The decisive battle against the Third Reich

As soon as the British tanks started fighting, the powerful firepower overwhelmed the Germans. Tank guns, directional machine guns, coaxial machine guns... In an instant, bullets and artillery shells were everywhere on the German defense line.

"Sherman" is indeed extraordinary once it is launched.

In history, it was precisely because the British army obtained 400 "Shermans" that they turned to the counterattack at El Alamein and destroyed 200 German tanks in just one battle.

Before that, the battle loss ratio between German tanks and British tanks had always been 1:4. That is to say, the British army had to pay the price of four tanks for every German tank destroyed on average, even if it was equipped with American "Stu" tanks. "Att" and "General Grant" tanks are no exception.

From then on, Rommel's African Army languished until it was completely driven out of Africa.

At this time, if the rocket launcher cannot deal with the "Sherman" tank, the same scene will be staged on the Alexander Line of Defense, and it may even be worse, because at this time, the Afrika Korps only has a hundred tanks in hand, and there is also a 90th Light Armored The division was even in Crete.

But Qin Chuan knew that he would know the result soon.

The German soldiers are still waiting. They are waiting for the British infantry to catch up, so that they can give them a "severe lesson", or let them "have a taste of danger", or "fight for the 15th Armored "Revenge against the division's comrades"...

No matter what the reason was, the German soldiers just hoped to inflict maximum damage on the British army.

Sure enough, after a while, a large number of British infantry rushed down from the hill... Since there were dozens of tanks in front of them to suppress the Germans with firepower, they rushed very easily, and only a few fell to the German 50MM mortars. Under shells.

"Kill them all!" Colonel John shouted excitedly. He thought that the overall situation of the battle had been decided by now. He just waited for the British soldiers to clear the mines at the front and then the tanks slowly pushed forward. The battle would be over.

According to previous battlefield thinking, this is indeed the case. What tanks fear most on the battlefield is to be separated from infantry. Although it has strong firepower and defense, its external perception ability is very weak. In addition, there is a high possibility that there will be dangers on the road ahead. There will be anti-tank mines, and you don't know when enemy infantry will approach them from a blind spot and blow them up.

But like now, the British tanks and infantry are well integrated again, and the British army also occupies favorable terrain on the hills and cooperates with the tanks to completely suppress the German army, then victory is in sight.

But at this moment, well-camouflaged German soldiers emerged from the individual bunkers behind the defense line. They held up a strange object that the British soldiers did not recognize and aimed at the British tanks...

Of course, these strange things are "bazookas". The German rocket launcher shooters have been waiting for this moment. In principle, the German defense line in front is just to attract the firepower of the British army and its tanks.

The German army was very successful. The bullets and artillery shells of all the tanks and the British covering units hit the German defense line. This made the German rocket launcher shooters very safe for a short period of time... In fact, this period was not short, because the tanks' The perception was very low, and a plume of smoke exploded in front of the defense line. The tank basically did not detect the rocket launcher behind the defense line, and of course it was unable to transfer firepower in time.

Then, with a scream of "chirp", the first batch of fifty or so rockets flew towards the British tanks with a long tail...

After a burst of "boom", at least twenty tanks were destroyed on the spot.

I say "at least" because it is difficult to know if some tanks have been destroyed. As mentioned before, not all destroyed tanks will smoke, burst into flames, or explode.

In fact, only three of the tanks were detonated and their internal ammunition exploded, but this was enough to scare the British army... At this time, the British tank crews did not even know what had happened. Many tank crews were still excited and firing machine guns and tank guns at the German trenches.

The tank crews fought back while shouting: "Go to hell, Krauts, and let you know what happened to your father!"

However, the next second, another batch of rockets with long smoke rushed straight towards the tanks, and then after an explosion, most of the tanks fell silent.

"Colonel!" the signalman shouted to Colonel John on the other side of the hill: "Our tank has been blown up!"

"How many?" Colonel John asked nonchalantly.

He thought that only one or two tanks were blown up by German anti-tank mines or anti-tank grenades, and these losses were nothing to the British army.

"I don't know!" the signal soldier replied: "I only know that if we don't retreat, they won't be able to come back!"

"What?" After hearing this, Colonel John raised his head and looked at the signal soldier: "What did you say?"

"Colonel!" the signal soldier replied: "The Germans have new anti-tank weapons. They can easily destroy our tanks from more than a hundred meters away!"

Colonel John's head slowed down for half a beat, and then he replied: "No, this is not true! Their anti-tank weapons only have a range of thirty meters!"

"This is true!" the signal soldier replied: "Because our tanks have been almost wiped out!"

"Colonel!" the staff officer said urgently, "order the retreat!"

Colonel John shook his head and replied: "No, they can't come back!"

Colonel John is right. It would be fine if these "Sherman" tanks were attacking on flat ground. "Sherman" tanks are different from other tanks... Most tanks during World War II did not have reverse gear, but "Sherman" tanks Yes, it can always retreat with its thickest frontal armor facing the enemy.

This is very useful on the battlefield, especially under Montgomery's strategy of "only fight at a distance, not at close range"... because if the enemy tanks are approaching the British tank group, the "Sherman" can retreat and shoot at the same time, so that You can maintain a certain distance from the enemy so that you are always outside the enemy's range.

But at this time, the British army was attacking the German army across the hills. Retreating was not easy.

"Abandon the tank!" Colonel John ordered: "Order the tank crew to abandon the tank and withdraw with the infantry!"

"Yes, Colonel!"

The order was conveyed quickly, and the British troops retreated like a tide.

But at this time, the German army did not want to let them go so easily. Bullets and artillery shells poured into the hills, knocking down groups of British troops on the way to retreat. After a while, the hills were filled with corpses of British troops. There were tank wreckage everywhere underfoot.

A few surviving tanks drove towards the flanks, seemingly trying to find a place to escape, but soon a few rockets were fired and paralyzed them in place.