Chapter 732: Infantry Tank
"Bang!" Josephine took his Lee-Enfield rifle, took aim, and then pulled the trigger.
Under the illumination of the flares, he saw a German tanker rushing up from the opposite side, shot in the chest, and his body fell backwards.
At the same time, he heard screams around him.
The opponent's machine gun bullet strafed, and a cold bullet hit the head of his companion next to him, who fell backwards to the ground, only let out a scream, and his body did not move.
Blood flowed out of his head, along with white brains, and at this moment, Josephine felt a churning in his stomach, and then, unable to help it, he lay down next to him and vomited heavily.
Although he is a veteran, he has never killed anyone, and in this battlefield of blood and fire, every moment, a large number of fresh lives are lost!
"Boom!" A bomb exploded on their machine-gun position, a bunker hastily piled up with sandbags, which could not stop the bomb overhead, and in an instant, the machine-gun position flew into the sky.
But no one flinched, no one was afraid, and when Josephine had finished vomiting, he picked up his rifle again.
Here, as in the Battle of Verdun in World War I, the lives of soldiers on both sides will continue to be consumed until they finally die!
On the shore, countless machine gun positions are firing at the sea, and their survival time is also less than a minute, and the bombers in the sky will dive towards the machine gun positions, blowing them up with bombs and large-caliber machine guns, and at the same time, the tank guns of the amphibious tanks behind are also aiming at these targets.
Kill the machine-gun positions and create conditions for the landing of infantry in the rear!
The machine gunners of the British defenders had the highest death rate, but no one was afraid, when the machine gunners were killed, the other people next to them, behind them, would re-set up their machine guns and continue firing!
While there was a fierce exchange of fire in front, behind, the rubber boats of the French volunteers had also begun to sprint towards the beachhead.
Machine guns on the beachhead, the greatest threat to them, but now, they are not afraid, they do not flinch!
The tanks have rushed to the front, and these days, on the coast of Calais, they have often practiced charging behind the tanks, and now, it is just a real combat exercise.
Rush, rush, rush!
A shuttle of bullets swept over, and almost all the soldiers on a rubber boat were killed, blood stained the sea red, and the leaky rubber boat was slowly sinking.
However, the other rubber boats continue to move forward, forward, forward!
Finally, the rubber boat rushed to the beachhead, and the soldiers rushed down from the rubber boat, cats bent their waists, and charged forward!
As long as they captured the beachhead of the British troops, they were considered successful, and after securing the beach behind, the landing ships could land under artillery fire!
The first to step on here will earn the title of Holy Aryan!
Private Neymar rushed forward with a machine gun and a cat, he was the first to rush up!
In front, the tank troops are charging towards the opponent's position, and as long as they rush over, they will be able to take the opponent's position!
Rush, rush, rush!
Neymar's boots, stepping on the soft sand, continued to run forward, and suddenly, his eyes widened.
What did he see in the light of flares?
On the opposite position, British tanks are also rushing up!
Having anticipated that the Germans would be smuggled in at night from Dover, how could the British not increase their defensive forces?
In addition to a large number of infantry being transferred, the main tank units of the British were also transferred to the beachhead here.
For landing and anti-landing operations, just the beachhead can decide the winner, if the Germans have a beachhead force and the backup comes up, they will have a foothold, and they can continue to expand the results, once the strongest German Panther 3 tank comes up, then the British side will not have to fight.
If, on the contrary, the opponent is pushed into the sea when the opponent's foothold is not stable, then the British side wins.
After learning that the Germans had amphibious tanks, the British also deployed their own tanks.
On the coast, what tank is the most suitable for defense? Infantry tanks, of course!
All sorts of infantry tanks were deployed in the rear, and they remained quietly hidden in the face of German bombardment by German bombers, until the German tank forces began to land.
Why? Of course, it was to prevent the bombing of the German bombers overhead, and now, the distance between the two sides was very close, and in order to prevent accidental damage, the bomber units overhead did not fire much.
At such a time, the tanks of the British were dispatched at full speed!
Among them, their main force is the "Matilda" type infantry tank.
When the dark clouds of war hung over Europe, Britain had to forget about the bad economy and invest more money in the development of weapons, and this infantry tank, codenamed A12, was developed at that time.
It had 78 mm thick frontal armor and could withstand the frontal blows of all specialized anti-tank guns of the mid-to-late 30s unscathed. Even the armor on the roof of the hull was 20 mm thick, a solid representative of an infantry tank.
At the same time, it was equipped with a 2-pounder gun, which was common in the UK, and this kind of cannon was powerless against the Panther 3 in active service in Germany, not only in the front, but also in the side.
However, there will be absolutely no problem with fighting amphibious tanks!
The tanks were rumbling, and when they passed through their own lines, the nearest tank on the opposite side was barely a hundred meters away!
"Fire!" The captain shouted.
The gunner put the tank gun over his shoulder, stepped on the blaster, and the 40-mm shell flew towards the opposite side.
At the same time, the amphibious tank on the opposite side also projected its own 50-mm armor-piercing projectiles!
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Two tanks, almost simultaneously, were shot, and then, at the same time, were destroyed at the same time!
Ordinary 50 mm armor-piercing shells cannot penetrate 78 mm frontal armor, so after discovering the tank coming from the opposite side, the German tank commander immediately ordered the use of tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells!
As amphibious tanks, they have more specialized supplies, and in order to attack the fortifications, half of their armor-piercing shells are tungsten alloy warheads, regardless of the cost!
At such a distance, both sides had a high hit rate, and as a result, both sides were destroyed by each other almost simultaneously after firing shells!
The battle of blood and fire is raging.