O ‘Neill artillery worked very hard and fired repeatedly for an hour. At the end of the shelling, most people were so tired that their muscles were numb and their hands were shaking.
See the dust cleared the German position and there was no sign of life activity. General Barton waved his hand and said, "Attack! Attack! "
With a small gentle slope, More than 12o American tanks rushed to the silent German position more than 4,000 meters away like Tiger Mountain, followed by armored vehicles and two armored infantry battalions armed with Springfield rifles. Colt 1911 pistol and Lewis light machine gun are tightly packed in an open Cadillac 1921 wheeled armored personnel carrier, which weighs 65 tons and is equipped with a thin armored turret. Lewis heavy machine gun can be protected by a millimeter-thick homogeneous steel plate, and up to 11 auxiliary armed infantry can be built. The German army has made the Trojan armored personnel carrier quite similar, but the overall design and protection are better than the Trojan one. But don’t forget that Troy in the German army has already been replaced by a light cavalry semi-tracked armored personnel carrier jointly developed by Mercedes-Benz Krupp, and the latter’s performance is naturally higher.
In addition, there is another two-person tracked armored combat vehicle equipped with the US armored infantry battalion, which makes the body of Christie light tank have no turret. A 792 mm machine gun is installed in the semi-open body, which can shoot at the ground and medium targets. The vulture dd that was shot down in the previous attack is their hero.
Occasionally, the Germans also equipped the crossbowman infantry fighting vehicle in batches, which can also shoot at the ground and the ground. This infantry fighting vehicle makes the No.1 semi-tracked chassis slightly smaller than the cavalry semi-tracked armored personnel carrier. In the middle of the car body, above the cab, there is a two-person closed approximate triangular turret, and two 20 mm guns are located at the shooting boundary of the turret at 5 to 0 degrees.
(This kind of self-propelled anti-aircraft gun vehicle has a long history. In the 1920s and 1930s, the United States developed several kinds of machine guns equipped with knives, millimeters or 27mm large caliber machine guns. For various reasons, many of them did not equip the troops in large quantities with terrible industrial and technological strength! )
When I was in an atmosphere that I wanted to be happy but felt strange, every minute passed. With this mood, American officers and men approached the German positions step by step, 4ooo meters, 35 ooo meters and 3ooo meters …
3ooo meters! 2oo meters! 26oo meters!
The observers on this side of the German position nervously reported data one by one. Near him, German and Mexican soldiers quickly lifted the anti-tank guns, and a thick layer of soil canvas was piled up in the camouflage net, and the thick tank barrels had been raised.
In the new command post, which is less than 100 meters away from the front position, Rommel is still calmly looking at the American armored forces coming with a large amount of smoke. In those tanks with different styles, some captains will also explore the outside of the turret.
16oo meters! 14oo meters! 12oo meters! 1ooo meters!
Finally, I waited until I had to wait for that number. Rommel’s eyes flashed a light, "Fire!"
"Fire!" The communication officer immediately reached this order.
Barton’s quick thinking made him react quickly when the German position, to be exact, another position about 5oo meters behind the German position, sounded several shots in an instant. Damn camouflage net!
Tank guns, assault guns, infantry anti-tank guns, all the weapons in the hands of the Germans that could threaten American tanks 1ooo meters away have been fired one after another. Armor-piercing bullets hit one after another with a deadly trajectory 15 seconds away from the gun bore. American tanks have thick steel shells and are filled with explosives. The bottom fuse and tracer 50 mm and 75 mm armor-piercing projectiles have a target to tear each other’s tank body and walk at the front of the US military queue when the car explodes. At almost the same time, several m1919 Hamilton medium-sized vehicles were detonated by one or several German armor-piercing projectiles. The chain reaction even lifted a m1919 turret to more than 20 meters high. This scene shocked, panicked and panicked the American tanks behind them, but the inertia of thinking made them still drive their tanks forward, so when the second batch of armor-piercing projectiles flew in.
"Artillery howitzer fire! The 3 rd armored regiment attacked! "
Rommel was unusually calm and strategizing.
