Battlefield C near Leipzig-Torgau was the largest of the campaigns, with about 8,000 Prussian troops and 5,000 Saxon soldiers launching an offensive on the Elbe River in the Torgau area. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On this battlefield, although the Prussian army still lagged behind the Germans in the number of artillery, it also formed an artillery cluster to provide fire cover for its river-crossing troops. This also made the battle of Leipzig for the first time in the German army and the Prussian army with artillery bombardment, the Prussian artillery equipment was poor, the German artillery experience was poor, but the German artillery commander was more organized, the general drill set up a reasonable artillery position, and then began to knock out the Prussian artillery positions one by one. And the Prussian artillery was obviously not familiar with the use of artillery in this new era, and the target of their attack was not the German artillery, but the German fortifications on the river bank.

In order to increase the accuracy of hits, the position of the Prussian artillery was relatively close to the river bank, and the shells that crossed the river could directly smash into the German positions. The Germans built the entire defensive line, but not all the fortifications were fortified and were not afraid of shelling, so the artillery bombardment of the Prussian army still brought certain losses to the Germans. And the artillery bombardment of the Prussian army did not last long, because soon the German return fire arrived, and after ten minutes, the Prussian artillery was completely dumb.

However, by this time, the Prussian and Saxon armies had already begun to carry out full-scale crossings on a river channel more than 7 kilometers wide. The garrison German troops immediately used the organization of the defenders to contain them, and as in the A and B battlefields, the river crossing was almost the place where the Prussian army suffered the greatest losses, and large swaths of the Prussian soldiers were killed.

A corner of the battlefield. Two little fighters of the young international column. Cai Zhong and Lin Fuxing also fought nervously. This was strictly the first time they faced an attack by the Prussian army. Both were excited and nervous. Their squad leader shouted to his soldiers: "Calm down, don't shoot hard, don't be in a hurry, see what you need to do and fight slowly, one by one!" ”

This squad leader is a veteran of the Tang Army, and after retiring from the army, he came to the international column to exert his spare heat, although he has not participated in many battles, but the experience is not covered. Those stunned young soldiers of the German army. Almost desperately pulling the trigger to shoot bullets, and even the Tang Army, whose family is much wealthier, is actually not such a waste of bullets when fighting. The veteran officers and non-commissioned officers in the international column and the German army are very clear about a truth, the German army's firepower occupies an all-round advantage, especially in automatic firepower, it can well suppress the Prussian army and the Saxon army, even if they are put in front, or even landed, the German army can annihilate them well, but if the ammunition is consumed by blindly wave warfare, then the German defensive war will be difficult to fight later.

Cai Zhong was holding an S1 rifle. Apparently this gun has been around for some years, and there are wear and tear in some places such as the butt. However, the new gun and barrel did not affect the accuracy. Cai Zhong's eyesight was good, so he aimed at a Prussian soldier who was not leaning over enough in a small boat on the river, adjusted his breath a few times, and then pulled the trigger. The bullet flew out and made a small splash on the surface of the river and did not hit the enemy.

Cai Zhong was not discouraged, pulled the gun to load the bullet again, and it was still the same target. The Prussian boats were not fast, unlike the assault boats of the Don Army, which had outboard engines, and the Prussian boats were rowed by manpower, which was not too difficult for the shooting of the defending soldiers on the river bank.

However, Cai Zhong only hit the Prussian with the fourth bullet, and the ship was still more than twenty meters away from the shore at that time.

Compared to Cai Zhong, Lin Fuxing had a little less luck, he missed five bullets in the magazine and did not hit a single enemy. And there were not many soldiers like Lin Fuxing, the Prussians tried their best to cover themselves with the hull, unless the wooden ship was destroyed by a large-caliber heavy machine gun, the number of enemies hit was actually not very large.

As the ship approached, several officers of the international column began to shout: "Bazooka, bazooka!" ”

Both the German army and the international column were equipped with a certain number of rocket launchers and rockets, of course, the number could not be as much as the Tang Army's own equipment, so the officers of the international column asked the soldiers to fight these heavy firepower weapons. Forty-millimeter rockets flew out, dragging a trail straight for the small wooden boats, which were not fast, and then exploded killing the enemy in them. The people who operate the bazooka are all veterans with more experience in the international column, and new recruits like Cai Zhong and Lin Fuxing will not be trusted to manipulate such a "valuable" weapon.

More than a dozen rockets hit eight wooden boats, and together with the Prussian soldiers on other boats, nearly 100 people were taken away by this wave of rocket attacks. And this kind of rocket attack, which the Prussian army has never seen, obviously also shocked the Prussian army, after this wave of attacks, it is obvious that the movements of the Prussian soldiers are a little slower.

And the defensive force on the shore, consisting of two German infantry regiments and an international column brigade, taught the Prussians and Saxons to be human again with great firepower. The Prussian army was limited by the number of boats, and even if it had an advantage in numbers, there were few boats that could be used to actually cross the river, and the number of soldiers who could transport them across the river at one time was not large.

However, the Prussian army also used some small tricks, such as launching a river crossing first, and then after conducting fire reconnaissance, starting to launch another river crossing attack in another part of the defense, which could be several kilometers or even more apart, thus greatly affecting the German defenses.

Fortunately, the German army's ability to transfer and maneuver on the defensive line was good, and although the Prussian army successfully landed at some river crossing points in this river crossing battle, and formed some threats to the German defense line, the German army soon surrounded and annihilated the Prussian army and the Saxon army that landed on the shore.

In the end, the damage of the Prussian army on the C battlefield was the highest among the three battlefields, and the Prussian army and the Saxon army lost a total of 4,088 people in this river crossing battle, and the German army did not suffer much loss because the layout of the C battlefield was the tightest of the three battlefields. The total losses of the combined forces of the three battlefield princes were as high as nearly 8,000 men, which not only shocked the Prussian king and the Austrian emperor, but also made them infinitely angry.

But at the same time, the German commander Blucher also had deep worries, because after this high-intensity battle, the German army had lost one-third of its ammunition supply in three battlefields, and if there were one or two more battles of this intensity, then the German army was likely to face a situation of having guns and no bullets, and even if they could destroy another 1 to 20,000 enemy troops, the Prussian and Austrian armies still had sufficient forces to turn the tide of the war. (To be continued.) )