Chapter 352: The Battle of Amiens (Part II)

The people of the Western Continent have followed the linear tactics that have been used for hundreds of years, and have turned into brain-dead suicide under heavy machine gun fire. When the soldiers turned into corpses all over the ground, the people of the Western Continent finally realized that with the increasing advancement of weapons, their tactics were outdated, so those sober-minded military experts of various countries set their eyes on the Chinese Empire in the Eastern Continent, because in the last ten years, their actual combat experience is the richest.

After studying the wars of the Chinese Empire, they found that Fang Xiaoyu's army had already begun to use advanced skirmish tactics. After gaining an in-depth understanding of the combat methods in the East, these military experts discovered that as early as the beginning of the appearance of rear-loading guns in the Eastern Continent, Fang Xiaoyu had written a training report for the military of the Lanfang Empire at that time.

I don't know where the experts from the Western Continent got this report, but they quickly got the original text of the report. In this dusty report, these military experts found that Fang Xiaoyu, who was only ten years old at the time, not only planned a reasonable skirmish line tactic, but even designed a fairly complete trench system.

The researchers were surprised to find that the trench not only had a complete logistical, medical and drainage system, but even placed gun emplacements and reserved positions for machine guns that had not yet been invented at the time. What surprised them even more was that in addition to being equipped with barbed wire, this trench system also had an anti-tank trench configuration.

The trench system designed by Fang Xiaoyu was designed in accordance with the mature system in the late stage of World War I on Earth, and with several years of mature experience in the First World War, the trench system planned by Fang Xiaoyu was naturally much more advanced than the trench system being used in the Western Continent.

After discovering Fang Xiaoyu's military report, the military experts of the Western Continent were like a treasure, and they immediately improved their country's trench system and infantry tactics according to this, and the result was immediate, the casualties of their own army plummeted, and since then Fang Xiaoyu has been highly respected in the military circles of the Western Continent and has become a genius military strategist by people in the industry.

Relying on the tactics learned from the East, the Saar soldiers launched an attack, and behind the infantry charging with rifles, the Type 94 light machine gun purchased from the Chinese Empire and the heavy machine gun produced by the Saar Empire opened fire at the same time, sprinkling a dense rain of bullets on the opposite position, strongly blocking the counterattack of the Yaman army.

Due to the lack of preparation in advance, when the Sahr army landed at the port of Cole, the Yaman army, which was somewhat caught off guard, had to draw reserves from the country in this direction. Thanks to the importance attached to the construction of the railway by the Yaman Empire, the Yaman army quickly transported the troops of three armies to Amiens under all orders to make way for the military columns, which was able to stop the offensive of the Sahr.

The speed of the movement was also surprising to the Sahr people, but it was not without its after-effects, and in order to quickly transport the personnel to Amiens, the Yaman army of the three armies gave up all their heavy weapons.

The Yaman soldiers, who were only armed with small arms, were lying in the hastily dug fortifications, and in the face of the rushing Saar army, they could only use the only rifle in their hands to shoot desperately as fast as they could. The Sahr army, which also landed only with light weapons, took advantage of the outnumbered number of people and launched wave after wave of charges, trying to break through the Yaman army's defenses.

Neither side had enough firepower to favor the attacking side, and armed with Martini Henry's rifles, which were modeled after the Lanting Rifle, the Saar soldiers quickly approached the position of the Yaman Army. At a distance of sixty meters, soldiers on both sides drew grenades from their waists and threw them at each other, and pieces of explosion smoke rose one after another, and many soldiers on both sides fell in pools of blood.

The distance of the battle was getting shorter, and the Thar soldiers ran as they desperately pressed the levers and fired the bullets from their rifles at the Yaman soldiers one by one. But what the Thar soldiers didn't expect was that after two rounds of firing, the Yaman infantry actually jumped out of the trench, holding the Arthur 88 rifle with bayonets on it, and launched a counter-charge.

When the bright bayonet stabbed in the chest, the Saar soldiers realized that they had no bayonets at all. How could the Saar soldiers who drew the short knives at their waists beat the Yaman soldiers who were holding rifles more than one meter long, many Saar soldiers had been pierced to death by bayonets before they could hand over the short knives, and the Saar soldiers who had no power to fight back were forced to retreat.

General Owen, who commanded the Saar army, saw that his troops were about to succeed, but they were driven back with bayonets, and in a fit of rage, he broke his beloved pipe in two, and scolded the arms dealers in the country for not wanting to make progress and not equipping their soldiers with good enough weapons.

After all, shipping is faster than trains, not to mention that the domestic railway lines of the Yaman Empire have to give priority to the supply of war materials far away from the main front, and the speed of transporting heavy weapons to the direction of Amiens naturally lags behind.

The Saar army, which had obtained part of the artillery, bullied the Yaman army for not having artillery, and they set up the artillery and began to bombard wildly, Admiral Owen ordered the artillery to fire freely, and the position of the Yaman army must be flattened, and he is now mad.

