Chapter 508

Smashing through the grass, a Tiger Tank showed up in front of the Americans. This giant is obviously more powerful than the leopard tank, because the remains of the latest M4 Sherman tank in the United States are still burning near the grass that the Tiger Tank passed.

If the leopard tank brings incomparable pressure to American tank soldiers, then the appearance of Tiger Tank brings despair to American soldiers. This kind of tank seems to be solid. No matter how close it is, it can't penetrate its heavy armor.

As Patton had expected, the main German armored forces appeared on the flank of the United States. These tanks penetrated into the most important defensive positions of the United States like a sharp cone, and beat almost 50 new M4 Sherman tanks Patton had placed there all at once.

The Tiger tanks of a battalion were invincible. They rushed left and right in Patton's position, but no one could stop them. The shells of the anti tank guns equipped by the British * team hit the armor of the Tiger tanks, leaving only a shallow pit. It's said that the American soldiers tried their best to stop a Tiger tank by blasting off its tracks with explosives.

Soon the German tanks rushed up a high hill, where they destroyed a defensive position set up by the American infantry. The machine guns drove the American soldiers out of the trench like raindrops. Then the grenadiers behind the German tanks crossed the tanks and began to attack, killing the American soldiers who were forced to retreat.

Behind this US defensive position is an artillery position, in which 12 155 mm howitzers are deployed. The artillery beside these cannons are watching their infantry running past, shouting "the Germans are coming!"

When these artillery soldiers think of running away, they have found that the cars dragging these cannons have already left. The trucks don't care about other comrades in arms, and they don't have time to fold up the cannons and hang up the cars. German tanks soon entered the artillery position, and the grenadiers began to study American large caliber shells. They divide up the spoils of the American soldiers, share American chocolates and cans, praise the craftsmanship of American Canners, and scold the bad enterprises in Germany.

At this time, Barton has no time to deal with the chaos behind him. He is concentrating his strength to launch the most fierce attack against Rommel. Barton knew that even if he started to retreat or organize a counterattack against the German circuitous forces, there was no good way to take those elite German Tiger tanks and leopard tanks. If he stopped attacking and counterattacked against the circuitous German forces, Rommel would boldly press forward and not let him retreat calmly.

Barton knew that retreat was the last choice he should make at this time, and the armor in his hand made him unable to fight back effectively against the German tanks. So he changed his mind and began to attack the other German troops on the opposite side. Most of these German tanks are No. 3 tanks, only a small number of leopard tanks as a supplement, and there is no big gap between them and the existing tank strength of the United States, so Barton decided to exchange.

Didn't you attack my rear with a side attack? I'll destroy your deployment with a frontal attack. At that time, even if you annihilate all my rear troops, I'll eat almost all your front-line defense troops. You can turn around and continue to play! That's what Barton thinks, and it's the best he can do now.

"This button, who was unknown before, didn't expect to fight like this!" Rommel looked constipated as his positions were destroyed one by one by the United States. The war has been going on until the evening. All the soldiers have not entered the day's fighting. The pace of fighting should have slowed down, but it is more intense than in the morning.

If the opponent is Montgomery, he will be able to chase all the way to Tobruk. By then, the relay fortress will be in Rommel's pocket. However, he never thought that he forced the unknown button into a situation where he would lose. The other party turned around and decided to pull himself to hell together.

Rommel has only 700 tanks in his hand, and nearly 500 can be used all the way. After a day's fierce fighting, including failures and losses, he now has less than 400 tanks of various types that can fight - almost half of them collect American Logistics forces in the rear of button, At this moment, his front line can be used to defend or counterattack tanks, less than 150.

The number three tanks and leopard tanks destroyed in a single day almost exceeded 70, and the United States lost 150. However, there are more than 200 tanks in Barton's hands that can be put into combat, all of which are on the front line and consumed by Rommel. In this way, Rommel will lose almost 100 more tanks if he wants to completely annihilate Barton. By then, let alone attack Tobruk, it would be more or less like him to run back to Tunis with his tail between his legs.

