Chapter 548 The bloodiest and most difficult battle

Chapter 548 The bloodiest and most difficult battle

Chapter 548 The bloodiest and most difficult battle

The Type VI tank weighs 57 tons and is equipped with a powerful 88mm main gun. Its armor is made of cold-rolled forged nickel alloy steel armor. The front armor is 102mm and the side armor is 88mm thick.

This was Germany's best tank in World War II and was called the "Tiger Tank".

Historically, the Tiger tank destroyed 9850 Allied tanks, with a loss ratio of 1:9, making it the true king of the battlefield.

The only shortcoming of the Tiger tank is probably that the production volume is too small. Only 1355 vehicles were produced in total...

The hiding place was blown down, and the Irish street fighting troops that suddenly appeared turned around and fled. The German troops following the Tiger tanks joined the German troops behind the two Panzer IV tanks and chased them with guns. The red-haired figure turned a few times and then disappeared.

When they got closer, the German army discovered a sewer that had been enlarged by an explosion. These elusive opponents had infiltrated from underground.

London's underground space is as interconnected as Paris's, and it houses countless spontaneous resistance forces of ordinary people, each holding a Sten submachine gun.

This thing is a simplified version of the submachine gun that was urgently designed by the British in order to defend their homeland after the failed Dunkirk retreat.

There are only 47 parts in total. Except for the bolt and barrel which need to be processed by machine tools, the rest of the parts are all made by stamping. The cost is US$9. It is cheap and the quantity is large. The British factory is running at full capacity and has produced nearly four million guns so far.

Is this gun any good? It's a submachine gun anyway. It's too simple, easy to jam, easy to fire accidentally, etc., but in the emergency of war, that's not a problem.

The German troops did not dare to go down into the maze-like underground of London, as they would only be shot at and would not be able to find anyone.

The only way for the German army to deal with this kind of attack was to bring a TNT pack. With a loud bang, the underground exit collapsed and was blocked.

As the Germans finally cleared the mines on the Thames, street fighting has been going on since they entered the city of London by water. Wherever the Germans went, there were pits everywhere, and the underground routes in the German-occupied areas were basically blocked.

Because this side is close to the front line, the enemy can still infiltrate the German defense line from underground. There is nothing we can do about it, we can only blow up wherever we find one.

The Tiger tank was majestic and powerful. It eliminated the rebels with one shot and rushed to the front line with its soldiers. Opposite them were densely packed barricades.

Londoners also learned how to build barricades, a true lesson from the French. The leader of the group that built barricades in Paris is now a senior military supervisor of the Dutch colonial army in Southeast Asia...

The Parisian barricades caused Shao Quanzhong to suffer heavy losses, and he lost two thousand Huai Army soldiers in a single advance of 5 kilometers.

The Germans are now facing the same trouble. The number of people in London is no less than that in Paris, and with the fencing champion middle school student taking the lead, their will to resist is just as firm.

Moreover, the resistance army's weapons were upgraded, and the invention of submachine guns greatly increased the casualties on both sides in street fighting.

The street fighting in London became the Road of Blood and Tears for the German invaders.

Twenty or so Irish soldiers came out of Hyde Park subway station, carrying several wounded soldiers.

Here in Hyde Park, there is a temporary field hospital, which is personally presided over by the 79-year-old Mr. Luo Weilin. His disciple Du Dezhen and a large number of doctors and nurses are performing surgery on the wounded soldiers.

"Hail, long live Her Majesty the Queen!"

The wounded soldiers suddenly cheered together, and Wilhelmina, who was already ten years old, came to the front-line field hospital.

She did not accept the cheers of the wounded soldiers, but immediately joined in the treatment of the wounded and helped the nurses bandage their wounds.

Dr. Du Dezhen stepped forward and bowed, "Your Majesty, the front line is too dangerous. It is often bombed by German planes and long-range artillery bombardments. Or--"

Emma, ​​the regent queen, who was following behind the queen, shrugged and spread her hands, indicating that she could not control her daughter. Her daughter was very opinionated, and she, the regent queen, was basically just a decoration.

