While Xu Sheng and his team were arranging their defensive positions, the Germans had been waiting for the Seventeenth Army to continue its offensive.

Soon, Admiral Hurtier found that the last thing it wanted to see had happened.

The French and the Chinese did not continue to launch an offensive, but instead stopped at the slightest advance, stagnated at the slightest advance, set up positions on the spot, and put on a posture of not leaving.

I have to say that Qin Zhiyuan really grasped the weakness of the Germans.

This is what "resilient defense" fears the most.

If the "elastic defense" is compared to a rubber band, then the greater the pressure on the rubber band, the greater the force of the rebound; If the pressure is not enough, the strength of the rubber band will bounce very little, or even no bounce force at all.

The place where Xu Sheng stayed was undoubtedly the most uncomfortable position for the Germans, and if they attacked directly, there was still some distance; Without an offensive, forward positions will be lost.

Without waiting for Huttier to make a decision, Xu Sheng and Fu Lehe had already completed the positional arrangement, and the French 32nd Division launched a random attack.

Although he saw the French continue to attack, Huthier was still not happy, because Huthier found that only some of the French launched an attack, and the other part of the Chinese stayed in the positions they had just set up and honestly fought a positional battle.

Huthir was impressed by yesterday's Chinese unit, and although they eventually drove that Chinese unit out of the forward position, the fighting strength of that Chinese unit was chilling. In just four hours, an integrated division in charge of the attack was basically disabled, 80 percent of the soldiers of one brigade were killed, and less than 100 people were able to walk independently after the war.

If the combat effectiveness of these two Chinese units is about the same as that of that Chinese unit......

Hurtier's heart had sunk to the bottom, as Huttier discovered that there were tanks on the Chinese position.

This is troublesome, if the combat effectiveness of the position without the assistance of tanks to defend is one, then with tanks it is definitely not as simple as one plus one equals two, but should be one by one!

Well, it's not one by one, Huttier is already distracted, and even simple arithmetic will go wrong.

Although Qin Zhiyuan won a great victory in Feron Tadenoy, some of Crown Prince William's troops eventually escaped. According to what Huttier learned, when faced with a position defended with tanks, it is better not to attack head-on, even with superior forces, it will definitely not play a decisive role.

Because the only thing that can play a decisive role is the tank troops.

To tell the truth, for this ongoing French unit, Hurtier did not take it to heart, and all of Hurtier's mind was on the two Chinese positions with tanks to assist in the defense.

The battle went on as Huthir expected.

With little difficulty, the attacking French troops were routed, and then the German offensive was halted when the Germans pursued the two Chinese positions that were in high position.

"Blocking" is not very accurate, it should be defeated.

These two Chinese units were so skilled in the use of crossfire that Huthier suspected that they were two German units that had defected to the enemy, and their fighting spirit was very tenacious, and they were not inferior to the German troops; At the same time, they were very flexible in their way of fighting, and if the German soldiers were too far away, they would use rifles to fire a single shot, and the hit rate was surprisingly high; If the German soldiers had charged, there would have been so many heavy machine guns on the position that one would mistakenly think that they were two divisions rather than two regiments.

When the second attack was repulsed, Hurtier readjusted his assessment of the density of heavy machine guns in the Chinese troops, which, according to the ratio of the German armament with heavy machine guns, was definitely not two divisions, but four divisions or even more.

So the imminent question was in front of Huthier, to fight or not to fight, if he fought, he might suffer greater losses, and if he did not fight, then the Germans would have to retreat to the third line of defense to defend.

The second line of defense was too close to the first, less than two kilometers, and if the tanks on the Chinese positions descended the hill, they would be able to capture the second line of defense with just one attack, and the losses would be even more painful at that time.

So after much deliberation, Hurtier decided to continue the attack.

The Germans attacked in the same way as the French, preceded by a long period of fire preparation, followed by a rush of infantry.

Hurtier was going to attack like this.

But Hurtier soon regretted it.

Less than half an hour after the fire attack was underway, Khutil heard the sound of engines buzzing in the sky, and then a big-bellied bomber flew over.

Although there were only a few dozen bombers, the momentum of flying in formation still shocked Huthir inexplicably.

This was almost the first time that bombers had appeared on the battlefield in formation.

In fact, it doesn't matter what it is, from people to locusts, as long as there are many of them, they will always be shocking.

It's the same with airplanes.

Qin Zhiyuan's bomber force is very different from the bombers at this time, although the wingspan is quite large, but the metal skin on the wing of Qin Zhiyuan's bomber and the fairing on the engine are very conspicuous, not to mention the unique closed cabin, as well as the oversized Foreign Legion logo at the bottom of the wing, all clearly indicate the bloodline of this group of bombers.

