As early as August 25, 1875, the British man Matthew Wilbur successfully swam across the English Channel in 21 hours and 45 minutes by swimming alone without the aid of any man-made objects, becoming the first person in history to swim across the English Channel.

And on August 6, 1926, an American girl completed the feat of crossing the English Channel in 14 hours and 31 minutes.

They chose to go from Calais to Dover on the other side, after all, this is the closest distance.

Now, since they have no way back, they can only swim back!

Montgomery's call immediately won the approval of the British soldiers.

Swim back! On the other side of the strait, that's their home, and they want to go back, they don't want to stay here as prisoners!

In fact, it is not necessary to swim over completely, as long as they swim away from the coast, the German tanks will have nothing to do with them, as long as they hold on in the sea, the opposite ship will come and be able to save them!

Montgomery took the lead and ran in the direction of the sea, they were not retreating, they were going home!

Even if half of the 3rd Infantry Division of his own army can retreat, it will already be worth it.

With this in mind, Montgomery pulled his legs and ran in the direction of the sea, and behind him, a large number of soldiers followed, undressing as they ran.

At this time, don't be too elegant.

As long as you have swam in the swim, you know that it is impossible to swim in clothes, and when the clothes are wet, the weight increases several times, and people have to be dragged to death by the clothes.

You can only take off your clothes, even if you swim in winter, you can't wear clothes.

Montgomery was the same, his uniform, his proud epaulettes, all his papers, his weapons, all were thrown away.

Not all soldiers can swim.

At such times, as proud warriors of Great Britain, as soldiers who ruled the entire earth and became the empire on which the sun never sets, they developed the most respectable style.

Those who can't swim, cover those who can swim, leave the hope of life to others, and leave the risk of death to themselves, who makes themselves unable to swim?

They silently picked up the weapons, ammunition of the swimming soldiers, lay on the ground, tied grenades into bundles, and waited for that moment to come.

British, are you crazy?

Here, seeing the performance of the British, it was really beyond Dietrich's expectations.

The British, who actually want to run away across the sea?

And, are they still planning to swim back?

The limitation of the position made it impossible for him to see the other side of the strait in the distance, and there were already ships departing, ready to take the troops here, and Dietrich really thought that the other party was going to swim back.

Let the other person go back? Of course not!

"Order our tank troops, temporarily stop advancing, call the divisional artillery behind us, use MLRS, and bombard the coast on this side!" Dietrich said.

Want to swim back? It's not that easy, let's blow you up first!

By radio, the troops in the rear immediately began to take shape.

In the German establishment, one panzer division had one artillery regiment, and the SS panzer division had a larger establishment than the average, that is, they had two artillery regiments!

One of them is a howitzer regiment, and the other, a rocket artillery regiment.

Each artillery regiment consisted of a regimental headquarters, a communications platoon, and two artillery battalions, each battalion had three companies, each with four guns, and the company headquarters had no artillery, so an artillery regiment had 24 guns.

Due to the lack of equipment, many artillery regiments are still towed artillery, even if they are self-propelled, but also on wheeled chassis.

In fact, Germany's weapons production is already quite high, but Germany's military expansion speed is also quite fast, and the newly created equipment is always unable to meet the demand.

However, the Waffen-SS had the right of first choice, and when other armored divisions, even with their wheeled chassis, were already satisfied, the Waffen-SS artillery regiments were equipped with tracked chassis!

Not bad, it's a tracked chassis! At the beginning, in order to reduce the technical difficulty, Germany adopted the 20-ton Panther 2 tank scheme, and then, with the maturity of technology, the Panther 2 tank gradually fell to the brink of elimination.

Part of it was assigned to other units, part of it was modified, and the current artillery regiment is equipped with suppressed artillery with this Panther 2 chassis!

Tyrannical creatures!

This makes the other troops envious, there is no way, they are their own children, and they are indeed the credit of the battlefield defeated.

The chassis was of the same model, but the tops were changed, and on it was the German specialty weapon, the 40-barreled 122-mm rocket launcher, which in the troops was affectionately known as the Ciric organ pipe. Moreover, in order not to cause damage during the march, these rockets were not mounted in orbit, but in launch tubes.

Although the chassis is the same, after all, they are suppressive fire, they are behind the armored forces, and even behind the panzergrenadiers, that is, at the back of the whole army.

However, they are able to give full play to their firepower advantage at any time, because they have the advantage of range, 122 mm rocket artillery, the maximum range of 20 kilometers, is enough to provide suppressive firepower at any time when the troops need it!

Now, it's finally time for them to play!

"Attention, in battle formation, spread out!" The commander of the rocket artillery regiment of the division shouted loudly over the radio.

When the order was issued, his troops were still on the march, and after receiving the order, they saw the tracked chassis one by one, quickly adjusting their position, 24 launch vehicles, arranged in two rows, each row of 12.

At this time, the regiment commander and the officers around him were the busiest.

Determine the exact position of your side, determine the location of the target, and then give your rocket artillery unit the launch element.

The launch of rocket artillery is different from the launch of howitzers, howitzers, which need to be accurately aimed, for example, if the front troops ask to kill a pillbox on the opposite side, then they must not miss, even if they are five meters away from the pillbox, they will not be able to complete the task.

Rocket artillery is not a point-killing weapon, it is a face-killing weapon, as long as it is roughly aimed.

So now, after they enter the firing state, it is enough to enter the exact same shooting elements.

And the calculation of this shooting element is calculated by the regiment.

They have a difficult task, if the shooting is wrong, then there may be a situation where the shot is missed, it is one thing to waste rockets, if it hits the heads of their own people, it will be troublesome, they will all have to go to court-martial!

The main way to determine the shooting elements is to rely on the shooting table.