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Text Chapter 426 Fighting on the Western Front!  (seven)

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    Colonel Rodenberg felt that he was so unlucky!

    His Bavarian 53rd Division only withdrew from the meat grinder of Verdun half a year ago. He thought that because the battle was concentrated from the west of Reims to Soissons, he could easily rest for a while as long as he deployed his troops evenly in the positions and defended carefully.  , but I didn¡¯t expect that the enemy would abandon their long position and concentrate thousands of cannons to bombard one point!  In just half an hour, the two-kilometer position on the west side of Mount Alawi was completely shrouded in dust and smoke.  Especially the huge mushroom clouds rising into the sky made him feel even more stressed.  How's the position going?  How come the enemy has so many heavy artillery?  Why haven't the reconnaissance planes sent back information about the situation on the front line yet?

    Although he was surprised, he was not too nervous. It was not that he was arrogant but that the terrain of Mount Avila made him confident.  The entrance to the inverted figure-eight valley is narrow and only two kilometers wide. The mountain is not high, but the trench positions above are reinforced with cement. There are a large number of heavy machine guns to block the entrance of the valley. There are also continuous minefields deployed outside the entrance of the valley. There are also a wide second-line position at the rear.  The 72nd Saxony Infantry Division supported him, so he was confident that he would hold on until the main force of the group army arrived.

    But in order to ensure nothing went wrong, he still called the Army Headquarters for support: "Yes, Lieutenant General, we encountered a fierce attack! At least half of the artillery shells were concentrated on the west side of Mount Avila There were at least 400  Heavy artillery. Yes, it's concentrated at two kilometers. It's too dense. We can't support there now. We need Hey, hey, hey! Damn it, correspondent, the phone line is down. Go and connect it immediately.  "

    "Colonel, look, they are using smoke bombs!"

    "Smoke bombs?" Colonel Rodenberg felt that his brain was not enough. He only heard that grenades and gas bombs were used.  But this was the first time I heard about the large-scale use of smoke bombs to cover the attack.  But when he raised the telescope, he saw that the direction of Mount Alawi had completely disappeared from the lens, and the smoke, denser than that over the North Sea, slowly moved northward with the breeze.  "Smoke grenade cover, why did I never think of it?" Colonel Rodenberg gritted his teeth and thought about the cunning opponent on the other side, and shouted: "Order Major Benham to take his troops.  Support, tell him to hold on for 2 hours, Colonel Lysim's 72nd Division is coming. We need time!"

    Colonel Grandmaison, who was watching the battle, and Lieutenant General Defoe, commander of the French Fourth Army, who hurried over after hearing the news, also had their eyes widened.  smoke bomb?  yes, smoke bombs!  48 Miss Legal 75 located in different positions desperately threw smoke bombs 6 kilometers away at a constant speed of 8 rounds per minute. These smoke bombs were specially brought from China by the expeditionary force before the war to prepare for the assault war.

    "I can't seeI can't see anything!"

    ¡°Machine guns, our machine guns lack perspective.¡±

    "Fire into the smoke areaconcentrate all the shells. Report, the wind direction is wrong, mustard bullets will drift towards us after being used!"

    "Can't seeI can see everything, wait, there is somethingI'm distinguishing it, it's a tank! French Renault tank! God. They are all coming!"

    The phone number at the headquarters of the 53rd Bavarian Division was completely bombarded.  The staff and communications officers had just laid down their guns and started firing again. As the artillery fire became more intense, all communications leading to Mount Alawi were interrupted. However, the last message from the observation post still gave Colonel Rodenberg a preliminary idea that the enemy had invested a lot of tanks!  This shows that what he is facing is not a auxiliary attackbut a formal large-scale breakthrough.

    "Coordinates 210distance 3000. Width 100, 50 meters per minute, moving forward to break through obstacles at a constant speed."

    After blasting the Taniguchi trench position to pieces, Yan Youbing lay on the artillery operation map and personally used the phone to command the six "can openers" to reset their coordinates. Following his order, the thick muzzle began to lower.  Soon heavy artillery shells were fiercely bombarded against the German barbed wire at a rate of one per minute, each advancing 50 meters forward.  In addition to destroying trenches and burying enemies, extra-heavy artillery shells are also the best mine-clearing weapons.  Violent explosions and shock waves can detonate all mines within hundreds of meters around it.

    Du Zishan and his companions jumped out of the armored vehicle and rushed forward quickly to follow a slow-moving T1 (Renault FT17, named T1 tank in the Republic of China) tank. Wearing gas masks, they lined up in two columns.  Bend down and raise your rifle to scan both sides of the tank to prevent German infantry from suddenly rushing out from both sides.  This is the infantry-tank tactic he just learned.  All tactics revolved around protecting the tank and using the tank to break through, but because time was too tight, he also needed to keep an eye on the squad leader's simple gestures.

