1663 The Last Battle 4
"German bombers! They are here! They are too many!"
"Where are our fighter jets?"
"God, they almost flew over my head!" When the Wings of Death came to the air, the fear of being dominated by flames falling from the sky on the battlefield once again lingered in the hearts of the French. They prayed that the British planes could provide help again, but they didn't know that the British Air Force's loss was even greater than that of the French army, and this battle broke out suddenly, and the British were not prepared. After the first wave of hasty fighter jets was repelled, the Bavarian Air Force began to carry out the most comfortable ground attack since entering Asia Minor!
Boom! When the first group of 500kg bombs landed, the vibration like an earthquake spread around instantly. The Germans first aimed at a heavy artillery position. In this place with a width of 700 meters and a length of 400 meters, there were 8 152mm cannons and 6 120mm cannons! Their arrogant spitting out firepower made them the first target to be locked. Ten k-6 bombers first flew to this area, and then tilted 15 tons of bombs towards the target in less than 5 minutes!
A few minutes later, continuous explosions sounded from the battlefield. The heavy artillery position, which was still powerful a few minutes ago, turned into ashes in a fire and explosion sound! The smoke columns produced by the explosion even rushed into the air for hundreds of meters. Huge craters and radial damage were connected. Apart from the wreckage left on the ground, only the charred earth was left. The mixed attack of high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs not only destroyed the entire artillery position, but also the area where vehicles were parked not far away also exploded into white. From the air, the artillery position that had just been taken care of was left on the ground like a deep scar.
However, this is just the beginning. After a group of bombers launched air strikes one after another, the originally fierce French artillery positions were either completely destroyed or suppressed, and even anti-tank gun positions hidden in the wreckage of the house and avoided the German tank gun grenades were not spared in this round of attack!
If the collapsed houses were given some cover to the French, then now, the incendiary bombs falling from the sky are like death talismans of death! With a burning bomb, it can quickly burn all objects within thousands of square meters nearby, and the French bunkers and artillery hidden under the wooden bunkers are naturally not spared. Under the baptism of tons of incendiary bombs, the entire town was buried in the sky-sky fire. The black smoke pillars can be seen clearly even on another battlefield dozens of kilometers away. The result of the French who were originally hidden inside can be imagined. They may die from high temperatures, poison gas or collapse of bunkers. Of course, the biggest possibility is that they are killed directly by the Bavarian Legion who was freed out when they withdraw.
The bomber's attacks were short and fierce, and it was unstoppable when attacking like a heavy hammer. However, due to the limitations of technical level in this era and the factors of too many ground targets, such an attack could not completely solve the problem. Then, another air force tactic that appeared in World War I came on stage, which was to use small bombs and machine guns to continuously fire exposed artillery positions to suppress the opponent. In history, the first German attack aircraft in Germany carried out the suppression and production war on artillery positions in the late stage of World War I, and the overall effect was pretty good.
This time, not only the K-6 bombers used machine guns like hedgehogs on their bodies to strafuse the ground, but even some fighter units joined the sweeping battle when they were idle. They even lowered to a height of about 50 meters, almost flew over the French heads, and then poured hundreds of machine guns and large-caliber machine guns onto the target. The whistling bullets swept the ground over and over again, and countless soldiers were knocked into two pieces by flying bullets in the rain of bullets like the sickle of the god of death. When these planes flew past, the harsh noise generated by the friction air and the roar of guns and cannons in their ears. After rounds of endless ground strafing, some French troops finally collapsed!
The Bavarian Army, who seized the opportunity, responded very well. First, the howitzer troops, which recovered from the British's intensive shelling, immediately launched a counterattack, relying on sound positioning equipment and aviation reconnaissance (there were equipment that relied on sound to locate the artillery position in World War I, which was created by the British), and the accompanying self-propelled howitzers immediately targeted the French artillery positions and began to suppress those artillery that the Air Force had not noticed for the time being.
After some rest, under the leadership of the remaining wolf tanks, the attack mode of the attack with tanks as the pioneer, the armored transport vehicle was equipped with infantry to follow up, and the truck cannon provided fire cover was once again unfolded. To be honest, although the French bombardment just now was fierce, it also caused a large casualty, but it was still a little worse if it was said that the injury was broken.
The French's large-caliber cannon attack was indeed very sharp, and the first few minutes were terrifying. However, the tanks were able to move after all. Before that, the experienced Bavarian armored troops had also encountered many ambushes on the battlefield. If a tank company commander did not survive more than 5 ambushes, he would basically not be qualified to rise. Therefore, although some people were slow to use, most people would immediately release the smoke and dodge them on the evasion route.
The French concentrated long-range artillery firepower was indeed good, but the most critical problem was that it didn't last long... The German bombers came, and the first wave of killing was unprepared for them. The infantry exposed to the battlefield was indeed very fierce, but it was not that good for infantry in armored conveyor vehicles and self-propelled artillery with certain armor protection. So, in general, the French started well, but the time was too short. This is why when Earl Schmidt realized that there might be problems on the front, he still took the initiative to attack, thinking that today's air superiority was too great.
While the frontal battlefield was gradually turning around, Xia Fei's troops rushed out from the side kicked the iron plate! Although Xia Fei prepared so much for the French army, the premise for all this to succeed was that his armored troops could cut the opponent's front line, that is, the opponent's armored troops were not strong enough to stop this wave of attacks. The so-called armored spearhead was not strong himself, and he was still very furious!
So the French ft10 collided with the tank reserve team in the hands of Count Schmidt.
Chapter completed!