AT THE SAME TIME AS THE TRAIN ARTILLERY IS POWERFUL, THE AMERICANS ARE NOT WILLING TO BE LONELY, AND LONG-LEGGED TOM ALSO ATTACKS THE GERMANS' FRONT-LINE HOWITZERS FROM OTHER DIRECTIONS, BUT THE EFFECT IS MUCH WORSE THAN THAT OF THE FRENCH, THE SHELL POWER OF THE 155MM HOWITZER IS NOT VERY LARGE, AND A CERTAIN STRENGTH OF THE CIVIL FORTIFICATIONS HAS THE HOPE OF BLOCKING THE OPPONENT'S ATTACK, AND MANY GERMAN ARTILLERY UNITS ARE TRACKED, AND HAVE ANTI-SHRUM ARMOR. So unless these self-propelled howitzers are directly hit, it is difficult to cause a devastating blow, and what makes the Americans even more depressed is that most of the counterattack fire left by the Germans in advance is still smashed on the heads of the Americans, no way, the French train shelling is too far, and if you can't reach it alive or dead, you can only take the Americans to open the knife, some hidden heavy artillery was activated, and the unilateral suppression of the Germans became a confrontation between the long-range artillery of the two sides!

The Germans have the advantage of firepower projection, while the French have the advantage of quality, and the end result is that neither side can help the opponent in a short time, the Germans need to watch out for the French train guns, the heavy artillery positions will not be long before they have to move their positions, and the French are faced with too many targets to deal with, the Germans have so many artillery positions that you can't beat them if you tell you where they are! And the Germans soon began to hunt down French observation posts and artillery school planes, and began to use smoke screens or other means to reduce the accuracy of the enemy's strikes! But in general, it was the Germans who suffered, because the time for the general offensive could not be delayed any longer, and since the air force and artillery could not solve the problem, then the Germans would have to solve the problem with tanks and infantry!

After the artillery fire gradually thinned out, huge figures pierced through the smoke of gunpowder, and the Tiger tank once again appeared on the battlefield as the spearhead of the German attack. In front of them was the wreckage of fortifications and obstacles that had been blown to the ground, with burning flames, broken bunkers, and messy stones that gave them a sense of decay and crumbling. On the face of it. It's hard to say that this is associated with the French fortifications of an hour ago. It's hard for Brightany to imagine anyone in this situation surviving and blocking their own attack.

Behind the Tiger tanks were accompanied by infantry fighting vehicles and armored transport vehicles, which carried machine guns and infantry that were indispensable auxiliary forces for the offensive of tank units. Large-caliber machine guns and assault rifles for infantry are the key to dealing with those ubiquitous anti-tank groups! AND IN THE BACK ARE 105MM SELF-PROPELLED HOWITZERS AND 120MM HEAVY MORTARS, AS WELL AS SOME ENGINEERING UNITS. Such a fully functional assault force is the most powerful assault force that Germany can come up with at the moment! Invincible in previous battles, even in urban warfare, all the opponent could do was delay the attack, but could not completely block it, Bremani, as the vanguard of the armored forces, had realized that the battle would be very long and brutal, but in reality the situation was even worse than he imagined! Under the attack of the Germans, the heavy firepower that the French saved was completely different from what appeared on the surface!

The Germans began to attack in formation. The wedge-shaped formation of Tiger tanks slowly moved forward, and from time to time, these most elite land monsters of the Third Reich used heavy artillery to kill exposed or suspected fire points. WITH A BRIEF EMERGENCY STOP AND A HIGH RATE OF FIRE 88MM HEAVY GUNS, A COMPANY OF TIGER TANKS CLEARED AT LEAST 20 MACHINE GUN FIRE POINTS AND SOME REMAINING ARTILLERY PIECES AS THEY ADVANCED. As they got closer and closer to the enemy's core positions, a large number of infantry jumped from armored personnel carriers with their equipment. AT THE COMMAND OF THE COMMANDER, THE MACHINE GUN CREW BEGAN TO ASSEMBLE THE TRIPOD AND MACHINE GUN, WHILE THE SUPPORT SQUAD CARRYING THE 50MM MORTAR WAS ERECTED BEHIND THE RUBBLE. Panzergrenadier squads weave between vehicles, armed with STG assault rifles, carefully searching the battlefield in case an anti-armor squad suddenly emerges from somewhere. At least for now. The battlefield was very calm, and after some indiscriminate bombardment, the opponent's position seemed to be dead!