Soon, German 150 mm and 105 mm howitzers also caught fire. Compared with German self-propelled howitzers, these cannons can be turned into semi-self-propelled guns-they are towed by semi-tracked armored vehicles with six army wheeled howitzers. Although some of them are not advanced enough, their power is beyond doubt. As large-caliber howitzers fall and explode in the American armored group, American armored forces finally taste the taste of being bombarded. Not to mention those armored vehicles with thin steel plates, even Christie’s fast tanks are very concerned about this kind of heavy artillery bombardment. Fortunately, at this time, most of them are bombarded by American troops.
The 3rd Armored Regiment has been on standby on the left side of the main position since the artillery hit the earth! Out of a ddd, 10 dv, 12 assault guns rushed out without hesitation, 20 infantry fighting vehicles and 30 semi-tracked armored personnel carriers, while infantry support troops followed far behind.
American tank men and armored car soldiers suddenly panicked at the sight of German tanks suddenly rushing out from the flank, and then they stopped blindly at the last side of the queue, regardless of whether they still had any numerical advantage, and the tanks at the front of the flank fire backed up.
Barton was furious when he saw this, but his tanks didn’t install line communication equipment to every tank like the German armored forces. Of course, this was by no means a technical problem, so Barton’s communication officer had to give the order to move on to the front combat troops through semaphore, but how many people still cared about the divisional bullshit order at this time?
In this extremely unfavorable situation, Barton decisively sent tanks to the battlefield like a gust of wind. Although these light tanks proved to be vulnerable, their momentum greatly encouraged the panicked American officers and men!
On the other hand, Rommel took his time and ordered, "The 2nd Armored Regiment attack quickly penetrated into the back of the other side to attack!"
In just a few minutes, the mood of American officers and men in the middle of the battlefield was violently ups and downs. Now there are German tanks on both wings. Although the number is small, it makes it dangerous to command the American armored battalions in their own wars when they are short.
"Let O ‘Neill to the left that German tanks for 1o minutes to stop shooting! Then the right wing is not worried about not hitting the enemy shells or falling on its own head! " With a cigar in his mouth, Barton’s hands rested on her hips, observing and occupying emotions in his command vehicle seemed to be more calm than before the battle.
There was no surprise or panic from Rommel’s face. He glanced around unhurriedly. More than 30 piles of scrap iron were still burning in front of his position. From time to time, there were still unfinished ammunition exploding in a crackling way. Seven American tanks were relatively intact in appearance. The barrels were drooping and collapsed in the same place. There were some dead American tanks wearing yellow khaki. The low-level trajectory of the general tank guns and anti-tank guns could hit the target. At the same time, Rommel was happy that his soldiers had been hit. "The first armored regiment attacked!"
The order was quickly given to the tanks ddd, dv and assault guns who had been shooting in the tank bunker before, and they started their vehicles without refilling their ammunition.
"Forward! Allies! "
Sitting in the turret of a dv tank, the German officer shouted
"Forward! Allies! "
German officers and soldiers and Mexican soldiers responded together.
More than 100 tanks from three German armored regiments formed a three-sided offensive against more than 7o American tanks and more than 15o armored vehicles left in the center of the battlefield. The weak firepower of American armored vehicles was almost negligible. The German tanks hit them with armor-piercing bullets, and it was even more a wave bomb. When the German tanks finally rushed to a distance less than 1000 meters from the American armored regiment, the artillery behind the US army was in trouble. While taking this excellent opportunity, dv tanks and assault guns kept cleaning themselves up as millimeter guns, and the American tanks stood in the battlefield with the American troops. Tanks exploded one after another. Many German tank crews are rapidly becoming trump cards or quasi-trump cards. There are more than 40 heavy m1919 tanks in the middle of the battlefield, which are described by German officers and soldiers as "extremely heavy, huge and very stocky tanks". The front of these car bodies are equipped with a short tube 1O5mm gun that cannot be rotated at will, and a 360-degree rotating turret is equipped with a 20MM gun. The actual weight of the tanks is 2 tons. The thickness of the main armor is 7 mm, which can easily bounce 50MM armor-piercing bullets from 5oo meters away.
