Chapter 912: Forcing the Belgians to Surrender
When entering West Germany from the border, the first thing to encounter was the border guards and armored units of the Germans, and as a result, the soldiers were bloodless!
Karl Heinz Mashner, with his own tank troops, rushed wildly, and when he drove to the highway, in order to speed up, Karl even ordered his "Walter Empatcher" tank regiment to drive directly onto the road!
T-72 track for a single-pin type, pin ear hanging glue, this way, definitely not as strong as the Western double-pin track, after a period of time, the rubber block on it fell down, until now, the tank track, can have half of the glue hanging glue is good!
Therefore, driving directly onto the highway is very damaging to the highway. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, don't worry so much! The task of Karl's tank regiment was to go all the way to the west, and on his offensive route, there was such a big goal as the headquarters of the Second Army in Hanover!
94 T-72 tanks, rumbling and roaring, with a long snake formation, if there were a few Apache in the sky now, they would have suffered a heavy blow!
Now, though, there is nothing in the sky, nothing but the roar of tanks advancing!
So, in less than two hours, they attacked Hanover!
Now, the huge tank force has completely surrounded this place, and opposite them, more than a dozen Leopard 1 tanks are the main force of the Belgian army.
Looking at the Belgian infantry hiding behind the tanks, Commander Karl showed a look of contempt on his face, he pushed open the hatch above his head, got out, raised a loudspeaker, and shouted: "Hey, our compatriots, listen, we have come to save you!" ”
"We are all the same people, the same country, who divided us? Let's kill each other? You should all be able to think of it, behind it, is the United States! ”
"Mr. Günter-Lahr, who has always wanted to bring about the reunification of our Germany, has taken a firm step forward in this visit to the GDR, but unfortunately his plan has not been carried out before it has been controlled by the Americans! We are here now in the hope of calling our compatriots to rise up! If we are united, Germany will be strong! ”
"Listen to the Belgians on the other side, Germany, it's not for you to occupy! Lay down your arms and surrender at once! We know that it is you who control the senior commanders of the Second Army, and if you surrender now, it will be too late! If you continue to resist, we can only use force! ”
As if to reflect his words, the T-72 tank here, the barrel began to turn, aiming at several Leopard 1 tanks in front.
The Leopard 1 tank is a main battle tank developed by the Federal Republic of Germany, produced by the Ordnance Division of Krauss-Maffei GmbH and the Krupp-Mark Maschinenbau GmbH. Delivered to the Federal German Army in September '65, after which more than 300 units were also exported to Belgium, they were the main ground tanks of Belgium.
It can be said that this tank is still a tank of the sixties, that is, against the huge T-55, the T-62 cluster has a certain performance advantage, and in front of the T-72, there is no chance of survival at all.
After all, the hull armor plates of such a tank are thinner, which can only protect against shrapnel from explosive grenades, and in close combat conditions, only weapons with a caliber of less than 20mm. It can be said that this tank is, at best, the level of protection of a heavy infantry fighting vehicle.
The turret of this tank is a cast structure, which has a good bulletproof shape, and the same armor is thin and the protection is weak. Germany's advanced engine and firepower, armor, by the time of the Leopard 2, was also weak.
In order to improve the turret protection, starting in 1975, the Leopard 1A1 tank turret added shielded armor, which was divided into several pieces with rubber linings, which were mounted on the shield, the sides of the turret body, and the tail frame. Later Leopard 1A2 tanks had increased armor protection, and the Leopard 1A3 and Leopard 1A4 tanks received a newly designed welded turret. The heterogeneous turret armor has greatly improved the protection of these tanks, and the turret structure has also changed.
However, no matter what turret it was, this tank was never able to withstand the blows of the T-72's 125-mm tank gun!
Especially now, the distance between the two sides is less than five hundred meters, as long as the fire is fired, the Leopard 1 tanks here will definitely explode one after another!
And whether the Leopard 1 105 tank gun can destroy the opposite T-72 tank is still unknown.
The Belgian soldiers, at this time, were frightened, they knew that their resistance was futile, and at the same time, they did not know whether they should die on the battlefield.
And Captain Karl on this side did not give the person on the other side a chance, although Captain Carl showed half of his body without any protection, he still continued to threaten the opposite side very arrogantly.
"Now, I'll start counting, count to three, and we'll fire!"
"One, two..."
"Surrender, we surrender!" The other side shouted: "Please don't fire!" ”
The 125mm tank gun can destroy even the American M1 tank, and if it hits your own tank, it will definitely destroy your own tank! And the infantry of the follow-up team will also be killed!
Behind the tank troops, there are also infantry fighting vehicles!
There is no need for the Belgians to be annihilated here!
Historically, tiny Belgium has performed well in both world wars. During the First World War, Germany attacked France, thinking that Belgium was such a small country, and it was flat by the way, but it took more than 2 weeks for people to pass through Belgium with the stubborn resistance of the fortress of Liège, and the Belgians held the remaining 10% of the territory until the end of the war; During World War II, Germany killed Denmark in 4 hours, and the Netherlands, which was larger than Belgium, surrendered in 4 days, but Belgium fought tenaciously for 18 days before surrendering. After that, the Belgians helped Dunkirk hold out for 24 hours, otherwise those French and British troops would not have been able to withdraw from the European continent at all.
Although there are various other explanations, the strong combat effectiveness of the Belgian army is also partly a factor.
However, after the end of World War II, the blood of the Belgians gradually disappeared, and in later generations, the Belgians were even more soft, for example, in the United Nations, more than a dozen Belgian peacekeepers let the Hutu militia use machetes to scare the corpses, as a result, the Belgian peacekeepers did not dare to go out again and immediately rolled up and left.
And now, the Belgians are also soft-eyed. When faced with the tanks and artillery of the East Germans, they immediately chose to surrender! (To be continued.) )