"Good!" Mis shouted loudly. He was full of affection for the air force that arrived in time..com Under the dive bombing of Stuka, the French artillery finally became hoarse, and the French soldiers who had charged halfway had to retreat back. The 00-meter wilderness was scattered in a scattered manner. The wailing and helplessness of some French soldiers who were shot but not killed were wailed and asked for help. In the ceasefire, it seemed so desolate and helpless.

The 10 aircraft of various types taken off at Essen Airport will be responsible for bombing the French army in Metz and the direction of the Moselle River, helping the 15th Army to defend the position. With the cooperation of the air force, the 15th Army is quite confident in defending the defense line. At the 15-kilometer defense line, the 15th Army has successively exchanged fire with the French army. The temporary defense line was bombarded by French artillery. Many trenches on the first line of defense were already paralyzed. The German engineers braved artillery fire and tried to dig trenches, but suffered heavy casualties under the shelling of the French 105 artillery. It was not until the arrival of the German Air Force that the French army stopped the shelling of artillery. Before that, 36 German engineers had fallen in a pool of blood.

At the same time, the German Air Force, responsible for bombing the Mass Henan case, was progressing very smoothly. The French army, which lacked anti-aircraft artillery, did not carry out much resistance during the bombing. During the bombing of a large group of Stukas, most of the temporary defense positions built by the French army were destroyed, and the communication system was also destroyed, making it impossible for the French troops to contact at all, which also caused the disaster that followed. The French troops who had lost contact could only fight on their own. They not only had to be wary of bombing from the air, but also avoided the artillery bombing of the German artillery units on the north bank of the Mass River. At 3:00 pm, Guderian's troops conducted the first attempt to cross. The rubber boats that had been prepared were pushed into the water from the bank embankment. Each rubber boat carried a squad of German infantry. They used simple paddling tools to allow the rubber boats to break through the water quickly.

After being bombed at high intensity, the French army that lost artillery was unable to stop the German crossing forces. The German infantry crossed the Maas River without any danger. It was not until they reached a small group of French troops that they encountered a small number of blocking forces. These French troops usually lacked machine guns and only used rifles to shoot scattered fire.

The first wave of German infantry crossed the Maas River, and then the German combat engineers also used rubber boats to start a ferry operation. Their responsibility was to set up the boat bridge as soon as possible and allow the armored troops behind to pass through. This was an extremely difficult task. These combat engineers not only had to risk being shot, but also ensured that the boat bridge was stable. You must know that the lightest tank weighed 6 tons.

At 4:00 pm, the first i-type tank passed smoothly by the boat bridge. An important signal shows that the boat bridge established by the combat engineers can allow the tank to pass safely. Subsequently, more i-type tanks passed through the boat bridge and joined the battle. At this time, the infantry that successfully forced the crossing had cleared the French army near the south bank, and the first bridgehead was also trying to establish in the tense battle.

The defense line established by the 15th Army may have been affected by the war on the north bank of the Maas River, and the French army began a desperate attack. Taking the defense line in the town of Mus as an example, a French infantry regiment was suddenly added here, and the French army no longer carved for the safety of "national property" and began high-intensity artillery bombardment.

The frontier positions in the town of Mus were bombarded by the French army with high-intensity artillery. The German firepower team had to retreat. Almost all the buildings on the frontier were flattened by artillery fire. Among the ruins, the bodies of German soldiers who were unable to retreat were pressed under the beams and rubble.

Hohenzollern was furious at this time. He had lost two rifle squads under the shelling of the frontier positions. Fortunately, before the French army's shelling, he issued an order to retreat by the machine gun team, which saved the necessary firepower output units for the 2nd Motorcycle Battalion. After the French army's shelling, Hohenzollern dispatched the retreated machine gun team, and the machine gun team would hide in the wreckage of the ruins to shoot.

Meath had been looking for a suitable location to set up a machine gun. The G-34's tripod had been discarded during the retreat just now. At this time, he was going to carry a 12-kilogram machine gun and keep running. He followed the second and third machine gunners. After running for a while, Meath finally found a suitable location to set up a machine gun. It was a three-story building that was blown off. From his perspective, the second floor of the building was still complete, and there was a window facing the outside of the town that was suitable for setting up a machine gun.

The stairs of the building were covered with broken glass and dust. In the dim conditions, it was a bit difficult for Mees to carry a 12 kilogram g-34 to walk. When the pain in his knees came, he finally climbed the second floor. With the light, Mees found a piece of glass stuck in his knee, "Dear! Very depressed! Soka took over my position, and Tyhausen helped me bandage the wound."

