Chapter 576 Swim Back to Great Britain (Plus 9)

Human beings are always constantly challenging their limits. As early as August 25, 1875, British man Matthew Wilbur spent 21 hours and 45 minutes swimming alone without the aid of any artificial objects. He successfully swam across the English Channel and became the first person in history to swim across the English Channel.

On August 6, 1926, an American girl completed the feat of crossing the English Channel in 14 hours and 31 minutes.

What they chose was from Calais to the opposite Dover, after all, this was the closest distance.

Now, since they have nowhere to go, they can only swim back!

Montgomery's voice immediately won the approval of the British soldiers.

Swim back! The other side of the strait is their home, they want to go back, they don't want to stay here as prisoners!

In fact, it is not necessary to swim over completely. As long as they drift off the coast, the German tanks will have no way to deal with them. As long as they hold on in the sea, the ships on the opposite side will come over and they will be able to rescue them!

Montgomery took the lead and ran towards the seaside. They were not flinching, they were going home!

Even if half of his 3rd Infantry Division could retreat, it would be worth it.

With this thought in mind, Montgomery ran towards the sea, and behind him, a large number of soldiers followed, undressing as they ran.

At this time, don't be too polite.

Anyone who has ever swam knows that it is impossible to swim with clothes on. After the clothes get wet, the weight increases several times, and people have to be dragged to death by the clothes.

You can only take off your clothes, even if you are swimming in winter, you can't wear clothes.

Montgomery was the same, his uniform, his proud epaulettes, all his papers, his weapons, all dropped.

Not all soldiers can swim.

At such times, as proud warriors of Great Britain, as soldiers of the Empire on which the sun never sets, they develop their most respectable style.

Those who can't swim, take cover for those who can swim, leave the hope of life to others, and leave the risk of death to yourself, who makes yourself unable to swim?

They silently picked up the swimming soldier's weapons, ammunition, lay down on the ground, bundled the grenades into bundles, and waited for that moment to come.

British, are you crazy?

Here, seeing the performance of the British, it really exceeded Dietrich's expectations.

The British, actually want to escape across the sea?

Moreover, they still plan to swim back?

The location restriction prevented him from seeing the other side of the strait in the distance. There were already ships leaving, ready to take the army back here. Dietrich really thought that the other party was going to swim back.

Let the other party go back? of course not!

"Order our tank troops to temporarily stop advancing, call the division artillery behind us, use multiple rocket launchers, and bomb the coast here!" Dietrich said.

Want to swim back? It's not that easy, let's blow up your heart and let it cool!

Through the radio, the troops in the rear immediately launched a battle.

In the German organization, an armored division has one artillery regiment, while the armored division of the SS is larger than the average, that is to say, they have two artillery regiments!

One is the howitzer regiment, and the other is the rocket regiment.

Each artillery regiment consists of a regiment headquarters, a communications platoon, and two artillery battalions. Each battalion has three companies, each with four guns. The company headquarters has no artillery, so an artillery regiment has 24 artillery pieces.

Due to the lack of equipment, many artillery regiments are still towed artillery, even if they are self-propelled, they are also wheeled chassis.

In fact, Germany's weapons production is already quite high, but Germany's military expansion is also quite fast, and the newly created equipment can never meet the demand.

However, the Waffen SS has the power of preference. When other armored divisions, even the artillery with wheeled chassis, feel satisfied, the Waffen SS artillery regiment is equipped with tracks. Chassis!

Yes, the crawler chassis! At the beginning, Germany adopted the 20-ton Panther 2 tank scheme for the sake of reducing technical difficulty. After that, as the technology matured, the Panther 2 tank gradually fell to the brink of elimination.

Part of it was assigned to other troops, part of it was remodeled, and the current artillery regiment is equipped with suppressed artillery using this Black Panther 2 chassis!

Damn it!

This makes the other troops envious, and there is no way, they are their own, and they are indeed credited on the battlefield.

The chassis is the same model, but the top has been changed. The top is a German weapon, a 40-barrel 122mm rocket launcher. In the army, this weapon is affectionately called the Cyric organ pipe. Moreover, in order not to cause damage during the march, these rockets are not installed in orbit, but in launch tubes.

Although the chassis is the same, after all, they are suppressing firepower, walking behind the armored troops, and even walking behind the armored grenadiers, that is to say, they are the rear of the entire army.

However, they can give full play to their firepower advantage at any time, because they have the advantage in range. The 122mm rocket launcher has a maximum range of 20 kilometers, which is enough to provide suppressing firepower at any time when the troops need it!

Now, it's finally time for them to play!

"Attention, in battle formation, spread out!" The head of the division's rocket artillery regiment shouted loudly on the radio.

When the order came down, his troops were still in a marching state, but after receiving the order, they saw the tracked chassis of each vehicle, quickly adjusting their orientation, 24 launch vehicles, arranged in two rows, each 12 cars in a row.

At this time, the head of the group and the officers around him were the busiest.

Determine the exact location of your side, determine the location of the target, and then provide your own rocket artillery unit with the launch of the elements.

The launch of a rocket launcher is different from the launch of a howitzer. A howitzer requires precise aiming. For example, if the troops in front ask to kill a bunker on the opposite side, they must not miss it, even if they are five meters away from the bunker, they cannot complete the task.

The rocket launcher is not a point-killing weapon, but a face-killing weapon, as long as it is roughly aimed.

So now, after they enter the firing state, it is enough to enter the exact same shooting elements.

And this calculation of shooting all elements is calculated by the regiment.

Their task is arduous. If the shooting of the Yuan is determined to be wrong, then there may be a situation of missing. It is one thing to waste rockets.

The main way to determine the shooting of the various elements is to rely on the shooting table.