In France, in Africa, in the Middle East, and in Central Asia, Field Marshal Rommel, who had many experiences of attacking the enemy with a small number of enemies and attacking the strong with a weak force, knew very well the speed of the soldiers, and even more understood the essence of mechanized blitzkrieg -- this was the greatest secret of his rise to the high position of the marshal from a small guard battalion commander. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In Iceland, this level was once again vividly displayed, and the German army beat the British and American allies with the furious spirit of a tiger descending from the mountain, causing the British and American allies to lose their armor and scurry. The first echelon of the SEAL Army only has the strength of the 1st Division and 2 Brigades, plus the heavy armored battalion, the headquarters guards, and some headquarters forces, on the whole, it is only 40,000, and it lost nearly 2,000 on the eve of the landing.

He knew very well that he must not relax his oppression, and gave the enemy time and opportunity to calmly deploy a defensive line, and once the enemy had built a relatively strong defensive line, it would be more difficult to bite it down, so he dispatched the newly allocated equipment -- the Night Battle Tiger.

The experience of using night tanks in Africa and Cape Verde fully proves the great value of night vision equipment, but the troops still report that it is still not convenient for a specialized Sherman to provide infrared irradiation, and whether it is possible to concentrate the irradiation and reception on a single tank. In accordance with this requirement, the Ministry of Armaments developed the Leopard E tank, with infrared headlights installed just before the frontal armor, and at the same time, emergency modifications were carried out for some Tiger tanks with new engines, and infrared headlights were installed behind the turret.

Although the volume and power of this infrared headlight are much smaller than the equipment of the Sherman infrared irradiation vehicle, thanks to the development of relational optoelectronic technology, the irradiation range can still reach more than 1,000 meters, and the application is good at a distance of 800 meters.

When night fell, just when the demoralized British and American officers and soldiers thought they could catch their breath, the German tanks began to attack again, at first they thought that the Germans were firing indiscriminately and wasting ammunition, but the more they went to the back, the more wrong it became, the Germans' artillery fire became more and more accurate as if they had grown eyes, and the British and American officers and soldiers who had finally stopped running away again, and some people really couldn't run, and they lay down on their backs and threw their weapons, and simply surrendered and pulled down.

It is really a misuse to let the British and American officers and soldiers who have not experienced war for two years fight at night with the German army, which has experienced a hundred battles, and the armored instructors, as the first batch of 1944 troops, all the officers and soldiers were drawn from more than 20 armored divisions in the whole army to form an elite formation, and they are the best of the best.

Probably because the battlefield situation was relatively good, Rommel did not rush forward in his iconic armored command vehicle at the first time, but instead instructed a few young staff officers who had been following him with great interest and imparted tactical experience: "To fight this kind of offensive war, it is necessary to break up the enemy's formation as quickly as possible, prevent the group, and whoever dares to fight in a group." Of course, proper interspersing is necessary, but you can't go deep into the trap alone...... We have a lot of soldiers and few enemy soldiers, so I always fight them without trying to outflank them, and when they get tired and scattered, you can deal with them in a simple way. ”

"Sir, what if we lead our troops into this kind of pursuit and can't regroup our formation?"

"Hold on!" Without hesitation, Rommel replied, "A company or a battalion immediately rely on the terrain to hold on to the spot, like a reef to block the rushing floods, to contain the enemy's offensive layer by layer, and to wait for the opportunity to join forces in pairs, and the troops in the front will sacrifice themselves to win the life of other friendly forces......

Although Smith also understood the reason, he could not give such an order, because his troops were all in disarray: in the face of wave after wave of German attacks, the British and American armies, which should have been sincerely united, suddenly split, because the commanders found that the German army was always chasing the largest number of troops to attack, and the German planes with the haunting overhead were always attacking with large forces, and many people made small calculations and tried to escape separately from the large formation, 4 British brigades fled to the left flank, 3 American divisions fled to the right flank, fled and fled, and the division became a regiment. The regiments were divided into battalions, the battalions became independent companies, and then the troops of all numbers were mixed together, and the infantrymen found the trucks and pounced on them, throwing away the ammunition, supplies, and supplies on them, just to fight for that precious place.

As for the heavier artillery, anti-tank guns, broken down armored vehicles, and tanks that ran out of fuel, they were scattered all over the place, completely ignored - and the Germans pursued them all the way in the direction of these equipment......

"Bastard, asshole...... I'm going to kill this group of bitches ......" The Germans spared no effort to pursue the enemy at night, and at the same time, the underground bunker of Downing Street had become the center of all kinds of storms.

