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Volume 2 Iron Torrent Chapter 1074 British Surrender 2

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    Zhu Bin always designs and builds equipment that can meet his basic needs. The consequence is that the final product is often significantly higher than the contemporary level, and a lot of strange technologies are mixed in, which greatly destroys technology.  balance!

    In addition, the Germans of this era were also experiencing a period of great explosion in technological imagination and realization capabilities. After obtaining the original design and accumulating construction experience, even without strong nuclear power, they still relied on their diesel-powered engines to artificially  Instead of automated operations and dedicated professionalism, two huge land steel beetles with a length of more than 200 meters and a weight of more than 1,000 tons were used to penetrate two underground tunnels across the English Channel along the route originally surveyed by Zhu Bin.  aisle!

    The shield machine with a diameter of seven meters created two large round holes with a total length of 35 kilometers. It originally required at least two years of non-stop construction. Under Hitler's call and pressure, the Germans completed the drilling task half a year ahead of schedule.  .

    At the same time as drilling, the same-direction rails laid with prefabricated rails followed in parallel. When the two giant machines rushed out of the ground, it meant that the two channels could be put into use immediately, even if there were still some stages that needed to be consolidated and strengthened, and communication and leakage were needed in between.  The compressed airway, as well as the mechanisms for building safe escape routes, technical maintenance, etc. are not perfect, but they can't be taken care of.  Nothing else, military priority!

    The heavy-duty engineering vehicle carried by the super airship drilled into the ground and used directional blasting to assist in digging up the ground. Then it drove in and dug up the soil until it reached the exit.

    After the shield machine rushes out, the concrete for the opening and vault is compacted and erected on the spot.  The rails were quickly laid down below and extended outwards, which only took a few hours.  They exited the deep ditch, reached the ground, and then followed the guide lines to plunge to both sides, so as not to block the way!

    From behind, two long special trains rushed over first under the traction of large diesel engines. Two steel heavy machines with super tank structures were lowered in front of the trains, and wide crawler chassis were continuously lowered at the end of the rails until the entire track reached thousands of trains.  The ton-ton car body slowly rolled over the ground.  After thorough compaction, the automatic track-laying vehicles at the rear will move forward, and on the flat ground cleared by the engineering vehicles outside the exit, strips of temporary rails will be laid out like morning glory blooming!

    Each track is only a few hundred meters long and can barely stop a train. Almost as soon as one track was laid, a train full of armored soldiers rushed out of the tunnel.  Just cut through, quickly unload, and head to the front line!

    The Germans¡¯ advantages of rigor, discipline, seamless cooperation, and high efficiency are fully demonstrated during this period!  In ordinary countries, it would take at least ten days and a half to complete an extremely huge and extremely complicated project, but they only took one night to complete it!

    By early morning the next day.  A full ten trains have plunged into the temporary track. The increasing load is not only a great test for the entire tunnel, but also makes General Paul Hauser, who implements the "Moses Plan", always hold his breath and dare not  Relax until everyone successfully reaches the other side, except for two trains that are overloaded.  The ground sank and rushed out of the tracks, causing minor damage.  Everything went incredibly smoothly!

    A full ten regiments of troops arrived and were deployed to the front one by one. They immediately made up for the shortcomings of the 20,000 lightly paratroopers who were parachute and lacked heavy weapons, especially two hundred tanks and the same number.  The investment of armored vehicles and the addition of a large number of self-propelled artillery brought the total number of troops along the southeast coast of London to 50,000!

    At this time, the British were still unaware that a disaster was approaching!

    The British side got the news the afternoon before when German fighter planes gathered on a large scale from Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. However, Churchill and others were not surprised by this, and even acted calmly and calmly as if it was normal.

    For them, German bombing has become the norm. Even when the "Sea Lion Project" was at its most intensive and the attack was at its fiercest, Britain managed to survive with tenacious resistance.  Subsequently, the Soviet-German War broke out, and British intelligence work achieved unprecedented feats. A large number of fighter planes were deployed to the Eastern Front battlefield, and the Western Front changed from active offense to defense. Churchill and the British were sincerely grateful that the disaster was diverted to the east!  Let the Germans and the Soviet-Russian fools fight to the death. We will sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and tigers!

