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Orleans, 6 B, 257 (196 AD).

Early this morning, with the roar of the machine, hundreds of steel monsters appeared on the battlefield.

The monsters rushed out from behind the lines of the British and French troops, and through the passage specially set aside by Guò, they quickly crossed the dense fortifications constructed by the Entente. They let out a loud roar, and the exhaust pipe spewed billowing fumes as they swooped forward in a shocking gesture.

They drove almost unstoppably across the ground in front of the fortifications, which had been left with a large number of craters due to the long fighting, and when the rainy season began, these craters became difficult to move on. This is also one of the reasons why the warring sides can't open the situation, if nothing else, this road alone is enough for the soldiers to be sour. Not to mention the two days of rain that had started the day before, and it had only stopped last night, and today it was as rotten as a swamp, and the water was almost knee-deep.

But these impassable and extremely unfriendly terrain did not stop the advance of these monsters. But even so, their mobility is greatly limited, and they can no longer walk on the ground as they did just now. At least eight tanks lay in this terrible quagmire, and the crew members on top had to stay where they were and wait for help.

Although there were some minor obstacles, this loss was acceptable for the Allies' armored forces, which numbered more than 1,000 vehicles. Their large forces quickly broke out of the mire and came to the front of the German positions.

However, the German positions today are quiet. It stands to reason that the noise caused by a few hundred steel monsters is quite loud, and it can be heard from several kilometers away, and it is impossible not to hear it as long as you are not deaf. If such a big movement was heard, even a group of militiamen should have reacted.

On a command tank in the rear of the British army, Brigadier General Beckham also noticed the abnormality, his brows furrowed, and he couldn't help but say to himself: "What's the matter, are those German soldiers stupid?" He is the brigade commander of the Royal 1st Tank Brigade and the commander-in-chief of the British and French tank forces this time.

He immediately connected to the commander of the vanguard on the Guò radio: "Battalion Commander Owen, I'm Beckham, there is something wrong with the Germans, you should immediately send someone to see what is going on on the Germans' side?"

Yes, Beckham used a car radio station In the history of the original time and space, the tank mounted radio did not wait until World War II. But the plane is different, over the years, China has produced a large number of electronic products, so that the earth of the plane has accelerated into the electric age. Take radio as an example, in the First World War of the original time and space, radio was not very popular, and many troops were not equipped with it. But now it's different, the original production is scarce, only the rich and handsome can afford to use, very tall radio stations, soon appeared a large number of quality and reasonable price of Chinese goods. So now a lot of troops have installed radios. Not only is radio more popular, but other electronic products are similar, but now the electronic product market in Europe and the United States is basically dominated by Chinese products.

The current British Mark 2 tank is also equipped with a radio station, but only the command tank above the company commander has it, and the company commander can only command his subordinates by signal flags, signal lights or gestures, and a voice. This is due to the fact that the price of radio stations has not decreased, despite the increase in the number of radio stations nowadays. The difficulty of popularizing the radio stations in the original time and space in World War I was not a problem of price, but also because the output could not be reached, and the quality was also very poor, and there were often problems. Although the price of Chinese-made radio stations is still the same as that of European and American products, the quality is passable, so it is still cost-effective. But no matter what, no matter how cost-effective this thing is, the price is still very touching, and Niu Niu is reluctant to equip the big soldiers no matter how rich he is.

"Yes, General......" Battalion Commander Owen hurriedly agreed. Turning his head, he immediately contacted the company commander at the front. "Neville, General Beckham wants to know why the Germans are not respond......ing?

"Yes, battalion commander, we'll go right over," Neville replied over the radio.

The six Mark 2 tanks at the front immediately picked up speed and rumbled to the front of the German position. These hulking parallelogram monsters let out a loud roar, spitting black smoke, and rushed into the German defenses, their tracks overwhelming the barbed wire that had blocked countless infantry, easily crossing the trenches that the infantry could not cross, and crushing some of the German fortifications at the front.

However, the Germans still did not move, and the entire position was dead silent, except for the roar of tanks.

Neville's company commander's tank came to a halt after crossing a trench, and he poked out his head to look left and right, and exclaimed, "How can there be no one?

The other tanks under his command saw that the company commander had stopped, and they also stopped.

