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Colonel Rodenberg felt that he was unlucky to die!

His Bavarian 53rd Division was withdrawn from the Verdun meat grinder only half a year ago, and he thought that because the battle was concentrated west of Reims to Soissons, he could easily rest for a while as long as he deployed his troops evenly and defended carefully in the position, but he did not expect that the enemy would abandon the long position and concentrate a thousand artillery pieces to bombard a point! In just half an hour, the position of just two kilometers on the west side of the Alavi Mountains was completely covered in dust and gunsmoke. In particular, the huge mushroom clouds that rose into the sky made him feel even more stressed. How's the position? How can the enemy have so many heavy artillery? Why hasn't the reconnaissance plane been sent back to the front line until now?

He was surprised, but not too nervous, not because he was arrogant, but because the terrain of Mount Avila gave him confidence. The entrance to the inverted figure-of-eight valley is narrow and only two kilometers wide, the hill is not high, but the trench positions above are reinforced with cement, there are a large number of heavy machine guns to block the valley mouth, there are also continuous mine belts deployed outside the valley mouth, and the wide second-line positions in the rear are supported by the infantry division of the Saxon 72nd Division, so he is confident that he will hold on until the main force of the group army arrives.

But in order to make sure that nothing went wrong, he still called the military headquarters of the group army to call for support: "Yes, Your Excellency Lieutenant General, we have encountered a fierce attack!" At least half of the shells were concentrated on the west side of Mount Avila, with at least 400 heavy guns. Yes, it's just two kilometers, it's too dense, we can't support it there right now, we need to feed, feed, feed! Damn, correspondent, the phone line blew up, go get it on immediately. ”

"Colonel, look, they're using smoke grenades!"

"Smoke bombs?" Colonel Rodenberg felt that his head was not enough, and had only heard about the use of grenades and gas bombs, but for the first time he had heard of the tactics of covering an offensive with smoke grenades on a large scale. But when he lifted the telescope, he saw that the direction of Mount Alawi had completely disappeared from the lens, and the smoke, which was denser than the North Sea, moved slowly northward with the breeze. "Smoke grenade cover, how could I never have thought of it?" Colonel Rodenberg gritted his teeth and thought that there was that cunning opponent on the other side, and shouted: "Order Major Benham to bring his troops to support." Tell him to hold out for 2 hours, Colonel Lessim's 72nd Division is coming, we need time! ”

Colonel Granmeson, who was watching the battle, and Lieutenant General Defoe, commander of the French Fourth Army, who had hurried to hear the news, also widened their eyes. Smoke grenades? Yes, smoke grenades! Miss 75, a member of the 48 French system in different positions, threw smoke bombs at a constant rate of 8 rounds per minute to a distance of 6 kilometers. These smoke bombs were specially brought from the country by the expeditionary force before the war to prepare for the assault war.

"I can't see anything!"

"Machine guns, our machine guns lack perspectives."

"Shoot at the smoke zone and concentrate all the shells. Report, the wind is not in the right direction, and the mustard bullet will float towards us after use! ”

"I can't see everything, wait, there's something to tell, it's a tank! French Renault tank! Oh, God. They're all here! ”

The telephone of the headquarters of the 53rd Bavarian Division was completely blown up, and the staff officers and communications officers had just put down and rang again, and as the artillery fire became more and more intense, all the communications to the Alavi Mountains were interrupted, but the last news from the observation post still gave Colonel Rodenberg a preliminary idea that the enemy had thrown in a lot of tanks! This shows that he is not facing an auxiliary attack, but a formal large-scale breakthrough.

"Coordinates 210 are 3000 at a distance, 100 at a wide distance, and 50 meters per minute to break the obstacle at a constant speed."

Bombarding the Taniguchi trench position to the ground, Yan Youbing lay on the shelling operation map and personally used the telephone to direct the six "can openers" to reset the coordinates, and with his order, the thick muzzles began to be lowered, and soon the heavy shells were attached to the German barbed wire at one per minute. Each of them advanced 50 meters forward in the mode of operation bombarded violently. In addition to destroying trenches and burying the enemy, extra-heavy artillery shells are also the best mine-sweeping weapons. Violent explosions and shock waves can detonate all mines within hundreds of meters of the surrounding area.

Du Zishan jumped out of the armored car with his partner and rushed to the front to follow a slow-moving T1 (Renault FT17. Behind the tank, wearing gas masks, they lined up in two columns, bent down and raised their rifles to scan the sides of the tank to prevent the German infantry from suddenly rushing out from both flanks. This is the infantry tactic he has just learned, and all the tactics revolve around protecting the tank and using the tank to break through, but because the time is too short, he also needs to keep an eye on the simple gestures of the squad leader.

