Chapter 573: Pushed into the Sea (Gal. 8)
If Montgomery could take Calais, he would have had a lot of options to deal with the Germans' Panzer Group in the city, or at least he could delay time with the lives of his soldiers, but now, outside the city, he simply didn't have any strength to fight the Panzers.
As the huge armored force gradually revealed its outline, Montgomery's face turned extremely pale, and he felt his hands tremble.
The Expeditionary Force, finished, that was Montgomery's first thought.
The tanks coming from the opposite side are all black, just look at this color, you know that it is the Waffen-SS!
(There was a bug in the front, in the West, when the memorial service, it was painted black, not white, and it was wrong to write white in front, and now it is changed back.) )
It was a new livery that the Waffen-SS had changed to commemorate Hitler's assassination, and they would not have changed to a new livery until the war was over.
The Waffen-SS has shown great combat effectiveness in all previous battles, and they are a firm and resolute army!
How determined? Ordinary troops, when the casualties reach 20 percent, the morale of the army is gone, but this kind of troops, even if there are 20 percent left, will continue to fight!
The British army, even in its heyday, could not match them, let alone now, the last will of the British army to fight, when it saw this army, was finally broken.
The tracks of the tanks, advancing on the muddy ground, and the muddy roads caused them a great problem, but the entire Waffen-SS did not hesitate, they firmly carried out the orders of their superiors.
At the same time, their high-horsepower diesel engines, their wide tracks, brought great convenience to their actions, although two hours later than expected, however, they still arrived!
At the forefront of the whole army was the 1st Panzer Division, also known as the Adolf Hitler Division, and the division commander, Joseph Dietrich, showed half of his body, and as the tanks were jolting, his eyes were fixed on the British troops in the telescope.
The superiors analyzed correctly, the British kept shouting for the retreat of Dunkirk, in fact, they were coming in the direction of Calais!
Fortunately, they arrived in time and did not let the British plot succeed! Trembling under the strong armies of your own side, British!
"Attention, attack the queue, advance in parallel, drive the British, into the sea!" On the radio, Dietrich gave the order to fight.
On the opposite side, there is at least one British infantry division, and now, the tanks of their armored division, are going to move up and push the British into the sea!
"Understood." One by one, the subordinate command tanks, after receiving the order, continued to send the order to their own troops, and soon, their formation changed.
When it first came up, it was the marching array of the long snake, and now, the vertical array has become horizontal.
Not every tank is horizontal, but platoon is the basic unit, and each platoon of tanks still formed a triangular attack queue, and then, all the platoons, all of them, were lined up in a row, and between each platoon, there was a distance of several hundred meters, so that the wide offensive surface slowly spread out, several kilometers long!
There is no need to leave a reserve, and there is no need to worry that the opponent will rush through your own attack array, and many battles have shown that your Black Panther 3 tank will not be destroyed by the opponent.
If it was in normal times, Dietrich would not have done this, he would divide half of the tanks, go around the back of the opponent, and then flank them from both sides, completely surround them, relying on the rapid maneuverability of the tanks, they are completely sure.
But now, this set of tactics is no longer useful, because behind the opponent, there is a long coastline!
Capture the British? Now Dietrich doesn't think so yet, he just wants to kill all these Britons!
The German tank, like the bucket of a huge bulldozer, slowly pushed forward, and everywhere it went, everything was going to disappear!
Tankmen did not intend to use artillery, in the face of infantry, machine guns were the best option, on the turret, in front of the hull, there were machine guns, and German tanks in triangular formations would turn into terrible moving fortresses, machine guns would take the lives of British soldiers.
And the British soldiers, if they don't want to die, can only run backwards, backwards.
Just like in the era of cavalry, the cavalry brandished this saber and galloped towards the enemy, while the enemy on the opposite side, while retreating in panic, turned his head to look, how far away was the terrible cavalry from him?
When they found that they were close, they would have great fear, and the most exciting thing for the cavalry was to look at each other's fear, and slowly follow the opponent on their horses until they could no longer run, and then cut off the opponent's head with a sharp saber.
Only now the horses have been changed to tanks, and the sabers to machine guns!
As if driving a flock of sheep, as long as the other party has the instinct to survive, they will run backwards, in the direction of the sea, and there is no doubt that it will be a dead end!
The tanks pushed forward, machine-gun them along the way, crushed them with tracks, and drove the remnants of them into the sea, this sight must be very pleasing to the eye!
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Dietrich enlisted in the army as a gunner in the German 6th Army under the command of the Bavarian Dauphin, where he was wounded twice and was awarded the Iron Cross of the Second Degree.
Such a person is quite determined in battle, and he hates Britain and France very much, as long as the British do not surrender, he does not mind killing the other party, and if the other party surrenders, he will also maintain a gentlemanly demeanor and accommodate the other party's surrender.
After all, the great Führer Shirek said that any captive is a good labor force! When the men of the empire go to war, the factories of the empire can be handed over to these captives for production.
The tank took shape, and Montgomery's eyes gleamed with determination.
If they were to surrender now, the Junker aristocratic traditions of the Germans would not kill them. If you want to save your life, surrendering now should be the right choice.
There is no shame in surrendering when you can't win your opponent.
However, Montgomery did not want to surrender! As a soldier, he can't do the surrender.
At this moment, there was a new movement on the sea, and he raised his head and looked at the fishing boats, yachts, and sampans in surprise... It's coming from the other side!
"Go to the sea, let's go to the sea at once!" Montgomery shouted, "Even if it's swimming, swim across the English Channel!" ”