Chapter 449: Battle of the Bulge (3)

When the heavy artillery units of the Entente countries were still firing shells vigorously, there was a sudden piercing howling sound in the sky, like a train with a whistle passing by, and the stunned Allied artillery stopped the loading action in their hands and looked at the sky in dismay.

Before the artillery could react, the huge shell plunged headlong into the ground, and the soldiers thousands of miles away were also unstable and fell down one after another.

When the smoke cleared, the stunned Allied soldiers found that the position of a heavy artillery battalion had turned into a crater with a diameter of nearly 100 meters, and the men and weapons within this range had disappeared without a trace, and all the soldiers within a few hundred meters of the crater had bled and died on the ground.

The nearby Allied soldiers looked at everything in front of them in amazement, they had forgotten to continue the attack, but stupidly looked at the huge crater that was still sand and soil was constantly collapsing to the bottom of the pit, but soon they had no time to be stunned. A continuous whistling sound came, and the 10 train guns that had already calculated the coordinates of the heavy artillery positions of the Allied countries through air force reconnaissance opened fire one after another, and huge explosions sounded one after another, and the heavy artillery units of the Allied countries immediately suffered heavy losses.

"What? Heavy artillery units suffered serious losses? Lost more than a division of heavy artillery units in just half an hour? In the high command of the Entente, General Xia Fei of the Nantes Empire looked at the report that had just been sent back from the front in disbelief with red eyes.

"This is impossible, can't they send a more truthful report, the crater is 100 meters in diameter, it's outrageous." Xia Fei angrily slammed the report on the table.

"This report is true, and the crater is indeed that big." A dusty Marshal of the Saar Empire walked into the command, he had just returned from the front.

"How is this possible, how can we fight against such powerful artillery." Xia Fei sighed.

Marshal Buck gritted his teeth and said: "We have the advantage of numbers, the best way now is to attack quickly, and strive to break through the opponent's defense line as soon as possible, as long as we can mix with the opponent's army, this kind of artillery is useless." I reckon that such a cannon, although incredibly powerful, is certainly not very accurate, and it will not be too fast to reload. ”

Marshal Buck's prediction was very correct, although the Python 2 train cannon was amazingly powerful, but the accuracy was not good, if it wasn't for the opponent's heavy artillery deployment too concentrated, he wouldn't be able to hit it. And because the weight of the shells is so high, it takes half an hour to reload and correct the trajectory of each shell, and the railway lines that turn back and forth like butterflies are used to correct the trajectory of the projectile.

Unlike the high power and low efficiency of the Monty Python 2 train gun, although the caliber of the Monty Python 1 train gun is smaller, it can reach a rate of fire every five minutes, and the power is also good. With these few train guns like Dinghai Shenshen needles, other heavy artillery units of the Chinese Expeditionary Force also opened fire one after another, and they tried their best to suppress the attack of the Entente with fierce firepower.

After an initial panic, the Allies spread out their artillery positions, so that their casualty rate plummeted, and with the strict orders from the command, a new offensive finally began.

Thousands of Saar Mark IV and Nantes Renault FT17 vehicles rumbled by, covering the charge with large groups of infantry. In order to be able to jam the Chinese expeditionary force stationed in the Baden area, the main forces of the Entente invested heavily in attacking the waist of this salient, hoping to surround the entire expeditionary force, but their strategy was too naïve, and the experienced Tobul paid the most attention to these two directions in the deployment of troops, so in front of the two Entente assault forces was the Chinese Imperial Defense Force with 100,000 men each.

In the defensive positions to the north, the Wehrmacht's 91st and 29th Armies held their positions, and with artillery support from the rear, they were not afraid of the Allied shelling, and they only had to pay attention to the charging enemy.

"Fire." The rank-and-file commanders stationed here gave orders, infantry guns and mortars of various calibers began to fire, and the soldiers lying in the trenches also began to strafe the Allied soldiers behind the chariots with their small arms.

The Entente chariots continued to advance, and the weapons that had already fired were not enough to destroy them, so they continued to rush towards the positions of the expeditionary force with great force, only because of the need to go uphill slowly.

"Open fire." The anti-tank groups that were lying in ambush pushed out their 37-millimeter anti-tank guns, which were so low that it was difficult for the Allied soldiers to spot them, and they suddenly opened fire as soon as the opposing tanks approached within a thousand meters.

Although the shells of the 37 mm guns were not large, they were tungsten core armor-piercing shells specially developed by the weapons experts of the Chinese Empire, and it was as simple as opening a can against the thin-skinned chariots of the Entente countries, and with a burst of bombardment, dozens of chariots that rushed to the front were all destroyed, but the chariots that came later aimed their muzzles at these anti-chariot guns, and they knew very well that if they could not destroy these cannons as soon as possible, they themselves would be very dangerous.

The exchange of fire between the two sides was very fierce, and the tank and anti-tank guns were reduced at about the same rate, and finally the anti-tank guns were eliminated first, but the clever Wehrmacht soldiers mostly fled before they were destroyed.

The Allied chariot troops, which had suffered heavy losses, continued to advance, but the Chinese Empire was not the only anti-chariot weapon, and when the chariot was close to the position for two hundred meters, a large number of soldiers stood up with bazookas, and although some of them were quickly knocked down by the vehicle's on-board machine guns, many more shot rockets from their hands.

The flying rockets crossed the spiral trajectory and shot towards the chariot, and a Renault FT17 chariot that rushed to the front was hit by three rockets almost at the same time, and the fire of the explosion flashed like a festive firework, and the turret of the chariot that was hit was directly overturned by the power of the explosion, and it was thrown dozens of meters away, and the barrel of the cannon facing the sky had been twisted into a twisted shape.

Dozens of chariots were destroyed by rockets, and the Entente charioteers could no longer withstand such a blow, and they turned their wheels and fled down the hill at full speed. Unfortunately, these vehicle drivers forgot that the armor of the vehicle was not of equal thickness, and that the rear armor was the weakest except for the top armor.