Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 137: Dover disaster (2)

After the start of the raid, the German offensive has hardly stalled. Every time Baidu search Geli Literature.com captures a position, the assault force does not stop at all, but rests for a while, replenishes the ammunition and leaves the wounded, and immediately enters the next tough battle. The remaining clean-up work was handed over to the follow-up service and reserve forces. The troops placed on the second line were left behind by the headquarters not because of poor combat effectiveness, mainly because of poor luck.

The deployment of the service units in the landing cluster can be regarded as extravagant in the German army. In order to be able to keep up with the pace of the mechanized and armored units, all the logistics transport teams have abandoned mule and horse vehicles, except for a batch of military trucks. , Such as Opel and Mercedes-Benz, but also equipped with a large number of tracked transport vehicles. In the past, there were no transport vehicles of this type in the German army. With that effort, the Germans all went to build big tanks, so all these vehicles came from seized equipment. The most common equipment is the tracked transport vehicles seized from the French and British forces, such as Carden Royd and Vickers general transport vehicles, as well as the Lorraine and Renault tracked transport vehicles in France. In the French campaign, the Germans captured thousands of These small tracked vehicles are small.

According to the original history, most of these things were assigned to infantry divisions or artillery units and used as tractors and transport vehicles. The German infantry and artillery actually liked these small and exquisite but full-featured small armored vehicles, but due to the difficulty of replenishing fuel and the maintenance and repair problems, these British and French vehicles in the German army were slowly depleted as the spare parts were cut off.

Now, considering the actual needs of the landing forces and corresponding to the traffic and road conditions in the UK, the High Command believes that it is very necessary to equip the landing forces with these crawler transport vehicles. Especially those British crawler trucks. They were originally designed for maneuvering in the British mainland, no matter the size and weight of the car body, fully adapted to the British local bridge streets and field terrain, with the support of these vehicles, the German offensive efficiency will be doubled. The degree of dependence on roads will also be greatly reduced.

The most important concern in the British homeland defense strategy is the blockade of roads and bridges. Once the British forces destroy the roads and railways, then off-road marching in the wild is an unavoidable option. The German transport trucks generally lack off-road capabilities, and the original number of half-track transport vehicles is insufficient, making it difficult to undertake heavy baggage transportation tasks, before the corresponding new equipment is developed. These small tracked vehicles just fill the gap in equipment.

The performance of these logistics vehicles in the outer battle of Dover was very outstanding. Not only could they follow the off-road maneuver of the infantry troops, replenish the ammunition consumed by the troops at any time, but also quickly and safely retreat the wounded, if not the armor of these vehicles It's really weak. In addition, it is easy to confuse the enemy with similar equipment in front-line operations and cause accidental injuries. The German army even wants to put them into offensive operations, because this kind of essential oil-like car is so easy to use, it can be inserted anywhere.

The logistics and reserve teams took on the task of clearing the battlefield. The British left few things to the Germans. The German offensive was too fierce. In order to pursue the offensive speed, most of the ammunition and materials that could have been captured were attacked. The troops blew up. Only a place of wreckage and **** corpses were left.

The original base number of the British defense forces was not large, and they were spread over more than a dozen defensive positions. The number of them was even difficult to connect the positions together. Under the attack of the dominant German forces. These positions collapsed like sandcastles under the impact of sea tides. The trenches were filled with British soldiers who fought to the death. German medical soldiers searched for surviving wounded in the corpses, as long as there is a breath, whether it is British. Both the German and the German were rescued.

On the first line of defense, the British army lost more than 800 officers and soldiers. More than 500 people were captured, but the wounded only accounted for a very small part of the prisoners. The German assault troops started very darkly, and once they were caught on fire, they hardly left alive. Those captives also raised their hands in time to surrender to save their lives.

Similarly, more than two hundred German soldiers fell on the British positions, most of them were killed by enemy machine guns and tank artillery. Not many German soldiers died in hand-to-hand combat, but there were many wounded. The bayonet of British soldiers is a rare military skill for them. In the days when there are no bullets, they can only train and train with wooden guns every day. The problem is that these rookies have never experienced real hand-to-hand combat. Some people even habitually avoid the vitals of the human body during assassinations. So many German soldiers attack the arms and thighs, but as long as they don’t hurt the aorta, it’s just A few months of cultivation.

Some British positions resisted fiercely, and not all British soldiers were rookies. There were indeed some veterans who fought in the battles of Norway and France. For various reasons, they were lucky to avoid Dunker. The elite fighters of the Battle of Erke failed to escape the German attack this time. Most of them were killed on the spot, and a small group led the rookies to break through the front line and escape to the second line of defense.

After midnight, the first line of defense was breached by the Germans. At the same time, the German attack on the British second line of defense began. Some German assault troops got red eyes. They almost followed the footsteps of retreating British soldiers and rushed to the British second-line positions.

At this time, the battle had already lost its suddenness. The British army on the second line of defense had long been ready for combat. Therefore, the German offensive forces were stubbornly blocked. The attacking Germans and the fleeing The mixing of British soldiers resulted in the defensive side being a little bit of a rat-and-forbidden weapon, and did not have the heart to attack indiscriminately. Therefore, when the German offensive was frustrated and began to retreat, the personnel loss was not considered serious. But this couldn't conceal the humiliation of being beaten back by the enemy. The Germans, who were so angry, took a short rest, and immediately began the second round of attacks.

