Chapter 624: Egyptian Defense

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There is a long line of defense built by the British in Egypt. This line of defense extends from the coastline of northern Africa in the north and extends into the vast desert in the south. The entire line of defense is carefully constructed and can be called a relatively strong defense system.
Although the British Indian region cannot produce the heavy weapons and equipment that the British and US forces badly need, it is no problem to produce some low-tech items. For example, cement for building fortifications, ammunition, and guns are not difficult. In the nearer Middle East, there are also many industrial facilities in Britain and the United States, which can provide oil and some repair parts nearby. Because the Ganges Plain is used as a backing, food and other supplies are not lacking, which is why the British and American forces have not collapsed until now.
Because of the proximity to the Suez Canal and Alexandria as an outpost, the courage of the Italian and French navies in Tobruk was dissipated. They only promised that Rommel could prevent the British fleet from using the coastline to shell, but they did not have the courage to go offshore in Egypt Yaowu Yangwei.
At least in the offshore waters of Egypt, the Germans have not fully controlled airpower, and Rommel is not willing to waste precious air force on the sea. After all, he has more than 100 Stuka dive bombers and more than 100 do-217s. The Cheng bomber needed someone to cover it.
Montgomery was looking at his own defense map under the dim electric light line. He knew that the German-Italian coalition opposite him was getting stronger and stronger, so he rarely rested now, staring at the map and thinking again and again when he was fine. How to reverse the current unfavorable situation.
But after all, he is not Rommel. There is really no courage to start the counterattack in the disadvantage. He is not good at fighting the disadvantage. When the strength is insufficient, he will only choose defense to consume the opponent's time. Compared with Rommel, he has a little less talent, which can only be compensated by calmness and sophistication.
While he was waiting for Scherner in Rommel, he checked his defensive positions over and over again, personally inspecting the layout of each position, referring to the defensive line of the German east line, and establishing a depth of support on the side and rear of the position, hoping to rely on This line of defense consumes Rommel's superior strength.
Montgomery has a detailed information provided by the British military intelligence agency in Italy, which shows that Scherner himself and the elite SS 12th Armored Division have reached the frontline of Africa, and some infantry of the K Group Army have also To become a force that Rommel can use, and for the foreseeable future, the attack of the African Army can be said to be inevitable.
He anxiously dropped the pencil in his hand on the table, leaning tiredly on the back of the chair and sighing. The powerful British empire has become history, and now the colonial government of India is discussing matters related to independence. If General Mountbatten is there, the situation may have developed to an unpredictable level.
Americans help themselves to fight the war in Africa. In most cases, they are defending their own oil interests in the Middle East. Once things cannot be done, then the Americans will come out or continue to stand with the British, only they Americans themselves Only then can we know that the only thing we can rely on now is the British themselves.
What do the British themselves have? Some tank troops from India and the Middle East are the only ones that can handle it. These troops plus Montgomery ’s own tanks are only 680 in full play, and these tanks are not opponents of German tanks. It's just armor.
The Americans recently came with a group of powerful weapons. First, about 240 m4 medium tanks were sent to the Middle East and supplied to Patton. At the same time, in order to deal with the German leopard tank, the United States also sent 70 newly produced m10 "tank destroyers" to Egypt. And this m10 tank destroyer can be said to be a rare "high-level cargo" that can deal with the German leopard tank.
If we say that Americans are really wonderful countries, they were not much more advanced than other countries during World War II. They are also amazing in weapons development, making it difficult for them to be connected with the world-leading world overlords. For example, the so-called "tank destroyer" designed specifically to deal with enemy tanks is a very weird non-mainstream design.
Akado deployed a lot of assault guns in the German infantry army, as well as upgraded tank destroyers. These equipment were classified as "self-propelled artillery" and were used by the armored artillery in the infantry. And all of these weapons have only one feature, that is, they are "saving materials" compared to the tanks of the same period.
The German classic No. 3 assault gun and No. 4 assault gun (that is, assault guns with leopard chassis) are designed without a turret. Although these self-propelled guns have a little defect in the transfer of firepower, they save a lot of production time. And production resources. It fully reflects Akado's demand for assault gun production!
