Chapter 117 Target Konigsberg (4)
From June to July 1918, immediately following the French offensive on the Aene River and Marne River, the British launched the Amiens offensive. The Agreement secretly prepared and suddenly launched an attack with the intention of catching the German army off guard.
In the early morning of June 8, without artillery preparations, the Canadian and Anzac Expeditionary Forces passed through thick fog and launched an attack with tanks as the leader. On their right wing, the French army first carried out artillery preparations and then launched an attack. As a result, the German troops on the front line were almost collapsed, but the tenacious Germans still reestablished a line of defense.
The British and French troops continued to attack, forcing the Germans to withdraw from Mondidier. By the end of June, Rudendolf ordered the Germans to carry out a general retreat from the outcrops of the Les River in Flanders and the Amiens. However, his plan was destroyed by the operations of the ANZ Expeditionary Force, which captured Peronne and threatened Saint Quentin. At the same time, the Canadian army reached a breakthrough near Quente, and the Germans were forced to retreat to their original position - the Hindenburg line.
The US military was not willing to fall behind. Pershing insisted that a maximum US military would carry out operations on the front he designated. Under the command of the veteran, the US military launched the Saint-Mier offensive. The air force composed of 600 aircraft from the United States, France, Italy and Portugal completely overwhelmed the few German aircraft. Four days later, the German army was completely eliminated, and the US military proved that it was a capable combat group.
Faced with a good situation, Foch, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Western Front, plans to carry out large-scale offensives in two places to achieve a double breakthrough. One is that the French and American troops launched an attack from the Verdun area to directly capture the German important supply center and railway intersection Mezier; the other is that the British troops launched an attack between Perronne and Lance, pointing directly to the intersection of the Ouer Railway. The capture of these two crucial railway intersections will seriously endanger the overall situation of German logistics supply on the Western Front.
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According to this plan, Pershing used night time to quickly transfer its 1 million troops, its tanks and artillery to the new attack area through insufficient roads and railway networks. On August 2, the US launched the Meuse-Argon offensive. In half a month, the US broke through the Germans' skillfully used the rugged and dense vegetation to build three tight lines of defense. The Argon forest was cleared, the US advanced into the east bank of the Meuse River, and the French advanced into the Aenne River.
On August 19, the US military began to bombard the railway line from Mezier to Monmedi with artillery. The late French army began to attack Sedang. The French fought bravely - they wanted to cleanse the shame suffered in the 1870 French-Prussian War.
At the same time, the British army attacked the Hindenburg defense line, and the Bi army swept the Ipres ridge.
In September, due to the progress of the US military in the Meuse-Argon region, the German retreat on the entire line had become inevitable. Rudendorf hoped to establish a new line of defense on the western border of Germany and implement strong defense throughout the winter to win the Allies a wider armistice clause. However, as the Allies continued to maintain strong pressure on the entire line, Rudendorf's hope was shattered.
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"I originally thought that after breaking through the defense line of Lake Mazuli, we could go straight to Cornisburg, but the German fortress and defense line became stronger and stronger... Company Commander Makarov was still so desperate. Yesterday, he shot a prisoner with his own hand gun... I asked him why he did this, and the company commander just said: My boots are broken, and the German guy's boots are very new..."
"Damn it!" Gavriel stopped writing angrily: the letters were written in a mess again! It was all because of the train, which was shaking too hard. Close the notebook, Gavriel lit a cigarette and smoked slowly......
A few hours later, a more violent shaking, the soldiers, including Gavriel, clutched the windows and railings tightly. After the huge inertia, the train finally stopped.
"Squeak........." Makarov opened the car door and signaled the soldiers to get out of the car. "Brothers, use your bullets, your bayonets, and your hands," he said... He was very kind to entertain the Germans in Cornisburg!"
Gavriel jumped out of the car, and he saw several trains parked here, and countless soldiers rushed out of the continuous carriages. Immediately after the company commander, Gavriel and Peter ran into a trench.
In the distance, Russian cannons kept pouring tons of shells into the city, and the tall buildings in Cornisburg were trembling in the dust.
"Run!............" When the shelling stopped, the charge began. Under the guidance of the armored vehicles, the infantry followed closely behind.
"Follow the chariots and treat them as cover!"
The soldiers bent and moved forward carefully. Gavrier saw that the houses nearby were damaged, and many houses were left with only a few walls, cracked bricks and rubble, all over the ground. Now, Gavrier understood: if there were no good boots, the sharp rubble on the ground would definitely be broken.
"Dadada...""Bada...""Bada..."Suddenly, gunshots came from the front. Gavrier saw from a distance that sparks flashed in the windows of many high-rise buildings. The Germans used these windows to form a tight firepower net and rushed to the front of the Russian army fell one by one in row.........
"Be careful, there are German guys everywhere, clear every house!" "Upstairs! German machine gun!"
The Russian army was suppressed and had to wait for the tank to clear the siege. The machine guns on the armored vehicles kept firing, suppressing the German army, and then the few tanks blasted the fire points one by one.
"They are running for life!" Gavrier saw that the German army began to retreat.
"Of course! Gavrier." Makarov picked up the M18 submachine gun, "but they had nowhere to escape!" Then he waved his hand, "Brothers, rush! Eliminate them!"
Not long after rushing, a series of bullets in front suppressed the Russian army again. "Damn it!" Makarov, slashed all over a magazine, squatted down and leaned against the broken house, "The German man set up a machine gun in the bell tower, and Gavrier used a sniper rifle to kill the machine gunner!"
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Over the Gonnisburg, Russian planes dropped leaflets, which read in German: Citizens of Gonnisburg, the ring of steel has surrounded your fallen city, we will crush everything that blocks the Russian army, give up resistance, give up home, give up hope... Surrender is your only way out.
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Chapter completed!