"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The German anti-tank guns continued to fire, and the British tanks were fired one after another.

The power of the 37mm anti-tank gun was enough to penetrate the weak armor of the 'Hound Dog' tank at a distance of thousands of meters. It's just that, in order to ensure the hit rate, the combat distance is put to a few hundred meters.

The number of anti-tank guns equipped by the Germans, although not much, is not less. Even an ordinary infantry company will be equipped with two. Anti-tank guns can be used not only to destroy enemy armored targets, but also to deal with pillboxes or machine-gun fire points, which is very useful.

It is precisely because of this that the anti-armor strength of the German army is very strong. This directly caused the attack of the British tank troops to be as if they had hit an iron plate.

"Boom!"

A British 'Hound Dog' tank opened fire, and a shell flew towards the German position. But alas, it was not possible to hit the target.

However, when it opened fire, it was hit by a German anti-tank gun.

"Dang!" The armor-piercing shells fired by the anti-tank gun hit the tank's frontal armor fiercely. The fragile armor was torn apart in an instant. Fragments were fired in a small space inside the tank, killing the tankmen inside.

Under the heavy fire of the German anti-tank guns, the losses of the British tank units began to skyrocket.

Admiral Haig watched it all with a telescope. When he watched the losses of the British tank units grow bigger and bigger, his face turned as black as the bottom of a pot.

Originally, he had great confidence in the tank troops, thinking that hundreds of tanks would be able to break through the German defense line and defeat them, no matter how many hundreds of tanks attacked. But now it seems that it is useless at all! The tanks had been beaten to burning scrap metal.

"Oh God! How could the Germans have been armed with so many anti-tank guns? How could their anti-tank guns be so powerful? Admiral Hamilton's face was also not good-looking. He used these tanks as treasures before, but he didn't expect that after going to the battlefield, they would be so vulnerable.

"Your Excellency Commander, the anti-tank firepower of the German army is too strong, and it may be difficult for our tank troops to achieve the expected combat objectives!" Admiral Haig had to give Admiral Hamilton a precautionary shot.

This immediately made Admiral Hamilton's face even more ugly.

If the British tank attack is ineffective, their counterattack will also face failure. Then, the tide of battle will be very unfavorable for the British army. I am afraid that the entire southeast theater will suffer heavy losses in this battle, and the defeat will be complete.

"Boom!"

An anti-tank gun shell, which hit one of the British tanks. But, perhaps because of the angle, the shell did not penetrate the armor of the tank, but flew out.

However, the crisp sound of impact made the tank soldiers hiding inside frightened.

"Oh God! We were hit. ”

"It's a good thing we weren't penetrated, otherwise, we would have died!"

"Damn it, get out of here. We can't move on. If you go any further, you will be destroyed by the Germans! ”

The surviving tankmen in this tank immediately agreed. Ignoring orders from their superiors, they forcibly turned the tanks around and tried to flee the battlefield.

At this time, the British tank troops were attacking forward. This tank wants to go backwards, and the consequences can be imagined.

In the panic, this tank and another tank were loaded into an accident. In addition, it also caused an accident in which several tanks collided. This made the formation of the British tank troops even more chaotic.

The accident in the British tank unit immediately attracted the attention of the German army. The commander of the German 1st Panzer Division immediately gave the order to attack.

The German armored units, which had long been gearing up, rushed out of the trenches and entered the battlefield.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

The tank's tank guns opened fire, turning the British tanks into fireballs.

At a distance of several hundred meters, these tanks are easily able to hit the target.

This was undoubtedly a disaster for the British tank troops.

After the German armored units entered the battlefield, a large number of British tanks were destroyed in an instant, and the losses of the British tank troops began to skyrocket.

"Oh God! The tank units of the Germans have appeared, and they are ready to resist it! Admiral Hamilton exclaimed when he saw this.

However, the British tank troops, which were already in chaos, had been completely blinded in the face of huge losses. When they saw the black German tanks rushing towards them like tigers, they did not think of fighting, but immediately turned around and fled.

This makes the situation on the battlefield very strange, named after the British tanks still have a numerical advantage, but they are defeated by the German tanks.

Especially after those tanks finished turning and aimed their butts at the German tanks, they fell into a state of complete slaughter. A large number of tanks were pierced from behind by German tanks and became a pile of scrap metal.

When the German armored units were chasing down the British tanks, the fighters of the German Army Air Corps also came to help. Hundreds of H1 bombers flew over the heads of the British tank units and dropped bombs.

Bombs fell like dumplings, and dense explosions rang out on the ground.

Although, these tanks were 25 kg light aerial bombs, they posed a mortal threat to the tanks of the British army.

If you are directly hit, you will be blown up on the spot. Even if a bomb explodes next to a tank, shrapnel can easily tear through the weak armor.

Under the intensive bombardment of the German Army Air Force, a large number of British tanks were directly destroyed. This made the remaining tank soldiers even more frightened. They were at full speed, and if they wanted to escape from the battlefield, they had no courage to fight at all.

The first large-scale operation of the tank forces of the British army can be described as a fiasco. They were struck down by the combined efforts of the German armored forces and the army aviation, and the losses were extremely heavy. At the time of the attack, there were more than 500 tanks. However, the number of tanks that were safely withdrawn was less than a hundred. The rest of the tanks have already been destroyed.

More importantly, the confidence of the British tank troops was also completely destroyed in this battle. Those tank crews didn't dare to enter the tanks anymore, let alone fight the Germans.

This also made the British army's desperate counterattack end in failure.