1343 Steel Storm 1
When the boundless sky fire fell in the air, the Bavarian army of 5 divisions also began a centripetal attack on the Brest region! According to the previous plan, when they took Brest and nailed the Russians' fifth and fourth armies to the battlefield, it would be the moment when Markens made a fatal blow under the Russians' back!
However, unlike what the Russians expected, this time the Bavarian Legion attacked was not as violent and rapid as they imagined! The 5 divisions chose 5 breakthrough areas. With the support of assault artillery, the storm infantry was the pioneer, and the engineers and follow-up troops followed with the army. A battle that was like crushing began with the rumbling sound of artillery!
For this battle, the artillery soldiers of the Bavarian Legion provided the troops with a total firepower suppression of 5 hours! Thousands of artillery of various caliber were constantly spitting deadly flames towards the targets in the distance. The 75mm and 88mm anti-aircraft guns were responsible for cleaning up the bunkers on the front line. The mortars and mortars blew hundreds of kilometers of barbed wire and roadblocks to smash. The 210mm heavy howitzer was pushed to the front line and aimed at the bunkers made of more than one meter thick concrete. The 150mm cannon and 170mm cannons aimed at the road between the Russians connecting the defense lines. They would use tons of ammunition to isolate the breakthrough areas one by one! The larger caliber artillery aimed at a more distant place. They would be responsible for attacking the remaining Russian strongholds and fortress groups!
"Tank Attack!" Accompanied by the roar of the engine, hornet assault guns and beetle-type self-propelled artillery rushed out of the hidden place, and the whistling sound of 75mm rapid-fire guns and 107mm cannons resounded throughout the battlefield! The hornet tank rushed to the front line like a giant bear covered in heavy armor. The 75mm rapid-fire gun shattered the machine gun nests and mortars firing positions. Under the cover of the artillery, the machine gun team in the Storm Commando quickly occupied the firing position, and then successfully set up the machine guns. Every minute, tens of thousands of bullets shuttled over the battlefield, suppressing the Russian soldiers in the trench.
After the Bavarian Legion controlled the situation with strong firepower, engineers carrying blasting tools exploded a path in the minefields and barbed wires. Then, the elite storm who followed the submachine guns and flamethrowers were like assassins, taking the sky with artillery fire and smoke as the curtains, they stepped onto their stage!
The sharp and continuous whistle sounded inside the trench. The mp-series submachine gun, which was feared by the Allies, was definitely the most terrifying melee weapon of this era after being matched with 50 rounds of bullets. In the hands of those veterans who have experienced many battles, these automatic weapons can always point to the target as fast as possible and then stuff the pouring bullets into the target's body!
The storm commando, in teams, alternately covers the advance in the rugged trenches. The front row personnel looked at an opening in the drum with their light. When the spring in the drum appeared at the opening, they would evacuate back quickly, and then the colleagues in the back row would quickly fill it up, while the withdrawals in the front row would immediately open the sling and quickly take out a new drum from the ammunition bags on both sides of their bodies to install it. In the alternating battle between the two groups of people, rows of Russian soldiers were killed in the trenches, and red blood flowed in the mud trenches, and corpses filled between the trenches.
"Preparation of flamethrower!" When facing some hidden castles and artillery soldiers were unable to take into account both, the soldiers carrying flamethrowers and explosive packs became the best solution to the problem. Under the cover of smoke bombs and machine gun fire, the flamethrowers carried the flamethrowers closer to less than 20 meters away from the target, and then gently pulled the trigger. Under the push of compressed air, a large amount of mixed fuel was sprayed out of the long muzzle along the conduit, and at the same time it was automatically ignited at the muzzle. Fire dragons crisscrossed on the ground, rushing towards the machine gun bunker that was still spitting out of the rain of bullets in the distance!
Boom! With the violent explosion, a ground was lifted by a powerful impact. Obviously, the flames just ejected just now detonated the ammunition, and the Russian army inside was completely blown up to the sky. As the attack road opened, a group of soldiers quickly advanced through the burning bunkers and advanced towards depth!
However, the so-called long-term illness becomes a doctor. The Russians have been beaten countless times. Their tactics are constantly improving. Unlike the Western Front, which lacks depth and requires careful use of every inch of land, the least valuable thing for the Russians is depth! The second is the life of soldiers, and the most precious one is their cannons!
When the Storm Commando went deep into the depth of 3 kilometers, they encountered the first Russian main defense line! And those bunkers and artillery originally used to deal with the hornet assault guns that were strong enough.
The 3-inch rapid-fire gun used by the army, the Navy's 11-pound gun, and even 120mm guns and 130mm naval guns were arranged here, which stuck to the fortresses that lead to a wider flat depth! The front of these fortresses generally has 1.2 to 1.5 meters of reinforced concrete on the front, and a concrete roof of 0.6 to 0.8 meters of thick on the top, and about 2 meters of rammed earth at the top! These support points are like huge monsters lying across the attack road. Use machine guns and artillery to block the German attack road!
"Luckily, we were prepared." Colonel Reinhardt arrived at the front line in his half-track car. He carefully observed the Russian line of defense. It has to be said that the repair was very good. In order to prevent bombing, the area they exposed on the ground was not large. It can be described as almost one point. The horizontal part of the bunker has a very strong defense, and the thick rammed earth and concrete are enough to make any curved artillery below 210mm helpless. The thickness of the front chest wall is also strong enough, fully considering the penetration depth of the 88mm anti-aircraft gun and 75mm rapid-fire gun used by the Germans...
The in-place hornet assault gun carried out a tentative attack. Four hornets were close to less than 800 meters away from a gun nest under the cover of smoke. After correcting with a heading machine gun, the thick and long gun barrels fired a series of shells, and orange flames burst out on the thick chest wall of the bunker, and then there were dissipated with the smoke, leaving only shallow pits. Before the heavy 4.7-inch gun inside turned, the four hornets retreated back into the cover of the smoke.
"It seems that what we have prepared can be used. To tell the truth, I never thought these big guys could be used in this way." Colonel Reinhardt put down the telescope in his hand. "Push our beetles and the sword of destruction!"
Chapter completed!