"Hey! This is Panzer Group 217, now requesting artillery support, azimuth 442/76! ”

"Received, we will immediately cover the target with fire."

At the end of the conversation, Trode couldn't help but smile bitterly at himself, just now, the infantry in this position desperately defended their position, but they were rejected when they called for fire support; And now, as soon as his squad arrived at this position, it was so easy to call for fire support.

Although there are some reasons for this, it is not the excuse that the average soldier thinks has too many past goals and does not have time to take care of all such low-level excuses. If you elaborate, this matter still makes Trode and his team leaders a little disgusted - this mission is mainly to set up a bridgehead, because they are breaking through under the cover of friendly forces, so the heavy weapons that need to be pulled by trucks are easily ambushed by the enemy and lost, so they can only bring some of the most needed equipment, that is, 88mm guns, and the heavy Krupp LeFH18 105mm howitzer is only a few brought over. However, it is impossible to fight a war without long-range support, and a lot of Grille self-propelled guns have been mobilized in the rear to replace the lack of field guns.

Due to the ease of deployment, these self-propelled guns were incorporated into the armored forces led by Anselm, rather than the infantry divisions of the artillery regiment. In this way, there is a major problem that is not known to the general public - it is true that there are many troops who need fire support when they report up, but the goals that Trod reports will be prioritized, which not everyone knows. Anselm was in charge of the matter, saying that he would not treat the two armies alone, but this was not the case at all, and the infantry received significantly less fire support than the tank crews.

Anselm did not hide this from the junior officers of Trode, but justifiably gave them a reason - "Artillery support is precious, and the deeply trained tank crews are more capable of using it than the infantry, so it is only natural that you should give priority to the use of these things." ”

This sentence seems to make sense at first glance, but after careful review, I feel that he is completely farting, although tank soldiers have more training than ordinary infantry, but no matter which commander of this vehicle is, he will have a good ability and will not use artillery support casually, so Anselm is completely seriously inclined to the practice of his own troops, but as a junior officer, Trod They are not easy to talk about this matter, all they can do is to use the privilege they received where it should really be used.

It didn't take long for the enemy camp in front of them to be hit by heavy artillery fire, which can be said to be completely not on the same level compared to the blow they received just now, and the root cause is because there is a clear gap between the self-propelled guns used by the two sides.

The crickets used the 150mm-SIG33/2-L/12 heavy infantry gun, which was not a star and a half more powerful than the 25-pounder (87.6mm) field gun used by the 'Bishop', and the caliber was nearly twice as large, and the power of the high-explosive shell naturally increased. In addition, the Cricket self-propelled gun uses the German PzKpfw-38 (t) light tank, which is also much more mobile than the 'Bishop', while the Cricket is different from the 'Bishop' turret design, using an open-top design, and there is no lack of range caused by the elevation angle problem similar to the 'Bishop'.

After getting "Vincent, Leona, continue to use high-explosive shells for fire suppression, and the rest of the units prepare armor-piercing shells, targeting the 'Matilda' II infantry tank in the direction of 11 o'clock in front of the target. ”

I don't know if the British army is really short of troops, or if they really look down on the infantry on this position, there is no big 'Churchill' type I infantry tank in this wave of attack formation, and the hardest attack formation is the "Iron Lady" - 'Matilda', who can effectively block Trode in the Tunisian battlefield at the beginning.

Due to the low hulls of many of the British vehicles, the field of view was seriously insufficient in such a chaotic environment, and they only sensed their presence after being attacked by the Trode team, which can be said to give Trod a sufficient head start.

"Natel, hurry up and kill him." Trood peered out of the observation hole while urging his gunners to move quickly.

"Okay." Nattle also operated the main gun for aiming, when hearing a loud "Bell!" on behalf of Stein's reloading. With a single sound, he immediately pulled the bolt, and as the shells flew out, the whole vehicle shook backwards due to the recoil, but this did not affect Stein's reloading, he immediately opened the hatch behind the main gun, took out the shell with billowing white smoke, and threw it from the turret side to the outside of the tank.

Let's take a look at the warhead that flew out, after flying a distance of 400M, he did not hit the 'Matilda' tank according to the original route, but flew by its side, hit the building behind it, and directly penetrated a broken wall, and after missing a few bricks to support the weight, the wall was really overwhelmed, and the walls on both sides collapsed, and in this way, the small half of a two-story building was reduced to ruins in an instant

"Hey!" Natel cried out in a tone of regret, then re-aimed, ready to fire a second shell. Although this distance, whether it is the 75mm KwK40L/48 of the IV or the 75mm PaK-39L/48 of the IV J, can already penetrate the frontal armor of the 'Matilda', but the accuracy is still not much guaranteed, and it is completely normal to fly, and Nattle does not care too much about it, he intends to use his speed efforts to make up for the lack of equipment.

On the other hand, the British tanks, which were dominated by 2-pounder guns, were somewhat outdated, and at this distance their shells could hardly penetrate the reinforced IV.H medium tank, let alone the more hard-armored IV tank destroyer with frontal armor.