Chapter 224: Alamein's Gunfire (2)
At this moment, Rommel was talking to the lurking tigers, and looking east from the tiger hiding place near the seaside road to the north, it was the main position that the African army was going to attack this time, El Alamein. This small railway station now touches every nerve on both sides of the battle, and as long as it breaks through here, the African army can make a surprise attack all the way to Egypt, where King Farouk will lead the Egyptian people to welcome the German guests from afar, and the former guests, the British, will live in a prisoner of war camp!
Each Tiger is equipped with a bucket that can only be found in construction vehicles, and can quickly fill every pothole in the road of attack. It's a useful piece of equipment on the El Alamein front, which is full of anti-tank trenches, so the Tigers are waiting to show their might!
The 20 Tigers of the men along Luviset Ridge had reached the front of the New Zealand 2nd Division's defensive position, and they could already see the smoke rising from the position in their periscopes. These savage New Zealand soldiers are presumably about to enjoy their last battlefield feast. 200 Leopard 3 tanks were already in place, and they just waited for Rommel's order to start launching an assault! About 5 kilometers behind the assault cluster, 100 vehicles with a combination of captured tank chassis and 105** guns were on standby, and their task was to start the assault on the assault cluster, which was to carry out a fire coverage strike on the British positions. These self-propelled guns are equipped with purpose-built extended-range shells, which provide fire support for the entire battlefield from this safe position.
The attack aircraft, which had always been in the lead in the past, did not appear in the sky for the sake of the suddenness of the attack. Rommel assigned Frenzen to take off to support the assault group's attack after the 90 Light Division began the offensive with a feint.
Just when the tank crew inside the tiger had just woken up and eaten a bunch of hearty field breakfasts, the order to attack was given!
The first to take the lead was a cluster of 90 assault guns of the 100 Light Division. Their frontal armor was covered with composite armor plates, and there were quite a few large milk blocks on them. Driven by 750 kilowatts of forward momentum, it roared through the depression in the southern part of the Balling Mountains, and rushed all the way back to the position of the British 7th Motorized Brigade and stopped the car!
On the battlefield, the British had already organized resistance, and the soldiers ran out of their bunkers and prepared in front of the anti-tank guns, waiting for the Germans to enter this long-prepared fire net! They had long since prepared this net of fire against the German armored assault with hundreds of thousands of ** and thousands of anti-tank guns. As early as the first Battle of Tubruk, Rommel had been using this sharp "right elbow attack" tactic! He always used the armored cluster to weave around the rear of the British positions to deliver a fatal blow, and he had enough of this tactic in Gazala, in Tubruk, and Auchinleck! This time, the defense system he led was completely inherited by Mönggol, and more than half of the anti-tank weapons of the Eighth Army were concentrated here, waiting to give the Germans a blow to the head!
Not only that, but Meng Geer also kept a back hand. //www. He gathered nearly 400 tanks and deployed them about 10 miles south of the Alam Faller Ridge, waiting for the German armored troops to be beaten by ** and artillery to come with a counter-assault at the right time! At that time, the German army clusters that have been disrupted in the offensive formation will definitely be dealt a powerful blow by the armored forces of the new force, and they may be able to counterattack all the way to the starting point of the German offensive!
Just as the scheduled artillery fire was ready to begin the bombardment, the commander of the 90 Light Division, Major General Kliman, ordered the assault gun carriage to make an emergency turn and rush towards the British 4th Armored Brigade! In this way, the first wave of shells of the British missed, and the predetermined ** positions did not explode!
More than 100 assault gun trucks quickly passed through the danger zone, scaring Kliman into a cold sweat! Fortunately, the depression was withdrawn in time, otherwise when the first assault gun rushed up, it would have been the time when the dense barrage of British barrage fell! Seeing the 105-mm shells that kept exploding behind him, everyone was glad that there was a reminder from the AWACS aircraft!
At this time, six German high-altitude reconnaissance planes GO229 at a height of 18,000 meters above the battlefield were closely watching every move of the British on the battlefield! The German ground forces were alerted in time so that they could avoid the strike.
The assault artillery vehicles of the 90th Light Division are equipped with all 75mm guns, which can hit tanks, infantry, and can also be used as short-range artillery. At this moment, they were facing the Fourth Armored Brigade, which was equipped with second-rate tanks such as Grant, Matilda, and Crusaders, and their 75mm guns suddenly found a target for venting!
Their shells continued to explode on these second-rate tanks, and the 75 guns, which had a range of more than 3,000 meters, were very powerful. In the rhythm of shooting while retreating, the British were wiped out with a full 40 tanks!
