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    After Bingwen hurriedly left the port of Kiel, he first sent a telegram to China to report Caporetto's situation, then contacted Shen Ruilin, the minister to Austria-Hungary, and finally sent a telegram to Wang Guangqi and Hu Weide, the ministers to Italy and France, to assist.  And when he took a military train and rushed to Vienna in the name of vacation, the first turning point on the Western Front reached a critical point!

    ??The sky was illuminated in advance by the explosions of fireballs, and the tracer bullets made streaks of color that intertwined into a scalp-numbing fire net.

    Compared with the short-lived but far-reaching Sino-Japanese War, the horror of the European War is unimaginable. Both sides of the fierce battle showed their full strength. Even the battles at the battalion and regiment level were so intense that it was difficult to imagine.  Imagine.

    "I need people to go to the left bridgehead!" As the sun rose, the fierce battle entered its most brutal stage. As soon as Captain Hayfield called out, a response came from the right: "Follow me, left bridgehead!" The fire of a 37mm artillery shell  Among them, Liu Mingzhao, who looked like a terrifying devil wearing a gas mask, took the lead and led the Chinese squad to fly out of the position.  Under the watchful eyes of their German partners, they bent and ran zigzag skillfully, weaving back and forth in the hail of bullets like elves. When they stepped onto the bridge, two shells blocked their way almost at the same time.

    A soldier was overturned by a shell and hit hard on a steel beam, but this did not stop them. They quickly broke through the blockade and reached the most critical left bridgehead.

    "Throw the bomb into the bunker."

    "We have to stay here until noon! This is an order!"

    Quickly and decisively deploy a circular defense circle, and two light machine guns become the key to protecting this small bridgehead.  "Mingzhao, above." Long Yun reminded loudly, Liu Mingzhao also saw the church steeple on the left, pointed to Dongfang Chen: "Come up Dongfang, Meng Lang is good at marksmanship, responsible for protecting them."

    In just a few minutes, the defense on the left side of the bridge had been deployed. When the next two squads arrived, densely packed French troops had already emerged from the streets and launched an attack here.  Dongfang Chen held the machine gun and circled around the stairs in the tower, which made him feel that his lungs were on fire. When he finally climbed to the top of the building, he realized that a company of French troops had come from all around. He couldn't help but set up the machine gun to look down.  Fierce shooting.

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    The French troops who were caught off guard by three long and two short-point shots continued to fall, and the light machine gun once again showed the advantage of flexibility and maneuverability.  Next to him, Meng Lang squinted his eyes. He was a 25-year-old soldier from the Miao family in Guizhou. He had studied at the famous Yunnan Lecture Hall. After the National Defense Forces took control of Guiyang, he joined the 18th Mountain Division. Later, he was selected for outstanding performance when he was selected as an officer cadet to go to Germany.  Recruited here by the troops, he was learning German-style hunting techniques before the war broke out.

    He pulled the bolt and fired in one go. When the French sergeant who was targeted fell down, the second bullet had already selected the target.

    War is the most training for people. Originally, the Chinese class could choose to stay comfortably in the rear command post and learn the command art of the German officers, but without experiencing the front-line war and rolling a few times in the dense trenches, they would just  It cannot be considered as a true experience of the cruelty of war.  Really good generals are all born from the blood and rain, and it is always Zhao She and his ilk who hide behind and talk nonsense, so they choose the front line and observe the entire war from the perspective of infantry.

    Although the machine guns temporarily prevented the enemy from attacking, the French army with superior strength still put a lot of pressure on everyone.  In particular, the two 37mm infantry guns hidden in the house became a nightmare for the German positions.  Long Yun quickly spread out the map, looked around and pulled Liu Mingzhao: "Mingzhao, why do you insist on letting us stay here? Are you going crazy behind and preparing to use a train to force forward reinforcements?"

    "Impossible." Xiao Jinyun shook his head. The 23-year-old is the nephew of Xiao Anguo, the commander of the National Guard of the Republic of China. He served as a soldier in 11 years and entered the National Defense University's short-term crash course, and was later selected to study in Germany.  He was also confused about this order: "The rails in front have been broken, and the French are still digging trenches and bunkers on the edge of the town. The infantry cannot rush through such a narrow place."

    "Then why do we still have to keep it?"

    Liu Mingzhao couldn't figure out why the superiors wanted them to defend the bridge. He pointed to the French artillery position in the house on the right and said: "No matter how many there are, let's kill the two 37 infantry guns first, otherwise we will all die here."  .¡±

    "I will attack, let Dongfang cover me and fire the machine gun. You go around from the flank." Xiao Jinyun quickly made a plan, and Liu Mingzhao and Long Yun each rushed out of the bunker with a few soldiers.  The Schneider 37 infantry artillery is the most important fire support force of the French infantry. Even though the light and heavy machine guns are not as good as the Germans, they have been able to survive until now thanks to this lightweight and fast-firing infantry cannon. Therefore, killing them is the most important first step in the German infantry attack.  step.

    Liu Mingzhao leaned behind the wall, threw two grenades and waved vigorously to Dongfang Chen at the top of the tower. Upon seeing this, the latter immediately turned the machine gun towards the French artillery position, but the thick brick wall blocked the shooting angle.It was he who signaled to Long Yun on the other side to find a way to blow open the wall.

