Chapter 41 The First Demonstration of the Beast
The 10 kilometers north of Nancy City is now the area controlled by the German army. Here, whether it is trenches, barbed wire or anti-infantry mines, they are all arranged properly. At least they think that these things are enough to deal with the French.
Therefore, the German soldiers who had been busy for several days on the front of these without artillery, thought they could take a good rest, and the remaining problems needed to be solved by waiting for the heavy artillery troops from the front of Verdun.
As Ruiwu Lubery followed Tang Yunyang's order to create the illusion that the aircraft lacked ammunition, the German defense line was finally established. Although there were no decent bunkers, mortar positions, and anti-aircraft gun positions, it was a trench after all, which made the soldiers feel at ease.
The iron wing crew patrols the sky in the sky every day according to the scheduled shifts, and from time to time they knocked out the Germans to build heavy artillery positions. As for anti-aircraft guns, the Germans had long hidden them in some forests. They knew that the things that the guys flying in the sky disliked the most. If they were discovered by them, they would never let them go without eating or sleeping.
In addition, their lives are much better than when they broke through the French front just now. It seems that there are fewer planes in the sky, and bombs and bullets seem to have a slight lack of them. These are things that the German infantry like.
When the sky just lights up today, the screams of the plane engines came faintly from the sky. Their purpose seemed to be to disturb people's sleep. However, the German infantry were used to these guys here, and if they were not there, the German soldiers would feel less used to it.
In fact, these aircraft that were specially arranged to disturb the chaos have been flying for several days. The purpose is to make the German soldiers on the position familiar and try to disrupt the time they discovered the armored cluster. The sound of the engine of the low-flying aircraft will also obscure the sound of the approaching tank engines to increase the suddenness of the attack.
Amid the roar of the huge engine, Thunder International's armored cluster was like a group of beasts that had been dormant for a long time, poking its head out of the slightly foggy ground in Nancy City today.
The head platoon of tanks is followed by a considerable number of armored vehicles.
Thunder International's armored combat vehicles are a little better than those used by the French army. They are equipped with a roof panel using plywood. Although they do not have bulletproof capabilities, they can prevent grenades from falling into the car and can also protect soldiers from wind and rain.
Compared with tanks, the manufacturing level of armored combat vehicles is higher. After all, these things have existed in the army for a long time, but tanks are not like this. Although the mpm-type tanks have made the company's engineers devote all their efforts, they still often fail like almost all current tanks.
Li Erganzi was so angry that he cursed at the phone.
"Damn it, let's drop the chain at a critical moment. Hurry up, go find your company's rescue vehicle, and return to the team quickly after repairing it!"
Fortunately, whether it is armored infantry or tank battalion, each company is equipped with a tank repair vehicle using a tank chassis, with a small number of spare parts and cranes on it. On the battlefield, they can re-submit these steel beasts to fight in a very short time.
As the group of beasts let out fearful roars, they appeared in front of the German infantry's positions. The thick tracks and the mines were crushed one by one. The flying shrapnel made the giant steel beasts "kink" sound. But they didn't care, shaking their bodies on the uneven ground and continued to squeeze forward.
The German soldiers who had been tired all night and had just fallen asleep woke up from the shouts of the observation post.
"Fight, fight, the enemy attacks!"
The infantry curled up at the bottom of the trench helplessly leaned on the rifle in their hands and lay on the sandbags in front of the trench. With sleepy eyes, the infantrymen who had fought on the Western Front carefully poked their heads out. At the same time, they also had a little doubt in their hearts.
"What are these French people playing? Attacks without artillery fire? Never listen... Those, look at what those are..."
No matter the veterans, new soldiers, soldiers, or officers, they were all stunned by what they saw.
Under the mist in the morning, some vehicles with such weird appearances were coming to their positions. It seemed that they were not fast and even shaking when they moved. What was worrying was that neither the barbed wire in front nor the anti-infantry mines that could not stop them from moving under their tracks.
“Gagaha…”
The sound of machine guns in the early morning sounded a little awkward. On the battlefield, as a defensive weapon, the machine gun that soldiers trusted the most was always the first to fire.
Tracer bombs hit the big guys and were bounced toward the sky, and these actions obviously angered them.
Moreover, these guys opened fire soon. In the long gun barrel, the fire tongue would be quickly spurted out during the short stop of the tank. The commander's machine gun also used tracer bullets to indicate the target for the gunners of his tank.
"Follow my machine gun instructions, I knocked the machine gun nest."
When the fight really started, Li Erganzi had to return to his position as the captain. There he had a machine gun, which was used to indicate the target, and his other function was to protect the tank from attacks by enemy infantry.
The cannon leader in the turret, according to Li Erganzi's order, stared at the periscope command mirror and indicated the direction to the gunner.
"Distance 300, 5 degrees to the right of the azimuth, target enemy machine gun nest, shrapnel, ready to... release!"
With his order, the gunner pulled the trench and the shell was immediately fired.
The machine gun nest was blown into the sky under the gaze of Li Erganzi. With the sound of shell explosions, the machine gunner and his assistant flew up together, while the heavy machine gun was splashing in black soil, turning from inside to outside.
"keep going!"
The tank was filled with the smell of coughing gas after the shells were fired, and then it was discharged from the vehicle by the exhaust device. At this time, the tank was swaying on the rugged road and began to move forward slowly.
All 60 tanks, plus a large number of armored infantry fighting vehicles, and their armored spearheads broke into the German positions under the mist in the morning. For these steel giants, due to the recent attacks by planes, the German infantry, who had no artillery positions, had to fight back against the tanks with the grenades and rifles in their hands.
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Undoubtedly, such a counterattack force is pale and powerless in the face of the tank that appeared in front of the world for the first time, and the result is almost certain.
Under the threat of the officer's pistol, the German infantry carried cluster grenades in their hands and ran quickly along the trench. Faced with these armored vehicles that could fire artillery, they were afraid, but they had to bravely execute military orders.
Chapter completed!