Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 15: Battle (1)
"It seems that the French really regard us as fools. Your Excellency Chief of Staff."
Xu Jun shook his head and handed the telescope in his hand to the adjutant Eric, who stood upright.
"They may think that we have not grasped their strength yet. They want to use this little trick to confuse us. The French commander on the opposite side is really naive."
Weierle also put down his telescope and answered with a smile.
"It’s not like that. He mustn’t know that their liaison officer has fallen into our hands. Okay, let’s go to Dogen."
Xu Jun turned and walked along the trench towards Daogen’s forward command post. There is still a laid-back scene in Dougan's command post, and no one is worried about the French offensive. The officers carried on their work calmly and calmly. Orders were passed out in an orderly manner. The staff officers circled the map with the information fed back from the position, while the communications noncommissioned officers leaned against the wall of the bunker leisurely. Standing on the side waiting for the commander to give the task. Half of the officers still have tea and coffee in their hands, and many of them still have cigarettes in their hands. The atmosphere here does not make people feel the tension before the battle.
"All stand up! Your Excellency, come!" Seeing Xu Jun who suddenly appeared at the door of the command post, the staff officer on duty standing by the door was taken aback. He immediately straightened his chest, his whole body stretched like a javelin. He got to be straight, and then yelled out with all his strength. "Wow!" With the sound of uniform boots and collisions, everyone immediately faced the gate and paid their respects. The entire command post became silent in an instant.
"Should we say that they are well-trained or well-conditioned..." Xu Jun was sure that he only heard the clash of boots and heels in front of him. He looked at the group in front of him with solemn and firm expressions but his eyes revealed With a fanatical and reverent look of the SS officer, Xu Jun really didn't know what to say for a while.
"Hello, my head!" The officers saluted respectfully.
"Hello gentlemen." Xu Jun raised the marshal rod and returned a military salute, "Continue your work."
"Observe, the Führer!" The officers continued their previous work after nodding their heads, but the volume of discussions and conversations with each other was significantly reduced.
"Doogen, how is the situation now." Xu Jun walked easily to Daogen, and he smiled and asked Daogen that the staff who were standing next to Daogen discussing issues with him hurriedly He bowed his head and stepped aside. "Sir, why did you come here, and Chief of Staff Weirle. You only need to stay in the headquarters. I will report to you as soon as possible, sir." He answered in a low voice, and then he turned to the life adjutant standing aside and frowned and said, "Eric, how can you let the sir to the dangerous frontier, can't you persuade? And General Hans, Why doesn't he stay with the sir."
"Don’t blame him, Daogen. He persuaded him, but he was rejected by me, haha. Speaking of Hans, he is now sent by me to General Guderian to help. He is now the Führer Guard Acting commander of the armored battalion. Okay, would you not tell me about the current situation? Colonel Daogen." Xu Jun asked with a smile.
"Of course, ah no, I mean of course I do, sir. Please come with me, sir." Daogen led Xu Jun to the observation window of the shelter and pointed to the distant formation. To: "From the time I reported earlier, the French army has launched three small-scale offensives. They have dispatched a small batch of armored vehicles and infantry. I have not seen the opponent's tanks, but on the opponent's armored vehicles. Judging from the logo and slogan, they belong to the French Sixth Armored Division."
"I saw it too, the soldiers did a good job." Xu Jun said while looking at a dozen piles of burning armored vehicle wreckage in the distance. "The French are doing tentative offensives. We know this very well. They want to know our firepower allocation and strength. Of course I won't be fooled. So I ordered my troops to fight back only moderately. Up to now, we have all Without using our heavy firepower, those armored vehicles were killed by 37mm anti-tank guns on the position. We also wiped out at least hundreds of their infantry. Before you arrived, the French had just dragged the bodies of those soldiers. Go back, we didn't stop this." Daogen reported from the side.
"Good job, Daogen. I did not misunderstand you, you are indeed a good commander." Weirler said with a smile. "Thank you for your compliment, Chief of Staff. I haven't commanded the battle for a long time. Fortunately, I haven't regressed now." Daogen's face flushed.
"Also, as I reported to you, I found that the Frenchmen on the opposite side did not seem to be their native troops. My soldiers found that a large part of the French soldiers who charged were blacks, and that they were bringing The troops with strange hats, these troops may be French colonial soldiers." Daogen continued.
"So I want to come and see for myself. They dragged the corpse back, maybe they just wanted to cover it up. I now finally understand why the French high command abandoned their troops without blinking their eyes. These troops and soldiers are not native French troops, they are all miscellaneous brands of colonial troops transferred from various colonies. These troops will not feel a bit distressed even if the French are wiped out. But the Sixth Armored Division... .. It may be a victim thrown out for a more realistic performance. Pei Dan is really an old tricky thing.” Xu Jun shook his head and said.
"The French abandoned their troops, what happened, sir." Daogen didn't know what Xu Jun was talking about, he asked suspiciously. "This, I will explain to you slowly. You only need to know that when the French launch a full-scale offensive, you will use all your strength to counterattack, as much as possible to kill the opponent's vitality and consume the opponent's strength. I can tell you one thing, the other party can't afford this, because they won't have any reinforcements or supplies. When we exhaust their existing power, we will attack! Then the war will be completely ended." Xu Jun Answered.
