"Anti-tank guns! There are anti-tank guns of the French! ”

Gustav. Schwarzenegger shouted loudly.

His voice was a little hoarse, and this Nazi superman, who was as strong as a cow, was almost unbearable now. From the breakthrough of the Maas River to the present, he and his warriors have not had a good night's sleep. After going to the Monte-Diu Heights, they continued to fight a tug-of-war with the French, who attacked the town of Stoney again and again, and were beaten out again and again.

But this time, even Gustav. Schwarzenegger and Rudolph. Fervent Nazis like Ribbentrop did not dare to pack a ticket to say that they could drive the French away. Because there were so many French coming, and they still had a lot of tanks.

Sixty or seventy CharB1 tanks led two or three thousand French soldiers to rush up, and although all the anti-tank guns, tanks and assault guns were desperately firing, they could not stop the sturdy CharB1 tanks from slowly approaching.

This huge tank was not only sturdy but also powerful, with 1 47mm gun and 1 75mm gun. As they approached the town of Stoney, they turned into steel batteries, bombarding the Germans in the town with their cannons and covering the infantry charge.

In the face of overwhelming superiority, the German army could only fight and retreat, retreating from outside the town to the town, using the ruins of buildings as a cover to resist. Gustav. Schwarzenegger's 11th Company and 2nd Platoon now have less than 20 men left, and they all followed a No. 3 tank in the town to fight the French in the streets. The 50mm gun of Tank 3, equipped with tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells, was enough to penetrate the frontal armor of the CharB1 tank at a distance of 300 meters. This distance is not enough to see on the slope outside the town, but it is enough after retreating into the town. In less than 1 hour of engagement, 3 CharB1 tanks were destroyed by this No. 3 tank.

But the good fortune of this No. 3 tank also ended here, a Frenchman 47mm anti-tank gun was pulled up at some point, and fired 4 armor-piercing shells at this No. 3 tank in a row, 2 hits, and one of them exploded inside the tank!

Seeing the tank destroyed, Gustav. Schwarzenegger had no choice but to order a retreat - they now had no anti-tank weapons in their hands, and rifles, submachine guns, and MG34 machine guns could not stop the French tanks.

"Ensign, what shall we do?" Rudolph. Ribbentrop followed behind Second Lieutenant Schwarzenegger, asking questions as he ran.

Second Lieutenant Schwarzenegger was also at a loss, "Let's get out of town first." ”

"Withdraw from the town of Stoney when the tank is destroyed or the tank commander decides to retreat" was the order of Captain Krueger (commander of the 11th company). Although Schwarzenegger did not understand, an order is an order, and he cannot lead his men to defend the town.

When the remaining 20 men of the 2nd platoon of the 11th Company withdrew from the town of Stoney, the other 2 platoons and company headquarters of the 11th Company also began to retreat - the 11th Company was the unit responsible for the rear of the palace, and the 1st Battalion and the other companies of the 3rd Battalion of the "Großdeutschland" banner had been evacuated one after another, and the town of Stoney seemed to have been lost.

But right here in Gustav. Schwarzenegger and Rudolph. As Ribbentrop and his men ran out of the north exit of the town, a soldier suddenly shouted: "Artillery position, artillery position is still there!" ”

The artillery positions actually did not retreat? Rudolph. Ribbentrop was stunned, raised his head and looked down the hillside, and faintly saw dozens of cannons lined up in the night, all aimed at the town of Stoney, as if waiting for the appearance of the target.

"Oh my God!" Second Lieutenant Schwarzenegger suddenly shouted, with a bit of surprise in his tone. "88mm anti-aircraft gun, that's 88mm anti-aircraft gun!"

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"What? Is there a German artillery position behind the Monte-Diu Heights? It can't be an anti-tank gun, right? ”

Commander of the French 2nd Army, Charles Murphy. General Henczig soon also received reports of the "discovery of German artillery positions".

"No, not an anti-tank gun," the staff officer replied, "the report says it's a 105mm howitzer." ”

"Oh, got it." Charles. General Hensig nodded, it seemed a little strange, how could the Germans put the 105mm howitzer position so close to the front line? And there was no retreat in time.

However, General Hendzig didn't think much about it, after all, in a real war, how could it be possible to calculate everything accurately? Even the Germans can't do it, something will always go wrong.

"Looks like our tanks can capture these cannons." General Hinzig said to himself.

This was not an order, as according to the previous order, the French tank group would have continued to advance after capturing the town of Stoney, completely driving the Germans away from the Monte-Diu Heights and sweeping away the remnants of the enemy north of the Heights.

