Imperial Overlord

"The front is the Egyptian border, right?" A commander of the 15th Armored Division looked at the wasteland in front and said with a smile to the gunner who was half-dwelling on the other side of the turret. 【Read the latest chapter】

It has to be said that at least on the German No. 3 and No. 4 tanks, the Germans have not found the kind of design ideas that will swallow thousands of miles in the future.

At this time, the German tanks still retained a little cuteness to explore the unknown.

The most direct manifestation is that the No. 3 tank has opened escape doors on both sides of its turret, which can usually provide entrances and exits for the loader and the gunner.

For this kind of opening behavior that seriously affects the side defense of the tank, it can no longer be found in the future tank design.

It is this design of the side opening of the turret, not the top of the turret, that makes the Panzer 3 a tank with a turret that is not large enough.

This has bought a painful foreshadowing for future improvements, making the tank No. 3, a fairly good tank, unable to adapt to the modification of heavier and larger tank guns.

Of course, as a near-ultimate improved product of the No. 3 tank, the No. 3 tank equipped with a 50mm caliber extended barrel artillery, the current power on the African continent is no different from the Tiger tank in 1943. .

It is absolutely not bragging. When the artillery generally equipped by the enemy is either short-barreled or insufficient in caliber, it is equipped with a powerful weapon that can destroy the opponent at a distance of more than 700 meters.

At the same time, the added armor makes it almost impossible to be penetrated from the front, and the sides are also difficult to be destroyed because of the blocking...

When facing the A9 and A10 cruise tanks most equipped by the British in North Africa, the No. 3 improved type is really similar to the Tiger tank when facing the enemy M4.

It was a very comfortable, wonderful feeling in a completely crushed state. German tank crews could attack with ease, striking distant enemies without danger—until the target was destroyed.

"According to the map, if we move forward, we will enter Egypt..." The gunner held a very detailed map in his hand, which also came from their Italian allies.

Sometimes German officers really didn't know what to say about Italians, because Italian soldiers did a good job in many ways, but they just couldn't win the war.

As the two of them checked their directions on the map and pointed to the compass to identify the direction of their attack, the roar of the engine overhead was getting closer and closer.

Two ME-109E fighter jets with sky blue painted on the bottom and black iron crosses on their wings, roared from low altitude.

The two ME-109E fighter jets that flew through the sky had auxiliary fuel tanks hanging under the belly. They flew very fast, one after the other, up and down, and their bodies appeared agile in the sun.

Squinting, the German crew members sitting on the tanks looked up at the sun and saw two planes of their own passing by at a low altitude. They built a pergola with their hands and watched the two planes go away.

Compared with the British Fighter fighters, the German fighters flying in the sky are obviously much more advanced. This time the Luftwaffe took the initiative to attack and immediately gained absolute air supremacy over the battlefield.

Although the sky is also a great victory, it is obviously not as thrilling as the battle on land.

German pilots flying ME-109E fighter jets, after shooting down about 20 plus British Gladiator fighter jets, they can't find any British aircraft over Libya again...

Almost exactly as they ruled the skies over the entire continent of Europe a few months ago, they beat the British Air Force in North Africa without breaking a sweat.

"It's really fast!" With a sigh, watching his own plane fly over his head, the captain withdrew his gaze.

"The order from the command, let us find an opportunity to rush to the road and surround and wipe out all the British troops we found." Not far away, on a German command tank with a high-power radio, the officer who jumped down faced the big gun here. call.

"Refuel the tank! Use spare fresh water! Hurry up! Prepare the tank! Quick!" The orders were issued one after another, and soon everyone was busy.

The armored soldiers began to help each other, moving the armor-piercing and high-explosive rounds one by one from the ammunition trucks that followed them.

Because there are more openings on the No. 3 tank, it is very convenient to replenish ammunition to it.

There is no need to go through a narrow entrance, so there is no careful process. Tank 3 with all the hatches open was, by today's standards, indistinguishable from a convertible.

Others began to lift open the boxes on either side of the tank to take out the fresh water, which had been warmed by the sun, and distribute it into the soldiers' personal water jugs.

