Chapter 136: A Torrent of Steel
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Second Lieutenant Kent of the Imperial Army had just graduated from the Military Academy and was assigned to the 2nd Regiment of the 113th Division of the 11th Army as a platoon commander under the command of more than 30 people.
"Sir, sir!"
Sergeant Hunter, the squad leader of Ensign Kent's subordinates, woke up Ensign Kent from his fear, and he asked with a stammer, "What...... What's wrong?"
"The enemy is coming, please give the order!"
Sergeant Hunt is a veteran with rich combat experience, and he is much calmer than Ensign Kent, a rookie on the battlefield, Second Lieutenant Kent poked out half of his head from the trench when he heard this, and the smoke and dust of the explosion had already fallen, and the attacking troops of Ouyang Yu's army were clearly visible.
The second armored division of Ouyang Yu's army attacked the position section where the second lieutenant Kent was located, and the second armored division had one hundred and fifty No. 4 tanks and double M3 half-track armored vehicles.
When the 2nd Panzer Division marched to a distance of only 1,000 meters from the position of the 113th Division of the Imperial Army, the M3 Panzer Group following behind the No. 4 Tank Group stopped and put down the vehicle-mounted infantry and then advanced, and the infantry hid behind the M3 Armoured and advanced together, providing target indication and protection for tanks and armored vehicles.
"Fire!"
With the commander's order, the machine guns and magic crystal cannons on the position of the imperial army fired in unison, and in the previous battles, the imperial army found that the tank armor of Ouyang Yu's army was very thin, and the magic crystal cannon could easily penetrate the armor of Ouyang Yu's tank, so in order to deal with Ouyang Yu's tank, the imperial army used the magic crystal cannon as an anti-tank gun and pushed it to the position.
"Boom, boom, boom......!"
More than 20 No. 4 H tanks in the front were hit and exploded one after another, and the magic crystal gunners of the Imperial Army thought that the hit tank had been destroyed, and happily began to look for the next target, but before they could be happy, the more than 20 No. 4 tanks that had just been hit just now were all unscathed except for one that was shot off the tracks and continued to move forward, and at the same time turned the turret to point the muzzle at the position where the magic crystal cannon was located.
"Boom, boom, boom......!"
Tank Four's retaliatory fire destroyed most of the Crystal Cannons on the position, and the destroyed Crystal Cannons were blown into the sky along with their gunners, and the surviving Crystal Gunners did not believe in evil and fired again, this time they clearly saw that the Tank No. 4 was hit, except for the scorched black where it was hit, the armor was not penetrated.
"Boom, boom, boom......!"
The second shot of the tank group wiped out all the Imperial magic crystal guns on the position, and without anti-armor fire, the M3 armored car behind covered the infantry and slowly stepped forward, and the weapons on the M3 armored car opened fire with all their might.
The M3 armored vehicle was very active during World War II, not only in the use of the U.S. military but also in the Soviet troops through the Lend-Lease Act, the M3 armored car is a good weapon platform, in addition to the general heavy machine gun can also be installed small and medium caliber anti-aircraft guns, mortars, Howitzers and anti-tank guns, the M3 armored vehicles equipped with the second armored division are equipped with the above-mentioned weapons, of which the M3 armored vehicles equipped with four 20-mm anti-aircraft guns account for a quarter, which can not only provide powerful anti-aircraft firepower for the troops, but also pose a huge threat to the enemy's ground forces.
"Knock knock knock ......!"
Fifty M3 armored vehicles on the top of the quadruple 20 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, fired high-explosive shells in the trenches of the Imperial Army, set off a bloody storm, the rest of the M3 armored vehicles are not to be outdone, with 76 mm howitzers, 82 mm mortars, or M2 machine guns mounted on the positions of the Imperial Army, especially the 82 mm mortars on the vehicle, high ballistics have become the best weapon for attacking trenches, plus the use of timed howitzers, each shell is in the middle of the air ten to fifteen meters away from the trenches, one can kill and injure the soldiers of the Imperial Army within a radius of more than 10 meters, because it was a near-vertical blow, the Imperial soldiers hiding in the trenches had nowhere to hide.
Ensign Kent, who was on the battlefield for the first time, held his head in his hands and shouted loudly, as if this would give vent to the fear in his heart, and Sergeant Hunt, who had just spoken to him, had died in battle to protect him, his head had been cut in half by shrapnel, and his body lay at the feet of Ensign Kent.
In the face of Ouyang Yu's powerful firepower, the Imperial Army's magic crystal cannon was destroyed, and the machine gun bunkers were also uprooted one by one, leaving the infantry with only light weapons completely beaten and unable to raise their heads, so they could only hide helplessly in the trenches and pray that they would not be hit.
