To Guderian's surprise, the main force of the assault did not encounter any resistance along the way, and their commander drew a good lot, instead of wasting his time and energy on clearing the pile of shrimp soldiers and crab generals along the way, as his colleagues did.

This elite armored unit advanced along the county-level highway at high speed, and did not encounter even a single roadblock along the way, which made the commander of the armored battalion overjoyed, and hurriedly informed the follow-up infantry units to converge along the road they had traveled to the designated area, and at the current speed of his advance, it was expected that the battle encirclement would be completed before midnight.

Although they did not have many brilliant achievements in the French campaign, they were indeed an elite armed force in nature, and even surpassed most of the German troops of the same level in terms of training, after all, this is the only armored training battalion in the German armored forces at present.

Being called a training battalion does not mean that it is the unit with the strongest combat effectiveness in the whole army, but it must be the unit with the highest degree of training in the whole army. The task of the armored training battalion is to serve as a model unit for armored units, to find out how to use new equipment in training, to test new troop establishment models, and to conduct experiments on new techniques and tactics, so as to eventually spread the experience gained to all armored units.

Therefore, this kind of elite troops that exist as seed troops will not be sent to the front line to gnaw hard bones under normal circumstances, but at most follow the main brigade as a reserve to feel the battlefield atmosphere, or pick up some soft persimmons and knead them twice in some secondary battlefields.

However, no one will underestimate this unit, because commanders at all levels know that the personnel in the training battalion are the seeds of the future expansion of the armored force, and they must be protected, and the death of any soldier is an irreparable loss.

But this time the situation was different, as an experimental unit of new equipment, the armored training battalion took over four of the latest Type 4G tanks. The fifth tank platoon of the heavy tank company was reorganized, and the original No. 2 tank company was replaced with No. 3 tank, and the battalion now has 64 No. 3 tanks and 24 No. 4 tanks. At the same time, the battalion headquarters is also equipped with eight half-track command vehicles, and several newly organized experimental units have been incorporated, such as self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery platoons, mechanized transport companies, self-propelled anti-tank gun platoons, and armored grenadier companies.

This unit is of great interest to the High Command, whose generals are very keen to see how these new types of equipment and units perform in real combat. This has a bearing on the planning of the new troop establishment and tactical mode in the large-scale expansion of the armed forces in the future, and perhaps a new technological revolution in the Wehrmacht will be set off from this unit.

The high command did not hesitate to put this force in the second echelon of the landing and stuffed them into the sequence of the second wave of landings. As a result, the landing was too smooth, and they all climbed ashore at noon on D-Day.

Among the landing force, the armored training battalion was the most complete, and the light and heavy firepower infantry and artillery vehicles were the most complete. At the most critical moment of the battle, Guderian, who had limited troops at hand, no longer considered what to preserve the essence, and the armored training battalion was put at the forefront of the troops, as the tip of the spear to complete the encirclement, and took on the heavy task of closing the centripetal assault at the mouth of the bag.

This is what the officers and men of the armored training battalion have been looking forward to. Although they hung the shiny title of model troops, operated the latest equipment, enjoyed priority supplies and privileges, and were surrounded by the envious eyes of their brother troops. But in their hearts, they were apprehensive, and perhaps a little ashamed, because they did not have the exploits to match the treatment they enjoyed.

This time, he finally got the opportunity to stand out in front of the whole army and became the vanguard of the encirclement force. The garrison of the armored training battalion was immediately boiling, and these highly trained soldiers showed their full strength, and it took the battalion only twenty-five minutes from receiving the order to set off to rushing onto the road. It also minus five minutes of cheering time.

According to the route drawn by Guderian, they set out from Diar, followed the Akham road from Dover to Folkestone and went straight to the rear of the British army, and after arriving at Folkestone, they began to attack southward, and cooperated with the follow-up infantry units to encircle and divide and crush the defenders of Folkestone, squeezing it in the direction of Dover, and finally the British army was annihilated in the city of Dover.

As the tip of the spear for the attack, the armored training battalion can be called sharp enough, Guderian actually took care of this seed army a little, they are facing two light infantry divisions, not the British armored troops, the hard bone will be dealt with by the standard battalion ashore, the armored training battalion only needs to crush the enemy infantry according to the German tradition.

Guderian did not expect that the middle of the British line was completely open, they did not bother to set up checkpoints on the main road, and the armored training battalion was completely like a literal no-man's land, and all the vehicles were rushing towards Folkestone at full speed, and they reached the outskirts of the city before midnight.

The two mechanized infantry battalions that followed the movement of the armored battalion immediately formed a formation on the spot and made a roundabout maneuver towards the flank of the city, building a slightly thin defensive line from the road to the sea, which can be regarded as completing the initial encirclement posture.

