Chapter 574: Swim back to Great Britain 9)
Humans are always constantly challenging their limits. As early as August 25, 1875, British man Massey Wilber, without the help of any artificial objects, successfully swam across the English Channel by swimming alone, becoming the first person in history to swim.
On August 6, 1926, an American girl completed the feat of crossing the English Channel in 14 hours and 31 minutes.
Their choices were from Calais to Dover opposite him, after all, this was the closest distance.
Now, since they have no way out, they can only swim back!
Montgomery's call immediately won the approval of the British soldiers.
Swim back! The other side of the strait is their home. They want to go back, and they don’t want to stay here as prisoners!
In fact, it is not necessary to swim completely. As long as they wander off the coast, the German tanks will have no choice but to save them. As long as they persist in the sea, the ships opposite can come over and they can save them!
Montgomery took the lead and ran towards the beach. They were not retreating at the last minute, they were going home!
Even if half of its 3rd Infantry Division can retreat, it is worth it.
With this idea, Montgomery ran towards the seaside, and behind him, a large number of soldiers followed, running and taking off their clothes.
At this time, don't be too elegant.
As long as you have swim, you will know that it is impossible to swim in clothes. After the clothes get wet, the weight will increase several times, and people will be dragged to death by clothes.
I can only take off my clothes, and even if I just swim in winter, I can’t wear clothes.
The same was true for Montgomery, his uniform, his pride of epaulette, all his documents, his weapons, were all left behind.
Not all soldiers can swim.
At this time, as proud British warriors, as soldiers who ruled the entire earth and became the Empire of the Sun never set, they developed the most respectable style.
Those who can’t swim, those who can cover up swimming, leave the hope of life to others, and leave the risk of death to themselves. Who makes them unable to swim?
They silently picked up the weapons and ammunition of the swimming soldiers, lay on the ground, tied the grenades into bundles, and waited for the arrival of that moment.
British, are you crazy?
Here, seeing the British's performance was beyond Dietrich's expectations.
The British actually want to escape across the sea?
Moreover, are they planning to swim back?
The location restrictions made him unable to see the other side of the strait in the distance. There were ships set out and were about to take the troops here. Ditrich really thought the other party was going to swim back.
Let the other party go back? Of course not!
"Order our tank troops to temporarily stop advancing, and call on the divisional artillery behind us to use multiple rocket launchers to bomb the coast here!" Dietrich said.
Want to swim back? It’s not that easy. Let’s talk about it first!
Through the radio, the troops in the rear immediately set off their formation.
In the German organization, an armored division had an artillery regiment, while the SS's armored division had a larger organization than the average one, that is, they had two artillery regiments!
One of them is the howitzer regiment, and the other is the rocket regiment.
Each artillery regiment is composed of a regiment headquarters, a communication platoon, and two artillery battalions. Each battalion has three companies, each company has four guns, and the company has no artillery units, so a single artillery regiment has 24 artillery.
Due to the lack of equipment, many artillery regiments still pull artillery, even if they are self-propelled, they are wheeled chassis.
In fact, Germany's weapons production has been quite high, but Germany's military expansion speed is also quite fast, and the newly built equipment is always unable to meet the demand.
However, the armed SS has the power to choose first. When other armored divisions, even the artillery with wheeled chassis, were already satisfied, the artillery regiment of the armed SS was equipped with tracked chassis!
Yes, it’s the tracked chassis! At the beginning, Germany adopted the 20-ton Black Panther 2 tank solution for reducing technical difficulty. After that, as the technology matured, the Black Panther 2 tank gradually fell to the brink of elimination.
Some were assigned to other troops and some were transformed. The current artillery regiment was equipped with suppressed artillery using this Black Panther 2 chassis!
A waste of resources!
This made other troops envious. There was no way, they were their own children, and they did make contributions to the battlefield.
The chassis is of the same model, but the top has changed. It is a German specialty weapon, a 40-tube 122mm rocket launcher. In the army, this weapon is affectionately called the Cialis organ tube. Moreover, in order not to cause damage during the march, these rockets are not installed in orbit, but in the launch tube.
Although the chassis is the same, they suppress firepower, walking behind the armored forces, and even behind the armored grenadiers, that is, the last part of the entire army.
However, they can exert their firepower advantages at any time, because they have the advantage of range, a 122mm rocket launcher with a maximum range of 20 kilometers, which is enough to provide suppressed firepower at any time when the troops need it!
Now, it’s finally time for them to play!
"Note, in combat formation, disperse!" The leader of the division's rocket launcher regiment shouted loudly in the radio.
When the order came down, his troops were still in a marching state. After receiving the order, they saw a series of track chassis quickly adjusting their position. 24 launch vehicles were arranged in two rows, each with 12 cars.
At this time, the team leader and the officials around him were the busiest.
Determine your exact location, determine the location of the target, and then provide your rocket launcher troops with launch elements.
The launch of rocket launchers is different from the launch of howitzers. Howitzers require precise aiming. For example, if the front troops require a bunker to be killed on the opposite side, they must not miss it. Even if they are five meters away from the bunker, they will not be able to complete the task.
Rocket launchers are not weapons of killing, but weapons of killing. Just aim roughly.
So now, after they enter the launch state, it is enough to enter the exact same shooting elements.
The calculation of shooting elements is calculated from the group.
Their task is arduous. If the shooting elements are determined to be wrong, then there may be a misstep. Wasting rockets is one thing. If it hits the heads of the people on their side, it will be troublesome. They all have to go to the military court!
The main way to determine the shooting elements is to rely on the shooting table.
Chapter completed!