The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 653

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: 0.041s Scan: 0.027sBursts of roaring sound came from the beach. John was dizzy from the grenade explosion just now. He felt a warm feeling on his left arm. He subconsciously touched it with his hand and felt sticky.

Corporal John was startled and his mind immediately cleared up. When he came to his senses, he gradually felt a piercing pain from his left arm drilling into his brain, which made him unbearable. He subconsciously began to groan.

Just as he was groaning, the roar in the distance became clearer and clearer.

John endured the severe pain from his left arm, struggled to climb up a distance, lay on the edge of the trench, and looked out.

This look almost scared him to death!

On the beach in front of him, a large number of tanks were rushing towards him from a gap blown up by the German demolition hands. The nearest tank was less than 20 meters away from him!

This was the first time that Corporal John saw German tanks on the battlefield. These silent steel monsters could not be clearly seen in the dark night, but the vague appearance made them even more terrifying.

Corporal John stood there in shock, forgetting even to run away. At this time, the tank closest to him was already moving at high speed, with its gun pointed at their position!

“Get down!”

“Get down!”

Several screams of fear were heard around Corporal John. He struggled to avoid it, but he slipped and fell into the trench. The moment he fell into the trench, he saw a dazzling burst of fire from the muzzle of the tank!

Boom boom boom!

The German tanks did not open fire immediately after rushing onto the beach, but waited until they reached the front of the British position before opening fire.

Dozens of British bunkers flew into the sky under the attack of the tanks. The machine guns in the bunkers stopped abruptly, and the firepower of the machine guns that had been suppressing the German army was greatly reduced!

The German soldiers who were suppressed under the British position seized the opportunity, grabbed the weapons in their hands, and rushed up with a roar, rushed into the British trenches, and fired at the British troops on the second line of defense.

At this time, the German tanks had completed the first round of attacks and rushed to the top of the position at high speed. The infantry crossed the first line of defense of the British Army through the passage made clear by the infantry, and immediately rushed towards the second line of defense.

The Marines and tanks had cooperated with each other many times, and they had a tacit understanding with each other. After the tank crossed the trench, several nearby soldiers immediately followed with their weapons in hand, bent over, and followed behind the tank, using the tank’s cover to shoot at the enemy in front from time to time! The

British troops on the second line of defense were obviously surprised that the tanks of the army had rushed up so quickly. They saw this steel monster rushing towards them, and they suddenly panicked in the dark. There were bursts of panic from the British positions from time to time. Many soldiers even shouted and dropped their weapons and crawled to the back.

Bang!

Several flashes of fire rang out, and two soldiers who were fleeing across the trench were shot mercilessly by the military judge behind them.

“See? This is what happens when you run away!”

“Everyone, hold your positions! I will kill anyone who dares to escape!”

“If we don’t repel the German attack, everyone will die here today. Anti-tank artillery team, kill it for me!”

Corporal John, who had just fled to the second line of defense, heard the sonorous and powerful voice of a British officer in the chaos, which made him feel a little more at ease. The fierce attack on the first line of defense just now caused the morale of the British army to drop a lot, and many people even felt that the German army was invincible!

In the sparks of the explosion, he saw the face of the officer. Judging from his uniform, he seemed to be the commander of the Royal Maple Leaf Regiment.

The commander was about thirty-five years old, not tall, but very tough, giving people a sense of trustworthiness!

A man who is not the sun never sets. The local regiment commander performed better than the local soldiers in this situation. It was hard to say what to say.

Just when Corporal John was distracted, several soldiers with sweat on their foreheads pushed out a small cannon from the rear, struggling to cross the steep trench and push it to the firing position outside the trench.

Corporal John had not been in the army for a long time and had never seen this kind of cannon, but he had seen other artillery guns, so he estimated that the caliber of this cannon was about 30-40 meters.

Can such a small cannon destroy the German tanks on the opposite side? Corporal John couldn’t help but have some doubts in his heart.

37mm anti-tank gun, this is a special anti-tank gun developed by the British Army in 1923.

The time when this anti-tank gun was finalized was very close to the time when Hans’s Type 1 tank was finalized, so the main target was not the German Army’s current Type 4 tank, but the Type 1 tank that was in service in large numbers at the time.

The intelligence that the British Navy had detected at the time showed that the German factories were running at full capacity and producing thousands of Type 1 tanks, so they speculated that this type of tank would most likely become the main equipment of the German Army.

Coupled with the outstanding performance in the first German-Polish War, all countries realized the rapid assault capability of the German tanks. If If they didn’t want their infantry to be quickly penetrated and surrounded by enemy tanks, they had to develop a weapon that could target such tanks!

So, the British Army began to develop this 37mm anti-tank gun immediately after the German-Polish War.

Slightly different from other countries, the models of British tanks are often not ordered by caliber, but by weight.

For example, several of their anti-tank guns are named 2-pound guns, 6-pound guns, 17-pound guns, 32-pound guns, etc.

The artillery of other countries at the same time was mainly named by caliber. In fact, this caliber and weight can also be converted.

2 pounds is equivalent to the German 7mm anti-tank gun, 6 pounds is about 57mm gun, 17 pounds is about the same as 76mm gun, and as for the 32 pounds, it is roughly equivalent to 94mm gun.

In addition to the last one, the German army is also equipped with artillery of other calibers, but the German 37mm gun is generally anti-tank gun, and most of the rest are anti-aircraft guns. The German army is not equipped with such a small caliber anti-tank gun. After all, the emergence of the Type 4 tank is bound to lead to countries scrambling to imitate it. The future opponents of the German anti-tank gun are almost all enemies with armor thickness exceeding 70 mm or even 100 mm.