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Just when the 502nd Heavy Tank Battalion was slaughtering all sides on the Western Front, beating the Americans all over the ground. The 511 Heavy Tank Battalion did not deal with the eastward advancing American troops with the 502 Heavy Tank Battalion as planned, because not long after the plan was formulated, the German aerial reconnaissance suddenly discovered that the French ** regiment supporting Toulouse was moving very fast and had threatened Moder's flank. In the face of a powerful attack corps composed of about 3 divisions of the French army, Moder, who was conservative by nature, decisively strengthened the 511 heavy tank battalion to the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division on the flank, and when the 502 Tank Battalion was rushing back and forth in the US formation like Zhao Zilong, the 511 heavy tank battalion played the role of the mainstay, with the cooperation of the No. 4 tank and tank destroyers of the 5th Mechanized Infantry Battalion, it blocked the attack of the French.

The two armoured armies eventually met north of Cahors. The timing of the arrival of the French was excellent. They arrived almost at the same time as the U.S. troops to the west. Here, the 48 Tiger tanks of the 511th Tank Battalion will join 85 No. 4 tanks and 37 No. 4 tank destroyers of the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division against one French armored division and two mechanized infantry divisions under Charles de Gaulle, the elite units of the French, with a total of about 500 tanks and tank destroyers of various types, including the B1 heavy tank (this B1 is not a B1 tank on the historical plane) that the French are proud of. The specific performance is slightly stronger than that of the Type 29 tank. It is considered a heavy tank in the law ** of this plane. ）

"We must not attack from the front, the opponent's new tanks are very powerful, and the Type 29 tank destroyer will have a hard time destroying the opponent from the front, and our only chance is to flank from both sides. The weight of the opponent's new tank was almost twice as heavy as that of the No. 4. The cost and production difficulty are certainly considerable. So there won't be a lot of them, we can only knock out tank No. 4 on both wings first, and then use the Type 29 tank destroyer to raid the flank, in order to have a chance of winning, in addition. In order to increase our anti-armor firepower, I hope to pull the Type 29 assault gun on the battlefield, I have read some of the war reports of the Chinese Army, in fact, if you simply talk about the depth of the artillery, the power of the Type 29 assault gun is not weaker than the Type 29 tank destroyer, and now the Huaxia is not equipped with some tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells? "After Dayan made his first block. His troops moved closer to de Gaulle's main forces. After meeting de Gaulle, he put forward his opinion.

I have to say that Dayan, who has been beaten once, is more experienced than the Americans. (Well, the Americans also took 1 beating, but it was too short.) There is simply no way to digest the lessons of the first battle. He used the best equipment at hand to develop the most feasible play. Unlike the Americans, he has a clearer understanding of the equipment gap between the two sides, and he knows that even his own best anti-armor firepower can hardly pose a frontal threat to the other side. The difficulty of hitting the side with the second-level anti-armor fire is about the same as the difficulty of hitting the front with the first-class anti-armor fire, maybe Dayan doesn't know the allusion of Arita Ji horse racing, but in the tactical arrangement, he uses his strongest spear to attack the most vulnerable part of the opponent. And de Gaulle was also a good listener, after listening to Dayan's advice. He adopted the other party's plan, and said something intriguing at the end: "This is the last resort, if that doesn't work." Then France will not have a way to stop the Panzer Corps of the Germans. ”

While the French were arranging their own battle plans and deploying large quantities of anti-armor weapons on both flanks, Major General Hubey, who commanded the 511th Heavy Tank Battalion and the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division, was also considering the battle plan. To say that Hubey's military experience can be described as bumpy, he was brilliant, but more of a failure, although the defeat to the Chinese armored forces was not a shameful thing within the German army. But the so-called people become old and refined, and they eat too many defeats. Hube was also more cautious and cunning in deploying his troops. In the battle with Xu Huaide, he learned that armored forces must be mixed. Unless you have enough money to equip all your troops with the most elite equipment, you will have to level the combat effectiveness of elite units and regular units as much as possible in a confrontational battle.