The No. 4 tank and M3 armored car of the 2nd Armored Division, under the cover of the accompanying infantry, quickly approached the trenches of the Imperial Army, and all the tanks and armored vehicles stopped at a distance of fifty meters, and the infantry shouted that Ulla launched a charge, Ouyang Yu's submachine gun was already equipped with a relatively high proportion, the infantry first fired a grenade, and then rushed into the trench of the Imperial Army in the smoke raised by the explosion, and quickly eliminated the Imperial soldiers in the trench with submachine guns or pistols.
The soldiers of the Imperial Army, who had lost all their heavy weapons and only had a single-shot rifle, how could they stop the soldiers of Ouyang Yu's army, who were like wolves and tigers with automatic or semi-automatic firepower, were either eliminated or surrendered, including Ensign Kent, who left the military academy and swore to make meritorious contributions, and became a prisoner in the first battle.
Half an hour after the attack was launched, the position of the 113th Division of the Imperial Army was broken through, the 2nd Armored Division, which was best equipped and most advanced, first advanced towards the depth of the Imperial Army, and the 1st Armored Division, which was still using T-26 tanks and T-35 tanks, also broke through the position of the Imperial Army not long after, and the follow-up 1234, the four infantry divisions launched an attack along the opened gap towards the left and right flanks, and the 5th and 6th Infantry Divisions that were ready to cooperate with the feint attack annihilated the 5th and 5th Infantry Divisions of the Imperial Army in the frontal position.
After the 2nd Armored Division broke through the position of the Imperial Army, it began to assault westward, preparing to outflank the 114th and 115th Divisions of the Imperial Army, while the task of the 1st Armored Division was to assault to the east and outflank the 111th Division of the Imperial Army.
The headquarters of the Eleventh Front of the Imperial Army, the commander of the Front Army, Admiral Carl D. Luther, with his hands behind his back, a pair of frowns, stared intently at the large map on the wall, on which the two red arrows had already crossed the blue defensive line, and according to the situation summarized everywhere, Admiral Luther had a bad premonition in his heart.
"The city of Kaskinen has been occupied by the enemy who fell from the sky, many bridges and roads have been blown up in various places, reinforcements can't go up, and the troops on the front line can't come down, does that His Highness really want to eat all the five divisions on the front line? But she only has eight divisions, as long as my five divisions are stuck to wait for reinforcements, and when my reinforcements go up, it will be her troops who will be dumplings? I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out. ”
Admiral Luther did not think that Ouyang Yu was capable of destroying his five divisions in a short period of time, so he sent a telegram to the five divisions on the front line, ordering them to defend on the spot to attract Ouyang Yu's army and wait for reinforcements to arrive.
When Ouyang Yu set up training troops in the Duchy of Lucerne, the Imperial Army was not idle, and there were more and more signs that Ouyang Yu's Army had become a big problem for the Phoenix Empire, and it was an even more difficult opponent than the Gallic Kingdom.
Before, the Eleventh Front Army only had 170,000 people, of which 100,000 were servant troops with low combat effectiveness, and they were also fighting in the four northern countries, and the imperial army also sent 20,000, and there were only 50,000 people left in the Gallic occupation area, how to fight with the 150,000 people under Ouyang Yu? So the Phoenix Imperial base camp in half a year, for the Eleventh Army successively transferred more troops, so General Luther had 210,000 troops under his command, in addition to the 120,000 troops who were attacking the four northern countries, the troops in the Gallic occupation area had 90,000 troops, as well as a large number of warplanes and tanks.
Admiral Luther had speculated that if Ouyang Yu launched an attack, she should send most of her forces to attack the 120,000 people in the four northern countries, because 100,000 of the 120,000 people were servant troops.
If Ouyang Yu really launched an attack as General Luther guessed, Admiral Luther could calmly order the troops attacking the four northern countries to withdraw as soon as they fought, and then command the troops in the Gallic occupation area to reinforce and cut off the supply line of Ouyang Yu's army from behind.
But Admiral Luther did not calculate that Ouyang Yu would attack the south first, don't look at the Gallic occupation area of only 90,000 people, but with more than 500 fighters, more than 700 tanks, and more than 1,000 magic crystal cannons, the combat effectiveness can be much stronger than the 120,000 people who attacked the four northern countries.
"Is the strongest and the weakest? ”
The fact that Ouyang Yu almost became the crown princess and her bloodline has basically spread under the impetus of some well-intentioned people, so General Lu De will be called His Royal Highness.