Chapter 1585 Ambush 3
Chapter 1585 Ambush 3
The town itself has buildings and nearby woods to provide cover, making it an excellent position. To the west is a river. Although there is water, it is not deep, and tank troops can wade directly through it. But the truck can't do it. If the French are willing to pursue it, Mike doesn't mind fighting back and teaching the other party how to behave without being separated from the infantry.
"Let their main force pass, and we attack the support vehicles behind." Mike could already use his binoculars to look at the French armored troops marching on the road in the distance. If they were to attack head-on, he would definitely suffer a loss. He rushed out of the small After the town, there is no cover at a distance of nearly 4,000 meters. If you drive past, people may have already formed a fighting formation, and their artillery is set up. It's waiting for you to hit it upwards, so if you launch an attack from this distance, you can only target logistics units with little combat effectiveness. 25 Wolf tanks cannot defeat French armored forces, but they can defeat artillery and baggage convoys, right?
However, what Mike didn't expect was that the French troops actually... He actually pounced on the town where he was ambushing him! In order to hide, Mike did not turn on his radio station. At this time, the moving German troops also had no time to report the situation. Therefore, Mike did not expect that the troops setting up an ambush in front of him actually caused the French to change their plans. Fortunately, they survived. Mike and Joffre chose the same location! So Mike watched dumbfounded as hundreds of vehicles of all kinds poured into his ambush position like a torrent...
"Fuck! Get ready to fight! Get closer and then fight, and hit the most threatening ones first!" It was hard for Mike to explain his current mood. Was it excitement or fear? ! Maybe it’s both, but it’s undeniable that today’s battle is definitely unavoidable!
Mike picked up the telescope again, and he began to check the target in the field of view for the last time. Behind the French queue, he saw some new tanks. Judging from the outline, they should be the French Saint-Montcha, but The distance is too far and neither of them can reach each other. The French didn't seem to notice themselves, proving that most of them were half-tracks and transports, and there were some tanks, but they seemed to be positioned far back.
"Fire!" When the French approached 700 meters, the German tank group fired the first round of salvo! Just like a modern musket line-up, the momentum of 25 tanks firing at the same time is still very strong. I saw groups of fireballs rising simultaneously in the distant woods and some parts of the town. The smoke screens raised by the artillery fire came from all places. gush. Dozens of artillery shells hit the heads of the French troops eager to occupy the town.
boom! With a series of explosions, several half-tracks and trucks in the style were turned into burning fireballs. Shrapnel flew out and mopped up the infantry nearby. Before the French could react, the second round and the third Volleys followed one after another, and the entire front, which was not wide, suddenly looked like a Shura field. The destroyed tanks and vehicles completely blocked the path forward of the follow-up troops.
"The troops deployed immediately! We were attacked by the enemy!" The French officer commanding the front team responded quickly.
A small number of tanks continued to contain the enemy on the front, while the remaining tanks began to outflank the enemy from both wings. But unfortunately, the distance between the two sides was a little close, and the French army who tried to outflank the woods happened to send their side under the muzzle of another group of Wolf tanks.
"Keep shooting! Kill them!" The number of French tanks exceeded the imagination of the Germans. A group of tanks that were ambushing from the side and ambushed in the northeast of the woods had just been killed by a tank platoon, and an FT10 and a Renault tank appeared. In the smoke. The French also quickly discovered the German tanks hidden in the woods, and the two sides started shooting at a distance of more than 600 meters.
After fighting for more than a year, the French artillery accuracy is still good. Although the German tanks were covered with camouflage nets, the sharp-eyed French still saw some German tanks hidden in the woods, and fired 75MM shells crazily towards them. Spotting a Wolf tank in the distance, a tank in a bad position was instantly surrounded by flames!
boom! The shells kept hitting the front armor of the tank, and the sound of explosions and tearing sounds when the warheads crossed the steel plate were endless. The personnel in the tank felt as if they were in a big bell, and the hammer that struck the big bell was a French one. Armor-piercing bullets!
Fortunately, the armor plate on the front of the Wolf tank is quite strong. The continuous shooting of the FT10 tank did not destroy the tank. This unlucky tank was hit at least 8 times! The frontal armor and the peripheral equipment next to the turret were all blown to pieces, but not a single shell completely penetrated the armor.
"Pull the reserve team up and stabilize the flanks!" There are too many French people, especially on the flanks. Some tanks are already close to the 400-meter position, and one FT10 shot penetrated a Wolf The side armor of the tank! The tank platoon on the flank has experienced attrition, and the number of destroyed and damaged tanks has reached 3. The French also left at least a dozen wrecks along the way!
"We can't continue fighting like this! Let the troops withdraw first! The long-range artillery attacks immediately. Send Saint Mengsha up. Then send a group of tanks to outflank the town from behind!" In the situation where the French failed to survive the first wave. Next, Xiafei decisively gave the order to postpone the attack. It's not that the French can't defeat their opponents. In terms of numbers, there aren't many opponents, but it's obviously impossible for the French to defeat them at a ratio of at least 5 for 1! In the fight that lasted less than half an hour, the French's losses on various vehicles and tanks had exceeded three digits! At least 60 of the tanks were destroyed, and a battalion was destroyed in a daze. This is simply too tragic!
"The French seem to have evacuated?" A German commander struggled to open the hatch. He had just revealed half of his body from the car, and the smoke inside also poured out. The shooting was too fast, and the tank's There was something wrong with the exhaust fan again, so if he wasn't wearing a gas mask, there was enough gas in the tank to suffocate him.
The commander threw away his gas mask and picked up his binoculars to observe the battlefield ahead. The French had retreated and the battlefield was filled with the remains of various vehicles. Apart from the crackling sound of burning, the entire battlefield fell into a temporary state of silence. calm.
"Side! Something is coming!" A German soldier in a Wolf tank next to him immediately discovered that a fierce firefight broke out in the south of the town. Obviously, the French have not given up, they are already preparing to take the Germans' retreat!
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