Although he has the Tiger tank, he also knows that the side of the Tiger tank is not safe in the face of the combination of Type 29 tank destroyer and tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectiles, and if the opponent breaks through from both wings, the Tiger tank will not be able to face various armored units from all directions. Therefore, he must draw out a part of the anti-armor backbone and deploy it on both flanks to defend against the opponent's pincer attack! Considering that the numerical advantage of the French was too great this time, in order to maintain his core combat effectiveness, Hube also specially deployed the Tiger tank and the No. 4 tank destroyer in a slightly backward position, that is to say, the first round went up to the No. 4 tank such cannon fodder, the Tiger tank was only a heavy gunner at the beginning, and when the main forces of the two sides collided, the sharp spearhead of the Tiger tank would come out!

Just when Becker and Walker were inseparable, Hubey's armored group also collided with De Gaulle's three divisions! Hubey's troops were limited in size, and de Gaulle arrived in a hurry, with a lot of heavy artillery thrown behind. So, in a hurry, this battle directly turned into an armored war! Together, nearly 700 tanks and self-propelled guns of various types were gathered on the battlefield, along an invisible line, divided into two distinct parts, in terms of size, the French were about three times larger than the Germans, but the Germans also had some towed 88mm anti-aircraft guns and mobile anti-aircraft guns converted from half-tracked vehicles in the back. From the sky, the tanks on both sides moved slowly on the ground like beetles, they first controlled the speed and maintained the formation, and when the distance between the two sides was close to a certain level, the German tank No. 4 moved first!

"It's the French B1 tank, the thickness of their frontal armor is 45 degrees, the turret part is poorly protected, the angle is small, and the frontal thickness of the turret is only. Their 90mmL42 guns were about as powerful as the Type 29 tank destroyer guns, but the French lacked tungsten alloy, so the number of high-speed armor-piercing shells was small. The opponent's first defense is the best, followed by the first defense. The worst thing is the turret! "Before the start of the war, the Germans collected data on the B1 tank of the French. After comparison, the Germans had to admit that this tank, which weighed more than 40 tons, was almost the best tank in terms of performance except for the Tiger tank, although there were problems such as lack of mobility and low ammunition reserves. But they are still a formidable enemy, but fortunately, they are not very numerous.

Under the cover of a smoke screen, the nimble No. 4 tank rushed forward quickly, braving the sharp fire of the French, and the No. 4 tank used the high speed and high rate of fire of the guns to try to overwhelm the opponent in a mid-to-close range of fire. The French B1 tank performed very well in this round of confrontation, and the shells fired by the artillery flew towards the target like a sharp arrow, and at a distance of 800 meters, all the hit No. 4 tanks could not escape the fate of being destroyed, and the Germans also aimed at the huge turret of the B1 tank, and the almost vertical defense was its biggest hit. The turret of more than one B1 tank was scooped by a 75mmL48 gun at a distance of 600 meters, and often after a flash of fire, a circular hole appeared in the box-like turret, followed by a dull explosion from inside the tank, and the tank itself fell to the side like a drunk man.

It has to be said that the quality of the battle-hardened German armored troops was even better than that of the French, and they used various tactical maneuvers such as irregular maneuvers, sudden stops and sudden acceleration to disrupt the opponent's aiming. Even some excellent tank crews can be able to carry out dynamic and static shooting at medium and close ranges in low-speed marching, and the Germans make full use of the high rate of fire to improve the possibility of destroying the opponent through repeated shots. The first round of impact on both sides was bloody. More than a dozen No. 4 tanks were destroyed by the brutal 90mm guns of the B1 tanks, while eight B1 tanks and several S35 tanks were also destroyed on the opposite side. Numerically, the Germans were slightly at a disadvantage. In this engagement, the French did not see the Tiger tanks that were difficult for the Germans.

If the two sides are tied in the middle, then it is clear that the French have the advantage on the flanks. The French pushed the Type 29 tank destroyers and assault guns to the front to form a copper wall and pressed the German troops on both flanks, and their advance speed was not fast, but it was unusually steady. There was no interspersed destruction between the formations of the Germans, crushing all the enemies they could come across like a huge grinding disc!