Unfortunately, Admiral Owen forgot a weapon that was enough to destroy him, and it was not until the bombers of the Yaman Empire were in the sky that Admiral Owen woke up from a dream, but it was already too late.

The bombs that poured down drew a graceful arc and went straight to the artillery positions of the Saar Army, which were still firing their guns. The Thar soldiers, who were still whistling loudly and firing shells in a desperate manner, were immediately drowned in the smoke and dust of the explosion. The power of aerial bombs was greater than that of artillery shells, and under the intensive bombardment, the artillery positions of the Saar army were all immediately reimbursed.

Taking advantage of the confusion of the Sahr army, the Yaman army launched a counteroffensive on the whole front, and the unprepared Saar army retreated one after another, retreating more than ten kilometers before stopping. The Yaman army that was pursuing behind did not dare to step forward, because if they pursued further, the Yaman army would be exposed to the naval artillery fire of the Saar navy, and in the face of large-caliber naval guns, the top brass of the Yaman army had to be cautious.

The top brass of the Yaman army wanted to use bombers to attack the warships of the Sahr Navy because of the Chinese Empire, but the Saar people had already thought of this, and all warships were covered with machine guns equipped with anti-aircraft mounts.

In the face of a temporary defeat, the Saar army was not discouraged, they took refuge under the protection of the ship's guns, and used small transport ships to desperately transport heavy weapons to the shore, which they not only transported artillery, but also sent a lot of machine guns and anti-aircraft mounts.

In the face of the more and more complete weapons of the Sahr army, the Yaman army is also helpless, they can't resist the bombardment of the ship's artillery to launch a charge, if so, the Yaman army high-level believes that their own troops will collapse soon, and in desperation, the Yaman army has to retreat to Amiens City.

Armed with a large number of heavy weapons, the Saar army once again advanced towards the city of Amiens, and this time the Yaman army had also sent a batch of heavy weapons to the city of Amiens, and the two sides fought an offensive and defensive battle around the city.

The Sahr army had more troops and heavy weapons, and the Yaman army was familiar with the terrain and had bombers to help the battle, and the two sides were inseparable for a while, but the actions of the Sahr army were not useless, and the Yaman army in Amiens was pinned down with a large number of reserves, which reduced the pressure on the Nantes Imperial army in the other direction a lot.

While the two sides were fighting fiercely in Amiens, the Nantes army and the Saar army in the south also attacked, which greatly pinned down the Yaman army in front of them, so that the main force of the Yaman Empire could not send reinforcements to the rear for a long time, and could only allocate a small part of the air force to cover the defense line.

Due to the increasingly fierce fighting on the main battlefield in the south, the Yaman military had to transfer most of the bomber group in the direction of Amiens, and the remaining small number of planes did not help much in the course of the war.

After more than 15,000 casualties, the Yaman army was forced to retreat, and the Sahr army was in urgent need of replenishment due to the lack of heavy weapons in the early stage and the excessive consumption of ammunition in the later stage. As the attacking side, the Sahr also suffered more than 40,000 casualties, and they were unable to launch a large-scale attack on the rear of the Yamans, and the two sides reached a stalemate.

Seeing that his rear road was in danger of being cut off, the main force of the Yaman Empire army attacking the Nantes army had to take the initiative to retreat to the north of Amiens, taking advantage of the terrain here to confront the Entente army, which also gave the Nantes army a chance to relax.

This large-scale battle cost both sides heavy casualties again, with the Yaman Empire losing 120,000 casualties, while the Nantes Empire and the Saar Empire lost a total of 270,000 casualties, and the western front of the Western Continent was already full of corpses.

The Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire and the Yaman Empire were in a stalemate, and the other two countries of the Central Powers, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia and the Kingdom of Habufsburg, were not to be outdone.

The two countries were fully prepared for this attack, and before the attack, the combined fleets of the two countries sailed to the sea off the port of Toulon, directly threatening the safety of the Mediterranean fleet of the Nantes Empire.

Because the Nantes Empire has entered a misunderstanding in the direction of naval construction for a period of time, and for a long time it has been building torpedo boats and despising battleships, so the Chinese ships of the Nantes Empire have a total of only one class Brittany-class battleships, and eight have been built, but because the defense focus of the Nantes Empire fleet is on the stormy ocean, there are only two of them in the Mediterranean Fleet.

Due to the technical strength of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, they did not build the Chinese ship in the end, but the top management of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia did not give up this symbol of national strength, and after negotiation, the Grand Duchy of Sardinia purchased the blueprints of the Combined Forceweight battleship from the Kingdom of Habuafsburg and built it in the country.

Two countries were built at the same time, and the United Force Heavyweight battleships were built in total, and they belonged to two countries, and at this time opposite Vice Admiral Lowak were these seven battleships, and they were followed by as many as fifteen destroyers imitating the Yaman Empire.