Chapter 730: Filling in the trenches

This, of course, also has something to do with the quality of the pilots of the British army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The quality of the British Army may not be very good, but the quality of the Navy and Air Force has always been at the forefront of the world...... After all, Britain is a colonial power, and although it is now in decline, the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, and Britain is also an island country like Japan, and the commonality of island countries is to focus on the development of the navy and air force and light the army.

The reason why Japan is somewhat different is that Japan has always been deliberately trying to invade Southeast Asia, especially China, and wants to invade other countries, and it is still going deep into the East Asian continent, so of course it is necessary to develop an army.

At this time, the British Empire was actually unable to control the colonies in terms of land forces, but the navy and air force had always been developing on the island, and even won more with less in the air force repeatedly, for example, in the famous "Battle of Britain", the British army defeated 2,000 German fighters with 900 fighters.

At this time, most of these fighters and pilots in North Africa were transferred from the British mainland, and all of them were veterans of air warfare, except for a few who were in the colonies themselves. On the other hand, the Germans lost a lot of their pilots in the Soviet-German war, and the newly replenished pilots were inferior to the British pilots in terms of quality and experience.

It is a well-known fact that the quality and experience of the pilot are very important, and sometimes even more important than the performance of the fighter.

This is different from the Army, for the Army, no matter how good and experienced a veteran is, it is very likely that he will be killed by a shell or a stray bullet as soon as he walks on the battlefield...... There are many uncertainties.

However, in the case of the Air Force, quality and experience play a decisive role, and as mentioned earlier, the pilots trained in Japan for three years are basically only allowed to carry out suicide attacks in fighter planes.

Of course, Japan's severe fuel shortage, and the lack of actual flight training are also one of the reasons.

As a result, although the British fighters were far inferior to the German army in terms of numbers, they still achieved a great victory in a certain battlefield such as Alexandria with 50 fighters and 70 fighters that were not prepared for the German army...... More than 20 German fighters and bombers were shot down, while only two British fighters were damaged and five were slightly damaged.

Even before withdrawing, the British fighters swooped down and strafed and bombed the German tank group, blowing up and damaging more than a dozen tanks before circling over Alexandria and then flying away.

"General!" Major William said to Zhang Chi: "Colonel Angus salutes you!" ”

"Colonel Angus?" Zhang Chi doesn't remember knowing this person.

Major William looked into the air and said: "He is the commander of the 3rd Air Squadron, and he is watching us from above at this time!" ”

"Oh!" Zhang Chi nodded.

Major Wilhelm continued: "Colonel Angus said that you are a great army, and you have created a miracle in the history of warfare, because at least in the North African theater no one has used only one anti-tank trench to hold back the attack of the fierce German Panzer Division. In addition, Colonel Angus reminds you that the Germans' detachments of fighter reinforcements soon came up, and the British Air Force could not fight continuously for numerical reasons! ”

"Okay!" Zhang Chi looked at the British fighter planes that were moving away in the air, and then replied, "Thank you to Colonel Angus for me." Also, if you can, let it airdrop a few beers down next time! ”

Major William and the surrounding British troops couldn't help but laugh.

But before the laughter fell, the cannon fire in the direction of the German army rang out again, and one shell after another set off a radial sand in the desert and rushed straight into the air, like a wave of water exploded in the sea, and then it was lifted into the air and the sand fell from the air like raindrops, and in a short time the soldiers on the ground were covered into natives.

Zhang Chi shook his head and shook off the sand on the steel helmet...... The British Army's saucer helmet is not a good one, as sand and dust will accumulate on the edge of the dish next to it, making the helmet heavy.

Looking through the smoke and dust of the battlefield, I saw that the German tank group had once again rushed to the front of the anti-tank trench.

This German charge seemed to be somewhat different from the last one, and their formation was spread out.

Seeing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but be a little puzzled, if the formation was spread out so openly, where did the Germans get so many engineering vehicles to fill the trenches?

In the next second, Zhang Chi understood the German army's method.

I saw that the tanks in front of me slowed down, and several tanks No. 2 and No. 3 caught up behind, and these No. 2 and No. 3 tanks were covered with sandbags around the deck and turret...... At first, Zhang Chi thought that this was to increase the protection of the tank, after all, the No. 2 and No. 3 tanks needed this very much.

But now it seems that the Germans clearly have other plans.

"Get ready for battle!" Seeing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but shout: "The enemy wants to fill the trench with tanks!" ”

Sure enough, the No. 2 and No. 3 tanks came to a stop in front of the anti-tank trench, and after the tank crew came out of it, the No. 4 tank pushed the tanks with sandbags tied to the anti-tank trench...... After only a few "bangs", the anti-tank trenches, which had been almost blown up by shells, were quickly filled.

This is really a good way, filling the trench with a tank is much faster than filling the trench with a bulldozer, and it only takes a moment to fill in seven or eight places, especially the place where the tank is filled is still very compact, after all, it is made of iron and steel, so the tank does not have to worry about being trapped anymore.

German tanks then charged the Chinese lines from these eight fill-ins like a flood of bursting levees, and the Germans even let bulldozers go ahead, apparently using the sand dunes to clear the way for the tanks that followed.

Zhang Chi secretly said that it was going to be bad.

The Germans won this move by surprise...... They attack at the same time from multiple distant positions, which will inevitably cause the bazooka shooter to lose sight of the other, and if one part of the bazooka shooter makes a mistake and allows the enemy to break through the line, then the interspersed tanks will cause deadly confusion to the expeditionary force and eventually lead to the collapse of the entire line.

Zhang Chi did not hesitate, put down the binoculars in his hand, grabbed his rifle, and ran along the traffic trench towards the front line of defense.

Major William and the other British officers could not help but exclaim when they saw this:

"God, what is he doing?"

"General, where are you going?"

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According to the traditional military concept of the British, the general should command in the command headquarters, just like Montgomery, so when they saw Zhang Chi so skillfully running to the front line with a sniper rifle, they couldn't believe that what they saw was real.

But these concepts only fit the British, and for the Chinese troops, especially the expeditionary forces, it has long been commonplace for the general to be on the front line.