＜ Episode 237 >
The M4 Sherman spewed out flames and flames, and the Scofield tank that faced it was turned into a ball of fire with one blow. The two-pounder cannon Schofield was equipped with could not penetrate Sherman’s armor.
Then, another tank appeared. It had a very odd shape.
The 25 pounder cannon spewed fire and missed.
Sherman, who turned the turret, and the Sentinel, who was backtracking, fired at each other almost simultaneously.
***
“It is clear that the Australian military was involved.”
General Eisenhower listened to the report in silence.
“The prisoners who defeated and captured the new enemy tanks testified that they belonged to the Australian Army.”
Australia is in front of New Zealand and it is already at war, so it is not surprising that it intervened.
However, in this case, there is only a high chance that you will have to face more enemies than you imagined.
The U.S. military was engaged in a major battle across the Pacific Ocean.
“General Vandergrift.”
“Yes.”
“How much do you think it will cost to conquer the South Island of New Zealand?”
“It will depend on whether the Japs have crawled in or not, but assuming no Japs, it will take about three months.”
“Three months.”
Eisenhower sighed. The White House wanted to finish the occupation of Australia as soon as possible, say within a year, and advance as far as New Guinea. Next will be Indonesia and the Philippines.
Besides, Marshall, Guam, Wake Island, and the Mariana Islands cannot be crossed without recapture, so we have to conduct an amphibious operation.
‘I just wish I could have gone to Europe like Patton did.’
After political negotiations with Russia, Patton, who was in charge of the Italian front alone, was said to have occupied Florence by advancing despite a bad battle.
Of course, to get to Rome, you have to go as far as you have gone so far, and there is a high probability that you will have to go from Rome to Naples, maybe Sicily, but it is several times better than conducting dozens of amphibious operations here.
The amphibious operation was close to advancing with the blood of soldiers in the beginning, but blood shed in the Caribbean, the Coral Sea, and the Solomon Islands was close to the level that now manages to become the basis for the amphibious operation.
Of course, they were all lessons bought with the blood of the Americans.
‘Tenno Heika Banzaii!’
The U.S. Marines suffered massive damage throughout the South Pacific from the Japs who threw grenades from the burrowing ship and fired bayonet charges, or fired their devastating drum magazine sub-machine guns.
In the Coral Sea, night battles were fought between battleships and battlecruisers in a 4v4 format. And the result was the worst defeat of the U.S. Navy. The situation was not good, as the battleship squadron commander Admiral Gormley was killed, and in the past, only one enemy battleship was sunk, one was damaged, and four allied battleships were blown up, and the first Essex-class ship Essex was lost.
Of course, by the standards of other countries, it was a version that came out like a regular carrier, but the US Navy, which stopped building new battleships after the Ohio class, ordered 32 Essex class carriers.
Even considering the loss of the first ship Essex, it is 31 ships, which is a jingling level for Japan.
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Moreover, as they appear every month or two instead of a few years, it was inevitable that as time went on, it would become overwhelming, and there were five Essex-class ships just west of the date line in the South Pacific.
“I will ask the Navy to further tighten the blockade on the Tasman Sea.”
The war is not over yet. either this way or that one.
***
The Russian counterattack was fierce. As the Germans approached, the Russian army, who was preparing for battle, countered with artillery of various calibers, extensive air support, and mobile defense using tanks.
The performance of the MK tank was particularly remarkable, except for the weak points of the MK-1, a heavy tank under the typical Russian doctrine, in which the German army’s main weapon, the 8,8 cm gun, had extreme sloped and thick armor on all sides. This happened because it could not penetrate at any distance or at any angle.
Even in the case of the latest medium tank T-42 (also known as T-32-100M), even the Tiger 2 could not give effective blows to the front armor of the hull unless it approached more than 100 m and had to aim at the turret or the side, but even with a thin turret, the Tiger 2 Even heavy tanks had to aim at the flanks because they had the same defensive power as the .
For this reason, the tanks under the 4th tank were just a bullet hole.
Breaking through the major transportation points failed, and they launched a massive air bombardment to block the German advance southward, and Konev’s forces slammed into the rear.
However, the German army, which would have collapsed sooner under normal circumstances, resisted fiercely.
The Walther model showed her abilities to the fullest in that situation, and led a force that would not be strange even if it collapsed immediately, with no expectation of supply, and even in an external command that would not be strange even if the exchange rate of several tens to one would normally occur, the Russian and German forces They had to pay a close to one-to-one exchange rate, and even suffered the loss of all their armored vehicles when a breakthrough group of heavy tanks and a small number of outdated medium tanks were counterattacked.
But the fate that was set could not be changed.
***
West of Orléans, Blois. france.
About 40 soldiers, about one or two platoons, gathered together.
Orléans was, in fairness, a hell for both the Germans and the Russians.
They gave up on the rescue of Vichy and tried to escape, but the Russians had no intention of letting the Germans go.
The Russian army blocked the front, sent a pursuit and airstrikes the Germans, trying to pay back the amount they had suffered, or several times that.
And so far it has come.
“Commander.”
“……”
“The commander did his best. History will surely record that you did your best until the very end.”
