81_81266Will Wittmann, who is as sharp as a hungry wolf, let go of his prey in his mouth? Not now. From the moment he saw the British tanks begin to reverse and retreat, he let his "Mr. Driver" drive the tanks out.

The Tiger tank engine roared loudly, and the pistons were propelled by the inflated gas and began to work frantically. As soon as the driver closed the clutch gears, the tank immediately moved forward.

The wide tracks, driven by the driving wheels, rolled forward with the roar of the engine, instantly shattering the remaining remnants of the broken wall in front of the tracks. The Tiger Tank was raised up by the slope created by the collapse of the wall, and then as the terrain suddenly flattened, it was pressed back to the ground by the effect of gravity, and a puff of dust was splashed.

Then the Tiger tank, painted with No. 007, was at full throttle, and at the maximum speed it could travel, it began to rush towards the retreating British tank unit.

"Gun Commander! The first tank on the left! Roughly aim! Okay, let's stop our driver!" Wittman gave the order loudly as the hull of the car shook: "Shoot the machine guns! Drive those British infantry away from our front! We don't have time to deal with these little fish and shrimp!"

"Stop!" With a shout, Wittman's Tiger tank flexibly stopped in place, and after two seconds of slight adjustment of the cannon, it fired an armor-piercing bullet, and the huge impact caused the Tiger tank to shake back and forth twice.

"Boom!" the shell hit the target again, and the rain made a ticking sound on the steel of the German tank, which was extremely pleasing to the eye. And the sight of two German tanks rushing forward in the rain remained in the hearts of all the German grenadiers and the British troops participating in the war.

After seeing the British retreat, one German tank after another rushed out of their hidden positions, and the number of them was so large that even the British were surprised. They didn't know that there were so many German tanks here, and they didn't expect that these German tanks would take the initiative to attack the British army.

Many years later, some people still remember this crazy rainy night, and remember the scene of rolling up muddy water in the rain and rushing towards the British armored forces like a tiger out of the gate. In the smoke and rain, the German armored forces once again performed a miracle, a miracle that belonged only to them.

Wittmann and his teammates fought a classic defensive counterattack with the strength of a tank company. Five German Tiger tanks pursued 3 kilometers in one go, reaching the small village that had been abandoned before giving up the slaughter of the British troops. And along the way, the British tank unit of an entire armored regiment left the wreckage of more than fifty tanks.

Germany stunned the British armored forces with textbook tactics and completely woke up the arrogant British. If people began to realize the strength of the German armored forces from the Battle of France, it was not until the Battle of the Woods and the Battle of the Tank in the Village that the world really confirmed how huge the gap between the armored forces in their hands and the German armored forces was.

As Wittmann gave the order to fire one after another, the British tanks lit up one after another in the heavy rain, like an ever-bright lamp, illuminating the gray battlefield with the flames dancing in the rain. In just 50 minutes of engagement, the British tank regiment was counterattacked by a German tank company, knocking out almost half of the tanks.

This second lieutenant tank commander named Mitchell Wittmann proved with his practical actions the excellence of the German armored forces, proved the excellence of his tactical command of the armored forces, and proved that the only thing that can affect the ranking of the German tank ace is luck and nothing else.

After this massacre, the second killer of German tanks set a new record for destroying enemy tanks in a single German tank, and became the new number one German tank battle ace - because the original ace Wren was resting on the Eastern Front at this moment and was not involved in any combat missions.

This is Wittman, this is the Mitchell Wittman who can seize every opportunity, give him a fighter, and he will be able to expand his advantage until he destroys his opponent so that he can never turn over.

If Wren is the kind of grim reaper who ignores life and death and fights with a detached attitude, then Wittman is the deadliest sharp blade hidden in the shadows. The two men had slightly different styles, but for the enemies of the German armored forces, they were probably the least willing to see either of them.

Taking advantage of this continuous spring rain, the British launched an unprecedented powerful counterattack, throwing in almost all the forces they could find, and the British 6th and 7th armies, including 150,000 infantry, were thrown into battle, and the battle was almost white-hot in the first minute.

