69novels Chapter 431
Chapter 431
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TảTime: 0.057s Scan: 0.040sJust when the officers of the coalition forces were all excited about the fierce artillery fire and their morale was boosted, the German army on the opposite side also opened fire!
“Haha, listen to the sound of the German artillery, they have only 800 artillery pieces, only one-fifth of our number, what can they use to fight us?”
The British general was an artillery general and knew artillery very well, so he could accurately estimate the number of German troops just from the sound of artillery from the German positions!
“They must have been driven crazy by our artillery fire, so they were forced to fire back!”
“If they don’t fire now, they won’t even have a chance to fire when our artillery fire covers their artillery positions!”
The generals of the coalition forces talked one after another. In their discussion, it seemed that the German army had no way out and the only way left was to struggle to death!
However, sometimes a slap in the face comes faster than bragging!
Boom!
A burst of violent explosions came from behind them. Hearing this sound, the generals of the coalition forces changed their faces slightly, but they all tried hard not to show it.
They were all thinking in their hearts: How come the direction from which the German artillery sound came was so coincidental? That’s the direction of our artillery position?
Soon – boom boom boom!
A series of explosions that were more violent than the previous explosion came!
Hearing this sound, the generals of the coalition forces finally began to panic!
“What was going on? Why were the German shells exploding so loudly?”
“Could it be that something exploded?”
“You mean……”
“Oh no, our artillery position!”
Several people quickly thought of the same thing – their artillery position was bombed by the German army!
At this time, the endless explosions continued. The German artillerymen seemed to be crazy, firing a large number of shells at the coalition positions at a very fast speed!
For a moment, the entire coalition position was shaking, the sound of artillery was deafening, and soldiers from various countries looked curiously in the direction of their own artillery positions where flames were rising to the sky!
Although they couldn’t see the situation over there, they all felt that something was wrong from the thunder-like explosions in the back!
“General, something bad has happened. Our artillery position has been hit by enemy fire!”
A soldier, his face blackened by the smoke from the explosion, ran over in a panic and reported the situation in the rear to the coalition headquarters.
“What?”
“What about the loss?”
“How many artillery pieces are left to be used?”
Each of the coalition generals was concerned about different things. Some were shocked, while others were concerned about how many combat troops were left, because this was related to their next plan!
“The artillery positions of the Czechoslovaks were almost completely covered, with 1,500 guns lost. Half of our artillery positions were covered, with 600 guns lost. The losses of the Polish army were……”
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The artillery positions of the coalition forces were not connected together. Each of the three armies had its own artillery position.
This was also the reason why they had to fire at a fixed point, because in addition to agreeing on a time, it was difficult for them to coordinate with each other and keep consistent.
This situation of fighting alone was actually a great disadvantage to their combat effectiveness, but when they were bombarded by the German army, their dispersed artillery positions saved one of them!
Among the three countries, Jieke was the most eager to take back Bradis, so they almost turned over all the troops that could be dispatched from all over the country!
They had the largest number of troops and the size of their artillery units among the coalition forces.
Therefore, in the German artillery attack, the artillery positions of the Jieke people suffered the most severe blow!
The first wave of German artillery fire was aimed here, and after firing a base number of shells, they stopped and turned to other targets!
A base number of ammunition for a 150-meter howitzer is at least 50 shells!
800 artillery pieces poured at least 40,000 shells on the Jieke people’s positions!
This is not a small-caliber shell like 75mm, this is a 150mm heavy artillery!
Moreover, in order to improve the destructive effect and more conveniently detonate the enemy’s artillery shells to cause sympathetic explosion, the artillery shells used by the German army are high-explosive shells, which greatly improve the lethality!
The first wave of sounds heard by the coalition generals were actually the explosions of the German artillery shells after they landed. The reason why they felt something was wrong was because the explosive power of these shells exceeded their imagination.
As for the second wave of continuous, earth-shaking explosions, it was the sound of their own artillery shells exploding on the Jieke artillery position caused by the explosion of the German artillery shells!
Although the artillerymen of Jieke were very careful when shooting, they separated the shells from the artillery and did not place a large number of shells directly around the artillery, minimizing the risk of shell explosions after being bombarded by the enemy!
However, they did not expect that the Germans used 150mm heavy artillery, let alone high-explosive shells!
Therefore, their preventive measures had no effect at all. Even if they were not placed outside, their shells were still detonated by the high-temperature shock wave of the high-explosive shells!
Since Jake inherited the powerful industrial system of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, especially the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s military factories, almost 80% of them were in Jake.
Therefore, there were many artillery pieces in their army, which were not inferior to the British or even the German army.
Originally, the Jake people were planning to destroy the German defense line with artillery fire, and then let their own infantry easily capture the German positions, so they transported a large number of shells in advance, as many as hundreds of thousands of rounds, and they planned to let Hans taste the taste of being bombed.
Unexpectedly, their shells not only did not work, but also made things worse, becoming a weapon for the enemy to destroy themselves!
Jake’s hundreds of thousands of shells were just fired a little, and the rest were detonated by the enemy before they could be used. The scene of hundreds of thousands of shells exploding in succession was really earth-shattering and horrifying!
As a result, more than 1,800 artillery pieces in the artillery positions of the Jieke people were directly melted by the explosion, and most of the remaining 300 pieces were destroyed, and only a few could still be used normally. After all, artillery pieces are cast in steel, so in addition to direct damage from explosions and melting due to high temperatures, it is still very difficult to destroy them.
However, the soldiers operating these artillery pieces do not have the steel and iron bones of artillery pieces, and they cannot withstand the impact of explosions and high temperature burning!
Therefore, after the German artillery bombardment detonated their own artillery shells, most of the artillery pieces on the Jieke artillery positions turned into ashes in this earth-shaking explosion before they had time to react!
Not to mention cannon fodder, they were blown to ashes!
The artillery position of the British was the second to be bombed. They had much fewer artillery pieces than the Jieke army. After all, their total number was only about 300,000, so the number of artillery pieces was only about half of that of the Jieke people, which was about 900 pieces.
Since the Jieke people were the first to be hit by the German artillery fire, the Sun Never Sets people got the warning in advance.
At first, they tried to urgently transfer their own artillery on the artillery position to prevent the heavy weapons in their army from being destroyed.
However, when they saw that the Jieke people were blown to pieces by the fierce artillery fire of the German army, the Sun Never Sets people realized that things were serious!
After the German army destroyed the Jieke people, the next target would definitely be them. If they continued to protect these artillery, they would probably be killed. At that time, let alone artillery, even their own lives would be a problem! If their artillerymen were all killed, what would be the use of these steel frames in the air?
Without the operation of artillery, these artillery pieces could not exert their power.
And if the artillery was gone, it could continue to be produced, but if the people were gone, it would be all over!
So, in a very short time, the Sun Never Sets people made the practice of abandoning artillery to save people. They quickly withdrew the soldiers from the artillery position, and only moved some artillery pieces that were easy to transfer on the edge of the artillery position!
Then, before they could move more artillery, the German artillery fire came down accurately!
Seeing that the German artillery fire directly hit their positions, the artillery that they had not had time to move was blown to pieces, and the people of the British Army were stunned!