"Yes, sir." Although Daogen still doesn't know what Xu Jun meant, orders are orders. As a German officer, he has always executed orders without reservation.
"How about the firepower of the French, have they bombarded our positions with heavy artillery. Last night’s heavy rain broke the airstrip, and our artillery calibration planes and reconnaissance planes are still unable to take off. So if The opponent has heavy firepower, it is difficult for us to determine their location." Weierle asked from the side.
"No, the French did shelling our positions, but they were all sporadic firepower, and it seemed that they were not big in caliber, maybe just light infantry artillery. We have been using heavy mortars to attack the French The positions were harassed and shot. They did not respond to it." Daogen replied.
"Maybe the French don't have enough ammunition, but we can't take it lightly, maybe this is a French trick. We still have to prepare soldiers to resist sudden French artillery attacks at any time." Weierle Frowned and said.
"Yes, sir. I have issued similar orders to the soldiers before this. Due to the heavy rain last night, the soil on the ground is now very soft, which will greatly reduce the power of the shells, and we The position of the army is also very strong, and the soldiers dug deep into the bunkers. I believe that the sudden bombardment launched by the Chinese people will not cause us much harm.” Daogen replied loudly.
"That's good, but I still can't care about it. Every soldier is a valuable asset to Germany." Xu Jun said lightly.
"Yes, sir!" Daogen nodded and replied.
"Okay, your work here seems to be very good, I am very satisfied." Xu Jun turned to Daogen and said, "I have to go to the paratroopers' position with Chief of Staff Weiller, you continue Your job, Colonel Dogan."
"Yes, sir. Would you like me to send soldiers to **** you."
"No, my guard is outside. Then, bye, Colonel."
"Goodbye, my head of state!" Dogen quickly nodded his head respectfully.
"Chief Yuan has left!" the staff officer on duty shouted loudly.
"Gentlemen." Xu Jun raised his marshal's stick in a neat manner to the straight officer standing in a room.
"Your work makes me very satisfied, for Germany, continue to work hard..."
Before Xu Jun could finish speaking, the lookout hand who had been standing outside the command post suddenly yelled loudly
"Attention! Shelling!" As soon as the voice fell, Xu Jun and the officers heard the screaming of the shells as they passed through the air, and then a rumbling explosion sounded in front of the position. There was a slight tremor.
"Another sporadic shelling!"
"There are only ten shells at most this time!"
"Let the frontier troops report the loss."
The officers immediately began to assess the French shelling.
"It's different this time, it seems to be something over 100 millimeters." Daogen rushed to the front of the observation port of the shelter, raised his telescope and looked towards the position.
"It seems that the French are beginning to use their most powerful artillery. This is a 185mm infantry gun with a slow rate of fire and a short range, heavy and complicated old equipment. This French gun I encountered in the last war I have been there many times. At that time, the French used this artillery to beat my position into a beehive, with bomb craters everywhere. I remember that it really caused us a certain loss at that time. I didn’t expect the French to still use it now. , But now it seems that they will not have more than ten doors. Oh? The troops behind the French may be gathering, and their messengers are running frequently. Let the soldiers prepare for battle and the French are about to attack. "
Weierle and Xu Jun both returned to the front of the observation window and raised their telescopes to look towards the forward position.
"The French technology really has nothing to say, look at the spread of the craters, are they intentional or really that bad."
Weiller shook his head and looked at the craters scattered around the front of the position. These smoking craters were not only far apart from each other, but they all hit the open space in front of the position, not even the German position. With.
"Attention, the second shelling is here." Daogen shouted loudly. A few more heavy artillery shells landed on the front of the position~ IndoMTL.com~ This time it was finally a lot closer than the previous round. Daogen clearly saw the shock wave of a moist mud block the size of a motorcycle being exploded. Propelled by rolling in the sky for four or five weeks and then accurately smashed into a machine gun bunker, the three machine gunners crawled out of their shooting positions before the mud fell.
"It is reported that our left and right positions were all bombarded by the French army, but they were all bombarded by light infantry artillery. So far, no damage has been caused." A staff officer held a telephone receiver. Report to.
"Are you preparing for the artillery before a full-scale attack? But this is too weak. How about the loss of our position." Daogen asked.
"There have not been any casualties. You have seen them. They never hit our position." The staff officer replied with a relieved expression.
"Sir, now the French may launch a full-scale offensive. It is not safe for you to stay here. I ask you to go back to the commander of the legion. You can direct the operation of the entire defense system there. We need your overall command. "Dogen respectfully said to Xu Jun.
"I see, the Chief of Staff and I will go back to the headquarters immediately. This is all for you, Colonel Dogen. Remember what I said before, if the French really attacked in an all-round way, then use all your power to fight back. ." Xu Jun nodded to Daogen, and then led his subordinates out of the command post~IndoMTL.com~Book friends are welcome to visit and read, the latest, fastest and hottest serial works are all in~IndoMTL .com~