On this line of defense, the number of ** with anti-tank guns in the south was the largest. Auchinleck was already familiar with Rommel's three-plate axe, so he buried hundreds of thousands of ** in the path that the German army had to pass! I have to say that these ** did create a lot of trouble for the attacking German army, and at least it took time to open a road. This time was enough for the British mortars and ** guns, plus the Wellington bombers to determine the target. If the previous standard offensive means of the Afrika Army were adopted, needless to say, 100% would have been hit by the superior firepower of the British! But now the feint of the 90 Light Division has changed its flavor and has accidentally turned into an encounter.
Confronted the British 4th Armoured Brigade, which had an unexpected encounter, although they strictly followed Rommel's instructions, they fought and retreated. As a result, it still showed the solid basic skills and strong combat effectiveness of the German armored forces! The 4th Panzer Brigade, which had 170 tanks, was accidentally defeated, and the small range of the pursuing British could not reach the rapidly retreating No. 3 assault gun, but was named by the powerful firepower of the 75 guns! They are naturally out of reach, and they have nowhere to vent the evil fire in their stomachs! They regarded the feint attack of the 90th Light Division as an attack on them, and it was a shame that their artillery fire did not fully react after being bitten hard, and the ** they buried in the depression of Munacipe did not play its due role.
The Germans were so powerful that they were naturally regarded as the main attack force of the German army! Now that their main forces have exposed their targets, the nearly 100,000 shells prepared by Mönggol have found the most valuable targets! As a result, the barrels of the 105 guns were pointed at the area where the 90 Light Division appeared, and on the British aircraft carriers in Alexandria and the Mediterranean coast, the "Big Mackerel" carrier-based bomber and the roadbed bomber Wellington also went into battle and began to saturate the area!
They were not worried about the superior fighters of the German army at all, because there were 500 Spitfires, Mustangs, and Thunderbolts modified with powerful 40 guns, ready to fight the German planes that dared to appear!
For nearly a month, Churchill's campaign preparations were well done! Their intelligence officers are also very powerful, they regard the increased number of fighters that the Afrika Army has been trying to increase as a need for the German homeland air defense, which has been allocated resources allocated to the African Army, and the German homeland air defense, which has been strongly strengthened, is no longer suitable for any bombing operations, and the bombing of 2,000 planes in the past few weeks is a lesson!
It seems that Germany still does not attach much importance to the war in Africa, after all, it is far less strategically important to Germany Africa than the rich Caucasus. Combined with the boiling Hitler attack that is now rumored, it shows that Germany's current war policy and national policy are undergoing tremendous changes! In the various concentration camps in Europe, Jews were no longer persecuted, on the contrary, they were treated humanely! The Zionist leader Ben Gurion was even surprised by this, the British had enough reason to imagine that he had reached some agreement with the German authorities! Otherwise, Germany, which has always been devoted to national policy, would not be so good to the Jews! In the absence of additional aircraft for the Luftwaffe in Africa, each additional aircraft for Britain was a weight for air supremacy.
As long as there are a sufficient number of fighters, relying on numerical superiority is enough to regain long-lost air supremacy. So the British aircraft production line stepped up at full power, producing fighter jets day and night. It's also a busy scene in the big factories in the United States! They take it for granted that across the vast Atlantic Ocean, any attack on the US mainland would be futile and costly.
As long as Britain is tight on the battlefield, there will be enough pressure to make their production activities frequent, and the satellites in the sky will be able to get more information. The thirty satellites of the German army had long covered the globe, and the main enemy among them received more attention. With each passing day, Hitler learned a little more about the world. The same goes for his staff, the managers of the Icefield, and the technical personnel of Dongfanghong. The current stability of the front is actually the moment when Li Ming is accumulating strength to find a breakthrough! It's not just satellites that are scouting, but go229, which is nowhere to be seen at night, is also idle every day, and they are driven around the world by technicians aboard the Icefield. In the near future, it has mainly flown in Britain and the United States, combined with the data given by satellites, to carry out further detailed reconnaissance of key targets.
Their hard work has been richly rewarded, and all the factors that can be transformed into the combat effectiveness of the armed forces, such as resources, production, population, national construction, transportation, etc., in Britain and the United States, are all detailed data in Bai Qi's unique intelligence. What he lacks now is only a humanistic understanding of various ethnic groups, and the data on the culture, national endowment, policies, and other soft power of various countries cannot be obtained by relying on satellites and spy planes. So the patriotic Canaris was reused for nothing! This guy is a veteran intelligence expert, very different from the talented and unscrupulous Heydrich! It was he who unearthed the blond devil, Heydrich's intelligence genius. Canaris single-handedly taught Heydrich various intelligence skills, creating an intelligence predator who is not inferior to him!