The squad leader turned his head and shouted and waved his hand to the left, because they were all wearing gas masks, and the explosion was loud, so they had to be commanded by this simple gesture, seeing his movements, a comrade-in-arms lowered his head and ran forward from the bomb avoidance zone. The Heavy lay down behind to provide cover for fire, while all muzzles on the left side were aimed in the direction of the infantry's run. This is a very simple tactic, as the squad leader has noticed an unidentified trench or obstacle on the left side, and the infantry needs to go to reconnoiter to avoid a dangerous position for the tank. In fact, it is impossible to survive such an area under such heavy shelling, but we dare not slack off in the slightest situation from entering the war zone.

The infantrymen rushed back at a brisk pace, and when they were about to re-enter the group, a shell suddenly landed not far from him. The violent explosion knocked him to the ground, and Du Zishan, who was the closest to him, hurriedly rushed up, only to see that half of his body was buried when he arrived.

"It's okay! Nothing! ”

After Du Zishan squatted down and shouted a few times, the stunned comrade-in-arms finally opened his eyes, and after rolling his eyes a few times, he shook his head to indicate that he was not injured. Du Zishan laughed, pulled him up and ran back quickly, and bullets kept flying by along the way. When the two returned to the tank, the squad leader also happily praised Du Zishan with a thumb, and then raised his fists with both hands in a striking shape.

This is a gesture that officially enters the range of enemy fire, indicating that the encounter will occur at any time.

Sure enough, as the tank ran over the barbed wire, two German soldiers suddenly jumped out of a collapsed observation bunker on the right. Since the T1 tank was a two-person tank, the smoke grenades blocked the enemy's view and also affected the perspective of the tank gunner, and the tank cluster in the shape of an arrow formation focused on the front, so the tank did not have time to react after the two German soldiers rushed out. It would have been a loss to the British and French tanks without infantry cooperation, but this time they encountered a Chinese armored cluster with infantry protection.

After the British-aided Enfister rifle was changed to the Wehrmacht's standard 7.62 mm caliber, other capabilities were not lost, especially the speed of the bolt-action rifle allowed everyone to easily fire the most bullets in the shortest time, and the two tanks in front and rear quickly killed the two German infantry with a dozen guns. After the actual combat training of the "100-day fierce soldiers," Du Zishan knew very well that they had reached the enemy's position less than 500 meters, and judging from previous experience, a dense and terrifying machine-gun fire network would soon appear.

Just like he thought. The clanging sound of the tank in front of it soon sounded, the bullets slammed into the steel plates, and the rapid sound even made people worry about whether the armor could stop it. The tank's machine guns also returned fire fiercely, with both sides hoping to take out enemy fire points before the infantry could attack.

The shells are still falling. However, after entering this distance, the German artillery fire weakened a lot, mainly for fear of accidentally injuring their own people. The sudden explosion next to the bomb frightened Du Zishan to shrink his neck, and turned his head to see that a T1 tank diagonally behind had turned into a fireball, which should have been caused by a close-range small-caliber anti-aircraft gun penetrating the fuel tank. The infantry behind the tank lay down and stopped, waiting for the vehicles behind to come up and continue to advance.

Du Zishan was lucky, a dozen tanks were blown up by small-caliber anti-aircraft guns or mines in just 500 meters, but the T2 armored vehicles of the second group quickly made up their position. The 25mm Wild Bee rapid-fire cannon has a unique sound. Together with the 12.7mm fanged heavy machine gun, they fired at the fire point in the smoke, and at this moment, the tank followed by Du Zishan suddenly stopped, and the squad leader took the lead in rushing out of the bomb avoidance area and rushing to the trench that was close at hand.

Du Zishan was too good at breaking trenches, and the shotgun in his hand was simply a big broom, so he also followed the tank and rushed into the trench.

The battle has begun!

The tank escorted the infantry to the trench and began to use machine guns to support, and after Du Zishan jumped into the trench with everyone, he found that the entire defense line was almost invisible, and the shells blew up the trench in pieces. Thousands of tons of dirt and gravel filled more than half of a man-deep trench! Flesh and blood corpses were everywhere, dense like Shura hell. The surviving Germans rushed out of every hiding hole in an attempt to fight back and gain control of the trenches. The bloodiest strangulation went into tragedy from the very beginning!

Du Zishan had just blasted off a guy who was trying to get closer, but he accidentally tripped over the corpse and fell, so he was lucky to avoid the bullets fired from the front, while the comrade behind him was hit and fell in a pool of blood. He didn't want to look at the bloody and soft things under him, and he couldn't grieve the death of his comrade-in-arms, so he turned around and just lay down and fired the second shot.

Inside the muddy and damaged trenches, he crawled on his stomach like a ground mouse, breathing heavily in his thick gas mask, and looking out from the large sight hole was blurry, and he could only vaguely distinguish friend from foe by his helmet and appearance. Boom, a shell exploded outside the trench. The muffled sound of the explosion splattered with countless thick juice-like objects, which quickly volatilized in the air and formed a gas that spread in all directions. Gas bombs! In the case that the first line was about to be breached, the idea of being afraid of accidental injury was directly abandoned by the German commander, and a large number of poison gas shells fell from the sky! The smoke became thicker because of the poisonous gas, and the land and mud were quickly contaminated, and Du Zishan saw with his own eyes that several comrades-in-arms and German soldiers who had fallen off because of the gas masks were made to roll on the ground with pain all over the ground! After a few moments, they had blisters on their bodies. The pain and itching made them scratch desperately, and their skin was full of blood from the Great Dao!

