Chapter 929: The Last Stand

The fierce fighting left both sides exhausted after two days of fighting. In World War I, the outcome of the war no longer depended solely on the number of personnel, but on the quantity and performance of technical equipment. Although the losses of soldiers on both sides are not too great, the loss of technical equipment such as tanks, aircraft, and heavy artillery has made the two military groups feel stretched, especially the Americans, even Wilson did not expect that the US Army with the best equipment and the most elite officers and soldiers originally planned to fight the whole war, but who knew that before the first battle was over, it lost more than one-third of its personnel and nearly half of its technical equipment! If this is customary, it needs to be corrected, and you don't want to regain your combat effectiveness in a few months! But it's a pity, it's absolutely not right now, it's a proper sale of teammates at this time, don't say that the British don't agree, even if they agree, the troops of the two sides have been entangled together, and they can't leave if they want to!

The British are gasping, the Germans are breathing. Don't be in a hurry to save Kruger, it's useless to be in a hurry. It is impossible to get by without defeating Amiens, and it seems that Kruger can still hold it with the help of the trenches and the jungle, and the French consume each other in the jungle. The Germans, on the other hand, used this time to further increase their forces...... A large number of infantry rushed to the front by various means, and the Germans took out the coffin book on the air side. More than 400 brand-new Fokker D7 fighters were replenished to the front line, further increasing air defense. And for the first time, the Germans also sent out the long-hidden Giant 4-engine bomber. The Germans, who had already killed the red eye, also pulled the last coffin book, but the target of these heavy bombers was not Amiens, because the British Royal Air Force was too strong here, but set the bombing target on the French positions, after all, compared to the British, the French air defense and air force were still ......... worse.

After a five-day intermission, the two major military blocs once again made a big stumble. Under the cover of the air force and heavy artillery, the reinforced Hindenburg headquarters finally revealed its long-hidden armored blade! Slashing at the Allied Army, which was supposed to be exhausted, the infantry of both sides fought in the trenches, while the German armored forces bypassed the front and advanced on the Amiens flank. But unfortunately. The intentions of the Germans were detected by the Allied aerial reconnaissance. Robert and Pershing spread their nets on both wings.

The bloody scene when the Entente broke through the position two days ago was staged again! The German lynx, rhinoceros and other steel giants of the Second Reich advanced desperately against the fire of the anti-aircraft artillery in front, and it has to be said that the Germans' attacks were more orderly than those of the Anglo-American coalition. The frontal assault is carried out in a wedge-shaped attack formation consisting of tanks and heavy tank destroyers. In the rear were a support cluster of self-propelled heavy mortars and self-propelled cannons, followed by accompanying motorized infantry, and the whole formation was integrated. And the Allied long-range artillery was once again suppressed by the Germans, and the black smoke and violent explosions rising from time to time behind the battle line told the American and British soldiers that another artillery position had been destroyed. And the air force, which was known as the patron saint of the Entente some time ago, also fell into a bitter battle this time..........

The collision between the large groups of aircraft did not stop from the moment the sun rose, and the RAF fighter unit was once again bleeding heavily in this battle, and in order to protect those bombers, the fighter unit had to accompany the bomber operations, which severely limited the flexibility of the fighter unit. And in order to increase the accuracy of bombing. The British Air Force had to reduce its flight altitude, which was a double blow from both anti-aircraft artillery and enemy aircraft. While the air forces of both sides were pinned down by each other, the battle on the ground had already arrived*.

At a distance of 700 meters from the first line of defense. The German armored forces began to attack freely, with 50mm and 75mm guns beginning to efficiently clear the fire points of anti-aircraft guns and machine guns, and the engineers in charge of obstacle clearance also cleared minefields and obstacles ahead under the cover of elite storm commandos. The machine guns and snipers of the Entente tried to block the path of the other side. The web of fire from both sides is constantly harvesting each other's lives, and the time a soldier can survive in such a situation can only be measured in seconds, whether it is infantry or armor. Under the powerful artillery attack, the result is the same, in this real hard-to-face battle, the Bobcat tank encountered a huge threat, a Tente support point concentrated a dozen or so anti-aircraft guns, and there are a large number of wheeled tank destroyers to plug the leak, many times the German armor spearhead finally opened a gap, a few tanks just wanted to break through and expand the results of the battle by even the M2 armored vehicle hit the flesh. At close range, both sides almost destroyed each other. The advantage of armor is already small. …………。

The tanks of both sides fired at each other at a distance of only a few hundred meters, and the roar of cannons and machine guns resounded throughout the battlefield, often as a tank or wheeled armored vehicle just destroyed a target, and then in a few seconds it was reduced to parts by shells fired from several directions. The Bobcat tank could not withstand such a blow, let alone the Weasel light tank and the accompanying personnel carrier. Armored personnel carriers, which could be used as movable pillboxes on the Eastern Front, could no longer provide reliable protection for the infantry at this time, but were under the blow of powerful anti-armor fire. The German infantry had to brave dense machine-gun fire to get off the tanks and find cover nearby, set up their machine guns to suppress their opponents.