Emma followed her daughter who had the guts to run to London and lived in fear in London for eight months. She was so worried about her troublesome daughter that she lost a lot of weight.

Not to mention, it actually restored her pretty face to the one she had when she got married at the age of eighteen or nineteen...

"Boom! Boom!"

The artillery shells from the front line hit Hyde Park, and hundreds of Nanyang natives retreated with bolt-action rifles on their backs and Sten submachine guns urgently provided by the British in their arms.

The Polish officer in charge, Alyosha, saw Wilhelmina coming to the front again and tried to dissuade her, "Your Majesty, the enemy has sent out a new weapon, the Type 6 tank, and the newly supported shoulder-fired rocket launcher from the Federation cannot penetrate the defense."

"We suffered a great loss all of a sudden. We lost two blocks. The enemy is about to attack us. We can't hold on any longer."

Wilhelmina had a determined and calm look on her face, with blood still on her hands, as she came up to the South Sea natives who had bandages on their heads and arms and were still fighting.

"My people, whether you are black-haired natives or red-haired Dutch people, after this battle, you are all official citizens of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. I will treat you all equally. You have proved with your bravery that you are worthy of your status as Dutch citizens."

"We have been fighting hard in London for eight months. The German casualties have exceeded one million, but we still haven't taken London. You have created a miracle."

"Our reinforcements are coming. The days of the Germans' arrogance are numbered. Warriors with the virtues of justice, kindness and courage, we will win!"

Sokrodi, the captain of the Nanyang Colonial Army, who had just been bandaged by Her Majesty the Queen, shouldered his submachine gun and shouted, "Brothers, the Queen is behind us. We will fight to the death and will not leave the front line even if we are slightly injured. Follow me!"

The lightly wounded who were able to walk picked up their weapons, followed Sokorodi, and joined their compatriots.

The natives turned around and resolutely rushed to the front line again.

"boom!"

With a shocking explosion, the explosive pack buried underground exploded under remote control, and the tracks of the mighty Tiger tank were blown off, leaving it paralyzed and unable to move.

The Tiger tanks that were not bombed were unable to pass through the roads that were dug by emergency blasting, and the wider anti-tank trenches. The equipment used for battle formation charging could not play its full role in street battles, and there were many ways to deal with it.

After eight months of actual combat, two million Nanyang soldiers were sacrificed, and the remaining ones had become true elites.

"Your Majesty is watching us, charge!"

The Nanyang soldiers armed with submachine guns charged from street corners and the ruins of buildings with such bravery that they no longer needed the scolding from the military supervisors and Polish officers.

In a flash, the lost front line was regained, and the barricades that had just been flattened by the German army were quickly rebuilt.

There was a bloody tug-of-war inside the city, and the trench warfare outside the city was also extremely stalemate.

After a burst of artillery fire without explosions, a thick green fog filled the air and the position became quiet.

The German army rushed to the position with the tanks leading the way. In the trenches, groups of soldiers wearing gas masks suddenly appeared, and submachine guns rang out. Large numbers of soldiers on both sides continued to fall.

In the headquarters not far from the front line, Piłsudski was silent, and said nothing. The commander-in-chief, Sjakob, was nervous and put down his binoculars. "The enemy's Tiger tanks are too powerful. We are suffering a great loss."

"This isn't a city. We can bury explosives along the path the tanks must take..."

"The enemy's new tank Krypton is coming!"

A seventeen-year-old boy, wearing a handsome military uniform and a rapier at his waist, came to the front line.

Behind them, there were large trucks. Soon, a group of middle-aged men wearing glasses drove tractors and dragged the new guns on the trucks to the front line.

Piłsudski looked at these "tank kryptons" carefully. Aren't these 25-pound howitzers? Can they hit tanks?

Suddenly I realized something was wrong. The gun mount was that of a 25-pound howitzer, but the barrel had been replaced.

The young Churchill puffed out his chest with pride, "Because you withstood the German attack, in Scotland, the Irish reinforcements led the local people to engage in guerrilla warfare, disrupting the German logistics, and our factories in England and Wales were saved."

