"Lieutenant, what heavy weapons do the British have?"

"There are no artillery, no cavalry and infantry, about a thousand people!" The second lieutenant’s answer was simple. After he finished, he went to the tank and knocked on the car with his fist. The steel plate was very weak and low, saying that its armor was very thick.
Seeing that the British army in the village was not out of the offensive posture, most of the infantry sat up, and one of them pointed to the distance and said
"Look, there are some tanks over there!"
Follow his finger. Now, about 2 miles to their right, several tanks have moved forward over two hills and trenches, followed by two or three hundred infantry. It seems that it is also an armored assault group, and that flat German defense line was attacked by British cavalry not long ago. In the bombing of Germany, the Scottish cavalry regiment has withdrawn from sight.
"all right! It’s time for us to act! Lieutenant, you continue to hold your position here. Good luck! " The lieutenant gave a polite military salute again and then quickly jumped into the riveted turret of the tank.
"Good luck to you, too!" After the ceremony, the infantry lieutenant asked his soldiers to make way for the armored assault team.
The lieutenant raised his right arm high and then pointed straight ahead firmly.
"Forward!"
Smoke from the rear of the tank mixed with hot air formed a fog in the air. Four tanks and two cars marched in a row. At the moment when they crossed the top of the mountain, their turrets originally pointed obliquely to the sky, and the artillery tubes became almost horizontal and parallel. The infantry followed the tanks closely, and the inclined ends of Mao Se rifles trotted down the slope on their chests.
Soon, these tanks and infantry crossed the hillside, and the bodies of British troops crossed the craters. One or two of them unceremoniously ran over the original British machine gun position, crushing the remaining machine guns there to pieces. When the small village at the foot of the mountain entered the range of its 37 mm artillery, the assault group tanks continued to fire without stopping. This small-caliber tank gun was not very powerful, but when the shells fell into the village and exploded, the British officers and men there panicked again after the German bombing.
British infantry deployed at the entrance of the village looked for suitable blocking positions when the German troops came into sight, beside bare trees, behind mounds, beside houses, and in craters. Many British infantry were crouching or lying with rifles, while others rushed to carry sandbags to build new machine gun positions. Before the German tanks entered the effective range, the British could not wait to shoot with a Vickers machine gun, and then they were star rifles, even though they could not hit that far at all.
About 100 meters away from the entrance to the village, a "Stone II" was walking in the middle, and slowly stopped. In its small turret, there was a face of facial hair and beard. The conductor put his eyes tightly on the sight, and he appeared in his sight, flashing fire spots from time to time and occasionally shaking people. After several seconds of aiming, he finally incorporated a target with a very active atmosphere into his crosshairs.
"Fire!"
At the moment when the gunner pulled the gun rope, several pieces of hay and snow nearby were knocked down one after another, and a shot rang out far away in the open field and echoed in the nearby hills for a long time. After flying for more than 2 seconds, a 37 mm ordinary shell burst into a gorgeous spark next to a gun battle position of a British machine gun. The gun gun was silent, and the smoke had not dispersed. Several Scottish infantry with blood all over their faces had already fallen on the sandbags.
When the tanks stopped in turn for precise shelling, the German infantry behind them were not in a hurry to shoot or rushed directly at the British. They bowed down to protect the steel body of the tanks and m16 helmets until they entered a distance of 1ooo meters, and the British shooting roots did not cause damage to the German assault team.
After entering the effective range of the machine gun, four "Stone II" lined up and pushed in parallel. Each tank was followed by about 5o infantry tank captains every 2 to 3 meters. At this time, they completely hid in the turret. They made the Maxim machine gun on the right side of the 37 mm tank gun fire at the British army at the entrance of the village, while the gunner manipulated the turret. The machine gun on the front of the tank agreed with the power and continuous shooting ability of the two water-cooled Maxim machine guns, but the disadvantage of this weapon was that it was too large, which made the original. The insufficient tank department is more narrow. However, at present, the Firebird machine gun relies too much on changing the barrel when it is firing continuously, which is also a reason why the Firebird German fighter pilots are more inclined to shoot short shots in the war.
