The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
Things often turn out this way. Although Pierre was eager to claim those 500,000 chemical shells for himself, once he learned their location, he immediately fell silent.
The shells were stored in an armory on the opposite bank of the Rhine, a place still under German occupation.
Well then.
He'd just have to wait a bit longer.
He decided to wait until Patton's Third Army had crossed the Rhine before making a move!
While waiting, Pierre didn't sit idle. Instead, he reestablished contact with Berlin. What for?
Simply to solve two problems—one was ammunition for the STG44 assault rifle, and the other was chemical weapons.
As for the former, Berlin couldn't do anything either. Due to limited production, even the German army itself didn't have enough. Because of the ammunition shortage, the Germans had even issued orders that frontline soldiers could only use automatic fire in emergencies.
