The American Sherman M4 medium tank showed good adaptability and mobility during the African campaign. But in terms of firepower and protection, they were slightly inferior to the "Tigers" of the Han army. Under the same combat conditions, several modifications of the Sherman M4, including the M4a3 equipped with a 105 mm main gun, are also widely considered by the US military to be unable to match the "Tiger", which is also a medium tank

Therefore, the United States had to mass-produce Pershing-26 heavy tanks in order to cope with the highly likely "Defend America" campaign. A large part of the M4a3 that has already left the factory is shipped to Europe to support the UK.

The tanks of the 11th Armored Brigade are none other than the M4A3. The M4a3, which still uses a gasoline engine, continues the advantages of other models of the M4 tank in the UK. Quan Zhiyong also has to admit that the engine sound of the M4a3 is indeed much better than the dull sound of the "Tiger".

But the anxiety of waiting is not something that can be replaced by the freshness of American-made tanks. Telegrams to the Allied General Command for instructions had been sent for a long time, and the 11th Panzer Brigade was even ready to go. If such an elite armored force can be put into battle as soon as possible, it will definitely greatly relieve the pressure on the Guards paratroopers in Yeovil.

However, the reply from the general headquarters was not received for a long time, and Quan Zhiyong guessed that Jiang Shuai was also hesitating, and it was really too much risk for such a British army, which could have many variables, to undertake the task of reinforcement.

In fact, from the time the Einsatzgruppen infiltrated the British military camp, it had been proved that these British military officers from noble backgrounds were indeed loyal to the royal family. Otherwise, even the Einsatzgruppen will be unlikely to accomplish such a task, no matter how elite it is. It was not so much the capture of Brigadier General Scherler by the Einsatzgruppen as the infighting of the British army and the strong influence of the royalist general Hobart in the 11th Brigade that made the Einsatzgruppen complete.

Colonel Kwon had an impulse, ignoring the reply of the General Command, and simply led the action team to reinforce the two Guards Airborne Divisions with the 11th Armored Brigade and launch an attack on the British troops besieging Yeovil before dawn. As long as the siege of Yeovil can be relieved, I believe that Jiang Shuai will not blame himself.

Didn't think about what would happen if you failed! Kwon Zhiyong jumped off the M4 tank and immediately summoned thirty members of the Einsatzgruppen for a democratic vote, and the result ......, "Nima, none of you boys are against it!" Don't you know that if we rush into the encirclement of the British, many of us will be thrown at Yeovil? ”

"Captain, you're a chicken!"

"That is, don't North Koreans not only love cleanliness, but also fear death?"

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"Damn, I came up with this idea, why did it become that I was afraid of death? In that case, then don't talk nonsense, communicator, follow me in the car, and receive orders from superiors at any time. Others, get in the car, go! "Quan Zhiyong was kind enough to promote democracy, but he didn't expect to be despised. Since everyone is not afraid of death, let's go.

Diamond was also a little impatient, and he always stayed in the barracks, and it would be difficult to deal with other things in his life. As soon as the rest of the parliamentarians caught fire, the soldiers of the armored brigade would die! It's not just the Han people who pay attention to "late is changing, and the night is long and dreamy!" It seems that the British army also understands this truth, and Colonel Quan's proposal is exactly what it wants.

After suffering many losses, the Americans also began to equip the M4a3 tank with advanced on-board communicators, and when Quan Zhiyong and the communicator got into a tank specially prepared for the special task force, they heard Diamond's voice in the headset, "Soldiers, we are the glorious Royal Armored Brigade, we are the last defenders of the royal family, and we will also be the future pioneers of the Kingdom of Great Britain." It is up to us to change history, and once again the shame of the British Army is up to us. Warriors, for the king's sake, go! ”

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"I don't see it, this old boy Diamond is quite capable of fooling." Quan Zhiyong muttered, but saw that the member of the action team who claimed to "get on the plane, get off the submarine, tiger on land, and dragon in the water" was in a daze at the pile of English inside the M4 tank.

"Damn, didn't you say that all tanks will drive? Can you do it? No, I'll come! ”

"Hey, sir, I'm just familiar with the switch. This American is really not a thing, with so many letters, it is all abbreviated, which is like our Han's tank, all of which are marked by Chinese characters, and you can understand it at a glance. ”

"Nonsense, the tanks of the Americans still write English letters, and they also mark you with Chinese characters?"

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The roar of tank engines resounded through the Dorchester barracks, and two M4 tanks and two Daimler-Dingo wheeled armored personnel carriers assigned to the Einsatzgruppen began to be activated.

However, compared to the armored personnel carriers of the Cheetah and Snow Leopard of Dahan, the "Wild Dog" is not a professional personnel carrier. Not even the earliest multi-purpose infantry vehicles of the Guards Corps. The standard crew of the "Daimler-Wild Dog" is only three people, and the main weapon is a 7. The 7-mm "Brin" machine gun, with a short and wide hull, resembles a walk-behind tractor. However, Daimler's engine has many commendable features, and its strong power makes the "Dingo", which weighs 3 tons in battle, reach a maximum speed of 88 kilometers per hour. In this day and age, that's almost the same as the speed of a sports car.