    Zhang Wei, a 24-year-old blaster, crawled forward. When he was about to reach the wall, Xiao Jinyun, who was responsible for breaking out and attracting firepower, suddenly burst out of the slant. He quickly ran to divert the Hatchkiss heavy machine gun.  When the bullets were beating violently along his heels, Zhang Wei, who was not threatened by machine guns, had already rushed out of the street corner and rushed towards the wall with a cluster grenade.  As the French soldiers fired, he quickly stuffed the grenade into the small hole, pulled the string, and rolled a few steps on the spot.  The explosion opened a large hole in the outer wall that blocked Dongfang Chen's shooting angle. Before the smoke cleared, he pulled the trigger and sent a box full of 20 bullets into the breach.  The German-made 792mm bullets fired sparks into the house. When the French army was about to turn its infantry artillery to bombard him, Long Yun had already rushed in from the flank.

    With the cooperation of two Sten submachine guns and grenades, it only took more than ten minutes to completely destroy the artillery bunker that threatened the left bridgehead the most.  From the beginning of Liu Mingzhao to the end of Long Yun, the Chinese class showed extremely skillful team coordination, which made Heidfeld and the German soldiers in the distance applaud repeatedly.

    When the biggest threat to the defensive position was removed and the Chinese squad returned to the attack position, the sandbags in front of them suddenly trembled.  He turned around and looked at Long Yun, Liu Mingzhao, Dongfang Chen on the top of the tower, and even the French soldiers in the distance were completely dumbfounded!  I saw five iron box-like objects emerging from nowhere in the distance and began to drive slowly towards the narrow railway bridge.  "Brother Zhizhou (characterized by Long Yun), do you think it looks like One?" Before Liu Mingzhao finished speaking, Long Yun also remembered the news that came from the country not long ago, and suddenly blurted out: "Bunker truck?!"

    In fact, the two misunderstood that this was not a bunker truck pieced together in China at all, but an AZV heavy tank secretly manufactured by Germany after Yang Qiu sold the blueprints!  And they didn't even know that it was precisely because they killed the 37mm infantry cannon that was originally a great threat that they were able to successfully cross the river.  The soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the 16th Bavarian Regiment were dumbfounded. The 33-meter-tall AZV tank with a total length of more than 7 meters looked like a moving steel hill in front of the infantry!  The 57mm infantry cannon and 6 Maxim MG8 heavy machine guns intertwined an extremely fierce firepower network.

    "God? What is that?"

    "Machine gun, aim at it."

    ¡°Damn, it¡¯s not responding.¡±

    The French infantry who were fighting for the bridge were completely stunned by these AZV tanks, especially when the machine gun bullets hit them and there was no reaction at all, they forgot that they were approaching.  When the first AZV tank slowly drove towards the trench at the edge of the town, everyone was thinking that it would be blocked, but the tank stubbornly and ruthlessly ran over it from the top of the trench.  "Follow it!" Liu Mingzhao saw several French soldiers preparing to charge with grenades to blow up the tank. The first one to react was to direct the machine gun to kill them and shouted to Captain Hayfield: "Batalion Commander, we should  Follow them, attack behind them, and protect it from enemy close range damage."

    "But" Highfield has not yet come out of the shock, and he feels that there is no need for the infantry to follow these big guys.  But Liu Mingzhao insisted: "They should be used to tear apart the defense line. As long as we follow it, we may be the first to enter Amiens."

    "Entering Amiens? Yes!" Heidfeld finally came to his senses, and immediately ordered the 3rd Battalion to abandon its position according to Liu Mingzhao's suggestion, and followed five AZVs to advance towards Amiens.  It was later confirmed that it was precisely because of Liu Mingzhao's suggestion and the protection of the 3rd Battalion that the five AZV tanks in their direction were not damaged until they entered Amiens, while the tank teams invested in other directions were all attacked by the French army without exception.  Destroyed after close range attack by infantry and grenades and other weapons.

    The tanks that appeared on the battlefield for the first time really frightened the British and French coalition forces. When 118 AZV tanks crossed the Somme from the 7th bridge at the same time and attacked the French positions, the Battle of Artois, which was attacked by the British and French for more than half a month, took a major turn.  By the afternoon of that day, Amiens, which had been occupied but lost in the early stages of the development, was once again captured by the Germans. The 35 British and French infantry divisions assembled in this generation left nearly 300,000 men and a large number of baggage weapons, and had to stride forward under the cover of poison gas shells.  Retreat backwards.

    It is a pity that Germany did not realize the role of tanks, let alone how to cooperate with them in combat, which ultimately led to the British and French forces taking the opportunity to escape.  But even so, it was still like a bomb was dropped on the Western Front!  The impact of the loss of Amiens was too great. After losing this most important support point, the German army could no longer be troubled by the Somme Gorge and penetrate directly to the outskirts of Paris.

    After learning about the reversal of the Battle of Artois, the German high command ordered the expansion of the tank production line that night to manufacture this new weapon at full speed.  At the same time, 18 German divisions were ordered to jump out of the trenches and cross the Somme River. With the help of AZV tanks, they advanced towards the Paris outpost of Cambein (Compi¨¨gne) at a speed of 20 kilometers per day.

    The battlefield on the Western Front was completely disrupted!

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