At this time, Heinz Landau realized the power of the anti-tank trench, so he sent the engineer battalion up in a fit of rage. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

As an engineer battalion of an armored division and an engineer battalion of a German armored division, of course, it will not be just a group of carpenters or maintenance workers or something.

In fact, there were not a few armored vehicles in the German engineer battalions...... Since 30 years, the German army has developed tank No. 1 and tank No. 2...... All the way to the current Tiger tank. (Note: King Tiger first appeared in June 1944).

The No. 1 tank was just an attempt by the German army to prepare a tank, and because of the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany still secretly developed it in the name of "tractor".

Tank No. 2 was a kind of growth of the German tank, a transitional model with a noticeable lack of firepower and armor.

It was not until the No. 3 tank could be said to have really matured and entered the battlefield as the main force of the German armored forces...... At the beginning of World War II, most of the German blitzkrieg was carried out by tank No. 3, only later it was dwarfed by the appearance of the Soviet T34.

Tank 4 can be said to be based on Tank 3 with added protection and firepower, and many of its components are actually directly based on Tank 3.

In the development of this tank, there will inevitably be many tanks that will be eliminated because of their backward performance.

Of course, it would be a pity if these obsolete tanks were recycled as scrap metal, so in addition to being really unusable, a considerable part of them were still put into use on the battlefield...... As a result, various modifications appeared, such as dismantling the turret and replacing it with anti-tank guns, howitzers, anti-aircraft guns and self-propelled guns.

There are also some that are loaded with machinery and turned into engineering vehicles to meet the needs of the sappers.

Now, for example, several tank bridge-building vehicles are quickly driving up......

These tank bridge-erectors are equipped with a rotating shaft in the front of the hull, and then a temporary bridge can be laid forward with the shaft as the center. Of course, because it used the chassis of the No. 2 tank, the protection was insufficient, so Heinz Landau organized artillery fire and even fighter planes to bombard the anti-tank trenches indiscriminately, only to hit the soldiers hiding behind the dunes and could not raise their heads, let alone lean out to shoot bazookas.

(Note: Under normal circumstances, the tank bridge building vehicle installed by the German armored division is modified from the chassis of the No. 4 tank, but the African theater has not been taken seriously by Hitler, so the main tank of the Afrika Korps is still the No. 3 tank, and the engineering vehicle is mainly the chassis of the No. 2 and No. 3 tanks)

For the Chinese military, this can be said to be a side effect of the loss of air supremacy.

If the German artillery fire could still be suppressed, the German fighters could only be left to their own devices.

In other words, when necessary, the Germans only had to pay the price of fuel and ammunition, and they were always able to suppress the firepower of the Chinese army to achieve some tactical goal.

So five iron bridges were quickly erected on anti-tank trenches...... In fact, there were supposed to be six iron bridges, but one tank bridge erection truck stopped on the way, after all, it was the chassis of the No. 2 tank, which was produced six or seven years ago, and it was still operating in a high-temperature and dusty environment in the desert at this time, and it was inevitable that something would fail.

But five iron bridges seemed to be enough, and Heinz Landau was confident about it.

The reason is simple, the Germans had air supremacy.

Most of the tanks and armored vehicles of the Chinese army are hidden inside Alexandria, which means that they cannot participate in the war, and not being able to participate in the war is equivalent to not having ...... If they dared to come out of Alexandria, Heinz Blue Road would only need to call in air support, and the fighters and bombers would have taken them out.

In other words, the German tanks had to face the land forces of the Chinese army.

Heinz Landau could not think of anything else that would stop his tanks from rushing into the enemy's line and slaughtering the enemy, and he even thought that the Chinese army should withdraw to Alexandria at this time and choose to fight street fighting.

However, it didn't take long for Heinz Landau to find out that he was wrong.

Because in the aperture of his telescope, a tank that was slowly driving on the iron bridge suddenly tilted to the side, and then fell into the anti-tank trench on all fours like a turtle that had turned over, unable to move.

"Oh my God, what's going on?" Heinz asked.

"General!" The communications corpsman soon received a report from the front, and he replied: "Colonel Cole reports that the center of gravity of the iron bridge is unstable and the tank cannot keep its balance!" ”

This is another feature of the "Golan trench".

It is a mound of new soil dug out of the trench to form a sand dune on the other side, and this dune is also a new soil that is not compacted, and due to the height difference, the iron bridge will form a slope after it is erected.

This would have been no problem, or the passage of infantry would not have been a problem.

The problem is that the tank weighs more than a dozen tons (note: tank No. 4 is 17.7 tons)

With such a weight, the iron bridge is opened, and the higher you go, the higher the sand dune at the other end, the greater the force, so the end of the dune naturally sinks.

It would be fine if the sinking was evenly placed, but there would inevitably be some rocks in the dunes, which soon caused the bridge to tilt to one side and get more and more inclined, and then there was the scene seen by Heinz Blue Road...... Tanks and even iron bridges were completely overturned in front of the anti-tank trenches.

At this time, Rommel also heard the report from the front, and he made a phone call to Heinz Landauna.

The impatient Rommel should have been angry and roared at Heinz Landau at this time, but he just coldly ordered Heinz Landau: "Major General, don't be anxious, Alexandria is in front of us, it can't run!" ”

"Yes, General!" Heinz Landau couldn't help but settle down.

Rommel was right, he seemed to be a little too anxious.

So Heinz Landau decided not to use the iron bridge, but to fill in the anti-tank trenches.

If there is any "hidden danger" in other methods, there will be no problem in filling it up!

On the orders of Heinz Landau, several armored bulldozers of the engineer battalion went up under the cover of German artillery fire.

These armored bulldozers are modified from the chassis of the No. 3 tank, because the No. 3 tank is a mature product, the engine is full of horsepower, and after being converted to a bulldozer, there is no turret, artillery and no shells, and the weight saved can be used for protection, plus the front bulldozer is still a thick shovel, so its protection even exceeds the initial model of the No. 4 tank.

Of course, their work was not always easy, and while they were filling in the trenches, they were constantly bombarded by artillery.

Finally, after three of the five bulldozers were blown up, the Germans finally filled in a section of anti-tank trenches as required.