The other military leaders were also furious, and the tables were slammed loudly, and no matter what reasons and excuses the Americans had, they could not change the reality that they first agreed to send a fleet to help, and asked the British to send planes to support Iceland. After the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy went to the rescue of Iceland with great effort and exhaustion of casualties, the Americans waved another shot and said that the fleet was not coming, and before receiving the urgent message from Marshal Diere, Potter and Pound were still discussing where to find some planes to come out tomorrow to aid Iceland, but they did not expect to wait for such a shocking news.

This made everyone feel righteous indignation and thunder!

"This is a shameless, despicable, disgusting betrayal, the British Empire abandoned, the British Empire in its heroic struggle mercilessly abandoned by its allies...... Supporting Brazil? Joke, who doesn't know that it was a diversionary offensive by the Germans! It's a naked excuse. Aiden was furious, "First Wallace, then Truman, these are a bunch of nasty embryos!" ”

"What now?"

"Prime Minister, what are you going to do?" Attlee asked with a gloomy face, "Are you still going to fight and drag more than 40 million subjects of the British Empire to be buried together?" ”

"I ......," Churchill said speechless, "I intend to send a telegram to Roosevelt and ask him to intervene to put an end to this behavior, and we ......"

"It's useless!" Brooke snapped, "Marshal Dill has tried to see President Roosevelt, but has been ruthlessly refused, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have clearly told us that it was Truman's order!" ”

"Now the Icelandic defenders can only hold on to the resistance ......"

"Resistance? What to resist? Brooke sneered, "They don't have an air force, they don't have a navy, the Americans don't know how to fight at all, the Germans are like a flock of ducks running all over the mountains, not to mention that compared with our regular troops, even our native army is stronger than them!" ”

The so-called Native Army refers to the troops similar to militia organizations recruited by Britain in order to deal with the war, which is equivalent to the National Guard Division of the United States, and has a very large name, what county division, what Queen's Guard Division, what Volunteer Army, in fact, all of them are troops composed of uncles over 45 years old, and the equipment is ridiculously simple, and there are more than 1 million such troops among the 3 million native army. Brooke now put gold in his face, belittled the Americans as useless, and in fact the British troops in Iceland were also half-hearted, if not more capable, but also because they had the experience of escaping - they had experienced the Dunkirk encirclement, and could run fast without being chaotic and scattered......

"The latest news received, convinced that it was Erwin Rommel himself who commanded on the island! He also spoke on the radio today, and we verified that it was. ”

"Erwin Rommel" is the last name that everyone here wants to hear, and everyone was a little suspicious about Rommel's appearance in South America, but now when you compare it, you can understand it all.

"We were deceived." Attlee sighed, "Iceland can't be saved, and a way out must be sought immediately." ”

"A way out? Okay, tell me, what other way out do you have but to surrender? Churchill was angry with the Americans, and now the anger is rising, "Whoever can think of a way, I will immediately resign and give up the position of prime minister to him." ”

Everyone looked at each other: the way not to surrender? If they want to, they will have to be willing to be obeyed by the Germans...... When the Germans take Iceland, the next step should be to land in Britain, even if they don't land on the mainland, they can't stop landing in Ireland.

"Prime Minister, now we have to make up our minds, it's not that we don't want to persevere, it's that it makes no sense for us to persevere." Aiden advised, "Although the conditions of the Germans are harsh, they still leave us a place, and if the Germans land on the mainland and enter London, the situation will really be completely finished, and millions of lives will be destroyed at that time." Even if the Germans did not come to land for fear of casualties, with the blockade of Iceland and the islands of Ireland, we could only move towards death step by step. ”

Aiden sees it very clearly: the current situation is not to surrender is to wait for death, surrender is to seek death, but at least looking for death does not have to go through so much torture than waiting for death.

In fact, the cabinet originally had a little expectation of fighting the Icelandic blockade, the Germans only had two intact fleet aircraft carriers left, Nimitz had the fleet in his hands, and the two sides fought hard again to exchange a few (fleet aircraft carriers and escort carriers), and the Germans could not succeed by relying on one aircraft carrier anyway, and in a few months, the two armored aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy would be put into service again, and there would be no chance of counterattack at that time, but unfortunately now - all over.

"We need a condition for an honorable end to the war, and if you agree, I'll let Duke Hamilton and Hess talk." Attlee said, "I can't afford to delay the move, I have a hunch that the Germans will raise the asking price when they take Iceland." ”

"Go, go......" Churchill waved his fat hands, swayed weakly a few times, and then silently stared at the papers on the table, not knowing what he was looking at......