Soka was the second shooter of this machine gun team. He quickly took the wooden table set up by the G-34 from Mis, then pulled the trigger and shot at the French soldiers running forward in the wilderness.

The French army did not seem to have expected that the Germans would still be hidden after the shelling. They were frightened by the sudden sound of gunfire. Before that, six soldiers had been shot and fell to the ground. A French sergeant chief first raised his head to observe which direction the bullet was fired. The French sergeant chief in his forties could not find the German army, but he knew that the troops could not stay here and wait for death. "French warriors, ah!" He shouted and got up first to charge. The bullets shot by him quickly killed him.

After the German machine gun team returned to the position, the German snipers were also ordered to return to the frontier to hide. The mission of these snipers was to destroy the senior French officers as much as possible and paralyze the French command system. The area after being bombarded made the snipers extremely happy. There was no more suitable for the snipers to hide than the area where ruins were everywhere. Their military uniforms were earth-beautiful camouflage. If they were lying in the ruins, no one could find that there would be a person lying among the rubble.

More and more g-34 machine guns chanted completely to shrink the French army back. The German army was not happy for long, and the French shelling began again. This time the German army did not receive the order to retreat. In fact, it was too late to retreat. They shrank their bodies and opened their mouths and lay in the ruins without daring to move. The broken buildings were bombarded again, causing many fragile walls and beams to collapse. Some unlucky German soldiers were buried directly. No one complained, and it was impossible for anyone to retreat regardless of the perseverance. The battalion command was to hold on until the next wave of air forces arrived at all costs.

After the shelling was over, the French army's charge began again. This time, the French officer issued a death order: the Germans had launched an attack on the north bank of the Maas River. Losing the Maas River means losing the avant-garde position in Paris. For the capital and for the glorious France, I order you to move forward bravely!

Groups of French soldiers no longer care about their own safety. They lowered their bodies in fear and watched their battles be swept down by German machine guns. Some soldiers could not stand it and started to retreat. The soldiers who retreated without orders were killed by the officers with pistols. In this country that advocates freedom, his officers do not care about "humanitarianism" or other things. They want to capture this damn town!

The tough orders of the French commanders and the implementation of battlefield discipline finally had some effect. Ordinary soldiers were dead when they advanced and died when they retreated. They almost collapsed and began to charge forward. However, compared with ordinary soldiers, those magnanimous officials were just staying behind to order the soldiers to carry out death charges again and again. These officers implemented a sentence very thoroughly: soldiers were just consumables.

"Ammunition!" Soka had already fired the ammunition link. Without anyone help, it would take 1-3 minutes to load the bullet alone. In the just-in-law, the building they were staying at was not taken care of by the French artillery troops.

Tyhausen threw away the remaining bandages in his hand and rushed to the ammunition box piled next to the wall. There were 6 50-round chains inside. As the No. 3 shooter of the machine gun team, Tyhausen received very strict loading training. He skillfully untie the chain without bullets from the G-34 firing device and quickly replaced it with a new chain.

Mis smiled bitterly, "Tihausen, your habit is not good. That thing may save your life when necessary." He said of the bandage that was thrown to the ground.

Thihausen smiled shyly. How eager this Germanic young man, who was about 19 years old, was to touch the gun body of the G-34. His dream was to operate the G-34 to shoot the enemy. This dream was actually not very good, because before the No. 1 and No. 2 machine gun shooters were killed, he could only carry an ammunition hand.

Mis looked out quietly through the broken gap of the building walls. The 600 meters outside the town were full of French infantry. The French infantry seemed to be stimulated by something. They ignored the fallen battles and just stepped forward again and again. The short distance of 00 meters became a nightmare for the French army. This plain without obstacles became a rice field where German machine gun shooters slashed their lives.

Under the continuous shooting of the g-34 machine gun, there are not many 1150 bullets. This high-fire machine gun is not only an effective firearm to massacre enemy soldiers, but also a powerful weapon to squander the ammunition.

Soka shouted again: "Recharge!"

Tyhausen took out the last link, "We're almost out of ammunition."

"So fast?" Soka only knew how to keep shooting at the French soldiers who were charging. This air-cooled machine gun fired more than a thousand bullets. Although the barrel would heat up, it could still continue to shoot. If necessary, Tyhausen would untie the spare barrel on his back and replace it with a new barrel for the G-34.

Meath stood up, he tried to jump, and found that the knees on his legs would only hurt slightly, not that he could not walk, "I'll get the ammunition..."

