The Third Reich in Desperation

Third Reich Episode 446

And the soldiers of an infantry squad on the other side of the first floor also raised their weapons and fired fiercely at the target opposite them.The bullets were densely packed into the building guarded by the British infantry company, which was not full, making full use of the advantage of the dense firepower of the German army at this moment.

Of course, the shooting positions of the German troops were all lower than those of the British troops. If they continued to fight, they would still suffer geographically.

And the reason why they launched such a sudden attack was not just relying on their stronger firepower and ignoring the geographical disadvantages.On the contrary, the German platoon leader ordered this intensive attack precisely to solve this unfavorable factor.

His purpose is to cover the most critical Iron Fist rocket launcher from hitting the solid high-rise building and solve the trouble completely!

The anti-tank man carrying the Iron Fist anti-tank bazooka didn't delay either. He took a sliding step, half-kneeled on the ground, leaned out against the corner of the wall, and aimed at his target.

"Boom!" A puff of thick smoke spewed out from the tail of the bazooka, and an improved rocket that greatly reduced air resistance flew towards its target, followed by a violent explosion sound, the most powerful rocket in this area The active British army position suddenly misfired!

After about tens of seconds, the surrounding gunfire gradually stopped.

"We surrender! Don't shoot! We surrender!" The few British soldiers around who were still struggling, led by an officer, shouted awkwardly in German.

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A National Guard soldier who was trying to cross the path to the opposite side was hit by a bullet and fell to the side of the sandbags with a trembling body.This young life, who seemed to be 20 years old at most, twitched there twice and then never moved again.

Not far from him, two German soldiers shot at their target fiercely with their rifles in their hands.They were attacking a position held by a regular company of the British Army, a five-story residential building.

In fact, in addition to this five-story building, the original effective position of the British army also included several low-rise civilian houses around it.However, the five-story building with the highest tactical value continued to stand firm because of the deployment of an infantry company with more than 11 soldiers from the 70th Division of the British Army.

And the National Self-Defense Forces in those small houses around them had long since died, fled and scattered like birds and beasts.

"Machine gun team! Set it up on the upper floor here! Shoot at the fifth floor over there to cover the infantry of the second platoon approaching there!" A German infantry platoon leader leaned against the wall of a two-story building, facing The soldiers behind commanded loudly.

To be honest, this is already the easiest battle he has ever fought.The German army responsible for crossing the river was the second army that attacked here from Portsmouth, not the paratroopers under Student, the general of the German, French and Norwegian Allied Forces.

These German soldiers who have now crossed the Thames were surprised to find that it turned out that the forced crossing could be so easy.

It was different from the time when they first landed in Portsmouth. At that time, although the coastal defense troops of the British National Self-Defense Forces stationed were useless, they would still resist for a while. surrender.

But this time, the National Guard on the north bank of the Thames almost collapsed on its own before the German army had finished crossing the river.

No wonder the National Guard was no longer able to fight with the courage it had at first.

After all, at the beginning, the British mainland had not been successfully invaded by outsiders for hundreds of years. At that time, their psychological defense existed, and the situation had not completely collapsed.

But later, the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms were in full swing, counting each of the troops in the British mainland as one, and taught each of them how to behave.

Not to mention the temporary recruits of the National Self-Defense Forces, even the officers and soldiers of the British Army, few of them could withstand this pressure.

The troops at Dunkirk are considered elite, but in the end, 20 people surrendered collectively.By the way, the best weapons and equipment in the local British army series were also given out.

Today, many of the Norwegian troops fighting against the British army in the UK are using the equipment of the British Expeditionary Force resold to them by the Germans at a low price.

Speaking of it, Germany has gained a lot of real benefits in the previous war with Britain and France.

Among other things, when the British, French and Norwegian expeditionary forces surrendered, when the British expeditionary forces surrendered, and when the whole of France surrendered, the equipment captured by the German army was enough to equip millions of troops.

Of these weapons, the Germans kept the best part for themselves.These include French cannons, British and French armored vehicles, transport vehicles, and a lot of guns and ammunition, which were packed and reserved for the SS to expand the second-line left-behind troops.

The remaining weapons that the German army looked down on, or that were not easy to implement logistical supplies, were resold by Reinhardt at low prices to Norway, Romania, Finland and other countries that were expanding their armies and were in the same camp as Germany.

However, the British had no chance to repent and resent.Because the Thames defense line, which they depended on to maintain their positions in northern London, is collapsing across the board.

In the area where the British 11th Division is stationed, the National Self-Defense Forces here have basically run away, and the remaining officers and soldiers of the regular British Army are also struggling to support the final bottom line and fulfill their last responsibilities for the capital.

A German mg42 machine gun was quickly erected under the busyness of the machine gun team. On the commanding heights where the second floor of a building had been toppled by the previous bombing, leaving only broken walls, the muzzle stuck out of the window and aimed at the They were waiting for the order of the platoon leader downstairs, and when the time came, they opened fire to suppress the commanding heights of the British army on the opposite side.

