(Starting today, at least three watches, ending at the end of this month)

Brandt and his two dozen paratroopers did seem to be isolated on the 26th and 27th. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In addition to the necessary time to sleep and eat and the continuous use of strange protective equipment, they reinforced various fortifications on the outskirts of the Grace airfield. However, to the long-term Brandt, it was very strange that there seemed to be too many bomb shelters on the position, and the construction requirements were too high. It was not like building field fortifications, but rather like building a Maginot Line.

However, Brandt and his subordinates still fully carried forward the good style of strict obedience of the German devils, and worked hard for two days without complaining. In fact, there is really nothing to complain about, for the nearly 30,000 German troops on the island of Newfoundland now, there is no good errand at all, either working day and night coolies, or playing with the armored forces of the Americans on the front line! In contrast, it is safer to work as a coolie.

By the early hours of the 28th, Newfoundland was covered in a large black rain cloud, and an icy rain was imminent. Because of the bad weather, the air superiority of the German army could not be exerted for the time being.

And the Allies, who had long been given accurate weather forecasts (Canada is still the territory of other people, and its advantage in forecasting the weather is still obvious), took advantage of this rare opportunity to launch an onslaught.

Although the British and American navies had extremely strong defenses in Concepson Bay, no one was willing to bet on the mines, submarines, torpedo boats, and frigates in the bay, whether Collins or Fraser, Vice Admiral Walker or Rear Admiral Ross. Especially when the Queen of England has just given the righteous name of "liberating Canada" to the German invaders, it is too dangerous to let 30,000 German troops squat at the gate of Canada, who knows what unexpected changes will happen? It's better to drive them into the sea early to feed the fish.

As the rain began to fall, Brandt was munching on a piece of fragrant Spam luncheon meat, with a large cup of instant coffee with flakes of milk in his other hand, and he had just swallowed two biscuits with cheese and a piece of chocolate—the most satisfying field food he had captured from the Americans since he landed on Newfoundland. But at this time, there was an indescribable solemnity on Brandt's face, who was enjoying breakfast. Because he knew that this rainy day would be filled with blood and fighting. He knew that the Americans would never miss this day, when German carrier-based aircraft could not be dispatched to support ground operations, and that it would not be long before American tanks attacked their positions with powerful artillery support.

What he's enjoying right now is probably a final breakfast!

While Brandt and his men were enjoying the "Last Breakfast", Lieutenant Colonel Schwarzenegger was lying in a huge crater, squinting at the dense attack of American tanks and infantry on the opposite side, and couldn't help but think of the Red Army on the Soviet-German battlefield.

The armored tactics of the Americans are obviously learning from the Red Army, but they are not exactly the same, the Soviet army is a sea of people submerging the sea of tanks, while the American army is obviously a sea of tanks covering the sea of people, and the Americans also have dense and accurate firepower to support. Although their command and tactical skills on the battlefield were still far inferior to those of the Germans, Schwarzenegger was full of doubts about victory.

Because command and tactics can be improved through actual combat, it is precisely through countless battles that the German army has developed superb command art and tactical coordination. But Schwarzenegger also knew that no matter how superb command and tactics were, it was impossible to pull off amazing miracles in the face of overwhelming material and manpower superiority. In the final analysis, Germany was able to defeat the Soviet Union because of the perfect combination of material and command and tactics.

Although the Soviet Union was rich in materials, it was still far from being enough compared with the European Community, with France and Germany as the core, which controlled the oil-producing areas of Iraq and Persia.

But the material in the United States is really so much that it is outrageous! Not to mention the tanks/tank destroyers that constantly appear on the battlefield and seem to never be able to be defeated (it is true that they can't be beaten, the Americans now have 8-100,000 tanks of all kinds a year, with an average production of more than 200 a day, how can they fight all the battlefields in Newfoundland?). Even the various vehicles and machinery captured during the airborne raid on the 25th were enough to make Schwarzenegger, an old armored soldier, covetous.

The usable vehicles captured from the airport garrison and the port garrison and anti-aircraft artillery units on the west bank of Concepson Bay alone turned the more than 20,000 paratroopers airborne into motorized units of European standards.

What surprised Schwarzenegger even more was that the German troops parachuted on the west bank of Concepson Bay did not find a single horse in the course of several days of fighting.

After interrogating the prisoners, Schwarzenegger learned that the American army was actually horseless! The entire US Army, which was fully mechanized a long time ago! Even the garrison and antiaircraft artillery units, which do not move much, are equipped with a large number of vehicles. Logistical supply in peacetime is also carried out by motor vehicles.

