However, arcado is still a little hesitant because Deng Nici, commander of the naval submarine force, feels that with more and more new submarines, the German submarine force has the ability to kill the allies and strengthen Iceland’s troops. "The other side needs material supplement to maintain Iceland’s consumption. Once the new submarines form wolves and cut off the supply line, Iceland can only maintain the status quo at most."
Another reason that makes arcado indecisive is the lack of fighter escort. The range of the new A-152 fighter can’t meet the needs of killing and arson in Iceland, but it is shorter than that of the old FW-19D fighter. If the butcher bomber goes to Iceland, the only way to escort it is to have naval fighters.
However, it is worrying that the FW-19 fighter jet of the Navy has an air-cooled model, and its performance is slightly reduced after the structure is strengthened. It is more than enough to deal with the allied naval ships, but it is a bit inadequate to deal with the improved P-4 meteor jet fighter equipped with Rolls-Royce engine in high environment.
This has led to a problem that these naval fighters have insufficient escort performance to cope with Iceland’s new allied fighters. The escort exceeds the performance of naval fighters, allowing butcher bombers to carry out bombing without escort. This is similar to another time when the United States bombed Germany in the early days, and the quality was to fight for consumption.
A large number of bomber losses consume the opponent’s war potential. To put it bluntly, it is similar to the real-time strategy game, which relies on its own barracks to demolish the opponent’s buildings against the opponent’s forces. It is beautiful but has a very high attack efficiency
However, arcado felt that it was unwise for the precious airmen to compete with the British forces in Iceland. After all, Iceland is not an allied production base, where even a large number of allied resources can be replaced, it can really hit the other party’s production links and eventually fall into the rhythm of "loss for loss" that Germany is most unwilling to see.
Therefore, arcado is more inclined to believe Deng Nici’s statement subjectively, resulting in some inclinations. At least two months ago, the German army accelerated the submarine production speed, and thus reduced the production of four new destroyers. According to Deng Nici’s plan, five new U-shaped submarines will go to the scheduled sea area in the next few days this month after a little water inspection, and a new U-47 in Prien will form a new wolf pack to try to attack the Icelandic-American route on a larger scale.
Chapter 736 737 I dare
If someone asks which unit is the sharpest spear of the German Defence Forces Army, then guderian’s G Regiment is definitely the sharpest spear-and if it is said that which unit is the spearhead of the G Regiment’s spear, it is suspected that it is the 3 rd SS Armored Division, and the spearhead is the famous division belonging to the independent 52 nd Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion
Of course, the most dangerous point of this sharp spear point is that the tiger tank painted with white camouflage has lost its turret, and the fuzzy number 13 looks dangerous.
The white paint of this tiger tank looks a little dirty because of a long, long journey. Of course, the reason why this messy snow mountain is frosted is that the armor of this tiger tank is covered with mottled bullet marks, which makes people feel creepy and fearful.
The Soviet position of this tank moves slowly, just like a huge fortress, bringing fear and death to every enemy around it. Surprisingly, there are some strange cylindrical devices around the turret of this tiger tank, which seems to be a new type of weapon.
"Ryan! I feel that Soviet soldiers are approaching behind us! " Bowman pressed the intercom to control the tank without touching the uncleaned trenches, and at the same time, he tried to speed himself as high as possible so that Soviet soldiers who were passed behind would not approach the rear of the tank so easily.
"Cover our recent machine guns 7 meters away. This is to ensure their safety! We were ordered to experiment with this new weapon and equipment mainly to emit smoke and deal with infantry approaching the enemy! " Ryan replied with a frown
Moving Tanqueray is very noisy. Ryan’s voice is handed to every member of the tank through the throat phone. Andre is silent. Obviously, he is dissatisfied with the battalion’s experiment of using himself as a guinea pig, while Bruce is filled with high-explosive grenades one after another, so that Andre can vent his bitterness and anger.
"Ryan! Enemy infantry is approaching! There are quite a few people! A concealed machine gun emplacement of the other side suppressed your machine gun! Be careful! There are three Russians who are going to attack you! " About 2 meters behind Ryan, the German simple trench Marcus was carrying a telescope and Ryan was spying on the movement behind him.
Ryan looked at the fact that he was holding a detonator in his hand and pressed a control button. After pressing this button, he didn’t feel anything shaking. Tanqueray didn’t even feel feedback.
However, with the bang of a drum on the turret outside the tank, it was immediately pushed to the sky by the explosives inside. At this time, the new weapon revealed its true face. An S-type mine, which is the infantry killer "Bouncing Betty" with steel balls splashing after the explosion.