The German grenadiers held their defensive positions in the cold rain, tracer bullets stood out against the grey sky, and in one foxhole after another, most of the German soldiers, who had been drenched in soup, shivered and opened fire, pouring ammunition from their weapons on the counterattacking British troops.

On the artillery positions, raindrops falling from the sky hit the barrels of German 150 mm caliber guns. Several of the artillery battalion's cannons had exhausted their battalion's reserves within two hours of the start of the battle, so they had to wait for the rear to be replenished in the continuous rain.

In order to increase the density of fire and the assault capabilities of the landing force, the support artillery units of the German transport were mostly Frederick rocket artillery units, and the 150 mm caliber artillery was a minority. Most of the front-line troops rely on 105 mm howitzers and 120 mortars as support.

Therefore, in some sections, the German army was suppressed by the British artillery units with a numerical advantage, and many defensive lines were also covered by British artillery fire too fiercely, and there was a danger that the British troops would break through the position.

However, the German defenders proved to the British what kind of troops are the strongest in the world. They endured the biting cold in the field, endured all kinds of adverse factors, and stubbornly resisted the British attack.

The brutal battle for positions reminded Montgomery of the Battle of Versailles in World War I, when the Germans dragged the battle into the middle of the night with hastily built defensive positions.

The British lost 15,000 soldiers and still failed to break through the German grenadiers' defensive lines, and in some areas, the British could not attack for a long time, and the Germans were even able to draw up forces to organize a local counterattack, forcing the British to retreat.

"It's not an option. Montgomery stared at the map and sighed, "The German armored forces are indeed not the enemy we can defeat now. If we continue to entangle with these elite German tanks, we will not only not be able to recapture the expected positions, but we will even lose our limited reserves. ”

"But, General, Prime Minister Churchill has ordered us to retake some of the most important port towns, and if we fail to complete our mission, the Prime Minister and the King will not be able to explain it. The adjutant said in a tangled voice.

"I didn't say I was going to stop attacking, I just wanted to change the way I was fighting. Montgomery pointed to the map and said: "We won't make any progress in counterattacking on all fronts, it's better to concentrate all our forces and storm Norwich and Great Yarmouth! ”

In fact, the British attacking forces were not inactive on this day. They successfully repelled the siege of Bunge by the German Army Group A, and relieved the crisis of Bunge City, which had been besieged on three sides. In this direction, the infantry of both sides carried out a large-scale interspersed attack, and the British killed 617 German troops at the cost of more than 1,200 soldiers, recaptured a position several kilometers deep, and was called the victory of Bunge by the reporters accompanying the army.

That night, the weather conditions improved, and the rain that had allowed the Germans to lose 1,500 more non-combat troops finally stopped, and although the clouds and winds remained, the Germans finally held their positions on the hardest day, a result that discouraged the British counterattack and cheered the German defenders.

The British did not attack during the night, which gave the German troops a considerable respite, because they could not take off reconnaissance planes, and the Germans were not sure of the true size of the British counterattack force this time, so they did not know that the British were mobilizing troops.

With Montgomery's orders, his heavily lost armored forces began to assemble in the Lostoft area, preparing to raid Norwich and Great Yarmouth in this direction. Along with these armoured units was an infantry division of the 7th Army.

Britain had a very complete road and railway network, and although the roads and railways in the landing area were destroyed by the German bomber forces, the British were still moving very quickly, and they rushed to the war zone in the afternoon of the next day, and then launched an attack on the German line at 2:15 p.m. on time.

This time the German defenders did not react so quickly, Rundstedt did not know the movement and concentration of the main force of the British army, he could only passively strengthen all his defensive lines, and then pinch the reserves and wait for the British to strike a thunderous blow, and when the second battle for Norwich began, he realized that the opponent had changed his tactics and concentrated his forces in an attempt to fight for the Norwich area.

There were not many German reserves nearby, but the 502nd Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion of Wittmann, who had just completed the Battle of the Village, was between Bunge and Norwich, so the 502 Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion, who did not know whether it was lucky or unlucky, was ordered to go north to reinforce the important town of Norwich.

And just as the troops of the 502nd Battalion were deployed, the second battle for Norwich had begun. The difference is that this time the British attacked, and the Germans defended