    The British can only enjoy themselves and watch on the sidelines.  The battle in the Atlantic broke out. As the United States weakened and entered a reverse trend, the maritime support received by Britain was greatly weakened. It was impossible to think about attacking. It was not easy to maintain the basic survival needs of the people.

    But this time, the Germans actually made a comeback, still swarming in with a large fleet of aircraft with stronger overall combat effectiveness, and once again changed the focus of bombing from the previous industrial facilities to the air defense facilities of the London Defense Line. It seemed that they suddenly  It seems that they have become smarter, which has to make the British more vigilant.

    In the hours after the fighting broke out, troops deployed in southern EnglandA large number of radar stations and anti-aircraft artillery positions were activated and exposed. The expected German bombers did not follow up. Instead, thousands of missiles suddenly came from Germany and smashed into them with astonishing dispersion. One-third of them hit the target.  nearby, causing considerable damage!

    Afterwards, a large number of "Peregrine Falcon" attack aircraft bought from China swarmed in, starting from the south at low altitude and advancing like peeling onions layer by layer, uprooting all exposed air defense fire points!

    The British army is relatively unfamiliar with Chinese-made air power from top to bottom. Not many of those who suffered losses in Southeast Asia came back alive, let alone have much experience.  It is fast, has rough skin and thick flesh, long endurance, large bomb load, accurate attack, and flexible cooperative operations. All these advantages have made the British tired to deal with them.

    But this was not enough to completely frighten the British who were fully defensive.  After the mobilization of the whole people, Britain's nearly united resistance made them look extremely tragic and brave. A large number of soldiers joined in, and the air fighters were even slightly injured and could not get out of the line of fire. They held on and refused to relax!

    Until the huge fleet of transport aircraft began to drop paratroopers downwards, probably to successfully seize the position before night came, the British high command all breathed a sigh of relief.  Churchill even mocked contemptuously: "Hitler must have had his brain frozen by the cold wave in Siberia! Wanting to attack London with such a small number of airborne troops? What a dream!"

    A narrow strait has become a natural chasm for both sides.  Apart from breaking diplomatic relations, the German Navy was never able to confront the British Royal Navy in a head-on battle.  This is the truth.  Without sea control and air control, the Germans would have no way to support airborne troops or sea landing operations!  Britain's geographical advantage is unbreakable!

    General Montgomery, who was in charge of the overall defense operations in the southeast theater, was calm and composed. He mobilized 50,000 troops in one go and established an outpost theater in Maidstone despite the crazy killing battle in the sky.  And let the coastal guard force free their hands for encirclement and suppression, and after Commodore Mountbatten led the Fifth Destroyer Fleet to successfully entangle the German Navy, so that they could no longer threaten the coastal areas or carry out beach landings, they decisively ordered an all-out attack on the airborne troops!

    To be on the safe side, Montgomery continued to mobilize 30,000 London garrison troops as the second echelon to prepare for follow-up operations. He was well aware of the strong combat effectiveness of the Germans.  But come to think of it.  How can five to eighty thousand heavily armed troops be easily captured against a group of lightly armed airborne troops?

    Because they have been defending against German cross-sea attacks, the British troops in the southeast theater are always on alert. The German airborne troops dropped their front feet and began to gather before waiting.  They rushed out of the bunker one after another and launched a siege in groups!

    The result was not as optimistic as initially thought!

    "These German paratroopers who took the risk of airborne at dusk are almost all the strongest individual soldiers among the millions of German troops, and are heavily equipped with MP40 submachine guns, semi-automatic carbines and light machine guns imported from China.  And they are not just soldiers.  Almost every transport plane dropped at least two armed GEEPs or infantry fighting vehicles!

