Chapter 335 France Don’t Cry 20

"Anti-tank guns! There are French anti-tank guns!"

Gustav Schwarzenegger shouted loudly.

His voice was a little hoarse, and this Nazi superman who was as strong as an ox could hardly stand it now. He and his soldiers had not had a good night's sleep since breaking through the Maas River. After reaching the Monte-Diu Highlands, there was a continuous tug-of-war with the French. The French invaded the town of Stoney again and again, and were beaten out again and again.

But this time, even fanatical Nazis like Gustav Schwarzenegger and Rudolf Ribbentrop did not dare to guarantee that they could drive away the French. Because there are too many French people coming, and they also have many tanks.

Sixty or seventy CharB1 tanks led two to three thousand French soldiers to rush forward. Although all anti-tank guns, tanks and assault guns fired desperately, they could not stop the sturdy CharB1 tanks from slowly approaching.

This huge tank is not only sturdy but also powerful, equipped with a 47mm gun and a 75mm gun. After they approached the town of Stoney, they turned into steel forts, constantly bombarding the Germans in the town with artillery, and covering the infantry's charge.

Faced with an overwhelming opponent, the entrenched German army could only fight and retreat. They retreated from outside the town into the town, using the ruins of buildings as cover to resist. Gustav Schwarzenegger's 2nd Platoon of the 11th Company now has less than 20 people left. They are all following a No. 3 tank in a street battle with the French army in the town. The 50mm gun of the No. 3 tank is equipped with a tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectile, which is enough to penetrate the front armor of the CharB1 tank within a distance of 300 meters. This distance is not big enough to see on the slope outside the town, but it is enough after retreating into the town. In less than an hour of fighting, three CharB1 tanks were destroyed by this No. 3 tank.

But the good luck of this No. 3 tank ended here. A French 47mm anti-tank gun was pulled up at some point and fired four armor-piercing shells at the No. 3 tank, two of which hit the target. , one of which exploded inside the tank!

Seeing that the tanks were destroyed, Gustav Schwarzenegger had to order a retreat - they now did not have any anti-tank weapons in their hands, and they could not stop the French tanks with rifles, submachine guns and MG34 machine guns.

"Second Lieutenant, what should we do?" Rudolf Ribbentrop followed Lieutenant Schwarzenegger and asked as he ran.

Lieutenant Schwarzenegger was at his wits' end, "Let's exit the town first."

"Evacuate Stoney if the tank is destroyed or the tank commander decides to retreat" was the order from Captain Kruger (commander of the 11th Company). Although Schwarzenegger didn't understand it, an order was an order, and he couldn't lead his men to defend the town.

When the remaining 20 people from the 2nd Platoon of the 11th Company withdrew from the small town of Stoney, the other two platoons and the company headquarters of the 11th Company also began to retreat - the 11th Company was the unit responsible for the rear, the "Gross Deutschland" flag force. Other companies of the 1st and 3rd Battalions have evacuated one after another, and the town of Stoney seems to have been lost.

But just as Gustav Schwarzenegger and Rudolf Ribbentrop ran out of the northern exit of the town in embarrassment, a soldier suddenly shouted: "The artillery position, the artillery position is still there! "

Didn't the artillery positions retreat? Rudolf Ribbentrop was stunned. He raised his head and looked down the hillside. In the night, he could vaguely see dozens of cannons lined up in a row, with their muzzles pointed at the small town of Stoney, as if they were waiting. The appearance of the target.

"Oh my God!" Lieutenant Schwarzenegger suddenly shouted, with a bit of surprise in his tone. "88mm anti-aircraft gun, that's an 88mm anti-aircraft gun!"

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"What? There is a German artillery position behind the Monte-Dieu Heights? It can't be an anti-tank gun, right?"

General Charles Hunzig, commander of the French 2nd Army, soon received a report of "the discovery of a German artillery position."

"No, it's not an anti-tank gun," the staff officer replied. "The report says it's a 105mm howitzer."

"Oh, I understand." General Charles Henziger nodded. This seemed a little strange. Why did the Germans place the 105mm howitzer position so close to the front? And they didn't retreat in time.

But General Hunzig didn't think much about it. After all, in a real war, how could it be possible to calculate everything accurately? Even the Germans can't do it, something will always go wrong.

"It seems our tanks can capture these cannons." General Henziger said to himself.

This was not an order, because according to previous orders, the French tank group would have continued to advance after occupying the town of Stoney, completely driving the German troops away from the Monte-Dieu heights, and mopping up the remaining enemy forces north of the heights.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom..."

