"General!" After thinking about it for a while, Heinz Landau sent a telegram to Rommel: "I propose to divide the troops into two parts!" ”

"God!" Rommel called back: "Why are you still thinking about splitting the troops into two parts!" ”

"No, General!" Heinz Landau explains: "I mean...... A small force was detached to carry out a feint attack on Maherama. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoYou know, if the Chinese armored regiment is outside, does that mean that the defense of Mahairama is very weak? On the other hand, I hope to force out the Chinese armored regiment by a feint attack on Maherama! ”

Rommel was silent for a while, then called back: "Nice idea, you can try it!" ”

Heinz Landau was overjoyed by Rommel's support, and immediately asked Heisenberg to organize an attack on Maherama with 50 tanks under the cover of more than 30 guns.

Rows of shells soon rained down on Maherama, and as usual, they cleared the ground for the tank attack.

"It's finally here!" Jon looked at the tanks rumbling forward after the artillery fire, turned to Abner and said, "I wonder if the Chinese have considered this situation?" ”

Abner couldn't help but be a little nervous when he saw several No. 4 tanks driving in front of the German attacking tank group. BECAUSE THE FRONT ARMOR OF TANK NO. 4 REACHED 80MM THICK, WHICH EXCEEDED THE FRONT ARMOR OF THE BRITISH INFANTRY TANKS "MATILDA" AND "SHERMAN" TANKS, AND THE ARTILLERY WAS 75MM, WHICH WAS COMPARABLE TO THE "SHERMAN" 76MM CALIBER ANTI-TANK GUN.

But Abner's concern was not the superiority of the enemy tanks, but the lack of suitable anti-tank equipment in Maherama.

To be precise, the entire British army, including the American army, lacked suitable anti-tank equipment.

This is mainly due to the lack of awareness of infantry anti-tank equipment in Britain, the United States and other countries...... They always thought that the war was still trench warfare like during the First World War, and that Germany could not have tanks because of the restrictions of the "Versailles Treaty", so they took it for granted that the infantry did not need anti-tank equipment on the battlefield...... The enemy's tanks come up, as long as they send their own tanks, the infantry anti-tank is not looking for death?

However, actual combat is often different from imagination or even completely opposite, German tanks are not used to cover the infantry in trench warfare to launch a rigid attack on the defensive line, they use tanks to launch a "blitzkrieg", that is, deep behind the enemy and constantly interspersed with encirclement and attack the enemy's weak points.

It was not until France, which was known as the "strongest army in the world" at that time, collapsed in the face of Germany's "blitzkrieg" that European and American countries woke up and hurriedly developed anti-tank guns for infantry.

THE M5 ANTI-TANK GUN OF THE U.S. ARMY WAS PRODUCED IN THIS CONTEXT, WHICH WAS INSPIRED BY THE SUCCESS OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS FIGHTING TANKS IN THE AFRICAN THEATER, AND THE T9 7.62MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN WAS CONVERTED INTO AN ANTI-TANK GUN...... It's just that there is no suitable gun mount, and it is too late to redesign and produce the gun mount, so the gun mount of the M2 howitzer is used to patchwork together.

There's something obviously wrong with this patchwork:

FIRST OF ALL, THE ARMOR-PIERCING ABILITY OF THE AMERICAN T9 ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN IS INSUFFICIENT, AND IT CAN ONLY PENETRATE 73MM ARMOR AT A DISTANCE OF 1000 METERS, AND PENETRATE 115MM ARMOR AT A DISTANCE OF 500 METERS.

In other words, if it faced the German tank No. 4, it would have to be around 800 meters to be effective.

This would have been no problem, after all, the German army did not have many No. 4 tanks on the African battlefield, and with the cooperation of the "Sherman" tank, the M5 anti-tank gun could still play a certain role.

However...... The M5 anti-tank gun uses the howitzer mount.

Howitzers are generally located in the second line to carry out long-distance artillery support for the front-line infantry, so there is basically no problem of whether the target is big or not, so it is harmless to have a heavier gun mount and a little higher.

However, the anti-tank gun is a head-to-head confrontation with the enemy's tanks on the front line, and under normal circumstances, it is required to be light in weight and low in gun mounts, so that several infantry can push the transfer, and the low gun mounts can make their targets small and not easy to be exposed.

The M5 anti-tank gun is the opposite...... It is 1.61 meters tall and weighs 2.21 tons, and it is "tall and mighty" wherever it is placed, and must be maneuvered by car or armoured vehicle.

As a result, users of the M5 anti-tank gun often have a tragic scene: "In order to deploy it to the position, the driver has to brave the hail of bullets and artillery fire all the way, playing like a frenzy of life." Even if he was lucky enough to get the M5 anti-tank gun in place, he still had to hope that the enemy wouldn't notice this stupid guy who was 1.6 meters tall and 2.2 meters wide......"

With this concern in mind, Abner trotted all the way along the communication trench into the fortifications built by the Chinese army, and then found Wu Yuhang in the regimental headquarters and asked, "Colonel, is it time for you to contact General Zhang?" ”

"What do you mean?" Wu Yuhang asked.

"I mean......" said Abner, "the enemy has launched an attack on Maherama, so it is time for General Zhang's armored regiment to make a move!" ”

Wu Yuhang smiled and replied, "No, Colonel Abner." This is clearly just a feint by the enemy, and their purpose is to lure our armored regiment out! ”

"I know!" Abner replied: "But we have no effective weapons against the enemy's No. 4 tank, and the tank and most of the anti-tank guns have been taken out by General Zhang, and those who remain in Mahairama are some useless guys!" ”

Abner's "useless guy" refers to the American M5 anti-tank gun.

"We have bazookas, don't we?" Wu Yuhang raised his head in the direction of the bazooka stacked into several boxes not far from his side.

"Bazooka?" Abner looked at Wu Yuhang in surprise: "You plan to use that thing against the No. 4 tank of the Germans?" ”

"Why not?" This time it was Wu Yuhang's turn to feel strange, and then he couldn't help but be surprised, could it be that the data was wrong? Bazooka can't wreck tank No. 4?

Later, Wu Yuhang learned that Abner did not mean this.

OF COURSE, THE BAZOOKA CAN DESTROY TANK 4, AND THE CONICAL HIGH-POWER M10 ARMOR-PIERCING GRENADE IT USES HAS A PENETRATION DEPTH OF 100MM, NOT TO MENTION MEDIUM TANK NO. 4, AND EVEN THE TIGER HEAVY TANK HAS A RECORD OF BEING DESTROYED BY IT (NOTE: THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE U.S. ATTACK ON SICILY, BUT IT WAS LATER REVEALED THAT THE ROCKET HAPPENED TO HIT THE TIGER'S OBSERVATION HOLE). ）

The reason why Abner is so strange about Wu Yuhang's plan to use bazookas to repel German tanks is because bazookas are mostly equipped with the US military on the North African battlefield and are used as secret weapons...... As a result, the British army has always been unoptimistic about this inconspicuous individual weapon.