After Bingwen hurriedly left the port of Kiel, he first sent a telegram to China to report the matter of Caporetto, then contacted Shen Ruilin, the minister to Austria-Hungary, and finally sent a telegram to Wang Guangqi and Hu Weide, the ministers to Italy and France, for assistance. And when he rushed to Vienna on a military train under the guise of a vacation, the first turning point on the Western Front reached a critical point!

Explosions and fireballs illuminated the sky in advance, and tracer bullets cut out the streams of color, interweaving into a scalp-numbing network of firepower.

Compared with the short but far-reaching Sino-Japanese war, the horror of the European war is unimaginable, and both sides of the fierce war have shown the strength to eat, and even the fighting between battalions and regiments is unimaginably fierce.

"I need someone to go to the left bridge!" When the sun rose, the fierce battle also entered the most tragic stage, and Captain Highfield had just called out in Chapter 380 of Europe (below) and responded on the right side: "Follow me, left bridgehead!" In the light of a 37-mm shell, Liu Mingzhao, who wore a gas mask like a terrible devil, took the lead and led the Chinese squad to fly out of the position. Under the watchful eye of their German partners, they skilfully bent and ran zigzags, weaving back and forth in a hail of bullets like elves, and when they crossed the bridge, two shells blocked their way almost simultaneously.

One of the fighters was overturned by a shell and smashed against the steel beam, but this did not stop them, and they quickly broke through the blockade to reach the most critical left bridgehead.

"Grenade into bunker."

"We're going to stay here until noon! That's an order! ”

The ring of defense was quickly and decisively deployed, and the two light machine guns became the key to protecting this small bridgehead. "Mingzhao, above." When Long Yun reminded loudly, Liu Mingzhao also saw the steeple of the church on the left, and pointed to Dongfang Chen: "Go up to the east, Meng Lang has good marksmanship, and he is responsible for protecting them." ”

In just a few minutes, the defense on the left side of the bridgehead had been deployed, and by the time the next two squads arrived, the dense French army had already drilled out of the street to attack here. Dongfang Chen held the machine gun in a circle in the tower and circled the stairs made him feel that his lungs were about to burn, Chapter 380 in Europe (below) When he finally climbed to the top of the building, he found that a company of the French army had come from all around, and he couldn't help but set up a machine gun and fired fiercely.

Ho ho ho ̈ ho ho ho ho.

The French troops, who were caught off guard by three long and two short shots, continued to fall, and the light machine guns once again showed the advantage of flexibility and maneuverability. Meng Lang squinted his eyes next to him, 25-year-old he was a soldier of the Miao family in Guizhou, who had studied in the famous Yunnan Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and joined the 18th Mountain Division after the National Defense Army controlled Guiyang, and was later selected to go to Germany because of his outstanding performance when he was elected by the army to come here, and was learning German-style hunting skills before the outbreak of the war.

The bolt was pulled and fired in one go, and by the time the French sergeant had fallen, the second bullet had already been targeted.

Originally, the Chinese class could choose to stay comfortably in the rear headquarters to learn the command art of the German officers, but if they did not experience the front-line war and did not roll in the dense trenches, they could not truly experience the cruelty of war. The really good generals are all fought out of the rain of blood, and it is always Zhao Hao and his ilk who hide behind and talk about it, so they chose the front line and observed the whole war from the perspective of infantry.

Although the machine guns temporarily stopped the enemy's attack, the French army, which had the advantage of troops, still put a lot of pressure on everyone. In particular, the two 37-mm infantry guns hidden in the house became a nightmare for the German positions. Long Yun quickly spread out the map, looked around, and then grabbed Liu Mingzhao: "Mingzhao, why did you say that you didn't let us stay here?" Could it be that the back is going crazy and preparing to force reinforcements forward with a train? ”

"Impossible." Xiao Jinyun shook his head, the 23-year-old is the nephew of Xiao Anguo, the commander of the National Guard of the Republic of China, who entered the short-term crash course of the National Defense University in 11 years, and was later selected to study in Germany. He was also puzzled by this order: "The railroad tracks in front have been broken, and the French are still digging trenches and bunkers on the edge of the town, and the infantry cannot rush through such a narrow place." ”

"Then why do you want us to keep it?"

Liu Mingzhao couldn't figure out why he had to let them defend the bridge, and pointed to the French artillery position in the house on the right and said: "No matter how much, let's kill the two 37 infantry guns first, otherwise we will all die here." ”

"I'm here to assault and let the East cover me to distract the machine gun. You detour from the flanks. After Xiao Jinyun quickly made a plan, Liu Mingzhao and Long Yun each took a few soldiers to rush out of the bunker. The Schneider 37 infantry gun is the most important fire support force of the French infantry, and it has relied on this light and fast fire infantry gun to hold out until now when the light and heavy machine guns are inferior to the German army, so killing them is the most important advance step in the German infantry offensive.

Liu Mingzhao leaned against the wall, threw out two grenades, and waved his hand vigorously at Dongfang Chen at the top of the tower, who saw this and immediately twisted the machine gun towards the French artillery position, but the thick brick wall blocked the firing angle, so he signaled to Long Yun on the other side to find a way to blow up the wall.

