However, this turret is very cleverly designed. German paratroopers can’t reach such a close position, so they can’t arrange explosives. Therefore, the Belgian defenders have to continue to fire shells one after another to attack the German 1 ST cavalry mule infantry unit
The engineers in the paratroopers soon found a way. They asked people to put a fuse detonator at the end of the explosive rope and tie it to the belly, and then they were dragged to the top of the turret. Then these explosives blocked the gap in the fort observation post, and soon the explosives exploded and destroyed some important fort parts, making it impossible for the turret to be transported.
German paratroopers were really guilty. They were afraid of the Belgian counterattack because their troops were limited, but until the evening, the Belgian defenders didn’t have the courage to get out of their bunkers and fight back. They were guarding their trenches for the last struggle.
Soon German infantry arrived, and their flamethrowers came to clear the obstacles. When the bunker approached, the soldiers pulled the trigger, and the flames were particularly conspicuous in the dark night. The moonlight rose and the guns of the Belgian garrison bunker suddenly became dumb.
The sound of the flamethrower woke up the exhausted German paratroopers in the fortress. They were all sleepy and fell asleep at this time. When they realized that their reinforcements had arrived, they rushed down the hillside and shouted to welcome their comrades. They danced with two deadly guys who came to Germany to sing and dance.
At noon the next day, more reinforcements arrived in Germany and the infantry surrounded Egypt. Stuka bombers flying around fortress Emaer dropped bigger bombs and destroyed more fortifications.
In a short time, the radio horn of the defenders sounded, and the Belgian defenders walked out of their fortifications, waving white flags and surrendering to the heroic German paratroopers. In this battle, only 75 Belgian defenders were killed, more than 5 others were injured, and more than 6 people were unscathed, while the German paratroopers miraculously died 5 people.
Once again, the Germans ran at a high speed and completed the attack. The whole 1st Cavalry actually passed the road in two days. The German A Regiment has firmly controlled its forward area and created the most favorable conditions.
Arcado decided to award the paratroopers’ descending action. Studente honored all the paratroopers on behalf of all those who had participated in Egypt? The paratroopers’ department of offensive and defensive warfare in Emaer fortress was promoted to the first level, and officers will be allowed to enjoy a month-long holiday.
Of course, arcado is even more gratified that Sedan has completely mastered the German armored forces, and those tank armies that peak sexually will appear behind the British and French allied forces and advance to the English Channel as quickly as possible.59100.00000000105
Chapter 21, 21, When seeking for color
However, from the strengthening of the regiment to the 5 th Light Armored Corps of the A regiment, they encountered their troubles. They went on the rampage in Belgium, and Stuka dive bombers cooperated to cut Egypt. The plain area in the west of Emaer has done a good job of covering the flank of the A regiment.
Unfortunately, when they were in a hurry to expand their achievements, they met two main armored divisions of the French First Cavalry Corps. This unit was a large number of British and French allied soldiers who entered Belgium in the north to meet the German vanguard. The strength of the two sides was equal, so they showed a scale that surpassed all armored battles in the Polish campaign. tank battle kicked off
The fierce battle between French and German tanks burned for three days in one breath, stretching from the vicinity of Arnie, 25 miles from Liege, to the place 15 miles from the city of Jean Blum.
Germany’s 5th Light Armored Army has four armored divisions, one more armored division than the armored division equipped with Leopard tanks. However, the division’s 1st and 19th armored divisions are equipped with p3 tanks, which is much worse than the latest Leopard tanks.
The 5th Light Armored Division, another light armored division, was only equipped with the oldest p2 tanks in Germany, but these tanks were modernized in 1937, and the turret was removed, the chassis was modified, and an open war cabin and a 75mm caliber anti-tank gun were added, which became a self-propelled anti-tank gun.
This army is supplemented by an armored grenadier division, that is, the 19th motorized infantry division, which is equipped with a small number of No.3 assault guns and a large number of armored vehicles and cars with strong combat capability.
It can be said that a few light armored forces, although this force has the ability to attack nearly two tanks and self-propelled anti-tank guns, seems to be better than the first armored force without five tanks. Of course, relying on the numerical advantage, this armored force is by no means a soft persimmon.
At present, it is facing its opponent, the Anglo-French Coalition Forces, and the armored unit of the French 1st Cavalry Corps is also one of the best armored forces in the world. This unit has more than four tanks, most of which are advanced SOMA s35 tanks and b1 heavy tanks. These tanks all have 47 mm caliber anti-tank guns that threaten German tanks, and most of them are equipped with line equipment and have strong coordination ability.
The two strong teams met and killed each other. The French attacked the Germans with the quality advantage of local chariots, creating a situation of more fighting and less fighting. The German team lost 11 tanks and self-propelled anti-tank artillery, which made the German high-level officials really feel bad for a while.
However, the quality of the German excellent locomotive crew was vividly demonstrated during the battle. France unconsciously paid a heavy price for a whole tank in the process of destroying 11 tanks and armored vehicles.
This local counter-attack by the British and French allied forces stabilized the allied defense line in Belgium, dissolved the advantage of German armored forces, and prevented further attacks by the right-wing forces of German regiment B and regiment A in Belgium.
After such a tragic tank battle, the commander of the British expeditionary force and the French commander Gamelin all recognized that the main German force was in Belgium, so in the past few hours, it had gone deep into Belgium, and the main force of the British and French allied forces continued northward despite the threat from the rear.
In order to face the turbulent northern Belgium, the German B regiment and the Liege A regiment flanking the Allied forces, four main divisions-almost the elite French field forces, the entire British Expeditionary Force and the Belgian troops-guarded the defense line together.
They have a 65-mile-long defense line from the Dutch radius near Antwerp to the south through Brussels and then to namur, where a large number of troops are stationed. As time goes by, the total strength of the French and British here is very dangerous to surpass that of the Germans.