"When you find that the battle is going more smoothly than you think, it means that disaster is not far away. It seems that the closer you are to victory. The more you need to be careful! "Bremani has thought back several times about the battle he had fought outside Saint-Nazaire, where a shot of shrapnel had left him in the hospital for at least two months, while about half of his comrades had never seen each other again!

"What's that sound?" A screeching sound suddenly came from the rear of the French army. Then a continuous series of fires rose from the horizon, followed by a few seconds of none. Clouds of smoke shrouded the firing position! "It's rocket artillery! Rocket artillery for the Americans! The shells screeched through the air with a chilling screech, and the rain of bullets that fell like a scythe of death instantly enveloped the entire second half of the German assault force. The range of the enemy's rocket artillery is not far, only about 7 kilometers, but the firepower is very sufficient, like raindrops of shells fell in a few minutes, and the short but fierce bombardment of hundreds of shells is a nightmare for infantry and lightly armored units! The attacked German infantry units were like boiling pots in an instant, and in the bursts of explosions and fire, countless lives were lost in a matter of seconds, and the expensive combat vehicles were blown into a pile of twisted iron sheets and fragments by cheap cyclone explosives. Only those infantry fighting vehicles and tanks, which were relatively well armoured, survived. THE 105MM HOWITZERS, LOCATED IN THE REAR OF THE TROOPS, TRIED TO COUNTERATTACK, BUT THE OPPONENT WAS ALSO SMART AND QUICKLY MOVED AFTER A WAVE.

"Go on the offensive, although our infantry units have suffered heavy losses, our armored spearheads are still intact, and tanks can solve everything!" When Bremani asked if he was waiting for reinforcements, the order from above told him very clearly that he had to break through the opponent's defenses, and with the new infantry able to keep up quickly, Bremani's Tiger tank force attacked again!

It is difficult to fundamentally break up the German offensive in a small fight, and the damage and complete loss of armored combat units are completely two different concepts, the former can be pulled back for repair as long as he can control the battlefield, and maybe after a few hours he will be a good man again. As for the latter, I am afraid that the only thing that can be recycled is scrap steel, although the American Bazooka bazooka and recoilless guns caused great trouble for the German armored forces, but it was only trouble, these little guys can paralyze the opponent. But it's hard to destroy them completely! Unless you're lucky, a rocket hits the ammo rack or some other flammable or explosive item! SO THE AMERICANS PREPARED THE GERMAN ARMORED FORCES WITH TERRIFYING 105MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS AND REINFORCED CONCRETE FORTRESSES THAT WERE SO STRONG THAT THEY WERE ALMOST INDESTRUCTIBLE. THE REINFORCED CONCRETE LAYER WITH A FRONTAL THICKNESS OF 2.5 TO 3 METERS WAS ENOUGH TO MAKE THE 88MM HEAVY ARTILLERY DESPERATE!

"The lads are serious about fighting, rest assured. Those kittens' long pipes can't help our defenses! THE STANDARD OF THESE FORTIFICATIONS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE READY FOR THE ATTACK OF SHIP GUNS AND BOMBS OF MORE THAN 500KG! A U.S. OFFICER SHOUTED ENCOURAGEMENT AS HE DIRECTED HIS SQUAD TO STICK A 105MML50 ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN OUT OF THE FORT. THE THICK REINFORCED CONCRETE LAYER OF THE FORT DID GIVE THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS GREAT CONFIDENCE, JUST NOW, AT LEAST 3 150MM GRENADES AND 1 250KG BOMB FELL ON THE ROOF OF THE FORT, AND EXCEPT FOR LETTING THE CHANDELIER INSIDE SWAY A FEW TIMES, NO OTHER DAMAGE WAS CAUSED.

"Be careful, right-wing!" Bremani found out from which fortresses the huge barrels slowly protruded! He decisively pressed the handle of the smoke bomb fire. The disposable smoke grenade launchers on both ends of the huge Tiger turret fired several shells in an instant. Then a thick smoke screen covered the huge front of the Tiger tank, and then reversed and retreated, looking for cover, and a series of evasive maneuvers were made as smooth as the clouds of peers. After 8 seconds, a flash of light slashed past the tank, blowing an infantry fighting vehicle behind it to pieces.

HOWEVER, NOT EVERYONE HAD BREMANI'S LUCK AND QUALITY, AND A TIGER TANK THAT WAS A LITTLE TOO FAR FORWARD WAS HIT BY A 105MM ARMOR-PIERCING SHELL AT THE JUNCTION BETWEEN THE TURRET AND THE BOTTOM OF THE CAR FROM 600 METERS. The powerful armor-piercing bullet tore through the armor of the turret, crushing the two crew members and slamming into the ammunition rack in the aft compartment of the turret, followed by a loud bang. A huge fireball erupted from behind the Tiger turret, followed by an explosion of the engine and fuel bays! In just a few seconds, a war machine worth 140,000 marks and 5 living lives turned into a giant torch!

