Chapter 674: Tank Assault 1

Baron Schmidt was still very serious about the prince's suggestion, and on both wings, the baron left some alert troops, and at the same time used 75mm rapid-fire guns and 2-pounder guns mounted on half-tracks as anti-armor forces. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info all the assault guns and tanks left as reserves, it seems that an armored battalion has a lot of troops, but after it is really launched, it still feels a little stretched!

"The armored forces of the Bavarians have moved!" At this time, the Prussian airship, which was cruising at the highest point of the battlefield, suddenly found that under the cover of billowing smoke and dust, a huge front composed of gray-black queues was trying to advance rapidly to the east! If there is a Prussian regiment's only advantage in this exercise, it is probably the reconnaissance advantage of airships, which in this era flew at a higher altitude than airplanes, and the cruising time was even longer. The so-called opportunities are for those who are prepared, and this time, the Prussians' efforts are really rewarded!

"It's so spectacular" Count Zeppelin, who was personally in charge of piloting the airship, looked at the armored corps that was rushing wildly on the ground, the gray-black paint shimmered with a strange luster in the sunlight, the thick 75mm gun, the steel behemoth that concentrated the most cutting-edge technology now, and the other combat vehicles behind them, the armored torrent composed of more than 200 various vehicles gave people an unstoppable feeling.

Think about it, even in the 21st century, the average person would at least be moved by the sight of a uniform, formation of several hundred heavy vehicles, and now? It can be said that none of the people present had ever seen such a mechanized formation appear, and these heavily armored cavalry were like the Teutonic Knights of the past. If you don't move, you will invade like fire! When the frontal appearance of the Prussians in a wedge-shaped formation of attacks appeared, many people developed a feeling of inability to match. An icy sense of oppression appeared in the opponent's heart.

"Ready for battle!" The speed of the armored forces in this era is really not fast, and the speed of the Hu Feng assault gun in off-road conditions is 10 to 15 kilometers per hour, and the early warning of the airship gives the Prussian artillery group that is maneuvering a certain amount of preparation time, and these Prussian artillery elites really used this time to fight a good anti-tank resistance battle in this era.

Because it is an exercise, it is also impossible for both sides to shoot directly according to the main body, and the tank may be able to block the 3-inch level artillery, what do you do with the rapid-fire gun that is not protected? So in the end, the armored forces still hit the target, and the rapid-fire gun could attack the tank with small-caliber artillery and low-velocity 37mm shells filled with fuel.

So the 77mm rapid-fire gun, which had just entered the position and was preparing for a historical cameo anti-tank gun, was swept away by a round ......of high-explosive shells before watching the Bavarian attack echelon. Two reconnaissance planes flew quickly over the positions of the Prussian regiments. "Suspected artillery positions were found in area No. 15 and fire coverage was requested." With the spread of Morse yards, self-propelled howitzers, located in the rear of the attacking forces, first launched an attack on this artillery position, which was located on the flank of the attack spearhead.

The whistling sound of heavy artillery shells fell from the sky, and soon covered the artillery positions in the open field, for the coverage efficiency of artillery, the Germans had done a serious study, at the beginning of World War 1, a standard 4-gun company was targeted by 150mm heavy howitzers, and it took about 120 shells to destroy more than 75% of the targets. According to the rate of fire of a gun of 2 to 3 rounds per minute, it is about 20 minutes.

The explosions of dense 150mm heavy howitzer and 105mm light howitzer shells came from the target area, and under the guidance of the aircraft, a rolling barrage swept from one end of the position to the other side step by step. And the plumes of smoke and gunsmoke in the sky also told the Prussians that the Bavarian regiment was coming!

"General, towed artillery and self-propelled anti-tank artillery have arrived, and we are ready to attack at any time." An officer reported to Mackensen. At this moment, the Prussian mobile corps was also in place, and this time Moltke and others had concentrated almost all their mobile forces and rapid-fire guns. Victory or defeat is here.

"Wait a little longer, they haven't penetrated deep into our defensive positions, and the planes in the sky haven't appeared." Mackenson said with some uneasiness, his uneasiness still comes from the lack of strength in his hands, the only ones that can really pose a threat to Hu Feng's assault guns and cricket tanks are those rapid-fire guns, and the best wheeled armored vehicles equipped with 50mm guns in their hands may have a chance to hit the side at close range, and if they charge hard, they will be killed.

Therefore, he hopes that the most complete situation is that the Bavarian armored forces are deeply wedged into their defensive formation, and then wait until the air force is also on the way, and when the defense system they have arranged is about to collapse and has not collapsed, he will go again! Well, that's it, war is so cruel, and some people are destined to be a mtra hate.

"The other party is very steady, not greedy for merit or rash, and advancing step by step." This is what a Prussian officer who participated in the world's first large-scale anti-armor operation said about the Bavarian Corps after the fact.

"Stop at 2 o'clock, a high-explosive bomb!" House, who was on the left flank, ordered, the 18-ton Hu Feng assault gun was a car, with a shaking, the battlefield finally stopped, the huge artillery began to rotate slowly, the loader loaded cleanly, and then the machine gun made three short bursts to determine the trajectory, a 75mm high-explosive shell reached a wooden model hidden behind the bunker to pieces.

There was no problem in splitting the opponent's line of defense head-on, and in fact the Prussians knew that the real difficulty lay in the expansion of the depth and the flanks, and at this time the attacking troops would be squeezed by the combined forces of the opposing counter-attack and the flank troops. Moreover, because the attack area is wide, the enemy may be attacked everywhere when the force is limited, which requires cooperation.

House's Hu Feng began to turn to the left to attack, while another cricket chariot quickly came to the right side of House, cross-covering Hu Feng's exposed right flank armor weakness. The turret of the tank played a huge role at this time, the 40mm rapid-fire gun with a high rate of fire and a large ammunition reserve quickly harvested the target, and with the supply of 7 rounds of ammunition, the muzzle of the cricket assault tank responsible for cover almost did not stop, and the flames continued to erupt out, suppressing the surrounding targets.

All the assault guns and tanks formed a group to spread out to the flanks, and the accompanying infantry also disembarked from the ramming vehicles, quickly filling the gap between the combat vehicles, clearing the trenches with machine guns and submachine guns, and constantly guarding against possible anti-tank fighters. The troops, which were originally deployed in a wedge shape, quickly became an umbrella. began to rapidly expand the results of the war.

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