At 3 p.m. on June 8, when the French 5th Army, which had been pursued by the German Lukru First Army for four days, completed a magnificent counterattack, turned around and broke through the defensive positions set up by the German 6th Division on the west bank of the Marne, and approached the flank of the Crook Army, which was fighting fiercely with the Old Maurie Army, the balance of war seemed to be rapidly tilting in favor of the French.

Lieutenant General Lukru, who personally rushed to the front line to supervise the battle, almost bet on all the main forces in this counterattack, and the fierce combat power of the German First Army also made the French Sixth Army's Old Mauri Corps tremble, and the German Corps that attacked on both flanks stormed the flank positions of Lieutenant General Mauri Lao and constantly weakened the French core position, if it were not for the continuous reinforcements from Paris to supplement the right flank, the Old Mauri Army would not have been able to hold out until the afternoon.

The desperate battle, which lasted for 8 hours, also made Lieutenant General Lukru realize that the crisis was imminent, and the inability to break through the two flanks of the French army meant that the German army would be cut off and surrounded, so he reluctantly ordered to continue to invest the 4 divisions that had just been withdrawn and rested to the right flank, and concentrated all the field artillery that the army group could assemble to violently bombard the French defense line on the Seine.

Any valuable position between the two sides has become the target of intensive projection of bullets, and the position is the flesh and blood of the two sides fighting each other, which makes the whole battle full of barbarism that has never been seen in the European war, and the barrage that fills the sky mercilessly harvests the lives in the impact, and the commanders of both sides have ignored the amazing casualties and ordered to constantly break into the opponent's position!

Breakthrough...... Destroy...... Break through the ...... again On the plains on the west bank of the Seine, nearly 400,000 troops on both sides spread out on a frontage of less than 10 kilometers, entangled with each other. Take the battalion and regimental level as the spearhead of the attack. After every baptism of fire. All mean that the two sides are in close proximity......

Although the four armies of the German First Army had displayed extraordinary combat strength, before the sun went down, the defensive position of the Old Mauri Corps was compressed by a full 1,000 meters to the south, and on each meter of position, both sides left a staggering number of corpses and an even more staggering number of wounded...... However, the Old Mauri Army was still stuck like a nail in the gap between the First Army and the Third Army.

Lieutenant General Lucroix had already received a report half an hour earlier that the French Fifth Army had been beaten into a mourning dog by himself. The Eighth Army, which had already turned over and began to counterattack his palace, relied on the huge advantage in strength to firmly bite the tail of the First Army, and he naturally understood the result of the continuation of the war - if the old Mauri army could not quickly solve the point in the way, it would mean that the French would swarm out and cut off the possibility of their own position to bypass the old Mauri legion.

The German general, who had a wealth of combat experience, had seen the fatigue of the old Maurie's army, but had realized that it was impossible to achieve a decisive victory in the battle, and the setting sun made him see the possibility of preserving his combat strength, and he made the decision to cross the Seine one by one when the battlefield situation was superior. The two bridges that the Germans controlled would buy valuable time for the corps.

But. The great changes on the battlefield in the next hour put the Lucreo Army into an unprecedented bad situation, and the Sixth Army, which was the first to advance to the east bank of the Seine, just wanted to move northwest, when it was suddenly blocked by the enemy, and Lord French led the three corps of the LinkedIn Army to quietly climb into the right flank of the German 1st Army, and quickly began to retreat on Lucre to the Belgian border.

In the face of the encirclement of a strong enemy, Lieutenant General Lukeru finally showed unusual calm, the First Army was preparing to retreat the Sixth and Seventh Armies quickly launched a defense on the east bank, and the Third Army, which had just launched on the west bank, launched a fierce attack on the three British troops in front without hesitation, and it was necessary to buy the necessary time for the main force to cross the river, after all, the First Army still had nearly 250,000 troops, and the French encirclement network, if they wanted to eat some German legions, it was absolutely impossible.

When Lukru appeared on the battlefield on the West Bank on his beloved black warhorse, the afterglow of the West burned the sky red, and the troops of the Third, Fifth, and Ninth Armies crossing the river were already rapidly engaged in a new battle—a breakout battle that bordered on madness and was very abruptly prepared.

Standing in a hidden command post a mile away from the combat zone on the east bank of the Seine, the British gentleman Lord French watched calmly at the German soldiers who were attacking the British defense line in a straggler formation.

"Order, field artillery units to bombard the German line of attack with all their might, without thinking about ammunition!" Lord French did not hesitate to activate the counterattack tactics that had been planned for a long time, and the 80mm and 60mm howitzers and field guns arranged behind the position immediately roared and rushed towards the Germans who had no time to deploy the artillery position.