When he first saw the bomber formation, Hurtier did not realize that it was a bomber.

When the planes flew in formation over the German artillery positions and opened the belly hatch, Huttier realized that something was wrong.

Sure enough, the planes couldn't wait to drop a barrage of bombs, and then flew away at high speed with more horsepower.

The artillery positions of the Germans were already in a sea of fire.

Without counting casualties, the incessant explosions and earth-shattering explosions have fully illustrated the effectiveness of the bombing.

Even when the last group of five or six planes flew over, they turned around and did not find any worthy targets, and simply dropped bombs into the camp of the German troops.

Huttier didn't know whether to cry or laugh, the Germans in the camp had already left the camp to attack the Chinese position, and there were no people in the camp, so there were not many casualties. But the explosion spread so violently to the ammunition stacked in the camp that it caused a series of explosions, and wiped out the reserves of three entire divisions.

In the era of thermal weapons, logistics is played, and a rifle is not as good as a spear without bullets, and Germany has a difficult logistics supply because of the shortage of materials, and now all the reserves of materials have been swept away, so how can it be fought?

There was no time to mourn for themselves, for the troops attacking the Chinese positions had been defeated again, and Huttier had to prepare for the next attack.

But an attack without artillery cover was tantamount to making German soldiers commit suicide.

Huthir is in a dilemma.

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At this time, Qin Zhiyuan didn't know the bombing effect, and he was distressed for the bomber troops.

The reason why the bomber unit was able to succeed was because the British and French fighters had just lured away the German fighters, and they were able to strike a surprise blow.

But there was such a big change in the German position, even the ammunition stored in the camp was destroyed, and the German pilots in the sky naturally knew what was happening, so the bombers who completed the mission were unlucky.

In fact, theoretically speaking, bombers have a certain advantage over fighters.

Compared with fighters, bombers have some advantages in range, altitude, and speed, but if fighters and bombers collide head-on, then bombers have no advantage at all.

Today's fighter planes are all single-engine, and the power that a single engine can provide is certainly not as good as the two engines of a bomber, but the bomber is not flexible enough because of its excessive weight, and basically only takes a beating in front of the bomber.

After completing the mission, the bomber group returned home and collided head-on with the German fighters who rushed to take revenge.

Fifteen of the 60 bombers were shot down, three of them hit the fuel tank, and the planes exploded in the air and disintegrated in the air.

It was really a heavy loss, especially when Qin Zhiyuan learned that there was a plane that disintegrated in the air, and the crew members were all Chinese. Even if I know that it is impossible to fight without dying, I still feel inexplicable grief and indignation.

As a commander, he had to abandon all personal emotions when directing battles, and Qin Zhiyuan turned a blind eye to the numbers on the constantly coming battle reports, and hardened his mind to arrange for the rotation of troops.

It is indeed necessary to rotate, and the six infantry regiments of the Chinese army have nearly 20,000 people, and although they have brilliant combat achievements, they actually do not have much experience in facing the enemy, and it is rare to have a chance to brush up on experience, so it is good to go up and practice all of them.

In fact, the main reason is that now is not the time to attack, because the armored forces cannot be counted on for the time being, and Qin Zhiyuan does not want to pile up the battle results with his life.

The miniaturization of the radio is basically completed, and it is currently in the experimental stage, and Qin Zhiyuan can't wait to ask all tanks to be equipped with radios, even if it is only the first generation of experimental products.

Battlefield communications are so important for armored forces that they cannot be overemphasized. Relying only on small flags and lights to transmit information is not efficient, and it is easy to cause casualties among tankmen, and it is precisely because the communication problem has not been solved that the armored forces are now simply unable to exert their full combat effectiveness.

Before all the tanks were equipped with radios, Qin Zhiyuan didn't plan to attack, so let the Germans bleed slowly.

Almost in batches of three regiments, all infantry regiments had to take turns to go into battle, at least they had to defend their positions for half a day, and they could only withdraw after withstanding two waves of German attacks.

In each batch, there will be a Chinese regiment in the center of the defense, and the left and right flanks will be either Annam troops or French troops. The position was like a nail, nailed to the German position, and it continued to bleed the German 18th Army.

The plans are all perfect, and the reality is always cruel.

Huttier was not a mediocre opponent either, and after two days of continuous attack, he saw heavy casualties and little success.

Huttier took the initiative to change his tactics, and finally one night at the end of August, he conquered the position on the right flank of the Chinese position, defended by the 223rd Regiment of the French Army.

(To be continued.) )