Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 129: Annihilation (1)

"A distance of four hundred meters, keep to the right. www.geiliwx.com.. It's not the house, but keep to the right. Can you see it?" Lieutenant Colonel Baker leaned behind a ridge, watching with a binoculars The village in front of you.

They are only one step away from the city of Dover, and the infantry of the 2nd Battalion of the Eighth Infantry Regiment can already see the towering Victorian rock and the broken fortress wall above it with naked eyes. Originally, they should be able to see the magnificent castles and towers, but now those buildings have become a pile of construction rubbish, and the German artillery used hundreds of tons of ammunition to erase those historical relics from the world forever.

"That is a tank, it should be a Matilda II. This is not something we can deal with. We should call for support. Don't we have an assault artillery battalion on the left? It's from the sixties." Superior Miguel was lying next to the battalion commander with a telescope in his hand.

"Shut up, I don’t need your advice right now. Listen, you just have to stare at the enemy here, put the machine gun here, and block the area from here to that tree. , Shoot me if there is any movement. By the way, where is your company commander?"

Lieutenant Colonel Baker really has no temper with this machine gunner who lacks a string in his brain, but this guy is lucky. He played the entire French campaign unscathed and accumulated a lot of combat experience. He is now in the company. If it weren't for some inexplicable situations from time to time, Baker actually liked this guy with simple thinking.

"Captain Gaines is in the back house, do you want me to call him." The machine gunner was pulling the infantry **** down from his belt, preparing to dig a machine gun bunker with the two deputy shooters.

"No, you stay here, I'll go by myself." Baker saw through the machine gunner's desire to be lazy. He glanced at the machine gun group, then bent down and turned down the ridge, leading him 'S adjutant walked towards a board house not far away.

"Our flanks are progressing smoothly. There is not much resistance at all. Why do we have to stand still here?" Captain Gaines shouted with the walkie-talkie.

"We advanced two kilometers last night. We have broken through three British defense lines. The morale of the soldiers is very strong... What? Let me ask the battalion commander myself? The battalion commander is here?"

"Captain Gaines, is there any problem? The regiment ordered the second battalion to temporarily stop advancing and consolidate the defense on the spot." Lieutenant Colonel Baker stood at the door. He slapped the soil on the uniform.

"Sir!" The officers and noncommissioned officers in the room quickly stood at attention and saluted.

"I understand your thoughts very well, but orders are orders. I just went to the front to take a look. The British are also strengthening their defenses. You will fight in the back battles." Baker walked into the temporary command. Therefore, a non-commissioned officer hurriedly brought a chair. The orderly served freshly brewed coffee.

"You look good here, much better than Erlian. How was the situation last night."

"It went well. Although the British resisted very stubbornly, their fortifications were too crude to withstand the artillery attack. We broke through three lines of defense in a row, killing 30 enemy troops and capturing 100 prisoners. Forty, individually destroyed three enemy light tanks and two armored vehicles. Three trucks were captured, and some ammunition and weapons were seized. The specific number has not yet been counted." Gaines loudly reported the results of last night to the battalion commander. .

The German night raid hit the British's weakness. Due to the hasty handover of the command structure, the British command’s front and back orders appeared contradictory. Some troops were ordered to go forward, while others were Ordering to retreat, the dispatching of the troops was once in chaos, so after night fell, the British were still busy arranging their outer defense lines.

St. Margaret Beach is shrouded in a bright curtain of light all night. The air battle over that beach eventually turned into a meat grinder-like massacre. It was simply a death charge of Balaclava light cavalry in the air. The last bit of elite long-range strike power of the Royal Air Force was almost consumed here. Exhausted.

The Luftwaffe's day fighter unit participated in night operations for the first time, and it turned out that the results were even more brilliant than the day. Under the lighting of the ground, the British bomber was like a silhouette on a white screen, clearly exposed to the eyes of the German fighter planes hovering at high altitude, and was shot down from the air one by one like flies by the German planes, and finally reached the target area completely. There is not one plane in the sky.

Because of ground smoke and searchlight interference, the bomber could not even find ground targets. Not to mention the bombing effect. The bombers often throw away the bombs on the plane as soon as they enter the village and town, and then immediately turn around to escape. No one wants to stay in this **** of anti-aircraft artillery for another second. In the end, most of the bombs were dropped on the houses on the hillside, and some were thrown into the waves of the strait. The German targets on the ground suffered only minor damage. The German camouflage effect is so good, which makes Reichenau proud of this. He claims that he has discovered another talent of himself since then, which is a strong proof of the Aryan racial excellence theory.

This night, the Royal Air Force bomber units almost drained their blood on this sad beach. Only 30% of the aircraft that were dispatched flew back to their respective bases, and half of the returning aircraft were landing. It was later judged as severely damaged and lost the value of repair, and some received various minor injuries. The intact airplanes accounted for less than 10% of the total, which also included some airplanes that did not reach the target area and returned midway.

In addition to participating in the massacre over the beach, the German night fighters also advanced to the British inland. They launched ambushes on several British bomber routes that had been detected by long-range radar, intercepted and shot down some British bombers, many The British bombing squadron was panicked and dropped the bombs in the cabin after being attacked suddenly. As a result, after the German ambush circle was highlighted, it had no ability to continue the attack. It had to turn around and return. To the demonic German night fighter.

