The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Things are often like this, although George was full of enthusiasm to take the 500,000 chemical shells for himself.
But after knowing the location from his position, he immediately fell silent.
The shells are in the arsenal on the other side of the Rhine, and that place is still occupied by the German army.
Forget it.
Then wait a little longer.
Wait until Patton's Third Army crosses the Rhine!
While waiting, George was not idle, but restored contact with Berlin. What did he contact?
It was nothing more than solving two problems-one was the ammunition for the STG44 assault rifle, and the other was chemical weapons.
Berlin had no way to solve the former, because of the production, even the German army itself was not enough. Because of the lack of ammunition, the German army even issued an order requiring the soldiers on the front line to use automatic shooting only in emergency situations.
But the telegram replied by Berlin still revealed a message that the lack of ammunition on the front line was a transportation problem, and there was a large amount of ammunition in the arsenal in the Ruhr area. As for chemical weapons, the answer was the same - they were all in the German-controlled area.
Although there was not much difference between whether the telegram from Berlin was replied or not, George still reminded him to pay attention to his safety and emphasized that he was looking forward to meeting him.
While the task force was attacking and sweeping the entire Rhine River, George came to the arsenal where 500,000 chemical shells were stored. The arsenal was built on the mountain and hidden in the mountain. The German soldiers guarding here had long gone away. Near the arsenal, there were uniforms and weapons abandoned by the Germans.
Thinking for a while, George said again.
Facts have proved that George obviously overestimated the efficiency of the civilian officers in the United States and Britain who supervised factories and enterprises. After the Allied forces entered the Ruhr area such as Cologne, many enterprises were in a vacuum state of no supervision for a month.
As for personnel transportation, the Hump Route now has a monthly capacity of more than 40,000 tons. On the return trip, it is not too easy to bring tens of thousands of people.
More than an hour later, after confirming that the arsenal was safe and there was no chemical agent leak, George and his team entered the ammunition depot. The shells in the ammunition depot were directly exposed on the five-story ammunition racks, and several rows of ammunition racks stretched to the end.
Compared to the weapons scattered everywhere, the current search team wanted more weapons and machinery in the arsenal and factories that had not yet been put out.
So the search team that had been closely following the front-line troops played a time difference. During that time difference, not only tens of thousands of machinery and equipment were dismantled and transported, but even the semi-finished products in the factory were packed and shipped out of the factory.
In order to find out which factories were worth demolishing, George even contacted the US Army Air Force and asked for a thousand-page German factory enterprise data. This information was all for the bomber unit. It not only had the original capacity of the factory, but also the capacity after the bombing. With this information, the task force was naturally much more convenient to act.
Just as the intelligence department of the task force was formulating a "search plan" based on intelligence from all sides, on the evening of March 12, George Patton's Third Army crossed the Rhine River.
At present, domestic recruitment is going very smoothly. After all, the fact that Borneo companies have good treatment and directly pay US dollars has long been known in China, and even widely reported by newspapers.
Reaching out to touch one of the shells, George's mouth corners rose to 70 degrees. With these hundreds of thousands of shells, what is there to fear about the tens of thousands of Japanese troops in Borneo!
In fact, he never worried that his troops could not beat the Japanese army, but he did not want the troops to suffer many casualties. Doing his best to reduce casualties is the most important thing, at least it doesn't matter what kind of weapons are used.
Why is this the case?
"Cross the river!"
Chemical weapons... Xiaozi has used them a lot in China. Even if he used them in Borneo, it would be a way to treat the enemy in his own way.