‘Dongdongdongdongdong-’ Mis went downstairs with difficulty. He would not run out as hurriedly as a rookie recruit, but would first observe the surroundings, and then use the enemy's shooting to lie on the ground and crawl forward. His knee was injured, which turned the crawling posture into a torture. The knees constantly rubbed against the ground, causing the bandage wrapped around the knee to fall off automatically, and the crawling route had a bright red blood stain.

"Hu—" Meath finally turned into a corner and stood up. He heard an explosion and looked back subconsciously. The three-story building was hit by shells, dust was flying, and the floors fell. It was obvious that Soka and Tyhausen had been killed.

Mis was completely stunned, a trembling feeling rose from his heart, and he thought: That's all they were done? I'm so lucky!

...

The 15th Army Command.

Xu Yang was standing by the wall with a military map at this time. Due to illness, his condition became very bad and he would always cough from time to time. He held a baton and pointed at the direction of the military map Metz, "It has been confirmed that the enemy troops attacking our defense line are the 2nd Army Group of the Allied Powers. How many areas have exchanged fire?"

Rick's face was still worried. He had advised Xu Yang to rest with peace of mind many times. The staff of the Defense Command would do a good job. Unfortunately, the stubborn leader seemed to burn his life and continued to command himself in person when he had a fever of 39 and a half degrees. He tried his best to raise his voice, "Almost allies are in the frontier areas. They may know that our army is forcing the Maas River. There are 17 known vanguard positions in France, and the villages are attacked by the Allies."

After hearing this, Xu Yang coughed again, and there was a tendency to not give up until he coughed out his liver. This made the staff in the headquarters put down the work at hand and looked at it all. The eyes of these staff members were full of respect. The reason why Rick raised his voice was because Xu Yang's hearing became a little slow after coughing violently for a long time. If he didn't answer loudly, Xu Yang always needed to ask several more questions to know what others were talking about.

"Oh..." Xu Yang carefully hid the handkerchief. He didn't want people to see what the handkerchief had. He walked back and forth in front of the map and suddenly turned around and asked, "Are there any armored troops that have been discovered at present?"

Rick cried, "No...No. The French army only intends to use infantry to force our defense line. Take the battle in Muss Town as an example: After the French army was blown up by our anti-tank mines, they never sent tanks as forwards. They seemed to be unable to figure out what it was that they had blown up the tracks and did not want to waste the already-not-so-small armored power before they could figure it out."

Xu Yang found that the headquarters suddenly became very quiet. After looking around for a week, he found that everyone was focusing on himself. He scolded dissatisfiedly: "I can't die, at least until the battle is over, I will not be willing to die like this! Continue to do my own work! Joseph..."

Joseph stood quietly aside, "At, my leader."

Xu Yang really wanted to understand the battle situation ahead, "Prepare, I'm going to the front line." Before he finished speaking, the headquarters became excited. The staff members put down their work again and dissuaded Xu Yang not to take risks, and strongly asked him to go and rest.

Xu Yang raised his right arm, his tone full of worry, "I always feel that the Allies seem to have conspiracy. They know that our army is crossing the Mas River, but they only take a low-intensity attack on us."

Joseph was stunned, Rick was stunned, and the staff members were even more stunned.

"This...this..." Rick almost howled and cried, "His Excellency Commander! We strongly ask you to rest!"

Xu Yang was confused, "Why?"

"..." Many staff members continued to work without saying a word. The shoulders of most staff members were trembling, and their hands holding documents were lifted up from time to time to wipe their eyes.

Joseph gave the answer, "My leader, your air force has turned most of the Allied artillery into scrap iron. Before the Allied artillery troops arrived, they could only use infantry to try to break through our defense line. After suffering heavy casualties, the Allied commanders seemed to have made up their minds to wait for the follow-up troops to come and then launch a general attack on our positions. Now, our defense line is very stable and you don't need to encourage morale in person. What you need now is a good rest!"

Xu Yang smiled self-deprecatingly. He seemed to understand that he was not suitable for continuing to work now. "Well... Rick, you are responsible for the next combat command. If there is an urgent matter, you will wake me up. I understand?"

Rick hurriedly agreed and swore with his life that he would definitely defend the defense line during this stage of rest in Xuyang.

Everyone watched Xu Yang's back disappear from the curtain of the command. Rick sighed quietly and suddenly became angry, "What are you stupid? Report the current situation of our avant-garde position! As long as I, Rick, are still alive, I will never let the Allies approach here to affect the leader's rest."

