On the morning of the 17th, Victor looked at the German defense line in the distance and kept thinking, since he wanted to get ahead on the battlefield, Victor cherished the opportunity to learn more. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now, in his opinion, the German army on the opposite side is like a chicken rib in its hand, continuing to attack the French defense line, unable to attack, and giving up the occupied French territory, they are reluctant. They have put themselves in a dilemma.

What would I do if I were the German commander-in-chief? Victor thought to himself.

Only a swift withdrawal from the present temporary positions can avoid an even greater defeat. But the Germans on the opposite side did not necessarily have such courage, and perhaps public opinion in their country did not allow them to retreat. If a general interferes with his decision because of public opinion, he is likely to fail.

What would happen to me if I were the commander of the French army?

Now that the German army is not able to conquer the city and has low morale, it is an excellent time to counterattack. I wonder if the French generals will be able to seize this opportunity?

Time passed little by little, and neither France nor Germany had the slightest intention of attacking, and the battle was deadlocked.

On the morning of the 18th, the artillery behind the French line suddenly fired three rounds of rapid fire on the German line, and the rumbling artillery sounded the prelude to the attack.

Victor stood on a high point, watching in amazement as countless Allied troops came out of the Lance Forest near the battle line, as if an elven army had suddenly arrived.

In the vast forest near Reims, the Entente gathered 24 divisions of elite soldiers, which had been recuperating for a long time, to launch an attack on the German army. The Germans had only 11 divisions, their morale was low, and the quality of the troops in this area belonging to Crown Prince Wilhelm was poor, many of them were transferred from Russia on the Eastern Front, had never seen tanks, and were seriously inexperienced in dealing with tanks.

The Entente attack was led by the hard-nosed Moroccan divisions (the French troops abroad were far more formidable than the average troops), with the 1st American Division on the left and the 2nd Division on the right. More than 200 tanks lined up in a row amid the rumbling sound of engines, and continued to advance in an unstoppable and invincible attitude. The whole battlefield was filled with shouts of killing, and the Germans, who had just failed a few days ago, saw so many steel behemoths and completely panicked, and abandoned their defensive lines and weapons and retreated. Occasionally, a few German shells exploded in the charging crowd of officers and soldiers, but they could not stop the frenzied pace of the soldiers. The Germans, who had not had time to flee on the first line of defense, raised their hands in horror and surrendered, while the Germans on the second line of defense had not yet fully reacted and were still surprised by the shelling of the Entente.

The Allied forces broke down the first line of German defense with lightning speed, and countless armies continued to attack in depth. To the left and right of the flat field, miles of attacking troops could be seen, with tanks large and small rumbling forward, followed by Marines, American infantry, Senegalese, foreign legion, and Frenchmen.

The Polish troops on the front line also formed formation and marched forward behind the French army.

The morale of the French army was very high, and the elite overseas legions, such as the Moroccan Division, fought very bravely, and the Senegalese, who were as black as coal, and they fought with madness and not fear death.

In the skies above the chaotic ground, groups of German planes continued to dive, bomb and strafe, inflicting casualties on the Allied troops. HOWEVER, THE WARPLANES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR HAD ONLY ONE OR TWO 7.7MM MACHINE GUNS, AND THE AMMUNITION LOAD WAS ALSO VERY SMALL, SO THEY COULD NOT PLAY A KEY ROLE AT ALL. At the same time, the planes of the Entente countries began to take off, and smoke billowed from the sky and gunpowder smoke filled the ground.

A squad of Polish soldiers followed the long march and walked briskly forward.

"We have so many tanks!" Novak shouted in surprise as he looked at the armored car driving by.

"This is an armored car, not a tank," Victor explained. However, seeing that there were so many tanks and armored vehicles, Victor felt that the success of this attack was greatly guaranteed.

"This should be the world's first cooperation between tanks and armored vehicles" Victor's eyes lit up as he looked at the armored cars driving by the roadside, and felt that this weapon was likely to be more suitable for Poland than tanks for the time being.

Walking beside the long line of attacking troops, one could see a force retreating, and on closer inspection, it turned out to be a large number of German prisoners coming this way. A cursory count showed at least a thousand men, most of them young men, who had only recently been forcibly pulled from their mothers by the Kaiser, and watched with horror at the powerful offensive of the Entente troops.

The Germans did not have a solid defense because of the protruding temporary front, and Victor followed the large army, and the front of tanks and armored vehicles had completely overcome the first line of defense of the German army. Small groups of German units continued to resist while holding their ground, but were quickly crushed. As soon as the German soldiers saw the attacking troops, they threw down their spears, raised their hands and surrendered in poor French and English.

There were more than a dozen tanks parked there on the first line of defense, and a group of tank mechanics surrounded the tanks to carefully inspect and repair them, and only a few were destroyed by German artillery.

The officers led the troops to run forward, and the tanks in front were already under the protection of armored vehicles and continued the attack towards the deep German lines. By the time the troops reached the second line of defense, the tanks were engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the Germans outside the trenches. Although the tanks suppressed the German firepower, without the cooperation of the infantry, it was difficult to avoid being blown up by the German infantry using explosives, and it was difficult to safely cross the wide and winding trenches.

Victor and his squad of ten men followed behind a Renault FT-17 tank, covering both flanks of the tank. Driving to a distance of about 20 meters from the trench, the Renault Tank Nine stopped there and fired constantly from machine guns.

Victor quickly ran out of the back of the tank with ten men, pulled the line, and threw the grenades into the trench in front of them, where several desperate screams rang out.

Victor took Novak and two other soldiers with rifles and quickly ran to the edge of the trench, only to see three broken corpses lying inside, and one man was constantly rolling. Seeing that he had no chance, Victor gave him a shot without hesitation, and then completely quieted down. The other two soldiers picked up the sapper shovel and ran to the trench in front of the tank with their heads down, and shoveled the dirt in front of the trench into the trench quickly, while the other four soldiers worked in pairs to pick up two thick planks from the tank and carry them forward to the trench.

A German soldier stood up from inside the trench with a light machine gun and fired wildly at the soldiers who were building the bridge. Victor immediately climbed down and was about to turn around and shoot, when the 37mm gun on the tank had knocked out the light machine gun with a bang.

Because the entire front was attacked by hundreds of tanks at the same time, the German firepower was very scattered and weak, and it was difficult to resist if it was suppressed. After ten minutes of intense construction, a simple bridge capable of passing through Renault tanks was repaired.

Victor kept gesturing to the tank, telling them to move on. Tanks passed smoothly over the bridge, and tanks from other positions also passed through the trenches on the wooden bridges that had been built one after another. Beyond the trench, the rear is a flat gentle slope, scattered German soldiers in horror at the steel monsters rushing in front of them, most of them obediently raised their hands in surrender, only a few German troops desperately fled to the rear, but how can they outrun the tanks? It was quickly destroyed by the artillery and machine guns on the tank. As the tanks crossed the trenches, the second line of defense of the Germans had also collapsed.

Just as Victor was following the two tanks and continuing to attack, the tanks suddenly stopped on the road and remained motionless. A crew member lifted a steel plate from inside the tank and drilled out of the front of the tank.

"Sir, what's going on?" Victor asked, confused.

He circled around the tank twice, squatted on the right side of the tank and said: "The tracks of the tank are broken, we have to repair it well, and it may not be able to move today." ”

"Oh, that's unlucky." Victor said with a wave of his hand.

So Victor and his party continued to attack slowly after the large army, sometimes when they reached a place that had been completely captured by tanks.

As he walked, Victor thought about today's battle: when infantry and tanks are disconnected, they both find themselves in danger, especially if the other side has tanks.