Chapter 38: Prelude (2)
Volume 4 of the Third Reich under Ten Thousand Characters: The Sorrow of France Chapter 38: Prelude 2
The dark night sky, the noisy man buzzed - the sound from afar....com The giant bird was flying, its huge body, its wide and long wings seemed to cover half of the sky, the slender wings, and the cross battle mark were extremely eye-catching. Under the protection of a large number of Messerschmid Bf-109f Emil, they finally rushed from Berlin to Azbrook's airport.
The giant bird is very famous for its clumsiness, but its cargo capacity can meet the needs of the army. Every voyage of the giant bird needs to be protected by Emil. Because of its slow speed, this also made the Air Force give it a nickname called malnutrition. The reason... I don’t have the energy to run away after eating too much.
The development of the giant bird is extremely difficult. From the failed mammoth j322 glider to the giant e321 glider, the test process has been continuous. For a long time, there has been no test of the giant equipped with a power unit. Three B-110s need to pull a huge giant to fly into the air. This process is also the root of the accident. The reason is that the giant's ropes are too bulky and sometimes too tight, causing the front bf-11 to lose balance and collide with each other.
The rectangular single wing span of Giant Bird e323 has a wing area of 300 square meters, with a length of meter and is not equipped with weapons. In order to increase the load capacity and range, a newly developed hydrogen oxide fuel assisted rocket was specially added. While the load capacity was increased, the hydrogen oxide fuel assisted rocket was also a newly developed product. It is not yet mature and sometimes it suddenly loses its function. At that time, if the cargo is overweight, the fuselage will sway violently, and cracks will appear in the air soon, and it will disintegrate directly in the air, so it always keeps within the safe load coefficient as much as possible.
The giant bird landed continuously on the runway, and its nose cargo door was opened. Some unloading tracked engineering vehicles crawled into it from the parallel brackets. After a while, they crawled down with some containers and forked to the back frame of the truck. They would be sent to the factory next to the airport for assembly. After all, the leopard tonnage is too heavy, and the giant bird could not load heavy cargo. They need to transport fifteen round-trip times, and the last wave was to transport tank crew members.
Xu Yang saw such a busy picture from the airport command tower. Now there are still 5 days before the start of the Dunkorke Annihilation War. He thought that the Leopard style should be assembled by then, and he probably still has time to join the war. The only thing he was worried about is that the Leopard style ybl23030 engine would not be too worn too much because it was too new. Perhaps he should warm up before the war first. Let the leopards run freely for a while? Xu Yang had no choice but to use disassembly air transport. If the leopards were allowed to run from Berlin to France, the daylily would be cold at that time.
Goebbels looked fanatical. He didn't know what he was talking about in his mouth. He could vaguely hear the SS at this time. Joseph suddenly ran in anxiously, "Your Excellency, front-line battle report! Al's area was lost, and the 1st Army retreated to Artimão, only 3 kilometers away from us!"
Brooke looked shocked. He subconsciously wanted to call something loudly. He seemed to suddenly wake up and realize that the highest commander here was present, calmed down again, but his eyes were looking straight at Xu Yang.
"Article Rommel's troops stopped advancing, and to build fortifications. Where is the troops coming from?"
"The 9th Armored Division has reached 12 kilometers outside Azbruk and can reach the designated area within five minutes. The other three motorized divisions are in Altiman
"Very good!" Xu Yang looked back at Brooke, "Send a reconnaissance plane, I need to understand the French army's strength and equipment."
The quality of the German army was soon revealed, and no one panicked during the process. No one shouted. The giant bird occupying the runway of the reconnaissance plane was quickly pulled away by the crew members with a crawler construction vehicle. Three reconnaissance planes were pulled out of the hangar and quickly took off. More fighter planes were pulled out of the hangar. They needed to refuel, and then wait for orders to take off for combat.
Brooke looked worried. The front line is too close to the airport. If the French army approaches, all the fighter planes at this airport will definitely suffer heavy losses. However, this is not the point. The most important thing is that Xu Yang is here, if something unexpected happens...
"His Excellency Leader, I suggest you rush to Brussels or Newport!"
Xu Yang smiled and refused, "Lieutenant General, don't worry. The French are just bluffing. Once our armored troops arrive, they will definitely choose to retreat. The 12th Army has no tanks and lacks anti-armor weapons, which gives the French an opportunity. You can do your own responsibilities.
