruprecht said after reading the report.
Chapter completed!