The good news is that as soon as our troops are about to disrupt Patton's rear, the most unbearable artillery advantage of the Americans will be destroyed. The bad news is that once the German army is able to rely on some air support after nightfall, it will not be able to continue.

"You're going to kill my guard? It depends on whether you want to bury your last bit of capital here! " Rommel finally made up his mind and began to issue his own operational instructions: "order the front-line troops to release smoke and cover the retreat alternately! The armored forces are gathered, ready to follow my orders and fight back at any time! " Don't Americans want to be so tough? I just won't give you a chance to be tough! I ordered to retreat and give you all these worthless positions to see if you dare to take them! Rommel looked at the map and thought to himself: as soon as my troops started to retreat, button had to choose whether to pursue or not, but whether to pursue or not, the fact that button's guards had been eaten would not change. The German front positions began to release smoke, and all the positions that were gradually unable to support were abandoned under the attack of the U.S. Army. The U.S. Army was like a giant who had saved up his strength for a long time, but failed to hit the target with one punch, and was immediately embarrassed. If we pursue Rommel who is retreating, then we will be completely engulfed in the desert. If we do not pursue Rommel, it seems that the United States has suffered a heavy loss“ At last Rommel was scared away Barton looked at the German troops retreating with dust and smoke in the last sunset of the evening and breathed out a foul breath: "since he can't afford to lose, we don't have to die. Lead the troops to retreat back to Tobruk." Barton is brave in battle, not crazy. He naturally knows that Rommel has given up his plan to fight for losses and eat him. However, the loss of his troops is real, which is his mistake. However, these losses were not caused by Barton's improper command, but by the fact that the armored force was not as strong as the German army. At night, the two teams finally broke away from each other, and the desert returned to a state of tranquility. The 8th Army was defeated, and Barton returned to Tobruk's direction with the remaining armored forces and infantry. Rommel, meanwhile, began to gather up troops in the desert and assess the losses of this battle. His troops suffered heavy losses. One day's fierce fighting cost him nearly 2000 soldiers who could fight well, and the amount of armor he could use was greatly reduced - only about 300 vehicles could continue to be used. The largest loss of light tank division nearly lost 70% of its armored forces. The No. 3 tank, which was thrown to North Africa because of its backwardness, was almost exhausted. Most of the tank destroyers refitted from No. 2 tank were also destroyed by American tanks. Compared with Rommel, Barton's loss is more serious. The United States lost 40 of the 55 large caliber 155mm howitzers of the 8th Army. Nearly 600 tanks in the 8th Army were destroyed by the German army. Of course, in addition to the loss of equipment, almost 4000 British and American troops were killed and captured. The meaning behind this figure is that the 8th Army was completely paralyzed. The large-scale counterattack prepared by the British failed. The 9th group army, led by Montgomery, returned to Tobruk. The war in North Africa began to ease as the materials accumulated by the two sides gradually bottomed out. The German army took advantage of the victory to pursue the British army. After a few small victories, they pushed the defense line to the vicinity of Tobruk. Rommel's name once again appeared in German newspapers. On the other hand, Britain was forced to continue to transfer its troops stationed in India to North Africa to make up for the losses caused by the German attack. This further deepens the emptiness of the British garrison in India. The intelligence was discovered by the Japanese military who had been coveting Southeast Asia, and then sent back to the Tokyo base camp as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. On April 30, after careful preparation, the Japanese army gathered the forces of two armies and seven divisions to enter Myanmar from Vietnam under the banner of liberating Southeast Asia. The battle between Britain, Japan and Myanmar officially broke out. The British garrison abandoned most of Myanmar, gave up the important Yunnan Myanmar highway supply line of China, and retreated back to India. The situation of Anti Japanese war in Asia, especially in China, took a sharp turn. The Chinese garrison in Wuhan began to be ordered to transfer important ordnance equipment. The three newly established American equipment divisions were forced to go south to defend the Japanese troops who had just controlled northern Myanmar. The United States was forced to shift its main energy from North Africa to the more critical Philippines.