novelhk Chapter 680
Chapter 680
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Model was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, he never lost in the scene!
On the battlefield, when facing the enemy’s superior forces on both sides, how should we defend, how should we counterattack during the defense, and how to maximize the results!
He did all these very well. At the end of the first day of the battle, Model had already tested the level of the British army!
This British army has average equipment, a small number of heavy artillery, basically no tanks, most of the light weapons are old equipment from the First World War, and there are almost no automatic weapons. Their equipment gap is at least 10 years behind the German army!
Moreover, this is not the most fatal. The most fatal thing is that this British army is seriously inexperienced!
The British army mobilized a total of about 500,000 troops, and the military advantage is extremely obvious!
In this case, if they can cooperate well in the north and south, they can actually bring huge pressure to the German army!
But unfortunately, the British army lacked experience or had never conducted similar exercises. Not only did their grassroots soldiers and officers have no such combat experience, but even the high-level commanders did not coordinate and cooperate well, resulting in the German army facing little pressure.
The British army of 500,000 people only played the combat effectiveness of 100,000 people at most, and the rest were watching the show, which was basically useless!
After the first day of fighting, Model even had the idea of defeating each one and taking the initiative to attack!
On the second day, the German Air Force began to appear on the battlefield and bombed the attacking British army!
Because they had been frightened by the German Air Force before, as soon as the German Air Force appeared, the British army that was attacking had a lot of turmoil.
The soldiers hid everywhere and had no intention of fighting again. The British army on the battlefield looked like a mess, and it was messy!
Model keenly captured this opportunity. He drew a part of the armored forces and took advantage of the chaos of the British army to launch a counterattack against the British army.
This unexpected move was completely beyond the British army’s expectations. In their view, the German army had only one-fifth of their strength, and they were surrounded by them in the Stirling area and could not move!
Although they could not capture the German positions in a short time, it was only a matter of time before they broke through the German defense!
At this time, shouldn’t the German army be trembling more in Stirling?
How dare they take the initiative to attack and launch a counterattack against the troops they were attacking?
Model didn’t care about their hearts. His army was extremely fast. The armored forces attacked quickly, penetrated the British defense line head-on and spread rapidly to both sides, completely disrupting the situation.
The British army was in chaos and didn’t care about continuing to attack. They turned around and ran, hoping to get out of the German army’s mouth!
Model would never give them a chance. He continued to send troops to chase and chase, chasing the buttocks of the sun that never sets so that they had no time to breathe, and quickly made a British army’s rout move towards Edinburgh.
More than half of the British troops in Edinburgh were withdrawn. At this time, the number of troops stationed here was not large. When they saw the defeated troops fleeing all over the mountains, they were all scared!
As a result, the British troops in Edinburgh fled with the defeated troops, and they didn’t even dare to defend the city.
Model easily occupied Edinburgh, but he paid almost no great price.
Coincidentally, the second landing force of the Second Army had arrived at this time, so Model led more troops to the north and launched a general attack on the more than 200,000 British troops that were rotten in the north!
The British troops in the north already knew that the British troops in the south had been defeated and fled, so they cursed the British troops in the south and even the sun-sun-set government in the foggy city, while desperately resisting the German attack.
The British army in this state naturally could not withstand the fierce attack of the German army. With the close cooperation of the German Air Force, Model only took two days to eat up this British army of more than 200,000 people.
The Battle of Edinburgh lasted for 4 days. The German army defeated more than 200,000 British troops at the cost of 2,000 deaths and more than 500 injuries, annihilated 320,000 British troops, and completely wiped out the British troops in the north of Scotland. After taking Edinburgh, the German army also successfully took Glasgow, which was already an empty city.
As for the cities in the north of Scotland, because the British troops had already fled, the German army easily entered here, and encountered almost no obstruction and restrictions along the way.
Controlling the Scottish region strategically posed a very direct threat to the British Empire.
After all, the Scottish region is very large, and the terrain is mountainous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
The German occupation here means that it is impossible for the British army to drive the German army away.
The German army can gather a large number of troops in the north, and then wait for an opportunity to go south, seeking a decisive battle with the main force of the British army, and a battle to decide the outcome!
Moreover, in addition to this strategic significance, after taking Scotland, the British army had no way to defend the naval port in the north. The German army quickly sent troops to control the Spaka Gulf and captured more than a dozen British warships trapped in the port, including the previously injured battleship Royal Sovereign!
The battleship was hit by a German torpedo near the right waterline, which blew out a big hole and poured in more than 6,000 tons of seawater!
Under normal circumstances, the warship must have sunk with so much seawater pouring in, but the Royal Sovereign happened to be in the port and hit the bottom halfway through sinking, so the ship ran aground on the shoal and became a prisoner of the German army together with the previously sunk Nelson.
Compared with the Nelson, the Royal Sovereign was in a slightly better condition, at least there was no large area of water.
So after the Germans salvaged it, they made a simple repair and let the tugboat tow it to Port Wilhelm for overhaul.
This battleship is one of the newer battleships that has been commissioned by the British Navy. Its own strength is still very good. If it is repaired, it will be a great supplement to the strength of the German Navy. After all, their future opponents may not only be the British Navy, but also the Far East and the United States!
These two countries are both naval powers. To confront them, the stronger the navy, the better!
However, the battleship Nelson was not so lucky. The battleship was sunk on the way to escape. Although the place where it sank was not very deep, only about 100 meters, it is still very difficult to salvage it. Moreover, after a large area of water was soaked, many parts on the battleship had to be replaced.
So after reporting it, Mainz was not interested. He did not like Nelson’s appearance, so he did not start the salvage work on Nelson for the time being.