    ?Enter Armed GEEP.  Either set up heavy machine guns, or be equipped with 120mm artillery cannons or 100mm recoilless rifles, providing fierce short-range attack firepower.  Although the light infantry fighting vehicle only weighs about 10 tons, it is equipped with at least a 37mm cannon, which can still give a heavy blow to the Matilda tank. Its 40mm composite armor is a thick defense that even British machine guns are difficult to break!

    Coupled with the large number of anti-tank rockets, 60 mortars, and 20,000 paratroopers carried by individual soldiers, they actually already have powerful offensive combat capabilities!

    The German troops fighting in company and platoon units gathered towards armored or mechanical units as soon as they landed. As soon as a squad was assembled, they immediately followed the deployment and marched quickly towards the gathering point using the radio receiver as a guide.  Encountering an interception by the British army, they immediately went into battle. With intensive rapid-fire firepower and heavy weapon strikes during the narrow encounter, the numerically superior British search force was defeated one by one, causing them to retreat hastily!

    Fortunately, the main goal of the German paratroopers is not to fight with them, but to move immediately once they break through.  Unknowingly, the intercepted British troops were pulled closer to a series of northern strongholds.

    Accidentally, Montgomery had no choice but to let the coastal defense forces keep up with the encirclement and suppression.  He has keenly judged that this time the German attack is different from the past. The huge number of airborne troops not only have too much attack power and firepower, but also have clear goals. The purpose of dividing the troops is to cut off the hundreds of square kilometers in the east and create a landing beachhead!

    It was in this chaotic situation that the super airship used the engineering vehicle that quickly arrived at night, and the shield boring machine drilled out quickly deployed on the thoroughly cleared Dover position, and followed by a  The armored forces deployed layer by layer towards the outer layer, and some paratroopers attacked from both sides to eliminate the sporadic British troops in the middle. Overnight, Germany's "Moses Plan" was mostly successful!

    In the early morning of the next day, I didn¡¯t get anything all nightGeneral Montgomery, who was resting, received the exact news that a large number of German armored troops appeared on the eastern battlefield!  Moreover, the powerful steel torrent with its main "Tiger" tanks and Panther tanks as its core suddenly joined the battle and smoothly crushed the defending troops into pieces!

    "How could this happen? It shouldn't be!"

    Montgomery immediately contacted Mountbatten, and it was confirmed that there was indeed no German transport ship deliberately landing on the English Channel. If he wanted to escort groups of armored units to land, there were only a few landing points that needed to be opened. At present, those places are still  They were all caught in fierce firefights and were not occupied!

    The situation was reported to Churchill, but the arrogant Prime Minister disagreed: "The Germans are just bluffing! Don't be intimidated by them! We know that they have obtained a group of large Chinese transport aircraft and some airships with extremely large carrying capacity, but they are absolutely not  Maybe bring the entire armored division to England! General, show your courage and determination. Kill them all!"

    Yes, Chinese transport aircraft can pull light tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.  After the Germans built the super airship for Zhu Bin, they secretly built a large number of similar gadgets themselves. They even tried crossing the North Sea in the early days of the war. Facts have proved that that guy can only be used when they have control of the air and ground defense. Otherwise, forget about it.  No matter how many 20mm cannons there are, they are still targets for fighter jets!

    Montgomery had similar thoughts, indeed in the evening.  A group of airships landed close to the beach, but they ran away immediately after unloading. They were not intercepted by the Air Force and Navy. They held up an airship to transport two tanks. So there were only sixty or seventy tanks on the front line at most, which was not enough to let him  So busy!

    But it didn¡¯t take long for the situation to get worse!  Tanks on the front lines.  Preliminary statistics indicate that there are more than 200 vehicles. Adding the number of infantry fighting vehicles, this is clearly the strength of an armored division sent here!  The German airships are still in France, so where did they come from and emerge from the ground?

    Churchill could no longer remain calm, the existence of an armored division.  This means that the United Kingdom must deploy at least two to three divisions and more than 50,000 troops to completely eliminate them. This is when tanks and fighter planes are equally powerful. Otherwise, the entire southeastern United Kingdom will fall into an unprecedented crisis!

