217 Artillery bombardment
readx;?“ Immediately attack Area 4 and send that group of German artillery to hell! ”
"Order the rocket artillery battalion directly under it to immediately launch an attack on the village of Mepam and smash as many rockets as possible!"
Two orders were issued almost simultaneously from the front headquarters of the two warring sides, and immediately after, a catastrophe befell the heads of both armies at the same time!
Just after the first salvo of the rocket artillery battalion was fired, a large number of 25-pound artillery shells also fell, and in an instant, the positions of the rocket artillery battalion directly under the battalion became dusty and wailing. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, due to the particularity of rocket artillery and the lack of clear landmarks, although the British had hundreds of cannons, due to the large range of targets and the fact that the positions of the rocket artillery battalions were also a little too scattered, these howitzers with a caliber of less than 88 mm did not destroy the directly subordinate rocket artillery battalions in the first place.
Although there were dozens of casualties and more than a dozen rocket artillery pieces were destroyed on the spot, the rocket artillery battalion directly under it still had the strength to fight again. But relatively speaking, the British 25-pounder gun position was devastated, and 300 150 mm caliber rockets were poured directly on the British artillery position, and the result can be imagined!
Almost instantly, the British artillery lost more than 50 guns, and the casualties were even more terrible, and two rockets happened to hit an ammunition truck transporting shells, which then caused a series of explosions, and the British soldiers who were preparing to unload the truck were all killed on the spot, and there was not a single one left.
"Fight back, keep fighting, keep hitting the cannons that you can, blow them up! They have a long interval between artillery firings, go on! ”
"Separate, separate the rest of the rocket artillery as much as possible, get close to the crater, continue to fight, and launch the rocket as soon as it is loaded, no need to wait for a salvo!"
The confrontation between two artillery positions is really rare in a war, but obviously, no one on either side has the heart to watch this kind of scene, let alone care about how the bombing goes, they are seizing all the available time to send as many shells as possible to each other's heads!
The news of the attack on the rocket artillery battalion directly under him made Kirsch anxious like an ant on a hot pot, that was the trump card in his hand, and it was also the most important unit for Li Ling, if there was any problem in his own hands with this unit, then he would be unable to escape the responsibility for committing suicide.
After receiving the news, Kirsch dared to delay for a moment, and immediately sent a telegram to Li Ling to report the situation, and at the same time, immediately asked the rocket artillery battalion to change positions.
But there was clearly a problem with Kirsch's orders, and the orders he gave to Weidenfeller were as if they had been lost in the sea, and there was no response at all!
It wasn't until a few minutes later that Kirsch received the news that Li Ling personally signed an order requiring the rocket artillery battalion to withdraw from its position immediately, that Kirsch waited for a reply from the rocket artillery battalion directly under him, but the content of the reply surprised Kirsch!
After reporting that he had been bombarded, Weidenfeller was directing the troops to adjust their positions, but by chance they were hit by a shrapnel, and the person had already fainted, and now the troops were under the command of the deputy battalion commander, and the troops were attacking the enemy, and the enemy's fire density had dropped a lot, which should have had a good effect.
"Troops immediately withdraw from their positions, come to my rear, withdraw immediately! The enemy's artillery positions were solved by aviation! ”
After conveying the order, Kirsch's heart could not be put down, Weidenfeller's injury and life and death are unknown, this is more serious news than anything else!
Although Weidenfeller is now only a battalion commander of a rocket artillery battalion, but Li Ling has never regarded this as a small battalion commander, Kirsch once specifically talked to Li Ling about Weidenfeller, he thinks that Weidenfeller should command a regiment or more, not a battalion, but Li Ling directly vetoed, in fact, this is not that Li Ling looks down on Weidenfeller, but he values Weidenfeller very much, so he will let him stay in the position of battalion commander temporarily, so as to be able to accumulate more experience!
"The troops are attacking the village of Mepam at full speed!"
Kirsch gave the order viciously, and when these tanks rushed into the village of Maypm, it would be a nightmare for the British!
At the very moment when Kirsch gave the order, the melee between the Luftwaffe and the RAF continued, but at the same time, higher above the clouds, the B-17 group had flown in, and they would be the first air force bomber units to drop bombs on the village of Mepham!
Aerial bombs pulled a piercing buzz and smashed directly into the artillery position in the village of Maypm, the British looked at the plane overhead in a daze, but there was no other way, there is only one battalion of anti-aircraft artillery detachment responsible for air defense, and these anti-aircraft guns themselves have limited shooting height, it is okay to deal with ordinary aircraft, and it is obviously a little short to deal with B-17! And most importantly, there were still a lot of British Air Forces fighting in the sky, and their anti-aircraft guns did not dare to fire at all.
It's even more embarrassing now!
Dozens of B-17 bombers, each carrying several tons of bombs, were enough to raze the entire village of Mepam in one go!
"Withdraw, retreat, retreat! The Germans have already started bombing us here! Immediately report to your superiors, this side can't stand it, my people must withdraw, otherwise they will all die here! ”
Picking up his rifle from the table in a panic, the British commander almost crawled out of the command headquarters, and just as he ran out of the headquarters, a violent explosion sounded from behind him, and the shock wave directly knocked him to the ground.
After a series of explosions, he struggled to get up from the ground and looked at everything around him.
There is nothing left, almost the entire village of Mepam has been reduced to ruins, there is not a single intact house, and the artillery positions have long been razed to the ground, there are corpses everywhere, and there are stumps and broken arms everywhere!
Almost half of the strength of the British Army was fully reimbursed in just two days in his hands......
"Ah~~~! Help me, help me! ”
"My legs, my legs!"
"Oh God! My eyes, I can't see anything! ”
......
Gradually, all the sounds disappeared into his world, and everything became unusually quiet, and the British commander stood in the midst of the ruins, slowly raising his right hand, loading his rifle and pressing it against his temple!
"It's over, it's over!"
Bang! ~
With a lament, a stream of blood flew out of his left temple...... (To be continued.) )