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1446 Counterattack 2

Although the heavy artillery could not be completely destroyed, the continuous attacks still suppressed most of the artillery positions. Smoke columns and flames spread on the British artillery positions. The expected steel frenzy of the front line was stopped by the forces from the air. Now, taking advantage of this time, the German attack front line had already collided with the British defense line!

More than 70 tanks formed the attack target this time, and the front was 35 wolf-type tanks. This first appearance in front of the British caused huge pressure on the opponent!

"Fire!" A series of flames spurted out from the hidden position, and armor-piercing bullets roared towards the German tanks opposite!

"Damn it! We failed to penetrate their armor!" After a burst of explosions, the monsters like giant beasts in the distance still did not stop, and their wide tracks crushed the ground and continued to move forward.

"They started shooting! It was a 75mm rapid-fire gun!" The British anti-tank firepower that exposed its existence was quickly locked, and a series of counterattack shells flew towards the target hundreds of meters away, and the continuous attack completely destroyed one artillery and bunker. In just a short while, a 4-cannon position turned into a wreckage under the concentrated attack of seven wolf tanks.

The British side attack positions are still useful. The 57mm rapid-fire cannon (6-pound cannon) hidden on the side still poses a certain threat to these giant wolves who swept across the British positions. In fact, the penetration depth of the 57mm cannon is not worse than that of the m1897 75mm cannon. After all, they are professional cannons, with longer body tubes and higher initial velocities. However, the biggest problem is that the after effect is too small, and the loading of armor-piercing shells is relatively small, so when considering the shells are not large...

Boom! A shell penetrated the armor on the side, leaving a hole in the huge body of the car, and a thick smoke ejected from it. When the British cheered for their hits, the tank that had just stopped began to slowly turn the turret. The shell hitting the tail of the turret did not cause much damage, but it only injured the loader. The fragments generated by the collision were not enough to kill the personnel. More than ten seconds later, the British were surprised to find that the tank that had been penetrated had aimed the thick and long cannon at him. The flame flashed and a shell roared out, smashing the 6-pound cannon close to the ground into pieces.

When both sides approached a distance of about 600 meters, the firepower of both sides could be described as explosions! At this time, it was approaching the best shooting distance of British war defense artillery. Faced with the huge pressure of the German armored forces, the British were unreserved, and almost all fire points were activated. The flames during the artillery fire continued to shine on the position, and dense shells roared towards the German armored forces, and the machine gun team and the mortar troops attached to the back were also fully fired, and the entire front of the position was covered by a dense fire net. The explosion of the shells and the roar of the machine gun pressed against all the sounds.

"Release the smoke screen, let's retreat!" The damage of the front resistance was really high. On this not too wide position, the British deployed at least 20 war defense artillery of various calibers. In this unexpected situation, the Germans rationally chose to retreat temporarily. In fact, this time it was just a test. A large number of infantry did not keep up. The smoke bomb launchers outside the tank and the smoke bombs released by the rear mortars quickly covered the battlefield. Except for some unlucky vehicles that were destroyed or stayed on the battlefield due to damage to the power system, most of the crew successfully withdrew from the effective range of the British army.

"The beetle self-propelled artillery and 88mm anti-aircraft gun concentrate firepower to suppress or kill firepower points. Mortars and howitzers pay attention to isolating the opponent's subsequent forces, and we will fight again!" After a brief adjustment, the German army launched an attack again. The power of the newly added 107mm and 88mm flat-fire guns once again exerted a strong power in this battle. The armor-piercing projectiles of more than 16kg of the 107mm cannon is more than twice the power of the 75mm rapid-fire gun! It is naturally better to use when destroying fixed firepower points.

The thick and long cannons were quickly flattened, and fire dragons rushed out of the black gun mouth. At a distance of 1,200 meters, the pre-corrected artillery attack accuracy was very high! Under the continuous attack, the British bunker built by the 6-pound cannon and 18-pound cannon could not resist such an attack at all. The shells with death screaming almost hit those well-set artillery nests on the ground, but the cannon nests made of only simple chest walls and logs could not resist such powerful armor-piercing shells, and they were easily killed like paper.

At the same time, the 2-pound machine cannons that once showed great power against the British people also played a role again. They were still in the back of the formation, but the continuous and extremely accurate curved suppression made the British infantry in the trench feel insecure. A large number of shells that exploded in the air kept sprinkling the rain of death above the British heads. The sharp shrapnel easily harvested the opponent's lives, and even the reinforced machine gun bunker could not block the opponent's continuous strike. After a series of shells hit, the entire civil structure bunker was riddled with holes. With a loud bang, a huge support point collapsed as a whole, leaving behind a pile of ruins.

Taking advantage of the large number of self-propelled artillery and machine guns to remove the opponent's firepower points and the distance to isolate this front line, the Germans launched an attack again. However, when the Germans rushed into the British fire-killing zone again, the counterattack was much smaller. After all, there was no cover that could not be destroyed. Once the fixed firepower points were exposed, there would be less time left for them.

Test, attack! If you can't kill, then repeat this process again. When the support is cut off, the British army that cannot obtain effective support will not eventually make too big waves. As the German infantry enters the trench and uses submachine guns, flamethrowers and grenades to kill groups of British troops in the trench, the entire position will eventually change hands.

The infantry took over the position, and the armored troops conducted a brief supply and rest and attacked again! The whole process almost repeated the previous actions. From the perspective of combat effectiveness, the British's equipment and quality were indeed good, but from the tactical level, the problem was very big, because this was almost a simple battle between a tough village and a stupid battle. Passive defense, there was no tactical innovation, but is the British's level like this? Obviously not! After all, they were also elite soldiers who fought with the German army for a year on the Western Front. Being able to fight until now still has 50% of their strength, which fully demonstrates their level!
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