After being suppressed by German tank fire, the British firepower has been much weaker, but flying bullets from time to time still makes the German infantry be more careful. When shooting, they mostly squat or lie down to avoid exposing their tall bodies in front of each other, especially the British Lynfield rifle, which has a very high accuracy in oo meters. Many British snipers install five times the aiming range on this rifle.
Although the number of standing soldiers of the British Sixth Army is small, in recent years, they have frequently participated in colonial wars such as Afghan War, Ying Bu War, Mahdi War, Myanmar War and tirah War. Although the scale of these wars has not affected the changes in the world pattern, the British Sixth Army has trained a large number of professional soldiers with combat experience. These people suffered a rout in the British Navy. Most of the British Sixth Army became the backbone of the army when they were recruiting and preparing for war. They and their opponents had all kinds of tactical sniper and ambush in previous colonial wars, which is no stranger to them. In fact, the German Sixth Army did not have as great an advantage as people thought in the battle between Britain and Germany.
"Give me a cannonball!"
When the captains need a tank gun to shoot at the target, they will shape and ask their gunners to add shells to the gun bore, and then the gunners will give the parking order to the driver. The on-line communication technology is not perfect, and the tank department has also contacted in this simple way.
After the gunner received the command from the commander, he 2oo37 out an ordinary shell "Stone II" from the shell compartment of the tank bulkhead, which could carry a total of 20037mm tank artillery shells. After loading, the gunner also informed the commander that he was aiming.
At a distance of less than oo meters, the accuracy of tank guns has been greatly improved. The wall of a house near the entrance of the village collapsed immediately after eating a 37 mm shell. Most of them were just shooting through the window. Several British soldiers were led by the black angel to report to heaven.
As the German armored assault team approached by the tank road, the exchange of fire between the two sides became more and more fierce, and the British soldiers rushed to defend themselves. The casualties of German guns rose rapidly from the village, while other soldiers kept filling the dead and wounded. The lack of four tanks was far from shielding all the infantry in the assault team. From time to time, people with Mao Se rifles were shot backwards in the queue, and the last medic was the busiest. When the distance was close enough, the 762 mm bullet in Li En Field was able to penetrate the m16 helmet of the German infantry. Fortunately, many British soldiers took the largest German tanks as their first target. They only added some shallow pits on the rough surface
"Guns and grenades ready!"
Let other soldiers prepare to shoot the Hale Grenade. The officer is leaning sideways behind a broken wall at this time. The flat top belt on his head effectively protects his head along the cloth cap root method. Therefore, he dare not even lift his head when the German army fires fiercely. At this time, the officers and men of the British Sixth Army have not yet equipped a helmet. The famous straw hat helmet has not yet arrived. However, the Hale Grenade is a weapon with simple structure and technology, and it does not require high materials. Civilian iron tools can be used to make Grenade shells, so it is also the most equipped standard weapon of the first-line British army except the Linfield rifle. The British military hopes that they can kill a large number of exposed German infantry in battle, but they are limited by their power and throwing methods. In trench warfare and street fighting, they are not German wooden handle Grenade opponents. Only in the field can they take advantage of their unique shooting methods to occupy a certain range advantage.
Actually, the gun-fired Hale Grenade is the most original rifle Grenade. After inserting these half-forearm thick things into the muzzle, the British soldiers have to slightly raise the muzzle and shoot the bullet as usual, so that they can shoot it 200 meters away. The first wave of Hale Grenade flying to the German tank has three, Forty of them mostly exploded dozens of meters in front of the tank, and four "Stone II" stopped moving one after another. They immediately shelled the British village entrance continuously and quickly. German infantry rifles and machine guns also joined the ranks of suppressing British firepower. The British hid behind obstacles and shot those grenades at the Germans with a high parabola (Hale’s Grenade hit the needle when it hit the ground and hit the detonator to detonate, but when it stopped in the middle, the problem was that the German wooden handle Grenade made it delay the fire)
After nearly three minutes of shooting, the commander of the assault team and the former tank lieutenant were in a hurry. When the British were still fighting back in some places where the tank gun method was direct, the delay was very unfavorable for the armored assault team to quickly break through the other side’s defense line and cause the other side’s confusion. With the opportunity of blocking the village, the main British army and important officers in the village are likely to take the opportunity to retreat.
