December 14, 1944, Eastern Desert, Algeria.

If you look down from the air, you will see two dust clouds on the ground moving in opposite directions, on one side is Guderian's armored troops, and on the other side is Patton's American Third Army, and the second armored division of the Third Army is the third army.

Compared with the famous divisions of the German army, the armored divisions of the US army are much less famous, but this is mainly because there are too many armored divisions of the US army.

Even in this time and space, Lin Youde let Germany produce wartime vehicles as soon as he came up, and continued to produce combat vehicles in three shifts, but the United States, which entered wartime production so late for so long, immediately produced a number of combat vehicles far exceeding Germany, not only arming Russia, but also Britain and themselves.

Patton has more than 20 armored divisions, while Rommel has only seven armored divisions, of course, the German army's armored divisions are relatively large, and recently they are more and more active in brigade-level battle groups, but at Guderian's insistence, the large armored divisions are still retained, but they will be split into multiple brigade-level battle groups when fighting.

Back to the duel on the 14th, the ground forces on both sides had already spotted the smoke and dust raised by the other side, and the commanders of both sides gave the exact same order to this situation: the battle formation went all the way forward.

At this time, the air forces of the two sides had already fought, and the VF-1 jet aircraft rushed to the battlefield and ran into the first generation jet fighter F80 of the US military head-on.

Although this VF-1 is a ghost, its performance is at the level of the MiG-15 Biss, and it is still easy to hit the F80, but it is not crushed like a propeller aircraft.

The first air battle between jets and jets in this time and space started in the skies over North Africa, and from the ground, the entire sky was covered with white strips of smoke, which looked very strange, and the commanders of both the German and American troops stretched their necks to look at the sky, looking at this "first air battle of the next generation" with full attention.

At the same time that the jets of the two sides were fighting for air supremacy, the "ground licking" troops of both sides entered the field. The U.S. side is mainly composed of P51s carrying rockets and bombs, while the German forces are mainly a mixed formation of modified BF109s and lightning dive bombers. Recently, the German army has been using twin-engine tactical bombers less and less for close ground support missions, mainly because the survivability of the P51 formation tactical bombers, which are also carrying out close ground support, is a bit problematic at low altitudes.

Soon, the P51 and BF109, which hurriedly launched rockets and switched to air combat, scuffled together, while the lightning dive bombers swooped down on the U.S. ground forces, and the P51, which continued to carry out close ground support, passed by, and the two sides staggered before attacking each other like western cowboys, exchanging battle damage, and the surviving planes pounced on their respective targets.

Both the U.S. and German ground forces began to shoot at the air -- the equipment configuration of the U.S. army absorbed the ready-made experience of the German army, so the U.S. army also mixed into infantry combat in armored clusters, and there were also machine guns for anti-aircraft shooting.

Immediately afterwards, the chariots of both sides met the enemy visually.

When they approached about two kilometers, the Germans opened fire first, and the Americans immediately returned fire.

However, both sides were mobile firing, and the Germans with new tanks obviously had a higher hit rate than the Americans, and more than a dozen tanks in the American queue were immediately suspended, but it is unknown whether they were destroyed or just the members were stunned.

Immediately after that, both sides continued to fire, and the fire control and artillery stability of the new German combat vehicles showed considerable advantages in this kind of shooting, and the combat effectiveness of the US troops was evaporating at a very fast speed, and the US commander had no choice but to give the order to stop and shoot in order to increase the hit rate on his side.

At this time, the distance between the two sides is less than 800 meters, and this distance can basically penetrate the main guns of the two sides -- this means that the theoretical armor-piercing value of the main guns of the two sides has exceeded the maximum thickness of the armor of the two sides, but whether the actual penetration depends on factors such as the angle of incidence.

At this time, it was obvious that the exchange was superior to the Germans, and after a few minutes of the American troops had stopped advancing, the American tanks had already lost more than half.

The German tank group rushed into the American battle line firing in place, looking like a group of charging cavalry charging into the infantry phalanx.

In this state where both sides are almost face to face, it makes no sense to discuss the level of protection of both sides, as long as you are hit, live or die, purely depends on luck, if you are lucky, the place where the enemy hits is not a key position, then you can survive, and if you are unlucky, then you will accept your fate.

In addition, this distance also greatly reduces the requirements for the gunner's shooting skills, even if it is a moving target, there is no need to count any advance, as long as the crosshair is aimed at the enemy, the cannon can basically hit.

So it's the commander's ability to turn the turret of his vehicle at the smallest angle to lock on to the next target, which is the biggest threat to his vehicle. Therefore, the commander's ability to choose targets and make the order of attack must be strong, and the gunner only needs to carry out the orders given by the commander.

So at this time, the German commander, who likes to show his head and observe the battlefield, has a comparative advantage.

