The Third Reich in Desperation

Third Reich Episode 357

As for the cleaning of this kind of mechanism, the exercise landing party also found a trick. They used naval guns or aircraft carrier-based aircraft to conduct rapid bombing, and cleaned up one by one. hit the road.

Fortunately, the army, air, sea and armed forces were closely connected during the exercise, and soon the bombers and naval guns cleared the way for the No. [-] tank, and the No. [-] tank was able to move on.

After passing the level of jumping mines, the next thing to meet the No. [-] tank is the anti-tank mine buried in the sand. The density of the anti-tank mine is so high that almost the entire sand is full of anti-tank mines. The shadows, the fuzes exposed by them look like willow saplings artificially planted on the sand pile from a distance, the density is so high that one can imagine.

Of course, this is a simulated exercise with increased difficulty.On a real battlefield, it should be a little easier.

And based on what these German tank soldiers knew about British anti-tank mines, they also understood that this kind of anti-tank mine was powerful enough to pose a considerable threat to tanks.

Since they had never had experience in landing operations, their first wave of landing exercise troops were not equipped with engineers who could not eliminate these mines.In desperation, the commander of the landing party had a sudden idea and decided to send those few No. [-] diving tanks that took the lead to drive straight forward, hoping to use the losses of these tanks to open a way for them.

These No. [-] tanks were baptized by anti-tank mines, and each one was declared out.So far, only half of the first batch of tanks landed by the German army has not been declared out.

After that, the surviving tanks became cautious and continued to move forward steadily.

Suddenly, something similar to a door panel appeared in front of them, and the German soldiers found that when the tank hit these things, it became difficult to reverse and could not leave, as if the floor was pinched.At this time, the German tank soldiers in the tank must find a way to get the tank out of it and move on.

Looking back, the "wreckage" of tanks standing still on the beach on the coastline is also densely packed.The position where the No. 150 tanks hit the forwards was about [-] meters away from the beach.

In other words, it is almost impossible to rely on German infantry to save those Panzer III tanks.Because before they arrive here, the soldiers on the landing side will not have any bunkers.In other words, during the 150-meter distance, they all acted as living targets for the defender.

Looking at the bombers from both sides whistling in the sky, the German soldiers on the ground fell into despair for a while.Suddenly, they discovered that there were huge circular patterns drawn one by one on the sand, with the word "crater" written in German inside - isn't this a bunker!

Although there are differences from the real situation, these crater patterns are also "temporary foxholes" generated after simulated bombing, which are allowed to be used.

In this way, the infantry found cover and could move on.

However, because the exercise was deliberately improved, these areas with dense crater patterns are still too far away from the place where the tanks sink, and the German No. [-] tanks still cannot pass here.

What stopped them was that Reinhardt imitated some local methods that the British could not use at the beginning according to the historical documents of later generations.

Chapter 548 The first thing I think of is you

However, the careful No. 3 tank drivers also found that not far from them, the simulated British defenders had already set up three firepower points on the left and right sides, and these three firepower points played a very good role in blocking the only The role of export.

Even if the defending side of the exercise has only one regiment participating in the exercise on this beach, and this is the simulated force after the difficulty has been amplified to the extreme.However, it is not that fewer people are useless in war.At least the commander of the defensive side of the exercise fully dispersed and deployed the regiment very well.

If the landing party does not observe carefully and accidentally strays into their fire range, then what awaits the landing troops will be a "massacre".

Fortunately, they discovered this problem in time and reported it to the landing party command.

Soon, the headquarters mobilized air troops for support. After the participating bombers flew over the sky for a few laps, the 3 firepower points were announced by the exercise referee, and 2 of them were completely destroyed. 1 firepower point is also in a semi-disabled state.

After clearing the obstacles, the remaining 18 No. [-] submersible tanks ushered in a section of uphill. When going uphill, the speed of the tanks was very slow, which made people feel anxious. Everyone prayed for the defense at this time. Fang will not suddenly attack them.

Of course, this worry is superfluous. After all, the defenders are seriously short of troops. In fact, the British troops are even scarcer.Therefore, as long as the landing troops perform normally, the defenders will have no extra troops to counterattack.

Suddenly, a second lieutenant who followed the tank with infantry exclaimed, "What is that in the sky?"

It has to be said that this exclamation really frightened the comrades around the soldier.But fortunately, there was no surprise attack from the defense side, but a bunch of balloons in the distance were pulled up.

The army didn't know, but the air force related to it had heard the names of these balloons from Reinhardt a long time ago.

Although during the exercise, these balloons were connected with ordinary coarse cloth strips.But in fact, these cloth strips will be replaced by very iron chains, that is, multiple strands of steel wire connected in series.After the failure of the British Air Force's resistance, the British will undoubtedly launch a large number of such air defense balloons to play a limited obstructive role.

