Chapter 1,660 The Last Battle 1
Chapter 1660 The Last Battle 1
"The French tanks are coming up!" Through the commander's command tower on the turret, Rommel spotted the French tanks looming in the smoke. This gave him a lot of peace of mind. As a qualified commander, in any situation Don't underestimate your opponents. The French have been able to fight Germany for such a long time, so they must be capable. Therefore, along the way, Rommel was calculating how much strength the French still have, especially how many tanks they have. !
Maybe some people say that as a grassroots armored force commander, is it useful to think about these things? Come on, this is foresight, okay? Think about the people who become great things later, who doesn’t have foresight? Napoleon said that soldiers who do not want to be marshals are not good soldiers. Dönitz was thinking about future submarine operations when he was in a British prisoner of war camp. In the same way, Comrade Guderian also did this. Why can people succeed in their careers? Have vision, be prepared, and put it into practice. This is talent!
Rommel naturally could not grasp the intelligence of the entire battlefield, but as the spearhead of the attack, he could clearly feel that the French resistance was very weak. It cannot be said that the French are not determined to fight, but so what if you are determined? Facing the rolling torrent of steel, using flesh and blood and a small amount of anti-armor weapons can be of some use! In the end, it was just a little splash before being crushed.
But this did not make Rommel feel relaxed, because the enemy troops that were supposed to appear never showed up, which was ultimately a very disturbing thing. This is like playing StarCraft 2 between two sides. When you started to investigate, you found that the opponent's protoss had hidden a group of electric soldiers. However, during the battle, there was a loud noise from the front and rear, but no electric soldiers came out. You are not being honest. ? Are you scared? If a transport plane from the other side flies over at any time, wouldn't it make you kneel down if you just throw electric soldiers and a lightning matrix? In the same way, Rommel was always on guard against the enemy's armored forces that might come out to avoid being ambushed.
So, when the French tanks appeared, Rommel was relieved at first, but then he frowned again, because the situation was very wrong! The French are all light tanks this time. Isn't it courting death to use Renault and the like against Wolf tanks in a frontal field battle? It’s not like the French don’t have FT10 tanks and the more powerful Saint-Montcha. There must be something fishy here!
"There may be a problem ahead!" After thinking about this clearly, 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. Facing the French light tanks in front of him, Rommel dispatched the Weasel armored vehicles that had been used as reconnaissance troops and provided flank protection. The 40MM machine gun equipped by the latter is enough to deal with French light tanks.
As a result, a strange scene occurred on the battlefield. The French Renault light tank and the Bavarian Legion's Weasel armored vehicle collided. The latter took advantage of higher mobility (at the same power, the speed of wheeled vehicles is naturally much better than that of tracked vehicles). ) with more powerful firepower (the 40MM magazine cannon is naturally much more powerful than the 37MM cannon that fires one round). Naturally, it has the upper hand in this kind of battle. The shells of both sides can easily penetrate the opponent's armor, and then The shooter has a larger projection and is more difficult to hit. This result is naturally not difficult to predict.
As a result, the battlefield resounded with the sound of dense small-caliber artillery firing. The artillery shells like locusts shuttled among the armored forces on both sides. From time to time, armored vehicles or tanks were caught by this dense fire net, and then turned into A fireball, a Renault tank just rushed through the smoke. Before the short turret on the tank could even be pointed at the first enemy, a series of 40MM shells came towards the enemy. The opponent seemed not to aim directly but to shoot in a covering manner. Unfortunately, one of the shells penetrated the front of the car. The sharp warhead and the shrapnel formed after the armor shattered instantly killed the two Frenchmen in the car and left a bowl-shaped mouth on the car. of holes.
With an orderly formation, fierce firepower, and a large number of Wolf tanks behind them, the French light tanks were quickly defeated. Howitzers and mortars in the rear began to block fire, and the tanks also Smoke grenades began to be released to block the Germans' view. The accompanying suppressive firepower of the German army also began to counterattack. After the first round of fighting between the two sides, the German armored forces 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 artillery sounded again in the distance, which made Rommel's nerves tense again!
"We've arrived!" Looking at the firelight that was constantly jumping close to the ground in the distance, Rommel realized that this would be the place where he would fight the French for the last time. This was not because the opponent concentrated several 75MM artillery pieces here. , but because the position setting here is very beneficial to the French army. If the opponent does not block the attack here, then it will definitely suffer more and more losses in other places!
The French relied on the terrain to deploy 75MM rapid-fire artillery on both sides of the German armored force's attack channel. The artillery was deployed in two small towns. It was a complicated form. It would take some time for the Germans to remove it. At the same time, although the front was open, , but there are still shrubs and shrubs that can hide troops. If you want to take this place, the originally dense German armored forces must be dispersed and deal with the French defense lines on both sides at the same time. But what about the front? The straight-line distance between the two sides is the shortest, and the other side may hide a tank! In Rommel's current view, the French were using the terrain to forcibly disperse the main force of the German army, thereby creating fighter planes.
"Stop the attack temporarily and wait for orders!" Rommel gave the order, and soon, this information was gathered on Count Schmidt's desk through various channels. As an experienced battlefield commander, he also knows that the moment to decide the outcome of this battle has arrived!
"Is the air force coming soon?" Count Schmidt asked.
"We arrived on time half an hour later. There is no problem with air superiority. We have deployed at least 5 squadrons of fighter jets on the surrounding battlefields, and we have just disrupted a wave of air offensives by the opponent. The British are unlikely to come back in a short time. Air Force Force The fighter jets can even participate in ground suppression operations," said the Air Force personnel in charge of liaison.
"That's good, tell the air force brothers to proceed as planned. At the same time, let the first wave of troops on the front line launch an attack! Attack the village on the left first!" Count Schmidt ordered.
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