M1 semi-automatic was just equipped for two days, and five 107 rocket launchers had been transported from Paris to Antwerp.
It was discovered during production that its cost was only slightly over a thousand francs each, which made Steed unable to believe it was true, he sent several telegraphs to inquire:
"Is this true, General?"
"Do you really need this thing? Can it really work on the battlefield?"
"I'm worried there might be problems; it's too cheap!"
Shire looked at the telegram and smiled. Its advantage is precisely because it's cheap; if it wasn't cheap, I wouldn't want it.
Tijani never thought highly of rocket artillery, reluctantly coming to the suburbs with Shire during testing.
It was the "Buena" fortress. After Shire took Antwerp, he used it as his command center and lived there for a while. In front of it, apart from a trench, there was just a barren and desolate land with a few craters left by the Germans' random firing in the dark during Shire's attack.
