Chapter 1,447 Counterattack 3
Chapter 1447 Counterattack 3
"Where did the Germans hit in front of us?" General Grim asked.
"The Germans attacked us in three lines. According to your plan, we defended tightly on the northern and central lines. Their attack speed was relatively slow and they only broke through three lines of defense. However, the southern line was under our estimation. They had already It penetrated five lines of defense and formed a protrusion inside our defense line!" said an officer.
"The Germans seem to be afraid of our navy, so they are a bit far away from the seaside. The old pre-dreadnought ships have a limited artillery elevation angle, so the attack distance is relatively short. Our preparations for using the navy to complete fire support may not be implemented, but they are alone. Hanging behind enemy lines, and having no time or energy to build a complete line of defense, even if they stop now, it will definitely be too late!" another officer added.
"Then kill them first." Looking at the sand table that the staff had re-marked, Grim said with some dissatisfaction. For him, the current battlefield situation was far from perfect. The Germans did not go deep enough. And they avoided most naval gun attacks, but it was obvious that the Germans were not dazzled by the initial victory. They were still advancing steadily, step by step. It's not fast, but it crushes everything it encounters like a steamroller!
When the battle progressed to the third day, the armored troops that had been hidden by the British finally appeared. In the previous half day, the northern and central lines once again broke through one line of defense, and the southern line also broke through one. A gap appeared between the two sides. The northern and central lines were once again blocked by a heavily fortified defense line, while on the southern line, the German flank was in trouble!
More than 100 tanks, truck guns, and half-track-pulled artillery were thrown into the battlefield! And the German army opposite them only had a dissatisfied armored battalion as a flank!
"The British took action, and their armored reserves appeared on the flanks of the southern attack line!" After the aviation reconnaissance sent the intelligence, Lieutenant General Eric immediately returned to the sand table! "The British have put in their reserves, and it's time for us to get in touch with the Air Force to suppress their half-track self-propelled guns and truck guns! It's really uncomfortable to deal with those Army 18-pound guns and Navy 14-pound guns head-on!"
In fact, during World War II, the air force's damage to armored units moving on the ground was very limited. However, the British truck cannon was not an armored unit... This is not to say that the British do not want to equip these things with armor, but because they already have a heavy cannon and a large amount of ammunition, and if you want to add armor, it will be too heavy... Not to mention trucks, the American Sherman in World War II initially used sandbags and iron guardrails to strengthen its defenses, but later because of the increased load, the Americans suggested that it was best not to do this...
And at the moment when the British armored fist was punched, the German K-6 bomber and the specially improved K-4T ground attack aircraft also appeared in the sky above the British as scheduled!
"Damn it! It's a German bomber! We're exposed!"
"damn it,
It's those low-altitude Vultures loaded with cannons again! I knew these guys were coming back! "Before the wheel of death composed of dozens of bombers and attack aircraft began to spin, these huge air overlords brought huge mental pressure to the British!
"I found them! Those trucks are right below us! Group 2 is preparing to suppress the infantry and the artillery behind them. Let's go down and deal with these truck guns!" The K-4T ground attack aircraft roared down and fired the three guns on its nose. The 20MM machine gun and the two 12.7MM machine guns on the wings were aimed at the truck guns that were running away in a hurry. However, no matter how fast you run, you can't be faster than the plane. Several K-4T attack aircraft quickly jumped from 100 to 100 meters. Skimming over the battlefield at a height of several meters, he pressed the nose of the plane slightly, and pointed the shark-like nose at the panicked prey on the ground!
50 meters high! 300 meters of slope distance! Almost touching the target's head, the aircraft fired more than 200 rounds of various ammunition at the target in a few seconds! The entire ground seemed to be boiling. The gun truck was surrounded by fiery red beams of light. The wooden fence and metal car body were extremely fragile when facing the machine gun that mixed high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs. A 12.7MM bullet It can bite off a large piece of the baffle, and the 20MM incendiary bomb can ignite half of the car body with just one hit. Like a wild beast falling into a swarm of piranhas, it was shattered into pieces by intensive and fierce firepower in a very short period of time.
In the first wave of attacks, three truck guns were destroyed. Then, these attack planes raised their altitude and circled in the air for a week before launching another attack! Under repeated attacks, the 18-pound guns equipped on the British half-tracks and trucks were unable to function at all. Even worse than them were the infantry. The K-6 bombers, carrying a large number of machine guns and anti-infantry bombs, were like the God of Death roaming in the air, constantly putting pressure on the British infantry. Maybe they could not kill too many people, but they could prevent the British infantry from becoming organized. Fighting, always being scattered everywhere under the shadow of bombs!
"The British infantry are like wild boars driven by a pride of lions. They are running in all directions. They have no ability to resist, nor do they have the idea. We can attack them as we wish and use bombs to blow up groups of soldiers. , and then used low-altitude and high-speed raids to break the groups of infantry into pieces. The British tried to use machine guns to fight back, but the lethality of their ordinary Vickers machine guns was too low. We ignored each other as if we were walking in the back garden. Anti-aircraft fire, of course, but also to take them out if they got too annoying," a German bomber pilot recalled after the war.
Of course, this situation cannot continue forever. The British fighter jets will soon return. By then, the effect of the ground attack will inevitably be reduced. But this is enough. The non-armored units behind the British When being suppressed, the German armored battalion on the flank launched the attack first!
After all, the Germans are still prepared. Although the armored battalions on the flanks are not full, they are all Wolf medium tanks. In the absence of 18-pound artillery on the opposite side, the new Wolf tanks face the MK1 tanks and MK1 tanks on the opposite side. The little homeless people were completely one-sided massacres. (For the specific difference, please refer to the tiger's fight against Matilda in the second battle.) The frontal defense difference between the two sides is 2 levels, and the firepower difference is 1 level. The British are also less mobile. At a distance of 1,000 meters to 500 meters from the front, the MK1 tank is in full decline.
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