1660 The Last Battle 1
"The French tank is coming!" Through the command tower on the turret, Rommel discovered the French tank looming in the smoke, which made him feel much more at ease. As a qualified commander, don't underestimate your opponent in any suitable situation. The French have been able to fight Germany for so long, so along the way, Rommel was calculating how much power the French still had, especially how many tanks there were!
Some people may say that as a grassroots commander of the armored forces, is it useful to think about these things? Please, this is whether it is good to have vision. Think about those who will achieve great things later, who are not far-sighted? Napoleon said that soldiers who do not want to be marshals are not good soldiers. When Dunitz was in the British prisoner-of-war camp, he was considering the issue of future submarine operations. Similarly, Comrade Guderian also did this. Why did he achieve something later? He has vision, is prepared, and put it into practice. This is the talent!
Rommel naturally could not grasp the information on the entire battlefield, but as the spearhead of the attack, he could clearly feel that the French's resistance was very weak. It cannot be said that the French were not firm in fighting, but what if you are firm? Faced with the torrent of steel, you can use flesh and blood and a small amount of anti-armor weapons to have a flaw! In the end, it was just a wave that started before being crushed.
But this does not make Rommel feel relaxed, because the enemy that should appear never appears, which is ultimately a very uneasy thing. For example, when both sides fight Star 2, you obviously start your reconnaissance and find that there is a group of electric soldiers hidden by the other gods. As a result, when the battle is held, there is a loud noise in front of the hunting behind, but there is no electric soldiers coming out. Do you think you are empty? Are you afraid? If an opponent's transport plane flies over and throws the electric soldiers directly and comes with a lightning matrix, then you will kneel down? By the same token, Rommel is always on guard against the armored forces that the opponent may have come out to avoid ambushing.
So, when the French tanks appeared, Rommel breathed a sigh of relief, but then he frowned again, because the situation is very wrong now! The French came out this time with light tanks. Isn’t this asking for death with Renault and others in frontal field battles? The French did not have the ft10 tank and the more powerful Saint Monsa. There must be something tricky about it!
"There may be a problem ahead!" After thinking about this, Rommel ordered the entire offensive queue to slow down, and at the same time asked the accompanying mortars and howitzers to keep up as soon as possible. Faced with the French light tanks in front of him, Rommel sent a weasel-style armored vehicle that had been used as a reconnaissance force and provided flanking protection. The latter equipped 40mm machine guns was enough to deal with French light tanks.
So, a strange scene on the battlefield occurred. The French Renault light tank and the Bavarian Legion weasel armored vehicle collided. The latter used higher maneuverability (at the same power, the wheeled speed was naturally much better than the crawler). The more powerful firepower (40mm
So, the sound of dense small-caliber artillery shooting sounded on the battlefield, and shells like locusts shuttled through the armored forces of both sides. From time to time, armored vehicles or tanks were hung by this dense fire net, and then turned into a fireball. A Renault tank had just rushed through the smoke. The short turret on the body of the car had not even pointed at the first enemy. A series of 40mm shells came towards us. The opponent did not aim directly but used cover-type shooting. Unfortunately, one of the shells penetrated the front of the car body. The sharp warhead and shrapnel formed after the armor was broken instantly killed the two Frenchmen in the car body, and at the same time, a hole as big as a bowl on the car body.
The orderly formation, fierce firepower, and a large number of wolf-type tanks behind him were under the squash. The French light tanks were soon defeated. Howitzers and mortars in the rear began to block the Germans' vision, and the tanks also began to release smoke bombs to block the Germans' vision. The suppressed firepower accompanied by the German army also began to fight back. After the first round of battle, the German armored troops had the advantage. Groups of tanks and armored vehicles drove past the wreckage left by the French and continued to advance in depth. After continuing to advance for 2 kilometers, the sound of 75mm rapid-fire cannons sounded again in the distance made Rommel's nerves tense again!
"I'm here!" Looking at the fires that kept jumping against the ground in the distance, Rommel realized that this would be the last place to fight with the French. This was not because the other party had concentrated several 75mm artillery here, but because the position setting here was very beneficial to the French army. If the other party did not block here, then the more they fought, the more they would lose!
The French relied on the terrain to deploy 75mm rapid-fire guns on both sides of the German armored forces' offensive channel. The artillery was deployed in two small towns. In a complex form, it would take some time to remove the German army. At the same time, although the front was wide, there were still shrubs and short trees that could hide their troops. If we wanted to take it down, then the originally dense German armored troops must be dispersed and deal with the French defense lines on both sides at the same time. What about the front? The straight-line distance between the two sides is the shortest, and the other side may hide tanks! In Rommel's current view, the French used the terrain to forcibly disperse the main force of the German army to create fighter jets.
"Stop the attack for the time being and wait for the order!" Rommel gave the order, and soon, the information was summarized on the desk of Earl Schmidt through various channels. As an experienced battlefield commander, he also knew that the time to decide the outcome of this battle has come!
"Is the Air Force coming soon?" asked Count Schmidt.
"Arrival on time in half an hour, there is no problem with air supremacy. We deployed at least five squadrons of fighter jets on the surrounding battlefields, and we had just collapsed the opponent's air offensive before. It is impossible for the British to come again in a short period of time. Fighters of the Air Force can even participate in ground suppression and production wars." said the air force personnel in charge of contact.
"That's good, tell the brothers of the Air Force to proceed as planned. At the same time, let the first wave of troops on the front line launch an attack! First attack the village on the left!" Earl Schmidt ordered.
Chapter completed!