On the battlefield, we should pay attention to grasping opportunities. The amount of time a force invests can have a very different impact on the outcome of a war, such as just now. If the Germans had started to push the Tiger to the front, then even if they had routed the Type B1 tanks in the front, then with the collapse of the flanks, there would have been a large number of Type 29 tank destroyers aimed at your flanks with 90mm guns, and then the 511 Heavy Tank Battalion would definitely have serious losses. And now it is different, the French did not find a frontal Tiger tank. So when the target doesn't appear, his wings can't be easily compressed, and he can only move on.

Rumble! A large fireball suddenly erupted from the front of a advancing B1 tank, tearing a large piece of the entire upper armor apart! Soon, several tanks next to it were also destroyed by the incoming shells. The salvo of the Tiger tank in the rear instantly knocked the French tank rushing in front to pieces! The French know that the Lord is coming! The real battle has begun!

"Attack those heavy tanks first, they are the main enemy!" The French also noticed the Tiger tank under the cover of the smoke screen and the No. 4 tank, but the other side was far away. These horrific killers are nothing more than erratic figures in the scope. At a distance of 1,200 meters, the Tiger tank launched the attack first, although the average four guns can hit a B1 tank, but every blow is so deadly, whether it is the B1 tank's proud upper armor or turret armor, under the attack of the Tiger strong charge 88mm gun like paper paste! With the explosions again and again, huge fireballs rose in the French formation, and in the face of the sharp attacks of the Germans, the entire formation had been torn apart. Many French grass-roots units have lost their commanders, and they can only fight by feeling, and some of them can't even grasp the direction of the opponent's attack in the smoke rising. The French, lacking actual combat experience, were gradually at a disadvantage in the face of the German heavy armored battalions, which were equally top-notch in armor and quality, and from the air, the French offensive in the center had tended to come to a standstill.

"Let the troops on both flanks wrap it up!" Eventually, de Gaulle gave the order to close the wings. "Now is not the time, the heavy tank units of the Germans are only partially exposed! According to aviation reconnaissance, their number is around 60, and now only 20 have been exposed! The Germans still had enough forces to defend against our packets. Dayan on the side hurriedly said. The bag clamp pays attention to eating the main force of the other side in one bite, rather than eating part of it and leaving part of it, in this way, the two troops are inside and outside, but they may carry out counter-encirclement of the bag and clamp troops! The two sides are now looking to see who can hide the hole cards to the end, in Dayan's view, the French army has a great advantage in the number of tanks, and the French must have the advantage if they are replaced.

"The Germans chose the battlefield, which will naturally limit the play of our advantages, although this place is relatively open, but it is still not possible to fully deploy all the tanks of our army, and the tanks that are squeezed behind cannot play a role, then the numerical superiority is nonsense! The only way we can do that is to knock a gap! Then interspersed, divide and surround the other side, otherwise, as long as the Germans hold the battle line to the death, with the support of the opponent's superior equipment, we will fight waist-deep blood! "Relatively speaking, de Gaulle had more combat experience than Dayan, who could take on the command of a battalion-sized combat unit, but it was obviously not a good time to command a large army to fight.

The tank destroyers on both wings began to turn to the heavy artillery aimed at the Tiger tanks that were sniping the French army head-on, and under the cover of various medium tanks such as the S35, the 29 series self-propelled guns began to aim their powerful guns at distant targets! 800 meters away! The horned rhinoceros roared! The sour Tiger tanks that were fighting head-on did not realize the threat from the flanks at the first time, and when the No. 4 tanks on both sides were almost divided by the long-horned rhinoceros, the Tiger tanks in the middle of nearly a company and a half found that their flanks were exposed!

A 90mm tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullet hit the side of a retreating Tiger tank from 700 meters away, the extremely hard core tore through the lower armor of the Tiger hull and destroyed the gearbox in the middle and rear of the hull, and the scattered shrapnel bounced back and forth inside the narrow hull, although the tank was not killed, but the people in the car were dead. And the heavy artillery shell of another Type 29 assault gun smashed into the lower part of the turret! Large-caliber shells are not sensitive to slightly inclined armor, and after easily tearing off the side armor, they detonated the 88mm shells placed on both sides of the hull, a huge fireball erupted from the breach, and the turret of the Tiger tank was pushed out of the gun circle under the action of a huge impact!

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