Chapter 88 Target! Fort Suvier
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Almost at the same time as the first gunshot of the German position came out, He Sui, who was originally standing on the ladder, suddenly "flying" out of the trenches like a cannonball. At the same time, the officers jumped out of the trenches, and the harsh whistles echoed inside and outside the trenches. According to the plan, the reserve teams of the two regiments must be put into the battlefield as soon as possible after the sneak attack was successful.
While the reserve team was putting on the battlefield, the artillery observers from various front lines in the rear issued orders to the phone in their hands almost at the same time:
"Architecture fire covers the enemy's second-line positions to fight the enemy's reinforcements! Long-range artillery suppresses the enemy's artillery group's firepower!"
The artillery had been waiting for a long time and immediately began to scatter shells on the German second-line position as the order began to sprinkle artillery shells, and the flames from the muzzle suddenly tore open the dark night! First, the first division's own artillery group, then the French army's support artillery group, and the long-range heavy artillery group parked in the rear also joined the artillery.
The artillery soldiers of the two countries, who had been nervous for the middle of the night, finally swept out all their accumulated strength. At this time, all the cannons fired at their highest rate of fire. Thousands of shells accurately covered the German second-line positions and the roads for their forward movement and reinforcements, and on the trenches.
At the moment when a shell like a storm fell, the German position was lit by the flames of explosion. At this moment, the darkness seemed to disappear. The cold early spring night was burned hot at this moment.
"kill!"
Although he was the commander of the First Division, He Sui was like the most ordinary soldier at this time. After he jumped out of the trench, the infantrymen of the two reserve regiments quickly pulled out the trench with machine guns and reinforced them in front. Each of them ran forward desperately. For them, now, their running was not only for victory, but they had to attack the lively trenches in the shortest time. Cooperate with the assault troops to sweep away the remaining German enemies and welcome the German counterattack. If possible, they would quickly expand into the enemy's depth and achieve success!
More importantly, everyone from officers to soldiers knows. Now, they are actually competing for time with the God of Death. Now the commando has caught the Germans off guard and bought them valuable time. They must shoot rain-like shells to the unmanned zone between the two armies before the Germans reacted, and rush through this unmanned zone called "no one" but actually "death".
According to the combat plan, the reserves of these two regiments are the real huge waves. This huge wave will suddenly pounce on the German second-line position. They will use the most fierce attack to not give the Germans any time to react. The success or failure of this battle is determined by the commando, but whether they can win in the end is determined by the two regiments. Compared with the assault forces of the first regiment, they will bear greater casualties. In the attack, they need to endure the most violent shelling.
But in the end, they are very likely to win, and it all depends on their speed, as long as one second is fast. In the whole world, the Chinese team may have various natural shortcomings. When European and American countries use trains to mobilize the troops, most of the time, the Chinese team can only rely on hiking marches. For this reason, long-distance marches have been the focus of troops training since the Beiyang Army. After the establishment of the Expeditionary Force, the 5-kilometer armed off-road originated from the Jiangsu Army was included in the training outline.
The intensity of the training before the battle is beyond everyone's imagination. First of all, the physical fitness, the intensity of the physical fitness training of the Expeditionary Army is unimaginable to other countries' armies. Every day, soldiers have to withstand high-intensity physical training to improve their personal physical fitness. When the officers and soldiers open their eyes every day, they wait for them on a 5-kilometer cross-country road. If they don't run for 19 minutes, they don't have to run - because that means that if they are on the battlefield, they have been reimbursed. When they are in China, many officers and soldiers can run for 17 and a half minutes.
At this time, their speed was faster than when they were training in China. Everyone was playing the best armed off-road score he had ever thought of. The mines that had been left in the unmanned zone were their effect at this time. When a soldier stepped on a landmine, the power of the mine explosion could not stop the people behind him from continuing to move forward. At this time, there was no object in the world that could stop their attack.
If everything goes well, they will be able to end the battle before Ling Ming arrives.
At this time, the melee in the German trenches on the front line of the German army was still ongoing. These German soldiers from the Crown Prince William's legion were indeed very outstanding soldiers. No one dared to doubt it. They were touched into positions by the enemy in the night. The enemy used a large number of automatic weapons, and the reinforcements behind them were blocked. The soldiers who were originally resting in various shelters were buried alive by grenades, and the machine gunners on the machine gun fort were either stabbed to death by bayonets or burned to death by flamethrowers. In this chaos, the officers could not command the troops at all, but they still fought as much as possible. The machine gunners dragged the machine guns from the shooting point and fired in the trenches. In order to stop the enemy's attack, they even fought with their own people and the enemy.
