Chapter 587: The British Counterattack
Otto Caljuus, a recruit who once belonged to the 104th Infantry Substitute Battalion, was assigned to the new 21st Armored Regiment that landed in Portsmouth during the British campaign because he had participated in an armored training.
Because in the British campaign, the German army used partial divisions, so most of these troops were not well-known, and the ratio of combat effectiveness to veterans was lower than that of other units.
Because of this, Karyus, an inconspicuous recruit, was given a good opportunity to show his talents.
Although he is not driving the main battle tank No. 5 Leopard in the German armored forces, but the modified German No. 3 submersible tank. But, even so, he has played at an extremely strong level.
And among the landing forces sent by Germany to the British Isles, the No. 3 submersible tank is already a very common combat vehicle.
After all, Reinhardt left his elite troops and high-quality equipment on the Eastern Front. Although he doesn't want a two-front war, it doesn't mean that he will be stupid enough not to prepare for a two-front war.
The most obvious result of this preparation was that the German forces on the British Isles, although far superior to the swelling British Army, were not the strongest German main force.
On March 28, 41, a week after the German offensive on the British mainland began, in an unknown town 20 miles south of Maidstone, Karjus's No. 3 Tank Panzer Regiment was marching aggressively towards the town ahead.
Although street fighting is not very beneficial to tanks, there are too many obstacles in the complex compared to the plains, and it is easy for the enemy to hide their whereabouts and get close to penetrate the tank's armor.
Quantity could change quality, though, and with tank No. 3 and a new grenadier regiment followed by it, the Germans conquered the unknown town in less than an hour.
Fortunately, the iron-clad bazookas used by the British National Guard in the town were not only easy to blow up, but also had little public crosshair. Once the distance exceeds ten meters, this British version of the anti-tank rocket launcher becomes an ornament that does not play the slightest role.
An hour later, more than 1,000 National Guard soldiers surrendered, leaving only a few recalcitrant extremists in the town.
The end of the battle was no longer important, and after leaving more than 100 grenadiers to clear the remnants of the British, the 21st Panzer Regiment continued its march towards Folkestone with more than 1,300 grenadiers.
Next, as long as Folkestone can be successfully taken, then it can refer to London and pose a huge threat to the British government in London.
To Churchill's surprise, the Germans did not have much effort to take Folkestone.
In just about three hours, the British regular army and the National Guard here lost Folkestone, an important city in the south of London.
The Germans suddenly made a move on Folkestone, which once again frightened the British and also Churchill.
He did not expect that the German army could continue to launch an offensive against the British Empire when it received a fierce attack from the Soviet army on the Eastern Front and had to fight on two fronts, and the actions were so sharp.
It seems that the Germans would not be going to repatriate troops from the Western Front to support the Eastern Front because of the pressure on the Eastern Front, as Churchill had hoped for in the best, and then leave a small number of troops on the defensive in Britain.
On the contrary, the German army, which had already set foot on British soil, continued to attack. As if bad news on the Eastern Front, it was not at all in their ears.
"Damn Reinhardt, his Germany is going to be finished, but he still has to bring the British Empire to his funeral!" Churchill angrily cursed.
Yes, Churchill was fully convinced that Germany was doomed to defeat from the moment it was attacked by the Soviet army.
Based on the experience of the British Empire's many years of colonial rule, a huge land area means a huge strength base. Other European countries may not be interested, but Britain fully understands what a terrible war potential a country with such a huge land area as the Soviet Union has to be perverted!
Why did Chamberlain stubbornly pursue the policy of appeasement before, and why did he get the support of so many party henchmen?
Not because these people are stupid, on the contrary, it is precisely because they understand that the war potential of the USSR is terrible, and it is by no means something that a single European country can confront alone. That's why they drove the wolf and instigated the indulgence of Reinhardt's Third Reich, intending to make Germany an opponent of the Soviets.
Even so, they believed that no matter whether Germany annexed Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and occupied eastern Poland, they believed that no matter how much Germany developed and grew, it would not be able to defeat the Soviet Union.
Estimated by the land and population of Germany, they had no chance of winning against an enemy like the Soviet Union.
But the bad thing is that the current Britain, because of a series of previous decision-making mistakes, also has no chance of winning in front of the German army.
Thus, an interesting phenomenon emerged.
The British decided that Germany would not be able to defeat the Soviets. But at the same time, they also found it equally impossible for them to defeat the Germans in front of them.
But the current situation is that the Soviet Union is determined to fight Germany, and Germany will not stop fighting Britain.
The end result was that Germany would die, but Britain would be no better. And, judging from the current situation and the state of the war, it seems that Britain will die faster.
Churchill was in a trance, could it be that he had worked so hard for so long, and in the end he would lose both with Germany and become the spoils of war with the Soviet Union?
Moreover, under the reminder of Lord Gott, Churchill also learned that once Folkestone was lost, it was basically impossible to recover Folkestone with the combat strength of his army. In that case, London, the capital of the British Empire, would not be far from falling.
The Germans fought against the Soviet Union, and that was mainly on the land of Poland and Hungary, and did not affect their core areas.
However, the British Empire fought on its own soil, fighting in the core of the empire, which had been painstakingly built for hundreds of years, and had not suffered from war, and had developed well.
Every shell that falls on this land will be accompanied by huge losses!
The loss can't be bigger, and the loss must be stopped in time! Churchill thought.
"Now we must intensify our efforts to arouse the people's determination to resist the Germans, slow down the pace of the German offensive as much as possible, and use the National Guard to hold back the German army." Once again, Churchill thought of the delaying tactic of sacrificing cannon fodder.
The prime minister, if he doesn't resist, can't do it, and if he loses a big city like Folkestone in vain but doesn't say a word, he will inevitably be blamed by the masses, which is also contrary to Churchill's tough image in front of the public, and the smart Churchill will never do such a stupid thing.
Therefore, before sending cannon fodder to his life, he made a symbolic resistance of the British Army.