It is clear that the current level of mechanization of the US Army definitely exceeds that of the German Army, which claims to have a torrent of steel!

Moreover, the German troops on the battlefields of Newfoundland and Canada were still dragging a logistics supply line of several thousand kilometers, and it was impossible to use all their strength.

What exactly did the Wehrmacht want to use to win this North American war?

......The coaxial machine gun of the E-25 tank destroyer roared again, and the chain of fire composed of tracer bullets slammed into the front of the seven or eight advancing M26 and M4A3 tanks, striking a series of sparks.

The role of the coaxial machine gun is to aim, as long as the machine gun can hit, the main gun of the tank/tank destroyer will definitely be able to hit as well.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

The 75mm gun was fired immediately, and 8 pointed tungsten core armor-piercing shells (the E-25 tank destroyer was equipped with all pointed tungsten core armor-piercing shells, and the No. 4 H-type tank was equipped with high-explosive shells and shell-out armor-piercing shells, and now the E-25 tank destroyer was firing) roared out, and in the blink of an eye, it hit the M26 tank and M4A3 tank 1500-1600 meters away, and the 8 moving American tanks were all shot, and suddenly turned into a fireball, rolled forward slightly, and all of them lay on their stomachs.

Schwarzenegger immediately raised his binoculars to take a closer look at the tank that had been shot. Through the dripping rain, he found that only 3 tanks had probably been detonated with ammunition, and the turrets had been torn off, igniting a raging fire. Although the remaining five tanks were shot, after the fire and smoke cleared, the tanks that were shot turned into metal monsters lying motionless on the ground. Four of the tanks (all sturdy M26s) had their front and turret roof hatches pushed open, and the surviving tank crews had emerged from them.

The "Squeak ......" the linen-tearing sound of the MG42 machine gun immediately rang out, and it was several MG42 machine guns in ambush in a small wood, firing blazing ammunition, and they were targeting American tank crews who had just drilled out of a tank that had been hit by a 75mm shell. This method of warfare aimed at annihilating tank crews originated in the brutal Soviet-German battlefield, where there was not much humanism and chivalry.

However, the artillery reaction of the Americans was much faster than that of the Soviets (the American military radio was a rotten street, so the communication of the troops was very good), and the German paratroopers operating the MG42 did not dare to fall in love with the battle at all, and immediately moved their positions after firing a few long shots.

As soon as the gunfire of MG42 stopped, the American artillery fired, and 105mm and 155mm shells rained down on the heads of the German 101st Air Assault Battalion, and the entire position trembled.

While the U.S. artillery fired, their tanks continued to advance toward the 101st Battalion's position, while the infantry following behind the U.S. tanks threw smoke grenades as they advanced, and smoke of various colors suddenly filled the middle of the battlefield.

"Pretty smart!" Lieutenant Colonel Schwarzenegger perfectly understood what the Americans were thinking.

Their tank guns were not as good as the 70 caliber 75mm guns used by the E-25, and the American pointed tungsten core armor-piercing shells were not as good as the Germans. So at around 1,500 meters, even the M26's 90mm guns might not be able to deal with the E-25 tank destroyers hiding behind sand bunkers and firing (the M26's main gun was enough to penetrate the frontal armor of the E-25 at a distance of 1,500 meters when firing pointed tungsten core armor-piercing shells, but the Germans built bunkers for their E-25s), so closing the distance was necessary. At 1000 meters, the main gun of the M26 can penetrate nearly 200mm of steel plate with pointed bullets, and even with sand cover, it is difficult for the E-25 to carry it.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

The E-25, hiding behind cover, opened fire again, but this time it did not aim with a coaxial machine gun (because the enemy tank was obscured by smoke, so it could only be seen roughly, and it was impossible to see the sparks hit by the bullet at all), but opened fire directly with the 75mm gun. This time there was no such hit rate as before, 11 shells (Schwarzenegger still had 11 E-25s in his hand, and just now 3 coaxial machine guns missed, so they didn't fire) hit 2 shots, one of which blew up an M4A3 and one hit an M26.

"Go ahead and get within 800 meters and open fire! Don't be afraid of losses, we have tanks! "Behind the U.S. battle line, Lieutenant General Walker, commander of the 20th Army, who had been appointed as a new officer, stood on the body of an M26 tank, watched the sea of tanks in front of him slowly approach the German defense line, and gave orders in a triumphant and loud voice.

In his opinion, although these German troops in front of him were very capable of fighting, it was impossible to block the attack of the 20th Army with 2 armored divisions...... It's nothing more than the loss of a few tanks, and victory seems to be within reach.