December 27

Offensive Day

Starting from 6 a.m.

The full-line artillery bombardment, which was shaking in the earth, entered the climax stage. After two hours of fierce shelling of the German front-line trench positions, it was already bright.

At around 8 o'clock, the group of fighter jets that took off from behind flew over the battlefield. Instead of the usual dive bombing and strafing tactics, they hovered counterclockwise in the air, as if waiting for something?

8:10, with the explosion of signal bombs shot into the sky, the cluster attack of the imperial armored forces finally revealed its hideous fangs.

With the 305th Division (Armored Wolf Cavalry Division) as the main force of the attack, three T-5 "Tiger" tank battalions took the lead, and three goose-shaped attack arrows appeared on the front of the attack 8 kilometers wide. The "rumbling" engine sounded across the battlefield, followed by a brigade wearing steel helmets and fully armed imperial soldiers attacked the German positions.

Behind the first wave armored attack group is the second wave armored attack cluster composed of six "t-2" cheetah medium tank battalions. Behind more than 300 tanks, the Fourth Infantry Division of Kalimantan was followed and attacked.

Further away, the third wave of attack group is ready to go. This is the main force of the 303rd Division (Armored Tiger Cavalry Division), and is composed of two infantry divisions, with an attack arrow. The attack power is extremely strong.

They will advance along the gap opened by the 305th Division. After the attack potential energy of the 305th Division is decayed, they will take over the task of continuing the attack and break through the 23-kilometer-deep defense line of the German army in one fell swoop.

This battle

It was the first battle for the Ocean Empire Expeditionary Force to appear in Europe, and it was also the decisive battle. It was also the battle for the Imperial Marshal Li Shuanzhu to press all the chips.

Success or failure depends on this hammer transaction.

The T-5 Tiger tank equipped with heavy iron armor was discharged from a strict geese formation and slowly approached the German positions at a speed of 3 to 4 kilometers per hour. The steel tracks "rumbling" crushed the ground, and the soil in the shocking German trenches were trembling.

Behind the tank car are armored half-track vehicles that are attacking. These open armored half-track vehicles are equipped with mortars and heavy machine guns to carry out subsequent strikes on the German firepower points.

Behind the armored vehicles are the soldiers who are following the attack, and they are slowly advancing with the help of the armored vehicles.

After 17 consecutive days of aerial bombing and 5 days and 5 nights of artillery bombing, the German trenches suffered heavy casualties, but they also took advantage of the night to replenish them from the rear. In addition, the infantry anti-aircraft artillery holes hidden underground still have quite strong defense.

After the German commander observed through the periscope that the attacking troops were getting closer and closer, he immediately issued an order to "counterattack on the whole line".

The sharp whistle sounded throughout the German trenches, and a large number of German troops immediately surged out of the trench that was originally empty. They rushed to the heavy machine gun positions and the edges of the trench with skillful movements, and took out their rifles to prepare for battle.

And this seemed to be a signal. The Ocean Empire bomber hovering in the air rushed up from the air with a sharp roar and carried out low-altitude precision bombing.

All these changes were within two or three minutes. Before the German army could react, the bomb that was bombarded with artillery fire fell down the trenches, and then violent air machine guns fired, causing a long bloody storm in the wide German trenches, killing and injured.

And this is just an appetizer. The bombers dived from the air carried out low-altitude bombing without fear of danger. One after another, one after another frantically strafing and dropping bombs along the trenches, causing a bloody storm.

At the lowest point, the bomber was only ten meters away from the German trench, and heavy machine guns shot the German soldiers to fly blood and blood, which was a terrible sight.

Around 700 meters away from the German trenches, the attacking Ocean Empire armored tank troops stopped moving forward, and the tank gun barrels slowly turned to find any German firepower points that opened fire, and then carried out a name-name removal.

Under the crazy attack of the aviation force, the German army had very few heavy machine guns and small and medium-caliber artillery that were lying in the trenches to output fire, and were soon sent to the sky by tank shells.

As if there was a tacit understanding in advance, the attacking armored tank troops were not in a hurry to advance, but were waiting for teams of bombers to rage wildly over the German trenches. After throwing the shells, they flapped their wings and flew to the high altitude, and formed a formation to return to the airport to reload.

It won't take long before these bombers will come to the battlefield again, bringing the fear of death like a rain of steel and iron.

More than ten minutes later

The tank armor cluster advanced again, and at this time the heavy firepower that the German front-line positions could counterattack was almost completely lost. Even if some small and medium-caliber shells hit the tank armor, there was no other result except for shooting a row of Mars and causing collateral damage to the soldiers behind.

And these German artillery fires will be sent to the sky by tanks and the counterattack is quite weak.

After more than ten minutes

The armored tanks had attacked more than 30 meters in front of the German defense line. The infantry following them all threw out a round of grenades, and many of them fell into the trenches and exploded, causing the Germans to cry and howl.

The soldiers holding semi-automatic rifles quickly attacked, jumped into the trenches like dumplings to clear out the remaining German troops, and soon occupied the front line.