Actually, the loss of the aircraft was not the most serious blow to the Royal Air Force. The most serious damage was actually spiritual. This **** night attack almost destroyed some of the remaining British bomber crews. With blood and courage, some crew members began to talk about their morals, and many squadron pilots began to do everything possible to avoid missions. In the future, there were even deserters who left the team without authorization. This was unimaginable in the past, but it was true at the time. happened.

The British garrison in Dover watched the **** battle over the beach all the way. At first, like the Scottish troops, they believed that the Luftwaffe was bombing the British garrison. They also cheered for the anti-aircraft artillery shooting down enemy aircraft. It wasn't until a badly injured British bomber crashed into the streets of Dover that the British found that something was wrong, and perhaps they had completely reversed the object of support.

The hapless Wellington broke the wing on the roof of an apartment and headed into a blacksmith shop. There was a serious fire. An infantry company witnessed the entire process of the accident. They recognized the type of the crashed plane at a glance, only to realize that it was the Royal Air Force who had been shot down.

In the next hour, dozens of British bombers were shot down, and some of the pilots chose to make an emergency landing on the sea. Some crashed directly around St. Margaret Beach, setting dozens of valuable bonfires in the open field, and some crashed into residential areas in downtown Dover. The fuel and fuel on the plane The bombs thrown in the future caused a series of disasters. The garrison and the fire brigade were exhausted, and the urban transportation system that had been overwhelmed for a long time was completely paralyzed. Many blocks were isolated by the fire, and many materials that were finally rescued in the urban area were once again put into the flames, and the casualties were countless.

At this moment of chaos, the German Army suddenly launched a night attack on the outer defense line of Dover, and the consequences can be imagined. The British did not have the strength to fight back at all, and the perimeter defenses were broken one after another, and the Dover defense circle was in a hurry. The heavy armored tanks that were originally high hopes did not play much role in the night battle, because these British tanks have a common design problem, that is, the observation angle is very narrow, and they will fall into the dilemma of sight during the day, let alone in the dark night. .

Although the British and German both fired a lot of flares, for the British tanks, the situation became worse than before the lighting. The driver and the crew were dazzled by flashes of various colors. It is completely impossible to discern what is appearing in the distance.

These heavy tanks were placed behind the infantry trenches and existed as infantry support firepower. However, at this time, the infantry did not even have time to consolidate their fortifications, and there was no time to dig shelters for the tanks. As a result, these tanks were completely uncovered and left alone on the open plains.

Under the illumination of the flares, this was an unparalleled conspicuous target. German tanks hiding behind bushes and walls easily fitted these steel monsters into the scope, and then produced them with a shot of Rhein Steel or Krupp. The armor-piercing projectiles or semi-armor-piercing grenades can be used as scrap.

The Matilda series tanks have thick skin and thick skin, which left many bad memories for the German tank troops in the French campaign. These slow tortoises are extremely hard, and even if the German anti-tank gunner pushes the muzzle on the opponent's front armor, they can't penetrate the steel shell. Rommel was attacked by this tank and defeated Arras. He eventually died on an unnamed mound in France, but eventually became the apostle of God and became famous there.

However, now the feng shui turns, the dominance of the victory and defeat falls into the hands of the Germans. The German armored forces have a weapon to defeat the enemy. The 48-times diameter long-tube 75mm main gun can penetrate the existing world. All tanks, even if some of them, only exist on paper. The No. 4 tanks and No. 3 assault guns equipped with this main gun are almost as unmanned on the battlefield, with people blocking people and tanks blocking tanks.

Almost all of these German tankers were killed mad, and they were smashed along the way. More than 30 Matilda tanks left by the First Armored Division on the outer line of defense were slaughtered in one night. This British infantry The entire tank battalion was destroyed, and no one survived.

All descriptions of the battle of this unit that night are from the surviving British infantry and German battlefield records. Because there are so many conflicting places, it has caused a century of controversy among war history researchers. .

The focus of the debate is whether the British tank battalion has ever had a tank battle with German tanks. The German record is that there has been no similar battle at all. The Germans said that they have been happily shooting targets throughout the process. Tankers and assault gunners We chose to aim and launch from 500 meters away~IndoMTL.com~ At this distance, hitting any position at random can ensure complete penetration into the soul.

The British said that it was impossible to do this in the combat environment that night. The British infantry tanks were destroyed in close fights with German tanks, because everyone knows Matilda’s mobility. What a tragedy, these brave tankers still fought bravely against the elite enemy. They can be regarded as role models among the British warriors. These people should be given the Cross Medal as comfort and inspire future generations not to forget. People's martial arts spirit is so varied.

In fact, both of these situations happened that night. Because these British tanks are distributed, some defense lines have only one tank platoon, and some defense lines have a tank company. The British referred to the tank platoon as a squadron and the tank company as a squadron.

There was a real tank battle between a Matilda squadron and a German No. 4 diving tank company that night. It was also a tank battle in the hilly area that had never happened since the war broke out. (To be continued.) WWW.GEILIWX.COM Happy reading every day