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

The sound of intensive shelling and explosions suddenly came from the direction of the Monte-Diu heights, as if a heavy exchange of fire was taking place on the northern slopes of the heights.

"What's going on?"

Several French generals in the former enemy command post looked at each other, and for a while no one understood what was going on? Maybe it was the 75mm gun of the CharB1 tank that destroyed some of the ammunition stacked on the German artillery positions?

"Commander," a staff officer shouted at this time, and when he saw that General Henczig had not even saluted his military salute, he shouted loudly. "Urgent report from the 3rd Hussar Division, the defense line of the 2nd Motorized Dragoon Regiment has been attacked by German armored forces, the situation is very critical, request for support!"

"What?" General Henczig suddenly became nervous. The 3rd Hussar Division, which was responsible for covering the left flank of the army, was now under attack by German armoured clusters, which meant that the Germans also had a large armoured cluster near Sedan! And this German armored cluster most likely wanted to outflank the 2nd Army!

"Tell the 3rd Hussar Division to hold on at all costs." General Hengzig immediately made a deployment adjustment, "Gather the CharB1 tanks and let the infantry go to Stony Town to set up defenses." "He wanted to use the powerful CharB1 tank against the tank cluster of the Germans.

The brigade of the 2nd Motorized Dragoon Regiment, which was now under attack by German armored forces, was actually also an armored unit - this regiment was called cavalry, but in fact it was horseless, but was armed with light tanks (23 cavalry tanks of the AMR series) and half-tracks. However, the tanks of the AMR series were weak in firepower and very thin in armor, which was no match for German tanks at all (the No. 1 tank was similar to the AMR series, but it was only a training tank). Therefore, the CharB1 heavy tank had to be sent to the rescue.

But neither General Hernzig nor anyone else in the interior of this command post could have imagined that more than half of those powerful CharB1 heavy tanks, which had already become live targets for the Germans' 88mm anti-aircraft guns, would be beaten into steel torches on the northern slopes of the Monte-Diu Heights!

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Hitting tanks with 88mm guns were 2 anti-aircraft artillery battalions of the 2nd anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the German Air Defense Forces (belonging to the Air Force formation). This anti-aircraft artillery regiment had previously made great achievements in the air battle on the Maas River, shooting down 112 British and French aircraft! After the air battle on the Maas River, this anti-aircraft artillery regiment was not transferred, and was stationed at the pontoon bridge on the Maas River, and after the 12th Army took over the front line, the 2nd Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment was naturally returned to the 12th Army. The German 88mm anti-aircraft gun began to make cameo appearances as early as the Spanish War, and the first German armored commander to use the 88mm tank was the 41st Panzer Corps' von Von. Lieutenant General Thoma.

Therefore, after learning that the 37mm artillery could not beat the CharB1 heavy tank of the French army, he suggested that the 88mm anti-aircraft gun from the 2nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment should be transferred to deal with the CharB1 heavy tank. In order to allow the 41st Panzer Army to successfully complete the outflanking, General Kleist did not use 88mm guns at the beginning (otherwise the French would be beaten away with a single bombardment), but placed 88mm on an anti-tank position on the northern slope of the heights. Unexpectedly, several French tank brigade commanders on the front line did not know the power of the 88mm gun (this kind of cannon has been used in the Belgian battlefield, but France does not know it here), and also regarded the 88mm gun as a 105mm howitzer, and stupidly commanded dozens of CharB1 heavy tanks to rush up, and all of them were turned into steel torches.

"We won, didn't we?" Rudolph. Ribbentrop sat on the grass, looking at the bright fires in the distance, and asked with some confusion.

"Won!" The commander of the 11th company, Captain Kruger, was standing on the side and smoking, "The tanks of the French are finished...... No tank could withstand an 88mm gun. ”

"If only we could have such a cannon." Rudolph. Ribbentrop said, "So that there would not be so many comrades sacrificed." ”

The National Socialist Workers' Party was also known as a comrade, and the "Greater Germany" flag corps was an SS and its members were all Nazis.

"The sacrifice of the comrades must be worthwhile," Captain Kruger, glancing at Ribbentrop, who was handsome, brave in battle, and of a very distinguished family, "you will understand later." ”

"Later?"

Captain Kruger lit a cigarette, "Yes, when you graduate from the SS officer school in Braunschweig, you'll understand why our comrades are being sacrificed." ”

"SS officer school?" Rudolph. Ribbentrop was stunned, "Captain, you want to recommend me to the officer school?" ”

"Yes, that's what you deserve," Captain Kruger said with a puff on his cigarette, smiling, "Gustav told me about your performance, and you're pretty good." Once we beat the French, you'll be ready to take the exam. (To be continued.) )