Downstairs, the bullets fired by the British army from the five-story height splashed a cloud of smoke mixed with stone particles at the feet of the German platoon leader.The platoon leader was not timid at all, and after confirming that the machine gun position was set up very skillfully, he shouted to the anti-tank team behind him: "Anti-tank team, come to me, take your iron fist!"

Immediately afterwards, he squatted down against the wall, waiting for the bazooka team to run up, then patted their shoulders, put his face close to their ears, put his hands in front of each other's eyes, and pointed: "See the building over there? The French defenders there are resisting, and if they are knocked out, the British army in this area will have nothing worth mentioning."

The soldier carrying the Iron Fist III rocket launcher nodded, indicating that he heard the order clearly, then changed positions with the platoon leader, stood at the corner of the wall, and stuffed a rocket into the barrel of the rocket launcher.

The platoon leader saw that the Iron Fist team was ready, so he immediately ordered loudly: "Three, two, one, fire! Machine gun fire cover!"

After speaking, he took a sharp step forward, picked up the G43 semi-automatic rifle in his hand, and fired all the bullets in his magazine at the window on the fifth floor of the building that was constantly spraying with flames.

The mg42 machine gun that had been ambushed on the second floor above his head also roared, spraying tongues of flame and tracer bullets and sweeping towards the British fifth-floor position higher than theirs, shooting out a cloud of smoke, and instantly tilting the maximum firepower.

And the soldiers of an infantry squad on the other side of the first floor also raised their weapons and fired fiercely at the target opposite them.The bullets were densely packed into the building guarded by the British infantry company, which was not full, making full use of the advantage of the dense firepower of the German army at this moment.

Of course, the shooting positions of the German troops were all lower than those of the British troops. If they continued to fight, they would still suffer geographically.

And the reason why they launched such a sudden attack was not just relying on their stronger firepower and ignoring the geographical disadvantages.On the contrary, the German platoon leader ordered this intensive attack precisely to solve this unfavorable factor.

His purpose is to cover the most critical Iron Fist rocket launcher from hitting the solid high-rise building and solve the trouble completely!

The anti-tank man carrying the Iron Fist anti-tank bazooka didn't delay either. He took a sliding step, half-kneeled on the ground, leaned out against the corner of the wall, and aimed at his target.

"Boom!" A puff of thick smoke spewed out from the tail of the bazooka, and an improved rocket that greatly reduced air resistance flew towards its target, followed by a violent explosion sound, the most powerful rocket in this area The active British army position suddenly misfired!

Body 673 North African erosion

"Send a telegram, we've lost."

In North Africa, in Wavell's headquarters, he, the general who led most of the African main force of the Commonwealth Army, finally accepted the defeat helplessly.

After the failure of the three-way unified attack tactic, Wavell immediately hit all the elite troops, focused on the Kapuzuo trail, and also occupied the nearby Musai, which was a great way to detour the Halfayad army's back road.

But at a critical moment, Rommel ordered the 15th Armored Division to attack the flank of Caputso, and met the British 7th Armored Division sent by Wavell as a killer in Sidioma.

After a fierce tank melee, the 7th Armored Division of the British Army was surprised to find that their new Crusader patrol tanks not only failed to beat the German tanks, but also broke down constantly, making it impossible to fight the Germans well. tank battle.

Wavell shook his head helplessly and said: "We encountered a flank attack from the German army on the front line of Kapuzuo. Although I sent a roundabout reserve team to fight back for a while and wiped out a large number of German tanks, the frontline commanders themselves were chaotic. He lost his position and was pushed back by the German counterattack."

Looking at his adjutant, he clenched his fists, then let go of his hands and said in relief: "The attack failed, and my journey as a marshal is over. The British Empire's struggle for rights and interests in Africa is also over. Report the situation to London and let The Prime Minister should learn about the situation here and find an opportunity to transport the North African troops back to the mainland."

Wavell has completely given up hope for the North African war situation.After this fierce and defeated "Operation Tomahawk", Wavell found that the British army could not defeat the German army in terms of combat quality, equipment, and coordination level, which were generally higher than the British army.

And the coalition forces of the Commonwealth are generally inferior to the opponent's combat power in front of the coalition forces of the allies.

The German 15th Panzer Division has now launched a counterattack into the Halfaya Valley, so that Rommel's best elbow tactic is almost completed.Even if most of Wavell's generals still want to struggle, the result is doomed to failure.

Before the start of the war, all of Wavell's subordinates were full of confidence, believing that the area controlled by the Allied Powers in North Africa was within reach and the battle would surely be won.

There was only one person, and that was Montgomery, who parachuted into Cairo from London. As long as he soberly pointed out that the victories in front of the Commonwealth army were all small-scale low-level victories, they could not be used as a reference to measure the development of the big situation.

However, at that time, no one gave Montgomery a good look. Almost everyone rolled their eyes at the "diabolical" general, and Wavell also dismissed Montgomery with the stay-at-home task very disdainfully, and blocked the other party's mouth.

Wavell never imagined that the mouth he blocked could have pointed out a way out for him!

"It seems that General Montgomery, who stayed in Egypt, was right. He guessed before the war that we were likely to be in trouble because of the weakness of our flank forces. As a result, we have now been attacked by Longmei in the Caputso area. Er's flanking assault."