1447 Counterattack 3
"Where did the Germans fight in front of you?" General Grim asked.
"The Germans attacked us in three ways. According to your plan, we were strictly guarding the northern and central lines. Their attack speed was relatively slow, so they broke through three lines of defense. When the southern line was estimated to be released, they had penetrated five lines of defense and formed a protrusion inside our line of defense!" said an officer.
"The Germans seem to be afraid of our navy, so they are a little far from the sea. The elevation angle of the old-fashioned dreadnoughts is limited, so the attack distance is relatively short. We are probably unable to implement the preparations for fire support with the navy, but they are alone behind the enemy and have no time or energy to build a completed line of defense. Even if they stop now, it is absolutely too late!" another officer added.
"Then kill them first." Looking at the sand table re-marked by the staff, Grim said with some dissatisfaction. For him, the current battlefield situation was not perfect. The Germans were not deep enough and avoided most of the attacks of naval guns. However, it was obvious that the Germans were not blinded by the initial victory. They were still stable and moved forward step by step. The speed was not fast, but they crushed everything they encountered like a roller!
When the battle was on the third day, the armored troops that had been hidden by the British finally appeared. In the past half day, the northern line and the central line once again broke through one line of defense, and the southern line also broke through one line. A gap appeared between the two sides. The northern line and the central line were once again blocked by a heavy defense line, and the German flanks were in trouble!
More than 100 tanks, truck guns and artillery towed by half-track vehicles were put into the battlefield! And the German army opposite them had only one dissatisfied with the armored battalion as the flank!
"The British are taking action, and their armored reserves appeared on the flank of the southern attack line!" When the aviation reconnaissance sent the information, Lieutenant General Eric immediately returned to the front of the sand table! "The British have joined the reserves, and it's time for us to get on, contact the Air Force and suppress their half-tracked self-propelled artillery and truck guns! It's really a bit uncomfortable to deal with the Army 18-pound guns and the Navy 14-pound guns!"
In fact, in the case of World War II, the Air Force's damage to the ground-moving armored units was very limited, but the British's truck cannons were not armored units... This does not mean that the British did not want to armor these things, but because they were already equipped with a heavy cannon and a large amount of ammunition. If you still install armor, it would be overweight... Not to mention trucks, the Americans' Sherman in World War II began to strengthen defense with sandbags and iron guardrails, but later because of the increased load, the Americans suggested that it would be better not to do this...
And the moment the British armored fist was shot out, the German K-6 bomber and the specially improved K-4T ground attack aircraft also appeared above the British as scheduled!
"Damn it! It's the German bomber! We're exposed!"
"Damn it, it's those low-altitude vultures filled with machine cannons! I knew these guys were back!" Before the death wheel composed of dozens of bombers and attack aircraft began to rotate, these huge air overlords brought huge mental pressure to the British!
"I found them! Those trucks are right under us! Two groups are ready to suppress the infantry and the artillery behind us. Let's go down to deal with these truck guns!" The whistling k-4t ground attack aircraft aimed the three 20mm machine guns on the nose and two 12.7mm machine guns on the wings 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 passed through the battlefield from a height of more than 100 meters. They pressed the nose slightly and aimed the nose like a shark at the panicked prey on the ground!
50 meters altitude! 300 meters inclined distance! Almost close to the target's head, the plane fired more than 200 rounds of various ammunition against the target in a few seconds! The entire ground was like boiling, and the surroundings of the cannon truck were covered with fiery red light beams. The wooden fence and metal body looked extremely fragile when facing the machine guns mixed with high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs. One 12.7mm bullet could bite a large baffle, and the 20mm incendiary bomb, as long as one hit, it could ignite half of the car body. It was like falling into a wild beast in a school of piranhas, and in a very short time, it was smashed into pieces by dense and fierce firepower.
In the first wave of attacks, three truck cannons were destroyed. Then, these attack aircraft raised their heights and hovered in the air for a week before launching another attack! Under the successive attacks, the British half-tracked vehicles and the 18-pound cannons equipped on the trucks could not function at all. What was worse than them were the infantry. The K-6 bombers carrying a large number of machine guns and anti-infantry bombs were pressuring the British infantry continuously like the god of death swimming in the air. Maybe they could not kill too many people, but they could prevent the British infantry from fighting in an established manner and were always scattered everywhere under the shadow of the bomb!
"The British infantry were like wild boars driven away by lions. They ran around and had no ability to resist, nor did they have this idea. We could attack them at will as we wish, use bombs to blow up groups of soldiers, and then use low-altitude and high-speed raid to smash the groups of infantry to pieces. The British tried to use machine guns to counterattack, but their ordinary Wicks machine guns had too low lethality. We ignored the opponent's air defense firepower as if we were walking in the back garden. Of course, if it was too annoying, we could kill them at will." A German bomber pilot recalled after the war.
Of course, this situation cannot continue. The British fighter jets will soon return. By then, the effect of ground attacks will inevitably be reduced, but this is enough. When the non-armored units behind the British were suppressed, the flanking German armored battalion first launched the attack!
After all, the Germans were still prepared. Although the armored battalions on the flanks were not fully equipped, they were all wolf-type medium-sized tanks. Without 18 pounds of artillery on the opposite side, the new wolf-type tank was completely one-sidedly slaughtering the mk1 tanks and small vagrants on the opposite side. (The specific gap can be found in the Tiger against Matilda in the 2nd Battle.) The two sides had two levels of defense on the front, and one level of firepower. The British were also a little worse in mobility. At the distance of 1,000 to 500 meters on the front, the mk1 tank was declining.
Chapter completed!