.The Third Reich under Ten Thousand Characters  Volume 5: Battle of Britain   

At about six o'clock in the morning, the loud trumpet sounded throughout the harbor, and the barracks became busy for a while. The soldiers walked out of the tents, washed beside the battalion, and then had a group meal. After that, they were a series of regular training.

After everything was over, it was already around 8 o'clock in the morning.

During this period, a engineering convoy that came from Fuger had been docked next to the military camp for a long time. The back seats of more than a dozen trucks were piled with strange metal racks and some metal strips wrapped in plastic. Dozens of soldiers wearing uniforms of the National Wehrmacht but not carrying weapons surrounded the convoy. They talked to each other with a relaxed expression until the Saint-Maluo garrison sent soldiers to come, and then they got on the personnel carrier again, waiting for orders to set off for the work.

The structure of this convoy is very special. Most of the vehicles are crawler engineering vehicles. The front of these vehicles is equipped with digging shovels or tools for lifting goods. Some trucks are not loaded with soldiers, but some cement bags and steel bars. Several large cement mixers are parked behind these trucks as a whole.

"Dr. Sidon!"

Borghn's face obviously had a respectful expression. In Germany, it was very honorable to be called a doctor. People with the title of a doctor are generally top talents in some fields. The man respected by Borghn was a lieutenant colonel who was about fifty years old, but the lieutenant colonel's collar and epaulette pattern did not have any combat troops.

Lieutenant Colonel Sidon was obviously a very close person. He always had a subtle smile on his face and spoke loudly: "Ah! Hello, Mr. Corporal. Are you ready?"

The class of Borghen will be responsible for alerting Lieutenant Colonel Sidon's engineering team for a long time in the future. Lieutenant Colonel Sidon's engineering team is to find a convenient location near the harbor to build a base for radar stations and information transfer stations.

This is not an easy engineering operation. They need to build a radar station within a week, then move to the Blaust Harbour in the westernmost part of France, build a sea-facing radar station again, if necessary, they will return to Saint-Maro again, and ferry to Saint-Heril Island to build an information transfer station. Of course, the premise is that the airborne troops have captured the Saint-Heril Island guarded by the British at that time.

Borghn seemed to have not had a good rest last night. Not only did he have dark circles, but his voice was also obviously hoarse. He turned to look at Green, who also had dark circles, and ordered: "Let the convoy come out, remember to bring enough ammunition and various supplies.

The convoy he mentioned was some armed armored vehicles. In order to meet the needs of the Rongwei, the National Defense Forces generally dispatched several injured armored vehicles that were left to repair for the Rongwei troops to use. Although these injured armored vehicles could not perform the battle mission again, it was still possible to leave them to the Rongwei for transportation. Effective use can not only enhance the mobility of the Rongwei troops, but also help the replacement of weapons.

Green ran back to the barracks. Soon, two armored vehicles rushed over with dust and gathered with the engineering team.

The loud military horn sounded again, and the huge convoy started the engine at the same time. The noise attracted the attention of French residents and ran out of their homes to watch. The expressions of these French people were very complicated. The western part of France fell too quickly, and some people had not reacted at all. They were envious of such a large convoy, and they were both deeply afraid. More people stared at the Germans sitting on the vehicle with hatred eyes, while pulling their relatives to themselves, as if this could increase a little bit of security.

The Third Reich adopted a policy of mercy in the French-occupied area. The soldiers in the German-occupied area rarely disturbed the lives of French civilians. Even the government structure in the occupied area also took good care of the French's emotions. Generally, several nominal assistants were appointed, but actually the controller's staff assisted the French in the government to govern the occupied area.

As France's defeat became obvious, France's economic competitiveness was also affected. Now that most of the industrial cities in western France were falling, the franc inevitably depreciated.

At this time, all major transportation routes in western France and northern France were controlled by the German army. The daily necessities in the occupied areas were imported from Germany to the French-occupied area by German arms control departments. Of course, these goods were not depreciating francs, but were used to use the third imperial hard currency empire marks. This caused a very natural phenomenon. The empire marks in the French-occupied area were gradually replacing the position of francs and becoming the main trading currency.

The depreciation of the francs indirectly caused panic among some people. In order to cope with this situation, banks in the German-occupied areas controlled by the Third Reich adopted a policy appropriately, which was to allow the French to exchange the depreciating francs for the banks at the international exchange rate of the day for a stable currency empire Mark.

The input channels of daily necessities are not in their own hands, and the change of currency has become an inevitable thing. Although it takes some time to adapt, it is still inevitable to find that when many French people buy things, they use the imperial marks, rather than the national currency francs.

Another special reason for this change is that there are too many German soldiers in the German-occupied area. The high tension also makes these soldiers very good at buying things. Many soldiers buy some items that are not available in Germany on the front line and then send them back to their relatives in China.

