Chapter 1,787 Conflict 2
"The rebel forces seemed to have entered a defensive state. They did not take the initiative to attack, although they had an advantage." The two sides ultimately did not fight on the first day of the encounter. Buller chose to be conservative because they had no aerial reconnaissance power. Little Maoqi's troops are gathered in a hilly area, and if they are dispatched rashly, they may be hit by hidden artillery and machine guns. As a party with weak military and firepower, Xiao Maoqi had no reason to attack. He was considering mobilizing new troops from the Grand Duchy of Baden.
However, on the second day, the troops of both sides finally exchanged fire. Buller, who had superior strength and mobility, chose to send a force equipped with armored vehicles to launch an attack around the rear supply line of the Moltke Army. The location of Buleka is very good, just so that the little Maoqi on the opposite side cannot rely on villages and towns to build a defense line. At the same time, it is squeezed from the road into the wild, and transportation and supplies are both a problem.
At least 1,500 soldiers and 140 various vehicles were mobilized. They bypassed Moltke's defense line and then ambushed the logistics convoy along the line. Relying on superior machine guns and machine guns, they were able to quickly suppress the firepower of the defenders. , the battle between the two sides can be described as one-sided. From the first shell flying to the end of the war, it usually takes no more than half an hour!
At the end of the first day of fighting, the supplies seized by the troops responsible for attacking the communication lines not only made up for the losses, but also made a lot more. The price paid was just the death of more than 20 people and the injury of more than 40 people. After all, the Grand Duchy of Baden has a small army. It is the limit of the short time to be able to gather a small Maoqi regiment. Therefore, the logistics force Don't expect too much in terms of combat effectiveness.
However, it was naturally impossible for Little Maoqi to be KOed by this move. He made full use of the reconnaissance aircraft provided by the Grand Duchy of Baden and more than a dozen various aircraft supporting from the front line to form two units of reconnaissance and harassment. Hawkeye in the air With the help of the reconnaissance aircraft, the guerrillas who lacked air combat experience naturally did not know how to hide themselves effectively. Under the guidance of the reconnaissance aircraft, Little Maoqi also used the mobile forces in his hands to launch a quite successful attack on the parliamentary army that penetrated deep into his rear. Encirclement and suppression!
When the strength and strength of both sides were similar, the gap in the combat quality of the troops was reflected. Although Xiao Maoqi had the upper hand, he was also discovered before engaging the enemy, and then the two sides almost fought on the edge of a small town. An encounter! Xiao Maoqi's 1,200 people faced the opponent's 1,400 people. The number of armored vehicles is 30 to 55. In the end, Xiao Maoqi's troops killed and captured more than 800 of the opponent's troops at the cost of 300 casualties. Only less than 400 people finally broke through in a large scale. The loss ratio of armored vehicle units is as high as 1:3!
Then, Xiao Maoqi, who won his first victory, was a little confident and felt that the opponent was nothing more than that, so with air support, he launched a large-scale attack on the fifth day after the two sides met! However, how can I put it, this time the two sides were evenly matched!
It has to be said that the combat quality of Little Maoqi's troops is indeed quite good. In the darkest hour before dawn, the commando team under Little Maoqi had already cleared the minefields on the offensive road. The accompanying artillery and engineers also moved to their pre-departure positions. More than a dozen aircraft from the Air Force arrived at the battlefield on time. At dawn, Little Maoqi took the initiative to launch an attack!
At the beginning, Xiao Maoqi's corps successfully tore apart the opponent's outermost defense lines and drove several wedges into the main defense line. But when the air support ended, Buller's artillery came into full play. More than a dozen howitzers with a caliber of more than 100 mm roared towards the attacking troops, using their range advantage to successfully blow the attacking formation into two pieces.
Soldiers from both sides fought in the trenches. Little Maoqi once again took out his elite armored troops to try to break the deadlock.
However, it was blocked by the opponent's anti-aircraft guns, and then Buller's Crickets and Wasps successfully launched a counterattack. Xiao Maoqi's troops lost at least a dozen tanks and assault guns.
The two sides suffered heavy casualties in the first frontal position battle. Moltke was unable to attack again. The parliamentary recruits who suffered huge casualties looked like trenches in a slaughterhouse, and breathed the air full of blood and gunpowder smoke. , morale was definitely not high, and the two boxers decided to give up temporarily after the first round of testing. Xiao Maoqi's troops withdrew from their positions under the cover of night. Buhler, who had restored his defense, also began to strengthen his defense.
At this time, behind the front-line troops of both sides, the reinforcements prepared by the Grand Duke of Baden for Moltke were ready to go. The size was about 20,000, and it was also equipped with some tanks and heavy howitzers. And what about Buhler? The scale of his reinforcements was also not small, and it inherited the characteristics of the first wave of his own troops. The combat effectiveness was not high, but the equipment was really good. With the help of some factory owners, some heavy equipment that was about to be completed was quickly completed. In the second In the Polish reinforcements, Buller can obtain about an entire battalion of Wasp assault guns and Cricket tanks. At the same time, some air forces finally agreed to fight for the parliamentary faction. Starting on the seventh day of the encounter between the two sides, Moltke's air force was no longer the only master of the air!
"Start digging trenches!" When the tenth day after the two sides met was over and Moltke's attack failed again, the former German Chief of General Staff and a general who had commanded millions of troops finally gave his troops an order At this time, on the front line, the combined troops of both sides totaled nearly 60,000 people. The scale of the battle gradually expanded, but the front between the two sides barely moved.
After all, the Parliamentarians occupied one of the best parts of Prussia, and just the vehicles and tanks waiting for final equipment in factories could arm an army. Although the Rhine-Ruhr region is powerful, it must first support the battle on the Western Front. At this time, the Kaiser, who had arrived at an unstable army, naturally did not dare to easily cut the rations of the Western Front troops. Otherwise, once the commanders of the major group armies expressed dissatisfaction, it would be no joke, and if they wanted to rely solely on Baden In the Grand Duchy, that would probably be much more difficult!
Little Maoqi realized that he could not break the deadlock on the frontal battlefield in a short period of time. In the same way, Buller also realized that his troops were useless. It was still okay to let them squat in trenches and fight defensive battles, but he wanted to If he wanted to charge, forget it. In private, he had said more than once that the 30,000 troops in his hands could not even form a reliable storm assault battalion...
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