Standing on the position left by the British, Hoffman calmly raised his watch to confirm.
"These British police officers couldn't even hold on for 30 minutes." Putting down his watch, Hoffman, who was already a captain, had a proud smile on his lips.
He was also a skilled general discovered by Hans from the Battle of the Buzula River. With a company of troops, Hoffmann once defended a forward position and repelled numerous charges by the Polish army, which was several times his own size.
By making full use of five mg33 machine guns, Hoffman's troops successively killed no less than two battalions of the Polish army, and still stubbornly stayed on the position when there were only 13 wounded soldiers left in the company, holding on.
Fight alone with a will to die.
In the end, if Lyon's troops had not gone to support their retreat, which had lost contact with the rear, perhaps they would have shed their last blood on that high ground.
This is a fierce general! When Hoffman was rebuilding the army, the first thing he thought of was to promote Hoffman and Lyon respectively.
Lyon's troops were expanded into a division-affiliated battalion, and he was promoted to lieutenant battalion commander. Hoffman took a mere thirteen surviving officers and soldiers as the backbone of a newly formed infantry battalion, and was also promoted to lieutenant battalion commander.
And now, Hoffmann brought his troops to prove to Hans that his ability lies not only in his tenacity in defense, but also in his bravery in attack.
"A round of artillery bombardment and a battalion-level charge defeated the British vanguard regiment, which should usually be the main force of the entire army." Hoffman laughed in front of his three company commanders: "I am a little confused, what exactly is it?
Because we are too strong, or because these British police are too weak!"
Hoffman repeatedly nicknamed the British Army the British Police. In fact, it was not his original name. There are rumors that this term originally originated from the German iron-blooded prime minister Spence Bismarck. It is said that a reporter asked at that time, if
What should we do if the British Army lands to attack the German mainland? However, Bismarck responded jokingly: Let the German police arrest them.
And this satirical statement about the British Army was adapted into Reinhardt's mouth as: Army? In addition to the Air Force and Navy, doesn't the UK only have a bunch of police officers who work part-time in the Army?
Now, calling the British Army the British Police has gradually become popular in Germany. And Hoffman himself is one of the Germans who particularly likes this term.
"The British troops are indeed too hard to resist. I think it is no problem for one of our divisions to wipe out two of their divisions." Hoffman's adjutant also laughed happily.
This adjutant had participated in the Polish campaign with Hoffman. When Hoffman was the company commander, he was the deputy company commander. Later, when Hoffman was promoted to battalion commander, he was allowed to continue to be his
Adjutant.
Seeing that his adjutant, who had been with him for more than four years, was extremely happy today, Hoffman showed a happy smile. This was the first time they had achieved such brilliant results in an attack. In the previous Polish campaign, let alone the attack victory
Already, they had exhausted all their resources in the highland defensive battle on the Buzula River. All the survivors were wounded in field hospitals, and they could no longer launch an attack.
The soldiers were busy cleaning the battlefield, collecting and carrying weapons and ammunition abandoned by the British in an endless stream. Throwing away their helmets and armor! This word is really suitable to describe the defeated British vanguard.
In order to escape faster, the retreating British troops did not even bring the most basic weapons. After reducing all the weight they could, they fled to the rear where they thought they were safe.
It can be said that one of Hoffman's battalions has completely captured enough weapons and ammunition to equip two battalions. Unfortunately, they are only small weapons. Except for dozens of Vickers heavy machine guns, Hoffman and the others did not even find a single weapon.
Cannon.
Of course, it was also due to the fact that in order to ensure mobility, the British Expeditionary Force did not carry heavy weapons when pursuing the Norwegian troops, which they believed were at a disadvantage, and the 30th Division where Hoffmann belonged happened to have heavy weapons that could provide artillery support. This
Only one battalion of them defeated a regiment of British troops with great ease.
But then I thought about how the Norwegian troops, who were part of the Allied Forces on my side, were defeated by a group of "British police" whose equipment was much worse than that of the Germans. They occupied all the territory and could not stop the British even a little bit. Hoffman simply couldn't stop it.
I feel incredible.
Frowning, Hoffman rubbed his chin while thinking and said: "The men of the first company stayed to continue cleaning the battlefield, and the men of the second company sent the packed British weapons to the accompanying Norwegian Royal Guard Battalion, I guess.
Their equipment shouldn’t be better than this, it’s necessary to change their equipment and strengthen it a little bit.”
"Yes!" The second company commander didn't feel sorry for these light weapons at all, and accepted Hoffman's order without hesitation. He didn't like these captured weapons anyway. If the Norwegians wanted to give them to them, it would also strengthen their allies.
Fighting ability.
"Oh, right!" Hoffman suddenly stopped the second company commander who was about to leave and said: "Wait a minute, save those Vickers heavy machine guns. Just send those Enfield rifles to the Norwegians.
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"Battal Commander, it's not convenient for us to keep these heavy machine guns. Anyway, we also have G43 semi-automatic rifles and MP40 submachine guns. We already have enough firepower to deal with the British, so don't keep these heavy machine guns," the second company commander reminded.
road.
"You think I value the firepower of these heavy machine guns?" Hoffman wavered and said: "Speaking of machine guns, we now have the lighter and easier-to-use general machine gun mg42, why do the British need to keep these heavy ones?
machine gun."
"Then why do we still carry these things left by the British?" The second company commander obviously believed that there was a logical contradiction between what Hoffman said and his previous orders.
"I didn't say that I separated them for my own use," Hoffman corrected, realizing that his meaning had been misinterpreted: "I want you to separate them, and then send the three companies to the division headquarters later.
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"The division headquarters has gathered a large number of transport vehicles provided by the Norwegians. It is easy to carry these heavy machine guns. After all, it is a considerable amount of heavy firepower. I think the division headquarters should use it if it needs to deploy defenses.
"Halfmann, who experienced the Battle of the Buzula River, did not forget to prepare for possible defensive battles in the future even when he was victorious.
This is called being bitten by a snake and fearing the well rope for ten years. In the original battle of Buzula River, they collected all the useful weapons that could be used for defense, among which the machine gun was a particularly important good thing.
Now, although these captured British heavy machine guns are temporarily unavailable, in line with the principle that something is better than nothing, Hoffman decided to keep these potentially useful equipment in the hands of the German army. After all, the German army would use it
The effect is definitely much better than that used by the Norwegian troops. If they are not used until the end of the war, you can leave these weapons that they don't like and give them to the Norwegians when you leave.