The sound of intensive shelling and explosions suddenly came from the Monte-Diu Highlands upwards, as if a fierce firefight was going on on the northern slope of the highlands.

"How is this going?"

Several French generals and colonels in the former enemy command post looked at each other. For a moment, no one understood what was going on. Perhaps the 75mm gun of the CharB1 tank destroyed some ammunition piled on the German artillery position?

"Commander," a staff officer ran in quickly at this time, and shouted loudly when he saw that General Henziger did not even salute. "Urgent report from the 3rd Light Cavalry Division. The defense line of the 2nd Motorized Dragoon Regiment was attacked by German armored forces. The situation is very critical. Please support!"

"What?" General Henziger suddenly became nervous. The 3rd Light Cavalry Division is the unit responsible for covering the left wing of the army group. Now they are attacked by the German armored group. This means that the Germans still have a large armored group near Sedan! And this German armored group probably wants to outflank the 2nd Army's flanks!

"Tell the 3rd Light Cavalry Division to hold on at all costs." Then General Hunzig immediately made deployment adjustments, "collect the CharB1 tanks and let the infantry go to Stoney Town to defend." He wanted to use the powerful CharB1 The tanks went to deal with the German tank groups.

The 2nd Motorized Dragoon Regiment Brigade, which is currently being attacked by the German armored forces, is actually an armored force - this regiment is called cavalry, but it actually does not have horses, but is equipped with light tanks (23 AMR series cavalry tanks) and half-tracks. However, the tanks of the AMR series have weak firepower and very thin armor. They are no match for German tanks (the No. 1 tank is similar to the AMR series, but it is just a training tank). Therefore, the CharB1 heavy tank must be sent to the rescue.

However, General Henziger and everyone in this command post did not expect that more than half of those powerful CharB1 heavy tanks had now become the living targets of the German 88mm anti-aircraft guns. The slope was turned into a steel torch!

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The two anti-aircraft artillery battalions of the 2nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment of the German Air Defense Force (belonging to the Air Force) were using 88mm guns to attack the tanks. This anti-aircraft artillery regiment had made great achievements in the air battle on the Maas River before, shooting down 112 British and French aircraft! After the air battle on the Maas River, this anti-aircraft artillery regiment was not transferred and has been stationed at the pontoon bridge on the Maas River. After the 12th Army took over the front line in Se, the 2nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment naturally returned to the 12th Army. The German 88mm anti-aircraft gun began to serve as an anti-tank gun as early as the Spanish War, and the first German armored commander to use the 88mm to fight tanks was Lieutenant General von Thoma of the 41st Armored Corps.

Therefore, after learning that the 37mm gun could not hit the French CharB1 heavy tank, he suggested transferring an 88mm anti-aircraft gun from the 2nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment to deal with the CharB1 heavy tank. In order to allow the 41st Armored Corps to successfully complete the outflank, General Kleist did not use the 88mm gun at the beginning (otherwise the French would be driven away by a single bombardment), but placed the 88mm on the northern slope of the highland. On the next anti-tank position. Unexpectedly, several French tank brigade commanders on the front line did not know the power of the 88mm gun (this kind of cannon has already shown its power on the Belgian battlefield, but they did not know it here in France), and they regarded the 88mm gun as a 105mm howitzer, stupidly commanded dozens of CharB1 heavy tanks to rush forward, but they were all turned into steel torches.

"We won, didn't we?" Rudolf Ribbentrop sat on the grass, looking at the bright fires in the distance, and asked in confusion.

"We won!" Captain Kruger, the commander of the 11th company, stood smoking on the side. "The French tanks are finished... No tank can withstand the 88mm gun."

"It would be great if we could also have such a cannon." Rudolf Ribbentrop said, "That way there wouldn't be so many comrades dying."

The National Socialist Workers' Party also refers to itself as comrades. The "Grossdeutschland" banner unit is the SS, and its members are all Nazis.

"The sacrifices of comrades must be valuable," Captain Kruger glanced at Ribbentrop, who was handsome in appearance, brave in combat, and had a very prominent family background. "You will understand in the future."

"after?"

Captain Kruger lit a cigarette, "Yes, when you graduate from the SS Officer School in Braunschweig, you will understand why our comrades were sacrificed."

"SS officer school?" Rudolf Ribbentrop was stunned. "Captain, do you want to recommend me to go to the officer school?"

"Yes, you deserve it," Captain Kruger took a puff of cigarette and said with a smile, "Gustav told me about your performance, you are very good. When we defeat the French, you Then you can take the exam.”