"This is a 17-pound anti-tank gun designed and produced in the rear. Only the barrel was produced. Due to the emergency, it was loaded onto the gun carriage of the howitzer and shipped here. It all depends on their performance."

These "artillerymen" were all teachers at Lorne School. All the British people went to war, the poor served as guerrillas, firing cold guns and destroying the enemy's logistics, and the educated and cultured served as air force and artillery.

"Boom, boom, boom."

The 17-pound tank gun that was urgently transported to the front line showed its power. The Tiger tank met its opponent and finally broke through the defense.

The German army lost the firepower of the 88mm main gun, and the advantage they had just gained disappeared in an instant. In the desperate charge of the Nanyang soldiers with bayonets in hand, they were pushed back again.

Churchill also brought thousands of female logistics soldiers, driving light trucks and transporting large quantities of food and supplies. This was American aid.

Churchill, like Wilhelmina, came to the front line and said, "Soldiers, in order to transport these supplies, half of the transport ships of the Federation were discovered by German submarines and destroyers and sank in the Atlantic. But we have backup, don't we?"

The British female logistics soldiers distributed expired bread, sausages produced by the Federation, and beef jerky imported from South America to the soldiers in Nanyang. It must be said that this was much more delicious than the hard biscuits that the British soldiers had eaten before.

The soldiers were even given Coke and Cuban cigars and cheered together.

The blond English girls no longer had any contempt for the colonial soldiers. They were the ones who shed their blood to defend Britain. The flowers they had collected were given to the soldiers, saying, "Stay in Britain after the war. You are our heroes."

Young British men had been sacrificed in large numbers in France, and millions were being captured and dying of exhaustion in German labour camps.

British women knew that they would face the situation of more women than men after the first European war. These Nanyang heroes, although they were a little dark-skinned, looked quite handsome. At least, they were full of manly hormones, right?
The Germans were repelled and did not launch another attack for the time being. The Nanyang soldiers sat in the trenches silently, holding their guns.

After eight months of hard fighting, everyone had become a little numb to the rumbling of artillery fire and the German poison gas bombs every day.

The red-haired Irish instructors started, and the Polish officer raised his voice, "Soldiers, the Waldersee gang will not last long, Davarich, sing with me--"

A deep and majestic song rang out, and gradually more and more people joined in. The song reached the German front several hundred meters away, and the fanatical invaders wearing iron cross armbands on their arms suddenly became frightened.

In this world, there seems to be a force that specifically restrains us...

The soldiers heard the encouragement of the 17-year-old genius orator again, "We have fought for eight months and held on to London. This is a miracle of mankind and a miracle created by the justice camp. Our reinforcements are coming and daybreak is coming!"

In the Atlantic Ocean, seventeen aircraft carrier groups have arrived at Angra do Heroismo.

Yes, the Federation showed its strong industrial capacity, and in eight months, it built seventeen 20,000-ton Essex-class aircraft carriers. Although the tonnage was small, the quantity was sufficient, and it quickly surpassed the number of the German surface fleet.

In the Strait of Gibraltar, seven huge aircraft carriers are slowly passing through, flying the multi-colored flag of Daxia.

Daxia’s aircraft carrier cluster consists of only seven aircraft carriers, but they are all huge in tonnage.

The two 10,000-ton aircraft carriers, Hermes and Fengxiang, were just pioneers. Following them were the 60,000-ton Shengjing and the 80,000-ton Minzhe. Behind them were the three 100,000-ton Liangguang-class aircraft carriers.

There are seven aircraft carriers, and their auxiliary escort ships total more than 150, including ten of the most advanced 10,000-ton destroyers equipped with radar-guided missiles.

There were seven aircraft carrier formations, with 2,000 carrier-based aircraft. Behind the aircraft carrier formations were densely packed transport ships, stretching as far as the eye could see.

There were forty ships of 10,000 tons and 2,000 ships of 1,000 tons, carrying the first batch of one million soldiers from Daxia to Europe, as well as countless new equipment that the Europeans had never seen before.

(End of this chapter)