Chapter 1590 Confrontation 2
Chapter 1590 Confrontation 2
"Fire! Kill those machine gun fire points!" The covering Wolf tank quickly locked on the exposed machine gun position, and the rapidly rotating turret pointed at the target. The 75MM artillery fired tons of grenades and instantly destroyed more than a dozen machine gun positions. Sweep it clean. The gunfire of the tank attack seemed to sound the clarion call for progress. The German armored forces began to accelerate, and the infantry also assumed a posture for a final charge!
Fierce confrontations stimulate the nerves of the French people all the time. When the Germans suppressed the machine gun fire and prepared to charge, the long-hidden French 75MM rapid-fire cannon finally started firing. They first targeted the Wolf tank at a distance of 400 to 500 meters and fired dense armor-piercing shells! The remaining machine gun groups also began to counterattack the German infantry.
Boom boom! Tons of artillery shells flew towards the German tanks in front, and plumes of gray-black smoke surrounded the moving tanks. Rapid and violent shooting swept across the battlefield like a steel storm, trying to tear apart everything they could touch!
"Cast smoke grenades and evacuate! Follow up from the flanks!" Faced with the sudden attack, the Bavarian armored forces showed extremely high quality. The smoke grenade launcher on the tank first fired a series of smoke grenades. After more than ten seconds, the tank The front was shrouded in smoke. Taking advantage of this time, the tanks that had entered the French firing range quickly put into reverse gear and retreated.
While retreating, the Germans also launched a counterattack. The tanks originally located on the wings of the wedge formation quickly approached their opponents and pulled the formation from a wedge into a linear one! Artillery one after another aimed at the French's exposed firepower point at a distance of 800 meters, and fierce flank fire followed one after another before the French could react.
Just as a French gunner was trying to distinguish the outline of a German tank in the smoke screen, the dull sound of rapid-fire cannon fire came from both sides. Looking sideways, he saw orange fireballs flying quickly towards the French army. At the position, the powerful high-explosive bomb easily blew out the chest cavity next to the bunker and blew the artillery and the gun crew into pieces!
The battle between the two sides was inherently unequal. Heavy tanks wearing strong armor and holding sharp blades faced off against immovable anti-tank artillery with extremely poor protection. Once the other party is exposed, it means death is not far away! What's more important is that the horizontal range of fire of the combat defense artillery is very narrow. If they want to attack the enemy on the side, they must first redeploy the artillery. However, the Germans will naturally not give the French time to redeploy. When each French artillery team withdraws, When he raised the monopod and laboriously dragged the artillery to turn, the firepower of the German tank's artillery and the infantry in front crossed together, forming a fire net that could tear everything apart!
The brief hesitation and twitching were enough for the French to lose their last chance. The tanks that had retreated from the front rushed up again after the French firepower was weakened. Along with them came mortar groups and half-track vehicles carrying large-caliber machine guns! The latter even advanced to a distance of no more than 300 meters from the French defense line! Use brutal machine gun fire to suppress all the French infantry and machine gun teams in the trenches!
The engineers took advantage of the situation and rushed forward to clear the minefield with detonating cords.
The machine gun team provided crossfire cover at a distance of about 250 meters, while the vanguard team carrying submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles rushed into the trench. First, a round of attack grenades was fired. A section of the trench was instantly flooded with fire and smoke. After confirming the breakthrough, After the location was safe, the vanguard team jumped into the trench and used submachine guns to start clearing out the remaining infantry. Then think about the rapid-fire artillery position to launch an attack!
When the last French rapid-fire gun battery was destroyed by a 120MM mortar shell, the entire position was declared lost, and the remaining French troops without anti-tank weapons chose to surrender. The subsequent infantry entered the position and began to collect weapons and deploy defenses. The tank troops made short supply and adjustments before moving towards the next line of defense!
"Awesome!" Seeing that it took less than 30 minutes for the Bavarian Army to break through its first line of defense, Major General Davier had to give a very high evaluation of the Bavarian Army's combat effectiveness even if he was an enemy! From a tactical point of view, it is actually the cooperation between tanks and infantry groups. If it were a war game, Major General Daville could figure it out, but in actual combat, the French would never be able to achieve this kind of cooperation!
The Bavarian Legion reflects the overall quality! Each of them knows what to do at some point! Major General Davier even suspected that when the German tank attack formation was counterattacked by anti-tank guns and the German tank attack formation changed from wedge to horizontal formation, and then from frontal attack to side attack, did the commander of the German armored forces give any instructions? Order! Did the opponent spontaneously complete the tactical change?
After all, the radio in this era is just a coffee table, and the number of attachments is definitely not that many. Information transmission itself is a problem. If you want to command a tank unit with just a few words or signals, in fact, it depends more on each other. tacit understanding and cooperation. You can understand this as the "micro-management" of the battlefield.
If the control of tank troops is so painful, the cooperation between tanks and infantry will be even more troublesome. To be honest, so far, the French's infantry-tank coordination has remained in the category of tanks helping infantry to block bullets and clearing out fire points. To put it bluntly, the French use tanks purely as fire support for infantry in attacks. The two sides are not actually integrated. However, if you look at the Germans, while the tanks are clearing fixed fire points, the infantry also takes the initiative to help the tanks deal with anti-war artillery and possible threats. The tanks suppress, the infantry drives into the wedge, and then the tanks follow up to expand and consolidate the breakthrough, and then work with the infantry to shake the opponent's entire defense line!
The Bavarian armored forces are great because of the seamless connection of firepower and advance between the two sides. How come the infantry's machine guns and mortars cooperate so well with the tank's level firepower? ! The French were puzzled!
Of course, if the French are looking for excuses, they can find many reasons for their failure, such as lack of fire suppression, for example, lack of tightly fortified positions. But in fact, as a commander who came from the Western Front, Davier knew very well that if it were switched to the Western Front, the French army might not be able to do better! After all, as the attacker takes the initiative in the battle, if the Bavarian Army attacks, how could it not concentrate its superior long-range artillery to suppress and divide it?
Therefore, if it is considered to support artillery, this is actually a minus point for the French army. By the same token, in terms of military strength, the French still have a slight advantage this time. If there is an offensive battle, Bavaria, as the attacker, will definitely have the advantage. Although the lack of solid positions is indeed true, look at the sky. Today's weather limits the Bavarian Air Force's attacks, so be content! Really on the Western Front, when facing the Bavarian Army's attack, the French's performance will only be worse than today!
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