So in an instant, there was a dense steel rain around the tiger tank, and the steel balls splashed everywhere like machine gun fire, covering the whole tank in an instant, and the surrounding area was about 3 meters, plowing the surrounding land like a large shotgun.
The explosion smoke enveloped the Rennes tank, and about one Soviet soldier who wanted to attack or simply hide nearby was screened by these prefabricated fragments.
At this time, Ryan and others Tanqueray finally felt the explosion. Those steel balls hit the tank top armor like raindrops hitting the eaves, and the scratching sound was so loud that people felt creepy.
"wow! That’s awesome! This thing is great! " After all, this thing has not appeared in the battlefield and the visual effect is very good.
The Soviet soldiers across the street were also stunned by the scene. The smoke dispersed little by little. They could judge whether their friendly attack destroyed the German steel behemoth or what strange tricks the Germans played. But in their minds, they preferred the former. They hoped that the tank would be destroyed, even if it exploded by itself.
But in the smoke, the shadow of this German tiger tank was clear bit by bit, and then it rushed out from the explosion smoke. The terrible millimeter cannon pointed at the front and was as majestic as a god from the clouds
Soon, the destruction of the tiger tank in this temporary defense line collapsed, and the German grenadiers followed him. The tank launched a fierce attack when the Soviets did not return to their senses, and captured all Soviet positions in an hour.
Almost as few as expected, about 10 thousand Soviet soldiers raised their hands and surrendered after being surrounded by the Germans. After all, relying on two legs can’t outrun the German car wheel. These tired Soviet Red Army soldiers finally chose the only way out and stopped to fight a victory or defeat.
So they stopped and set up defensive positions, and then they met German soldiers who kept chasing after them, and then of course they lost, lost their weapons and surrendered. Almost everything was expected. The only unexpected situation was that a strange weapon appeared and brought some minor changes to the original boring battlefield.
A group of eyes were at a loss, and they were escorted to the distance with guns. The white tiger tank was parked next to a armoured command vehicle. Some German officials were pointing around the white tiger tank and some people were recording something.
In the eyes of these prisoners of war, the roadside tiger tank is like a god of death. It can’t get close to almost the enemy. When it rushes into the position, it seems that no one can stop it. What is even more desperate is that there are more tanks with the same terrible appearance behind this tank, which makes people feel desperate.
"There is nothing serious about this thing. I don’t know why to develop this kind of thing." Ryan shook his head at the German technical officers who sent this new weapon by the tank. "I can’t see the effect when defending, but this thing can’t solve the trouble very well."
"yes! During the explosion, smoke blocked the line of sight, and it was impossible to aim at the target in front at the same time. If the conductor and the gunner didn’t communicate well, it would easily cause the shells to miss the target. "Andre pointed at the cannon in front of the tank and said to another officer who recorded the effect.
Bruce, on the other side of the tank beside him, also complained about his experience like people who asked him how he felt. "You know, it’s like suddenly there are two enemy machine guns blazing at the weakest armor plate above my head. I don’t want to feel this desperate process often if possible."
In Rennes, he continued to report to the first technical officer about his feelings. "My vision is really limited when the position is tough. More often, I need his tanks and infantry to cover my side and back. Anyway, it will make me feel more at ease to follow the grenadiers, and these infantry can seize the enemy trenches for the first time to suppress them from weaving around."
When he finished, he pointed to the S-mine-like device on the turret surface of the tank and continued, "With this thing, the infantry will stay away from my side and rear. At this time, the other side will detour and probably cut off the tank and the infantry. To be honest, I would rather retreat in reverse than take risks."
"That is to say, this kind of thing affects your combat experience and is not suitable for battlefield use, right?" The officer looked at the medals on Ryan’s chest and considered them for a few seconds. After that, he routinely asked this sentence.
"I think unless the armored forces are very large, my tanks are still behind our own tanks, and these tanks are still tanks or armored vehicles. At this time, I think we can try this kind of thing. After all, the killing effect of this thing is still good." Ryan thought for a moment and said.
"So does the smoke spreading function need to be tested?" The officer then asked, the first function is dazzling, and it seems that we need to study it carefully. Although the second function is not very exciting, we really don’t know whether the battlefield is suitable or not.
"It’s not necessary, sir. It’s really an excellent means to spread smoke. It’s much better than installing that kind of smoke generator behind a leopard tank." Unexpectedly, Ryan gave a very high evaluation of this function
The other party was stunned after hearing this answer, and then laughed. He held out his hand and shook hands with Ryan. "Thank you for your valuable advice. Now I have a very intuitive evaluation of this device, and I believe that this improved equipment will be sent to you soon."