    The squad leader turned around and yelled, waving to the left. Since they were all wearing gas masks and the explosion was loud, they had to use this simple gesture to command. Seeing his movements, a comrade lowered his head and ran forward from the bomb shelter. The machine gunner  Follow behind and lie down to provide cover fire, while all the muzzles of the guns on the left are pointed in the direction of the infantry running.  This is an extremely simple tactic. It means that the squad leader discovered that there is an unknown trench or obstacle on the left side, and the infantry needs to go to investigate to avoid a dangerous position for the tank.  thingsIt is impossible to survive in such an area under such heavy shelling, but we dare not neglect any minor situation from the moment we enter the war zone.

    The infantryman rushed back after the inspection. Just as he was about to rejoin the team, a shell suddenly fell not far from him. The violent explosion knocked him to the ground. Du Zishan, who was nearest, rushed up quickly. After arriving,  Only then did I see that half of his body was buried.

    "Is something okay! Is something okay!"

    After Du Zishan squatted down and shouted a few times, the stunned comrade finally opened his eyes, rolled his eyes a few times, then shook his head to show that he was not injured.  Du Zishan laughed loudly, pulled him up and ran back quickly. Bullets kept passing by his footsteps along the way.  When the two of them returned behind the tank, the squad leader happily raised his thumbs to Du Zishan in praise, then made fists with both hands and raised them high to make a impact.

    This is a gesture to officially enter the enemy's fire range, indicating that an encounter will occur at any time.

    Sure enough, when the tank rolled over the barbed wire fence, two German soldiers suddenly jumped out of a collapsed observation bunker on the right.  Because the T1 tank is a two-person tank.  The smoke grenades blocked the enemy's sight and also affected the tank machine gunner's perspective. The tanks in the arrow formation were focused on the front, so the tanks had no time to react after the two German soldiers rushed out.  If it were a British or French tank without infantry support, it would probably be lost.  But this time they encountered a Chinese armored group protected by infantry.

    After the British-aided Enfest rifle was changed to the Wehrmacht standard 7.62 mm caliber, other capabilities were not lost. In particular, the speed of the bolt-action rifle allowed everyone to easily fire the most bullets in the shortest time. The two tanks at the front and rear had more than a dozen guns.  The two German infantrymen were quickly killed.  After the actual combat training of "Hundred Days of Fierce Soldiers", Du Zishan knew very well that they had reached the enemy's position less than 500 meters away. From past experience, it seemed that a dense and terrifying network of machine gun fire would appear soon.

    Just as he thought, there was a clanging sound on the tank in front of him, and the bullets hit the steel plate fiercely.  The rapid sound even made people worry about whether the armor could block it.  The machine guns on the tanks also fired back fiercely. Both sides hoped to kill the enemy's firepower before the infantry attacked.

    The shells were still falling, but the German artillery fire weakened significantly after entering this distance, mainly because they were afraid of accidentally injuring their own people.  Boom The sudden explosion nearby scared Du Zishan to shrink his neck. He turned his head and looked diagonally behind to see that a T1 tank had turned into a fireball. Judging from the power, it should have been caused by the close-range small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery penetrating the fuel tank.  .  The infantry behind the tank lay down and stopped, waiting for the tank behind to come up and continue moving forward.

    Du Zishan and the others were lucky. In just 500 meters, more than a dozen tanks were blown up by small-caliber combat artillery or mines, but the T2 armored vehicles of the second group quickly made up for their positions.  Boom, boom, boom the 25mm Hornet rapid-fire cannon has a unique sound.  Together with the 12.7mm Venom Fang heavy machine gun, it fired at the fire points in the smoke.  At this moment, the tank Du Zishan was following suddenly stopped. The squad leader took the lead in rushing out of the bomb shelter and rushed towards the nearby trench.

    Du Zishan is so good at breaking trenches, the shotgun in his hand is like a big broom.  So I followed them past the tanks and rushed into the trenches.

    The fierce battle has begun!

    The tanks escorted the infantry to the trench and began to use machine guns for support. Du Zishan jumped into the trench with everyone and found that the entire defense line was almost invisible.  The cannonballs blew the trench to pieces, and thousands of tons of soil and gravel filled most of the trench that was as deep as one person!  Flesh and corpses were everywhere, as densely packed as the Asura Hell.  The surviving German troops rushed out of every hiding place and tried to fight back to gain control of the trenches. The bloodiest strangulation was brutal from the beginning!

    Du Zishan had just killed a guy who was trying to get closer, but accidentally tripped over the corpse and fell down.  As a result, he was lucky enough to avoid bullets fired from the front, but his comrades behind him were hit and fell in a pool of blood.  He no longer wanted to look at the bloody and soft thing underneath him.  Unable to mourn the death of his comrade, he turned around and fired the second shot while lying down.

    In the muddy and damaged trench, he was crawling like a gopher, breathing heavily inside the thick gas mask. Looking out through the large viewing hole was blurry, and he could only vaguely distinguish the enemy through his helmet and appearance.  friend.  Boom A cannonball exploded outside the trench. The low explosion splashed out countless thick juice-like objects. The thick juice quickly evaporated in the air to form gas that spread around.  Gas bombs!  When the front line was about to be breached, the German commander directly abandoned the idea of ????fear of accidental damage, and a large number of poisonous gas shells fell from the sky!  The smoke became thicker because of the poisonous gas, and the land and mud were quickly contaminated. Du Zishan saw with his own eyes several comrades and German soldiers whose gas masks fell off and rolled on the ground with pain in their eyes due to the poisonous gas!  After a while, blisters appeared on their bodies. The pain and itching made them scratch desperately, and their skin was covered with bloody cuts!

