Chapter 282: Egyptian Defense Line (Medium)
As soon as the Luxembourg division commander gave the order, Neville, the commander of the 25th Armored Regiment of the 7th Armored Division, listened to the tone of the division commander and knew that his division commander, the Luxembourg division commander, was going to personally lead the charge again.
Rommel had already secretly taken care of Neville, and if the Luxembourg division commander continued to lead their regiment's tank charge, then Neville, the regiment commander, would not do it.
At the same time, Rommel strictly ordered Neville that if the Luxembourg division commander still wanted to charge into battle in person and did not listen to your dissuasion, Neville had the right to report directly to Rommel and let Longshuai deal with this man who always wanted to gallop like a knight.
However, Neville still respects the Luxembourg division commander very much, he doesn't plan to go directly to his boss like this, he wants to personally persuade the Luxembourg division commander, Neville picked up the microphone and began to call his tank group:
"I'm Regiment Commander Neville, my current command tank No. 3301 car, may I ask the Luxembourg division commander on which tank?"
"Report to the regiment commander, the Luxembourg division commander is on my tank, car No. 3344 in the middle of the second combat queue, and the answer is complete."
"Good! Car No. 3344, good luck, please give the microphone to the Luxembourg division commander, I want to speak with the Luxembourg division commander. ”
The commander of car No. 3344 hurriedly handed the intercom to Luxembourg and said very respectfully:
"Commander of the Luxembourg Division, Regiment Commander Neville is looking for you."
"Oh" Luxemburg thought Neville had something important to report, and quickly took the microphone.
"Report to the Luxembourg division commander, you go back to the command car, we are in the charge, your safety is related to the safety of our entire assault group, I ask you to return to the command car."
"Commander Neville, you must know that I am the commander of the Seventh Armored Division, and you are only a regiment commander under me, so please organize the combat mission of your own regiment, I don't need you to worry about it here."
Luxembourg's words were very direct, and Naville's words were blocked at once, and Neville, who had no choice, had to quickly report the situation here to Rommel.
Rommel, who was using the "Eye of God" to find the British artillery position, was not calm when he got Neville's report, Rommel's hardcore brothers and command ability were only a dozen people, and Rommel could think that any hardcore brother would be killed.
Rommel has a good strategic command ability, but Rommel is about to leave the front line and return to Berlin, just like Luxembourg, Rommel's right-hand man, and his importance to Rommel is self-evident.
"Colonel Neville, you have done your duty as a subordinate, thank you for all that you have done for the German 7th Panzer, I will remember your integrity, my warrior, please help me connect to Luxembourg! I'll take care of the rest. ”
After Rommel hung up the call with Neville, he immediately connected to Luxembourg:
"Luxembourg, you are risking your life as a division commander, this is very inappropriate, you are joking with the entire armored assault group, if you are killed in Luxembourg, who will command the troops, and temporarily change the general?"
Rommel's words were still very tactful, he did not go to order Luxembourg, Rommel hoped that Luxembourg would understand his painstaking efforts.
"Hey! Hitler, Commander-in-Chief, all for Germany, please let me charge! ”
"My Luxembourg division commander, you are now shouldering the honor of the entire German Afrika Korps, and you are the assault vanguard of our entire army.
If something happens to you, do you know how big a blow it will be to our morale? So I order you to return to the command post immediately, and only immediately, if you are resisting the orders of me, the commander-in-chief, I do not mind removing you from your post now and bringing you before a court-martial. ”
"Long Shuai...... I ......"
"Carry out the order, I don't want my subordinates to be proud of disobeying the orders of their superiors, that is his shame, and it is also a shame for Germany, do you want to be the first to give up your honor and bear the shame? My general? ”
Luxembourg is silent, yes! Long Shuai is right, in Germany you can't disobey the orders of your boss as an honorable thing, then in the future, other German officers will do this, and they will really not be able to command the troops.
You ordered me to do this, I wanted to do that, such a German army can only be a rabble, even if the weapons are advanced, they are scum, and Luxemburg, who has figured it out, suddenly brightened up.
"Report to Long Shuai, I will immediately return to the front line command vehicle, and I will definitely not take the lead in disobeying orders, please rest assured Long Shuai."
Luxemburg, who commanded the tank in the rear, said this, which can be regarded as completely relieved, but the important thing is that Luxemburg himself has figured it out, he is no longer the regiment commander, but the division commander, and the responsibilities of the two positions of regiment commander and division commander are quite different.
Luxemburg, who figured it out, ordered tank No. 3344 to send itself to the rear division command post, which consisted of more than a dozen command vehicles, behind a small hill, and formed an anticline with the British position, anyway, the British artillery had no way to bring down the Luxemburg command post.
As soon as Luxemburg returned to the command post, a large group of planes flew overhead, and the 10,000-character logo on the wing was very eye-catching, of course, this was the Luftwaffe, to be precise, the German Fourth Air Army.
They had already annihilated most of the planes of Army Group "Nile", and they were now in the skies over the Egyptian line to clear the way for Rommel's attack aircraft group.
The first target is anti-tank guns, the second is all kinds of artillery and anti-aircraft guns, and the third target is pillboxes.
The Air Force is Amini's business, Rommel will not intervene, Rommel only needs to inform the Air Force of the British artillery positions and other important targets, and the Air Force will take the initiative to solve it.
Asked the combat staff officer:
"Is our artillery ready?"
"Ready."
"Inform the artillerymen of these coordinates and order them to shell according to the set target, and wait until our tanks have reached five hundred meters in front of the British positions, and then stop shelling."
"Okay, General."
Soon Rommel's order was transmitted to the artillery unit, and the artillery immediately settled the firing yuan, and the quality of the German artillery was very high, and in less than five minutes Rommel reported the settlement of the firing yuan.
Moment! Rommel's heavy artillery regiments and artillery of other calibers began to roar, these artillery were no longer aimed at the enemy's artillery, which was already the task of the Air Force.
Their task was to bombard the trenches of the British army, the land of the British army was all mud, it could not be so strong, talking about 150 heavy artillery, how powerful is one shot? (To be continued.) )