“is it?”
“dismissal.”
The model, who listened to the exclusive aide, spoke softly.
“Ancient sergeants drank poison.”
The enemy of Germany does not surrender. never.
“Lieutenant, I have a request.”
“no.”
“……”
“Sir, you must survive. Wasn’t even that Manstein attached as a condition of not accusing him of sin and of being loyal to the new government? The new government will be more willing to win your allegiance than the traitor Manstein.”
“…I’m responsible for all of these deaths, but now come and shamelessly surrender?”
Knowing that there was no chance of winning, he ordered an offensive on the grounds that he had to do so, spilling countless young blood from his own country and other countries within the siege.
If you were going to surrender, you should have done it sooner, the model knew that if she surrendered, she would not be able to live forever with her head in the world.
Even if no one rebuked him, he himself would not be able to forgive the deception.
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Model Marshal grabbed a pistol.
A cold P38 pistol cooled the heat rising from his body.
“aide.”
“……Yes, General.”
“Take the survivors and surrender to the Russians, so… at least the living ones, as many as possible, return home.”
“General.”
“It’s an order.”
The model, who gave the last command, moved on.
Left alone, the model pulled out a pistol.
A cold barrel hit his temple.
The faces of the families came to mind, and the faces of the dead subordinates passed by.
A single gunshot rang out.
On that day, the last remaining army of the Wehrmacht met its end.
***
“General Manstein.”
“We don’t have enough troops.”
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Manstein crumpled up his face and answered immediately.
“At first, the horse was a field army, and the number of troops under my command was only 7 divisions. Your corps was watching from the back seat.”
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Manstein’s voice was restrained, but no one knew that he was quite angry.
“Their mission wasn’t to support you on the supply line. Vichy was the target you had to hit.”
“Ask, do we get bullets? Or allies?”
“……”
“To defend a fortified city, there are only one division more than the enemy garrison, and they don’t even support them properly with guys with poor morale and inferior equipment.”
“At that time, it was more urgent to stop the model, and there are still large British and German remnants in western France, you know.”
“Would that mean that an entire group would be deployed? Yes, according to the Russian doctrine, it may be, but I don’t think the Russian doctrine says that the allies attacking the enemy’s capital will take a lot of damage and look behind them.”
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Manstein was sarcastic. Although he betrayed him while worrying about his own safety, that didn’t mean he didn’t spare his subordinates.
And Rokosovsky, who had been using them as bullet traps semi-intentionally, didn’t say anything.
“We plan to launch a re-attack tomorrow, then expect the help of the Russian army.”
***
Vichy, the residence of the Provisional Führer.
The remnants of the British and German forces were crushed by Konev’s grand offensive and isolated in Brest, even though Konef was preparing his final attack to completely destroy them.
Even if the model enemy ultimately failed to break through the encirclement and committed suicide.
Even if Manstein betrayed him.
Even if Patton approaches Rome’s nose, and Rommel and Montgomery stop Patton from receiving an infinite supply of death-and-death.
Even if Russian four-shot bombers started dropping bombs on London.
Just as Goebbels’ propaganda broadcasting did not stop in Vichy, Hitler continued to talk about a victory that no one believed in gradually.
“The model is sad, but his sacrifice will bring National Socialism back to life. They have already consumed too many troops and supplies, and with just one blow, they will be defeated!”
“of course!”
Goebbels quickly agreed, but Jugashvili silently smoked.
“General Paulus said he had an army ready, ordered a counterattack,”
“…it’s impossible.”
“What?”
“Paulus’s forces have already been overwhelmed by the Russians, Reinhard Heydrich’s headquarters has collapsed, and we don’t know if he is alive or dead.”
“The British Army?”
“You’re running, I don’t know what happened after you contacted me that I was ordered to retreat to Brittany after being pushed by the Russian offensive.”
“What about Manteufel?”
“You’ve run out of ammunition and fuel, they’re already waiting for the end.”
No, I don’t know if Manteufel is still alive.
At the cynical Jugashvili’s words, Hitler hardened as it was.
“…Is that so?”
“Sir, please leave for England now.”
“There is hope in fighting in England. Not yet….”
“Is that possible?”
Is there any hope if we fight together with island nations that have only the sea for their shields?
can it be How about those Untermens?
When this war was over, I was thinking of going to war with Britain. Whether it’s France or England, it’s the Untermens that should eventually be ruled by them.
I couldn’t conquer the Untermens, who were supposed to be conquered, but they were allies and tried to embrace them, so this Satan was born. In the example of Charles the Great, I had to rule and rule them with iron and blood as Bismarck said.
After all, the alliance with Britain was a mistake.
Because they were allied with Britain, they tried to defeat only France and slap the British in the back of the head, but wasn’t Russia astonished by itself?
If Britain had to be vigilant, it might have been far better to confide in Russia in the first place and seek cooperation.
But that is already a thing of the past.
In the end, the Germanic people are destined to be defeated and disappear, and the qualifications to become the victors of the times were obtained by others other than them.
“The death of Germanic is my death.”
Adolescent Hitler walked out the door of the conference room.
No one followed the former Germanic leader, the insane paranoid.