When these soldiers bought things, the currency used was of course the Imperial Mark. When vendors found change, no matter what the reason, these German soldiers always refused francs. Of course, they led to the supply. Besides, these German soldiers were also a group of customers in the French-occupied area who had more spare money to buy luxury goods. This also had a good reason. After all, when there was pressure, they always compromised when choosing more. The situation forced French vendors to give up francs and gradually used the Imperial Marks.

Borghen now had no energy to pay attention to the French who were standing at the doorstep to watch. He ordered the soldiers to board the armored vehicles and then walk towards Lieutenant Colonel Sidon. They needed communication.

The Stark M-2 armed armored vehicle can accommodate 14 fully armed soldiers, including crew members. This armored vehicle has a stable performance and high breakthrough ability. However, due to its thin armor, it has been gradually eliminated by the front-line troops. Generally speaking, the front-line combat troops have been replaced with the fourth generation of Stark armed armored vehicles. The M-2 series has either been converted into a war wounded transport vehicle or is regarded as a coach car by most of the troops left on the second-line.

The construction point requirements of radar stations are very strict, and they must be a potential with good vision and easy defense. At the same time, they also need to have a certain height, which is conducive to signal output and reception.

The requirements for soil quality of radar stations are also very complex. They must be soft and loose slopes that are conducive to excavation. However, the moisture content of these soils cannot be too large. The reason is that a large part of the buildings of radar stations must be built on. Large soil moisture content will easily produce moisture, which can easily cause people who stay for a long time to suffer from rheumatism or joint diseases.

The core hardware and operating rooms of the radar station will be set up to be built manually to prevent enemy bombing and also to ensure the safety of the radar hardware. The structure of this lower bunker is very strict, and it needs to be bombarded by a single-time gunpowder bomb without generating obvious and harmful shock waves.

Sometimes it is even more difficult to build a lower cover fortress such as such than to build a lower fortress. At least the damage will not affect any function and will cause some casualties at most. The bunker of the radar station is not the case. Once the bunker of the radar station collapses, the radar station will lose its function. If the radar station loses its function, it will affect more things, because a large part of the communication between troops needs to rely on the hardware system of the radar station.

During World War II, the so-called radar station's function was not just to predict the enemy's prophets. It had to bear too many responsibilities. Using electronic waves to detect whether the surrounding belts were invaded by the enemy was only one of its many functions. It also carries communication between front-line troops, so it is also an information transfer station.

If a radar station is occupied by the enemy, it is not just a simple loss of a radar station, but also means information leakage. In severe cases, for example, the loss of communication passwords will trigger a series of chain reactions.

Take the simplest example. The National Defense Force attacked northern France and occupied the French radar station. This victory was not only an occupation of a French radar station, but also monitored the French army's army's army's army's most direct way to learn about the French army's mobilization intelligence. The National Defense Force, which has the French communication password, can sometimes even issue orders to the French army in an impersonation.

During wartime, changing a set of communication passwords does not mean that if you want to change, there is too much to do during this period, especially when your troops are surrounded by the enemy, there is no way to make direct contact, so you cannot change it at all, because all radio waves may be intercepted by the enemy and then decrypted. It can be seen that the attention of countries to radar stations is not aimless.

(Ahem... Honor discovered a very important problem. For a large part, Germany's failure in World War II was also due to the lack of attention to radar stations...)

The point chosen as the radar base is not too far from the harbor. It is a slope with an altitude of about 150 meters. From this point, you can see the part of the Lamanche Strait. If you have good remote viewing equipment, you can even clearly see the foundation of the British garrison on the Mankie Islands.

The radar station is set up on this earth slope with an altitude of about 150 meters. From here, no matter how you detect the dynamics of the Lamanche Strait or send messages, you will not be hindered by anything.

The advantage of the potential will of course have negative effects. First of all, there are no obstacles around this slope. It is a bare slope. A radar net will stand here and will definitely become an obvious target. Once discovered, it will also hit the target. Therefore, it is inevitable to build some camouflage objects.

Lieutenant Colonel Sidon is now standing at the highest point and looking around. He half-squatted in front of an altitude measuring instrument, buried his eyes in the viewing tube of the telescope, his hands don’t know what to draw in the void, and his mouth is also muttering.

Borghn stood behind Lieutenant Colonel Sidon with a newly equipped submachine gun in his hand. He couldn't understand the terms, and there was no need to try to understand them. At this time, he was worried about how to write Yaghman's death notice.

As a grassroots non-commissioned officer, the first thing Borghn did after taking office was to write stories and the stories of his dead comrades. He needed to recall Yaghman's death in detail and polish it up, just like writing a novel. Praise Yaghman's contribution to the army, country and nation.