Such a picture has appeared many times since the Hundred Days of Fierce Soldiers, and Du Zishan has even become numb, the most important thing now is to clear out the remnants of the enemy as soon as possible and let the armored troops pass smoothly, otherwise everyone will all die here! Seeing the sappers struggling to dig and fill the trenches, he also quickly filled the bullets and got up again and rushed along the trenches! As long as you see the Germans, they don't care whether they are dead or alive.

Because the German trenches have been widened, in some places directly as wide as 4 meters, and the destruction of the trench cannon has been completely impassable, a section of trench must be filled first, and then it must be reinforced with steel plates to obtain nearly ten tons of passing capacity, so Xue Yue drilled out of the carriage and saw that the tank and armored car were blocked by the trench, and stomped his feet angrily: "Fuck it, don't stop!" Did the convoy come up? What, it's not there yet! Then let the sappers go up and cover the soil first to fill in this section! Contact the command, the artillery pressed 400 meters in front and told them that if it was a bomb. The brigade commander's car No. 15 was hit! I know, tell them that if the steel plate doesn't come again, we'll all die here! ”

"Brigade commander, German infantry!"

Xue Yue turned his head to look, only to see thousands of German living forces rushing here from the smoke, and hurriedly slapped the steel plate and shouted: "Shoot!" Turn on all the firepower and hold them down! Under his orders, nearly a hundred light and heavy machine guns opened fire at the same time, and the terrible net of fire soon pinned the German army to the ground and could not raise its head. Although it was temporarily suppressed, everyone knew that if it was not possible to pass through the widened trenches, then more and more German troops would inevitably block it here.

The front-line headquarters in Pulong was also noisy and noisy, the telephone lines were blown up, repaired and broken, and more than 20 communications soldiers had been sacrificed just to ensure communications. The phone in Zhang Xiaozhun's hand was never put down at all: "What? I can't hear the loud gas yet! The Germans used poison gas shells on Taniguchi ?! I'll fuck him German grandma spread to the wings, don't be afraid of casualties! Tear open the gap as soon as possible! Tanks do not stand still, suppress second-line fire. The second group of planes took off, contacted the observation balloons, what about the heavy artillery? What is the long-range heavy artillery group doing? Find the gas cannon position and suppress it back! ”

Bai Chongxi walked to the sand table with a frightened face, lowered his head and didn't dare to look at the generals' eyes: "Report, the German army used poison gas bombs to bombard the Gukou position. ”

"What about the convoy? What about the second echelon? Why are the tanks still parked! ”

"It has already gone up, we did not estimate that the damage effect of the heavy artillery is so large, so the tank basically did not meet the resistance very quickly, so we set off 10 minutes late." Bai Chongxi's head lowered even deeper. After all, this was the first time that the Wehrmacht had fought a group war, and the General Staff did not have the experience of organizing such a large-scale assault war, so it had long expected that there would be many mistakes.

"Continue to fire smoke grenades into depth and on both wings to obscure the view! Hurry up, after 10 minutes, you must cross the valley to the second line! Hurry up on both flanks, concentrate the mortars and take the Avila mountain position, and ensure the safety of the assault point. The auxiliary attacks in the remaining directions were intensified, so as not to give the Germans a chance to reinforce this side. Yue Peng waved his hand away from Bai Chongxi, sat quietly on the stool and issued one order after another, his eyes were even more fixed on the convergence and valley mouth, and he hadn't moved the armored cluster arrow for almost ten minutes. The fists under the table are clenched tightly and are about to drip water, now is the moment of life and death, the past means to completely open up the situation, if it is blocked by the German army and falls into a stalemate, it is bound to enter a war of attrition!

In the dense rain of bullets, more than a dozen T2 transports loaded with prefabricated parts of the Bailey Bridge finally arrived, and even two Renault trucks loaded with wood and mud, and the second-line infantry soon took over the trenches to take on the task of expanding and suppressing support.

The sappers were very fast, tying one end of the prefabricated steel plate with a short hemp rope, and several people dragged and spread the steel plate on the already filled soil layer, and the lower part was supported by wooden piles, and the first passage was completed in just a few minutes. When the first T1 tank crossed the trench with black smoke, Du Zishan also climbed out of the trench to catch up with the troops, and when he took a few breaths to readjust his pace and turned his head to look back, a stream of heat rushed straight to his brain from the center of his foot!

Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles, thousands of companions crawling out of the dead-like trenches, and the deafening Piercing Charge converged into a giant arrowhead.

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