Chapter 8

In future historical annals, this week would be known as “The week when the forest awoke”.

Erik was overseeing the progress of blasting the shit out of the forest. Every day the engineers would plant explosives and clear out strips of forest. And everything that was left over would be used to fortify the base. A small palisade sprouted around the perimeter of the base. Tanks were used to transport tree trunks to the construction sites.

The walls were three meters high and directly overlooked the tank traps covered with barbed wires. Any enemy who wanted climb over them would get cut into pieces. And if that somehow wasn’t enough, there were machine guns covering all directions and trenches dug up for cover.

But before all of that they had to somehow first survive profuse amounts of gun fire and even tank fire.

Erik currently owned only five tanks. One was his own personal command tank. The monstrous Tiger II also known as King Tiger. Despite weighing almost 70 tonnes it reached a road speed of 41 km/h and a cross country speed of 20 km/h with the help of its V/12 Maybach engine. And with the help of the deadly and accurate 8.8 cm KwK 43 L/71 gun, it could reach targets even beyond 2000 meters. It was a truly fitting vehicle for a commander.

The other four tanks were Panthers. The Panthers were intended to counter the Soviet T/34s but now they had a new role. They weighed 45 tonnes and reached a top speed of 46 km/h.

The main gun was a Rheinmetall-Borsig 7.5 cm KwK 42 (L/70), one of the most powerful guns of WW2 due to the large propellant charge and the long barrel, which gave it a very high muzzle velocity and excellent armour-piercing qualities even better than the Tiger's 8.8 cm gun.

Also there were the four AA tanks. The Flakpanzer IV "Ostwind" was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun based on the Panzer IV tank. The Panzer IV's turret was removed and replaced with an open-top, hexagonal turret which housed a 3.7 cm FlaK 43. In addition to its intended role as an anti-aircraft weapon, the fast-firing gun was highly effective against light vehicles and minor fortifications.

Then there were the four Puma reconnaissance vehicles. They were hard-hitting wheeled reconnaissance vehicles armed with a 5cm L/60 gun. With their 220 hp engines they could reach speeds of 80 and 60 km/h on and off road.

The remaining twenty-four half-tracks were the SdKfz. 251, of which four were used as mortar platforms and the remaining twenty for transport. The Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251 half-track was an armored fighting vehicle was designed to transport soldiers into battle. The standard mounting of at least one machine gun allowed the vehicle to provide support by fire for the infantry squad once they had disembarked in battle and also they could fight the battle from inside the vehicle protected from small-arms fire.

The infantrymen which hadn’t helped out with the cooking or the forest clearing were posted on the palisade wall.

With every passing day, the smile on Erik's face was growing larger and larger.

He finally started to feel like a proper general, although that thought was only a delusion of his.

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Your author here.

Today I found my doppelganger. He is called Tanaka and he is the MC of Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge. :P

Also RMCF are in the finals. :D

Real Life attacked me today so the chapter is short since I haven't finished the fight yet. So tommorow will be the fight against the _______ .