Chapter 805: Middle East Campaign (5)
As the sun rose, a new day began, and the rested officers and soldiers of the British and Romanian soldiers entered a new battle.
"Attack."
As the Romanian officer leading the group shouted, a large number of soldiers rushed towards the defenders' positions.
"Fight back."
In the face of the attacking Romanian army, the commander of the position immediately shouted, and led his subordinates to desperately prevent it from approaching his position.
Such scenes were everywhere, and the smoke of gunpowder hung over Palestine and northern Jordan, so that even the sun could not bear to see the fight and hid.
If there is one place where the fighting is the most intense, it is the Jordan Valley. If the previous day's battle was uncomfortable, today's fight was disgusting.
In the Jordan Valley, the officers and men of the 3rd and 6th Armored Divisions looked at the positions one by one and really wanted to vomit.
"How did this be investigated, so many obvious positions were not detected."
That's right, this is the voice of the officers and men of the two divisions at present, and they are disgusted by these positions that have suddenly appeared, and many of them can see fresh soil at a glance, which shows that they have only been built for a short time. Made, why is he so unlucky, every time he can catch up with the enemy's position, he has just repaired, and he has arrived.
In fact, this question also puzzled the Romanian intelligence service. However, the problem was not long solved, and it turned out that the British used the existing channels in the Jordan Valley to gather large sums of money to help them dig trenches. Although such a trench has many shortcomings, it is better to be able to build many trenches in a day at a fast speed.
So now there is a spectacle in the Jordan Valley, where the war is raging in the front, and the Arabs in the back are helping the old and the young to help the British build trenches.
You said that the Holy Descent family doesn't have a lot of influence in this land, why don't you call on everyone to stop this kind of behavior?
It's good, it's very well said, but influence can't be eaten, not to mention that the British have guns in one hand and money in the other, as long as they are not stupid, they know how to choose.
In addition, the previous great riot had already exerted the influence of the Holy Descent family to the extreme, and its outbreak of resistance was either fleeing to Damascus or hiding obediently in front of the British soldiers.
Although the Jordan Valley offensive made the 3rd and 6th Panzer Divisions somewhat difficult, Hoffman still had no intention of ordering them to stop. Because of the latest situation learned by the reconnaissance planes in the morning, they dragged at least 8 British infantry divisions, nearly 100,000 troops.
If these people were replaced by the British division, Hoffman would not talk about attacking, and immediately ordered them to withdraw. However, these divisions are all troops formed by their colonies, and a lot of equipment can be used to fight a war, and there is no native army in these divisions, not even traditional white troops such as Australia and New Zealand and Canada. It's basically a force composed of African black uncles and Indians.
In the face of such a force, Hoffmann, of course, would not order the troops to stop, even if the enemy was more numerous, relying on the position layer by layer to disgust people, but it was absolutely impossible to stop the footsteps of Romanian armor.
The actual situation was more or less what he thought, and in the afternoon, the officers and men of the 3rd and 6th Panzer Divisions felt that the enemy they were facing was beginning to weaken. A large number of Uncle Black and Indian Asan flooded the enemy lines, which may be that the defending British felt too much pressure and wanted to increase the strength of the troops.
But the subsequent battles showed that it was definitely a defeat. The Indians and blacks who filled the trenches had never been trained to deal with tanks before, or the means they used to train anti-tanks were still in World War I.
It's good in the face of other aspects, even if it's an infantry attack, these people still fight well, although many people don't know where their guns are going, but at least they can hold on.
However, when facing the Romanian R-series tanks, these people behaved very badly, many of them did not seem to have seen a tank, or such a tall tank (R30 heavy tank), and after all means could not stop these mobile fortresses, they blew up and fled backwards, not even the gendarmerie could not make them stop.
And the escape of these people also brought down other comrades-in-arms.
Faced with such a situation, it is believed that the officer who made this proposal must have wanted to bang his head against the wall.
That's right, General Gansko, who commanded the battle, really wanted to bang his head against the wall, if he hadn't forgotten to bring his helmet.
However, considering the influence and identity, he can only eat this loss raw.
And he had to do this, because he needed to ensure that he blocked the Romanian troops, so he needed to give priority to the use of combat-effective troops, and the successive battles made his casualties not small, so he could only fill in the weak troops slowly, but its performance seemed to be a bit bad. But the next battle, no matter how bad it is, must be put on top, and the casualties will be greater.
Therefore, in the ensuing battle, the officers and men of the 3rd and 6th Panzer Divisions found that the enemy was also getting bigger and bigger, gradually growing from the regimental level to the brigade level, but the scale increased, but the blocking time was not extended, but it also annoyed them.
Compared with the 3rd and 6th Panzer Divisions, which were entangled in the Jordan Valley, the 4th and 7th Panzer Divisions on the coastal plain were much more comfortable.
They galloped all the way along the coastal road, and they didn't even meet a decent battle.
"Damn, it's so quiet, it makes us feel like we're on vacation, and it's not a good feeling."
Major Martin Lehmann, sitting in his command car, spoke his concerns to his deputy.
Now Martin Lehmann has been promoted to major, and not only that, but he has also taken over the position of battalion commander because the former battalion commander was transferred to another department, and he is not inferior to his sworn enemy, Major Barber, both in terms of position and military rank.
In the face of Martin Lehmann's words, the deputy agreed with the experience of fighting during this time.
"That's true. Yesterday was fine, at least in Haifa we had one more fight, and then there were several skirmishes. But until today, there hasn't even been a single level battle, this is not like the style of the British, didn't they arrange for troops to be stationed in the rear? This is a mistake that even a cadet would not make. ”
"yes, that's exactly what I'm worried about."
While Martin Lehmann was talking about his opponent's unexpected move, Bordas, who was sitting in his command car, was also thinking about asking him. Of course, his command vehicle is much better than Martin Lehmann's command vehicle filled by armored vehicles, this command car not only has a map sand table, radio communication is also readily available, and the command car also has a small bedroom for him to rest.
But his confusion was the same as that of Martin Lehmann, and it felt like a march, so smooth that there was not even the slightest decent resistance. It felt like the British had deliberately let them in, which made Bordas's inner vigilance at its peak.
And this is related to the situation of his own troops, Bordas can't think of a reason for it for the time being, so of course he will hand over the problem. Maybe his old chief knows the reason for this problem.
After Bordas's telegram reached the general headquarters, Hoffman already had a general idea in his heart based on the reports of other fronts, but he did not stop the coastal cluster, but picked up the phone instead.
"Give me the Air Force Command, and I'm going to find General Davalek."
"Is it General Davalek, I'm Hoffman, and I ask that your air force must ensure adequate air cover for coastal clusters...... I know you have a lot to do, but protecting coastal clusters must be the first priority, without any justification or excuse...... I want to see results. ”
After putting down the phone, Hoffman planned to continue to see what the British were doing, but it was not easy to move his own coastal cluster, especially with Romania dominating the sea and air.