The Rise of the Empire

After the air forces of both sides were in a mess in the sky, the ground offensive also started. According to the scheduled plan, the artillery groups belonging to the army group suppressed the Allied positions in front of them with fire for three hours! The fully prepared German heavy artillery units were indeed extraordinary. Their actual performance proved that when their equipment was equivalent, their level was completely superior to that of Britain and France.

The medium-caliber rapid-fire artillery and 105MM howitzer located on the front line opened fire first. Their goal was to shoot down the opponent's bunkers and various anti-tank obstacles. Before the battle was launched, some artillery even advanced to a distance of less than 500 meters from the target. The door-center caliber rapid-fire cannon can send more than 6 rounds of shells to the bunker on the opposite side in one minute. Under the repeated hammering of the special armor-piercing projectiles, even the bunker made of reinforced concrete will be covered layer by layer like flour. Pierce it!

The attack was as violent as a volcanic eruption, but after the sudden attack, it quickly died down and shifted positions. When some artillery was moved from the unstable temporary positions, the French counterattack artillery was belatedly arrived, and then , the 105MM cannon and 150MM heavy howitzer deployed behind the front-line flat-fire artillery began to perform anti-artillery operations. The Germans divided the entire battlefield into grids. When it is discovered that there is counter-artillery fire in a certain grid, immediately concentrate heavy artillery for counter-suppression. In order to ensure the killing efficiency, some artillery units deployed at the front are even equipped with overweight concrete armor-piercing projectiles!

While light artillery and medium-range heavy artillery were clearing shallow positions, ultra-long-range artillery such as train guns and K09 cannons began to attack the Allies in depth, using firepower instead of troops to isolate the breakthrough positions, although such "isolation" could not Deals with armored units, but also slows down French support!

When the last round of shells rolled and plowed the position, the German armored forces almost launched the attack in the time it took for the last shell to fall.

"Tank attack!" Major Mike, who has been promoted to the commander of a large armored battalion, participated in the first wave of attacks. With the roar of the engine, the first company in the lead rushed out of the starting position, followed by the other two companies. A long armored spearhead formed behind it.

"Something's wrong!" When Captain Albert and his men rushed out of the bomb hole and entered the position, through the gradually dissipating smoke of gunpowder, he first noticed a strange smell in the air with his keen sense of smell. .

This is not just because the opposing tank is the fearsome Hu Feng, but also because the painting on the opposing tank is slightly darker than the Prussian troops. What's more important is that he can feel a kind of chill, order and an inexplicable pressure from the other party!

The opponent's armored assault tactics are different from those seen before. Whether it is the French or the Prussians, their attacks are simple and rough. The armored battalion will spread out a very wide front, one battalion can spread out 2 kilometers wide! They simply regarded the tanks as mobile bunkers, while the defensive artillery on the opposite side regarded them as moving targets. After experiencing the initial fear, the defenders actually were not very fond of tanks. Afraid. But it's different now.

"The opponent is as sharp as a sharpened spearhead! Their attack front is very narrow. This does not mean that the formation is too close. On the contrary, their tanks maintain a distance of nearly 50 meters, making it easy to move forward easily. and retreat, the most terrifying thing is their flexible tactics and correct disposal!" After the war, Albert described the Bavarian armored forces this way.

800 meters, 600 meters, 500 meters! When the front half of the huge wedge-shaped attack formation is only 500 meters away from the opponent's position, the tanks on both wings are still about 800 meters away! Before the attack, Mike had studied breakthrough positions. It would be unwise to attack in places where the defense line is relatively long, such as tortuous or diagonal positions, because the opponent can deploy a large number of troops and weapons in such areas. Therefore, the Bavarian armored elites chose a straight front as a breakthrough!

The wedge-shaped attack formation also has another advantage. There is a vertical distance of about 300 meters between the tanks on both sides and in the middle. However, this seemingly small distance makes the defender very uncomfortable. At 400 meters, 75 rapid fire The gun can already threaten the Cricket Tank, but at the same time it does not pose any threat to the tanks 700 meters away on both sides. The distance of 300 meters can already prevent the 75 gun grenade from penetrating the armor on the opposite side! And at this time, are you going to fight or not?

400 meters, 300 meters! When the forward tanks almost stuck to the French defense line, the first company's tanks quickly stopped, and then used 2-pound guns or 75MM rapid-fire guns to start clearing the remaining fire points. When the dense machine shells and 75mm grenades are hitting the head, no matter how calm the soldier is, he can't face the steel storm at such a close range!

"The Dragonfly team suppressed the target, and the Hornet team began to change into a horizontal team!" When the tanks at the spearhead began to fire freely, the tanks on the two wings also began to change formations, turning the formation originally used for breakthroughs into a more conducive to linear combat. List. The French machine guns and grenades were unable to stop those steel monsters at all. The advancing armored troops easily shattered each machine gun bunker into pieces with grenades. Groups of soldiers were attacked by German armored grenadiers deployed behind them with mortars and machine guns. They were driven out of the trenches and swept to the ground like wheat. Although the German attack did not last long, the entire defense line was already crumbling.

"Fire the rapid-fire cannon immediately!" Captain Albert finally couldn't hold it any longer. At this time, he no longer cared about the opponent's weirdness. He just hoped that the 12 75MM rapid-fire cannon deployed behind the position could block the opponent's attack.

But it is a pity that two of them have been destroyed by flying artillery shells. The ten 75MM cannons almost launched an attack on the target close at hand. A rapid-fire cannon hidden in a semi-buried bunker shook slightly, and a car was close to it. Only a ball of flame burst out from the front of the Cricket tank, which was only 200 meters away.

Although they are artillery pieces, due to their ultra-high rate of fire, these 10 artillery pieces even gave people the feeling of machine guns. In less than 2 minutes, these artillery pieces projected more than 3 digits of firepower to the armored units on the opposite side. Cannonballs! The well-concealed artillery positions and sudden attacks did cause the German armored forces to suffer some losses, but it was just a small trouble! This will be the last performance of this rapid-fire artillery position!

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