In fact, there were not many British troops on the second-line positions at this time, even less than 50% of the first-line positions, but the quality far exceeded that of the first-line British troops, because these positions were already close to the city of Dover. As part of the defensive circle, these positions were constructed earlier, and the materials used were very real. Among them, there was even a high-tech technology such as steel prefabricated machine gun fort.

According to the original history, the firepower possessed by the German infantry company cannot break through this type of position. It must mobilize infantry artillery or anti-tank gun support at the battalion or regiment level. But the current situation is different from history. German infantry has very fierce anti-fortification weapons.

The German infantry first used machine guns and rifles to remotely suppress the opponent’s machine gun fire according to the previous style of play. At the same time, they attacked the enemy’s position diagonally from the flanks. This kind of assault that almost crossed the enemy’s line seemed very dangerous , But it is a very effective way to avoid bullets. It is difficult for infantrymen to aim at such a target whose distance and azimuth are constantly changing at the same time, which requires professional training.

Although machine guns can threaten the actions of German assault squads, they are also suppressed and interfered by German firepower. The number of German machine guns is not less than that of British troops on defensive positions, and they are more mobile and flexible. The amazingly fast general-purpose machine gun only needs to change the gun frame to change the function at will. The light weight can transfer shooting positions at any time.

In addition, the German army has an absolute advantage in artillery. The shortcomings of the British army are exposed here. They lack any kind of heavy fire weapon. The only artillery weapon that can be fully assembled in the army is the mortar belonging to each company platoon. , But lack of supporting ammunition. German artillery and bombing destroyed most of the garrison’s ammunition depots. Now these defenders have only half of the base left in the logistic ammunition reserves of each company. They were eventually distributed to each group with only a poor ten rounds. The other half are useless smoke bombs.

The precise small-caliber mortars of the German army are also very good at night. Although they are not powerful, they have a huge amount of ammunition in a short period of time. The density is exaggerated, but it is not far from the actual situation. This small warhead with a power similar to a hand grenade actually caused not many casualties, but it caused great psychological pressure on the defenders. The British army could only constantly shift the exposed machine gun positions. The British army's machine gun team, carrying heavy water-cooled machine guns, was exhausted in the field.

The German assault squad often rushed to a distance of more than ten meters from the target in the gap where the British army was briefly suppressed. At this time, in addition to the enemy's bullets, the grenade thrown by the British army was threatening them. British soldiers don't need to see the target clearly, they just need to follow the command of the officer and throw the grenade out. Although the throwing distance is different, it can cause a large area of ​​dense bullets. Enough to stop the footsteps of most assault infantry. Even the elite German army can only lie down and avoid this situation.

But this situation cannot last. Just give the Germans a chance to breathe, and they can immediately launch a counterattack. The so-called steel prefabricated machine gun fort is just a fixed target in front of Iron Fist. The flares illuminate the entire battlefield, and there is no visual barrier at all. Soldiers can operate this anti-armor weapon as if during the day. However, in order to get a better hit rate, they often rush to within 50 meters, and even directly rush to within a dozen meters. Don't underestimate the individual quality of the German infantry. It was not that they had never done a frontal breakthrough in the French campaign to use shaped explosives to explode the bunker. For Iron Fist at this distance, it was almost a face-to-face attack, and the British machine gun fort and bunkers were torn apart with a loud noise. German soldiers sometimes make up for another round against the enemy's position with a grenade, but in most cases no one thinks that anyone can survive this attack.

The German army also used a large number of portable flamethrowers. This disposable flamethrower brought fear to the enemy far beyond the lethality it showed. Wherever such terrorist weapons that run counter to humanitarianism appear, they will become a burning **** on earth. In the past, the British army was able to specifically attack soldiers carrying flamethrowers to prevent them, but now this portable weapon is not large, very suitable for concealment, and does not affect the use of the original weapon by the carrier, so before the attack occurs, it is very It's hard to find out which German soldier was carrying this kind of god-killing weapon, but by the time I realized it was too late, I could only watch the burning dragon rushing towards his face.

The second line of defense of the British army did not last longer than the first line of defense, falling apart amidst the fire and explosion. The German assault group sings forward, and also did not make any stops, and directly launched a general offensive towards the third, the last line of defense on the periphery of the British army.

The strength of the third line of defense also surpassed that of the second line of defense. Several permanent bunkers and forts appeared in it, but this line of defense performed even more unbearable than the first two. The defeated British soldiers brought The terrible news, the new weapons of the German army made people shudder.

The strength of this line of defense was originally insufficient. Although it had heavy artillery that the frontline officers and soldiers envied, when the battle broke out~IndoMTL.com~ found that reality and imagination were completely different things. The core defensive point on the line of defense is an ancient fort built in the 17th century. After several generations of transformations, it has stood still on the outskirts of Dover for hundreds of years. It has a dozen artillery pieces of various calibers, plus a battalion of elite infantry. Defending it can be said to be invincible, and it has survived several bombings by the Germans, and it has almost become an invincible symbol of Dover.

As a result, this fort was not able to survive even 20 minutes after being attacked by German infantry. In addition to being interfered by German heavy infantry artillery, the iron fist and flamethrower of the German infantry played a key role in it. When the German infantry rushed under the fort wall under the bullet rain, the battle was actually over. The German infantry used an iron fist to blast the iron-clad wooden door next to the drawbridge and sprayed a flame against the walkway of the inner wall. I saw people waving white flags at the top of the fort.

When the first light came on from the horizon, the three lines of defense outside the British army had all been occupied by the Germans. At this time, the city of Dover was fully displayed in front of the German landing cluster. (To be continued)

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