Chapter 1125: The arrogant soldiers will be defeated
Almost at the same time as the attack on Karlsruhe, in the direction of Freiburg, five divisions of the French army launched another attack, the target, that is, Freiburg, all the artillery was put into the attack, one shell after another fell on the position, blowing up the sand and stones, destroying the grass and trees, the entire position was blown up by shells, ploughing and sweeping holes! The thick black smoke enveloped the entire position, and clusters of war flames were burning with beeps, declaring the powerful combat power of the French artillery!
The commander of the French army, McMahon, personally commanded the command, and all the artillery was put into the attack, taking turns to attack, without stopping, McMahon relied on his strong forces and powerful artillery, and launched an attack on Freiburg and Karlsruhe almost at the same time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
In the view of McMahon, who is full of self-confidence, even if it is a two-front attack, the powerful French army can still defeat the Prussian army in a short period of time with its strong combat power. It can be said that France has hardly stopped fighting since it entered the nineteenth century, and the powerful French army can be said to be invincible! McMahon was absolutely sure that he could advance into the heart of Prussia and even point his troops straight at Berlin!
However, McMahon is too high on the advantage of the French army now, his artillery is powerful, but the Prussian army is not without the power to fight back, and the Prussian army is also equipped with a large number of heavy machine guns, even if the French army occupies an absolute advantage on the scene, unless the Prussian fortifications can be completely destroyed in a short period of time, otherwise, it is impossible to convert the advantage into victory! Because the French shells simply could not penetrate the Prussian fortifications to destroy the heavy machine gun fire!
In particular, the proud McMahon made the mistake of pride, the two armies are facing each other, like a lion fighting an elephant, we must go all out, and there is no room for carelessness, the best way is to use a partial division to attract a part of Prussia, and then concentrate the main forces to storm one of the two fortresses, with the strength of the current French army of ten divisions, if we attack with all our strength, Prussia, whether in Karlsruhe or Freiburg, will definitely be able to withstand the strong attack of such superior forces, one containment, one onslaught, In this way, we can win the battle!
Now McMahon completely divided the forces of the ten divisions, and attacked Freiburg and Karlsruhe at the same time, but he committed a great military taboo, and wanted to annex both fortresses in one go, but he did not expect that the fortress on the opposite side was two stinky and hard stones, and instead of biting it, he broke his own teeth and his mouth was full of blood.
In Karlsruhe, the hasty charge of the French army brought huge casualties to the French army, and thousands of people died directly on the battlefield after several hours of charging! There were also a large number of wounded, and after the battle, the French army left an indelible shadow on the heavy machine guns of the Prussian army!
It's a heavy machine gun again, in China, General Bazin was defeated by these heavy machine guns, and now it's our turn again, the French soldiers are now frightened and afraid of heavy machine guns, which are even more frightening than heavy artillery!
Karlsruhe, where the French army paid a heavy price; In Freiburg, the French army paid an even heavier price!
McMahon himself sat in Freiburg, he was a little more cautious, and began to carry out the shelling from close to noon, and the shelling continued almost in one breath until the eve of dawn the next day, and the news of the defeat of the French army in Coles Ruhe had reached Freiburg, and Mark Mahon naturally did not dare to launch a direct charge easily.
For a whole day and a night, McMahon felt that the fire was almost over, and it was time to attack, when the east was just showing the whiteness of the fish's belly, McMahon ordered the army to charge towards Freiburg!
However, what McMahon didn't know was that Karlsruhe was five French divisions against three Prussian divisions, but in Freiburg it was five French divisions against four Prussian divisions, and the difference in strength between the two sides was not very large.
But forget that the fortifications of Freiburg are even stronger than Karlsruhe, this is the largest military fortress in the southwest of Prussia, and the fortifications are even stronger, even if the French army bombarded them with dense artillery for a whole day and a night, they could not get the fortifications of others!
You know, as early as two years before the start of the Austro-Prussian war, Prussia was already making preparations, naturally to build fortifications on the Franco-Prussian border to prevent the military intervention of the French army, and now that the war has begun, the effects of these fortifications have all been revealed!
As soon as the French army charged, the heavy machine guns under the fortifications were all exposed, and they began to spit out tongues of fire angrily, and the heavy machine gun fire was even more powerful and fierce than the Prussian army in Karlsruhe!
This was completely unexpected, how many heavy machine guns did this Prussia have? Damn it! This time, it's blood mold!
McMahon jumped like thunder, watching teams and pieces of French soldiers being swept down on the battlefield by heavy machine guns, suffering heavy casualties!
"Order, order, immediately order, the army stops charging and retreats to its positions!"
McMahon roared angrily and gave the order to retreat.
It's just that the French army retreated, but the Prussian army came to the spirit!
Prince Frederick hid the strength of a Prussian division before the war and never used it, and now that the French army has been frustrated and the army has retreated, where will Prince Frederick be polite?
Prince Frederick gave an order, four Prussian divisions attacked on all fronts, all the artillery was pulled out, and began to launch a counteroffensive towards the French position.
Rows of shells fell on the French positions, blowing up the French troops in the process of adjustment, their fortifications were all improvised and far less stable than those of the Prussian army, and there was not enough heavy machine-gun fire on the positions as the backbone of the defense.
Prussia's powerful counteroffensive caught the French army off guard, and they kept retreating, and they were rushed to the front of the position by such a charge of the Prussian army, and it was already difficult to contain the offensive of the Prussian army! (To be continued.) )