Longdeschmidt's army group encountered a lot of trouble. The defense section of the army group was suddenly counterattacked by the French. The French seemed to focus on the area close to Dunkorke. The French also found that the German army was changing defenses, and Al became the first attack point of the French commander. Al was not only very close to Dunkorke, but also had a complete railway transportation line. If the French army occupied Al, it would mean that they would reopen the north-south transportation line. The remnants of the trapped expeditionary force might not have to risk retreating from the sea. They could directly use Al's convenient transportation to return to Abvere to continue participating in the war.
In fact, in order to complete the deployment of the Dunkork annihilation war, the German-occupied sections were all replaced. Now the B Army Group was even dismantled into several armies and mixed with the army. In a narrow area, the troops of the two B Army Groups intersected each other and the organization was very chaotic. In order to effectively form the air force support system, the two armies group air force fighters are sometimes arranged at the same airport.
If you really want to say something, you can only say that the French were defeated too quickly, and the Germans' marching speed was different, and the war was unexpected.
The 9th Armored Division came near the airport without any stop. Xu Yang directly took command and ordered the troops to fill up gasoline and replenish ammunition, so he turned around and rushed to the Lis River. They took 101 minutes to reach the east bank of the Lis River. Rommel's troops had received the order to turn around and participate in the war first, and it was estimated that they had already caught fire with the French army.
During the march, the roadside was filled with German soldiers who had fallen from the front line. Judging from their faces and individual equipment, they seemed to have been suddenly attacked. These were some infantrymen of the 12th Army. They looked tired and looked at their armored troops moving forward continuously. These people have not had a rest since the beginning of the Battle of Poland. If the war was not going well, the first thing the officers had to solve was the morale issue.
It turns out that even the elite soldiers will experience mental fatigue after 57 weeks of participating in the war. Most of the German soldiers have never taken any leave since September 1, 2019. It can be said that these people have reached a critical point. Once the war is unfavorable, it is very likely to trigger war-weariness, and a chain reaction will occur. It is not impossible for the previous victory to be reversed. The so-called defeat is not a fictional thing!
Each armored division has its own division command vehicle. This command vehicle will not be too close to the front line. Its function is to let the commander understand the situation of the troops in a timely manner. Just like now, Xu Yang and Joseph are in the command vehicle to understand the development of the war.
The command vehicle can accommodate up to 6 people, and Xu Yang and Joseph occupy two positions. Four staff members kept walking back and forth in front of the military map. They would mark the deployment of the enemy and us based on the information reported by the correspondents in the diagram.
"The commander of this French army is confirmed to be a British major general named Bernard Law Montgomery."
"Our vanguard troops found a large number of French infantry, and the 36th Motorized Battalion requested support!"
"The enemy's infantry gathered on the west bank of the Lis River, and the 156th Stuka Squadron has been ordered to interfere with the enemy's construction of fortifications."
"Major General Rommel's 3rd Armored Division has exchanged fire with the armored forces in the front of the enemy."
"The reconnaissance plane found that the enemy troops had divided into small groups and were advancing towards Betina. Did you notify General Hot? Yes! He has notified General Hot tank cluster. The current location is... Lis, a kilometer away from Betina!"
"The iv6 reconnaissance aircraft sent a report. St. Ommel discovered a small group of British air forces. Did he send Emil Air Force to intercept? Understand! The 246th Emil Battalion has taken off the air..."
"Boke, commander-in-chief of the B Army Group, will ask our army to move to the north of Al to intercept French troops!"
"The reconnaissance plane v09 discovered the movements of the French army in Aidan, and they were retreating!"
“Alas…”
"Our army..." Xu Yang seemed very graceful. His expression and expression seemed to regard the sounds constantly coming out of the radio as Mozart's "Happy Imagination". Every word and every pronunciation seemed to turn into a violin's sonorous and powerful playing. The violin's slender and long low voice was intoxicated...a bit of a perverted feeling.
Information! A large part of modern warfare is information warfare. It is irrational to launch a counterattack in the absence of aviation troops. All their actions are under the control of the German army. Any action has lost the most important suddenness of military operations. What can a unit with a firm grasp of whereabouts do? It can only be surrounded and eliminated!
"Report, the French army is retreating!"
Ding—The performance stopped, Xu Yang opened his eyes and his expression became extremely cold: "The matter is not over yet, the war has just begun! Order all troops to follow the French army and attack forward!!!"
Chapter completed!