"Your Excellency Commander, the French tanks are coming, this position may be broken through at any time, you better go to the headquarters first. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" a staff officer said anxiously to Kruger.

"No, I'm right here, and I'm going to see how the French and the British break through my positions!" Kruger said stubbornly. This was not a simple matter, he really wanted to know what the situation was at the front line, why the offensive that he thought was not difficult had failed again and again, and how did the simple infantry pig rush artillery follow-up tactics of the French become so powerful? Without a clear understanding of this problem, the German offensive could not have been successful, and this time Kruger came prepared, bringing himself a whole armored battalion, which could quickly close the gap even if the opponent broke through the defensive line.

The French finally began to attack, a whistling sound across the sky made Kruger's face change, as a commander of the German army group, he was at least a qualified artillery officer, judging from the sound of the shells flying and the damage caused by the explosion on the ground, this is definitely the power of ultra-long-range heavy artillery, a cannon down, there is no living thing within 100 meters in diameter! Blow up a large pit with a depth of about 4 meters and a radius of more than 20 meters! This TM is a train gun, right?!

This is really a non-war crime, using field artillery against train artillery, this can be won! The Entente's ultra-long-range artillery was not too fast, and the number was not too much, but it still put a huge pressure on the German army, and every time the heavy shells that flew from time to time landed was a catastrophe, and the violent shaking made people hundreds of meters away feel deep fear. Under the long-range heavy artillery suppression, most of the German 150mm and 210mm howitzers simply did not dare to stay in one place for a long time.

Although the German Army was armed with the K09 150mm long-range cannon, it was too lethal for a train gun with perfect position protection. And the number is too small, and the range is not advantageous, so it is very difficult to fight.

But fortunately, in addition to a relatively limited number of train guns, the French artillery is still based on 75mm artillery, and the tactics are basically artillery bayonets, rapid fire at close range, this tactic seems to be nothing powerful, at least so far, from the morning to the present, the two rounds of French attacks have been easily crushed, although the heavy howitzer unit must always be on guard against the attack of the train artillery, but as long as the artillery of some anti-slope positions or positions that shell dead corners can be used, it is enough to block the French infantry artillery attack.

But soon, the real test came, "the French were also equipped with a lot of tanks, and their tanks were not bad in quantity and quality." That's our biggest threat. Looking at the Renault tank and FT10 armored vehicle that appeared on the horizon, a front-line officer's face turned slightly pale.

An armored echelon of more than a dozen FT10 armored vehicles and more than two dozen Renaults launched a straight attack front. Behind them were a large number of French infantry, accompanied by some 75mm rapid-fire gun crews. Compared to the historical French army, the tactics of the French do not seem to have changed much, except for the addition of some armored units, but that's it, so that the Germans can't eat and go around!

The attacker always has a head start over the defender, the attacker can choose the attack time, attack location, can concentrate troops, and can slow down when the situation is not right, change the configuration and fight again. In places where there is no danger to defend, the advantage of the defenders is very limited, especially when the long-range artillery is suppressed, and the various replenishment divisions on the front can only use the equipment at hand against the French.

At a distance of 600 meters, the German Army's 77mm rapid-fire guns began to fire, and one shell flew to the advancing French tanks, one of the Renault infantry tanks was directly hit, and the violent explosion directly reduced the tank weighing no more than 6 tons to a pile of parts, but soon, this exposed replenishment position was attacked by the Crossfire of the 37 guns of the Renault tank and the 75mm rapid-fire guns of the FT10 tank, and the French rapid-fire gun rate advantage was fully exerted at this moment, within a minute, dozens of shells fell on the exposed gun emplacements, and after a burst of fire, the entire artillery position was wiped off the position.

The process was repeated by the concealed 77mm rapid-fire gun, which had a chance to take out a few French tanks first, but was soon taken out by the reacting French armored forces, and after a short exchange, the Germans replaced the same number of tanks with almost the same number of anti-tank guns. The exchange ratio is not ugly, but the problem is that the number of 77mm rapid-fire guns on one line of defense is too small, the anti-tank guns on my side are gone, and there are still a lot of tanks left on the opposite side!

The rest of the battle was one-sided, with the machine-gun bullets smashing weakly into the armor plates of the French tanks. Then it was easily dropped by the 75mm gun. Some mortar positions lived longer, but they were only alive, and did not have much impact on the situation of the war, and when the German army's machine guns and artillery were finished, the German army was on the same level as the French in terms ......of tactics.

"Let the 7th Panzer Battalion attack, since I'm here, I can't let this defense line be breached." Kruger thought for a moment and said.

Armored vehicles and tank No. 1 produced by Krupp and Rheinmetall appeared from behind the position, and it was the first time that the French saw the appearance of German armored units on such a large scale, and the French cuirassiers and the German Teutonic knights finally had the first large-scale armored collision.

Bang bang bang. The sound of 37mm rapid-fire guns sounded, unlike the Bavarian armored forces, the German armored units generally emphasized fast and light, after all, they needed to cross the whole of Belgium to fight in France, so the so-called tanks equipped with artillery were also 37mm guns, and the French Renault tanks were almost at the same level, this kind of tank had no problem against infantry, but it was a little difficult to fight FT10 armored vehicles.

In this era, there were no armor-piercing shells, and armor-piercing also relied on kinetic energy, but the muzzle velocity was only about 300 meters, and the 37 gun, which could almost be described as a grenade, was enough to deal with Renault tanks, but it also faced the frontal armor thickness of 15mm, had a certain inclination, and hung with additional steel plates on the FT10 combat vehicle could be suspended. As for talking about armored vehicles? These things that only have machine guns can only play soy sauce in armored battles.

This was the first armoured confrontation of the First World War, and the tactics of both sides were extremely rough, and the armoured personnel of both sides almost always pointed their weapons at the nearest opponent and opened fire vigorously. From time to time, one after another combat vehicles were hit and caught fire. In this engagement, the French Renault played better than the No. 1 tank, at least they used long-barreled 37 guns, with higher muzzle velocity and better penetration! The 37mm gun of the No. 1 tank was almost the same as the original British 1-pounder gun, and the drum was not installed. Because space does not allow.

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