Even with a dozen or so heavily armed Einsatzpen soldiers on the hull, the "Wild Dog" was still full of power. It's just that in the queue of tanks with black smoke billowing out, the taste of sitting outside passively taking drugs is really uncomfortable. Look at the other tanks and armoured British soldiers around you, they seem to have become accustomed to eating tobacco and dirt like this.

Well, follow the local customs, and as soon as they opened their mouths, the team members found that even the only remaining white teeth on the whole body were about to be blackened, and they didn't even have the heart to complain, so they only pulled down the steel helmet to block their mouth and nose, and then fell into a deep nostalgia for the excellent equipment during the domestic training period.

Only Captain William, who had been appointed as a liaison officer by Brigadier Diamond, and who was operating with the Einsatinchaeminment, twitched his nose vigorously, "Well, it tastes great!" ”

In the thick of the night and thick black smoke, the entire British 11th Armoured Brigade of the United States was dispatched and left the Dorchester barracks. Well, it wasn't an all-army sortie, at least in the conference room, there were a dozen or so officers tied up with more than twenty guards.

In order to take care of the mood of the British, Kwon did not order the shooting of the prisoners, but it was impossible to take them all with him. The British armored brigade is not as good as the armored unit of the Guards Corps, even the logistics are fully motorized, and the vehicles are very tight, how can there be any extra to pull these prisoners. Moreover, even the British officers in the armoured brigade did not want these "parliamentarians" to act with the troops.

So, after skewering them together, gagged and blindfolded, they locked them in the conference room. No one cared if they had a chance of being rescued by other British troops, or if they had fallen into the hands of the Allies, who had already begun their march from Weymouth Harbour to Dorchester.

Whether it is the Allied Special Forces, or the current commander of the 11th Brigade, Diamond and other officers, they are all eager to get to Yeovil as soon as possible to reinforce the Airborne Division of the Han Guards Corps and hold the Allied passage north to London.

However, in Yeovil, the commander of the 19th Airborne Division of the Guards, Li Longdi, and the commander of the 23rd Airborne Division, Zhao Mingcheng, were gradually approaching despair.

The town of Yeovil had fallen on the afternoon of 23 June, and the British artillery launched a frenzied artillery bombardment on the heights on the west side of the town, almost lowering the small heights of less than 150 meters by several meters. Then, the Welsh flintlock regiment rushed up with Enfield rifles, which had arrived in Bristol.

A battalion of paratroopers on the high ground was wiped out, and the 23rd Airborne Division, which had lost the commanding heights of Yeovil, was about to face even greater danger - the British artillery could condescendingly bombard the paratroopers in the town's fortifications. The 23 Airborne Division, which lacked heavy fire to return fire, could not do anything about it.

Division Commander Zhao Mingcheng had no choice but to get in touch with Li Longdi, and led the remaining paratroopers of less than 3,000 to abandon the town of Yeovil, join up with the 19th Airborne Division, and jointly hold the railway bridge.

Before dark, the British troops who had attacked the city of Yeovil completed the siege again. As long as the railway bridge was recaptured, the British army would win back the initiative in the war, which meant that even if Marshal Montgomery's inland defense line was broken by the Allies, the British army could rely on the strategic position of Yeovil to stubbornly resist the Allied attack on London.

The main thing is that Britain is not alone, more than a million multinational troops under the command of Field Marshal Eisenhower have landed in Scotland, and Prime Minister Churchill and President Truman of the United States have jointly announced that more Entente troops will continue to land on the British Isles until the fascist army is driven out of Britain.

This gave hope to the British soldiers, whose morale was low because of the conflict between parliament and the royal family, and to defend Britain against fascist aggression with the help of multinational forces.

So, they regained their courage and went on a frenzied attack in the city of Yeovil.

Don't underestimate the determination and courage of any country to resist aggression, even though the elite Guards paratroopers have killed and wounded more than 10,000 British soldiers in front of the city of Yeovil and the railway bridge, the paratroopers suffered equally heavy casualties.

After the two divisions converged, there were only 5,000 combatable soldiers left, and what was even worse was that the tank shells and heavy machine gun bullets had run out, and they relied on rifle fire alone to resist the British "mad dog" attack?

Li Longdi was not confident, and Zhao Mingcheng smiled bitterly - if the British army transferred the artillery behind the town of Yeovil to here, and then there was a frenzied artillery bombardment, it is estimated that the two airborne divisions would have to be the rhythm of the annihilation of the whole army, right?

"No, they wouldn't dare!" Li Longdi thought that Commander Zhao's worries were unnecessary, and that the British army could shell the town of Yeovil without any scruples, but would never shell the paratrooper positions on this side of the railway bridge, and once the iron bridge was blown up, it would be equivalent to cutting off Montgomery's retreat, and the 600,000 British troops on the Cornish Peninsula would have no way to retreat.

"Then we just blow up this iron bridge and then break through, it's better than being surrounded by people and beating it up, right?"

"Damn, do you think I'm willing to be outnumbered on these three sides? The British need this bridge, and we need it even more! We have to compete with the US military for time, and blowing up this bridge is not equivalent to delaying the time for our large army to go north? ”

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"I didn't expect that we are still guarding the fragrant dumplings!"