Looking at German tanks in the middle and long distance, he was not happy at all about m1923, but he didn’t think highly of this heavy tank. He had to admit that American tank designers had already laid the groundwork for their own failure today-m1923, despite its rough skin, was relatively balanced in degree, flexibility, defense and firepower with 105mm short-tube howitzers and 20MM machine guns, and the subsequent scenes also confirmed his judgment-the German tank M1923 was flooded in three directions.
Looking at the armored division’s last hope to bloom in the explosion, Barton sighed deeply.
When the 6th Armored Division of the 1st Armored Corps of the U.S. Army retreated, a surprising number of vultures arrived …
Three days later, in the desert more than 30 kilometers south of Dallas, a larger-scale steel collision gave birth to the main force of German guderian Panzer Corps, the 2nd Infantry Corps of Mexico, and the 13th and 15th Mechanized Infantry Divisions of the German Royal Combat Corps. On the road leading to Houston, Bu tight encirclement rushed to rescue Pershing and the main force of the first American Panzer Corps, a Houston garrison. Although this Panzer Corps has strong strength of more than 10,000 people in five armored divisions, its experience and most important technology are in the absolute wind. In the face of more than 10,000 people, the American Panzer Corps of the German-Mexican Coalition forces has even
After the battle between Rommel’s armored division and Barton’s armored division, guderian tank commanders have mastered the performance, characteristics and weaknesses of various American tanks. dv tanks and 191 assault guns have been incorporated into a powerful sniper fire group. ddd tanks and cavalry infantry fighting vehicles have become fast guerrilla forces to deal with those American armored vehicles with only thin armor and machine guns. German and Mexican infantry have also performed well in the battle for two days and one night. Their anti-tank guns, anti-tank grenades and anti-aircraft guns have destroyed a large number of American tanks and armored vehicles and a large number of tank killers have emerged again!
For this large-scale tank battle, the German front headquarters specially dispatched a large number of fighters, dive bombers and horizontal bombers belonging to the first, second and third wings, and more than 6oo fighters dispatched nearly 2ooo sorties in two days. Their bombing and strafing hit the American tanks and armored vehicles and morale.
In the world-famous "Palestan Iron and Steel Cemetery", 63 dv and 41 assault guns, one of the guderian Armored Forces, encountered and exhibited a desperate fight with 14o tanks of the US military. As a result, in the five-hour battle, the German army annihilated half of the US armored division and paid the price of 3 tanks and 1 assault gun, which was only a microcosm of the whole battlefield.
On February 2nd, the battle of tank assembly lasted for a week from Rommel Armored Division Barton Armored Division. Although the German armored forces temporarily stopped their progress due to a large amount of ammunition consumption, more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles needed maintenance, the American armored corps paid a heavy price-it lost over 15% of tanks and 70% of its troops. Although a large number of new tanks and armored vehicles were assembled in production lines all over the United States every day, skilled tanks were completed. It is difficult to replace the lost hand, so until the end of the war, the American army can tank novices, and the final result of the German war is just that a group of German ace tank killers have already been killed
On April 4, Houston fell, and General Pershing and a few senior officers fled the southern border of the United States on a naval submarine. The battle ended.
Tu Mei Chapter ninety-one Turkey Hunting Festival
At the end of July and the beginning of the month, when the 6th Army of the United States only had armored corps fighting in the southern German-Mexican army, the airship unit of the United States Navy, which was known as the world’s first Chinese fleet, did not send even one airship squadron to participate in the war, which directly led to the lack of armored units of the United States to cover the situation, and about one third of the tanks and half of the armored vehicles were blown up by the German army.
After the Battle of Oklahoma Tank and the Battle of Dallas Tank Conference, it suffered a fiasco. The US 6 th Military Department pointed its finger at the Admiralty, and the Admiralty replied the same sentence: "We must put as many airships as possible into more important military operations!"
On June 6th, with great expectations of the government and people, 39 airships took off from 16 large airship bases in the northeast of the United States, which was what the US Navy could do after the southern rout and continuous bombing. "Eagle" was regarded as the pride of American power.