Chapter 1362: The Iron Torrent Collides
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At 8:30 in the morning, Admiral He Bingju gave the order for the armored brigade to assault, and more than two hundred tanks and armored vehicles of the 8th armored brigade drove out of their positions, drove out from the west side of the town of Noor, and rushed to the position!
"Boom!" The roar of the motors of tanks and armored vehicles was like thunder. The tracks crushed on the ground, making that sound that makes people feel tooth sore! However, the torrent of steel composed of more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and the indomitable momentum was indeed daunting, and I couldn't help but feel that it was difficult to resist!
"What's that? Hell, the armored forces of the Chinese! Retreat, retreat now! Otherwise we will be crushed directly into meat sauce by the armored forces of the Chinese! After discovering that the armored units of the Chinese Army appeared on the battlefield, the British Army officers and soldiers who were suppressed exclaimed one after another. At this moment, they can no longer care about the machine gun bullets and shells of the squadron flying over their heads, if they don't retreat, they will be directly crushed by the armored forces of the Chinese army! Even if you are killed by a bullet, you will be able to leave at least one whole corpse behind! If you are crushed into meat sauce by a tank, it will be quite miserable!
A large number of British Army officers and soldiers jumped up from the ground, and the wolves fled backwards, which was much faster than when they attacked. However, no matter how fast the bullet was, many British Army officers and soldiers who fled were killed by bullets fired from behind. Then he fell straight to the ground. Lost life! But. Even this could not stop these British soldiers from fleeing for their lives. In order to avoid being crushed into meat sauce by the armored units of the Chinese army, they must flee for their lives!
The dispatch of the 8th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army immediately broke up the British attack. These British soldiers all opened their legs, and the wolf bèi fled, hoping that their parents would give them two more pairs of legs. However, the legs clearly could not run the tracks of the tank and the wheels of the armored car. After being caught up, the British soldiers were killed directly by machine gun fire from tanks and armored vehicles, or they were crushed to death. Otherwise, there is only one way to surrender to the squadron! If you move slowly, you may lose your life!
"General, the Chinese have dispatched armored forces! Do they want to just break our ground? Major General Ronald said with some concern. He was extremely distrustful of the British Army's defensive line. Even though they have strengthened the arrangement of anti-armor weapons, they are still very worried in the face of the steel torrent of the armored forces of the Chinese army!
"Get our armored forces ready! Once the front-line positions are broken, then be ready for a hard battle with the Chinese! Admiral Hamilton ordered! Now. He can only hope that the anti-tank weapons on the front line will be able to build miracles, or that the armored forces created by the British Army will be able to defeat the armored forces of the Chinese Army! Of course. He also knows how small this one could be!
When the assault force consisting of the 8th Armored Brigade and the 10th Infantry Division of the 8th Army of the Chinese Army began to launch an assault on the positions of the British troops, the first wave of naval carrier-based aircraft had already flown to the battlefield! While the H5D Eagle dive bombers were still hovering at high altitude, the F5B Puffin fighters began to lower altitude, dropping the two bomblets under the wings and starting to strafe British positions. And 48 H5C "Osprey" torpedo attack planes began to reduce their altitude, adopt a dense queue, and drop bombs on the positions of the British troops at an altitude of 1,500 meters above the ground, using this defense to increase the hit rate!
"Air defense forces fire! Knock down the Chinese planes! On the British position, the officers shouted loudly.
Soon, anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns began to roar. It's just that the F5B 'Puffin' fighter is very light, maneuverable very well, and can easily pass through the British army's anti-aircraft fire network, which seems to be dangerous, but in fact the danger is not great, and the fighter can always evade the British anti-aircraft fire on the ground in a fraction of a centimeter, just like a petrel shuttling in a storm! Although the anti-aircraft fire of the British army on the ground has been chasing these fighters, it really does not pose much of a threat! And the H5C 'Osprey' torpedo attack aircraft flying at an altitude of 1,500 meters is relatively strong in itself, even if it is pierced by an anti-aircraft machine gun bullet a few holes, as long as it is not a critical bullet, it will generally not have much impact, of course, if it is directly hit by an anti-aircraft gun, it is another matter!
48 H5C 'Osprey' torpedo attack planes dropped bombs one after another, and the dense bombs exploded on the British positions, and the smoke of gunpowder shrouded almost the entire position. After the smoke cleared, the British positions between them were already in shambles, with huge craters everywhere and trenches caving a lot. There were also machine gun fire points and anti-tank gun fire points that were destroyed!