Neville got out of the tank and shouted at the car behind him, "Cole, Cole, do you hear me? Tell the infantry on the mother tank to go down and see where the damn Germans are dead?"

Now the tank configuration of the British army is three pairs of tanks per company, half male and half female. This incident was spit out by the Chinese observers for a long time, and Colonel Yang Ning turned this matter into China as a joke, saying that this is "the chariot version of the male and female matching, so that the life is not tired".

But to be honest, their configuration is quite reasonable, the male tank is responsible for the battle, and the female tank carries the infantry to follow up and cover, playing the role of an infantry fighting vehicle, albeit a weakened version.

Neville's three mother tanks were carrying three infantrymen, and when they received the order, they jumped out of the tanks. They split into six groups, armed with Enfield rifles, and cautiously looked around.

After a while, the soldiers reported one after another: there were no German troops on the position, let alone German troops, and even rats were not seen.

Neville was also dumbfounded when he received the report, could it be that the Germans had run away? He immediately got out of the car and checked for himself, and found that all the trenches and fortifications were empty, and there was not a single human hair. He took a closer look and found that although the Germans had retreated in a hurry, they had taken everything with them. In this unmanned position, empty canned food boxes, bullet shells, packing boxes and other garbage were discarded everywhere, as well as some damaged weapons and equipment, and even a damaged Liberation truck was found.

"Boom......" Neville kicked away an empty canning box on the floor, and said angrily, "Farke, these Germans have run away"

"Company commander, company commander, we found a few boxes of canned food and drinks" The soldiers of Group B ran over with a box on their shoulders.

"We found a headquarters in front, we looked around, there was no one in it, there were no weapons, and we found these things in a cabinet......" said the leader of Group B with a smile.

When Neville saw it, he smiled: "Good guys, it's canned dace with tempeh, and canned coconut meat, and even chocolate." Well, there's ...... Oh God, there's Red Bull my favorite thing," Neville picked up a few cans of Red Bull and stuffed them into his pocket, opened another one on the spot and took a big sip.

"Lads, you're in luck. The Germans forgot about these good things, this is our trophy, hahahaha...... Everybody came over and divided these things."

Of course, when Neville was dividing the spoils, he didn't forget to report the situation to his superiors.

"What? The Germans actually ran away, who can sue me, what the hell is going on?" Brigadier General Beckham immediately froze after receiving the report.

The army that led the tiger and wolf came violently, but he punched him in the air, and this feeling made him feel bad.

"Obviously it was still there yesterday, damn it"

Yesterday the two armies also engaged in "daily" operations, but early this morning there was no one. This strange situation made him very uncomfortable. Of course, he was not naïve enough to think that the Germans were cowards, and he immediately felt that the Germans must have some conspiracy.

However, this situation did not allow him to think too much, his task was to break through the German positions, and now it was completed without firing a single shot. As for what's next?

When the Allied Command received the report from Brigadier General Beckham, it was also wide-eyed and completely incomprehensible to what the Germans were doing. It would be illogical to say that those lines of defense were also built by the Germans after more than a year of hard work, so that they don't want to do it. Even if it's to lure the enemy deeper, it's not so good.

However, it doesn't matter, since we have broken through the opponent's defense line, let's quickly occupy it, and we have to send a good news back first, so that the people can also hear the good news of our victory.

After sending a good news to the two bigwigs who were waiting for him, Haig and Foch continued to look at each other. Nima, where did this German go?

Downp.

Tump is a small town north of Orleans, located on the railway from Orleans to Paris, about 6 km from Orleans.

Because of the importance of the location of Downpup, after the town was occupied by the Germans, the Germans relocated the local residents. It was turned into a barracks, mainly as a supply center for the front. Now, there are so many more Germans than usual that not only is the town full, but even outside the town is covered with tents.

That's right, the German troops, which the Entente did not find, are now hiding here. Taking advantage of the rain yesterday and the inability of the Allied planes to move, they began to retreat here, leaving only a few troops at the front, and in the evening, even these few people were withdrawn.

At this time, in a tent outside the town, several young officers of the 1st Armored Division were gathering to laugh.

"The Entente guys wouldn't have thought we'd retreat to the back, hahahaha......" Captain Rommel smirked.