The Third Reich under Ten Thousand Characters Volume 4: The Sadness of France Chapter 30: The Cavalry of the Chariots and Cavalry II

The weather in the western continent of Europe is less severe than in the eastern region. Now the northern continent of Europe is already a season of muddy and light rain. The northern continent of France is near the sea. The gently blowing sea breeze makes the German soldiers sitting in jeep feel drowsy. They force themselves to cheer up and keep making pre-war preparations to gather murderous aura, such as wiping their 40 submachine guns, or constantly pounding the engineer shovel. com

Maximilian placed the picture flat on his legs. He lowered his head and made a label. The miniature military picture had been marked with marks. In the back seat of the car, a communication soldier kept pronunciating some names. Maximilian had already explored the marks under the famous paintings and drew an arrow straight. Montreuil became the main goal of this exploration.

The army group has its own reconnaissance aircraft, but it cannot effectively conduct reconnaissance missions on building groups and forest belts. Recently, the French army has always hidden in these sections to harass the German army. In order to accurately detect the number of French troops and equipment, the army group has to send a large number of scouts to conduct a face-to-face search.

"The reconnaissance plane has explored the segments of these plains..." Maximilian pointed to the segments drawn by red pencils, and pointed to the forest areas next to the segments of the plains, looking quite distressed. "Our transportation cannot enter the woods to explore, which is a big trouble! Let the soldiers check their equipment, and we may have to walk into the woods."

The chariot cavalry battalion stopped 500 meters away from Montreux. Maximilian stood up from his seat. He picked up the school-level military telescope on his chest. This is a military 6x30 telescope that can be surveyed far away. It can also adjust the clarity of the visual according to the wishes of the handheld. The material structure is mainly magnesium-aluminum alloy, which is very durable.

"Order the mortar company to prepare!" Maximilian was about to implement the wartime regulations to conduct tentative shelling of the woods, which was stated in the officer manuals of all armored units, with the intention of luring the enemy who might be hidden and making the enemy think he had been discovered.

After the order was issued, the battalion mortar company began to get busy. They disassembled the mounting device between the nebelerfer40 mortar mounted behind the jeep and the jeep, and then adjusted the artillery position in groups of four people. The artillery company commander also had his own military telescope, but this telescope was different from the commander's model. The artillery had its own horizontal telescope for surveying coordinates and accurately setting the artillery elements.

Before performing artillery operations, elite artillery troops will always carefully look for concealment for themselves. 12 100mm caliber mortars are led to a low slope. Since the firing principle of the mortar is arched, there is no need to worry about the shells falling on the slope. The loading method of this mortar is very different from that of the caliber mortar, but relatively speaking, the barrel of this mortar is longer, which increases the range and increases the risk factor of the loader. It is only because the loader needs to stand up the entire body to put the shells into the barrel. Then, the mortar is loaded with the principle of impact air pressure to shoot out the 15 kilograms of mortar shells.

Maximilian ordered the entire battalion to enter a state of combat. The jeeps aimed the front of the car at the woods. The canvas covered by the G34 gun body was pulled open. The machine gunner excitedly unbuttoned the safety cover and was ready to shoot at any time.

Bang - a continuous sound, about 23 wonderful, some bombs exploded 35 meters in the woods. This is a mortar air grenade, which is used to blow off the trees in the woods and reduce obstacles to long-sighted reconnaissance. At this time, the chanting of the g34 also sounded, and the machine gun shooter was also conducting tentative shooting. The g34 of 250 jeeps fired at the same time, which was so powerful. The trees in the front row were filled with bullet holes in a moment. As the mortar company changed the types of shells, the trees in the front row began to fall in pieces.

Maximilian's eyes lying down did not leave the woods for a moment. He did not find anyone running or otherwise. Looking inward from the telescope's field of view, he saw more mortar shells hitting the tree and causing an explosion. Then shrapnel flew everywhere. He ordered the fire to stop, and the forward reconnaissance squad immediately groped forward.

In fact, the German military rules and regulations sometimes seem too careful. For example, the provision of testing the shelling in forests sometimes limits the speed of the troops' marching, but relatively speaking, it also reduces a lot of unnecessary losses for the German army. For example, when Xian'an suddenly heard dense gunshots in the woods, it is definitely the French 193 submachine gun!

"Report to the division headquarters that we had an encounter with the French army in the forest fifteen kilometers away from Montreui!"

The forward reconnaissance company who had entered the Shulin District quickly retreated. Instead of retreating in a mess, they retreated from the Shulin District and then lie down in a concave manner, and then kept gestured to the back.

