I'll update today, sorry!

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In the end, the 17th Armored Regiment failed to organize an attack on the third line of defense on Shanbier Island.

Objectively speaking, Colonel Torres's plan is correct.

It is true that the 17th Armored Regiment was exhausted, but the garrison of Shanbier led by the baker was not much better, especially during the daytime battle, the German soldiers stationed in Shanbier Island paid the price of more than 800 casualties in order to be able to withstand the impact of US tanks.

This number of casualties plus the number of casualties in the first battle, the number of casualties in the Shanbier Island garrison has exceeded half of the casualties and only more than a thousand people are left... Even if a unit is a regular army, more than half of the casualties means collapse, not to mention that the army led by the baker is still a logistics force.

Therefore, if the 17th Armored Regiment and the 15th Infantry Regiment can launch a full-scale attack on the third line of defense, even at night, even if the German army has arrived from all directions to reinforce, and even if the US military is seriously insufficient ammunition, it is almost certain that... the German third line of defense will still collapse.

Then, the US military can use German supplies to deploy defenses along the moat on Chambier Island, as Colonel Torres said.

This defense was almost deadly to the Germans without amphibious landing ships.

Unfortunately, the US soldiers did not have the courage to fight against the enemy at all... They were used to fighting with sufficient supplies, and insufficient supplies first made them unable to compete with the enemy.

They didn't know that in this battle, they just had to follow the tank and rush forward with bayonets to win.

In addition, they thought they were surrounded by enemies, so they finally collapsed and fled to the rear, west of the Moselle River.

"We can't escape back!" Colonel Nathan shouted at the dispersed soldiers: "The Moselle River has been blocked by the enemy! We have no other choice..."

"No, Colonel!" someone in the guard replied: "The German bomb only blocked the middle part!"

"What does it mean?" asked Colonel Nathan.

"As long as we go downstream or upstream!" the guard replied: "That is, avoid the middle part. Even if we encounter the wood with bombs tied to them, they will not explode!"

"Yes, Colonel!" Another guard replied: "The bombs were loaded with delayed fuses, they would only explode in the middle section! And in the dark, the Germans could not see our movements..."

Then Colonel Nathan understood why the soldiers rushed towards the Moselle River in a swarm.

Colonel Nathan turned his attention to Colonel Torres.

Colonel Torres looked like he was defeated around him and said helplessly: "Retreat, sir! We will have no troops in a few minutes!"

"But our tank can't go back!" said Colonel Nathan.

As mentioned before, even if a tank becomes an amphibious tank across the river, it must be reconnaissance in advance to determine the landing point, otherwise the amphibious tank with a draft depth will not be able to land.

In this case, it is almost impossible to take the tank away.

"Forget them, sir!" said Torres: "We can only throw them here!"

"No!" said Colonel Nathan: "At least we should blow them up and not leave them to the Germans!"

But Colonel Nathan looked around and found it difficult to find a tank in the dark night. Name the tank crew and blow up the tank... Many tank crews had abandoned their cars and fled.

At this moment, there were fierce gunfire sounds in front of me.

The German army discovered that the US was disintegrating and morale was greatly boosted and launched a counterattack immediately, although they had only more than a thousand people.

In the end, Colonel Nathan failed to fulfill his wish, and he had to leave the tank and retreat under the cover of the guards.

Even so, the US military retreated unsuccessfully because the German army had already launched several machine guns there, and the "Hitler's chainsaw" fired bullets frantically, knocking the fleeing US military into batches on the river bank.

There are even many US troops who are confused about the direction and are lost... If you fall into the Metz Fortress, you will indeed encounter such problems, especially in the dark night, there is a river on the left and a river on the right, and there are rivers in front and behind. If you have a slightly worse sense of direction, you can't tell which one is which one. After swimming hard, you will find that you hit the enemy's gun and throw yourself into the trap.

"General!" The staff hurried into the command center and reported to Patton: "The 17th Armored Regiment and the 15th Infantry Regiment collapsed on their entire lines!"

Patton raised his head suddenly and sighed after a while.

The staff officer understood General Patton's meaning... The sighing meant that he could do nothing.

Patton was indeed powerless, and the opposite side of the river was pitch black, and even if he wanted to provide firepower reinforcements to the opponent, he could not do it.

All Patton could do was wait in place, waiting for the two regiments of US troops to escape back and treat the wounded.

In the end, the two regiments that the US army attacked Metz Fortress had a total strength of more than 5,000, and only more than 1,200 were able to escape. The rest either died in chaos or became prisoners of the German army.

But for the German army, these are not important... Capture has no meaning to the German army, and to some extent, it still increases the difficulty of supply.

What is important is that they seized 63 Sherman tanks and 30 amphibious landing ships on the battlefield.

From the current perspective, amphibious landing ships will be more important than the Sherman tanks. The reason is that the Sherman tanks basically have no shells and cannot participate in the war. In the foreseeable future, it will be difficult to seize tank gun shells and put these tanks into use.

But from the perspective of the trainees, it was the first time that so many tanks had been seized, and they all happily evacuated and hid them overnight as if they had found treasures.

When Qin Chuan saw the baker, he almost couldn't recognize him... He was injured and tied with a bandage, and his right hand was hanging around his neck.

Seeing Qin Chuan coming up, the baker stood up with joy and said, "Sir, I know you can rescue us! They also believe this is certain!"

Qin Chuan nodded and said, "No, Lieutenant. It was you who saved yourself, and it could even be said... it was you who saved Mes and everyone!"

The baker didn't understand what Qin Chuan said.

But Qin Chuan did not exaggerate... From a tactical perspective, it was indeed the way Qin Chuan thought of to save Xiangbier Island. But from a strategic perspective, wasn't it that the baker led a group of logistics personnel to withstand the US military's attack and rescue the Mets Fortress?

Qin Chuan turned his eyes behind the baker and saw German soldiers who were like bakers, with some injuries and bleeding.

With such soldiers, Germany has hope.
Chapter completed!