142 The myth of a tank
(1) The crowd of black oppressors gathered behind him, all of them were British soldiers, and he didn't even notice it!
The clothes on Alexenk's back have been soaked with cold sweat, fortunately these people don't have weapons in their hands, otherwise, I'm afraid that as soon as I come out, I will be beaten into a sieve!
Hey, no, why didn't they follow themselves here?
"Sir!"
"Huh? Oh, what's the matter? ”
Alexenke looked at the crowd in amazement, at the thousands of British soldiers standing behind their tanks, at them staring at him without saying a word, at them standing in place, at himself with a sense of relief and anticipation, as one of them walked up to him and saluted himself. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Alexenke couldn't describe his mood at all, he was a little shocked and scared, but there was an indescribable sense of pleasure.
"Sir, please put the general down, we are willing to surrender. We've discarded all our weapons, and we hope you can put the general down, he needs to be healed! ”
Montgomery was far less magical than later generations of the British praised, and it was once commented that 'in North Africa at that time, even without Montgomery, a beggar on the street could command the British army to win the war'.
This is not to say that the German North African Army was vulnerable, but that Rommel had only 50,000 men under his command at that time, and these 50,000 men had no logistical supplies, no fuel support, even ammunition supply problems, and the intelligence network was infiltrated by the British.
In the desert with no air supremacy at all, Montgomer barely managed to defeat the North African Corps with the almost godlike logistical support provided by 200,000 British troops and Americans, and never annihilated a single German unit, not even a regiment, in formation.
Montgomery, who boasted all his life's famous, did not show any of his commanding talents at all, but was a victory that relied entirely on material and military superiority.
Although Montgomery was tactically devoid of the accomplishments of his prestige, he was too cautious to attack in the absence of an overwhelming advantage. A large-scale offensive was finally organized in the later stages of the war, again in the best possible situation, but the result of that operation, codenamed Market Garden, was so obvious.
But you can't completely deny his talent in leading troops and governing the army by this, just as Alexenke is facing now, the people of the 3rd Infantry Division, except for some who chose to flee, the vast majority of them chose to lay down their arms and surrender after seeing Montgomery's tragic situation, but they just wanted to use their own surrender to give this beloved general a chance to receive treatment and no longer be painful!
"Uh...... But my people can't save people, and I can't find a medic right now. ”
Alexenke shrugged, reluctant to let Montgomery go, but he was genuinely surprised that Montgomery had such a high reputation.
"We have, we have medics, and I'm a medic! Sir, all you need to do is provide some necessary medical supplies. ”
A British soldier raised his right hand, heard the need, and shouted excitedly.
"Commander, you see, it's our tank over there, and our men are here."
Bai Luwei, who was opening the exit on the side of the turret, suddenly saw from a distance that nearly thirty tanks were rushing here quickly, it was the No. 4 tank, that was the first regiment directly under it, and only the first regiment directly under it could take out so many No. 4 tanks at one time.
"You all stand in line, our people are here, after coming, I will tell our commander your requirements, don't worry, your division commander can't die."
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"Bungt, can you tell me why your people always have to make some big news every time? A tank captures a division, are you kidding the whole world? ”
The second battalion commander, Sven Bender, looked at Bungt almost going to the sky, full of envy and jealousy, although his troops were on the second line many times, and he couldn't grab much from capturing the enemy, but this time today was a little too amazing!
A tank, captured a British infantry division?
Who can believe such a thing? Not only did they capture a British infantry division, but they also captured their division commander alive, almost killing all their mid-level officers, and then leading to the collapse of the entire defensive line, such a feat was simply the credit of a tank, which is simply unbelievable.
Alexenk's No. 133 group was almost a first-time battle success, not only the 1st Regiment and the 19th Panzer Corps, which attacked Clerwik together, but even the entire Army Group A already knew what was happening in Kleist, and all knew the myth that a tank captured an entire division.
"General Guderian has arrived!"
A loud slogan startled the officers of the 1st Regiment who had gathered together to chat, and they hurriedly got up and prepared to greet them.
"What about people, I want to see what kind of guy is called Alexenke, and I'll see if the soldiers led by his Li Ling have three heads and six arms!"
That's what Guderian said when he entered the door.
He hated that his troops had suffered so many casualties that they had not been able to defeat Clevik, but he didn't expect that a small tank crew under Li Ling would actually cause the enemy's entire rout, and also capture an entire British division and their division commander!
Why didn't such a bull show up in his own troops? Why did such a bull follow Li Ling?
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In 1940, Montgomery was only a small infantry division commander, and he could only be regarded as an unknown figure among the senior officers of the British army, otherwise the British Expeditionary Force command would not have let his Third Infantry Division carry out the task of attracting firepower. But only two days before the mission was issued, the division commander was captured, and the entire division was disarmed and surrendered!
Moreover, the place where they became prisoners of war was less than twenty kilometers west of Dunkirk, the evacuation point planned by the generator!
Such a result shocked not only the command of the British Expeditionary Force, but also the whole of Britain.
At this time, only more than 40,000 British troops managed to reach Dunkirk, and only a dozen of the countless rescue ships sent from across the English Channel arrived in Dunkirk, but Dunkirk was in ruins, and these ships could not dock at all.
All the British troops who had withdrawn to Dunkirk were piled up on the beach, they no longer had any decent anti-aircraft weapons in their hands, all their heavy equipment was abandoned on the way to retreat, they struggled to swim to the rescue ships that could not be docked, and endured the relentless bombardment of German bombers in the sky and the frantic strafing of fighter guns.
It was the scythe of death, harvesting the lives of the British soldiers, and the golden sand was now scarlet......
(To be continued.) )