Boom~~~Boom~~~~Boom~~~~~~

A series of explosions turned the entire Meuse River into a sea of fire!

The assault on the fortress group along the Meuse River began at 6 p.m., and Guderian gave little thought to it, and when these dense bunkers appeared in his field of vision, he decisively chose to call for air support, and then ordered the 73rd Artillery Regiment of the 1st Panzer Division to carry out non-stop shelling of the bunker group. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When these French soldiers hiding in the bunker were still waiting for the German tank charge, and then used the heavy artillery they placed in the bunker to deal a fatal blow to the Germans, they were greeted not by the German tank charge, but by one German artillery shell after another and an almost untold number of aerial bombs from the Luftwaffe falling from the sky!

"When will the 2nd Panzer Division arrive?"

Guderian did not dare to give the order to attack rashly, it was clear that this line of defense had been operated by the French for a long time, and even if their bunker group had been hit by fire from all sides, there was no guarantee that the enemy's fortifications could be completely destroyed.

It is highly likely that such a large defensive line will be filled with a variety of large-caliber artillery, which will cause serious losses to its own troops if even a handful of them remain.

"General, the 2nd Panzer Division will arrive in two hours at the earliest, and the 10th Panzer Division will probably arrive in the second half of the night."

Hearing the report, Guderian obviously felt a trace of pressure, only one armored division can be used, if it attacks, it is indeed a bit risky, but if it does not attack, when this wave of air raids is over and the sky is completely dark, the support of the Luftwaffe will be forced to stop, and the heavy artillery of the French will usher in an opportunity!

"Order the 1st Armored Reconnaissance Battalion to send a reconnaissance detachment to find out the enemy's troop allocation and heavy fire points, give them half an hour, during which the artillery will not stop shelling, and all units will be ready for the attack! In addition, the 1st Regiment was informed that our side was going to attack, and asked them not to participate as much as possible, and his recruits were not suitable for such a battlefield. ”

After much consideration, Guderian decided to attempt the first assault on the French Meuse line, which appeared to have been completely engulfed in flames.

And the first regiment directly under the side obviously didn't pay attention to the kind reminder from Guderian, because Guderian's reminder had not been sent out, and the first regiment directly under the side had already begun to attack!

"With a battalion, a company, and a platoon of three tanks as the tip, the whole battalion was formed in a wedge-shaped formation in turn, the second battalion followed closely behind to vacate the central position, and the third battalion was in the center, each tank remained more than 10 meters on the left and right, and 5-8 meters in the front and rear, and attacked directly in front of me in a loose and tight formation on the left and right. The third battalion began to open fire about 2,000 meters away from the enemy bunker group, and immediately withdrew from the battle sequence at a distance of about 1,000 meters from the bunker group, looking for cover on the rear flank, and widening the distance between it and the enemy bunker group. ”

Wedge formation, this is a formation that has been used for a long time in ancient times, but with the transformation of war styles, especially after the birth of hot weapons, this formation born in the era of cold weapons has completely withdrawn from the stage of history.

If we have to say that the formation has not completely withdrawn, then at most it can only be viewed from a big strategic point of view, and it is impossible to experience it from a small combat operation.

But at this time, it was obvious that Li Ling had taken out the formation of the Cold Weapon Era again, but in fact, this was also a helpless move.

It was already dark, and after losing air support, it was obvious that it could not effectively destroy the enemy's living forces by striking at the enemy with a small number of artillery pieces, and at night it was a time for the enemy to give full play to his superiority, so it absolutely could not be delayed.

Li Ling now took out a wedge-shaped formation, and after making slight adjustments, he used the No. 4 tanks of the first battalion and the second battalion as cover, and used the powerful Li tank destroyers in the middle to carry out medium and long-range fire strikes. And shorten the distance between the front and rear vehicles, compress the formation, so that a large number of troops can pour into the bunker group at one time, giving the enemy a shorter reaction time.

More than a hundred tanks of a whole regiment quickly rushed to the French line under the cover of night.

Since the French line was burning everywhere after the heavy bombardment, and the vast majority of the tanks of Li Ling's troops did not turn on the lighting, it was as if a person was looking outside in a brightly lit room at night, and could not see the movement of the 1st Regiment at all.

With the skyrocketing fire as the background, the shadow of the bunker is so obvious, the 88mm cannon shells carry endless energy straight to the fortress, and the high-explosive instantaneous warhead produces a violent explosion at the moment of hitting the bunker, and the bunker is blown out of a hole almost instantly.

The continuous direct fire almost completely leveled the bunker facing the tip of the wedge-shaped formation, not to mention whether the bunker was still intact, but the shock wave from the explosion alone had completely killed the French soldiers in the bunker in an instant.

"The third battalion withdrew from the battle sequence, the first battalion and the second battalion sprinted at full speed, killed and wounded the enemy with high-explosive ammunition, destroyed the enemy's bunker as much as possible, and immediately counterattacked the left and right sides after rushing into the fortress group!"

Li Ling accurately calculated the distance from the bunker group, unlike the No. 4 tank, the Li tank destroyer designed by Rheinmetall almost has no protection at all, the large-caliber artillery in such a bunker group can easily destroy them, Li Ling is reluctant to let these baby bumps to die, as for the No. 4 tank, there is still a certain amount of protection, just rush as much as possible.

Moreover, since the caliber of the gun and the length of the barrel of the No. 4 tank are not very good, the lethality of these concrete buildings at long distances is really very limited. 、

Seeing that the first regiment under his command had rushed out, Guderian now had no way to carry out his original plan at all, so he had to order the first armored division to keep up with the pace of the first regiment under his command as much as possible, so as not to let his troops fall too far behind, so as to facilitate the reinforcement of Li Ling and them.

However, the smoothness of the battle seriously exceeded Li Ling and Guderian's estimates, and they did not encounter any counterattack at all on this defensive line with hundreds of bunkers!

It was only later that they were completely able to take down the line of defense on the banks of the Meuse, except for sporadic shelling from the other side of the river without any casualties......

In fact, Li Ling is also lucky enough!

The Meuse line itself was in French territory, and it was not the focus of the French defenses, and the bunkers here were not even a tenth of the thickness of the Maginot Line, which is why their shells were able to destroy these bunkers easily.

In addition, the Luftwaffe's super-large-scale concentrated bombing of this place has almost completely slaughtered the living forces of the French army on this position.

Sitting in front of a destroyed bunker, Li Ling lit a cigarette: "Damn, I wasted so many shells in vain, and I was half dead of nervousness, and there was not even a living person here for a long time......