Chapter 1576: Unstoppable
Chapter 1576 Unstoppable
"The French have begun to attack!" At this time, located 50 kilometers west of Bursa, the German officer Colonel von Krestein picked up the telescope in his hand and began to observe the French legions gathering in the distance. He came from the Western Front and had seen a lot of French attacks. The two sides fought back and forth between the trenches. Logically speaking, Colonel Crestein should have been used to it, but this time, standing on a high place, he could see in the distance After defeating the French army, he felt a little uneasy in his heart!
"It's so unscrupulous." After synthesizing all the information, Crestein shook his head helplessly. The French almost deployed their troops in front of the German and Turkish regiments. On the front were at least 3 armored battalions, and behind were a large number of cavalry and infantry. On the two wings of the front attack, there were towed artillery units. According to aviation According to the news from the reconnaissance, the French offensive troops are equipped with a large number of 150MM level cannons. These are the kind of ultra-long-range strike firepower that can almost channel Bursa when placed at the front. Among dense armored units, There seemed to be some armored vehicles that had never been seen before.
"The French seem to be planning to use Turkey as their own training ground. They have invested a lot of new gadgets, which gives people the feeling of killing a chicken with a sledgehammer." Colonel Krestein suppressed his uneasiness and gave Feng San Des's telegram read. Seemingly realizing that he could not hold the entire defense line, Colonel Krestein gave his German subordinates an order to focus on defense before the French launched an attack. That is, when necessary, the integrity of the front can be given up to ensure the safety of the main strongholds to delay the French attack!
"Your Excellency, Commander, our troops have been deployed and ready to launch an attack at any time." A French officer reported to Xiafeihui.
"Very well, tell our warriors that at the end of this month we will celebrate our victory in Constantinople and I will take them on a tour of Dolmabahçe Palace on the shores of the Bosporus, where we will visit the famous Have a drink by the crystal staircase!" Xiafei said enthusiastically. He had already begun to think about his victory, and did not take the German-Turkish coalition in front of him at all.
After all, Xiafei is a famous French general. There is a reason why he is so confident! This time, the French can be said to be fully prepared, with almost no flaws in terms of materials, troops, strategies and tactics. And what about the enemy on the opposite side? If the enemy was the German Western Front Army, Xiafei would take it seriously, but the enemy was the Turks who were several levels worse than the European army! Not even as good as the Russian army. In this case, Xiafei thought he had nothing to worry about!
The first thing that kicked off the battle was the 50 artillery batteries that the French concentrated on the front, a total of 240 artillery pieces of various types! Among them, the number of artillery pieces above 100MM is as high as 120! This firepower is not even as good as a local battlefield on the Western Front, but in Turkey, the frontal artillery group composed of more than 100 medium-caliber artillery pieces and a large number of 75MM artillery can be described as invincible!
With the order to fire given,
The long-dormant French artillery began a 40-minute fire suppression of the German-Turkish defense line! More than 200 artillery pieces roared loudly. Every minute, more than 8 tons of artillery shells roared towards the enemy's defensive positions. The entire battlefield was trembling with the long roar of heavy artillery. The dust raised by the storm even covered the entire artillery position. Viewed from the air, the French artillery position was covered with thick dust. The German reconnaissance plane could only see the occasional orange fire when the artillery was fired, but It is difficult to determine the location and size of the French artillery.
Tons of rain of destruction poured on the battlefield. On the hastily constructed positions, the Turkish Legion never thought that they would encounter such fierce firepower. Many troops collapsed before the bombardment ended. The dense shells The intertwined barrage rolled back and forth on the German-Turkish army's position, blowing to pieces all the bunkers, trenches and firepower points that could be encountered. The entire company and platoon of soldiers were turned into ashes all over the sky under the fierce shelling. When the French shelling ended, many places had been blown into white ground!
As masters of artillery, the German artillery did not sit still and wait for death. Not long after the French artillery group was exposed, the 150MM and 105MM howitzers prepared by the Germans began to carry out counter-suppression. However, it was a pity that the artillery scale and performance gap between the two sides was too big. Well, the Germans only concentrated about 24 artillery batteries, and most of them were howitzers. Because the French obtained a large number of British naval guns, they had a very large number of medium-caliber cannons. The latter stabilized the German artillery in terms of range. The winner of the artillery duel between the two sides was already decided 20 minutes after it started!
"Order all the artillery that has not been destroyed to be immediately dispersed to all major support points!" Looking at a series of records of destroyed artillery sent from the front line, Colonel von Krestein could only choose to break them into pieces.
When the French bombardment reached its climax, ground troops also began to advance. The French's offensive routine was very close to that of their German counterparts. The FT10 and MK1 tanks with better armor protection served as the spearhead of the attack, forming a wedge formation. of sharp corners. On both sides were poorly defended but numerous Renault tanks. Under the cover of the smoke screen, there seemed to be a larger tank at the rear. The huge body and the long and thick cannon on the body were looming.
The roar of the artillery had just come to an end, and the roar of hundreds of engines came from a distance like the scream of death. It was the first time for many Turkish troops to see the armored assault formation of a European power. This kind of posture was even unfamiliar to the Russians. Never before! The remaining soldiers trembled and picked up their weapons. If there were not officers behind them, their first choice would probably be to escape.
However, even with the officers' scolding and the threat of pistols, most of the Turkish army collapsed in the first place when facing the attack of the most elite French troops! The French opened fire at a distance of 1,500 meters. The dense artillery shells and machine gun bullets formed a fire net that pinned the enemy to the ground. The French tank attack reached its peak when it approached 800 meters. , 75MM and 37MM artillery easily blew machine gun bunkers, bunkers or other things into pieces.
In less than 2 hours, the French armored forces broke through more than 80% of the Turkish positions. A total of about 23,000 Turkish soldiers were deployed on this line of defense. In less than a morning, 15,000 people were killed, injured or captured!
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