Reborn as a police officer in South Africa
Chapter 2581 50 tons is a hurdle
There are not many black technologies in Germany that are not available in southern Africa.
If you look at it this way, it will bring out the magic of Germany even more.
The strength of Southern Africa is due to cheating and unparalleled geographical and resource advantages. Even the United States is inferior to Southern Africa in this regard.
The geographical advantage of the United States is also good, but it is far behind southern Africa in terms of resources. If Rock were thrown into Germany, Rock would really not dare to challenge the world alone.
When the last tank in Cologne was destroyed, more and more troops poured into Remagen. Both sides knew that the fateful moment was coming.
If the Southern African Expeditionary Force can open a gap from Remagen, then millions of Western Allied troops will pour into Germany along Remagen. The defense line deployed along the Rhine River in Rundstadt in the past winter will be completely blocked.
collapse, then the world war may end within this year.
If the German army recaptures Remagen, the war will continue. If it cannot end within this year, it is hard to say what changes will occur next year.
This past winter, many changes have taken place in European countries, especially in France and Italy. The Communist International has become more and more powerful. If the Communist International wins in France and Italy in the post-war elections, then southern Africa and the United Kingdom will
, the United States has worked hard these past few years, and it will all be meaningless.
Patton knew the opportunity was rare.
When the Anglo-American coalition attack was in trouble, the Southern African Expeditionary Force was the only bright spot. On the day the 9th Armored Division captured the Ludendorff Bridge, Patton ordered all the Southern African Expeditionary Force to speed up and move closer to the Ludendorff Bridge as soon as possible.
Pass the Danube and enter Remagen for battle.
Lei Zhen was very worried.
After attacking the Ludendorff Bridge, Lei Zhen ordered his engineers to conduct a thorough assessment of the Ludendorff Bridge. The results were not optimistic.
Although the explosives planted by the German army did not blow up the Ludendorff Bridge, they severely damaged the structure of the Ludendorff Bridge, making it impossible for tanks and other heavy weapons to pass, and they had to find other ways.
Fortunately, there are still engineers who can build a pontoon bridge on the Rhine River.
It takes time to erect a pontoon bridge, and it must be prevented from being destroyed by the German army. The new German commander-in-chief Kesselring and even the importance of the Ludendorff Bridge were even used to destroy the Ludendorff Bridge. Jet bombers and V2 rockets were used.
"Have our jet bombers entered service?" Tony Anderson was not sure. Jet fighters in southern Africa had just entered service.
"Probably not yet—" Lei Zhen held up his telescope and observed the fierce fighting in the sky.
Perhaps because the German troops have not yet finished gathering, the fighting on the ground has not been fierce in the past few days. Instead, the competition in the air has become more and more cruel, and fierce air battles break out every day.
The German army participated in the war not only with jet bombers, but also with jet fighters and the latest model BF109.
Southern Africa also used all its cards, sending not only a large number of "Cheetahs" but also jet fighters that had just entered service.
Although they are all jet-type, their appearance is still easy to distinguish.
The appearance of the German jet fighters is really ugly, and it feels like they were rushed to the battlefield without even having time to optimize their aerodynamics.
The jet fighters in southern Africa have smooth appearance, more advanced performance, and more numbers. They are also coordinated by the "Cheetah" whose performance has reached the peak of propeller fighters. Therefore, the harvest has been huge in the past few days. Dozens of German fighter jets are shot down every day.
As for jet fighters—
To be honest, Lei Zhen really didn't realize that jet bombers had an overwhelming advantage over propeller bombers. Otherwise, the Ludendorff Bridge would not be intact until now.
"You don't know the character of our Lord. He will definitely not bring out the most advanced things unless absolutely necessary. Believe it or not, if Germany does not come up with jet fighters, our jet fighters will not appear until the end of the world war."
On the battlefield - "In Lei Zhen's footage, a German BF109 was chased and beaten by a "Cheetah". The pilot of the BF109 tried his best, but failed to escape. In the end, he was hit and the aircraft disintegrated in the air.
The pilot didn't even parachute.
There's no point in jumping. Below is the Rhine River. The fate of skydiving may be even more tragic.
What Lei Zhen said is true. The Southern African Expeditionary Force rarely experiments with new weapons on the battlefield. It is very efficient to modify them while using them like Germany, but it is also irresponsible to the soldiers.
"Rocket, V2 Rocket—" The V2 Rocket appeared in Tony Anderson's lens.