Many injured German soldiers did not hesitate to fire grenades to die with the enemy. When the enemy's grenades were thrown, they would also jump on the grenades and use their bodies to defend their comrades around them. The reason why they carry forward the spirit of self-sacrifice is just to buy some time for their comrades to interrupt the enemy's sneak attack.
At this time, behind these German troops was the artillery fire covered by the enemy, and there were extremely cruel enemies in the trenches, and they had nowhere to retreat! Although the German troops were extremely brave and completely redeemed the name of the army, such unorganized resistance here has no meaning, and these resistances are like an egg hitting a stone.
In the eyes of German officers and soldiers, these low-sized enemies shouted what they didn't understand. They opened the way in the trench, followed by the strafing of machine guns, and finally used bayonets to sweep them. Occasionally they also used flamethrowers, which were no strangers to the Germans. In fact, the flamethrowers were they put into the battlefield in this battle, but they did not expect that these sneak attack troops would bring heavy flamethrowers that needed to drag the oil pipes.
These enemies were extremely agile. When they were acting, they were like a fire dragon in the trench, sweeping through every burst of the trench. The remaining bodies of the German army in the trench almost filled the trench, while more German soldiers were buried alive in shelter!
Where did this group of evil ghosts emerge from?
Almost every German officer and soldier had a question in his mind. For many people, until they died, they did not know who their enemy was! On the German positions that were raided, nearly two regiments of German troops not only suffered heavy losses in this short and fierce raid, but they even lost their command and complete system. Many frightened soldiers jumped out of the trenches and fled backwards, but were blown to ashes in the artillery fire.
When the German army near the assault point tried to reinforce this area, they were fired unprecedentedly. The soldiers of the machine gun fort at the joints operated German-made Maxim machine guns. They sprinkled bullets at the German army on both wings. During the construction of these machine gun forts, they had already fully considered the defense of the two wings to prevent the enemy from expanding their positions along the trenches after the flanks were broken. At this time, the machine gun forts cooperated with the gun group in the rear to deal with the Germans a heavy blow to the Germans.
The German army's front-line positions are about to change hands!
At this time, the German army in the rear finally reacted after a brief panic. The first thing they reacted was the artillery. Although the artillery cluster in the rear of the German army was not clear about the situation ahead, after receiving the order, they immediately operated on the calibration map and carried out artillery bombardment on the unmanned areas between the two armies. This was a normal counterattack, not attacking the enemy's positions, but only attacking the unmanned areas, thereby blocking the opponent's successor forces.
The German army on the second-tier position had no idea about the situation on the front line, and even the telephone soldiers had no time to report on the situation on the front line, and their reinforcement lines were blocked by the enemy with artillery fire. When the German reserve team on the second-tier line was preparing to follow the trench reinforcement line, they were hit head-on halfway. The soldiers carrying the captured German heavy machine guns operated several heavy machine guns and blocked the trench tightly. Some soldiers were looking for German grenades, and the German grenades imitated the second-type grenades from China. In fact, after the Jiaoao Incident, China's long-handled grenades quickly became popular all over the world. When they found the German grenades, they kept bundling them into cluster grenades and threw them towards the reinforcements of the German troops.
When the assault troops were desperately preventing the German troops from counterattacking along the trench, the reinforcements behind them tried hard to speed up. However, some officers and soldiers were unable to escape the German artillery blockade. The German artillery quality was extremely excellent. Compared with the French army, their artillery was more powerful and they were slower to respond. However, the artillery fire they counterattacked was still as fierce as before!
During the battle between the two armies, the night sky was completely destroyed by artillery fire. The attack formations of the two infantry regiments had been evacuated as much as possible, but the figures of officers and soldiers were still constantly engulfed by artillery fire, and their bodies were blown to pieces in the artillery fire, but they had already prepared for this! For these officers and soldiers who had red eyes and had only one thought left in their minds, they had no concerns about death.
When the troops attacked in full swing, they had ordered the logistics soldiers to be armed and acted as the last wave of reserve teams. Li Guohui was in the cover, holding a telescope and staring at the firelight on the opposite side. At this time, the explosion of fire and smoke had completely submerged the German front. A phone ringtone in the cover was ringing wildly. Now the command post is also extremely busy. They must coordinate the front and rear, constantly accept the requirements from the front, and issue them to the rear. Due to the sound of artillery, the staff and the communication officers could only repeat the orders by yelling.
"Mr. Chief of Staff, you have succeeded!"
Amid the congratulations of Jaylure, Li Guohui strode to the staff who were calling. At this time, his face collapsed and the flash of artillery fire shone in and his face turned bright and dark.
Ignoring Jaylure's congratulations, he shouted to the staff officer:
"Tell Captain Sun immediately and order him to lead the third batch of reserve teams to kill ten minutes later, and tell him to do whatever it takes!"
