"Boom!" It is like the roar of Fusang's eastward rise, the loud sound of the beginning of chaos; With the collapse of the No. 010 airship in the flames, an unprecedented monstrous wave suddenly exploded on the French position, like a cloud covering the ground. The hurricane howled, the waves rushed, and the blazing light produced by the sudden explosion of more than 5 tons of high explosives swept like a tsunami ocean, rushing to a height of thousands of meters in an instant!

The flames surged, and the air was like a rainbow. As far as the scorching wind reached, the sand and soil of the earth collapsed rapidly, and the trenches and fortifications were all shattered and collapsed. Dozens of French soldiers around the explosion site only felt that the strong light flashed in front of them, and then they were slammed by the fierce blazing waves and thunder like a mountain of mountains, and their bodies were like falling into a furnace, and they instantly bid farewell to this war-torn world. The two French 75-millimeter anti-aircraft guns, which had been hidden in the haystacks, were also shrouded in the aftermath of the earth-shattering explosion, and the 1.5-ton cannon was instantly thrown into the air at a height of 100 meters.

"Kill the Germans, long live France!" Seeing that a heavy German bombing airship was shot down and crashed, the morale of the French officers and men who held their positions was greatly boosted, and they couldn't help but cheer loudly, and the resentment that had been suppressed in their chests for months was finally vented to the fullest. Since the day of the Frontier Campaign, the French officers and soldiers have hated these giant cigar-shaped airships that dominate the sky; However, due to their own limited means, they could only watch these German airships fly away after indulging in the wreaking havoc on their own troops. And today, these evil German air fortresses have finally received their due retribution, which is for the French officers and soldiers who had been devastated by German fire. Undoubtedly a very happy thing!

"Boom! Rumble! "It's not a long time. Several more huge waves of red-orange light exploded above the two German airships. Like blood-colored chrysanthemums blooming in the air. There was a roar and flames, and the body of the giant Kirov airship that was hit also burst into flames, sticking to the shell of the airship like maggots on tarsal bones, and constantly gnawing at the vitality of the bodies of these behemoths. Since the airship gondola only occupies a small area under the belly of the boat, and the few soft ladders on the hull are fixed in a specific area, the German air force in the gondola is simply unable to effectively extinguish these flames. We can only sit back and watch it continue to burn and spread.

Despite the chaos and fierceness of the battlefield, all kinds of roars and explosions occurred one after another. However, due to the fact that the movement of the fall and explosion of the 010 airship was so great that the other German airships still hovering above immediately discovered the tragic fate of their own robes. Seeing that one airship had fallen, and the other two airships were also in flames, the German captains were so shocked that their jaws fell to the ground. In the past battles, he had always bombed others indiscriminately, and he had not encountered even the slightest threatening attack; This time, however, they did not even know what weapons the French used, and they suffered extremely painful losses. You know, even the latest destroyer or ocean-going submarine is not more expensive than this giant airship!

"Drop the bomb. Quickly rise to the skies! The German captains immediately gave the order to deal with the change. Due to the fact that no French aircraft were found in the air. Therefore, it is only possible that the attack on the German airship came from the ground; And in this case, raising the height is clearly the most effective means of circumventing the attack. For a moment, the German airships, which were still intact on the battlefield, dropped their bomb ballast and flew leisurely towards the air away from the ground in the infernal explosion on the ground like a volcanic eruption.

The wind blows in the face, and the sea of clouds is vast. From time to time, anti-aircraft shells roared and roared, breaking through the sky, rubbing into the air with a piercing shrill hiss. Looking at the cannonballs that burst into the air like a fiery dragon, like thunder and lightning, they swept around the airship one after another, and the officers and men on the German airship were all shocked and shaken inexplicably. In 1870, in order to attack the French government dignitaries who flew out of the encirclement of Paris in hot air balloons, Moltke, the chief of the general staff of the Prussian army, ordered the Krupp military industry to urgently modify a batch of 37mm infantry guns that could be used for anti-aircraft use to shoot down those hot air balloons soaring in the sky and completely cut off the contact between Paris and the outside world. This time, however, the French developed an air control artillery that was far more powerful than before, posing an unprecedented threat to the German airships!

However, it was also the first time that French soldiers used this new weapon, which mainly targeted air targets. For its aiming and ranging method, the French artillerymen, who had long been accustomed to Miss 75, were quite uncomfortable; When the German airship unloaded the bombs in the ballast and climbed rapidly to more than 4,000 meters in the air, the French artillery on the ground saw a pile of matchboxes and pea pods in the scope, and its anti-aircraft fire suddenly became messy. However, the two damaged airships of the German army are also destined to not be able to return to the base!