This is a bad thing about rocket engines. Just like mines, when flying in the air, the engine will have obvious tail flames and airflow, and it is easy to be discovered.
Even Tony Anderson can see the tail flame of the V2 rocket, and so can the pilots.
A Southern African jet and a "Cheetah" rushed towards the V2 rocket at the same time, hoping to shoot down the V2 rocket with their cannons.
This is not impossible. Yesterday, a V2 rocket was shot down by a fighter jet. The pilot will probably be proud of it for a lifetime.
This is of course also related to the fact that the performance of the V2 rocket is not advanced enough.
Shooting down a rocket is not something that just anyone can do. In addition to having excellent skills, it depends more on luck.
The two pilots were not very lucky, and neither of them hit the target. The V2 rocket successfully broke through the layers of defenses and flew straight towards the Ludendorff Bridge.
Then it fell onto the river almost 300 meters away from the Ludendorff Bridge.
300 meters is already pretty good. It's a blessing that the Germans don't yet have the ability to combine precision guided bombs with V2 rockets.
"How many times is this already?" Lei Zhen sighed, the Germans can really hold on.
"The 11th one——" Tony Anderson was careful. Compared with night vision devices, the V2 rocket is of greater value.
The performance of V2 rockets is not very reliable, and the accuracy is not high. Yesterday, a V2 rocket did not explode at all and fell directly into the Rhine River.
After Tony Anderson reported the situation to Patton, Patton expressed great interest in the rocket. There are still dozens of people working in the river, hoping to fish out the V2 rocket that did not explode.
Lei Zhen didn't care about these trivial matters, he only focused on sending the heavy tanks to the other side.
The structure of the Ludendorff Bridge was severely damaged and heavy tanks could not pass. The only way to send heavy tanks to the other side was by pontoons and tugboats.
That kind of simple pontoon bridge is not enough, and it can't carry tens of tons of weight. You have to use many small boats to form a large tugboat to send the heavy tanks over.
This is also a new attempt for the Southern African Expeditionary Force.
After the first tugboat was formed yesterday, the engineers had already conducted an experiment.
The result was terrible. When the tugboat reached the center of the Rhine River, due to the strong current, the position of the Tiger tank it carried shifted, its center of gravity shifted, and it eventually fell into the water. Fortunately, there were no crew members in the tank at the time, and no casualties were caused.
Today is the second attempt.
Under the watchful eyes of hundreds of engineers and tank crews on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the driver carefully drove the Tiger tank onto the tugboat. A group of engineers swarmed up, used tools to secure the Tiger tank to the tugboat, and then all personnel evacuated.
On a pontoon bridge that has been built nearby, hundreds of expeditionary officers and soldiers are passing quickly.
Not far away, on the Ludendorff Bridge, a group of four-ton trucks loaded with military supplies were driving cautiously.
The holes on the bridge deck were urgently repaired by engineers, and it is now barely usable.
Even so, the drivers of all trucks were careful to open their doors when passing. Once the bridge broke during the passage, these drivers would have a greater chance of escaping.
Beside Lei Zhen, thousands of expeditionary officers and soldiers were resting, waiting to cross the river to join the battle. They were all from the 61st Division and had just arrived an hour ago.
In the town of Remagen on the other side, the expeditionary officers and soldiers who had arrived earlier were urgently building positions, waiting to welcome the German attack.
There was the rumble of artillery from further away. It was the vanguard of the German army, exchanging fire with the peripheral troops of the Southern African Expeditionary Force.
The engineers of the expeditionary force can still be trusted. Many of them have university degrees, which are rare at this time, and have a deeper understanding of engineering construction. After experiencing a failure, the engineers continued their efforts and finally successfully completed this Tiger tank.
Send it to the other side.
"Very good, let's cross the river -" Lei Zhen was very satisfied. With the heavy tanks, Lei Zhen became more confident in the next battle.
Without heavy tanks, Lei Zhen was confident of blocking the German army, keeping Remagen in his hands, and waiting for more reinforcements to arrive.
With heavy tanks, Lei Zhen's plan can be more radical.
Didn't Kesselring mobilize 12 divisions and vow to retake the town of Remagen?
Now let us wait and see how many German troops can escape.
The only worry is whether Kesselring will give up retaking the town of Remagen if he finds that too many troops have crossed the river.
"It's easy, just let Kesselin rest assured -" Tony Anderson has many ideas, and as the chief of staff, he helps with ideas.
"What should I say?" Lei Zhen didn't know how to reassure Kesselin.