    ???Since the Hundred Days of Fighting, this has happenedThis situation has appeared many times, and Du Zishan has even become numb. The most important thing now is to clear out the remaining enemies as soon as possible and let the armored troops pass smoothly, otherwise everyone will die here!  Seeing the engineers struggling to dig and fill the trench, he quickly filled up the bullets and got up again and rushed along the trench!  As long as you see the German army, you don't care whether you are dead or alive and just bomb it.

    Since the German trenches have been widened, with some areas as wide as 4 meters, and the trench-breaking artillery damage has made it impossible to pass through, a section of the trench must be filled first, and then steel plates must be laid for reinforcement to gain access to the nearby trenches.  Ten tons of passing capacity, so Xue Yue got out of the carriage and saw that the tanks and armored vehicles were blocked by trenches. He stamped his feet angrily: "Fuck, don't stop! Is the transport team coming up? What, it's not here yet! Then let's let it go  Engineers, first cover the soilfill this section! Contact the headquarters, the artillery will suppress the 400 meters in front, tell them, ifbomb. Brigade Commander No. 15  The car was hit! I know, tell them, if we don¡¯t get the steel plate, we will all die here!¡±

    "Brigade commander, German infantry!"

    Xue Yue turned around and saw thousands of German troops rushing towards here from the smoke. He quickly slapped the steel plate and shouted: "Shoot! Turn on all the firepower, suppress them!"  Under the command, nearly a hundred light and heavy machine guns opened fire at the same time. The terrifying firepower network quickly suppressed the German army on the ground and was unable to raise its head.  Although it is temporarily suppressed, everyone knows that if they cannot pass through the widened trench, more and more German troops will inevitably be blocked here.

    The Pulong frontline headquarters was equally noisy and noisy. The telephone lines were blown up and repaired. More than 20 communication soldiers had been sacrificed just to ensure communication.  Zhang Xiaozhun never put down the phone in his hand: "What? I can't hear you clearly. Please speak louderPoison gas! Did the German army use poison gas shells at Taniguchi?! Fuck him, the German grandma spread it to both wings."  , Don¡¯t be afraid of casualties! Open the gap as soon as possible! Don¡¯t let the tanks stand still and suppress the second-line firepower. The second batch of planes take off and contact the observation balloons. Where are the heavy artillery? What is the long-range heavy artillery group doing? Find the poison gas cannon position and suppress it back!  "

    Bai Chongxi walked to the sand table with a fearful expression, lowered his head and did not dare to look into the eyes of the generals: "Report, the German army used poison gas bombs to bombard the Taniguchi position."

    "Where is the transport team? Where is the second echelon? Why are the tanks still parked!"

    "We've already gone up. We didn't expect the heavy artillery damage effect to be so great. As a result, the tank basically encountered no resistance and was very fast, so we set off 10 minutes late" Bai Chongxi lowered his head.  Deeper.  But neither Cai E nor Yue Peng got angry. After all, this was the first time the National Defense Forces had fought a group war, and the staff had no experience in organizing such a large-scale assault war, so they had expected many mistakes.

    "Continue to fire smoke grenades in depth and on both wings to obscure the line of sight! Seize the time, we must cross the valley mouth and penetrate to the second line in 10 minutes! Go faster on both wings, concentrate the mortars to capture the Mount Avila position, and ensure the safety of the assault point  . Increase the intensity of auxiliary attacks in other directions, don't give the German army a chance to reinforce here." Yue Peng waved his hand to drive Bai Chongxi away, quietly sat on a stool and issued orders one after another, his eyes fixed on the gathering and the entrance of the valley.  The armored cluster arrows were not used for almost ten minutes.  The fists under the table were clenched tightly and were about to drip. Now is the moment of life and death. In the past, it meant completely opening up the situation. If it was blocked by the Germans and fell into a stalemate, it would inevitably enter a war of attrition!

    Amidst the dense rain of bullets, more than a dozen T2 transport vehicles loaded with Bailey Bridge prefabricated parts finally arrived, and even two Renault trucks loaded with wood and covered in mud came. The second-line infantry quickly took over the trenches to assume expansion and suppression support.  task.

    The engineers were very fast and tied one end of the prefabricated steel plate with a short hemp rope. Several people dragged the steel plate and spread it on the filled soil layer. The lower part was supported by wooden piles. In just a few minutes, the first passage was opened.  Has been completed.  When the first T1 tank sprayed black smoke and crossed the trench, Du Zishan also climbed out of the trench to catch up with the troops. When he took a few breaths, readjusted his steps, turned his head and looked back, a wave of heat rushed from the soles of his feet to his head!

    Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles, thousands of comrades crawling out of the trenches like a pile of dead people, and the deafening Charge that penetrated the sky, converged into a huge arrow.

    Continue to break through!

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