Boom Boom Boom ...... Boom Boom Boom ...... Ripple ...... Da Da Da ...... Da Da Da ......

Suddenly, Lord French also heard a surprising movement from the west side of the position, and two regiments of troops were arranged in that direction to contain the reinforcements of the German army, but he didn't expect the reinforcements from the other party to come so suddenly, he turned his head and issued an order to the staff officer of the major who looked a little nervous on the side, "Order the 17th and 18th regiments to block the Germans with all their might, and drop the 12th and 13th regiments of the 8th Army to support them!" ”

However, before the staff officer could draft the order, the frightened voice of the officer on duty came from outside the command post, "General, the position of the 17th Regiment has been broken through, and the enemy has been seen on the position of the 18th Regiment...... The Germans brought some strange weapons, and they were pursuing the scattered 17 regiment! ”

What the...... This news also surprised Lord French, the western position was obviously just exchanged fire, otherwise the battle report should have come a long time ago, but this is also outrageous, the German First, Second, and Third Armies were all pinned down on the periphery of Paris, and the news was obtained before that the German Fourth Army should rush to reinforcements, however, no matter how much reinforcements are given, it is obviously impossible for too many German troops to rush to the front of the front, let alone have such a terrifying combat power, and they broke through the defense line they laid almost instantly.

A few minutes later, when a group of British officers surrounded the British general and ascended to the hidden lookout point behind the command post, the outcome of the battle had once again changed dramatically: the two British positions three miles away had disappeared without a trace, and the positions were filled with dust and black smoke, and in the black smoke, fierce tongues of fire and artillery fire appeared, and the flames were unscrupulously sprayed in all directions.

The position he had set up there was still reduced to powder at the moment, but a few seconds later, Lord French finally saw from the telescope the hideous steel monster rushing out of the black smoke, carrying an ironclad chariot with a stubby barrel and the ability to shoot in at least several directions, rushing down the position arranged by the British army in a hurry, and the tongue of fire sprayed in front mercilessly harvested the British soldiers desperately fleeing in front.

One, two, three, four...... In a few minutes, more and more ironclad monsters burst out of the smoke that filled the battlefield on the western side, and the British officers had already exploded......

"Oh my God...... What is this...... Will the fortress be formed? ”

"It's a walking battery...... Damn the French, how could they have no idea about this! ”

"Hurry up and bombard these ugly iron chariots with artillery!"

"God ......"

The first countermeasure that Lord French thought of was immediately crushed by the German 1st Panzer Division, and the 50 CK01 tanks of the 1st Attack Sequence, after breaking through the weak rear positions of the German army, immediately saw the British artillery positions arranged in clusters a mile away, and immediately pounced on them as if they had found prey.

The 24-horsepower engine of the CK01 tank can only allow a tank weighing 25 tons to run to 10 kilometers in this not flat land in the field, which is not much faster than the speed of an infantry assault, but after all, this is a super weapon platform with long-range attack capabilities, although the bumpy combat vehicle is not suitable for firing at any time, but it does not affect the two heavy machine guns to fire fiercely at the British positions in front.

Many German tanks that were desperately moving their gun mounts under the command of the officer, ready to point their guns at the onslaught behind them, were simply unable to accomplish such a difficult task under such dense firepower...... The entire artillery position was attacked for only 12 minutes, and less than 10 60mm small-caliber field guns on the British side turned their muzzles in time and fired two sporadic rounds of shelling at these ugly steel monsters.

However, to Sir French's disappointment, two of the shells that hit the opponent's tank did not stop the opponent's attack after raising a black cloud, and when the tank cluster approached a distance of 200 meters, the three British artillery regiments had directly collapsed, and then, a 60mm high-explosive shell from the tank detonated a bunch of 80mm howitzer shells, directly on the artillery position a sky-high black cloud column of three or four meters high.

Immediately following the assault tank units into the battlefield were 30 "Earhart" armored personnel carriers equipped with three Makqin heavy machine guns, this German-made armored combat vehicle weighing 5 tons, with more mobility than CK01, immediately became a powerful machine gun fire platform to assist the tank troops from both flanks, and the four British Army regiments that arrived in a hurry encountered desperate heavy fire from a distance of 500 meters.

When an Earhart armored personnel carrier spotted the British positions that were blocking the German First Army a few miles away, there was no suspense about the outcome of the entire battlefield on the west bank of the Seine, and Colonel Müller, who commanded the Panzer Division, did not hesitate at all, and immediately launched an assault formation and pounced on it! (To be continued......)