At this time, more than a dozen strange-looking tank bridge-building vehicles drove over and quickly built steel bridges above the German trenches to facilitate one tank after another to pass through.

Just over an hour

The attacking imperial troops occupied the German front-line positions on all sides, and did not encounter stubborn resistance during this period. The broken limbs and broken arms covered with German trenches have fully demonstrated the problem.

At the eight-kilometer-long attack front, at the beginning of the battle, there were at least nearly 40,000 German troops defending, but under the crazy attack of hundreds of Royal Army Air Force aircraft, more than 15,000 casualties were killed or killed in just over a dozen minutes, and the heavy firepower was almost completely lost.

Thousands of people were lost again in the subsequent armored tank attacks and grenades. The rest were almost scared. Except for a few stubborn German troops who were killed, the rest were all captured.

After opening the breakthrough, the slightly adjusted Armored Wolf Cavalry Division three pilot battalions of the t5 tank regiment set out again and pressed towards the German second-line position.

The imperial soldiers following followed rushed into the trenches in black, spreading along the trenches to both sides, and engaged in fierce battles with the remaining enemy troops.

These soldiers fought very well. They threw grenades before attacking, rushed up to repair guns after blowing, cleared the trenches in front, and continued to throw grenades, then rushed up to carry light machine guns and fired, and replenished guns.

After throwing the grenade, he retreated and asked his brothers to attack and rush forward.

Guns and cannons were heard everywhere on the battlefield. The British Fifth Army and the French Tenth Army, which assisted the attack, saw the main attack of the First Army occupying the front-line positions of the German army and launched large-scale infantry attacks one after another.

Fighters hovering in the air dive down from time to time and shoot down the trenches, giving heavy blows to the rebellious German soldiers and cooperating with friendly forces.

Looking down from the air

Among the imperial soldiers attacking along the trenches, a group of flag soldiers spread out a long and narrow white flag. The flag was about 3 meters long and 1 meter and 2 meters wide. There was only a thick red arrow sign on it, pointing just in the direction of the German army, which was very eye-catching.

This shows the clear direction and position of the fighter jets strafing along the trenches. Although the soldiers on both sides of the trenches are now in fierce battles, the fighter jets on the ground can still provide strong support.

After the fighter dives down, the "Flesh Alley Mode" was turned on dozens of meters in front of the banner. The three heavy machine guns equipped with the "Lightning" fighter were amazingly powerful. One dive strafing was more than 100 meters away, killing the Germans.

After a fighter jet was pulled up in front, the fighter jet behind dived down again, and used fierce machine gun bullets to sort out the trenches to open an offensive channel for the attacking soldiers. The combat efficiency was very high and the lethality was amazing.

The imperial soldiers flooded the German positions on both sides, expanding the attack gap toward the German positions on both sides, and the sound of gunfire and the sound of killing were deafening.

at this time

Teams of bombers flew back from the rear and began to hover over the battlefield, independently looking for attack targets.

This has caused a big problem for the German army. Should I fight or not?

The German positions on the second-line are about 4 to 5 kilometers away from the first-line positions. Compared with the first-line positions, the positions here are somewhat better preserved, with a few artillery positions and machine gun castles remaining, and the trenches are roughly complete.

If you don't fire and fight back, no one can find it.

If the fire is opened and counterattack is immediately exposed, it will attract air bombing and tank artillery attacks.

After only a brief hesitation

The German commander chose to resist to the end, and the second-line trench positions echoed again with sharp whistles. A large number of German troops rushed out of the shelter. The commander shouted at the top of his lungs, "Fight against the air, fast, fast, fast, fight against the air..."

German soldiers opened the camouflage net covering the heavy machine gun position, turned the gun head and pointed it at the diving plane and fired violently. The scorching fire whip swung into the sky, and dozens of bullet holes were drilled into the silver plane.

The diving plane was emitting thick black smoke, and it plunged into the ground near the trenches and exploded, and a cloud of mushrooms with blood and fire rose.

The German army in the second line of defense retained a considerable number of heavy weapons, mainly heavy machine guns and small and medium-caliber artillery, resisted tenaciously in air defense operations, demonstrating the true strength of a world-strong army.

One after another, the fighter jets were shot down, forcing the bombers hovering in the air to pull up altitude to carry out hollow bombing. The free-fall iron bombs landed on the surface of the position, causing flames to ignite and smoke to the sky.

The visual effect is indeed very good, but the attack accuracy is only a few streets short of it, just a loneliness.

The German hidden artillery positions also began to show their power, destroying several T-5 tanks in succession, using 76mm rapid-fire cannons, mostly destroying the side armor of the T5 Tiger tanks.

From this point of view only

The German army is worthy of being a world-class military. After discovering that the 76mm rapid-fire cannon could not destroy the frontal armor of the T-5 tank, it quickly changed its tactics, focused on attacking the side armor of the offensive armored troops, and succeeded.
Chapter completed!