"Welcome" Ryan nodded and then took Alice and handed it to the kettle to drink a mouthful of water. The opposite technical officer saw Alice and was obviously surprised by a little. After all, it is something to be happy to see the heroic and beautiful soldiers at the front.
"If you don’t dare to marry a woman who killed too few people, don’t think about it." Ryan sneered and broke the opposite officer. He smiled and saluted politely.
"Obviously he didn’t dare," Bowman cracked and laughed.
"Without a man, he wouldn’t dare, and you wouldn’t dare?" Alice looked at Ryan.
"I dare, but I’m afraid you dare not marry!" Ryan looked at Alice with a smile on his face and replied.
Bowman remembered at this time that there was a demon who killed more people in front of the beauty.
Chapter 737 73 What to do
"Ahem!" No sooner had Bruce walked over than he heard such an exciting conversation, and his voice was so scared that he coughed several times. He looked at Ryan Bowman and woke up. He ran away and walked to Bruce’s side, pulling him away, trying to hide from this terrible place.
"Bruce! You big bear! If you feel uncomfortable again, I’ll cut it for you and see what grows inside! " Alice, after all, was thin-skinned, ashamed and resentful, and took out the latent temperament of the mother Tyrannosaurus rex to get angry and shouted at Bowman pulling Bruce.
Ryan didn’t say anything. Bruce stepped on each other’s ass when he passed by, but he showed the conductor’s attitude at this moment. Andre laughed and then walked over to Ryan and looked at Alice with a red face and raised her mouth and said, "If you are lucky enough to die at the end of the war, I will marry you both!" Ha ha ha "
Ryan’s eyes looked at the rolling hills in the distance and sighed. He didn’t speak, but he was lonely and thought, Is the war over? Can you really live to that time? After all, there is a tough wolf after the war.
Seeing Ryan staring into the distance, Alice calmed down and looked at her eldest brother. Andre wriggled and said, "I didn’t promise to marry him. I want to marry me. Wait."
Andre looked at the two men who were interested in each other, but were ashamed to say it first. They thought it was very interesting and wanted to burst out laughing, but he pointed to the distant place along Bowman and Bruce. "Mr. Bruce, the biggest mouth of our car, went in this direction. There is tank 112 parked there."
After that, he had a look that I can wake you up so much, so he stopped talking nonsense, and Alice rushed to the other side with a slight pause. One of the car crew members was the most willing to talk about other people’s private affairs, the party news Bruce, and the third person in the whole 52 heavy tank destroyer battalion, the damn Marcus-in a few minutes, the conversation just now will definitely spread to the whole 52 destroyer battalion, and then maybe an afternoon, a rumor that Ryan will marry himself-or more exaggerated remarks will definitely spread to all the soldiers in the 3 rd armored division of Germany.
"Bruce! If you dare to say one more word! I will kill you! " Alice shouted and attracted a group of Soviet prisoners to turn around. More German soldiers also smiled and watched a female soldier rush to the other side of the road in a murderous way. A dozen grenadiers shouted and booed and lit cigarettes in their hands.
Who knows, maybe in two hours, maybe in less time, the troops will attack again and try their best to cross another enemy line. Some people will die there and some people will lose their close friends. It is the most important thing to enjoy every minute now.
Soldiers who live from the battlefield cherish life, because breathing is a luxury, and death is a relief. It is so luxurious and instantaneous to pour a cup of coffee in the sunshine and hum a tune in the afternoon.
Guderian’s attack didn’t stop. He ordered the 1st Panzer Corps to storm southward, destroying the city and pulling out the fortress. Almost all the efforts of the Soviet Red Army to stop the German Panzer Corps from advancing in the wild were frustrated by the German elite 1st Panzer Corps. Seven defense lines were broken in a row, and more than 90,000 Soviet Red Army people were captured.
In the whole direction of Donetsk, almost all the defenders fled, and the roads were crowded with fleeing civilians and panicked soldiers. German soldiers appeared behind the original defense line, which caused panic to everyone. The troops collapsed on a large scale and many troops lost effective control over the grassroots soldiers
There are rumors and stories. Some people say that Kharkov, the main force of the Soviet Union, was defeated by the Germans. That’s why so many German troops appeared in the direction of Donetsk. The south has been surrounded by the Germans, and everyone is dead.
It is also said that the Germans dropped paratroopers and disrupted the rear deployment. These paratroopers cut off the rear bridges and there were roads to help the elite German troops encircle the Soviet Red Army in Donetsk.
No matter what kind of statement, the core is that these poor Soviet soldiers have been surrounded by the Germans, and now they have to find a better way out for their own lives. Most of the soldiers left their own defense lines and retreated involuntarily, so a huge defense gap appeared in the front of the whole defense line.
