Chapter 517： Break through

In the huge explosion, the entire division was lifted off, and under the blast, everyone was lifted aside.

"Commander, commander!" A sentry far away was not affected by the explosion. When he rushed past, the commander was already lying on the ground covered in blood.

He yelled loudly, but it was useless. He saw a piece of shrapnel and blood gurgling out of the teacher's abdomen. In less than two minutes, the teacher would die from bleeding too much.

"Master!" He shouted loudly, but it was useless. The master's body temperature was gradually getting colder. He looked up and saw the bomber in the sky, still throwing bombs unscrupulously.

The commander of the British First Armored Division, General Evans was killed by a German bomber group. He became the commander of the British and French coalition forces with the highest rank of the British killed.

This is just the beginning.

With his death, the First Armored Division ushered in a terrible moment of demise.

The headquarters was pulled out, and the lower-level troops were already in a panic.

Breaking through is an art. In Germany's war against the Soviet Union, it often surrounded hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands at once. During the breakout, some troops were wiped out, and even the commander of the group army was killed.

Some troops escaped intact, even the cauldron used for cooking.

But at least, breakout is definitely not a swarm of rushing, you must have a command, where is the pretend to break through, where is the real breakthrough, there are primary and secondary, reasonable allocation of troops, at least the artillery still has the firepower, you can Their fire poured down on the Germans, opening a gap.

Unfortunately, there is nothing, they are completely messed up.

The various arms lost their own weapons and ammunition and wanted to rush out of the encirclement. When they rushed to the periphery of the encirclement, the Germans' machine guns and cannons fired violently, and the British soldiers fell into pieces. In a pool of blood.

Just like the heavy machine gun that the British army rushed to the opposite side without fear during World War I, hundreds of thousands of deaths a day.

The British are now rushing towards death.

In front of the German defense line, the British fell in rows.

Of course, not all of them chose to break through and die, and some chose to be heroic.

For example, the tank company directly under the division.

Hess, the company commander, survived the bombing. He looked at the corpses all over the floor and was very angry. At the same time, he also knew that there was only one way to save himself, using their tanks to help the troops break through!

"Quick, follow me!" Hess shouted loudly, sitting on his turret, shouting to the soldiers around him.

With his tank as the forerunner, he tore a hole and broke through with the infantry behind!

He didn't choose the river behind, there was no bridge there, and he used to die. At this time, breaking through to the north is a shortcut instead.

This is also unexpected by the Germans. In the north, the deployed defense line is the weakest.

There is only one vehicle-mounted infantry regiment, but the line of defense there is very long, and they have no tanks to maneuver to fill the gap.

You know, the north is now a German territory. Breaking through to the north is simply stupid, and breaking through to the south is normal.

It is precisely because of this that the defense of the north is very weak, which is exactly what Hess thinks. He does not know how many troops surround him in the north, but it must be less than in other positions!

As long as he breaks out, he will be able to escape. You know, the Germans are now rushing in and want to be the first to seal the big opening in the encirclement. Therefore, behind the Germans, there are many empty places, everywhere. The channels can be interspersed.

Hess only summoned more than two hundred soldiers, led by his more than twenty tanks, and rushed northward.

Not all armored divisions are armored forces. They must have a certain proportion of infantry. In later generations, by the end of World War II, the German armored divisions even had dozens of tanks, almost all infantry.

With the massive equipment of wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, although the Panther 3 tank has not been fully popularized, there is no shortage of matching wheeled infantry fighting vehicles. The infantry of the armored division is all machine infantry riding on wheeled fighting vehicles.

And the current Sixth Armored Division, under the jurisdiction of the 6th Infantry Brigade, and the 4th Vehicle-mounted Infantry Regiment under the 6th Infantry Brigade, is a skirmish line, spread over a width of several kilometers.

Commander Marco, using his binoculars, quickly scanned the billowing smoke and dust in the distance. His brows were frowned and he shouted loudly: "Attention, prepare all our LG40s so that the British know how powerful we are. !"

At this moment, his heart was really anxious.

In the entire battle, the German army was on the offensive side, and the enemy tanks were just handed over to their own tanks to kill them. Therefore, they were not equipped with a large number of anti-tank guns.

At the same time, infantry is mainly light, and they are equipped with recoilless guns.

Although they have wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, this thing is only to help them improve their mobility. The armor is weak, and they are scum in front of the opponent's tanks. They simply cannot count on infantry fighting vehicles to deal with the opponent.

Therefore, it can only rely on the 75mm recoilless gun.

Now, the sky is going to be dark. Once it gets dark, these infantry will definitely be unable to stop the enemy's breakthrough, and they will easily break through their defenses.

The British must not be allowed to break through from their positions! Before it gets dark, beat the opponent down!

As the armoured company of the division, Hess’s subordinates operate the Matilda 2 tank.

It sounds like an upgraded version of the Matilda 1 tank, but in fact the two are completely different.

The combat weight of this tank is 26.9 tons, which is "larger" than the Type 1.

On the turret it is equipped with a 2-pounder gun, which is much more aggressive than the Type 1 which only has a machine gun. At the same time, the thickness of the armor of each part has also been increased. The armor thickness of the main parts ranges from 75 to 78 mm, and the minor parts range from 25 to 55 mm.

At the same time, the most distinctive feature is that this tank uses two engines.

The original idea was to rely on another engine to drive at a low speed and maintain a certain combat effectiveness.

Unfortunately, this is simply what the designer dreamed up in the office. The two engines increase the volume of the power unit and take up valuable space in the car. There is also a problem of synchronization and coordination when working with two machines. The design is completely tasteless.

Now, listening to the roar of the two engines at the rear, Hess looked at the German position in the distance with a telescope.

I am right, the defense here is the weakest!

If you wait until dark and then break through, it is 100% possible, and now, he can't waste time, the German armored forces are moving too fast, maybe there are tanks gathering here now, and he must be fast. !