"Move on, move on!"
The lieutenant hit the turret hatch and shouted to other tanks and infantry behind him that soldiers’ lives are worth cherishing, but they stagnated because of this, but the fighting intention was opposite. The German tanks were not interested in Hale grenades. These things containing more than 100 grams of zha medicine did not threaten the tank armor or tracks, but their fragments still did some harm to the infantry. Without the infantry, the tanks were easily approached by the other soldiers, and bundles of grenades, zha medicine bags and burning bottles were very fatal to the tanks.
The leading tanks were the first to re-advance, because the shooting technology was still a very distant technology. They shot accurately by shelling during the journey, but the captains kept shelling as much as possible to strengthen the offensive momentum. The German infantry also got up from the ground and continued to move forward. In front of the British grenades, the blood of the German infantry gradually dyed the snow red.
The armored assault team finally approached the entrance of the village, and the smoke generated when the machine guns continued to fire was no less than that of the tank guns. The tanks were filled with white smoke, which made the tank men have to wear gas masks. In this case, they could clearly hear the tank Maxim’s heavy machine guns shooting at the British soldiers who were in the battle position or had just left the battle position and headed for the village. Although these tank men could understand the situation ahead through observation well, their machine guns were even less aimed, but at such a close distance, they were able to sweep away the nearby British people in a series of bombs.
After paying the price of more than 30 soldiers, the German infantry also rushed into the village with powerful wooden handle grenades, which became the best tool for their anger. The village exploded one after another. Facing the brick-and-wood British house "Stone II", they also had to show their steel color. They swaggered into the house and then gave a back door to these small houses that had not been blown down. When the tank turret and car were full of dust and masonry, their faces were even more ferocious.
The British officers and men who had planned to resist and retreat in an orderly manner soon found their weapons in their hands. They stopped these German tanks from advancing on roads and houses. When the dark muzzle of their turrets aimed at themselves, they hid in the corner and next to the houses to resist. The British were scared out of their wits.
After the resistance effect and now their legs can’t outrun each other’s tanks (the progress of the stone II road is 20 kilometers per hour unless the British soldiers are all good runners who run a kilometer for 3 minutes), most of these British soldiers in the village who have been hit by the German army and the 6 th Army have chosen to lay down their weapons in an attempt to escape on horseback. Several officers just ran to the entrance of the village, and the German infantry shot them one by one in Mao Se.
After a rough count of the prisoners, even the commander of the assault group was shocked. Together with the wounded soldiers in the British field hospital, they captured more than 5oo British troops in just half an hour. This was a non-surprise situation (the hill was on the slope of the German tank three miles away, and the British army should have shown them. This kind of battle was a surprise attack, and the attack on the British garrison reserve began from a hundred meters to tens of meters). The Germans captured the British army at one time and fought the most, and the number of prisoners was twice that of the attackers. At that time, they silently heard the tactics of armored assault group, which attracted the attention of many German generals
Before noon on the 27th, guderian armored assault team launched a tactical attack on many sections of the whole front, so the counterattack plan of the British defenders was completely aborted. At noon, the armored vehicles, trucks and light artillery of the 6 th Army had arrived at the front line, and the planned attack on two landings near Bomouth Beach, namely Zone B and Zone B, was also in full swing.
