Deauge looked at this mighty armored force with great eagerness, while his soldiers cheered and tossed their hats by the side of the road, and their excitement was palpable. www.biquge.info Everyone knows what it means to have such an armored force, they no longer need to fill the ravines dug by the British, these huge iron-clad monsters will easily pass over the various anti-infantry obstacles set up by the British.

"With them, we're going to win." De Aoge said excitedly, he directly forgot that he was still sneering at Zhang Min's alone not long ago.

Scharnhorst is a little calmer than that, he has more channels and a deeper understanding of the Tang Dynasty armored forces. He said: "That's right, even if the Tang Army did not break through the Anglo-Dutch fleet and launch a landing operation in the north of the Netherlands, we relied on the armored forces of the Tang Dynasty and matched with our tens of thousands of troops, which was enough to beat the British and the lowlanders to the ground. ”

Deauge said: "If only our French army could have such a force, I will write a letter to the National Convention when I go back, and ask them to use all means, and also buy armored chariots from Datang." ”

Scharnhorst shook his head and said: "Each of these tanks costs tens of thousands of Tang Yuan, plus various expenses including training, maintenance and repair, to feed an armored force of the size of the Second Marine Regiment, the cost may exceed the cost of two divisions, and only a tyrant country like Datang can form such a force without changing its face and heartbeat, if we are France or Germany, I am afraid that we will have to smash the pot and sell iron to be able to afford these things." ”

Deauge was more unimpressed, he said: "Those guys in the navy, it will cost millions of Tang yuan to buy a warship from Datang, what if we buy dozens of chariots, as long as twenty or thirty chariots are deployed in each legion, we are enough to break through the enemy's defense line, isn't this a very valuable thing?" ”

Scharnhorst knew that what Deauger said was right. He has a more in-depth view of the logistics and use of armored forces, and it is indeed good to simply buy such weapons for use, but if a country really wants to transform the power of armored forces into real combat effectiveness, it must at least have a certain amount of industrial capacity. Maybe you can't build an engine as good as Datang, but at least you know how to maintain it, and you may not be able to forge powerful artillery, but at least you can make shells.

Germany has already inherited some of the technology from Datang, and slowly Germany will be able to build civilian-grade cars, so it is not impossible to expect to further manufacture armored vehicles.

After having a mechanized army by his side, Zhang Min's voice in the coalition army suddenly increased. After all, Deauge and the others didn't know how to use mechanized infantry, so they had to ask Zhang Min for advice.

There was nothing special about Zhang Min's tactics, first suppressing the enemy in the trenches with artillery fire, and then using the armored troops of the 2nd Marine Regiment to attack the enemy's defensive line. Although the French did not have any training in infantry coordination, they still knew how to run behind tanks and armored vehicles. Zhang Min temporarily notified the grassroots officers of the French army to hold a tactical meeting and gave a general explanation of the specific tactics.

As for the rest of the Franco-German troops, it was naturally the Don Army that tore a hole in the Anglo-Dutch defense line and then poured in.

The attack direction of the Tang-French-German coalition army was Eindhoven, and the army set up artillery at the front of the battlefield, and the weapons used by the artillery at this time were basically more powerful rifled guns, thanks to the technology provided by the Tang Dynasty. A large number of artillery pieces, in order to cover the attack, began to tilt ammunition towards the enemy positions, and the British, not to be outdone, also opened fire. After all, the fire on the Franco-German side was even more fierce, and the British were unwilling to stop firing after several hours of fighting.

Zhang Min stood behind and observed, and couldn't help but glance at his mouth with disdain. At this time, neither the French artillery nor the German artillery learned the essence of the Tang artillery, and they still took the artillery route. Artillery reconnaissance was not in place, and there was no special fire control, so the damage effect on the enemy was relatively limited. It's been a long time, and the British artillery has not been dealt with. Although it is not excluded that the British were on the anticline and were not easily attacked, the more firepower of the French and German artillery was not well utilized.

Zhang Min regretted a little, the Ministry of National Defense has approved the dispatch of the second strong strike regiment of the Datang Army Air Force to Europe, but now these dive bombers have just been loaded on the ship, and they can't be counted on at this time, otherwise he can let the aviation force blow up the opponent's artillery in a more targeted manner. Now, the 2nd Marine Regiment can only be sent to appear when the opponent's artillery is not cleared.

Dozens of infantry fighting vehicles and tanks drove out from behind with a creaking sound, and some ignorant French soldiers followed the armored vehicles and tanks with their feet spread out. The British soon noticed this peculiar situation and began shelling in a panic, while the French and German artillery, not to be outdone, began to return fire, creating a certain suppressive effect.

As the tanks got closer, the British and Dutch soldiers were so frightened that they began to manipulate machine guns and other weapons to block the fire, but the tankmen in front would not give them this opportunity, and the 85mm tank guns opened fire, mostly targeting the firing points in the trenches. Tank shells either smashed into the trenches or hit the front of the firing points, and the concussion of the explosion shattered one by one. The Anglo-Dutch soldiers frantically met the attack with their rifles, but unfortunately it did not produce the slightest effect.

When the first Type 90 medium tank drove over, and the heavy tracks rolled over the trench, the British soldiers in the trench were not dead, staring at this devastating scene with wide eyes. Immediately afterwards, several French soldiers poked their heads out of the edge of the trench and shot at the British soldiers inside with rifles in their hands. Some of them were even bloody men, who went directly to the bayonets to fight hand-to-hand with the enemy in the trenches.

Most of the weapons of the French soldiers are relatively backward paper shell rifles, and they have to take out a bullet from their pocket and stuff it into the chamber when they fire a shot, which is not as good as the Enfield M1792 used by British soldiers, which is already very similar to the S1 of the Tang Dynasty. Some French soldiers directly picked up the rifles of the British and continued to attack the British. Apparently it was a very good trophy for the French soldiers, at least better than their burning sticks.

When a corner of the trench was breached, it was equivalent to the entire breach, and the unblocked French occupied the first line of defense, and then continued to occupy the second and third lines of defense as the 2nd Marine Regiment continued to occupy the back. By the evening of the same day, the combined forces of Tang, France and Germany had succeeded in occupying Eindhoven. (To be continued.) )