"On the eve of our arrival at the front line, the Germans launched a face attack, and more than 6,000 artillery pieces were prepared to fire on the front line for more than five hours." The major bit off half of the biscuits and returned them to the commandant, leaning against the sandbag with a faint pain, and smiled bitterly. "The third army asked us to withdraw the second line of defense of the 239th Reserve Regiment, but before withdrawing, the 239th Regiment had lost more than half of its troops and heavy weapons. The second line of defense was broken after only one day of support. I led the Pioneer Battalion foot and followed the big army to withdraw the third line of defense.
"The Germans actually run faster than you?" Captain waffle felt that his throat was a little tight. If the major hadn’t lied, according to the speed of the Germans’ advance, their striker should be near Cray.
"It is said that the Germans put a new weapon similar to a truck, and the speed of invulnerability is faster than manpower." The major seems unwilling to jump into the topic of those terrible nightmares. "The general front line has collapsed, the German pioneers have begun to cross the Watts River, and we have a regiment left behind. The whole battlefield on the north bank of the Watts River is a mess. We French, British, Belgians and damn Germans are all mixed up.",
"Boss, we have reinforcements!"
It is still a high-altitude lookout. Wafer turned his head and was surprised to see a train coming from Paris.
The train slipped into the specific traffic line not far away, and the iron gate of the wagon was pulled open. Travel-stained soldiers jumped into the military vehicle like dumplings, and the officers waved their arms to tie the knot. The artillery and riflemen of his team were busy carrying artillery and machine gun parts.
"The 93rd division 264 group car! I need at least two layers of trenches for engineers to grab positions; Machine gunners and hunters look for commanding heights; The artillery quickly hid our’ Miss France’! "
The officer with the rank of colonel urged his soldiers to come to the circular sandbag again.
"The German striker is about to arrive in Cray. If the Germans successfully occupy the traffic line and advance even a small step, they can set up artillery positions and shell Paris with long-range artillery!" The school has a bright eye and does not argue. "Major and commandant, I don’t care which army you belong to. It is your mission to defend Paris here!"
"I have been ordered to retreat to Paris, and you will be incorporated into our troops!" The major, who had just jumped out of the German encirclement, jumped up with a lingering fear, and he dared not stay with the Germans to continue fighting.
"Shut up, you disgrace to the French army!" The school pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the major angrily. "There are too many cowards like you on the front line to be so defeated!"
Surrounded by school hands and not to be outdone, the defeated troops grabbed rifles and pointed them at their compatriots, Clay, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Looking at pulling a gun at one of our own people, two men couldn’t get in. Captain Wafer was a little depressed and threw away the maggot biscuits in his hand and hummed the song "Brothers with Passion and Long Hair Soldiers"
"Not everyone has no choice but to take shells.
This is nothing but white.
If you want to fight at the front
But also workers and notaries.
(When you get to heaven, the emperor will ask)
What did you do before the war?
Farming my emperor … "
The boom gun rang.
The earth was shaken, blackened and sticky, the mud was soft, the black soil was broken, the limbs and bloody brains were flying around, and the young lady was in awe. 75 was broken into pieces, the trees were burning and the branches were broken, and the ring sandbags of the machine guns collapsed. Some kind of trajectory was curved, and the shells were plundered in the trenches. Nearly two meters deep, they rampaged and brought clouds of blood and fog.
More than ten minutes, the fire covered the ground and was reshaped again. The bottom of the trench was not continuous, and it was already mixed with feces and mud, adding a new look. Se overflowed the ankle mud, and the water carried a bloody smell. Even the rats fled with their heads. Captain Wafer pulled open the cover and loosened the soil for more than a foot, which made a blind eye to several nearby brothers in arms. Se grabbed a Lebel rifle and stood on his companion’s body and carefully poked his head out.
The air was filled with choking smoke, the land was burning, and the thick night blocked the line of sight, but the captain vaguely heard a mechanical sound similar to the rotation of a chain or winch, and occasionally sharp metal friction
Capturing the Lebel rifle, Captain Waffler’s pupil unconsciously enlarged and then enlarged, and the fighting morale of France was gradually heading for collapse to be continued.
The second gun Chapter 17 Declare war on France (2)
(Well, I admit I’m shamefully putting together words again. There’s no end to irrigation …)
In mid-April, the Vaz River in France has not yet entered the flood season, and it is not wide. There is a simple pontoon bridge made of steel plates across the river.
Diesel engine roared "Uncle Hans" in the mouth of imperial infantry. A later standard classification belongs to the early light tank A7V land cruiser. The narrow and simple pontoon staggered forward.
A7V land cruiser is the first land cruiser in Germany with a weight of 77 tons, a length of 5 meters, a width of 17 meters and a height of 229 meters. The maximum speed is 1 km/hour and the maximum stroke is 39 km. The engine, gearbox and driving wheel are driven at the rear end of the car body. The front end of the car body is improved from the navy’s 45 mm naval gun. The rotatable turret is located in the middle of the car body to occupy the commanding height of the car, while the cockpit is located in front of the turret.
On April 7, 1915, the tragic battle of Paris was officially launched. The cover of three imperial land cruisers and dragoons broke through four positions on the French front line for a while.
