Chapter 180 The Fifth Artillery Regiment
The German army broke through the two lines of defense of the 4th Infantry Division in India in a row, to be more precise, this was not a breakthrough but a pursuit... The German army only encountered sporadic resistance, they were like hungry wolves breaking into the flock of sheep, and there were Indian soldiers busy running away everywhere in their sight.
The Indian army ran so fast that when the German tanks advanced to the third line of defense, there was no one there... Indian soldiers all joined the ranks of escape. In order to escape from the fire range of the German tanks as soon as possible, several cars rushed around the deserter group regardless of the fact that they were all in front of them.
But in the end they still failed to escape the German pursuit... The car was a very obvious target under the flare. After a few shells, the cars were instantly blown into the sky. One of them was hit by a machine gun and caught fire. As a fire broke out from the fuel tank, a group of firemen suddenly made shrill screams around.
Behind the third line of defense is Dilseyin Village.
Similar to Libyan houses, most of Egypt's houses are civil structures. Houses with such structures are easily pushed down by tanks. In addition, there may be enemies hidden in the houses, so German tanks knocked down one after another without hesitation and rolled up.
The super combat power of the tank was fully verified at this time... If it was a pure infantry attack at this moment, it would be unknown how much casualties and time would be needed to occupy this village that was several kilometers square.
But because of the tanks, all the German soldiers had to do seemed to be moving forward, moving forward, and moving forward again.
Of course, Qin Chuan and the German soldiers did not know that among the houses that were pushed down and crushed under the tracks, there was one of the command centers of the 4th Infantry Division of India... The 31-year-old Major General David and his staff did not expect their troops to collapse so quickly. A second ago they hoped that the troops could hold on for a while, and then the 5th Artillery Regiment could provide them with enough firepower to fight the Germans back. The next second, they saw the Indian army who was in chaos and rushing to escape.
In a hurry, Major General David asked a staff officer to control the situation. He contacted the 5th Artillery Regiment in the command center and ordered them to fire at the target immediately... At this moment, a "rumbling" sound of tank motors sounded in the rear. Just as Major General David looked in the direction of the sound, the entire wall fell down instantly.
The only surviving was the staff appointed by Major General David to control the situation. He was captured and confessed to the German army about the location of the command. The German army dug up the broken bricks and tiles to confirm this, and also found a map of the Alamein defense line and the Nile defense line, as well as other information that was very useful to the German army... These information did not have time to be destroyed because the house collapsed instantly.
Of course Qin Chuan didn't care about these things.
This is because the general, commander and other things are meaningless to him, especially the Fourth Indian Division has been defeated, and only one-third of them can escape in the black. So what if Major General David and his command members are still alive? Can they still organize these defeated generals to continue fighting?
Forget it, Indian soldiers have been scared long ago.
On the other hand, the seized information and intelligence... Qin Chuan knew much more than these.
Of course, this is also beneficial, at least Qin Chuan doesn't have to make any excuses to disclose any information.
Not long after, German tanks razed the entire village to the ground... If there were any surviving houses, they were blown up with machine guns or grenades and explosives.
According to the plan, the 21st Armored Division should have taken Alexander directly to cut off the logistics supply line of the Alamein defense line, but the bombings that exploded on the way of coming changed General Streck's idea.
"We were bombed by enemy artillery fire, general!" Colonel Tiou, the commander of the artillery regiment, reported: "From the location of the artillery fire, they were very proud to be six kilometers away from us!"
"Hold them!" General Streck immediately ordered.
"Yes, General!"
The so-called "holding them" is actually using artillery fire to attract the other party's attention, or it can also be said to have a small-scale artillery battle with the other party.
And this is what the British 5th Artillery Regiment is best at... because they are equipped with "priests" self-propelled cannons. The advantage of self-propelled cannons is that they transfer speed: ordinary tow artillery must be retracted and hung behind the car for transfer. This not only has a large target speed but also much slower, but self-propelled cannons can be shot and gone, which can take a lot of advantage in artillery battles.
The problem is that the 5th Artillery Regiment does not know that the opponent is just a bait, and the Fourth Indian Infantry Division they want to cover has collapsed... This is the weakness of long-range artillery fire. The target they want to attack is often targets more than ten kilometers away, so they usually cannot see the enemy. To a certain extent, they are blind and deaf, and they must rely on the coordinates provided by the front line to fight.
At this time, Colonel Charles, the commander of the 5th Artillery Regiment, was urgently calling the command of the 4th Infantry Division of India... Not long ago, Colonel Charles spoke to Major General David, and he carried out bombing according to the coordinates provided by Major General David, but now there is no news on Major David.
"Fuck it!" Colonel Charles cursed: "Can't they get a few more sets of communication equipment?"
Colonel Charles thought that this was because of a radio station failure or a rush to transfer, and he never expected Major General David and his radio station had been buried in the rubble.
"Col. What should we do now?" asked the staff officer.
Colonel Charles understood the meaning of the staff. If no one provided coordinates or observations on the front line, the artillery regiment would probably just be fighting.
"Did the observer enter the position?" Colonel Charles asked.
As mentioned before, artillery operations always require sending artillery observers to the front line, and sometimes they set up observation stations to observe long-distance targets with high power telescopes at high places.
"It may take a few minutes!" the consultant replied.
At this time, a communication soldier hurriedly ran up to report: "Col. Observer reported that the 4th Infantry Division of India has been defeated, and there are fleeing Indian soldiers everywhere!"
"What?" Colonel Charles was shocked when he heard this, which meant that the Germans had broken through the defense line.
What's worse is... The 5th Artillery Regiment recently fired a batch of shells in the direction of the enemy, which was tantamount to telling the enemy its own position.
Thinking of this, Colonel Charles hurriedly ordered: "Retreat, retreat immediately!"
Chapter completed!