These anti-aircraft balloons are of course useless in the eyes of the army, but they are a deadly threat to the air force, especially the German air force, which likes to use dive bombers!

In real situations, this kind of stuff is similar to mines. The steel cables between the air defense balloons prevent the enemy fighters from diving and dropping bombs. The famous Stuka dive bomber cannot dive and bomb under the influence of the air defense balloons. Got nothing.

As for the high-altitude horizontal bombing of the German army, it can basically be ignored because the accuracy is too low.

Of course, this anti-aircraft balloon also has advantages and disadvantages for the British, because while it limits the German bombers, it also limits the British bombers themselves.However, the British army did not have many fighters to resist at the place where the German army landed.

Of course, it was a drill after all, and Reinhardt would definitely not really make a bunch of steel cables.Therefore, the anti-air balloons in the exercise are all a group of guys with thick cloth strips.

The remaining 18 surviving No. [-] diving tanks finally won the beachhead without encountering a new round of resistance.

After solving all the obstacles on the beach, they came to the construction area of ​​the seaside town close to the beach.Only by taking this place can the landing force establish a relatively solid landing field.

After that, what caught the eyes of the landing troops were the low white buildings in the town, and in front of the buildings, there were large and small "defensive bunkers". These bunkers had a very good view of the beach. A bunker has a good range and layout.

In addition, the forts near the defensive buildings on the beach are really speechless. Look at the trench infantry here, relying on the fortifications such as buildings, forts, and trenches to fight. They understand that what is waiting for the German infantry will be A bloodbath.

Although the bunkers and forts were all wooden models with signs on them, they did let the landing party understand why the referee announced that the landing party had such a big loss when they landed before.

As for the terrain inside the town, it is even more complicated. Every street is connected to every bunker, fortress and every fort here, and every building here may shoot deadly bullets.

With the "fierce attack" of the advancing troops during the exercise landing, they were still able to "break through" every building, every bunker and every fort after a few hours, and then occupied the entire town.

Since then, the landing facility has set up a landing field on the west side of the town for the use of the second batch of landing troops.

In the early morning of the next day, the British support troops simulated in the exercise arrived and recaptured the high ground on the western landing field. The garrison around the landing field was ordered to clear the enemy on the high ground on the western landing field.

But the defender was at the end of its strength at this time, and soon the high ground on the landing field on the west side was successfully taken by the attacker.

In fact, after winning the beachhead, the outcome of this exercise is already doomed.The reason why the counterattack of the British reinforcements was arranged was just to simulate the subsequent battle incidentally, not to test the development of the war situation.

However, in the previous landing exercise, although the participating troops won the victory on the basis of strengthening the simulated British garrison, the excessive casualty rate also made Reinhard feel distressed.

Compared with the army, which lacks landing experience even though it has obtained new equipment such as diving tanks, the airborne paratroopers who have been simulating combat have performed very well.

As a member of the visiting delegation sent by the 3rd Paratrooper Division, a captain who once served in the SS and was later transferred to the [-]rd Paratrooper Division said to a young man beside him with an unscrupulous smile: "Ray Well, did you see it? So we paratroopers don’t need to do pre-war drills, after all, our training results are already much higher than theirs. Hahaha..."

After hearing this, the young paratrooper squad leader named Renn looked worriedly at his unlucky leader who was outspoken.

"Captain, it's better to say this in private, it's not good for the commander of the exercise to hear." Ren whispered.

"What's wrong with that?" The captain waved his hand indifferently: "Speaking of which, our paratroopers will have to set off one step ahead of them. By then we will all land on British soil. If something goes wrong with them, bad luck It's not us."

"Just laugh at them." The captain smiled and patted Ren on the shoulder: "When I was in the SS, don't talk about pointing at the Wehrmacht. Even if you grab the spoils from the Wehrmacht, It’s also commonplace.”

"Okay, let's not talk about this." The captain put away his smile, and said to Renn in a mysteriously low voice: "My old superior in the SS sent me a message, asking me to send a squad to help them carry out a glorious mission. task."

Honorable task? !

Ren swallowed his saliva, and it was unlucky to hear these words from his captain.

Sure enough, without keeping Renn waiting for too long, the captain said to him: "When I heard that the SS was going to organize elites to rob prisons in England, the first thing I thought of was you."

Text Chapter 549 March

On March 1941, 3, the time to land in the UK had arrived, and the German High Seas Fleet was dispatched in full force. After converging six battleships sent by Italy and France, they marched towards the south coast of the British Island together.

In addition, the German Air Force sent 600 FW190s to depart from the land airport, and the rest of the fighters also took off from the aircraft carrier, flying from south to north to their destinations.

They were followed by 500 Stuka bombers and 180 transport planes full of paratroopers.

In the first batch alone, the German army invested 12 troops in combat.