Chapter 10 Bridge 1
British garrison command in London
At this time, it was the twelfth month of winter, but Haig’s head was beaded with sweat. In the battle of Beaumouth, the British fighter troops were wiped out. More than 50,000 defenders and 700 cannons in Beaumouth not only failed to stop the Germans from landing on the beach 6, but also lost most of their troops in one afternoon. Haig felt that he was really embarrassed. No amount of excuses to the king could hide the fact that the Germans successfully landed on the beach 6.
"General, you don’t have to blame yourself too much. After all, the German sea has a huge advantage! When their soldiers enter Area 6, we can easily crush them and throw them back to the beach! " Haig’s chief of staff, General Hubert, remains unchanged. Although the headquarters has learned that the Fuding River Bridge was occupied by German troops and several railway lines near Bomouth were destroyed, the veteran who participated in the wars in Pakistan and South Africa is still optimistic because this is the territory of the British in England.
"Although German battleships and carrier ships can’t land, I’m still worried that their planes will have a very adverse impact on our attack. What’s even more frightening is that they can throw more than 700 people behind our beach defense line. When the two armies confront each other, once such a large number of troops suddenly appear behind our army, they will destroy our artillery positions, logistics lines and even headquarters, or pretend to be our soldiers to disturb our army’s morale. Even if there are no more troops!"
Although Haig made many wrong judgments in the first 12 hours, he was not the kind of general who could see everything. He was really capable of swinging Led Zeppelin and the wooden skin plane to the extreme. Haig and his staff were really shocked when those poor patrol soldiers in Woodtown counted the number of parachutes nearby and reported back to the headquarters, but they soon realized the power of this new tactic of the German army.
Like Hubert, the optimistic staff think that the German landing was a surprise victory. In the future, we should pay close attention to the movement of German large-scale airships and fleets, and whether there are paratroopers and parachutes in the air, so that we can judge the landing place of the German paratroopers and surround them on the ground when they land. The Germans are just throwing thousands of troops into the tiger’s mouth.
However, there are also many cautious staff members, one of whom is about 5o years old, and the school staff member has expressed his worries.
"health is an unheard of tactic for us! When we put the main force on the front line, the Germans can throw a group to put several counties behind us into panic, knowing that the German airship can reach hundreds of kilometers! "
"It’s very important that even if we judge from the movements of German airships and planes that they are going to land in a certain place, such as Northampton (located in the middle of England) or Manchester (in the northwest of England), and we have a small number of troops nearby, we can’t compete with German airships and planes even if we don’t transfer troops from the front!" Another senior staff officer also looked a little pessimistic, as if his rear was doomed to be messed up by German paratroopers.
"You don’t argue, it is impossible to divide the main force and station it everywhere! My opinion is to deploy all cavalry units to important cities and plains far away from cities. In addition, an anti-drop team will be set up in the headquarters to be responsible for noting the movements of German large-scale airships and aircraft formations, and at the same time, local garrisons and militiamen will be ordered to pay close attention to the possible German investment. Once there is any situation, I will report it to the headquarters immediately, and I will also communicate with the Admiralty and ask their intelligence personnel to closely monitor the French coast and return the information to us as soon as possible when the German drop troops take off! " When faced with last stand’s situation, some people will be confused and some people will become surprisingly calm. Obviously Haig belongs to the latter.
"At present, the most important thing is to take the Fuding River Bridge and repair the railway leading to Bomouth. Our main force must arrive at the predetermined position in Dorchester (west of Bomouth) to Southampton (northeast of Bomouth) before dark and attack overnight. The navy will cooperate with us in the battle at night. I promise the king that the Germans will be driven back to the beach area before sunrise!"
Haig’s order also means that the German troops occupying the Fuding River Bridge will soon face several times and dozens of times their own British troops, including a few heavy artillery and secret weapons developed not long ago.
The Fuding River Bridge has never experienced the baptism of war since it was built. The battle in the morning was its first time, but it will never be the last. The bodies at both ends of the bridge and the deck of the bridge have been cleaned up by paratroopers, and those heavy horses have been pushed directly into the river. There are delicious food in the kitchens and warehouses of the British garrison, and the Germans are worried about it.