Only the Rhino tank destroyer can barely withstand an opponent's attack with heavy armor, but these turretless and slow-moving guys will also fall prey to larger-caliber cannons, and the low roar of the British's 94mm cannon sends shivers down the spine of all enemies. The two sides soon became entangled. However, it depends on good quality and efficient organization. The Germans were still slowly advancing. Finally, under the cover of the tanks, several strange-shaped tanks approached the trench and protruded a pipe from the front of the car, which was not very long. Then, several flames erupted, and the German Charizard finally came into full swing...... In the raging flames, everything in the trench could not be spared, whether it was the soldiers on both sides who were fighting, weapons or ammunition, all turned to ashes under the heat of thousands of degrees! …。

The battle soon entered the white heat, the follow-up tanks pushed away the destroyed wreckage in front and continued to advance tenaciously, while the infantry continued to attack across the destroyed trenches and bunker covering troops, the British and Americans fought very tenaciously, but in the face of regular heavy troops, wheeled armored vehicles were still not enough. Despite the addition of skirt plates, anti-tank guns can still penetrate this layer of armor of less than 10mm and damage suspension or tires. And just when the Anglo-American forces of the Amiens Line were slamming into Hindenburg. The French fought in Comby Pinch at the end of the crossbow, and today, the addition of the German giant heavy bombers has made the French * team suffer a double blow both material and spiritual, these huge guys flew into the battlefield like the Grim Reaper, and the dense bombs and machine guns were as easy as the scythe of death to harvest the French.

"The Germans actually used gas bombs!" After the bomb exploded, it spewed out yellow-green smoke, instantly forming a wall of smoke towards the French army, because it was thrown by an airplane, so the Germans could choose any place to release this deadly smoke, and many French soldiers were caught off guard and inhaled the highly toxic chlorine gas. The strong oxidizing properties greatly irritate the respiratory tract of the inhaler. Under the stimulation of poison gas, the respiratory tract secretes a large amount of mucus to try to protect itself, but this makes it more difficult to breathe, under the attack of poison gas, the victim desperately strangles his throat, and some even use bayonets to separate the throat to try to take an extra breath. For the first time on the battlefield, poison gas caused great damage, with tens of thousands of French soldiers killed or seriously injured. They are either blind or have permanent respiratory injuries. And the gap between the German gas bombs led to the defeat of the last wave of the French offensive! …。

"It's something that only demons can do! The Germans and their devilish emperor are bound to pay! When General Xiafei heard the news that the Germans had used poison gas in large quantities, a furious Xiafei vowed to make the Germans taste the same pain, and once the demon of poison gas was released, there would be no return, and the chemical factories of the Entente countries began to produce chlorine, a deadly gas, in large quantities and prepared to use it as a weapon.

At the last moment, Kruger and Hindenburg simultaneously gained the advantage on the battlefield, the former with the help of bomber gas bombs not only blocked the attack of the French * team, but also inflicted heavy damage on the French army. The latter's armored spearhead managed to drive several wedges into the Allied positions. But at this time. They also realized that while the Germans could defeat their opponents, they could not eat them completely. If the Entente* team wanted to evacuate, as long as the order was properly arranged and the troops covered each other, it would be difficult for the Germans to expand their gains. For resource-scarce Germany, the significance of fighting as a war of defeat rather than annihilation was limited.

The Entente paid a greater price in the battle, and the Anglo-American forces, which were responsible for attacking from the flanks, proved to be unsuitable for a head-on engagement, and the advantages gained in the early stage were lost in positional warfare. Newly equipped wheeled armored vehicles were massively destroyed or abandoned. In just a few days, the British Royal Air Force in France lost about 3 percent of its planes and about 2 percent of its pilots. It is almost impossible to recover in a short period of time. The French Army was even more miserable, they had been fighting with the Germans for a longer time, and their losses were even heavier, after more than two years of engagement and this decisive battle, the French experienced officers and soldiers had almost been exhausted, and the remaining newly recruited soldiers could be described as inexperienced. At great cost, the Allies achieved nothing more than to finally withdraw the German army to the vicinity of Amiens, where the Germans still held a large part of the French territory..........

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