At this time, Heinz Landao realized the power of the anti-tank trench, so he was furious and sent the engineer battalion up.

As the engineer battalion of the Armored Division and the engineer battalion of the German Armored Division, of course it would not be just a group of carpenters or repairmen.

In fact, there are many armored vehicles in the German engineering battalion... The German army has developed tank No. 1 and tank No. 2 since 30 years... until the Tiger tank now. (Note: The Tiger King first appeared in June 1944).

Among them, tank No. 1 was just a German attempt to tank, because the restrictions on the Treaty of Versailles Germany was secretly developed in the name of "tractor".

Tank No. 2 is a growth of German tanks and a transitional model, with obvious insufficient firepower and armor.

It was not until the No. 3 tank that it could be said that it had truly matured and was put into the battlefield and became the main force of the German armored forces... In the early days of World War II, most of the German blitzkriegs were completed by the No. 3 tank, but later the emergence of the Soviet T34 made the No. 3 tank dwarfed.

Tank No. 4 can be said to have added protection and firepower on the basis of tank No. 3, and many of its components are actually directly sourced from tank No. 3.

In the development of this tank, many tanks will inevitably be eliminated due to their performance.

It would be a pity if these eliminated tanks were re-fueled as scrap iron. Therefore, in addition to being really unusable, a considerable part of them were still put into use on the battlefield... So various modifications appeared, such as dismantling the turret and installing anti-tank guns, howitzers, and anti-aircraft guns into self-propelled artillery.

Another part is installed with machinery and turned into engineering vehicles to meet the needs of engineers.

For example, now, several tank bridge vehicles are driving up quickly...

These tank bridge-building vehicles have rotating shafts installed on the front of the vehicle body, and then temporary bridges can be laid forward with the shaft as the center. Of course, because it uses the chassis protection of the No. 2 tank, Heinz Blue Road organized artillery fire and even fighter jets to bombard the anti-tank trenches, and only attacked the soldiers hiding behind the sand dunes and could not look up, let alone poking out to attack the bazooka.

(Note: Generally speaking, the tank bridge-building vehicles equipped by the German Armored Division were modified from the chassis of the No. 4 tank, but the African battlefield has never been valued by Hitler, so the main tank of the African Legion was once the No. 3 tank, while the construction vehicle was the No. 2 and No. 3 tanks were mainly the chassis)

For the Chinese military, this can be said to be a side effect of losing air supremacy.

If the German artillery fire could be suppressed, the German fighter jets could only let them do whatever they wanted.

In other words, when necessary, the German army only needs to pay the price of fuel and ammunition, and can always suppress the firepower of the Chinese army to achieve some tactical purpose.

So five iron bridges were quickly built on the anti-tank trench... In fact, there should have been six iron bridges, but one tank bridge truck was shut down on the way. After all, it was the chassis of the No. 2 tank, which was produced six or seven years ago. And at this time, it was still operating in a high temperature and dusty environment like the desert, and it was inevitable that some failure would occur.

But five iron bridges seemed to be enough, and Heinz Landao was confident about it.

The reason is very simple, the German army has air supremacy.

Most of the Chinese army's tanks and armored vehicles are hidden in Alexandria, which means that they cannot participate in the war. If they cannot participate in the war, it is equivalent to not having them... If they dare to come out of Alexandria, Heinz Blue Road only needs to call for air support, and fighters and bombers can solve them.

In other words, what German tanks have to face is the Chinese army.

Heinz Landao could not think of anything else that could stop his tank from rushing into the enemy's defense line and massacre the enemy. He even thought that the Chinese army should retreat into Alexandria at this time and chose to fight street battles.

However, soon Heinz Landao found himself wrong.

Because in the aperture of his telescope, a tank slowly driving onto the iron bridge suddenly tilted to the side, and then fell into the anti-tank trench with four legs facing the sky like a turtle that had turned over and could not move.

"Oh my God, what's going on?" Heinz Blue asked.

"General!" The correspondent soon received a reward from the front line, and he replied: "Col. Cole reported that the center of gravity of the iron bridge was unstable and the tank could not maintain balance!"

This is another feature of the "Golan Moat".

It forms a sand dune on the other side of the new soil dug out of the moat, and the sand dune is also a new soil that is not compacted. Moreover, due to the height difference, the iron bridge will form a slope after it is raised.

There was no problem with this, or there would be no problem with the infantry passing through.

The problem is that the tank weighs more than ten tons (Note: No. 4 tank 17.7 tons)

With such a weight, the more you open the iron bridge, the more you push the sand dunes at the other end, the higher the force, so one end of the dunes will naturally sink.

It would be fine if the sinking was equal to the left and right, but there would inevitably be some stones in the dunes, which quickly caused the iron bridge to tilt to one side and the inclination became larger and larger. Then what appeared was the scene seen by Heinz Blue Road... The tank and even the iron bridge were overturned in front of the anti-tank trench.

At this time, Rommel also heard a report from the front line, and he called Heinz Blue Road.

The impatient Rommel should have been angry and roaring at Heinz Blue, but he just ordered Heinz Blue, coldly: "Major General, don't be anxious, Alexandria is right in front of us, it can't escape!"

"Yes, General!" Heinz Landao couldn't help but calm down.

Rommel was right, and he seemed to be a little too impatient.

So Heinz Blue Road decided not to use an iron bridge but to fill the anti-tank trenches.

If other methods have any "invisible dangers" in it, there will be no problem if they fill it out!

Under the order of Heinz Landao, several armored bulldozers from the engineering battalion went up under the cover of German artillery fire.

These armored bulldozers were modified from the chassis of the No. 3 tank. Since the No. 3 tank is a mature product, the engine has enough horsepower. After being converted into a bulldozer, it does not require a turret, and the cannon does not need to carry shells. The weight saved can be used for protection. In addition, the front bulldozer is still a thick shovel, so its protective power even exceeds the initial model of the No. 4 tank.

Of course, their work could not be smooth sailing. When they filled the trenches, Zhang Chi kept organizing artillery to bomb them.
Chapter completed!