The fall of night did not prevent the confrontation between the two sides of the war, although in order to prevent the emergence of large-scale accidental injuries, night battles were forbidden, but there was no prohibition on the preparations of both sides, and now, both sides are sitting and preparing for the next day's big battle, the quality of the Prussian army is still excellent, in just 2 hours, 6 battalions of reinforcements and 8 companies of artillery were sent to the attack position, behind them, there are another 8 battalions of infantry, which is already all the front-line strength that a Prussian division can press. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Mackensen's mobile units were located on the flanks of the entire Tu cluster, and they did not participate in the first wave of the offensive.

The 75mm guns were towed by horses or vehicles to the position, and the guns were only 800 meters away from the opponent's warning position, while the sappers and spearmen were closer to the opponent, they had already detoured to a distance of 300 meters, and the reason why they were not detected at this distance was more because they were faced with an incoherent line of guards and a small number of support points. This position is like a probe, responsible for sensing the opponent's attack.

The real problem was the 150mm heavy howitzers, which were already deployed behind the second line of defense, and they had to advance 4 kilometers to meet the new strike requirements, but this also brought them closer to the first line to about 4 kilometers. "We can see the artillery positions behind us when we stand on the high ground of the front line, and there is no obstacle between our front and the artillery positions." Hindenburg said with some concern. He now began to wonder if it was the right choice to leave the long-built artillery positions with large-caliber howitzers.

When the entire Prussian army was ready to move forward, Moltke and others found that the entire defense line seemed to have become very fragile, and Moltke even had some illusions, and he returned to the feeling of playing in line and shooting in line in the Napoleonic era, and the whole formation had no depth, lack of concealment and defense.

"So my mobile corps must not be exposed in advance, this is the last guarantee of our rear artillery positions and logistics units. We can do that. "As he spoke, Mackenson drew a line and a few points on the map, after we took the opponent's alert position, the rapid-fire artillery troops should not be too far forward, we gathered them together and stuck in these several positions to form a back cordon."

"If the opponent attacks from here along the road, we can rely on the constructed position to counterattack, and if the opponent bypasses, their flanks will be exposed to the attack range of my fast legion."

"And what about the planes of the Bavarian Legion?" Hindenburg asked.

"There's no way, this is originally a way of playing with injuries for injuries." Mackensen replied simply.

"Well, we've done the best we can, all that's left is waiting." Moltke Jr. sighed and looked at the morning star that had risen in the sky, the Prussian legions, who had been tired all night, had finally completed their pre-battle deployment, and they could use this time to rest a little before the official start of the war.

When the sun was shining on the land again, the Prussian regiment's attack officially began, the first wave of four infantry battalions under the cover of front-line rapid-fire guns and howitzers launched an attack on the Bavarian regiment's cordon, the company mortar company fired smoke bombs, the sappers with various tools under the cover of dense fire rushed to the position a few hundred meters away, and then used steel tongs to break the barbed wire, with detonating cords to clear the mines, the follow-up infantry quickly advanced along the road opened by the sappers.

The Bavarian corps reacted quickly and began to fire at the Prussian corps under the guidance of the front-line observation posts, and the long-range artillery in the rear also began to try to suppress the rapid-fire guns and howitzers deployed by the Prussian corps at the front. Amid the roar of artillery fire, the first large-scale ground confrontation took place between the two sides.

"Hindenburg Mackensen really still has a set." After looking at the offensive posture of the Prussian regiment marked with red arrows on the huge sand table, Ruprecht also had to admit that the other side had indeed done a good job at the tactical level, and the fundamentalist offensive theory emphasized that all forces were concentrated in one point to attack, and after breaking the stable structure of the enemy's position, it would expand to both flanks and in depth, but this set of theories was obviously not suitable for the current situation.

The positions of the Bavarian corps cordon only played a sluggish role and were easily broken through. Therefore, in order to occupy the entire position as soon as possible, it is naturally the best choice to launch an attack from multiple points. Moreover, the Prussian artillery did not dare to concentrate too much under the threat of the Bavarian air force and heavy artillery units, so it was obviously the best way to disperse support and increase the direct firepower, on the one hand, to reduce the intensity of the opponent's strike, and on the other hand, to increase the intensity of fire support through more efficient close attacks.

"The Air Force and the Panzer Corps are ready to strike at any time." Calyput said.

"Let's see, we need to catch the opponent's main forces and let them enter the position." Ruprecht did not issue an offensive order, the Air Force is super powerful in his opinion, but it requires a long cooldown time of the ultimate skill, 80 kilometers in a straight line to fly for nearly 1 hour, do you say cheating dad or not? Therefore, how to use the precious bombs and time is an important question, as for the temporary defense of the ground forces, the fundamental reason is that Ruprecht cannot judge whether the opponent is a feint, so his main card cannot be easily thrown.

Half an hour later, several reconnaissance planes of the Bavarian Air Force flew over the battlefield, and from the air, a large number of Prussian troops in gray uniforms poured into the positions they had just occupied from many directions. The troops, who had already entered the position, quickly began to develop in the direction of depth on both sides, the breakthrough point from point to line, and then to the surface, and part of the artillery units in the rear also made a move forward, and the soldiers, under the command of the officer, hung the artillery on the front car, and then took it to the next forward position by the towing vehicle.

"The other side is building a new defensive line, and the artillery units in the rear are also starting to press forward, but we still have not seen the opponent's armored vehicles and cavalry." A staff officer delivers the information that has just been put together.

"How many of their troops have already entered the position?" Schmidt asked.

"About 4 battalions." An officer replied.

"It's hard for us." Ruprecht smiled bitterly, a German division has about 16 battalions, and the total number of Prussian regimental infantry in this exercise should be about 22 battalions, which is less than one-fifth of the strength. This force was still some way from the prince's expectations.

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