The United States is different. When they designed a special tank destroyer to deal with the German leopard tank, they actually came up with a freak that was almost identical to the tank. It stands to reason that the chassis of the m4 tank has been used, so it is not finished to change a turret and install a large-powered artillery to become a new tank, but the Americans have insisted on it and made an indecent thing.
This new m10 tank destroyer uses the chassis of the m4 tank, but it is puzzling to reduce the armor protection on the chassis. Then it used a turret, but did not install 4 tanks for better visibility.
Then the convertible m4 tank had thinner armor, and a 75 mm caliber cannon with a longer barrel was installed. This artillery did not appear in another time and space well known by Akado, because in another time and space The British 76mm long barrel artillery used to strengthen the firepower of the m4 tank is not currently in mass production.
This artillery can penetrate the German leopard tank at a distance of about 300 meters, but the soldiers of the American armored forces do not have a cold for this data. They do not believe that the m10 tank destroyer they drive can be approached to fire at this distance. .
The m10 tank destroyer emphasized the speed, but it lost weight blindly because of the speed. In the end, the speed increase caused by the weight loss was not much. This m10 was only a little faster than its brother m4, but the protection was not as good The soldiers called it the crispy m4 tank. And the hood design of the pit father, so that everyone does not know what to say.
Even more amazing is that American designers did not install a machine gun on this tank destroyer! Yes, you read it right, no machine gun! There is no machine gun! Without the heading machine gun in front of the car body, or the coaxial machine gun in front of the turret, this m10 tank destroyer has only one function to kill the other tank.
It is a pity that a weapon cannot necessarily meet the enemy it is best at dealing with on the battlefield. For example, a tank that is more advanced than all enemy tanks is likely to face an attack by a group of infantry, or this strongest tank will be attacked. An attack plane was destroyed. However, the actual performance of the m10 tanks that cannot deal with infantry and lack of defense can only be described by the words huh.
Fortunately, the United States is rich in money and will not be on the verge of bankruptcy by adding production processes to the cheap tank destroyers. This is one of the few good news. At least the American tank destroyer has a turret, which is more classy than the assault gun drivers in Akado ... Of course, if you are not afraid of the height If you are easily hit.
Therefore, every country and every nation has gone through detours and wrong roads, the only difference is how much this nation has paid for detours. China has gone the wrong way, and has spent 100 years of being bullied for this. The Germans made mistakes in another time and space. As a result, East and West Germany have been split for decades. Americans have also made mistakes, but these mistakes are covered up by their powerful faces, nothing more.
Speaking from the m10 tank back to the current Egyptian border, Rommel was in his command car asking General Scherna who had just arrived in North Africa to eat. The general who had just arrived in North Africa wore a pair of glasses and seemed to be a gentleman, but everyone who knew him knew that the gentleman of the German army actually started with the concentration camps on the Eastern Front and the differentiation of Soviet prisoners of war.
This general obviously didn't like the bad weather in North Africa because it made his general's uniforms covered with sand. And his car became stale at a speed visible to the naked eye, chasing the poor convertible car of Rommel who had been playing in the desert for more than half a year. In the desert environment, the bucket cars driven by the soldiers are more pleasing to the eye, because these cars are as dirty as they are on the Eastern Front or in the desert.
"The weather here is really bad, and there is too much sand." Although Scherner was the general who managed the concentration camp, he did have the ability to open a group army. After all, his one million prisoners of war were arranged properly. Properly, hundreds of thousands of German troops are definitely a piece of cake.
He dug out meat from the can and stuffed it into his mouth, while staring at the battle map and said to Rommel and General Garibaldi sitting on the side: "But the head of state let me come here, there is nothing to complain about. Offense. When does it start? I need to have logistics supplies and ample shells. "
"So, let's use an attack as our ceremony to welcome General Scherna. Tomorrow morning, the front of the Italian 1st Army position will take the lead in attacking." Rommel said to Scherna with a smile: "Your The army will launch a left-wing attack two days later, involving the opponent's defensive force. "