Chapter 177: Continuous Breakthrough
Due to the blockage of the trenches, the troops in charge of the attack, without the cover of armored vehicles, did not attack alone, but stayed on the first line of defense originally defended by the Indian soldiers to prevent the opponent's counterattack.
Compared with Ganmalin's tangled mood, Huang Bai looked very happy.
Although the Praetorian Guard was not the first battle, as the first Chinese army to go abroad, its significance is self-evident. Huang Bai has always attached great importance to the training of the army, and judging from the results of the battle since the day before yesterday, Huang Bai is very satisfied with the combat effectiveness of the Praetorian Guards and the tactical skills of the soldiers.
Huang Bai didn't care about the trenches of the Anglo-French army, and this thing couldn't stump the Praetorian Guard. As a combat unit that mainly relies on armored assault, such problems will be encountered from time to time, and naturally there will be ways to solve such troubles.
In the rear, several armored vehicles transporting things marched towards the battlefield, pulling several large iron frames and sappers on them. The sappers and costumes are not the same as the costumes of the combat troops, the same camouflage uniforms but the things carried on them are different, and there are no combat weapons in sight, they are all some recommended gadgets. A small wrench is drawn on the epaulette, and there is also a small bump in the shape of a wrench on the helmet.
The first trench line was only two hundred meters apart from the second jump line, and the second line was defended by French soldiers, while the Janissaries were firing at the French soldiers on the second line. Although the armored vehicle cannot advance, it does not affect the machine gun above, and the flamethrower cannot attack, and the other armored vehicles have no effect. After attacking the first line of defense, the light and heavy machine guns that had been set up to cover in the back also began to be moved to the trenches, and at the beginning the French soldiers could still fire at the soldiers of the Janissaries, and when the light and heavy machine guns were added, the situation was completely reversed. The French soldiers were suppressed to the death, and there were few opportunities to fight back.
It was as if the sappers did not see the warring sides, but went about their own work. The steel frame was hoisted out of the armored car by a small robotic arm and placed in the trench, and the sappers below quickly unfolded the steel frame, and the crossed cross-shaped steel frame was stretched and stretched, but before it was fully opened, it had already extended from one side of the trench to the other. Then the mechanical arm of the armored car lifted a long iron plate out and placed it smoothly on the iron frame with the help of the sappers in the trenches. After completing the first iron bridge, it is only half done, and the iron bridge on the other side has to be erected. Because the one that was erected before was only a single-plank bridge, and another one was needed so that the armored vehicles could pass through.
It was not that the French soldiers did not think about stopping, but the firepower of the Janissaries was simply too perverted. For the French soldiers, such a dense firepower can only be described as perverted. In particular, the heavy machine guns and the dozen or so 20mm quadruple machine guns made many French soldiers dare not even raise their guns, let alone show their heads to fight back. Moreover, the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard can be regarded as snipers, even if they do not have professional sniper rifles in their hands, as long as the French soldiers dare to take advantage of the gap in machine gun fire, they will only be greeted with headshots.
Just when the sappers began to build the bridge, several more heroic judicial officers wanted to take the lead. There was a lot of encouragement at the beginning, and the first officer was shot through the head, the second was the same, and the third was the same. Those officers who were originally eager to try suddenly stopped eating, and they didn't dare to come up again, and the words they just said were like farts. But this leading role is manifested, at least more soldiers discourage the idea of fighting back, they don't want to wear a hole in their head like their bosses.
After a burst of firepower, the firepower gradually decreased when the sappers finished their work and evacuated. Some of the French soldiers who wanted to get up and see what was happening after hearing the gunfire were not dense had no room for regret. Just because there's little firepower doesn't mean there's no rifle to aim, and the Janissaries just don't want to waste too much ammunition. In the case of ensuring your own safety, it is better to kill the enemy with one bullet than a dozen or dozens of them. And now the French soldiers do not dare to come forward at all, and the heavy machine guns are just a waste of money by firing all the time.
The armored vehicles that had been stopped started their engines one after another, and the sound of motors reached the ears of the French soldiers. They knew that this was the Chinese army that had begun to send chariots again, and that the purpose was themselves. The French soldiers, who were already a little frightened, could only helplessly get up and fight back under the pressure of the officers. Resisting the order is equal to death, and counterattacking at least has a chance of survival, although it is very slim, but it is better than dying under the gun of your own commander.
It's just that their counterattack is a little pale, and because of fear, they don't even play half of their level. Another point is the problem of equipment, the French army is still using rifles with bolts pulled, while the Janissaries are either semi-automatic rifles or submachine guns, which are not at the same level at all. The rate of fire was completely overwhelmed, and the difference in marksmanship was not small. For a time, the French soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the results of the battle were minimal. Before the French soldiers could shoot, the Janissaries had already dodged the guns and began to fight back.
