The size of the 120 mm shell is large enough, the weight must not be small, the initial velocity of the projectile is high, and the physical momentum and impulse of the armor-piercing projectile multiplied by the high speed are absolutely extraordinary, no wonder the armor-piercing force is so good. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The moment the 120-mm anti-aircraft guns opened fire, the Arras counterattack, which the British had high hopes for, was already doomed to a gloomy end, and Nazi Germany was not exhausted.

Arras, the debut of the M26 Pershing heavy tank, the swan song of the heavy tank, was driven off the stage by the 88-mm anti-aircraft gun before he could fully show his formidable power, and the change of fate was too fast.

Yarud had reason to rejoice, the moment the first M26 Pershing heavy tank tank was destroyed, he knew that victory would always belong to the 32nd Panzer Division.

And there is also an unexpected bonus, as a tank warfare specialist, isn't it just to flatten the muzzle of an anti-aircraft gun? This is a dual-purpose artillery! Thank God, thanks to Churchill, thanks to the M26 Pershing heavy tank, henceforth I will have the longest anti-tank arm, and in return, I will treat the British tanks well.

The British retreated, and it was pointless to continue the battle, and the infantry lost the protection of their tanks, and relying only on the group charge of the infantry was equivalent to everyone lining up to commit suicide.

Since the invention of the heavy machine gun, no idiot commander would ask a soldier to do this, the first 100 meters of the position will be the death line that can never be crossed, the heavy machine gun will be the scythe of death that harvests the soul, and there is no point in charging in a pure infantry group. (Except for the Celestial Empire Army)

The reason why it is said to be about equal to that is because 10 years later, a glorious army on the battlefield of Korea * Xian subverted this law, the British did not have the courage to do it, and God's preference for infantry was also conditional.

In the Battle of Arras, the British army won first and then lost, and all the follow-up plans looked a little ridiculous, and the morale of the army not only did not improve, but proved the invincibility of the German army, and it seemed that even God favored the Germans.

Next, the Anglo-American coalition did nothing in the Western European battlefield, except for surrender or collapse, it is hard to believe that this army still beat the Germans all over the ground more than 20 years ago.

The Germans pursued the British but were held back by the 3rd French Light Division, which led the French Heavy Divisions to believe that the Germans were no longer fearful.

That night, not only the French but also the British thought that their original plan and idea were correct. On October 23, 1941, the 3rd Light Panzer Division of the French Army launched its own offensive in an attempt to rob the British of the credit.

The Luftwaffe and German reinforcements defeated their attack, and the operation was more effective than expected, with the intensity of the attack leading the 32nd Panzer Division to believe that they were being attacked by 10 infantry divisions, and the attack made German Führer Rommel nervous for a while.

Rommel had ordered the 300,000 troops in the Ardennes Forest to begin a counterattack, while the 300,000 reserve troops also joined the attack on the Anglo-American forces on the outskirts of the Ardennes.

It was difficult for these 300,000 Anglo-American troops to escape, and Rommel now basically used the tactics of cutting cattle with knives and cutting scalpers one at a time in order to sacrifice as few lives as possible of German soldiers.

Time has proved that this tactic is feasible, that is, the war will be slightly longer, but Germany has lost more than 2 million soldiers and more than 3 million disabled since the beginning of the war.

This is 5 million young people, Germany has a population of only 70 million, and the number of young adults aged 18-35 is up to 15 million, and now Germany has a shortage of soldiers, and has begun to recruit men between the ages of 35 and 45 to join the army, and even children between the ages of 14 and 17.

War is also about logistics and money, but it is also about human resources, and it is the most important of all resources, and it is all about talents, and destroying the enemy's living forces is also the most effective way of warfare in war.

The appearance of the M26 Pershing tank surprised Rommel, who could not imagine that the Yankees had developed a heavy tank so quickly, and it was basically at the same level as his own Leopard, and this war could not be delayed, and the longer it dragged on, the worse the defeat of Germany.

Rommel already had an idea at this time that the best way to end the war, of course, was the best way to end the war, as in later generations, and the European Union of Nations was in the best situation, or the Holy Roman Empire in name, provided that the European Union or the Holy Roman Empire dominated by Germany was not swayed and manipulated by the United States.

The British actually had only 24 M26 Pershing 1 tanks and 16 M26 Pershing 2 tanks armed with 90 mm cannons, as well as several light armored vehicles to support them.

In the end, more than 40 British tanks and 20 French tanks were lost in the battle, while the Germans lost only 42. In his diary, Yerud wrote that 989 men were killed, 716 wounded, and 132 were missing or captured in his division.

The British lost (killed or wounded) about 5,000 men in the attack, and the number of French casualties is not known, but according to some French soldiers who participated in the battle, it can be assumed that the French casualties were also significant.

Although most people mistakenly believe that the 120-mm anti-aircraft gun was used as an anti-tank gun for the first time in the Battle of Arras, this is not the case. As early as a few years ago in the Spanish Civil War, the German Volunteer Condor Regiment had used 88mm anti-aircraft guns against armored units and other ground targets, and Rommel had also used them, and the 120mm anti-aircraft guns were equipped with armor-piercing shells also ordered by Rommel Führer.

The Battle of Arras caused the Germans to advance to the Ahe River on October 24, 1941, and the Anglo-American forces in the Ardennes Forest were completely cut off from all retreats, and their only way out was to rush to the Maginot Line.

Eisenhower was indeed storming the Maginot Line at this time, and it was unrealistic for Rommel to now want to flank these hundreds of thousands of Anglo-American troops to surrender.

Army Group E, the German right flank in northern Italy, received orders on October 24, 1941, to begin an attack, while the Anglo-American forces, encircled in Belgium and the Netherlands, began to surrender en masse.

The campaign to encircle and annihilate Eisenhower's main forces began, and the offensive strength of Army Groups A and C increased to more than two million.

The situation of the main force of more than 2 million Anglo-American troops is worrying, because outside the Maginot Line, where the main forces of the Anglo-American forces are basically concentrated, Eisenhower did not deploy many troops in central France.

Even if Eisenhower had hundreds of thousands of reserve troops in central France, they would have to meet the attack of nearly two million elite troops of the German army, and the end would be absolutely tragic, and in addition, 50 percent of the airfields of the Anglo-American coalition were in the central part of France, and once these airfields were lost, the Anglo-American coalition would be cut off another arm.

…… (To be continued.) )