Chapter 451: Pressing Forward
The 203-mm artillery directly under the artillery belonged to the largest caliber heavy artillery in those years, but in front of the train guns of the Monty Python series, it was simply a child's toy. But this is only for the train artillery of the Chinese Empire, and for the Entente, it is still an unparalleled heavy artillery, because the so-called heavy artillery units of the Entente have only 155 mm of artillery with the largest caliber.
Being bombarded by so many heavy artillery, the Allied artillery units suddenly suffered heavy losses, while the Allied side, which did not have a school shooting observation, could not lock the position of the opponent's artillery, and they could only be beaten passively. Seeing that the artillery was at a loss, the top of the Entente immediately asked the artillery to stop shelling and began to shift positions.
Seeing that the artillery bombardment had stopped, the Allied chariot units immediately rushed towards the Japanese positions as fast as they could. In order to rush through the blockade of the opponent's heavy artillery as soon as possible, they drove at full speed and did not even wait for the infantry units behind. As soon as they rushed to a place more than 3,000 meters away from the Japanese soldiers' position, a large red cloud suddenly exploded behind the Japanese soldiers, and the whistling sound sounded one after another, and the dense rockets accurately covered the area, covering a large group of Allied tank troops in a cloud of mist.
When the dust and fog cleared, a large number of Allied chariots had been blown up, and many of them were turned upside down. Unparalyzed, Allied chariots rumbled past their broken companions, knowing full well that in order to evade the dense artillery fire of the opposing side, they had to rush to the Japanese positions as quickly as possible.
The losses of the Allied chariot troops were not small, and they needed to bypass those destroyed comrades, and the distance they traveled was naturally twisted and turned, and the originally neat offensive formation was suddenly scattered. The remaining more than 300 chariots continued to move forward, and soon approached the position of the Japanese soldiers, who at the moment did not have sufficiently sharp anti-chariot weapons.
The Japanese soldiers tried in vain to shoot with the only infantry guns or mortars in their hands, but it was difficult for these guns to hit the moving chariots, and the guns in the hands of the Japanese soldiers were simply tickling the chariots, and a red-eyed Japanese lieutenant crouched in the trench, and when he saw a Mark IV chariot getting closer and closer, he suddenly screamed, picked up a bundle of grenades and rushed forward.
Jumping nimbly from crater to crater, the lieutenant quickly approached the vehicle, but just as he was about to leap to his feet, a barrage of machine-gun bullets hit him. The powerful machine-gun bullet directly broke his left leg, but he was unmoved, using his right leg to support his body, he suddenly bit his teeth, kicked his right leg the ground, and his body suddenly leaned forward, rushing towards the chariot.
The lieutenant's left leg was broken, and he couldn't jump far with his right leg alone, but he narrowly avoided the machine-gun fire of the chariot with such a jump. The lieutenant's heavy body fell to the ground, but he rolled under the tracks of the chariot, and looking at the tracks of the chariot that were getting closer and closer, the lieutenant stared at the other party, and just turned sideways and pulled the fuse of the grenade.
There was a loud bang, and the vehicle that had been hit by a cluster grenade was completely destroyed. Seeing that the lieutenant's cluster grenades worked, many Japanese soldiers picked up cluster grenades and rushed to the Allied chariots.
At this moment, the rocket artillery of the expeditionary force was fired again, covering the area of the Entente's follow-up troops, and a large group of iron-blooded soldiers with bazookas rushed to the front line, destroying a large number of Allied chariots with their weapons, and those remaining chariots fled.
Three red signal flares suddenly rose into the air, seeing this signal, all the artillery of the expeditionary force suddenly began to fire fiercely, and the dense shells covered the positions of the Entente, and the unprepared Allied troops were hit with heavy casualties, and then the expeditionary force stationed in the positions began a full-scale counteroffensive.
The blazer sounded, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force, armed with their rifles loaded with bayonets, followed the chariot and launched a charge. The Allied troops, who did not expect to be counter-charged, were caught off guard and retreated again and again under the enemy's dense firepower, and many recruits were immediately confused.
The Entente bloc suffered heavy losses in the war in the past few years, and the well-trained standing army was no longer alive at this time, and the later conscripts were still well trained at the beginning, and when the war on the front line became more and more intense, and the casualties became more and more heavy, the training time of the recruits was infinitely compressed, and in the end, except for the technical arms, those recruits with guns no longer had much military literacy.
In the darkness of the night, they were attacked by the enemy, and it was completely impossible to see how many enemies were coming, and the sound of explosions, gunfire, and the screams of their companions intertwined, stimulating the fragile nerves of the recruits, who, according to their own human instincts, immediately dispersed.
