Complex sentence: The British then encountered tanks of the 7th Panzer Division; the Germans found that the guns of the "Panzer" II and Panzer 38 (t) tanks could not penetrate the armour of the Matildas.
Split into simpler sentences: The British then encountered tanks of the 7th Panzer Division. The Germans found that the guns of the "Panzer" II and Panzer 38 (t) tanks could not penetrate the armour of the Matildas.