The decisive battle against the Third Reich

"Sir!" Colonel Slain reminded: "This doesn't take much time, we just need to make a fake move..."

"Colonel Slaine!" Colonel Olbridge interrupted Colonel Slaine: "I have already said, we can't waste any time! If we are going to make a fake move, we should first put the enemy in front of us. Under the range of artillery fire!"

Objectively speaking, Colonel Olbridge's statement also makes some sense, because the speed of trucks is generally higher than that of tanks, especially here in the open and flat desert... Trucks can drive almost everywhere, and tanks are not only difficult to chase and intercept, but also need to be careful. Whether the road surface can bear the weight of the tank.

"But sir!" But Colonel Slain still refused to give up: "This is the suggestion of one of my subordinates, and his suggestion has been proven right time and time again. I hope you can consider it carefully..."

"Your subordinates?" Colonel Albridge sneered at this: "Colonel Sline, when did you need your subordinates to tell you what to do? And I'm not discussing with you, it's an order, understand?"

"Yes, sir!" Colonel Slain replied helplessly.

The news quickly reached Kuhn via radio. After Kuhn put down the microphone, he helplessly said to Qin Chuan: "Colonel Olbridge rejected this suggestion because he thinks it is more important to seize the fighter opportunity now!"

"Oh, fuck it!" Werner cursed: "This fool may lead us all to hell..."

"Soldier!" Kun interrupted Werner with a stern face: "Watch your words!"

"Yes, sir!" Werner responded and stopped talking.

This is a habit of the German army. Once the superiors make a decision, soldiers are not allowed to question it, because questioning will not have any effect and will also dishearten the troops.

But despite this, Qin Chuan still saw their worries in the eyes of his comrades. The baker even whispered to Qin Chuan: "I hope you are wrong!"

Qin Chuan also hoped that he was wrong, otherwise a loss would be inevitable.

But the facts increasingly prove that Qinchuan is right, because the enemy convoy has been approaching the German convoy.

Colonel Olbridge stood on a speeding half-track armored vehicle and looked ahead with his binoculars.

Although the 5th Infantry Regiment also captured a British armored command vehicle, Colonel Olbridge believed that it was only suitable for sleeping at night. If you drive it on the battlefield... you will be targeted by your own people if you are not careful. What's worse is that it may cause confusion among your own people and make them unable to identify ourselves and the enemy.

For the same reason, Colonel Olbridge did not even want the infantry behind him in British Matador cars to follow.

"We can handle this battle ourselves!" Colonel Olbridge said to the adjutant.

"But we can't leave them behind!" said the adjutant: "Our task is to take them through!"

"Yes!" replied Colonel Olbridge, with an expression of disgust and helplessness.

Colonel Olbridge had reason to dislike the 1st Infantry Regiment... His troops were the main force of the 5th Light Division, the absolute main force.

However, the 1st Infantry Regiment took away all the glory in the last battle. They captured many more cities and won many more victories than the 5th Armored Regiment.

This made Colonel Olbridge feel it was a shame. Although the 5th Armored Regiment also achieved some victories, they were insignificant compared with the 1st Infantry Regiment.

Colonel Albridge felt unfair for his men in his heart, because they made sacrifices but did not get the honor they deserved, and even became a laughing stock, because they had the best equipment in the division but did not obtain the corresponding equipment. The results of the 1st Infantry Regiment were exactly the opposite.

Therefore, Olbridge was determined to defeat the 1st Infantry Regiment in this battle. This was one of the reasons why he did not accept Colonel Sline's suggestion, because in his opinion... Colonel Sline was likely to be I said this in order to prevent the 5th Armored Regiment from winning this victory.

"Target found! Target found!" At this time, the report of the tank in front came from the walkie-talkie: "Directly ahead, two miles away!"

Colonel Albridge raised his telescope and looked, and sure enough he saw a cloud of smoke in front of him.

"Full speed ahead!" Colonel Olbridge ordered loudly: "Don't let them escape!"

"Yes, full speed ahead!"

"Full speed ahead!"

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The tank immediately increased its accelerator and drove forward. The "creeping" sound of the tracks was like a victory song played in advance in Colonel Olbridge's ears. He did not even order to form a battle formation... To deal with enemy cars, tanks only need to rush forward and shoot, fire, or even collide and crush them. There is no need for any battle formations.

But Olbridge soon realized something was wrong:

Being able to see each other at this distance means that the other party can also see them, but they did not escape as they imagined. Not only did they not escape, they formed a battle formation and drove towards them at full speed... The car will compile Charge into enemy tanks in battle formation?

Colonel Albridge quickly raised his telescope and looked across carefully, getting closer and closer... Colonel Albridge clearly saw the gun barrels exposed in the smoke.

"Tanks, they are tanks!" Colonel Olbridge quickly ordered: "Everyone obey the order and form a line formation!"

The line formation is used when the terrain is open and facilitates high-speed impact by armored forces. Of all formations, the line formation best utilizes the tank's firepower.

At this time, it was obviously too late to form a formation. With a roar of "Woo", the enemy's artillery fire took the lead in attacking.

Colonel Olbridge was not mistaken. It was indeed a British tank, and it was also a "Crusader" tank.

The reason why the German reconnaissance planes identified it as a "car" was not because the German pilots had poor eyesight, but because of a small move by Wavell. He equipped the "Crusader" tank with an additional device called "Sunshade" The equipment, which is actually a canvas-covered metal frame, does a good job of disguising the tank as a car.

Especially in the impression of the Germans, British tanks are all slow tanks like the "Matilda", so they are completely disguised as "Crusader" cars running wildly in the desert at a speed of more than 40 kilometers per hour. "Tank was deceived.

Only then did Colonel Albridge realize that he had fallen into a trap set by the British, and at the same time regretted not following Colonel Slane's advice.

But now it was too late to regret. He could only grit his teeth and order: "All forward!"