Seeing that his airship began to climb rapidly, Werner, who was lying on the ground and prostrate forward, couldn't help but become anxious. Although the airship that rises to a high altitude can effectively avoid the fire from the ground, the accuracy of the bomb delivery is bound to be greatly reduced. What's more, in order to carry out this maneuver, the airship also dropped bombs that were not lightweight, and the ground support capability was greatly reduced. It was impossible to expect these air giants to destroy the resistance of the French army; The next battle will almost all rely on traditional army units!

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After the German airships rose into the air, the French artillery fire was revived and poured out its anger on the invaders who stepped into the suburbs of Paris. The shells roared and crashed into the attacking German units one after another, setting off a bloody storm and tidal wind. Faced with this situation, the Germans also quickly made corresponding strategies: several Fokker fighters took off urgently from the rear of the German positions to suppress the hot air balloons that were guiding the French heavy artillery deployed behind the positions. According to the requirements of the Army, the attendance of fighters will no longer be the initial wave, but the take-off in batches in a long stream of water to ensure that only the products belonging to the Iron Cross are left in the sky.

Compared to the huge, slow-moving airship, the small and light Fokker fighter was obviously not shot down by this extremely primitive French anti-aircraft gun that fired trigger grenades. After several rounds of circling and strafing, the French lookout balloon was either blown into a volley or hastily recovered and hidden; The French heavy artillery, which had lost its long-range Eagle Eye, no longer had its previous precision strikes, and the pressure on the German attacking troops was reduced. A short time later, a group of Gotha bombers flew in from the sky, and the violent explosion shattered some of the strongest French trenches, and the German attacking forces were able to regain the initiative on the battlefield.

Bullets whistled and artillery fire rained like a rainbow. The German troops advanced as if they had just stepped into the French positions, with tanks suppressing enemy machine-gun positions and trench fire, and infantry leaping into the trenches to engage the French soldiers in a desperate battle. However, the German advance was limited to the first line of positions on the outer plane. As they progressed, the shelling of the French positions gradually weakened; The almost well-preserved French positions became an area that the German attacking forces had to break through!

"Boom!" When a thunderous roar sounded in the air, a German Panzer I tank, which was using the machine gun in front of the hull to fire wildly at the French soldiers in the trench, suddenly burst out from the side of the hull with a large orange-red brilliant fireworks, and the roaring machine gun suddenly fell silent. The French 1897 Schneider cannon once again played the role of a tank killer like the German 88mm anti-aircraft gun in World War II; The 75-mm armor-piercing projectile thunderbolted through the thin armor of the German tank, destroying all the combat effectiveness of the tank in an instant.

Steel rolls up, smoke billows out, and a bloodied German armored soldier struggles to crawl out of the observation port, when he is caught fire by the rifles of the bitter French soldiers, and falls backwards in a burst of blood, like a willow broken by the wind. And those German infantry, who accompanied the advance of the tanks, were also in danger in the face of the tight defense line of the French army because they could no longer find the "big brother" for cover, and could not solve any problems. For a time, the casualties of the German soldiers surged, and they were soon pinned down in the low ground of the crater!

"Bang!" With the green smoke billowing, the steel wheels turning, and the screeching sound of the tracks running over the gravel, the German assault guns began to turn and accelerate, rushing in front of the attacking team. The long, thick and straight barrel reflected the cold light, pointing at the French pillbox trenches in the distance. After a while, these relatively low-hulled steel beasts stopped in a hail of bullets; The hull of the car turned slightly, the cannon pitched, stopped for a moment, and then suddenly spewed out a brilliant orange-red light. Completely different from the Panzer I tank, the German I assault gun was armed with a 50 mm L37 gun converted from the main gun on the old torpedo boat; Although this caliber is no different from scum in the navy, in close combat on land, this is a very powerful weapon!

And occasionally, when French 75mm shells whistled, the German Type I assault guns were by no means as defenseless as tanks. This assault gun, which weighs more than 12 tons, has 30 mm of 60-degree high-angle armor on the front of its hull, and has an equivalent thickness of 72 mm in front of 75 mm shells, which is obviously not capable of penetrating the current French army's primary armor-piercing shells. Although the fragile mechanical stability of these steel monsters does not come unscathed after being hit, this is a good enough ending for the attacking troops. (To be continued......)

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