    The issue is.  This time, German air strikes.  They don't just leave as soon as they get involved, but retreat after the fight is over. Even at night, there are always groups of fighter jets circling, and at dawn, the number of flying fighters is even larger!  The entire vast airspace in south London is occupied by them!

    General Montgomery has some numbness.  The most powerful armored force in his hands, apart from his own tattered Matilda, is a batch of M4s shipped by the Americans. No matter the armor, main gun, or mobility, they are not as good as the German goods. The quantity is face to face.  When there are hundreds of armor clusters, where do you get so many?  And they were still fighting on their own soil. Except for the anti-tank trenches and rivers blocking the ground, nothing else could stop the raging German tanks!

    Churchill roared in his lair: "Damn Germans! Where did they come from? Did they really dig a tunnel across the Channel?! But this is impossible!"

    Digging the English Channel is a great idea that existed during the Napoleonic period. If it is not impossible, the British will definitely not agree.  Two hundred years later, no one seems to have taken this seriously.  And with the development of science and technology, people have also realized that the difficulty of this kind of project is only as great as the sky!  Even if Germany has a large-scale shield boring machine designed for the Chinese, there is no guarantee that it can be opened.

    It is not that the UK has never received similar intelligence, but the conclusion is that it is just a German strategy to attack the east and attack the west.  With their technology, it would take ten or eight years to cross the strait, and the cost would be too great for Hitler to bear.

    So the British didn¡¯t take it seriously, and now, they can¡¯t even remember it!

    Montgomery pulled all the troops he could mobilize to the front line to block the attack, and 80,000 troops were invested one after another. Finally, he barely withstood the first wave of impact at noon, but he could not prevent the Germans from joining forces.

    In the afternoon, the second German armored division rushed through the tunnel and reached the rear!  In the evening, the third division came, and at night, the fourth, fifth  In the early morning of the third day, nearly 200,000 German troops crossed the English Channel. They formed a powerful iron fist. In the darkness at about five o'clock, they suddenly exerted force and overflowed the British defense lines like a tide!

    Hundreds of attack planes and more than a hundred bombers cleared the way, and hundreds of V2 missiles focused on the British rear route. The torrent of German armor formed a frenzy that swept across the earth, crushing the southeastern battlefield, overflowing the British defense line, and was unstoppable.  The front line has been pushed to Dortford, and the heavy artillery troops can easily drop large-caliber artillery shells anywhere in central London!

    A reconnaissance plane was lucky enough to see the Dover landing from low altitudeThe sudden change of points, the piles of military columns, the German troops that kept pouring out like ants, the shocked pilot almost fell from the sky.  Panicked, he shouted over the radio a scream that went down in history: "Germans! They're coming out of the ground!"

    The layers of ups and downs, with the presentation of a photo, Montgomeli, Churchill, all British commanders who insist on resisting are immediately completely defeated!

    The months-long bombing of London has brought the morale of the British people to the brink of collapse. If Hitler's German army had not made a wrong strategy, they would have been forced to surrender by now.

    They thought they could survive it.  But now, when the Germans really have the ability to pass through the ground, everything seems to be completely meaningless!

    On the French side, several intelligence agents risked exposure and sent out their findings in clear code: "The German troops are advancing! They have all disappeared off the coast of Calais!"

    Dozens of military columns, and more military columns, filled with German soldiers who had no time to disguise themselves, marched from France to Calais in a mighty manner, only leaving but never returning.  The all-pervasive British and French intelligence officers checked before and after, and quickly figured out what was going on, and everyone was shocked!

    More German troops moved to the British mainland, and the German navy, which had been on the defensive, suddenly launched. A pack of undersea wolves launched a frantic siege on British destroyers. Hundreds of fighter planes, regardless of casualties, prevented Mountbatten's navy from bombing Dover.  plan.

    When the seventh day came when 300,000 German troops completed the siege of London, thousands of cannons and thousands of tanks and armored vehicles crushed the last straight backbone of the British.  Churchill withdrew northward with some of his men who preferred death to surrender. The British royal family announced its surrender!
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