The German reconnaissance force was dispatched, and two armoured reconnaissance vehicles and a barrel car searched along the road towards the city, and their mission was to test the boundaries of the British lines, and if possible, it would be better to capture a few prisoners to obtain the details of the British disposition.

Two small four-wheeled armored vehicles turned off their lights and cautiously moved along the east-west intercity highway, only to be directly touched by them to the periphery of the British temporary barracks, the British were unsuspecting, and there were piles of bonfires and kerosene lamps lit in the barracks, and only a circle of barbed wire was set up around the camp as a protection, and there were no anti-tank trenches or steel rails, not even a basic three-legged deer, and the Germans judged from the performance of the British, and the other party really did not seem to know that the German army had landed.

The commander of the reconnaissance vehicle consulted with the accompanying infantry, and selected several elite scouts to form a small detachment, ready to conduct reconnaissance on the approach. The commander first reported their findings to the battalion headquarters by radio, and according to the coordinate parameters on the reconnaissance map, he reported in detail the location of the enemy, the extent of the enemy camp, and the current observed equipment and fortifications, and asked his superiors to agree to his approach reconnaissance plan.

The commander of the teaching battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Boulder, was a steady commander, he had just been transferred to this unit for less than a month, and he had served as the commander of the armored battalion in the 7th Panzer Division, and he had performed very bravely and brilliantly in the French campaign, and was awarded an Iron Cross of the First Class, which was not a historical issue of supplies, and at this time this kind of medal was very high, so the awardees would polish it shiny and pinned it neatly under their chest pockets.

Lieutenant Colonel Boulder carefully studied the location of the two sides and the local terrain on the map, and then asked the staff officer about the current state of the troops' equipment, and the staff officer reported that all the vehicles in the battalion were in good condition and had sufficient fuel to immediately enter the battle, so the lieutenant colonel immediately agreed to the plan of the reconnaissance commander, and at the same time ordered the whole battalion to start and move along the road in the direction of the British camp.

The distance between the two sides is actually not far, and there are only ten minutes by car. The armoured training battalion did not come close enough to see the camp, but stopped its vehicle at a distance behind a gentle slope, for the roar of the engines could be heard far away on a quiet night, and Boulder felt that it was not enough to startle the snake until further information was obtained.

Soon the reconnaissance team brought back the news, these British troops in front of them really did not know anything about the news that the Germans had landed, the scouts successfully ambushed a British night patrol, using daggers and bayonets to kill four people on the spot and capture one prisoner, from the prisoners' confessions they learned the general situation of the British army, the commander of the reconnaissance vehicle left a few scouts to continue to monitor, with the prisoners turned around and joined the large army.

Lieutenant Colonel Boulder carefully questioned the British prisoners, and the British soldier was very frightened by the German scouts, the German soldiers were indeed very cruel, and the method of cutting the neck with a dagger directly to the spine was extremely visually impactful, until the British private's teeth were still fighting when he was brought to Boulder.

In the end Boulder had all the information he wanted, and he was very satisfied with the state of the British army, and at the same time he was excited, he had seen a great victory beckoning him, and the prestige of the armored training battalion would be resounding throughout the army, and no one would treat them like gilded vases, and he would prove to the world that he was leading a flock of raging tigers and not a splendid Persian cat.

Since the combat determination has been decided, Boulder is not ready to waste time, he immediately summoned the company commanders for combat deployment, in fact, at this time, in the face of the enemy in front of him, any meticulous tactics are to show the blind, the German army only needs to open the formation all the way to the frontal crushing, can easily pick up the final victory.

"Armored troops! Advance! "Lieutenant Colonel Boulder stood on his half-track command vehicle and waved his arm down vigorously. Three armored companies rushed down the road and slowly spread out over the wilderness, forming a huge zigzag assault formation, and rushed over the gentle slope towards the British camp.

For the first time, the battalion's Panzergrenadier Company conducted an armoured accompanying operation, with eighteen half-track personnel carriers following the tank formation, and a self-propelled anti-aircraft artillery company and a self-propelled anti-tank gun platoon following the battalion command platoon, which was in the center of the assault group, surrounded by other vehicles.

When the German tanks ran over the outermost outlying outposts, the poor soldier, believing that his reinforcements had arrived, climbed out of the foxhole and walked towards the tanks, waving his arms in welcome.

The German tanker did not understand what the other party meant, and the mechanic did not hesitate to pull the trigger of the on-board machine gun, and the crisp sound of machine gun fire echoed in the silent night sky, and the battle called the Dover disaster by the British army officially began. (To be continued......)