The 24-year-old demoman Zhang Wei crawled forward, and when he was about to reach the encirclement ~~Shushu.com-Update Debut~~ Wall, Xiao Jinyun, who was acting as a sudden and attracting firepower, suddenly came out of the oblique stab, and his rapid run led away the heavy machine gun. When the bullet jumped violently along his heel, Zhang Wei, who was not threatened by a machine gun, had already rushed out of the street corner and rushed towards the wall with a cluster grenade. When the French soldier snapped his shot, I saw him quickly stuff the grenade into the small hole, pull the rope string, and roll a few steps on the spot. The explosion opened a large hole in the outer wall that blocked Dongfang Chen's shooting angle, and before the smoke cleared, he pulled the trigger and sent a full box of 20 bullets into the breach. The German-made 792 mm bullets splashed sparks in the house, and when the French were about to turn their heads to bombard him, Long Yun had already rushed in from the flank, which was actually short, and with the cooperation of two Stern submachine guns and grenades, it took only ten minutes for the artillery bunker that posed the greatest threat to the left bridgehead to be completely destroyed. From the beginning of Liu Mingzhao to the end of Long Yun, the Chinese team showed extremely skillful team coordination ability, which made the Hayfield and German soldiers in the distance applaud again and again.

When the biggest threat to the defensive position was lifted and the Chinese squad returned to the sortie position, the sandbags in front of them suddenly trembled. Turning his head to look at Long Yun, Liu Mingzhao, Dongfang Chen on the spire, and even the French soldiers in the distance were completely stupid! In the distance, five iron boxes-like things came out of nowhere, and began to slowly drive towards the narrow railway bridge. "Brother Zhizhou (Long Yunzi), don't you think it's like it. One? Before Liu Mingzhao finished speaking, Long Yun also remembered the news from China not long ago, and suddenly blurted out: "Bunker car?!" ”

In fact, the two misunderstood, this is not a domestic patchwork bunker car at all, but an AZV heavy tank secretly manufactured by Germany after Yang Qiu sold the drawings! And they didn't know that it was precisely because they killed the 37-mm infantry guns, which were originally a great threat, that they were able to allow this steel squad to cross the river smoothly. The officers and men of the 3rd battalion of the 16th Bavarian regiment were stupid, the AZV tank, which is 33 meters high and more than 7 meters long, is like a moving steel hill in front of the infantry! The 57-mm infantry gun and six Maxim MG8 heavy machine guns were intertwined with a fierce network of firepower.

"God? What is that? ”

"Machine gun, aim for it."

"Damn, it didn't respond."

The French infantry, who were fighting for the bridge, were completely stunned by the AZV tanks, especially when the machine gun bullets did not react at all, and even forgot that they were approaching. When the first AZV tank slowly drove towards the trench at the edge of the town, everyone said in their hearts that it would be blocked, but the tank stubbornly and ruthlessly ran over the top of the trench. "Keep up with it!" Liu Mingzhao saw several French soldiers preparing to charge with grenades to blow up the tanks, and was the first to react and command the machine gun to kill them, and then shouted to Captain Highfield: "Battalion commander, we should follow them, hide behind them and attack, and protect it from being hurt by the enemy at close range." ”

"But ̈." Highfield hadn't recovered from the shock yet, and he didn't think there was any need for the infantry to follow them. But Liu Mingzhao insisted: "They should be used to tear apart the defense, as long as we follow it, maybe we can be the first to enter Amiens." ”

"Into Amiens? Right! Highfield finally came to his senses, and immediately ordered the 3rd Battalion to abandon its position and follow the 5 AZVs to Amiens Assault. It was later confirmed that it was precisely because of Liu Mingzhao's advice and the protection of the 3rd Battalion that the five AZV tanks in their direction were not damaged until they entered Amiens, while the tank squads invested in other directions were all destroyed by the French infantry and grenades and other weapons at close range.

The first appearance of tanks on the battlefield really frightened the British and French forces, and when 118 AZV tanks crossed the Somme River from 7 bridges at the same time to attack the French positions, the Battle of Artois, which had been attacked by the British and French for most of the month, took a major turn. By the afternoon of the same day, Amiens, which had been occupied but lost in the early stages of the launch, was once again captured by the Germans, and the 35 British and French infantry divisions assembled in this generation had to retreat backwards under the cover of poison gas shells, after leaving behind nearly 300,000 men and a large number of heavy weapons.

Unfortunately, Germany did not realize the role of tanks, let alone how to cooperate with them in battle, which eventually led to the Anglo-French forces taking the opportunity to escape. But even so, the Western Front is still like a bombshell has been dropped! The loss of Amiens was so great that the loss of this most important point of support would allow the Germans to no longer be bothered by the Somme moat and penetrate directly to the periphery of Paris.

Upon learning of the reversal of the Battle of Artois, the German High Command ordered the expansion of the tank production line that night to produce this new weapon at full speed. At the same time, 18 German divisions were ordered to jump out of the trenches and cross the Somme and, with the help of AZV tanks, advance at a rate of 20 kilometers per day to the Paris outpost of Cambyon (Compiègne).

The battlefield on the Western Front was completely disrupted!!!