The staff members were full of energy to send the situation in the headquarters to various departments in the frontier positions with radios. Therefore, the 15th Group fell into a pathological state. From the division commander to the soldiers at the bottom, they felt that they should launch a counterattack, and they could not stand still and be beaten, and they must drive the Allies out, because the commander was sick and needed to be quiet.

Under the planning of the commander's staff, the 15th Army had a new slogan, which was "Let's drive that damn guys into the Moselle River to feed the fish!"

This time, the staff performed extraordinaryly. They only took an hour to make a new combat plan. The logistics forces began to transport ammunition and other essentials to the front line, and the armored divisions that had been staying behind were also mobilized to the front line. They were going to carry out a combat plan code-named "Assault".

According to the concept of the commander's staff, the Allies were waiting for the arrival of the subsequent troops at this time, which was the time when the Allies were most relaxed. Rick determined that the air force would conduct a fourth wave of bombing the Allies in half an hour, and immediately agreed to implement the "assault" combat plan. However, he made some modifications to the combat plan and asked the German Air Force in Essen to send additional bombers to cooperate with the "assault" combat of the 15th Army.

In fact, the Allied forces could not have expected that the German army, who were defending the defense line, would dare to charge against the counterattack. When the German armored division appeared in front of the Allied forces, the Allied soldiers were a little unresponsive. Before they could warn, the German soldiers who were originally staying in the trenches suddenly shouted strange slogans, and then followed the German armored division and jumped out of the trenches and yelled at the trenches to charge.

Some strange smoke also burned behind the German army. As the smoke drifted into the sky, a large black spot suddenly appeared in the distance, which scared the Allies. They had eaten enough German Air Force bombs. If possible, they would never want to face the group of vultures that would make shrill and scream again.

The 15th Army's counterattack caught the Allies off guard. At this moment, most of the Allied vanguards lacked ammunition and gasoline. During the marching, they only carried a small amount of ammunition base. After a noon attack, many soldiers had less than 5 rounds of ammunition, and tanks and armored vehicles that needed gasoline to move basically used up all gasoline. In fact, this is the main reason why the Allied forces did not send tanks and armored vehicles to attack.

The Third German Empire launched the Battle of Ardennes, which threatened the supply of the Allied troops on the Maginot Line on May 12. The rear of France was under the threat of the German army and could not supply the Allied troops on the Maginot Line. Their ammunition was still sufficient, but there was no sufficient reserve in gasoline. This is also the main reason why the Allies were extremely nervous about the Mass River. If the Mass River was lost, not only would Paris and the English Channel be opened to the German army, but the Allied troops on the Maginot Line would lose supplies and face the dilemma of being attacked from both sides.

The armored division of the 15th Army easily broke through the French defense line. In fact, the French army did not establish any defense line at all. The order they received was attack, not defense. In one afternoon, these French troops had no time to establish that unnecessary defense line except for charge, and now they suffered. Under the assault of the German Iron Lion, the French army at the forefront quickly collapsed, and the French tanks and armored vehicles that lacked gasoline were captured without a bomb. Just as an armored lieutenant who had experienced the Polish battle said: Compared to the Poles, these French people were so unbearable, and the Poles still had the courage to resist, but when these French people saw us, they raised their arms and shouted "Surrender". We were fighting such cowards.

In the assault operation of the 15th Army, the French army drove the other side of the Moselle River in just half a day. In this battle, the 15th Army captured the French... Yes, these rigid Germans felt that it was definitely a shame for soldiers to call these people soldiers, so they called the surrendered French prisoners of war "French". In the assault operation, the 15th Army captured a total of 67,000 French troops, 13,000 British Expeditionary Force, 49 Belgian Expeditionary Force, 126 Dutch Expeditionary Force, and 26 Luxembourg Expeditionary Force. 14 Allied tanks, 320 armored vehicles, and few artillery, most of which were blown into scrap iron by the Air Force.

The Allies retreated to the Moselle River to establish a new line of defense, and the Allied Command's plan was completely bankrupt. For this reason, Gan Molin was very angry and repeated a sentence in a corner where no one was around: Is this the army of the Third Republic of France?

...

Xu Yang slept for a day and a half. When he woke up the next day at noon, he saw Rick sitting on the edge of the bed with a pale face, and the surroundings seemed to be too quiet.

Xu Yang gently touched his forehead with the back of his hand and found that the fever seemed to subside. He asked, "Hmm? Where is the sound of gunfire?"

Rick's eyes were dull and his voice was even weaker. "Commander, our army drove the Allies to the other side of the Moselle River. Are you sleeping well?"

Xu Yang didn't seem to react, "Rick, do you have a fever, too?"
Chapter completed!