Chapter 737: Black Lightning 1
The Munich reconnaissance airship, which was responsible for "live-streaming" the battlefield situation, once again flew over the battlefield. After www.biquge.info flares were raised on the ground to herald the start of the battle, the officers and men of the Munich airship witnessed a scene they had never seen before.
4 breakthrough areas, concentrated nearly 1,200 artillery pieces of various calibers, in the background of the morning sun, countless fires rose on the ground, shells fell towards the Russian positions like meteorites outside the sky, and the barrage was like a meteorite rain, clusters of flames and gunpowder rose from the ground, and the roar of thousands of artillery pieces resounded throughout the battlefield. The artillery positions in the distance were as spectacular as a volcanic eruption. Behind the artillery positions, transport ships delivered tons of ammunition to the front line. From the sky, torrents of steel supported the Bavarian Army's offensive like the arteries of giants.
The ferocious shelling lasted a full hour, and the entire Russian position was almost overturned by shells, and the originally fertile land was full of black marks left by the flames, like scars on the earth. After suppressing the forward positions, the fire preparation began to extend in depth, and as the barrage moved forward, groups of armored units began to hunt under the support of a large number of infantry.
A separate armoured battalion was broken up into companies to provide cover and support for the infantry, and chariots ran in a line across the vast Bode Plain, slowly falling like a noose around the Russians' necks. Tanks, infantry, and artillery were organically integrated into one, and they rushed towards their opponents like steel behemoths.
The advance on the whole front put a huge pressure on the entire front of the Russians, and at almost the same time, Mykolaiv's command received numerous distress telegrams, and the staff officers hurriedly marked the situation map of both sides on the sand table, but soon they found that the opposing side had too many troops participating in the battle, and more than two-thirds of the entire front was attacked by enemy forces, so that there were not enough arrows to mark the opponent.
"The opponent must have a main direction of attack, they don't have that many forces to attack, on the southern front, the Bavarians have at least half of their forces against the Fifth Army, they are bluffing." Nikolaev tried to convince himself, refusing to admit this reality, but soon the intelligence that the Germans had successfully broken through in two ways again shattered his illusions.
Under the guidance of the formed armored battalion, Schmidt's troops once again came out on top and successfully broke through the front-to-face position, but unlike before, after 10 kilometers deep into the opponent's position, the armored troops went around in a circle and began to outflank both sides, successfully stabbing the Russian army in the back!
The tracks ran over the hastily constructed fortifications, crushing the machine guns and shooters in the fortifications to pieces, and a dozen tanks lined up in a wide front of a kilometer and swept through the rear positions of the Russians. Supply points, headquarters, artillery positions, hospitals, and other facilities in the rear were reduced to ashes in the stormy attack.
The Russians, naturally, were not resigned to defeat, and after a day and a half of preparation, a mixed force consisting of a full cavalry division, two infantry regiments and several mobile artillery batteries drove into the battlefield, trying to close the gap in a certain direction.
A whole regiment was deployed from the front, three battalions of troops attacked from the center, while each flank was flanked by 1,200 Cossack cavalry, and the attacking Russian units rushed towards the enemy like an eagle with outstretched wings, this time the Russians chose a good target, against a Bavarian infantry regiment, reinforced only by one armored company.
Fourteen cricket tanks roared out, forming a not-so-wide steel bole, and under the cover of machine guns and infantry, they held back the Russians. Grenades fired from long-range artillery exploded around the vehicle from time to time, and flying shrapnel and debris constantly hit the tank's armor, and the bullets and shells clanged on the armor plates, making the whole tank feel like a tuning fork in the wind.
But even so, the armored forces perfectly played the role of firefighting teams and mobile pillboxes. The course machine guns and side-by-side machine guns and 2-pounder guns in the hull were hell for the Russian soldiers who were charging intensively, and the crossfire network formed between the tanks cut through the opponent's defensive positions as much as possible, and the Russian troops were scattered and then wiped out by the rifles and submachine guns of the infantry, and the entire front line seemed to become a flesh millstone constantly devouring the lives of both sides.
The Cossack cavalry, which rounded off on both sides, took advantage of their speed, which made the artillery interception of the coefficient a luxury, and the shells fell behind the charging cavalry. "Prepare for melee!" When the Russian cavalry crossed the artillery interception zone and rushed up against the massive damage of the machine guns, the Bavarian soldiers picked up their rifles and submachine guns and prepared for a primitive and bloody battle. And it was at this time that the air force arrived at the right time to make the last glimmer of hope of the Russians come to naught.
The J-5 Sparrowhawk was a fighter, but because the larger load could also perform ground suppression missions, a squadron of Sparrowhawks who arrived urgently made the reunion of the Russian cavalry fall short with 50 large-caliber machine guns and anti-infantry grenades, like an eagle hunting rabbits, and Richthofen began his first battle!
The sparrowhawk whistled and flew over the ground no more than a dozen meters above the ground, and at its lowest point it could even be said to have flown over the heads of the Russian cavalry, and with a slight pull on the bomb handle, a series of 2kg anti-infantry bombs fell off the pylon. The dense explosion immediately blew the attacking Russian cavalry unit in two, and the frightened horses pulled the rider off their backs. Then, in a panic, he trampled the fallen rider into a puddle of flesh.
The soldiers behind were also hesitant under the sudden blow, and some even secretly turned their horses' heads to evacuate, but they couldn't outrun the bullets after all, when Richthofen dived again, his plane flew sideways over a group of Russian cavalry, roaring machine guns hit two lines of fire on the ground, the closest approach between the two sides was less than 200 meters, Richthofen could even clearly see the other party's frightened expressions, and then was cut off by a 12.7mm machine gun bullet.
The repeated dive attacks of just a dozen planes deprived the cavalry of the two cavalry regiments of courage to continue fighting, and the planes hovering in the air like a grim reaper were a sword of Damocles hanging high over the heads of the Russians. This situation where the other side can hit you and you can't hit the other end up making the Russians collapse.
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