"A French infantry platoon, two 1914 Hatchcas millimeter heavy machine guns. I suspect that more French teams are hidden deep in the woods..."

——The German soldier who stretched out his head to make gestures was shot and his whole body fell down instantly. Fortunately, the 3-type helmet had a good defense. The German soldier quickly stretched out his head again, but this time his posture was very low. Judging from the gestures, he found that the figure of the French armored vehicle was just unable to confirm what model it was.

Maximilian put down his telescope and ordered the whole battalion to open fire. He must save the brave young men!

Randolph was an ordinary soldier in this reconnaissance squad. He was nervous and gasping, and bullets kept flying back and forth in the air. Just now, when his squad leader was shot and fell to the face, Randolph's heart beat almost stopped. If the squad leader died before the soldiers, it would definitely be an unforgivable thing in the German army. The helmet made by Germany at high standards did not cut corners. His squad leader quickly got up and learned something, that is, he could not remove his helmet on the battlefield to see if his head was injured. This would require the life of the soldier in the steel helmet.

It seemed that the French did not have artillery. They just used guns to fight back, and the gunshots seemed to be loose and there was obvious insufficient troops. From Randolph's perspective, we could see that the French were suppressed in the fox pit and could not move. Randolph was sure of one thing, that is, these French people just escaped from the fox pit.

The strong firepower once suppressed the French army. When the mortar was firing again, the squad leader of the reconnaissance squad finally issued an order to retreat, but just as he jumped to lie down, a bullet penetrated his shoulder, causing his body to lose balance, and smashed heavily on the flat without any concealment.

Randolph watched his companion crawling in the rain of bullets, turned around and saw the squad leader lying in the sky, he breathed and suffocated, and his half-squatted away, and he was sitting there. Randolph was a supplementary soldier, and this was also his first battle. No one could blame this scared young man. When a person was frightened, his spirit was very nervous, his blood vessels were constricted and spasm, his cerebrovascular blood vessels were insufficient, and his brain was temporarily deprived of oxygen, and he would temporarily lose his ability to move. He was so weak that he was hidden in the depression and watched the bullets constantly hit the squad leader.

"I should crawl to save him!" Randolph wanted to move, but he didn't even have the strength to drive his fingers to move. On his face, what he saw was that the squad leader's right arm was hit by a bullet again, and was wailing loudly.

Maximilian kept mobilizing the formation in the rear. When the tilted firepower formation was arranged, the accelerator of the 250 jeeps were trampled at the same time. They looked for gaps outside the woods to rush into, but unfortunately, the jeep could not fight in the woods at all, so they could only wander outside and carry out rapid strafing.

Maximilian is facing an embarrassing situation. He has superior firepower, but because the jeep cannot fight in the woods, he is proud of his mobility and has no way to exert it. He can only shoot against the French outside the woods. Faced with such a situation, the weaknesses of the chariot cavalry battalion are undoubtedly exposed. It has strong firepower, but in special sections, such as the forest area, it cannot fight with the enemy.

"Back back! We..."

Maximilian's words were not finished, boom! A sudden gunfire sound, and the shell exploded on the right side of the vehicle array, instantly opening a crater. This was the French artillery that was unwilling to join the battlefield, and the figures of the French in the woods were also increasing. The French reinforcements ordered the troops to leave the war zone, and his troops could not be wasted on such a place.

Randolph was still squatting in the depression at this time. He used to be eager to kill the enemy, but he performed so badly when he was realizing the battlefield. His ears were still surrounded by the squad leader's wail. Now Randol moves, he lay on the edge of the depression and tried hard to pull the injured squad leader down. He was almost successful. When his hand held the corner of the squad leader's clothes and pulled it, he saw an incredible scene, and the chariot and cavalry battalion was retreating!

Randolph stared at his own troops who were evacuating, and he finally pulled his squad leader down.

The squad leader's face turned pale due to pain and excessive blood loss. When he found that the person who saved him was the supplementary soldier named Randolph, he endured the pain, "Why are you still here?"

Randolph finally regained his consciousness as a soldier in front of the commander. He quickly took out his first aid kit and tried to help the squad leader bandage it. Unfortunately, his squad leader had only time to ask a question and then he fell asleep here.

Randolph was completely stupid. He could no longer see the shadow of his troops. He only knew that he seemed to have been forgotten in the formation. He kept asking himself: "What should I do?"
Chapter completed!