Chapter 787: Heaven and Earth 4
The FT10's truck base at this time seems to bring some advantages, although the armor is not good, but on the flatter roads relying on a high power-to-weight ratio, they actually become the fastest legs in the battlefield! But even so, if you want to close the distance to 500 meters. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info also takes about 7 minutes to walk.
During this time, each Hu Feng assault gun could theoretically fire at least 20 shells! As copper shells were thrown from the bomb ports, with the beating of the guns and the flashing of the guns, the French chariots in the charge were smashed to pieces. After leaving behind the wreckage of the road, the French finally kept closing in on the battle line.
The two sides gradually approached, and then shot wildly, when the distance was close to a certain extent, the thickness of the frontal armor could not guarantee their own safety, the shells under the attack and the shells fired from the side could still destroy the rough flesh and thick Hu Feng, although the Bavarian regiment has paid good attention to the side of the cover tank, the distance between the tanks in the front is only about 30 meters, considering the angle of incidence, in fact, the effective penetration distance is not large, but the number of French is too much, And the rate of fire of the 75mm gun was really fast.
Countless shells flew between the tanks, like a duel between ancient giants, who fought with swords, spears, bows and arrows, and proved their existence with blood and fire! At the same time that the FT10 was beaten into a burning torch, Hu Feng was hit by shells fired from the side from time to time, and the bullet holes left on the side of Hu Feng and the broken load wheels made Schmidt feel like a knife, which was all saved by the kingdom in nearly 10 years, and just today, at least half of the chariots were left on the battlefield and became a sacrifice to the god of war!
At first, the French approached quickly, but then slowed down! In fact, it was not that the absolute speed of the French was slowed down, nor that the Germans had greatly increased their lethality. But because the Germans retreated again! Two staggered fronts began to alternately cover the retreat! When the distance between the first batch of Hu Feng assault guns and the opponent drops to about 600 meters, the first row of combat vehicles will directly reverse, and the second row will be responsible for covering, as if the infantry alternately covers the retreat, try to keep a distance, and the cricket tanks on both flanks have better tactical selectivity because they are not the target of the opponent's key impact.
It turned out that the flexibility of a tank with a turret in the offensive was good, because of the death of the company commander, Rommel promoted the temporary acting company commander to the front line, although there were only 12 tanks and was not fully manned. However, it still played an excellent tactical match.
"700 meters! Fire! Using the destroyed tanks of both sides, Rommel hid a platoon of tanks (4 tanks) on the flank of the offensive line of a group of French tanks, although this distance was somewhat far, the first round of fire was not very effective, only 3 tanks were killed by 28 shells, but the terrifying rate of fire of the machine guns still frightened the French. When the Frenchman's Renault and FT10 turned the body artillery turret to prepare for a counterattack, the crickets hidden on the other side also fired a salvo cleanly! The first team of tanks used this time to retreat after firing a round.
When the French dispersed to search, Rommel and the third platoon, who reunited after retreating a few hundred meters, converged, the French tanks lacked contact and lack of cooperation, and when they got together, they could also rely on a huge numerical advantage to cause a certain threat, but once they dispersed, especially when there was wreckage and smoke everywhere, the cooperation between the French almost did not exist, and for this kind of lone opponent, the smaller number of troops could also play a wave of counterattacks, under the containment of the second platoon, The concentrated 1st and 3rd platoons even launched a skirmish, with 8 tanks successfully taking out 10 French tanks and then quickly moving in.
At a depth of less than 4 kilometers, Rommel constantly used obstacles, cover and rear fire support to attack everywhere, like a cunning poisonous snake to bite the opponent in unexpected places, and then retreated with the help of friendly forces, although it did not form a fixed line of defense, but the opponent was never able to pass through this area, fighting a mobile defensive battle. It's small ...... though.
Under the continuous tug-of-war between the two sides, the problem of the lack of stamina of the French finally appeared, especially after the flank attack was frustrated and the preset strategy of separate attack and combined attack failed, the French were a little unable to hold on at first.
"We don't know how many armored units the Germans have, we are constantly advancing, paving the way for us to advance with the blood of our comrades, the German tanks loom in the smoke, constantly harvesting our lives with deadly fire, and we are constantly attacking the opponent, we are crossing the wreckage of both sides and rushing towards each other, but the road seems to have no end, we have entered the depth of the other side, we have destroyed a large number of enemy tanks, but they are still endless!"
The constant fighting, blood and flames, and death brought the French to the limit almost simultaneously mentally and physically, and after destroying more than 40 tanks of various types in Bavaria, the French paid an even more terrible price! More than 150 Renault and FT10 and a large number of self-propelled anti-tank guns with temporary cameo anti-tank missions remained on the battlefield forever! The 5 armored battalions that participated in the attack and the subsequent large number of reserves suffered nearly 7 percent battle losses! Well, even so, the French still had more troops available to fight than the Germans .......
"The tanks of the Germans seemed to stop, they stopped retreating!" When the French found that their opponents were no longer retreating, and the remaining tanks were almost concentrated, the French were overjoyed and felt that victory was at hand, and the sudden opening of anti-tank gun positions made the last hope of the French come to naught!
Dense shells rained down, destroying several French tanks at the head of the platoon, and then more and more artillery was fired. The Bavarian armored forces, which had already retreated, also began to counterattack. In the face of shells fired from all directions, the spirit of the French finally collapsed, they did not know how many enemies there were, but subconsciously thought that they had been defeated and did not have the strength to break through the opponent's defenses.
The strikers of the armored battalion that were the first to be counterattacked were beaten to pieces, and looking at the friendly chariot that suddenly turned into a burning coffin in front of their eyes, the last bit of fighting spirit of the French behind was also wiped out, and they chose to retreat, and some even directly hung in reverse gear and ignored the infantry following behind. And more of them chose to expose their most vulnerable rear to their opponents for a more convenient escape!
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