The mortars deployed behind also showed their power. They aimed at the transport vehicles behind the convoy and the half-tracked vehicles on both sides. High explosive bombs roared towards the target hundreds of meters away. Smoke columns rose up in the French infantry convoy. They were not lucky. A Citroen truck was smashed with a squad of soldiers. French officers tried to reorganize the army, and trucks drove away from the roadbed to unfold on the opposite side. The soldiers rolled down from the car in a hurry, and then picked up their rifles amid the scolding of the squad leader and prepared to find the enemy that attacked them!

The continuous shelling on the left exposed the position of the Bavarian Legion's ambush position. After experiencing the initial chaos, with the help of roadbeds, terrain and cover provided by the destroyed trucks, the French began to launch a counterattack. The 75mm rapid-fire guns of the ft10 tank and the mortars of the infantry fired dense shells against the bushes in the distance. With the violent explosion, the shrubs were swept down, and two unlucky truck guns were also destroyed in the French counterattack. The Renault tanks led the French infantry to charge.

The French, who had the advantage in numbers, gradually recovered their decline. They deployed rapid-fire guns, howitzers, mortars and machine guns on the opposite side of the roadbed to disperse along the road, covering the infantry that launched the charge. Under the cover of dense firepower, at least two companies of French infantry lined up into straggler lines and began to encircle them from both wings.

"We were ambushed by the Germans, but we quickly controlled the situation. The other party had no tanks!" The French officer led the team was sending a report to his boss via radio, but what he could not have imagined was that at a distance of hundreds of meters behind them, eight rapid-fire cannons and more than a dozen machine guns were aimed at the back of their heads!

The so-called open guns are easy to avoid hidden arrows, but they are hard to defend against. Boom! With the sound of cannons and the dense machine guns, when the French thought they had stabilized the situation, the knife stabbed from behind was neatly inserted into the Frenchman's back!

"The French almost stood there and let us fight, and then we killed them one by one on the position like shooting prisoners." After the war, a German soldier recalled the situation at that time.

Accompanied by the flames of the muzzle, the first row of shells flew straight to the French tank not far away. An ft10 tank was first shot. The sharp armor-piercing shell easily cut off the rear armor of the former, which was only 10mm, and hit the ammunition rack! Dozens of legal 75mm shells were instantly detonated, and hundreds of kilograms of shells exploded were not a joke. It was like a hurricane storm blew up the ground. The flames and shrapnel swept across the surrounding area with continuous explosions! A cannon next to it and two machine gun groups were blown into pieces!

And that's not all. The other five ft10 tanks that survived the first wave of attacks were also hit by the remaining artillery positions in less than a minute. Then there were the remaining artillery positions, and more than 80% of the French were smashed by the shrapnel and high-explosion bombs fired from behind before they even reacted. Countless shrapnel and steel balls swept across the unblocked battlefield, leaving behind a piece of flame and broken limbs. After a burst of rapid shooting, the remaining artillery of the French was cleaned up, leaving only a piece of wreckage.

"Stop out and kill them! They no longer have anti-tank firepower!" The battle has now entered the harvesting stage. The remaining few Renaults of the French naturally have truck guns from the other side to solve them. Now, the truck guns from their own side and a small number of infantry can easily defeat the French army completely.

First, several half-tracked vehicles rushed out of the bunker, and the large-caliber machine guns set up on it kept firing the fleeing French soldiers. The dense bullets easily caught up with the collapsed enemy troops, and then killed them one by one in the wilderness from behind them.

The battle began very suddenly and ended very quickly, and the whole process lasted for more than twenty minutes. The Germans did not pursue it too deeply, because not far behind the pilot convoy was the main force. When the ambushed truck guns knocked off the last shell, the blocking line in the south had already connected with the French. Although the latter only used mortars to conduct interfering shooting, it also woke the Germans up. If they didn't leave, it would be too late!

The half-tracked carriages put away the infantry walking around, and the trucks and cannons were even more neat. They would go to the next meeting point to meet with the supply vehicles and then replenish ammunition and oil, leaving only the shells, corpses and the remains of French chariots that were still burning.

"Our avant-garde was attacked by a sneak attack, the opponent's firepower was very strong, and the avant-garde troops were almost completely lost." At the same time, a telegram also told Xia Fei about the general situation.

"Did the Germans set up a line of defense in front of us?" Xia Fei frowned, and a sense of crisis arose from the bottom of his heart. Although he boldly implemented the interweaving plan this time, it was only implemented when he was sure that the Bavarian armored troops had not arrived. Now, a ghost that had been lingering in his heart finally appeared. Although he was not afraid, the Bavarian Legion, which had never been defeated since his debut, was still the enemy in his heart.

"It's either a defense line or an ambush. It should be a truck gun. After they finished fighting, they immediately moved their positions. Judging from the traces left, it should be a small team with not much force." said an officer.

"Okay, tell gentlemen, our tour is over! Now, let's prepare to fight with the Germans!" Xia Fei stood up and said, "Order, the troops in front are ready to leave the road and launch an attack formation, and the self-weight and support troops in the rear are also ready to launch. Let's set the command post in this position first!" Xia Fei pointed to a small town on the map and said, "It is about 5 kilometers away from his main force. To the west of the town is a river, and the river water is very shallow. It can even allow half-track vehicles to pass through, but it can also provide the water demand for the entire army. There are woods next to the town, which can hide their long-range artillery and baggage troops to avoid possible air strikes by the opponent. You must know that as the troops advance eastward, the cover provided by the British short-legged combat aircraft will become weaker and weaker!

However, how can one say? The French can think of it, and the Germans can also think of it! Xia Fei saw the convenience of this town, but the Germans also saw this place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack!
Chapter completed!