Chapter 799 Counterattack 2

After the frontal fire suppressed the French, several elite squads began to advance alternately under the cover of infantry. One of the squads consisted of two soldiers carrying flamethrowers and several grenadiers. Next to them was a melee group wearing gas masks and holding submachine guns. The Germans had no intention of giving the French a chance to jump out of the trenches and fight!

They chose a trench with weak defense, and several soldiers threw the tear gas and grenades in their hands into it. Accompanied by thick smoke and explosions, several French soldiers who were choked by the smoke and burst into tears just shook their heads. After rushing out of the trench staggeringly, they were sieved by the dense bullets. Several soldiers immediately jumped into the trench and then made a safety gesture. More elite infantry rushed in, while machine guns were behind to suppress the French soldiers who were trying to support the breakthrough from surface positions. In the trenches, the elite German groups with submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles were obviously more powerful than the French and in their hands. The rifle has higher combat effectiveness! Accompanied by bursts of gunfire like exploding beans, the German soldiers, who took full advantage of their firepower, began to gradually clear the trenches. All French soldiers who blocked them were either killed or forced to retreat to support points. "We drove the French together like wolves driving sheep. They tried to use bunkers and bunkers to resist the attack, but they didn't know that this was exactly what we wanted. Our purpose was to drive the French Get together and have a big barbecue!" a commando sergeant said after the war. When all the French no longer dare to show their heads in the trenches, when all the people are shivering in the mud and unwilling to surrender, when the French think they can be safer if they stick together, Germany The flamethrowers in the hands of soldiers let them know what hell is! Fire dragons with a length of more than 20 meters flew out from the nozzle of the flamethrower. Compressed nitrogen sprayed out the mixed fuel at an extremely high speed. After being ignited at the muzzle, these fire dragons were composed of gasoline and A liquid with extremely high temperature and viscosity mixed with other flammable substances instantly becomes the deadliest weapon on the battlefield! No matter how the trench is built, with the continuous short bursts of flamethrower shooters, fire dragons walk through the twists and turns of the trench. They ignite everything they encounter, which may be human bodies, weapons, or... The supporting log, whatever it was, quickly turned into a ball of ashes under the heat of thousands of degrees! The most painful ones are those soldiers who are not killed immediately. These flamethrowers are even more deadly than napalm! As the fire was fired again and again, the entire trench was filled with flames. From time to time, soldiers covered in fire roared and rolled desperately, trying to extinguish the fire on their bodies. Their struggles were likely to bring disaster to their comrades next to them. , just a little bit of it, a life will be destroyed by flames. The sound of explosions coming from time to time meant that the flames were developing deeper along the trench. The remaining French soldiers trapped in the solid bunker also could not survive. The blasting of flamethrowers and engineers turned the fortification that the French regarded as their last resort into a huge rage, with every violent explosion and flame. With bursts of jet fire, there is always at least one squad of French soldiers and their bunkers always together. The depth of the French defense is very limited. After breaking through the first 3 kilometers, the fragile belly of the French army was finally exposed to the sharp front of the German army. After suffering a sudden blow, the command system At a time of increasing chaos, the French could only resist the German attack alone in regiment or battalion units. There were even fewer bunkers in the rear. They could only hastily dig out a horizontal bunker in the wilderness that could barely accommodate them. When the elite infantry penetrated the French defense line, a large number of infantry units and towed artillery followed closely and began to advance in depth.

They quickly divided and surrounded the remaining French troops. One attack might capture a battalion and, with luck, a regiment. Infantry that lacks mobility will choose to deal with these small groups of enemies on the spot. When encountering French troops defending towns, they usually adopt a temporary encirclement.

Led by a very small number of assault guns and truck guns, or even just a few half-tracks equipped with machine guns, the French defenses can be easily shattered. The powerful 75mm rapid-fire cannon can be used in encounters. Without the protection of the bunker, these artillery pieces are like swordsmen who have lost their hands and are generally defenseless. A half-track vehicle equipped with a 12.7mm machine gun carrying 8 infantrymen was successfully captured. It has four 75mm rapid-fire cannons and a large amount of ammunition. "We rushed past them. We didn't even get out of the car. We used a large-caliber machine gun and an mg08 general-purpose machine gun to sweep past them. The bullets from the large-caliber machine gun were so powerful that one bullet They punched through the shield of the artillery and the French soldiers hiding behind it. The ferocious firepower soon made them succumb. They obediently handed over their weapons and squatted there obediently." In this assault , the Germans once again realized the importance of fast offensive and defensive armored and light armored units in mobile warfare. When the Munich reconnaissance airship flew over the battlefield again, what he saw was the German army driving the French army from the north and east like a gray tide. The German offensive position was so wide, and the French suffered huge losses in the attack some time ago. When the superior German army launched a counterattack, the French army on the front line did not even have the ability to resist at all! "The only thing that can limit our results is the speed of advancement. The French troops in the rear can retreat quickly through roads and railways. We do not have the air force to intercept at the operational level. This is the most important factor affecting the results, and The French Third Group military encountered relatively strong resistance upwards. They dispersed the armored units to infantry units. Although these tanks were eventually destroyed one by one, they successfully hindered the pace of our attack." The Munich airship sent back The telegram read this. Faced with sudden changes, the French Third Army Group, under the order of Commander Rueuf, supported its colleagues at all costs. The French hurriedly gathered tanks, trucks and even cars to form a A patchwork of mobile units attempted to hold off the German offensive. In the next two days, the French used civilian vehicles to transport at least one division of troops to the appropriate location, and established a rough line of defense. Although this line of defense was quickly breached and a complete division disappeared from the French battle sequence, this gave Joffre the opportunity to deploy troops from the northern front to support the already collapsing front. The third update is here~~~! Please subscribe and reward~~~!