Chapter 156 Jealousy
Thanks to Jiang Xuanjing for his reward, joining the league... What a great league!^_^
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After another row of armor-piercing bombs was fired, the German tanks "rumbled" forward... This was to compress the space of the British army, especially in the rear of the British army. A commando composed of "Stuart" tanks quickly penetrated into the British army under the cover of the "No. 3" tank and cut off the British army's retreat.
It was a tank seized by the German army during the battle with the British 7th Armored Division. After Captain Albridge seized it, he organized it into the 5th Armored Regiment and ordered the tank soldiers driving these tanks to learn operations while marching with the troops.
The German tank soldiers learned so quickly that they can now participate in the battle without any pressure... However, this is also considering the particularity of this battle.
This is an ambush battle. If the British army is deceived and is attracted, their tanks will definitely have no power to fight back under the attack of the "No. 3" tank, so there will be no danger in "Stuart" participating in the war. Taking this opportunity to give them a chance to be trained in actual combat.
In addition, most of the British 15th Armored Division equipment were "Matilda" and "Valentine" tanks, which was one of the reasons why Colonel Albridge dared to put "Stuart" on the battlefield... Otherwise, both sides of the enemy and us would have "Stuart", and this was still on a night when it was difficult to distinguish, and the battle would become a melee where the enemy and us could not be recognized.
But now, the investment of "Stuart" has made the British army confused... because many of them recognize this tank and know that it is the equipment for the United States to support the British army, so their first reaction was to come and reinforce their friendly forces.
Some of the British soldiers even cheered... but it was a dense rain of bullets.
As mentioned earlier, although "Stuart" has insufficient firepower against tanks, it has strong firepower to suppress infantry... Each tank fires four machine guns at the same time, thirty-three, which are more than one hundred machine guns. The bullets are like a hurricane storm blew up in the British infantry group. After the wind swept the remaining clouds, they all fell down in an instant.
(Note: "Stuart" has five machine guns. The machine guns above the turret are generally used for air defense and sometimes used to suppress enemy infantry, but they are difficult to operate when tanks are marching.)
So, the British army found that they were surrounded by German tanks, with no way out and no retreat behind. There was a "No. 3" tank next to them "rumbled" towards them...
Qin Chuan and his comrades followed the "No. 3" tank and advanced towards the British army. The corpses of British troops were everywhere along the way, but because of the darkness and the wheat fields, they could not see it. Only by stepping on a pile of soft things under their feet realized that they stepped on a corpse.
However, at this time, there was no time to pay attention to these things. Qin Chuan only knew to constantly pull the trigger at the enemy, one after another, and there was no need to aim at it. There were enemies everywhere in front of him. They were just small fish that were trapped in the net. Because the propulsion space of the tank was compressed, it became increasingly dense... so dense that it was possible to hit two or even more enemies if a bullet was fired.
The British army had no way to escape. On the other side of the wheat field was Binhai Avenue. To the north of Binhai Avenue was the cliff of the strange rock, which was more than 30 meters high, and below was the sea... Of course, some soldiers familiar with water would risk jumping off the cliff and escaping, but they might eventually fall to death, because there are stones in many places below, and only a few people were fortunate to jump into the water to escape.
Finally, a famous New Zealand officer shouted at the German tank: "Don't shoot, we surrender, don't shoot!"
New Zealand soldiers and British soldiers raised their hands one after another, and the sound of gunfire slowly subsided.
The battle finally ended in a more human way.
In this battle, the German army killed and injured more than 2,000 British troops and captured more than 6,000 prisoners, most of which were from the New Zealand 2nd Infantry Division, and the New Zealand 2nd Infantry Division was almost wiped out in this battle.
More importantly, most of the last 100 tanks and armored vehicles of the 15th British Armored Division were destroyed, and twenty-eight were captured... However, as mentioned earlier, the German army was not interested in British infantry tanks.
As for the infantry regiment of the 15th Panzer Division, they fled back to Matru in time because they were at the last part of the army.
But this was useless. The New Zealand Division, which had strong combat power, was wiped out and the tanks were destroyed... The remaining defeated soldiers had no support, and their defeat was only a matter of time.
Rommel was very surprised by the outcome of this battle. He called General Streck's command and said, "General, I have to admit that you have won a beautiful battle. I just couldn't sleep because of Martru's headache, but after a sound of gunfire... I heard that you almost wiped out the British!"
"Thank you for your praise, General!" General Streck replied.
Rommel looked down on Streak before, and even used the word "coward" to describe Streak. Now Streak finally breathed a sigh of anger.
"How did you do it?" Rommel asked again: "You know the British are going to break through tonight?"
Rommel knew nothing about Strack's plan. On the one hand, Streck and Rommel were in a disagreement, and on the other hand, Streck hoped to keep the secret... After all, the most important thing for such a thing is to keep it confidential. If there is a little leak in the message, it will lose all the money.
"No, General!" General Streck replied: "This is not what we know, but what we let the British come out!"
"You let the British come out?" Rommel was a little confused.
"Yes!" said General Streck, "Remember the sergeant who once saved you? He is now a sergeant!"
"Remember!" Rommel nodded, then realized something: "You mean... he came up with the idea to win you?"
"Yes!" General Streck said: "Although I don't want to say... this sergeant is a genius, general. He was born for the battlefield, and sometimes I feel... this unit is all he commands rather than me, because I'm almost fighting according to his advice now! It's frustrating, right? I tried to avoid his advice several times, but I found myself having no choice because he was always right!"
General Streck was a little jealous.
In fact, it is not only General Strek, but even Rommel himself empathizes with it...
Chapter completed!