This time, it gave the Allies a breathing space, and the victory in Brucheng helped the Anglo-French allied forces to stabilize their position in Belgium. They had to consolidate their strength and establish a solid defense line. However, for the German side, this victory was first suppressed and then promoted, which was in the arms of arcado and his senior generals
As predicted by arcado and senior German commanders, with the appearance of German forces such as the German B regiment and the A regiment and the 5th Light Armored Army, the attention of French senior generals such as Gamelin shifted from the fragile defense line to the Belgian territory.
Arcado almost cried with joy when he heard that the French and British war departments had fallen into the trap. He dug a big pit for the Allies and finally sent a German army to Sedan and Dinan, which was ignored by the French.
When more than 30,000 infantry of regiment A passed through the Ardennes forest, all the resistance had been eliminated by the armored forces in front. They crossed the mountains, crossed the roadblocks and trenches, and easily passed through the Ardennes forest. When they appeared and strengthened the German defense line, guderian and Rommel, two elite armored forces, moved on and laid a solid foundation, no one realized the real attempt of the German troops.
"Dinan is gradually excluding French soldiers from building positions for our army, but the battle is very hard and our troops have suffered amazing losses." Field Marshal Blauchich pointed to the map and introduced the current situation to the head of state arcado.
In the spacious bright war conference room, German Chief of Staff Bork will frown and stare at the map. It seems that he is not so optimistic about this light war. The fact also proves that the German troops are weak in the attack process.
Although the keitel B regiment made a very amazing attack speed, the crazy attack speed was completed by paratroopers’ strange assault. Later, when his troops were mixed with the French main force in southern Holland, the whole southern Dutch front gradually stabilized.
The 6 th Light Armored Division stopped in front of Antwerp, an important city in northern Belgium, and failed to advance 1 km for two consecutive days; The 7th Infantry Army lost 3 people and 7 kilometers of land in a bloody battle 35 kilometers north of Brussels. The situation of the 1st Infantry Corps was not much better. They had to dig trenches to deal with the increasingly strong British expeditionary force.
On the other hand, just after the battle of Blucher, the German armored forces suffered the most serious losses since its establishment. In just three days of fighting, Germany lost 63 No.3 tanks and 47 modified weasel-2 self-propelled anti-tank guns. This loss made the chief of staff, Bok, a prudent general, feel very worried. He worried that Germany would fall into the quagmire of war and follow the old path of failure in the previous war.
However, Marshal Brauchic is really on the front line for all this, because Germany is really ready to make a heavy punch. He still thinks that Germany has a chance to win, and the naval adviser also told him that Germany’s current sea power is superior to that in 1912, which also gave him stronger confidence.
Of course, confidence also comes from the efforts of arcado and Augustus. Germany has mobilized a total of 10,000 reservists to set up the H Regiment, which will be commanded by weichs, and the I Regiment, which will be commanded by Kleist. This expansion has made the National Defence Force more powerful, with a total of more than 50,000 combat troops.
The SS established the 6th Armored Division and the 7th Armored Division respectively, and were incorporated into the 9th Armored Corps of the H Regiment and the 11th Armored Corps of the I Regiment. These two units were also equipped with more than one newly-produced armored Leopard tank B.
In this way, Germany now has a whole regiment, namely, General rundstedt, General A, General keitel, General B, General Loeb, General Mo Deer, General D, General Liszt, General E, General Kruger, General F, General weichs, General H and General Kleist, General I.
Of course, if we divide the regiment A and the regiment B purely according to their size, they can be called regiments. The size and establishment of these two regiments are almost twice or even three times that of other regiments. For example, the regiment A now has the first, second, fifth and seventh armored forces, which are four times the size of other regiments.
After introducing the current war situation, Suobrauchi pointed to the German troops in Sedang area with confidence and said to arcado, "In the first stage, the army will cooperate with the army to carry out the sickle-wielding operation here, here and in this area."
"Can we win in the western region and ensure that the troops can advance rapidly? You know, we don’t have many armored forces in our hands, and once we fall into a war of attrition, the situation will be bad for us. "Bok had to ask his most heartfelt question.
"This problem is very easy to solve," Blauchich pointed to a large area to the west of Sedan and said, "French troops have no main force here, and our armored forces can reach the designated attack target as quickly as possible. Our infantry has also added a lot of means of transportation, hoping that these troops can attack with armored forces at the same speed."
Finally, he looked at the silent head of state arcado and straightened up and said, "Although my head of state firmly believes that we will win this war, I still want to assure you here that if I can’t win this battle, I will choose the most decent way to give you an account."
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Arcado got up and went to Marshal Brauchich’s side. He put his hand on Marshal’s shoulder and smiled at him. He turned around and glanced at his generals before slowly saying, "You all did a good job. I am very satisfied with your preparations."
This sentence made all the generals breathe a sigh of relief. After all, it is very difficult for a powerful head of state who is familiar with war to make a mistake. The head of state now praises them for their hard work.
But on the other hand, arcado himself knew his weight. He was not carried away by victory and dictatorship. On the contrary, he kept a small person cautious and vigilant. He kept waking himself up to avoid another situation in which Hitler dictated to the military. He asked himself to respect the generals’ decisions as much as possible and only expressed his opinions when he was very dissatisfied.
Arcado, the head of state, is obviously not as good at mastering the details of the army as those trained German generals. When will the troops be replenished and rested? What kind of troops should be reorganized? What kind of shells should the 11th Infantry Army need? How many barrels of gasoline did the 2nd Armored Division need? Where did the troops advance? How many soldiers were lost? These things he didn’t need to know that arcado had piled all these problems on Marshal Blauchich.