Chapter 730 Filling the trench
Of course, this is also related to the quality of British pilots. . The fastest update
The quality of the British Army may not be very good, but the quality of the sea and air force has always been among the forefront of the world... After all, Britain is a colonial power. Although it has declined now, the lean camel is bigger than a horse. In addition, Britain is also an island country like Japan. The common feature of the island country is to focus on developing the sea, the air force and the light army.
Japan is a little different because Japan has always been determined to invade Southeast Asia, especially China, and to invade other countries and go deep into the East Asian continent. Of course, it is necessary to develop an army.
At this time, the British Empire was actually unable to control various colonies in the army, but the navy and air force had been developing on the island, and even won the more with fewer in the air force. For example, in the famous "Britain Battle", the British army defeated 2,000 German fighter jets with 900 fighter jets.
At this time, except for a small number of these fighter jets and pilots in North Africa who were serving in the colonies, most of them were transferred from the British mainland, and they were all veterans of air combat. In contrast, the Germans, their pilots suffered a lot of losses in the Soviet-German War, and the newly added pilots were not as good as British pilots in terms of quality and experience.
As we all know, the quality and experience of pilots are very important, and sometimes their importance even exceeds the performance of fighter jets.
This is different from the Army. For the Army, no matter how good the quality is, or how rich the experience is, it is very likely that a veteran with a shell or a stray bullet will be killed as soon as he walks on the battlefield... There are many uncertain factors.
But if it is an air force, quality and experience play a decisive role. As mentioned earlier, Japanese pilots who have been trained for three years can basically only perform suicide attacks on fighter jets.
Of course, Japan's severe lack of flight training is rarely used. This is one of the reasons.
Therefore, although the number of British fighter jets was far inferior to that of the German army, they still achieved considerable victory on a certain battlefield, such as the 70 fighter jets that were not prepared against the German army... More than 20 German fighter jets and bombers were shot down one after another, while only two were damaged and five were slightly injured.
Before withdrawing, British fighter jets dived down and fired at the German tank group, bombed and destroyed, and injured more than ten tanks before hovering over the port of Asanda and flew away.
"General!" Major William said to Zhang Chi: "Col. Angus salutes you!"
"Col. Angus?" Zhang Chi couldn't remember knowing this person.
Major William looked into the air and said, "He is the commander of the Third Air Squadron and is watching us in the air at this time!"
"Oh!" Zhang Chi nodded.
Major William continued: "Col. Angus said, "You are a great army. You have created miracles in the history of war, because at least on the battlefield in North Africa, no one used only an anti-tank trench to block the attack of the fierce German armored division. In addition, Colonel Angus reminds you that the German fighter reinforcements were coming soon, but the British Air Force was unable to fight continuously due to the number of reasons!"
"Okay!" Zhang Chi looked at the British fighter planes that were traveling far away in the air, and then replied: "I would like to express my gratitude to Colonel Angus for me. In addition, if possible, let it airdrop a few bottles of beer next time!"
Major William and the British troops around couldn't help laughing.
But before the laughter fell, the sound of cannons in the direction of the German army began to sound again. One after another, the shells raised radiant sand and soil in the desert rushed straight into the air, like waves of water blowing up in the sea. Then it was lifted into the air, falling from the air like raindrops, and soon the soldiers on the ground were covered into native people.
Zhang Chi shook his head and shook off the sand on the steel helmet... This is not good for the British army's disc-shaped helmet. There will be sand and dust on the edges of the disc next to it, making the helmet heavy.
Looking into the battlefield through the smoke and dust, the German tank group rushed to the anti-tank trench again.
The German army's charge seemed a little different from the last time, and their formation was spread out very broadly.
Seeing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but wonder. If the formation was so wide, where did the German army get so many engineering vehicles to fill the trenches?
The next second Zhang Chi understood the German army's method.
The tanks in front slowed down and caught up with several tanks No. 2 and No. 3. The decks and turrets of these No. 2 and No. 3 were covered with sandbags... At first, Zhang Chi thought this was to increase the protection of the tank. After all, No. 2 and No. 3 tanks need this very much.
But now it seems that the Germans obviously have other plans.
"Be prepared for combat!" Seeing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but shout: "The enemy needs to fill the trench with tanks!"
Sure enough, the No. 2 and No. 3 tanks stopped before they drove to the anti-tank trench. After the tank crew came out of the inside, the No. 4 tank pushed the tanks with sandbags into the anti-tank trench... With just a few "bang bang", the anti-tank trench, which was already almost bombed by artillery shells, was quickly filled.
This is indeed a good idea. Filling trenches with tanks is much faster than filling trenches. In just a moment, seven or eight places were filled in, especially the places where the tanks were filled in were very compact. After all, it was made of iron and steel, so the tanks were no longer worried about being trapped when they rolled on them.
Then, the German tanks charged from these eight filling outlets to the defense line of the Central Team like a flood that broke the dam. The Germans even let bulldozers go ahead, and they obviously used flat sand dunes to open the way for the tanks that followed.
Zhang Chi said intimately that it was going to be bad.
The German army won this move by surprise... They launched attacks at multiple far apart positions at the same time, which would inevitably make the bazooka shooter lose sight of the other. As long as there was a part of the bazooka shooter who made a mistake and allowed the enemy to break through the defense line, the tanks interspersed in would cause fatal chaos to the expeditionary force and eventually lead to the collapse of the entire defense line.
Zhang Chi did not hesitate, put down the telescope in his hand and grabbed the rifle and ran along the traffic trench towards the line of defense in front.
Major William and the British officials couldn't help but scream:
"God, what is he doing?"
"General, where are you going?"
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According to the traditional British military concept, the general should command in the command center, just like Montgomery, so when they saw Zhang Chi running to the front line with a sniper rifle so skillfully, they couldn't believe what they saw was real.
But these concepts are only suitable for Britain. For Chinese troops, especially the Expeditionary Force, it has long been common for generals to go to the front line. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!