Chapter 24: Counterattack

Leclerc has been so happy lately that every morning when he wakes up, he goes to the map at the command post to look at it.

The places that were originally occupied by the red flag representing the Ming Dynasty have now all been replaced by blue.

The front is constantly expanding, and there is good news every day.

Either how many positions of the Ming army were occupied by such and such a unit, or how many troops repelled the Ming army.

Even the French army captured more than 200 Ming troops for the first time!

This was a huge result, and in the previous two months of fighting, more than 300 soldiers of the Ming army had been captured.

But now, in just four days, more than 200 Ming troops have been captured, which is a great victory.

Even Napoleon personally called and encouraged Leclerc.

The newspapers in Paris compared Leclerc to the French national hero, Joan of Arc.

Leclerc was so excited that he now carries the rank of lieutenant general on his shoulders.

After taking Tsaritsyn, the rank on the shoulders became general. In the future, maybe he will be able to become a marshal himself.

For the rank of marshal of Jin Cancan, Leclerc can be regarded as a long-awaited one.

The Ming prisoners were hard-headed goods, and the Ming Dynasty had offered a captive ten tons of gasoline in exchange for redemption.

Now that there is coal-based oil, there is no need to change the oil.

But the spare parts of various industrial products, as well as the diesel engines of the airships, all had to be exchanged by these Ming prisoners.

The prisoners were sent back to the rear of the battle line as soon as possible to avoid accidental injury by artillery fire.

These Ming prisoners were treated as soon as they were injured.

Use whatever medicine is good for. Anyway, as long as it is saved, it will be done, ignoring the cost and ignoring the cost.

The Ming prisoners, who were not injured, were entertained with delicious food and drink.

Not only bread, milk, ham, but even two packs of French camel cigarettes are available every day.

You know, French military academy-level officers are also this standard.

After four days of fierce fighting day and night, Tsaritsyn was mostly occupied by the French-led coalition forces.

The Ming army and the Russian army were compressed in the city on the banks of the Volga River, centered on the railway station.

In terms of area, the area controlled by the Ming army was already less than a quarter of Tsaritsyn.

"Tonight, we're going to attack the train station.

This is the last place that the Ming army and the Russian army can hold, and it is also the last stumbling block for us to seize Tsaritsyn.

As long as the railway station was captured, it would be possible to force the Ming army to blow up the bridge over the Volga.

But blowing up the bridge will not stop us, and we will cross the frozen Volga under the command of His Majesty the Emperor.

Pursue the Ming army all the way until they cut off their logistical supply line, the Central Asian Railway.

Gentlemen, by that time the war will be over. We don't have to stay in this damn place, we can go back to Paris. ”

Just this evening, Leclerc decided to take the railway station in one fell swoop and pull out the last strong stronghold of the Ming army in Tsaritsyn.

In winter, it usually gets dark early, and at half past four the sun has set, and the sky is gradually darkening.

By five o'clock, it was already dark.

The moon rises above the horizon and hangs in the sky like a disk.

Under the silver moon, there are ruins and rubble everywhere, and the exposed steel bars are like small grasses, forming a jungle of reinforced concrete.

A complete, mutilated corpse, lying across the rubble.

There are those who wear the uniforms of the Ming army, and there are those who wear the uniforms of the French army.

Darkness was the clarion call for the attack, and soon the French army began to move.

They still used the previous tactics, constantly using infantry fire to attract and lure the Ming army's machine guns and mortars into fire.

As long as the machine guns and artillery fire run away, the infantry guns behind will destroy them by name.

The Ming army is an army that cannot fight without machine guns and artillery, and in the battles of the previous few days, this is how they broke one Ming company after another.

Today, they think it will be the same as the other day.

But I didn't know that on the water tower of the station, the old monkey was holding a telescope and standing in front of the window to watch.

Behind him, there was a telephone line.

In front of another window of the water tower, two artillery counters stood.

They held artillery mirrors and kept an eye on the movements of the French army in the distance.

"Did you find it?"

"Nope!"

Holding a telescope and looking down condescendingly, no one found any trace of the infantry artillery.

But the old monkey knew that the French army was already eating all over the world. They're going to use infantry guns, they just don't know where they're going to hide.

"Let them set off firecrackers!" The old monkey saw that the French army had reached a distance of more than 400 meters.

The communicator immediately rushed out like an arrow in the ass!

After a while, a series of firecrackers sounded on the Ming army's position.

Although the sound was different from that of MG-42, the flash of the firecracker after the explosion was not much different from the muzzle fire.

Sure enough, it took less than half a minute. A cannonball whizzed and hit the firecracker that was exploding.

"Did you find it?" The old monkey saw nothing, and hurriedly asked the two reckoning soldiers.

"Found it, two kilometers away, on the edge of a ruined wall.

It's in the shadows, hard to spot. ”

As he spoke, the soldier walked over to the telephone and quickly reported a set of numbers.

This telephone was directly connected to the artillery positions of the Ming army's divisions on the other side of the Volga River.

Those 155-millimeter weapons of destruction have long been hungry and thirsty.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

……!

There were several loud explosions in quick succession, and everyone was terrified.

I've seen heavy artillery before, but I've never seen such a powerful heavy artillery.

A few shells fell, and the infantry cannon immediately disappeared into the thick smoke of gunpowder.

A 155-millimeter weapon that can knock over half a football field with a single shell.

That infantry cannon will not have half a chance to survive at all.

"Keep looking!"

The old monkey commanded, continued to hold the telescope, and touched about two kilometers away from the Ming army's position.

There is nothing wrong with standing high and looking far away, not to mention the help of high-powered telescopes.

Soon, the old monkey saw a shadow about two kilometers away, and suddenly there was a flash of light.

Hurriedly adjusted the focal length of the telescope and looked at it carefully.

The Calculator had already rushed to the phone and quickly reported a string of numbers.

Soon, the whistling shells smashed down on the side of the infantry gun again.

Even if it was smashed at a distance of three meters from an infantry gun, a 155-mm shell was just as deadly.

The huge explosion directly turned the infantry cannon back into a part state.

Not only on the water tower, but also on top of the reinforced concrete railway station building, there was also a group of observers.

The telephone line was directly connected to the regimental artillery battery in the rear, and six 105-mm howitzers were no less deadly.

As long as the French attacked, they would be taken care of by the artillery battery.

The shotgun filled with steel balls exploded almost like a web of steel balls.

All those who were caught in this net were all beaten into a sieve, and no one could escape.

What's even worse is that the rocket artillery of the Ming army also began to bombard the rear of the French army indiscriminately.

The French army, which was preparing to assemble, was also bombed, causing huge casualties almost instantly.

What made people even more desperate was that the roar of airships sounded in the sky.

The bombs carried by the airship were huge 1,000-kilogram heavy bombs.

The pits that fell to the ground were more than ten meters deep!

When a bomb falls, the power is devastating.

Even if you crouch behind cover, the huge shock wave can knock people to death.

"Anti-aircraft artillery regiment, why don't you open fire?" On the phone, Leclerc's angry roar was heard.

"The airship flew so high that you couldn't see the target at all." A helpless voice came from the other side of the phone.

"If you can't see the target, hit me!" Leclerc slammed the phone and sat in the command headquarters, gasping for air.

I don't know why, everything doesn't seem right tonight. The Ming army, which was retreating one after another, suddenly glowed with amazing combat effectiveness.

A variety of weapons were put into battle, and the French army was stunned for a while.