Now, as the chief of staff, he must grasp the situation on the battlefield. Although the division commander attacked with the army and carried a radio station, the situation on the battlefield changed rapidly. He could not wait until the division commander's order was issued before he could enter the last wave of reserve teams. At that time, the reserve team of that side arrived at the front first, which would allow him to win the battle.
Then he shouted at the colonel staff officer who was responsible for coordinating the rear artillery group.
"Tell the Frenchman, we are fighting hard, and they must fight hard too. As long as they can suppress the German artillery fire, I can take down the German Suviereburg!"
Li Guohui, who had always had a smile on his face, had a blue face now, and he had never seemed to have been so serious. This was the first time the Expeditionary Force went to the battlefield. As the chief of staff, he was under considerable pressure and has now reached this point. He no longer needed to consider other issues.
Before the expeditionary force went on the expedition, both the president and the prime minister said it was very clear that they could accept any casualties, one casualties. They would add ten, and their only requirement was to fight a few battles, show the prestige of the Chinese team, and show the dignity of China!
Now, the only thing he couldn't accept was the result of failure. After He Sui followed the front line troops as ordered, the First Division had completely delegated power to Li Guohui, the chief of staff. The only thing he needed to do now was to do everything possible to fight this battle that had already won more beautifully and achieve more results!
Listening to the command of the chief of staff, Major Jaylure was stunned. In fact, for the French Command, they had never thought that the Chinese could capture the front line of the German army. In their opinion, this small battle was just a battle to break the Chinese confidence in the battlefield, and finally reached their "compilation" team. They were allocated to various French troops, but now, the situation on the battlefield has developed beyond his imagination. After witnessing the performance of these people in this group, in his opinion, the most important thing for these Chinese people is to "preserve the honors they have already won!" If they lose the honors they have already obtained, they...
"Your Excellency, this is the first time you have to calm down your temper when you participate in this kind of war... The Germans reacted very quickly. Now for your army, the most important thing is to defend their positions, not..."
"I have confidence in my troops! I believe we can win the second-tier position and Suvieburg!"
Li Guohui refused without hesitation about Major Jaylu's reminder. Now, the only thing he needs is victory. In his opinion, tomorrow, the entire France and all the newspaper headlines in Britain will be the First Division of the Expeditionary Force. The honor of the Expeditionary Force is within reach, but what he needs is shock. The shock of the entire world is believed to be what Beijing hopes for.
At this time, Beden called from Avez's headquarters. A French-speaking staff member received the call and became an interpreter between Beden and Li Guohui. After receiving the report from the front, Beden, who was so shocked that he could not speak, congratulated Li Guohui and the First Division first. Their sneak attack completely disrupted the German defense system. The German front line troops almost clearly called for help on the radio, believing that it would be difficult for them to hold on until the next darkness after they suffered a raid, and the general reserve team needed to quickly reinforce.
Then Betan said very directly.
"Now your troops have suffered the casualties of the past and won the glory of the past and future. As an ally, France will not abandon its friends and have ordered the 21st Army to prepare to enter the battlefield to replace the First Division that suffered serious losses..."
Go down the mountain to pick peaches!
Facing Beta's order, Li Guohui said coldly to the translator who looked at him:
"Tell the commander, tell him that we will hand over the German Suvietburg to his hands!"
Picking peaches, it’s not time yet!
At this time, the German troops on the front line were indeed fighting all. They suffered extremely heavy casualties in the hands of these Chinese assault troops who had undergone rigorous training under the raid. Their firepower on the front line was completely ineffective and they fell into a melee. Only the artillery fire in the rear could provide them with some support. Without the blockade of machine gun fire, more and more Chinese troops broke through the blockade of German artillery fire, and then rushed into the front line to attack some trenches that were still resisting. Their troops and defense systems on the front line finally collapsed.
At this time, the trenches were full of high and low corpses. At this time, the assault troops of the First Regiment had been reorganized. The assault troops responsible for the second wave of attack missions were carried more explosions than the light assaults of the First Assault troops. They had already advanced towards the depth of the German army long before the German defense collapsed. In a sense, the more than 600 officers and soldiers of the Third Battalion of the First Regiment were equivalent to suicide squads. They had to avoid any cost and get as close to the German second-line position and its core Suvierberg as possible, and then create chaos on the front line at any cost, thus creating opportunities for the reserve team to expand the results of the battle. If they cannot complete the task, if the reserve team in the rear did not receive the signal from them, the entire battle would end, which means that the officers and soldiers of the Third Battalion had no chance of survival at all. For them, whether it was win or lose, the result was the same for them - death.
At this time, the war was still unfolding in a more intense direction. Dawn's short bloody battle was just a beginning. (..)
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