Chapter Seventy-Nine: Cavalry, Cavalry (I)

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"Your Excellency, good news, great victory, great victory!"

An officer suddenly burst into Admiral Bonaparte's office like crazy, waving a battle report in his hand.

"Your Excellency Commander, I have just received a battle report, the Independent Tank Battalion, with the cooperation of the Lucerne garrison, successfully defeated more than 20,000 people of the Second Army of the Fifth Front Army of the Imperial Army outside Norin City, destroyed forty-six tanks of the Imperial Army, shot down 22 Imperial Army fighters, hundreds of magic crystal cannons of various types, and there were 2,000 captured Imperial Army soldiers alone, and their own losses were slight, not a single MKI tank was damaged, and now the Independent Tank Battalion and the Lucerne Garrison are pursuing the Second Army of the Imperial Army and striving for total annihilation!"

Admiral Bonaparte, who had heard the news of defeat, defeat or defeat for several days, stood up excitedly as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, snatched the battle report, and couldn't wait to put on his reading glasses and look at it carefully.

"Yes, yes!" Admiral Bonaparte was in a good mood after reading the battle report. Immediately send a copy of this battle report to His Majesty to make him happy, and then send someone to inform Mr. Azrael, tell him that I need more MKI tanks, let him send as many as he has now, and finally send an order to Colonel Marshall, asking him to evacuate from Norin Town immediately, since the siege of Norin City has been lifted, it is not much use for him to stay there, and other fronts need his strength more, and send an order to Colonel Ouyang, asking her to take Norin City as soon as she sees it is her main task. ”

"Yes!" the officer saluted, turned and hurried out of Admiral Bonaparte's office.

At almost the same time, the commander of the Fifth Front of the Imperial Army, Grand Duke Philip, commander of the Fifth Front of the Imperial Army, was also studying the battle report sent by Lieutenant General Merlin with his officers.

"The coalition forces of the eastern countries also have their own magic tanks and their combat power is good, our army's wolf tank is not an opponent at all, and the earth turtle tank can not cause damage to the coalition tank, how to deal with the coalition tank, everyone can talk about their opinions. ”

The officers on both sides of the long conference table look at me, I look at you, no one dares to stand up and speak, with the emergence of new weapons such as tanks and fighters, the mode of war in another world has changed dramatically, so that most people have not had time to adapt, and new military ideas have not appeared in time, so when Archduke Philip asked this, the officers below all became dumb.

Grand Duke Philip sighed helplessly, the officers' performance was expected by him, but he didn't mean to blame, because he was also one of those who didn't have time to adapt, and how could he blame the people below if he couldn't do it himself.

"Knock knock, excuse me. ”

A soldier walked into the conference room and handed a telegram to Grand Duke Philip, who took it and looked at it and immediately looked overjoyed, and said loudly: "Everyone, there is a way to deal with the tanks of the coalition army, and our army's Falcon attack aircraft are the best tank killers, and now I order the entire army's Falcon attack aircraft to temporarily stop the air raids on the coalition forces and assemble in the direction of Caen, preparing to destroy the coalition tank forces in one fell swoop." ”

With the method of destroying the coalition tanks, the topic of this meeting moved to the next item, that is, how to save the defeated Second Army, and how to deal with Ouyang Yu's army in Norin Town, Ouyang Yu's army has now become the most troublesome force on the northern front of the imperial army, and several battles with Ouyang Yu's army The imperial army ended in defeat, and within the Fifth Front Army and the Ninth Front Army, although it is not possible to talk about Ouyang Yu's army, there is still some fear of war, but this does not mean that everyone is afraid of Ouyang Yu's army.

"Your Excellency the Grand Duke, please send me to battle!" said a lieutenant general who stood up and looked at Grand Duke Philip and said loudly, this lieutenant general was not an officer of the Phoenix Empire, but a cavalry major general of the El Heights Kingdom, a vassal of the Phoenix Empire, Count Wilson.

When the Phoenix Empire unified the Western Continent, the El Highland Kingdom has been loyal to the Phoenix Empire for hundreds of years, so the El Kingdom Army was allowed to wear the military uniform of the Imperial Army, and only used the flag of the El Kingdom on its right arm to distinguish it.

The king of the El Highlands is the best warrior in the national style, and the kingdom's specialty El Ma is the best war horse, so the army of the El Kingdom who participated in the Eastern Continent strategy is also all brave and good at fighting cavalry, and in the more than 30 years since the war, he has created many battles that even the generals of the imperial army are blushing, and the trust of the emperor is deep.