If the means of extortion are to be counted, the Wehrmacht soldiers are far behind the British and French soldiers in the colonies, but if it is compared to the speed of killing, the British and French soldiers are hard to match.
By the time all the armored vehicles had crossed the first line of defense, the French troops of a brigade on the second line of defense had already suffered many casualties. Armored vehicles can attack faster than they give up just because you've already suffered heavy casualties. With the addition of armored vehicles, the Janissaries soldiers also quickly got up, except for light and heavy machine guns to continue to cover, the other soldiers climbed over the trenches and continued to follow behind the armored vehicles. Mortars and bazookas, which were originally resting, began to exert their might, and due to the angle, the bazookas did not have much success, but the mortars themselves were born for the trenches. The mortar soldiers, who were already able to do whatever they wanted, kept sending shells into the French trenches.
At a distance of two hundred meters, it can be reached in one minute, and at fifty meters, the flames begin to rage again. The French trenches were filled with screams for a while, and many soldiers rolled around with flames. Some of the soldiers who couldn't dodge were also lit and joined the ranks of the human torch. The red dance was played out in the trenches, and more and more French soldiers joined in. For a moment, there was a faint smell of meat, followed by a burst of burnt smell. Many French soldiers have been drowning in flames, and the dance that was originally hot is now impossible for the rest of their lives.
The French army in the second line of defense was quickly drowned under the attack of the Praetorian Guard, and except for more than a thousand French troops who surrendered, the rest went to the free country of their dreams.
The third line of defense was let go by the British soldiers plus the Indian soldiers, but from the third line onwards, the offensive became more and more difficult. Because there are not only trenches here, but also a lot of bunker firepower points.
The same fire suppression, the same sappers build bridges. The difference was that the troops did not attack immediately, but a burst of artillery fire that lasted for fifteen minutes. This time, all the shells were replaced with special anti-personnel shells, which were mainly aimed at killing and injuring the opponent's personnel. This is also the first time that the Janissaries have used this kind of shell, which is a shell that uses fragments produced by the projectile to kill living forces and destroy the target, and its detonation products and shock waves can also have a destructive effect on the target. However, there are more small projectiles in this special anti-personnel projectile of the Chinese National Defense Forces, which guarantees absolute lethality within 15 meters, and the lethality of fragments can reach 50 meters. Within this range, at least one shrapnel is distributed over an area the size of a human body, ensuring its lethal effect.
I also wanted to use this kind of shell before, but it had not been delivered at that time, and it was still far away in the military factory. This kind of artillery shell has just been developed and produced, and this time it is also based on the actual combat test.
But it looked pretty good, after fifteen minutes of artillery fire, many of the British and Indian soldiers who had not had time to run to the anti-artillery hole survived, and many of them were wounded. At this time, he was falling to the ground and rolling and struggling.
The third line of defense was quickly breached, and those bunkers were blocked by armored vehicles in front, and as long as the flamethrowers approached, no matter how strong the bunkers were. The Anglo-Indian soldiers who remained inside had become roasted rats, and as the saying goes, fire and water are merciless and invisible, unless they build graves, otherwise they must always show their holes. As soon as there is nothing to stop the armored vehicles, then only a merciless fire awaits them.
Breaking through three lines of defense in a row, this is the result of a day's battle. Huang Bai has no intention of continuing the offensive, and the army is stopping large-scale military operations, but it does not mean that such a thing as a cold gun will not occur. Moreover, the heavy artillery division also intervened from time to time, and took a break after a few shots, which made all the British and French soldiers very entangled. They did not know that the Chinese Defense Forces did not intend to continue the offensive, and after each shelling, they ran to the trenches in a hurry, but each time they continued to be shelled.
Night fell again, and this time Huang Bai did not intend to let the British and French troops build fortifications well, nor did they let them rest well. Thousands of artillery pieces were replaced by five echelons, and one night was firing intermittently. Not to mention that Gan Molin and the others were immersed, even the Haig in the rear couldn't sleep, not to mention the other shelling, this movement alone was enough for them to drink a pot.
The trained Praetorian Guards, except for those who were on guard, fell asleep as if the cannon fire did not exist. Even the logistics troops in the back had no effect at all, ignoring these artillery sounds at all.
In order to exercise, the soldiers immediately fell into a deep sleep whenever and wherever they wanted. When I was in the boot camp, every night when I went to bed, the sound in my ears was louder than this. A large number of stereos are installed in each dormitory, and the sound is turned on to the maximum every time you sleep. However, in order to practice their vigilance skills, the slightest noise will wake them up. In order to practice this skill, the recruits did not suffer less.
(To be continued)