After the H5C 'Osprey' torpedo attack plane finished dropping bombs, it returned directly to its home. Fighters and dive bombers remained, who were to provide direct fire support for the assault of armored forces!
At 8:55, the tanks of the 8th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army were already approaching the position of the British army, especially the T5 'Cheetah' medium tank, which was only more than 200 meters away from the position of the British army! At this time, the anti-tank guns of the British army also opened fire one after another!
"When! While! "There are constantly tanks being hit, worrying, after some tanks are hit, they can continue to act or return fire, and after other tanks are hit, they directly become a pile of scrap metal!
Among the anti-tank guns used by the British Army, in addition to the 37mm anti-tank guns, there are also larger-caliber anti-tank guns, the latest 50mm caliber anti-tank guns! This anti-tank gun, at a distance of 300 meters, is capable of penetrating 45 mm of armor, and at a distance of 200 meters, 60 mm of armor! The Chinese Army's T5 'Cheetah' medium tank has only 57 mm of frontal armor, which is simply not able to withstand this new anti-tank gun equipped by the British! However, fortunately, most of the anti-tank guns equipped by the British Army are 37 mm caliber, and only a few are 50 mm caliber!
When the tanks of the 8th Armored Brigade of the Chinese Army realized that their safety was threatened, they immediately began to retreat, directly facing the enemy with the strongest front, and at the same time the turret began to rotate to counterattack the British anti-tank fire points, so as to be able to suppress the enemy's fire and reduce casualties!
In addition, the naval carrier-based aircraft in the sky also found that the attack of the armored forces was thwarted, and the H5D 'Fish Eagle' dive bombers, which had been staying at high altitude, began to drop bombs. 'Boom', accompanied by this sound that seemed to puncture people's eardrums, the dive bomber began to dive and drop bombs! At an altitude of just over 500 meters above the ground, heavy aerial bombs fell off from under the belly of the aircraft and smashed at the target, while the dive bombers began to change their dive paths! The air defense units of the British Army also began to shoot fiercely, trying to stop the attack of the carrier-based aircraft of the Chinese Navy!
"Boom!" A 500-kilogram aerial bomb exploded less than 10 meters away from an anti-tank fire point of the British Army. As for the soldiers who operated the anti-tank guns, they had long since disappeared without a trace!
With the addition of carrier-based aircraft units of the Chinese Navy, the anti-tank fire points of the British army were greatly suppressed! The tanks of the 8th Armored Brigade launched a fierce attack, and one by one the anti-tank fire points were removed, so that the obstacles to the attack were cleared one by one!
By 9 a.m., the anti-tank activities on the forward positions of the British Army had been almost resolved, and the T4 'Wild Wolves' light tanks and armored vehicles that had been staying at a safe distance also rushed up and began to attack the British positions! When the British anti-tank fire points were destroyed, they were no longer able to withstand the armored forces of the Chinese Army! Of course, in between, the armored forces of the Chinese Army also paid a lot of price, 11 T5 "Cheetah" medium tanks and 3 T4 "Wild Wolf" light tanks were chanced, and two more Z4 wheeled armored vehicles were chanced! The Navy's carrier-based aircraft also had two dive bombers and one fighter shot down in order to support the armored forces!
Despite heavy losses, the elimination of the anti-tank units of the British army is a victory!
More and more tanks broke through the British lines and stormed the positions of the British troops! The British soldiers either fired at these tanks and armored vehicles with machine guns or rifles in vain, but there was no other effect than leaving a little white mark on the tanks and armored vehicles. There is also a writing that the British soldiers rushed to the armored units of the Chinese army with bundles of grenades in their arms, but they were shot by the infantry protecting these tanks and armored vehicles before they could get close!
The 10th Infantry Division, which accompanied the armored forces, began to clear the British troops from the positions with the support of the armored forces, and the 9th Infantry Division, which was defending the town of Knoor, also took the opportunity to attack in order to expand the results of the battle!
"General, the front line has been broken through, the offensive of the Chinese is too fierce, we simply cannot resist! The 2nd Army asked for a retreat! Major General Ronald reported to Admiral Hamilton!
"Let the 2nd Army retreat to the second-line positions! Also, let the armored forces go out and block the Chinese! Give the retreat of the 2nd Army a chance! Admiral Hamilton ordered! Keeping their armored forces in the way of the Chinese 8th Panzer Brigade could prevent the British from retreating into a rout! Of course, this also directly caused the outbreak of the first large-scale tank battle on the European battlefield! A fierce battle broke out in Birmingham with hundreds of tanks on both sides! (To be continued......)