The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 144 Armored troops that never experience mechanical failure!
"Quickly, get off the bus! Everyone get ready, don't just stand there!"

"Those who need to enter the village, go into the village; those who need to ambush by the roadside, go ambush by the roadside; the remaining armored vehicles, go into the woods next to the road and go around to the other side!"

At Andrei's command, the armored troops that had just arrived in the village were thrown into chaos, with large numbers of soldiers scattering in all directions like a tidal wave.

During their previous journey, the soldiers that Andrei brought had a good understanding of what a motorized unit was like.

Of course, Andrei couldn't afford to use all his military vehicles for troop transport; his trucks also had to be left in the back to transport various supplies and wounded soldiers.

Therefore, during the journey, all infantrymen rode on the tanks and moved along with them.

Although traveling in this way is not a pleasant experience.

Driving on the highway is fine, but if you drive through muddy fields, the soldiers sitting on top of the tank will all get covered in mud.

Regardless, this can be considered a method of mechanized marching; otherwise, they couldn't possibly expect to keep up with the tanks on foot.

Under normal circumstances, or in reality, the Saint-Chamon tank is not particularly mobile.

However, the Saint-Chamon tank, which originated from the battlefield, could travel on roads at speeds comparable to tanks from World War II. Andrei estimated that its speed could reach at least 30 kilometers per hour!

Such a speed would not be considered very fast in World War II. It would be difficult to race against even many heavy tanks, let alone the famous T-34.

However, for the current situation, such mobility is already quite strong. At the very least, normal infantry units would never be able to reach this speed, and this speed is enough to qualify for a blitzkrieg.

Besides speed, Andrei also discovered a major advantage of his tanks: they did not malfunction inexplicably.

As is well known, during World War II, the biggest killer of Tiger tanks was not the enemy, but themselves. Most Tiger tanks were abandoned because of various mechanical failures.

Unfortunately, tanks are inherently prone to failure, and given the limited technology available, every tank, regardless of its manufacturer, has a host of malfunctions.

It's not just the Germans who were negligent; even the Soviet T-34s would malfunction when they were supposed to, and the frequency of malfunctions was not small, just not as bad as the Tiger.

However, in Andrei's team, the entire convoy sped along the highway for nearly an hour without a single tank experiencing mechanical failure; everything went extremely smoothly.

After witnessing the performance of these tanks, many of Andrei's officers began to accept this strange war machine.

Regardless, this thing proved its stability during the march and seems to be much better than their trucks.

If these seemingly clumsy war machines end up having a failure rate comparable to their beat-up trucks, then they'll probably be furious!

But at the same time, to Andrei’s great surprise, he discovered that the multi-legged armored vehicles produced in this world actually seemed to have a very low failure rate.

Previously, Andrei hadn't paid much attention to these issues, assuming that such a sophisticated walking machine would have a high failure rate. However, during their entire journey, Andrei's unit only had one reindeer tank, which inexplicably developed a hydraulic leak, causing it to break down halfway through the journey.

The other armored vehicles appeared to be operating normally, with no inexplicable malfunctions.

Previously, Andrei hadn't paid much attention and thought it was because the players were driving these armored vehicles that some of their special powers were acting on them.

After all, for players, their vehicles don't just break down for no reason; they must have been attacked or done something crazy to damage their vehicles.

Players may have such abilities, but apart from players, even the reindeer mechs piloted by ordinary soldiers did not show any malfunctions on the road.

Having run for so long since getting off the train, the fact that only one armored vehicle has broken down is quite impressive.

Andrei didn't understand what was going on, but he felt he had a chance to investigate it.

As for now, he was amazed by the repairman's abilities.

In normal circumstances, if an armored vehicle suddenly malfunctions, the repair crew will definitely have to do a major overhaul to fix it.

For example, if a Tiger tank suddenly broke down on the road during World War II, the repairmen wouldn't have to do anything else; simply removing the interlocking road wheels would be enough to keep them busy all day.

But with Andrei, the player, acting as a repairman, only needs to take a wrench and tighten it a couple of times, and the malfunctioning armored vehicle can be immediately restored to normal.

Due to cognitive distortion, the pilots of the patrol mechs didn't think much of it, only that the mechanics in Andrei's team were truly capable.

But Andrei was truly astonished, because this meant that as long as there were players around, his armored unit would not have to worry about mechanical malfunctions at all.

On the surface, this may not seem like a big advantage, but consider how many Tiger tanks broke down due to mechanical failures during World War II, and how many tanks that could have been repaired were abandoned on the road.
Thinking about it this way, it's like Andrei and his armored unit were being utilized at twice the rate!

While others might lose a bunch of tanks on a long march, Andrei would not lose a single one, and could be 100% deployed to the battle.

Such a huge advantage is beyond description!

During the ambush, Andrei deployed several Saint-Samon tanks and all the reindeer mechs into the village, while the other armored units were all moved to the other side, far away.

There's no way around it; these multi-legged armored vehicles are just different from tanks—they're all just too tall!
He had initially complained that the reindeer mech was already quite imposing, but when he was preparing to ambush it, he suddenly noticed the height of the fearless mech and realized:

Compared to the long-legged, slender canned carapace of the Fearless Mech, the Reindeer Mech is nothing.

At the very least, the Reindeer Mech can hide behind a house undetected, but the Dauntless Mech would probably need to find an entire building to hide in!
(End of this chapter)