Chapter 927: How Long Is It Before Our Air Force Can Attack?
Sherman tanks were either destroyed on the battlefield by German tank guns and anti-tank guns, or blown up by German bomber and fighter groups.
The fire and smoke are intertwined, and the scenes of tank battles and mechanized blitzkrieg battles are staged, which can be said to be breathtaking or fascinated by war enthusiasts.
However, for the British, they were the biggest losers in this battle, and the biggest winners on the contrary were the German troops under the command of Guderian.
Looking at the battlefield covered with a lot of wreckage of British armored vehicles and tanks, as well as the British troops with tanks or armored vehicles paralyzed on the side of the road waiting for repair and surrender, there are also British tanks destroyed on the road are burning, emitting fiery red smoke, billowing on the battlefield to add the sadness and death of war.
After breaking through the British defensive line commanded by William Joseph Slim, the German mechanized troops under the command of Guderian immediately let their elite troops continue to pursue and kill the remnants of the British elite troops who were evacuating, and even prepared to fight to Tehran, the capital of Iran, because it was less than two or three days away from their current battlefield.
The blitzkrieg of the mechanized forces commanded by Guderian was proceeding so quickly in Iran that it was completely beyond the expectations of the British army and all the British military leaders; Including the U.S. troops, who were sending reinforcements, and the Soviet troops, who were preparing to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, also suddenly felt threatened and frightened.
And once the British army is completely defeated and collapsed by the German army, or is completely annihilated by the German army, then it will also be a disastrous day for them, and their fate will definitely not be better than that of the British army.
Whoever calls them three nations are now grasshoppers in the same boat, and whoever dies will not have any special benefits for the other two teammates.
"The British army has been defeated by Guderian, should we attack and support now?"
Combat staff officer Archibri said anxiously to McNair, who graduated from the Army Military Academy.
McNair, however, was silent, flipping through all the important battle reports from the front in his hand.
At this moment, he was promoted to brigadier general in 1937, and then served as the commander of the Second Field Artillery Brigade.
Then, in 1940, he served as director of the Command and Staff College, and chief of staff of the Combat Training Department of the U.S. Army General Command; He was promoted to lieutenant general, served as Marshall's aide, and served as commander of the Army's ground forces.
It's just that now he did not become the commander of the First Army Group in 1944 as in the original history, and followed the allied forces of Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries to carry out landing operations in Normandy.
In other words, he was not one of the senior generals of the US army who was killed by the indiscriminate shelling and bombardment of his own US troops during the Normandy landing operation, while inspecting the front-line battles.
And he was also a high-ranking general who was bombed and couldn't distinguish his appearance in a blur of flesh and blood, and that tragic death was also something McNair had never dreamed of before his death.
"Commander McNair! Please give us instructions! The new commander of the British army, William Joseph Slim, has made several urgent calls for help from us! ”
"And he also got the consent of Commander Eisenhower, so ......"
Seeing that he did not immediately get a response from McNair in the report, Archebri, the combat staff officer, also continued to urge the other party anxiously.
"Hmmm! How long do we have for our Air Force to strike? ”
But McNair was not in a hurry at all, raised his head and stared at the combat staff officer, Archibri, and asked rhetorically.
"Ahh Our Air Force? ”
Asked by McNair in such a jump, Archibri, the combat staff officer who was still very anxious just now, stood speechless for a while and stammered.