In fact, in the chaotic battlefield, who would pay attention to other people's battle process? At least Borghn knew that Yagman had been shot in the lungs and died ineffectively, and other...for example, how he was shot and how he was carried down by the medical soldier, he did not know anything about it. So, as a grassroots officer who directly contacted soldiers, the technical content needed was no lower than that of the company's supervisor. At least the company's supervisor did not need to understand the family status of each worker, well... he did not need to know the address of each worker's family.

Borghen's thoughts were soon taken by West "Mr. Corporal, how many French residents are there nearby? What is their range of activities? Oh! I mean. Is there a master on this slope?"

Borghen was obviously stunned for a moment, but couldn't answer for a moment. He was just a corporal squad leader.

Lieutenant Colonel Sidon smiled helplessly: "This is just a step. Now it is a state of war. We have the right to requisition everything from the conquered people, but we need a reason and also know whose name this land is in."

Indeed, according to the rules of war, the German army had the right to requisition everything from the French, and it was legal for the German army to take anything. But one thing to understand is that the Third Reich government adopted a policy of gentleness, so before requisition, a reason is needed, even if that reason is not valid at all.

"Okay! Let's talk about these things later..." Lieutenant Colonel Sidon pointed to the center of the slope, "Our battalion is temporarily set up there. Also, I need your troops to set up a few checkpoints on the surrounding roads, so that irrelevant civilians can't get close to this slope. Yes? Are there only eight of you?"

Borghen understood. "Yes, Doctor. For the time being, my squad is the only one in charge of your safety. If you need more armed personnel, I can react to Lieutenant Hanbrich."

Lieutenant Colonel Sidon was not worried about his safety. What he was worried about was that the equipment was stolen, but he did not need to explain. It was noon that the battalion was established. Since this was a newly arrived engineering team, they did not carry anything except the equipment, so they needed the Saint-Maluo garrison to send food to them. Borghn also took the opportunity to send back information about Lieutenant Colonel Sidon needed more armed personnel. After the explanation, Borghn accidentally discovered that the quarantine officer had also given two additional mg34 machine guns, 15,000 bullets, and ten boxes of 16-pack wooden grenades.

Bullets, and bullets!”

Green seemed to be the first time that the **m-34 machine gun. He was excited and opened the ammunition box without permission from his superiors, and pulled out two different types of ammunition chains from it.

The so-called **k bullet is a steel core armor-piercing bullet, which is a machine used to penetrate armored vehicles. Rifle ammunition. In the German organization, an ordinary soldier will carry an average of 58 such **k bullets. The Mauser 98k is an excellent rifle. In previous operations, real-time shooting proved that the Mauser 98k rifle can also rely on **k bullets to penetrate 512 mm thick armored steel plates in a short distance, but the effect is not good.

The bullet is a 14mm steel core armor-piercing bullet used for machine guns. It has great lethality to civil fortifications and concrete fortifications, and can also penetrate 818mm armored steel plates. The machine gun with bullet links is no longer just a slaughter of infantry and injured enemy tanks and crew members in armored vehicles, so in addition to the infantry killer, it has a famous car butcher.

Borghn glanced at Green, who was fiddling with the bullet links, and a strange idea appeared in his mind. It was not without precedent to configure two machine guns in a squad, but it was something that happened without reinforcements and had to bear great responsibility.

"Is Rongwei District being increased? Or are other squads going to be transferred? Is there a resistance organization going to attack here??"

Borghn couldn't help looking at Lieutenant Colonel Sidon, trying to get information from Lieutenant Colonel Sidon. Unfortunately, after he saw Lieutenant Colonel Sidon finished eating, he was reading a book with relish and did not show any panic.

Borghn arranged the warning position for the machine gun and came to Lieutenant Colonel Sidon with confusion. Borghn had just received a reply from Lieutenant Hanbury, saying that it was because it needed to perform other tasks and would not send extra armed personnel to assist. However, Lieutenant Hanbury generously agreed to Borghn's request to retain two m-2 armed armored vehicles, which could be regarded as a disguised satisfaction of Borghn's fire support requirements.

"Oh! There will be no more armed soldiers coming to support me?" Lieutenant Colonel Sidon put the book on the bracket next to him, frowned, obviously a little worried about anything. However, he did not say it out, and the result of this made Borghen feel a little more stressed.

Before Borghen turned around and left, he was curious about it. It was a book called "My Germany", with the author signed by Kahn von Stark.

Borghen was stunned when he saw the author's signature, and then he seemed to have made some decision and took steps.

"As the leader said, the state's obligation can allow a man to expel all the doubts and confusions in his heart!" Borghen told himself: "I can do it!"
Chapter completed!