This land cruiser unit belongs to three dragoons in history, to be exact, the second company of the third dragoons in Bavaria has 16 A7V land cruisers and six vehicles improved by adding defensive armor to trucks. The second company of transport vehicles fought and killed from the French position with a defense depth of more than 60 kilometers. Commander Major Franz von Ai Hald led the rapid advance to picardie Cray through a simple pontoon bridge temporarily built by the engineering company of the dragoons. "
Cray is a small town on the banks of the Vaz River, guarding the railway line to Paris, but it is the capital of France. Menachey means that the local railway network can quickly infiltrate Paris in the early stage and transport troops and materials in the later stage.
The land cruiser company crossed the Watts River near the river, and the road was still muddy. The crawler stirred up the mud all over the ground and splashed in the sky. The infantry at the top of the land cruiser complained
Actually, these infantry don’t belong to Major Franz von Ai Hald’s land cruiser company. Because the former land cruisers are too rebellious, they are not prepared to passively accept the Allies or take the initiative to attack the Allies. On the third day of the Paris campaign, the war began to become a mess.
The attacking striker Land Cruiser Company took the lead in cutting through the French defense line, and the deep area of the French defense position ran amok. Many companies have gone deep behind the enemy lines, leaving the friendly forces and the enemy behind. The French and a small number of British troops were defeated, ranging from three to five people, and the company-level scale was used. Compiegne province and the north of Vaz were running around looking for the possibility of breaking through.
In order to encircle the defeated army, the western high command kept its fist, and at the same time, it had to divide its troops and divide its troops to the last front line. The commander was embarrassed to find that they could not find a complete division-level battle sequence. The German army had to slow down its offensive and gather troops.
Although the enemy forces in front of the company are unknown and the location of the nearest friendly forces is known, Major Franz von Ai Hald has no intention of worrying or restraining.
Major Franz von Ai Hald also has 13 land cruisers, 7 1 chariots and 4 engineering chariots (including the engineering company of the third dragoon regiment). Taking advantage of the chaos in the battlefield, Major Franz von Ai Hald pulled and pulled away more than 400 infantry and five 15 mm artillery batteries. Now those five 15 mm guns are hanging behind 1 chariot.
Twist my head to look at that majestic company, Major Franz von Ai Hald. He is full of pride and lofty sentiments. The dragon cavalry regiment of the land cruiser has no battalion establishment. The rank of company commander Franz von Ai, Major Hald, is somewhat unworthy. Major Ma Zhuang’s battalion commander has finally settled down. The only fly in the ointment is that Franz von Ai’s Hald cavalry company doesn’t even have a cavalry.
"What can a cavalry company do without cavalry!"
Major Franz von Ai Hald’s rank is full of prison. sā, if he knew that his overstaffed second company was the only one of the three million German troops crossing the Watts River, a recent friendly army was still in prison through a whole French language. sā, I’m afraid it would become swearing.
It is not that the friendly forces are too weak, but that 144 land cruisers of the three dragoons are exhausted.
In the past week, one land cruiser after another was immature, and the diesel engine lacked fuel, improper maintenance and infantry protection, and the second company of the vertical and horizontal trenches was able to go so far thanks to the following action engineering company and the coordinated infantry.
"What? We don’t call it Dragon Ride, but a puzzling land cruiser. How can a marine weapon have a very naval name …"
Major complained that Martin Bowman also complained that the name Land Cruiser was too "navy" to spare. Bowman twisted it again, which was harder than the steel plate of ass Land Cruiser. Black bread and cooked beef turned to Julius Raber and asked, "Is there any sugar left in Julie?"
"It is said that the Land Cruiser was inspired by General Heidi Selim, and this weapon was first designed by the Navy’s Land Warship Committee. More than half of its army designers were from ship designers …"
Julius Rabe dug out a piece of folded waterproof oil paper from his dirty satchel, took it apart, twisted up a little brown bread and put it in Bowman’s hand, and then chewed the hard cooked beef.
"I said, guys, when I get back to my hometown of Redstone on the day of the end of the war, my wife of more than 300 Jin will definitely ask me how the army is doing and how the food is. Then I will be proud to tell my wife that your man’s army is tired of eating beef every day!"
"Ha-ha …" Hitchhikers laughed because it was a rare pleasure.
"Wait a minute!"
The land cruiser sā at the head moved a hitchhiker, and the infantry grabbed rifles and jumped on the land cruiser, hiding their bodies at the back of the car and following the chariot. Its conductor poked his head out of the hatch at the top of the turret and gestured to the back "height jǐng".
"There should be a trench platform before and after the traffic station on the outskirts of Cray, and there are some circular sandbags near the building, but the quality of the fortifications is generally not high and the trenches are not coherent. It is about 20 meters on the left side of the railway line. There may be 75 guns in the Woods behind the hunting platform, but the number will never exceed five."
Waiting for the command vehicle, the 45 mm turret of the second land cruiser, Major Franz von Ai Hald put on his glasses and turned to make a "wedge attack" gesture behind him.
"All infantry vehicles should pay attention to hiding behind the chariot, protect the chariot from advancing to the trench, and pay attention to clearing the trench. The principle of not accepting surrender is that the cavalry company discharges the wedge formation and follows the command vehicle. I want to chisel through the Frenchman!"
On April 14, 1915, the train station outside the city of Cray started the brutal Paris campaign, and the first phase of the million-strong army to kill Cray started the battle.
15 mm guns and 45 mm guns were slightly behind. At the beginning of the hūn battlefield, it was suffocating and filled with smoke and flames. The French position was as silent as death.