The cavalry units of the Kingdom of El Heights suffered heavy losses in the previous major battles, so Grand Duke Philip arranged for them to return to the rear to rest, and while waiting for reinforcements, they were responsible for clearing out the guerrillas and resistance groups in the occupied area, and they had only recently returned to the front as a strategic reserve, so they had not yet fought with Ouyang Yu's army, although they had heard the rumors of Ouyang Yu's army, but the arrogant Lieutenant General Wilson was afraid that the generals of the imperial army would be afraid of an army led by a woman and sneered, so he took the initiative to ask Grand Duke Philip to fight。

Grand Duke Philip thought about it, the current coalition resistance on all fronts of the Gallic Kingdom is relatively fierce, and it is difficult to send troops to reinforce Lieutenant General Merlin's Second Army, and the cavalry troops of the El Kingdom move quickly, the combat effectiveness is also very good, and they have just finished recuperating and are at their peak, which is the best choice for reinforcing the Second Army.

"Alright, then your Sixth Cavalry Corps will set out to reinforce Lieutenant General Merlin once it is ready. ”

"Yes, I'll go and prepare now!"

Lieutenant General Wilson moved quickly, and by the afternoon Archduke Philip had received news that the Sixth Cavalry Corps had departed.

A day later, one hundred and twenty kilometers southwest of Norin City, a rather embarrassed Lieutenant General Merlin stuck out his tongue and licked his chapped lips, looking at the battlefield hundreds of meters away with a telescope, he and his group army headquarters were surrounded by the pursuing Ouyang Yu army.

His Second Army had not recovered since it was routed outside Norin, and although Colonel Marshall's independent tank battalion had withdrawn, Ouyang Yu sent her troops to pursue the Imperial Second Army day and night, and Lieutenant General Merlin's Second Army was broken up and divided, and it was difficult for the soldiers to be organized for effective resistance.

Now fighting the pursuing Ouyang Yu Army is the only formed unit under his command, the Fourth Division, which is now struggling to resist the attack of Ouyang Yu's eight battalions with the help of the remnants of the Second Army's tank troops. (Since there is no establishment above the regimental level, the maximum establishment of the protagonist's army is the battalion level.) )

Nearly half of the 100 or so tanks of the Second Army were destroyed outside the town of Norin, and the remaining half were discarded during the retreat due to mechanical problems and energy problems, and now there are only 22 of them, and all of them are mistakenly used as fixed batteries.

The Fourth Division of the Imperial Army occupied a vantage point on the high ground, and with the cover of twenty-two wolf bushes and earth turtle tanks, the eight battalions of Ouyang Yu's army launched several attacks, all of which were beaten back, and were ordered by Ouyang Yu, who came in a hurry, to suspend the attack.

This battle exposed a lot of problems in Ouyang Yu's army, the most prominent is that there are no senior officers above the regimental level, and the troops scattered out cannot form a powerful fist for each other, because the command distance is limited, Ouyang Yu has to run around to command the troops, and he is exhausted after a day and a night, and now he is holding on to command the battle with two black circles under his eyes.

Ouyang Yu's arrival gave the eight battalions a brain, no longer only fierce and fierce, under her command, the eight battalions concentrated all the mortars, and carried out a fierce artillery bombardment towards the south of the high ground, and at the same time, the six battalions of the other three sides launched a feint attack together, and the two battalions in the south also launched the main attack under the cover of artillery fire.

An anti-tank gun squad of Ouyang Yu's army pushed an M1930 37-mm anti-tank gun, and found a low bush on the way to attack, and the soldiers quickly pushed the anti-tank gun into the bushes and hid it.

At the beginning of 1930, the Soviet Union introduced the Pak36 37-mm anti-tank gun from Germany. After obtaining the production license of the German company Rheinland, the Soviet Union began to copy it and finalized it as the M1930 type, which became the first anti-tank gun officially equipped by the Soviet Red Army, and the effectiveness of the Pak36 37-mm anti-tank gun mainly lies in its mobility. It was a light artillery with a total combat weight of only 432kg, and the gun was run on two large wheels equipped with pneumatic tires, and it was not difficult to operate the gun by relying on gunner squad manpower.

However, the Pak36 37 mm anti-tank gun, or the M1930 37 mm anti-tank gun, is not very strong in armor piercing, and can only deal with some light armored targets, such as the wolf tank of the Imperial Army, but it is powerless to deal with the Earth Turtle Tank with inclined armor, but the M1917 88 mm anti-aircraft gun that can penetrate the Earth Turtle Tank is inconvenient to transport, and can only be used for defensive warfare and cannot keep up with the speed of mobile offensive warfare。

Although the M1930 37-mm anti-tank gun is not armor-piercing, this gun can fire super-caliber grenades, which are powerful enough to penetrate 127-millimeter-thick armor plates. This type of artillery grenade is fired using empty shells. Beyond a distance of 183 meters, its accuracy deviates considerably, as the body tube does not actually give it the correct direction of flight. Another major disadvantage of this type of grenade is that the gunner can only reload if he goes around the muzzle, which not only requires extraordinary bravery on the part of the gunner, but also makes the chances of a second shot almost negligible under intense enemy fire.

However, the M1930 37mm anti-tank gun is only a transitional weapon for Ouyang Yu, and there are not many turtle tanks in the imperial army, and there are only two in the south, she believes that all the twelve M1930 37mm anti-tank guns use super-caliber grenades, and they can be killed in two rounds at most.