"Haha, don't the Germans want to blow up the Ludendorff Bridge? Let's help them blow it up -" Tony Anderson was afraid that Kesselring would not be fooled and would add fuel to the fire.
yes!
On the surface, the Ludendorff Bridge was the main channel for the Southern African Expeditionary Force to cross the Rhine River. The Germans did not hesitate to blow up the Ludendorff Bridge at all costs.
Now if the Ludendorff Bridge is blown up, then in Kesselring's eyes, the Southern African Expeditionary Force, which has probably crossed the river, will become a turtle in the urn.
I wonder if Kesselring knows the allusions of "put yourself to death and live again" and "burn the boat down the drain".
"Blow up, blow up today!" The "Tiger" that had already crossed the river gave Lei Zhen the greatest confidence.
Regarding the matter of blowing up a bridge, Lei Zhen and Tony Anderson had nothing to do with it, and they had to report it to Patton.
Patton has studied with Roque for so long, and the biggest gain is that he never trusts the people he employs.
In other words, it's a hands-off shopkeeper.
It's not easy to be a hands-off shopkeeper. In the east, there is Principal Chang who remotely controls the team's operations, and in the west, there is Mustache, who will fight to the death no matter what the situation. These two are both outstanding.
Roque advocated that the foreign emperor's orders should not be ignored. The battle situation on the front line was changing rapidly. Even if there were telegraphs and telephones, the communication speed was much faster. Being in the safe rear area, the understanding of the front line was definitely not as good as those of the front-line commanders.
Patton did the same and agreed to blow up the bridge.
This is how feelings are cultivated.
Blowing up the bridge is a dangerous move and carries risks.
If Kesselin was fooled, resolutely carried out Mustache's orders, sent all mobile forces to the town of Remagen, and fought to the death with the Southern African Expeditionary Force, it would be safe to say that Southern Africa would eventually win a complete victory.
If the expeditionary force failed to withstand the crazy German attack, resulting in the loss of the town of Remagen, the loss of the only bridgehead, and even the annihilation of the entire expeditionary force across the river, then Patton would also be jointly and severally responsible.
With Patton sharing the pressure, that afternoon, the Ludendorff Bridge, which had attracted much attention, collapsed under the shocked eyes of countless people.
Kesselring soon learned of this situation, and the German troops that were gathering towards the town of Remagen were much faster.
Probably in the eyes of the German generals, the expeditionary officers and soldiers who had crossed the river were just piles of moving military medals.
What a coincidence.
In the eyes of the expeditionary officers and soldiers, the Germans were just piles of moving military medals.
At night, the air battle that lasted for many days finally came to a halt. The collapse of the Ludendorff Bridge gave the Germans reassurance. Now Kesselring could focus all his attention on how to destroy the expeditionary force crossing the river.
The expeditionary force is still seizing the time to organize the crossing of the river.
The loss of the Ludendorff Bridge did not have much impact on the expeditionary force's crossing of the river. In the past few days, engineers have built four pontoon bridges one kilometer downstream from the Ludendorff Bridge. Countless expeditionary officers, soldiers and supplies are passing through these pontoon bridges.
One after another they arrive on the other side.
Captain Panson, who graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of Nyasaland, is the commander of the pontoon bridge. Before joining the army, he worked in a construction company in Pretoria and has been promoted to a senior engineer.
After the outbreak of the World War, Panson enlisted in the army. This was Panson's second command of bridge building after the Normandy landing.
"Our pontoon bridge has sufficient carrying capacity. Trucks, armored vehicles, and medium tanks of no more than 40 tons can pass through." Pan Sen is confident in the pontoon bridge he has erected. This past winter, the engineers were not idle either.
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The Southern African military has always had a pontoon bridge unit. During the Normandy landings, the pontoon bridges erected by the Southern African engineers had a load-bearing capacity of 20 tons and became a blockbuster.
20 tons is enough for British tanks, but far insufficient for the tanks of the Southern African Expeditionary Force. During the Normandy landings, the heavy tanks in Southern Africa could only land through the ports. It was not until they captured many port cities in the later period that they
Only the heavy tanks from southern Africa were able to participate in the war.
This past winter, the Southern African pontoon bridge troops summarized the experience of the Normandy landings and upgraded the technology again. Now the load-bearing capacity of the pontoon bridge built by engineers has been increased to 40 tons.
"It's already 40 tons, can it be more?" Lei Zhen was not satisfied. 50 tons was a hurdle, and it was very important.
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