At the same time that the German Army launched the Marne Offensive, the German Army on the Southern Front under the command of General Heringen also began to attack from the Alsace-Lorraine area, although the fortress of Verdun was still impregnable, and although the Balfort area was densely covered with bunkers and crisscrossed by barbed wire, it was very difficult to break through, but the area between them could not be as strong as the two garrisons. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info More importantly, the French did not have enough forces on the southern front to defend this long front!

And in order to break through this area, the German army also equipped the attacking troops with large-caliber siege artillery, such as the 420MM large Bersa heavy gun that established meritorious service in the attack on the fortress of the scorching sun!

"God created you to destroy the most formidable enemy! I hope you don't disappoint me. "IT TOOK THREE WHOLE DAYS FOR THE SIEGE ARTILLERY REGIMENT DIRECTLY UNDER THE GERMAN BASE CAMP TO DEPLOY SIX 420MM HEAVY GUNS IN PLACE, AND THIS KIND OF ARTILLERY WITH A TOTAL COMBAT WEIGHT OF UP TO 42.6 TONS IS THE MOST POWERFUL ARTILLERY THAT CAN BE TAKEN OUT OF THE GERMAN ARSENAL AT THIS STAGE! It is possible to shoot a heavy 810KG shell at a speed of 426 meters per second! According to the experience of the Belgian fortress of the Scorching Sun, super-heavy reinforced concrete armor-piercing shells fired by such artillery could go deep into the ground more than a dozen meters deep and then detonate inside the fortress!

In order to break through the line built by the French in the border area, the German Army Headquarters mobilized a total of 18 guns of this class. The remaining 12 guns were deployed elsewhere, and in order to solve the problem of slow rate of fire, the German Army specially improved the reloading process. The rear of the gun emplacements are specially equipped with cranes, pulleys and other recommended reloading systems, so that the rate of fire is increased to 10 to 15 minutes per shot!

"Let's get started!" With the order to attack, the officers and men of the artillery company checked their weapons for the last time, the Great Belsha artillery is composed of five parts, after entering the firing position, two steel tires will be fixed to the ground, there is a loading platform directly behind the artillery, the gun will be flattened before loading, and then through the rear loading platform to push the shell and the cartridge into the gun, the original process of pushing the cannon into the barrel is completely human, but now, the designer changed it to a mechanical aid.

After the shells were loaded, the guns, which were more than 6 meters long, were slowly raised again. The power of the cannon is so great that people have to stay farther away before they can fire, or the raging muzzle storm can toss people into the air like toys and fall into pulp!

The huge barrel shrank sharply, and a visible wave of air quickly erupted from the muzzle of the gun and then spread outward, and the huge pressure difference produced a circular impact break, and a flame several meters long erupted from the muzzle, and the sonic boom produced when the gun fired made a considerable number of people present temporarily deaf! A strong wind swept through the entire firing position, blowing dust and other debris into the air, and after the launch was completed, the artillery began to slowly reset with the help of the hydraulic system.

The 810KG shell whistled and flew towards the target 8 kilometers away, and it took half a minute for the observation post to see the scene when the shell landed! A black figure instantly burrowed into the ground, and the huge impact directly lifted a gray column of smoke more than ten meters high. This shell penetrated a layer of more than 6 meters of soil and then nearly 3 meters of reinforced concrete!

In the end, this shell exploded in the power supply room of a certain fortress area, and the explosives weighing nearly 100 kilograms instantly tore everything in the room into pieces, several generators and a large number of pipelines were destroyed, and the violent explosion even destroyed a considerable part of the supporting structure of the underground fortress, and from the ground, the entire area suddenly sank down and appeared a pit several meters deep and more than 60 meters in diameter!

Accompanied by the continuous fire of the Great Belsha artillery, columns of smoke that heralded destruction rose one after another throughout the breakthrough area. Heavy artillery positions, warehouses, personnel bunkers, and other pre-calibrated targets were wiped out in one attack after another. AT THE SAME TIME, LONG-RANGE 12-INCH AND 350MM HEAVY TRAIN GUNS ALSO BEGAN TO ATTACK THE STATIONS, SUPPLY CENTERS AND MILITARY STATIONS BEHIND THE FORTRESS GROUP. These ultra-long-range weapons attempt to isolate the breaches from the outside.

THE KEY FORTS AND BUNKERS ARE TAKEN CARE OF WITH SUCH AS 420MM HEAVY GUNS AND 305MM HEAVY GUNS, WHILE FOR THOSE BUNKERS AND GUN NESTS THAT ARE NOT SMALL THE GERMAN ARMY HAS PREPARED 210MM HEAVY GUNS TO DEAL WITH, THESE GUNS ARE CONCENTRATED NEAR THE BREACH, 4 GUNS AND ONE ARTILLERY BATTERY, EACH ARTILLERY BATTERY IS ONLY 150 METERS AWAY FROM EACH OTHER! Under such a strong front-line vitality density, the French thought that the fortified bunkers were reduced to piles of rubble under the repeated blows of shells weighing 100KG.

No matter how strong the bunker is, it only delays the time of destruction, and if the opponent's artillery cannot be effectively suppressed, the attacker's siege artillery will be able to kill all these annoying things sooner or later! Before the Battle of Verdun began, the French deployed eleven divisions of troops and as many as 632 artillery pieces there, and because it was a fortress area, the proportion of heavy artillery here was obviously high, with 244 heavy artillery pieces! And when the French launched a counterattack in November, as many as 400 artillery batteries were .......

And now the situation is that the French not only do not have enough long-range artillery to suppress the opponent, but they are not even enough manpower, they did not expect that the Germans could launch a massive counterattack in the middle and at the same time carry out a huge attack on the southern front, and the density of firepower of this attack is far beyond the French expected! With a large number of troops being drawn to the center and a lack of artillery, the French could no longer hold on, and a hole gradually appeared in their firing line, which was growing with the influx of large numbers of German troops......

"It seems like we're running out of our way." The commander of the French Fifth Army, Lang Rezack, said as he looked at the battle front, which was deteriorating every minute and every second.

"Your Excellency, Commander, we cannot easily abandon our positions on the Southern Front, there is a defense system that we have built for decades, and we have a large number of bunkers, artillery, and supplies. If we give up here, then the weak heart of France will be open to the Germans! We will never be able to afford another system of such fortifications! The officer on the side said loudly.

"But we don't have enough mobile forces to close the gap, and the fort's armament and defenders can only delay the opponent's attack, but not stop it. And now, where can we mobilize enough troops to defend this area? Lang Rezak sighed helplessly, he decided to report this matter to Xia Fei, and then the latter made a decision!

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