On other fronts, the Allied forces were still fighting hard, while in the Baden area, the already menacing Allied armies were herded. The Chinese Expeditionary Force rapidly advanced and drove the Allied troops to flee southward, and even the Allied planes at several nearby field airfields were captured by the expeditionary force troops rushing over because they could not take off at night, and the Allied air force units in the north suffered a devastating blow.
After dawn, the bomber units of the Chinese Expeditionary Force were quickly dispatched, and they pursued the Allied forces in small groups or single planes in all directions.
Due to the capture of a large number of Allied planes at night, there was no longer much Allied air force presence in the vicinity, and the fighter units of the expeditionary force, which had lost their opponents, directly turned into attack planes, relying on their own four large-caliber machine guns to strafe Allied deserters everywhere, making them even more confused.
A few days later, relying on a large number of mechanized equipment such as chariots and trucks, the Chinese Expeditionary Force advanced rapidly, and the 91st Army first captured the port of Steddam, blocking more than 600,000 Allied troops in the north, losing contact with the Nantes Empire, and their logistical supply was quickly interrupted.
Inspired by the victory, the Yaman army also launched a large-scale counterattack, and the Allied forces in the north lost their land supplies, and were frantically bombed by the combined air forces of the Chinese Empire and the Central Powers.
Having eliminated the Entente forces in the north, the Yaman army advanced south with the expeditionary force, while the Yaman army sent an invitation to the Grand Duchy of Sardinia to unite their forces to launch a massive attack on the Nantes Empire from both directions.
Under the cover of bombers, heavy artillery, and combat vehicles, the Allied Army and the Expeditionary Force were victorious, forcing the Allied forces to retreat and shrink their defenses, and the capital of the Nantes Empire, La Défense, was soon occupied, and the Nantes Empire had to move the capital to Bordeaux.
After losing a large number of troops in the north, the current Entente bloc is just holding on, they just hope to hold on long enough, so that the countries of the Central Powers feel that their economies are overwhelmed, and when they think that they need to negotiate to settle the dispute, they can not suffer too much in the armistice negotiations, but the Chinese Empire will not let them do it.
Seeing the opportunity of the imminent victory, the Boston Empire hurriedly sent its Eastern Ocean Fleet to the Storm Ocean, and with enough warships to escort it, the Boston Empire once again sent 100,000 troops to the Western Continent, this time landing in the Allied occupation area, and the Boston people went ashore smoothly without any danger.
Because the troops in his hands have been stretched, and even reduced to a miscellaneous role, General Pershing can finally raise his eyebrows, and soon cooperate with the Yaman army to launch an attack on the Nantes army.
After defeating the Allied army, the Chinese expeditionary force looted everywhere it went, swept away all the local property, and the military columns that transported ammunition for the expeditionary force were full of loads, and the return trip was not empty, they brought back all the wealth looted by the expeditionary force, which made the Yaman army red-eyed.
The frenzied looting behavior of the Chinese Expeditionary Force made the Yaman army high-level look down on it a little, but now that they are the main force of the war, and the looting is all newly occupied non-Yaman Empire territory, they have no choice but to turn a blind eye.
The Chinese Expeditionary Force advanced rapidly, and the hastily retreating Nantes army did not have time to transfer valuables, as a result, the wealth accumulated by the Nantes Imperial Imperial Family for a hundred years fell into the hands of the ensuing expeditionary force, and the entire Louvre, which the royal family used to hide treasures, was completely emptied.
The amount and value of these possessions were too large, and in order to avoid attracting the attention of others, they sent them directly back to Beijing through the badge. Upon hearing the news, the Yaman military top brass immediately approached Tobul and demanded that the wealth be distributed.
After all, the Yaman Empire has fought for many years, most of the country's wealth has been consumed, and the domestic economy is on the verge of collapse.
To the surprise of the Jarman Empire's higher-ups, Thor denied the wealth, deducing that it had been transferred by the Nantes army, and that they had not reaped any benefits, and he even had several Yaman officers search the barracks at will.
The stakes were so high that the Yaman officers did not dare to dispose of it casually, they really conducted some searches, and they were surprised to find that there were only some ordinary wealth in the expeditionary force, but the treasures of the Nantes Empire were missing, and in the end, the Yaman Empire not only did not get any benefits, but the chief of the general staff of the Yaman Army, Stephen, also made a special apology to Tobul.
After retreating some distance, the Allies finally stopped at a defensive line near Bordeaux, and with the help of their original fortifications, they temporarily blocked the offensive of the Allied forces, but the Chinese Empire was already determined to end the war as soon as possible, and after the land offensive was blocked, the Chinese Empire turned its attention in another direction.
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