Meinster, a part of the infantry behind the Mo Deer, added this gap because of the regiment troops, which widened the distance between Soviet soldiers in Donetsk on the Crimean Peninsula and Soviet soldiers.
The command structure of the entire southern Soviet theater was in chaos, because Timoshenko’s deployment in the direction of Donetsk was the most vulnerable, and most of the soldiers there were recruits who had little decent training. When the recruits were about to be encircled, soldiers of this quality had little choice but to be defeated.
The Soviet Union has a unique system for the formation of reserve forces. In peacetime, Soviet combat troops generally have two deputy commanders and two deputy heads, and so on. Once the two deputy platoon leaders enter the state of war, this unit will lose an entire deputy skeleton before going to the front to form a new unit.
Although the newly formed army has a set of deputy bodies of the original army, the body has long been matched with years of temporary supplementation, and the reserve personnel can fight this shadow immediately. In another time, it supported the Soviet Union to defeat Germany, and this time it is still the same.
The advantage of this system is that it can quickly turn one division into two divisions, but the disadvantage is even more obvious. That is, the combat effectiveness of the later division is very weak. This time, the Soviet Union attacked the north and transferred too many main forces to the southern base. This is the temporary reserve force.
Now the sequela has finally broken out. The ability of temporarily formed troops to fight alone is very limited. When fighting with the wind, there is no problem, but once there is a headwind situation, it is easy to collapse. This is also the time when the difference between professional soldiers and temporary recruits is smooth. Everyone knows that when shouting slogans and rushing forward to really test an army, it is often those really difficult and arduous defense States.
It is not as simple as the loss of 10,000 soldiers in the E regiment on the northern line. After hard fighting, the E regiment has also refined 20,000 elite infantry. These soldiers have experienced the most severe defensive warfare, and another 10,000 veterans have survived their greatest test.
In this way, coming to Germany was relatively smooth, and they passed the period of weak combat effectiveness caused by their expansion of troops. Except for the A regiment, almost all the German frontline groups participated in the battle, and almost one million recruits were trained into elite soldiers.
Arcado’s abacus is very white. He is going to fight a beautiful panic war in Donetsk to destroy the effective forces in the southern part of the Soviet Union and achieve the goal of liberating the main German army
Then, Mo Deer and Meinster were liberated for commanding two regiments of de and Romanian servant troops to attack the Caucasus to the south and controlling Soviet oilfield resources. guderian stormed from south to north to cooperate with the Italian Expeditionary Force and the F Regiment to attack Kursk and Smolensk.
At the same time, the A regiment attacked Moscow to cover the northern war alone, and the E regiment captured the important Soviet cities Leningrad and Kul mansker, and rushed to Moscow to end the war, waiting for the Soviet Union to end the war. This is a good drama written by arcado. Of course, the fact is that he is not alone in how the war will develop. On the whole, the Soviets are much more tenacious than the Germans estimated.
For example, according to the original plan, the German A regiment should cooperate with him to encircle the rokossovsky attack group and completely annihilate this Soviet main force. However, from the results, the Soviets jumped out of the German encirclement and found the crisis with a keen sense of smell, and laid a defense line to resist the exploratory attack of the A regiment.
However, the performance of the Soviets in the southern front line was worse. They lost the command of the middle class and the messy resistance of the Soviet troops. Although some troops fought very tenaciously, more troops suffered a rout. The rout involved more people who wanted to hold the defense line and stabilize the defense body. As a result, a large number of troops had not received a general directional order to hold the defense line or retreat until 11 days after the German armored forces went south.
The reason is very simple. Stalin, who was in Moscow, made another mistake. Because of the unfavorable situation on the front line, he gave orders to the southern defenders to hold their positions until the last second instead of venting their anger on zhukov.
Chapter 73 739 Weird atmosphere
"chug!" The machine gun on the forward direction of the Tiger tank sprayed out the last two bullets, leaving only one Soviet soldier who fled backward. The poor guy fell forward with the gun and was shot through his body, so he fell headlong from this wonderful world.
Bruce touched the chilly neck and swallowed a mouthful of saliva. He looked at Ryan on the other side of an Andre turret. Since he once told Marcus what Alice and Ryan said, Alice has been in a bad mood, and the fruit is a bit too much for Bruce.
The most direct consequence of this is that Alice’s anger and shame turned into a motive force for killing. Every time she went to the battlefield, it was always those poor Soviet soldiers who were unlucky. However, Bruce was always worried that Alice would not take out her pistol to kill him when she watched Alice bite her silver teeth when she was walking in the chariot.