They were even more careful than those who replenished the shells over there, and even put a basin under their feet to catch a few drops of water.

A complete armored battalion does not consist of only 45 combat tanks, but also several supply vehicles, as well as armored vehicles for transporting non-combatants.

Although the No. 3 tank in Rommel's hand was not a complete 3 tank battalion, he still allocated these armored battalion trucks and the following infantry according to his experience.

Therefore, these German armored detachments responsible for the attack are not so much an independent tank battalion, but more like a reinforced infantry armored battalion.

Such a chaotic configuration is, on the one hand, because the African army is smaller in size, and it is easier to be chaotic when fighting; on the other hand, it is because it has been proved to be effective in France, and it is very effective in combat.

This allocation is entirely based on the high quality of the German individual soldiers at this point in time. When they are mixed up to perform combat tasks independently, it is easier to give full play to the advantages of the quality of the soldiers and make more complex cooperation.

The topic is farther away. Many countries participating in the war were not proficient in such small-scale arms cooperation tactics until 1944. I have to say that the highly educated and high-quality German Wehrmacht was really very elite at the beginning of the war.

On the other side, several commanders are arranging the attacking route on the map for a while. Although instant communication is possible, prior planning is also a very important part.

"The 4 tanks in the 1st row will rush up from here in a while!" The battalion commander in charge of commanding the battle said, pointing to a flat area on the south side of the road on the map.

The platoon leader of the chariot platoon who received the order nodded, indicating that he had understood the order.

The battalion commander then used the remaining tank platoons of the company as support to form a barrier on the flanks - the remaining tank companies would detour from further afield along the opposite direction of the road in an attempt to disrupt the opposing team's organization along the road. defense.

"Okay! Everyone is ready. After 5 minutes, the tanks of the 2nd and 3rd companies will be dispatched first. After 10 minutes, the 1st company will start to attack from the front!" tank.

The rest of the German officers nodded and dispersed, climbed onto the tanks under their respective command not far away, and then began to check whether their equipment was in order.

Before long, the tanks of the 2nd and 3rd companies, which were ready, began to charge towards the distance.

Then, after they disappeared on the horizon, all the tanks in charge of the frontal attack were launched.

"Start the attack! Start the attack!" Pressing his throat communicator, the commander of the 1st Company gave the order to attack.

Their tank tracks rolled up yellow sand, and their engines rumbled in the dry desert.

When these tanks and trucks carrying infantry appeared on the horizon, British soldiers retreating along the road immediately spotted these uninvited guests.

"Enemy!" The British retreating troops, who had been chaotic on the road, became chaotic after hearing this warning.

Some soldiers began to fire back at distant targets with their weapons, while others began to flee across the road.

British commanders ordered their soldiers to organize the defense, and the machine guns mounted on some armored vehicles and cars began to roar.

An encounter started so abruptly, until the 50mm caliber shell fired by the German No. 3 tank cut the distance between the two armies and shot a British truck away.

This heavy artillery completely disrupted the British's position, reminding them of a terrible fact - it seems that they don't have any decent anti-tank weapons in their hands...

"Fire! Don't let them cross the road! Fire!" Although he knew that his efforts were in vain after all~www.wuxiaspot.com~, the conscientious British military officer kept urging his soldiers to continue fighting back.

Lieutenant General O'Connor watched depressedly as his troops collapsed on both sides of the road, but there was nothing to stop this from happening.

He wanted to restrain his troops as much as possible, but the Germans lingered like a gangrene and couldn't get rid of them.

"Aren't these Germans afraid of our counterattack? They are so sure that we have no reserves?" The lieutenant general in charge of commanding the British front-line armored forces complained angrily while looking at everything in front of him.

Before his grumbling could hit the ground, a shell hit a British army truck in the distance, detonating the ammunition on the truck and turning it into a huge black mushroom cloud.

The poor British lieutenant general was blown away by the spreading air waves, and for a while he was dizzy and couldn't get up.

"Quick! Quick! Let the guard battalion... let them cover Admiral Wavell and go first! Quick! He has to get out of here! Get out of here!" shouted loudly.