But the U.S. military also had a response, although the head of the U.S. commander retracted, but the upward firing range of the machine gun of the car body was very large, and the machine gunners were using the hull machine gun to strafe the top of the turret of the German tank, and the bullets crackled on the upper edge of the gun shield and turret of the oncoming German tank, so that the German commander did not dare to poke his head out too much.

Of course, the American commander was also very courageous, not only observing the situation with his head exposed, but also shooting the German commander with a machine gun on the top of the turret.

The German commander also responded with a machine gun on the top of the turret.

Therefore, in this era, being an elite tank commander actually requires the most courage, because everyone else is under the armor protection of the tank during the battle, and only the commander's head has to be exposed to observe the situation.

Although the German and American combat vehicles have put a lot of effort into the design of the control tower, so that the commander can fully control the battlefield situation without the need for a probe, but the optical equipment of this era is too rudimentary, no matter how the design can meet the needs, to get the best vision, the commander still has to probe.

Ten minutes later, the German armored units completely passed through the American line, leaving more than a hundred paralyzed combat vehicles in place. The armored infantry that accompanied the attack immediately divided into a part of the force and checked one by one whether the iron cans had been destroyed.

Thus, the exchange of fire between the armored infantry and the surviving American armored troops who got off the car to fight began again.

Unlike the German army, it is a tradition for the US armored troops to get off the car to fight, and this is the case in both time and space. The German Panzers also had short submachine guns for self-defense, but they did not use them deliberately. But the U.S. military is different, the U.S. armored troops have a special password called "fight-on-foot", this command has many uses, such as the battle is over, get off the car to participate in cleaning the battlefield (in fact, it is to loot the loot), and then for example, if the tank breaks down, get off the car and fight.

U.S. armored troops often have Thomson in the car, and in another time and space, some U.S. armored soldiers will also carry long guns such as BAR that are not suitable for the tank.

Of course, the infantry combat of the U.S. army is different from that of the Soviet army, which is a kind of armored tactic that hits you in the face with one foot on the accelerator and everyone can't move, and then gets out of the car and uses Molotov and Bobosha to solve the battle. The Soviets often did this when facing German heavy tanks such as the Tiger. The Tiger's suspension system is more sophisticated, as we all know, T34 crashed into it, and most of the Tiger's suspension had to lie down, and then the Tiger's eight or eight guns were relatively long, and after the T34 hit it, the Tiger basically couldn't attack it with the main gun. At this time, the Soviets jumped out, carrying Bobosha, more than 70 rounds of big drums to suppress you and not let you show your head, and then Molotov threw the engine cooling cap.

Therefore, the Soviet army's dismount infantry combat was stored as a part of the armored battle, while the American army's dismounted infantry combat was more like the dismount combat of cavalry units in the past, and most of the time it was used to deal with enemy infantry attacks in helpless situations.

Therefore, it makes sense that the game "Company of Heroes 2" only arranges for the U.S. armored forces to get off the car to fight, but this setting makes the U.S. military too strong in the middle and early stages of PVP battles. What's even more ridiculous is that he was broken when he was racing in light armor, and if he changed to the German army or the Soviet army, he donated it in vain, and the U.S. army brushed it and got out of the car, and a team of three-star experienced infantry came out, and there may be a Bazooka or a Thomson in his hand, and he beat the unexperienced German privates to the point of not wanting to......

Far from it.

In short, there is a tradition for the US armored troops to get out of the car to fight, and the units of the African Army that have been recruiting the US army for more than a year know this, so they do not dare to slack off with the white scars, leaving the infantry to check the cans one by one, so as to prevent the US armored troops from causing trouble to the troops behind them after they get off the car -- you must know that the troops behind may all march in formation, and they must be very injured by a surprise attack, even if it is only an infantry raid.

Overall, however, the battle went very smoothly, with Patton's offensive spearhead evaporated in the first round of hedging, while the White Scarred vanguard maintained considerable combat effectiveness.

This kind of armored battle, in fact, is a battle between the two sides, there is nothing fancy, it is head-to-head anal, and whoever has soldiers left in the anal will win.

Especially in the desert of Algeria, there is no "important place" to defend at all - there are some highlands or something, but they are all terrain that can be directly pressed by combat vehicles, and the only thing that can be used to defend is all kinds of anti-armor firepower, which is actually a kind of exchange, in exchange for the last enemy dies and wins, and he dies first and loses.

Anyway, Guderian decided that his troops were highly trained, had strong combat skills, and were better equipped, so if I didn't play tricks with you, I would just grab your time - because my supplies wouldn't last long.

Patton decided that I have a lot of people and a lot of chariots, so I will exchange with you, let you exchange for a higher ratio, and I will exchange you for the same.

(It's ten minutes away from the cinema, and I can't catch the premiere of the giant screen hall, see if I can see a small hall, and if I can't, I'll come back and continue to update)