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At the moment when the 71st Infantry Division and the 1st Huaxia Division had just received orders to take action against the two armies, the originally peaceful Ayersford suddenly burst into gunfire and explosions, and it was obvious that the British, who had been hiding inside, began to attack. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"General, do you need me to keep some people here?"
Kirsch, who was about to bypass Elsford, stopped to ask about Wiesenberg, the sudden outbreak of the battle was really a bit too fierce, Kirsch was very worried, this place was not like the formation that the two regiments that had fled before, and there were probably more troops in ambush here, maybe it was another Maidstone.
"It's okay, you go and carry out your orders, don't worry, it's not easy for me to get up with them, as long as they dare to come out now, it's their death!"
Wiesenberg spoke viciously, he hated the British so much, it was strange to say, since the beginning of the landing in Britain, it seems that his troops have been suffering heavy losses, which makes him a dignified second-class infantry general can't hang his face at all, if this continues, maybe the Fรผhrer will directly let himself retire or throw himself into the reserves in a fit of anger, so he must fight a good fight, no matter how many Englishmen are hiding in Aylesford now, he must fight it by his own strength!
"Well, if there is any problem, you can contact me immediately, and I will come over for reinforcements immediately!"
Bidding farewell to Wiesenberg, Kirsch did not make any further delays, and immediately ordered the troops to bypass Ayersford and attack, of course, this time the entire force, including the direct rocket artillery battalion that had previously stayed in Maidstone!
When Kirsch led this mechanized army to prepare for a surprise attack to the rear, an unexpected thing appeared without warning!
Just when the troops had just bypassed Aylesford and were about to launch an attack on Snodland, two kilometers away, more than a hundred tanks suddenly came out of this little-known small place, and they were stunned and killed Kirsch's army!
This is an encounter, Kirsch is almost completely unable to control the direction of the battle, but he admires Li Ling even more in his heart, if it were not for the command to issue an order for the Huaxia 1st Division to directly insert it in the back, these more than 100 tanks will join the melee in Aylesford, the 71st Infantry Division and the Huaxia 1st Division will suffer a big loss!
It was a trap on the part of the British, and although it was now obvious, no trace had been found either by himself or by Wiesenburg.
"Let the rocket artillery battalion immediately move to the southwest, and after opening a sufficient safe distance from the battlefield, aim the target at Snoidland, but don't fire for the time being!"
As its own killer weapon, the rocket artillery battalion will definitely make all enemies fearful when it fights, but it also faces a fatal flaw, that is, it has no accuracy at all, it is purely a weapon of fire suppression, and once it is approached by the enemy, or if it is not well protected, it is very likely to cause serious losses.
The reason why Kirsch let the rocket artillery battalion withdraw was to stay away from the battlefield, but because the British tank troops had rushed out, the specific situation of Snoidland Kirsch was completely unclear, because the British had been holding civilians as shields in Maidstone or Aylesford before, so Kirsch was worried that Snodland still had civilians at this time, so he did not let the troops immediately launch an attack on Snoidland.
But Kirsch never imagined that it was actually his order that saved the rocket artillery battalion from annihilation!
In order to defeat this rocket artillery battalion, the British side can be said to have made sufficient preparations, and did not hesitate to use three infantry divisions and more than 100 tanks as bait, waiting for the deployment of the 1st Huaxia Division to make a mistake.
Hiding in the village of Mepam, only five kilometers behind Snodland, hundreds of artillery pieces were waiting for orders at any time, and as soon as they found the rocket artillery battalion firing, they would immediately launch a frenzied fire attack on the location where the rocket artillery battalion appeared.
In fact, the performance of these rocket artillery of the First Division of China has already been mastered by the British after these brilliant battles, and they have concluded that the range of this terrifying weapon is extremely limited, while the British ** side has a range of nearly ten kilometers for its own 25-pounder gun, which can carry out powerful counter-killing of rocket artillery firing positions outside the range of rocket artillery!
The British had been waiting, they had almost introduced the rocket artillery battalion into a nirvana in Maidstone, and they had almost succeeded in Ellsford, but they were already infinitely close to success, because at this time as long as the rocket artillery units appeared near Elsford, they would be within the range of the 25-pounder guns, and now, they were just waiting, waiting for the position of the rocket artillery unit to be reported by the artillery observers who had been sent!
It's just that when they didn't get dark until the sky began to dawn and the battle for Ayersford was in full swing, and after they exchanged fire with the German armored forces in the area between the rear of Ayersford and Snodland, they still didn't find a shadow of the German rocket artillery unit!
"What to do? The shadow of that group of German artillery has not yet been discovered, but according to our previous information, the tank unit that is now fighting is probably the same unit that has been operating with that group of German artillery. In addition, the news from Aylsford was cut off, but according to the previous report, the Germans seem to have replenished a group of infantry, the specific number is unknown, and the group of Germans who are fighting in Ayersford should be that infantry. โ
"Now that the Germans have severed the connection between Snoidland and Ayersford, now that German infantry has arrived, there may be more German troops behind, are we going to wait any longer?"
"You think I want to wait? The above concentrated such a large army here, in order to end the German artillery, and at the same time knock out his armored division, so as to improve the morale of the troops, and now three divisions have been thrown in, and there is no shadow of that German artillery, what do you let me do! โ
"Sir, we can't wait any longer, Maidstone has already taken one division, and if two more divisions of Aylesford get in, even if we destroy that artillery team, what else can we do to defend our country?"
"So what do you want me to do? I don't have any other troops under my command now, the tanks have been sent out, but they have been cut off from Aylesford! โ
"Sir, we should make some decisions at this time, abandon a unit, otherwise, we will have to wait for the Luftwaffe to come and reimburse it all! The Prime Minister will surely understand why we are doing this! โ
In the headquarters of the British army in the village of Maypm, a British general was arguing with his staff officers at this time, what was originally planned, but there were always accidents at critical moments, and now the troops in his hands were almost half the strength of the British army, but now he has lost so much!
He's faced with a choice!
(To be continued.) )
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