THIS WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING, AND THE ALLIES DEPLOYED AT LEAST 10 105MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS AND A LARGE NUMBER OF 90MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS. The former can challenge the frontal armor of the Tiger tank at medium range. THE LATTER IS DEPLOYED ON THE SIDE AND BACK POSITIONS, AND WHEN THE TIGER TANK FIGHTS HARD WITH THE OPPONENT'S 105MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN, IT SHOOTS BLACK GUNS FROM THE SIDE OR FROM BEHIND! "Attack their shooting holes! Be constantly maneuvering. Don't stop! Bremani commanded his chariots to move through the rubble and wreckage while directing the other chariots to approach their targets from the enemy's firepower.

But the Entente were not stupid. How can people waste so much effort to build such a strong defense system, how can they leave you with a dead end? Maybe the defenses in some places are really weaker. But also not the 88 guns of the Tiger tank could be destroyed in a hurry! The reinforced concrete front with a thickness of 2.5 meters was enough to withstand the repeated attacks of 88mm shells, and Bremani hit at least 6 shots in one minute! Layers of concrete and steel were torn off the bunkers by heavy shelling, and in the light of fire and smoke, the bunkers made a series of twisting and crumbling sounds.

But when the smoke cleared, Bremani found that the bunker was still spewing lethal fire, in addition to leaving a series of deep and shallow craters. Unless shells flew in from the firing port, then such a fortress would be almost indestructible! "Even if we can finally drill a hole in the bunker, a very small charge of armor-piercing shells can hardly guarantee the lethality of internal equipment and personnel! These big guys are a nightmare for the attackers! "After the war, the Germans had said this about these things after surveying the fort outside the port of Saint-Nazaire.

Objectively speaking, when the Germans found out that they could not effectively destroy these fortresses, the outcome of the battle was already determined, the confrontation between the two sides had entered garbage time, and Germany was destined to be helpless against these big guys in a short time, but the stubborn and stubborn Germans still tried their best to attack, they used mortars to attack the top, 150 howitzers to bombard closely, and even under the cover of smoke bombs and artillery fire, they used sappers to blast! But alas, these methods were thought of by the Entente. Around the main support points were a large number of machine-gun bunkers, the smallest of which could only hold three people, but with a large number of them, it was still possible to build impenetrable fire nets for the infantry, and the dense bullets like flying locusts crushed the efforts of the German sappers again and again. The multi-layered, heavily defensive, and high-firepower defense system made the tried-and-true breakthrough of the Germans useless!

It was not only Bremani's assault group that was frustrated, but the other assault groups also failed in the first round of attacks, and the saddest one was even caught off guard by the suddenly rushing Allied armored forces! When the Tiger tanks and the Allied fortresses were dead, a group of French B1 tanks with a group of Sherman tanks with rocket launchers on the roof killed from the flank, and the salvo of rocket artillery disrupted the German rear for a short time, and then the B1 tank group went around the back of the Tiger tanks and came fiercely. Although this tank force was wiped out by the Germans who followed closely, at the same time, nearly 15 Tiger tanks remained on the battlefield forever! The number of damaged tanks was even greater, but the saddest thing was that while the Germans were regrouping the front, the Americans actually got 3 high-horsepower half-track trailers from nowhere, and dragged back a damaged and abandoned Tiger tank under the cover of other troops! This is the first time that the Tiger tank has been captured in its entirety! This loss was obviously more worrying to the Germans than any other!

The failure of the first offensive gave the German army, which had been advancing vigorously, a taste of defeat for the first time since the start of the war, and in just a few hours of attack, the Germans lost no less than 80 tanks of various types, most of which were the Tiger tanks that the Germans were most proud of, and an entire heavy battalion was finished (although some of the tanks could be repaired and reused). Looking at the breakthrough made, and then looking at the thickness of the Entente's defense line, everyone has to admit that even if all the Germans are exhausted, they may not be able to penetrate the opponent's defense! The original complaints about the Tiger tank being too heavy and too big, and the firepower and protection were a little more than needed, the Germans now regret not being able to put a larger caliber cannon on the Tiger tank or get a deformed tiger equipped with a heavy mortar of more than 10 inches! Saint-Nazaire had to be breached, and the Germans did not retreat after the defeat in the first battle, but readjusted their deployment and prepared to attack this turtle shell again!

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