Chapter 781: Tank Armageddon 2

"Oh God! Are the French crazy? When Wolfgang looked from under the airship's pod, he was taken aback by the scene on the ground, from the west and southwest, the dust brought up by a large number of vehicles as they moved quickly even covered the ground, and he could judge the direction of the opponent's attack by the billowing smoke and dust, which was more than ten kilometers wide and stretched for several kilometers without a telescope. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info rushed towards the 1st Bavarian Panzer Division like a yellow tsunami.

Through the billowing dust, Wolfgang could see a large number of French armored vehicles hidden underneath, and a hasty estimate of the number of these vehicles was more than 200! Far more than the last time the French attacked, and behind them were trucks and towed artillery that far outnumbered the armored units! A torrent of chariots and artillery rushed towards the breach, and the French legions in red and blue colors challenged the gray Bavarian legions!

"The Bavarians are in trouble! Long-range artillery simply cannot block so many enemies, we need to immediately send a report to the Third Army Group and headquarters! Wolfgang immediately ordered the dispatch of the report. At the same time, through radio monitoring, the prince also received relevant information.

"Lancers, black bears, fighting dogs, five, seven, ten! Your Highness! We've intercepted the radio call signs of ten French armored battalions! The French are concentrated, we seem to be in trouble! An officer immediately got up and brought a document to the prince. Behind the chain of French armoured battalions was the intelligence on the strength and equipment of these armoured battalions.

"Ten armored battalions?" Ruprecht was also a little surprised, the armored battalion of the French was about the same size as the armored battalion of the Germans, and this armored battalion meant 450 to 500 tanks of all kinds! Of course, this is the number of FT10s and Renaults, just like when the Germans attacked, they must have followed mechanized infantry and towed artillery, the French may not have much mechanized infantry, but with towed artillery it is a must!

Because the first thing they have to do is to control the breakthrough, and then block it, tanks and assault guns are used as offensive weapons, since this is the case, then a large number of flat-fire guns can limit the speed of the opponent's attack, consume the opponent, and pave the way for the counterattack of the armored forces, in fact, to say that the artillery accompanies the advance, the French play no worse than the Germans. After all, in addition to the rate of fire, the biggest advantage of the 75 rapid-fire gun is that it can keep up with the infantry!

"We'd better hold on. The offensive is too risky at this time, and there are no less than 5 armored battalions on our front alone! "At this moment, Calyput, who was the chief of the General Staff, was really afraid. The Bavarian Legion didn't throw half of its armored forces here to fight to the death! The Bavarian Army was not finished on the Western Front, but had to return to the Eastern Front to help Austria-Hungary clean up the mess. Although the Eastern Front seems to be stable now, judging from the telegram sent by Prince Leopold, the general offensive of the Russians is about to begin, and the Austro-Hungarian army is about to have an accident!

'It's impossible, we can't put the other side in a solid defence, we need time, we need space. Look here. The prince said with a slight touch on the sand table. We are now attacking the enemy's position no more than 3 kilometers and only 6 kilometers wide, and such an area is obviously quite difficult for our follow-up corps to deploy, and according to the plan, we will have at least ten infantry divisions to enter it. In order to provide enough space for these troops, in order to be able to completely tear through the French lines, we must penetrate in depth! ”

"If we stop and let the French regroup enough rapid-fire guns to form a defensive line, then we will be under more pressure and we will have significantly fewer tanks than our opponents. If you want to open the breach again in the future, the price you pay will be even greater. Of course, the most important thing is that this is probably our last chance to change the front, the losses of the troops are only at the tactical level, and for the sake of strategy, we must be able to bear the sacrifice. Rupresit calmed down for a moment, and then gave the order to attack directly!

"What about the reserves?" Calipt asked.

"Keep up, but you need my consent to use it, let the two divisions behind move faster, I need their anti-aircraft guns!" All long-range artillery and air force centralized suppression! All other missions can be abandoned! When the order was given, the prince pressed all his chips too!

"Don't care about your own flanks, leave it to your own brothers, you only use assault! Kill all the enemies who stand in their way with our tracks and artillery fire! When Schmidt received this telegram, he finally realized the crisis of the situation. The Bavarian Corps seemed unfortunate on the Western Front, coming directly into direct opposition to the strongest enemy.

"No, we are very lucky, it is much better to play against the opponent's main force in a shallow position than to fight after trekking hundreds of kilometers, and this is our only hope." And on the same day, Rupresit wrote in his war diary.

"The crickets are ready to deploy, cover the flanks of the wasps, and when they meet the target, they can choose to shoot freely, pay attention to keep their distance, we have to tighten the formation!" With Schmidt's order, the second battalion, which was on the offensive at this time, began to change formations, and the cricket tanks in the rear used their high speed to rush to the front, while the Vespa assault gun, which had been serving as a battering ram, reduced its speed, and the wedge-shaped attack formation gradually became an inverted wedge, like a hero with wings ready to fly, and the Bavarian armored forces met the first wave of the opponent's attack!

"It doesn't seem to be bad." Rommel said as he looked at the Renault tank team men in the distance from the conning tower, and the figures of the Renault tank team who were leaking out of the smoke in the distance. Rommel was not a Bavarian, but Württemberg and Bavaria had a good relationship with each other as Catholic states, and the two sometimes found trouble with the boss, so it was not difficult for Rommel as a Catholic to enter the Bavarian army, after all, the latter was a little short of soldiers.

"Cars shoot freely, and vehicles on the edge pay attention to their flanks." After the loader showed his body and played a flag slogan, Rommel's tank platoon began their first tank duel!

"2 o'clock, 1200 meters, a Renault sedan! Kill it! Rommel, who participated in the war for the first time, was a little excited, so that there was a bit of trilling in his words, but he still easily completed the instructions of the target, the cricket tank made an emergency stop, the turret then pointed to the direction of 2 o'clock, the driver operated the machine gun side by side and fired several bursts, the first bullet was calibrated at 900 meters, the second shot was 700 meters, a standard pinch shot, and two tracer bullets clamped the opponent. The gunner then calculated a distance of 800 meters based on the trajectory, and after a three-shot burst, the opposite Renault turned into a fireball.

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