Volume 8, World War Volume 2, Section 2, The Fortress of the Sun
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The adventure was successful. In another day, the French army fought against the army for 150,000 and advanced thirty kilometers. Arthas was already close at hand. All the French believed that their chance to take revenge had come.
Such a result was unexpected by the French, so the French did not take advantage of the victory to pursue the victory, but waited for orders in place. After wasting two days, the French tilted their troops to the left, and the troops on the right were even more empty. Everything was so perfect. It seemed that Schliffen's plan was to be perfectly realized.
On the 68th, according to Schliffen's plan, Germany's first and second armies went straight to Belgium's most important Fortress of Liège.
At about 8, the artillery directly under the First Army slowly drove to the scorching sun fortress. Hundreds of artillery fired together, blowing down a large section of the chest wall of the fortress, and destroying several bunkers at the attached fortress.
The huge number of German troops brought great panic to the defenders. This was the first time that a large German army's army's army had appeared in front of the Belgians. Although the Germans did not overestimate their military strength, the Germans obviously underestimated the Belgians' courage. In the face of the superior enemy, Belgium declared war on Germany to the end.
Chief of Staff of the Second Army, Ludendolf, waved his hand and orders in the forward command post and artillery command post less than three kilometers away from the enemy's frontier position: "The artillery firepower is ready to begin! Start the Group A plan!"
Due to his proficiency in artillery operations, Ludendolf was also in charge of artillery commander-in-chief as the chief of staff.
The 9305mm naval naval gun was first shocked by a huge bomb. The explosives filled in the bomb were enough to destroy the chest walls of the fortresses several meters thick in the ground and earth and stone. For stronger steel and cement fortifications, even if the fortifications cannot collapse, as long as they hit the fortifications directly above the fortifications, it is still enough to make the living forces inside lose their combat effectiveness due to terrible vibrations and loud noises.
36 152-meter heavy howitzers, 108105 millimeter fortress poured like rain, 80 and 32 kilograms of projectiles, were bombarded violently with extremely high efficiency and first-class accuracy, and the enemy's counterattack firepower was gradually suppressed.
Three hours after the artillery battle began, the Belgian army gave up the artillery fire counter-suppression of the German artillery positions and turned to concentrated bombardment of the German offensive starting position that had reached the 500-yard range of its frontier. At around 12 o'clock, the German infantry began to enter the starting position along the traffic trench. Rainy dirt was blown out of the Belgian army trench and hit someone's head from time to time. Due to lack of experience, the German army's traffic trench was dug too wide, causing a large number of casualties.
After the German firepower suppressed the vitality of the fortress, the light artillery pushed to the front row began to bombard violently. 500 light howitzers, field artillery and mortars poured bullets into the enemy's front positions together. The defenders outside the Belgian fortress were seriously injured. They had to retreat to the fortress to avoid artillery fire.
"Charge" Seeing that the vitality of one side had suppressed the firepower of the Scarlet Fortress and understood most of the obstacles in the fortress, Ludendorff decisively ordered the charge, and then saw in the hidden place that the black waves flooded the earth with satisfaction.
'Will there still be an enemy with such a strong army?' Rudendolf was secretly happy that the German army was the most powerful army, and no army could compete with the Germans. But when Rudendolf thought of the yellow army, his heart sank. Is it really invincible? Rudendolf dared not think about it, and the answer was already very obvious, but he just didn't think about it.
This small episode did not affect the overall situation of the battlefield. Tens of thousands of German infantry began to advance towards the fortress. The fierce artillery fire had destroyed part of the barbed wire in front of the enemy's positions, and the engineers used blasting tubes to continuously open roads in the minefield and barbed wire formations. Due to the fierce artillery bombardment of the German army, there were few defenders left in the front-line trenches of the Belgian army. After several small-scale hand-to-hand combat, the first German attack wave controlled the front-line trenches and then launched an attack on the Belgian army's outer fortress.
The battle immediately became difficult. The Belgian army's fortress was extremely solid. Although it had been under six hours of shelling and the outer wall collapsed in many places, it exposed the inner wall of steel and concrete. The defenders fired violently outward from the solid shooting holes. On the trench line between the forts, a large number of Belgian army infantry were also relying on the protection of the trenches to attack the advance Chinese infantry with accurate crawler gun fire.
The first attack wave was quickly suppressed, and only the 60th Corps attacking the enemy's Fortress C area captured a small section of the trenches to the left of the fortress, but was immediately driven out by the counterattacking Belgian army.
At around 16 o'clock, the second attack wave was put into battle, but it was still unable to break the Belgian base. The Belgian army successively entered the front line with a small number of reserves, firmly controlling the position.
The third attack wave directly rushed towards the enemy fortress, and used assault ladders to throngholds on the wide trench in front of the fortress. It rushed straight to the chest wall of the fortress, attempting to rush into the fortress from the part that collapsed from the chest wall. However, the Belgian army had already arranged it. The fortress was covered with mines, and the inner wall of the trench was even more arranged. When the Chinese soldiers rushed to the chest wall of the fortress, the mines triggered, and blood and flesh splattered for a moment. It was a terrible sight. The Belgian soldiers entered the fortress at the same time, opened the hidden shooting hole, and opened fire at the Chinese soldiers who were crossing the trench from the ladder. Many Chinese officers and soldiers were inexplicably shot behind their backs and fell into the bottom of the trench.
A regiment assaulted the outer fortress that day
At night, the German army had to order the attack to stop. Considering the power of the scorching sun fortress, they voluntarily gave up the front-line position seized that day.
The casualties of 12,000 people allowed Rudendolf to know the seriousness of the problem, but in front of the German Chief of Staff, with a total of 450,000, this casualties were not enough to shake his Ci.
"If you don't be afraid of sacrifice, even if you fight alone, you must destroy Belgium within three days and then attack France directly. Only in this way can we avoid fighting on both sides. Although the British are allied with us, they will never help us when they fight in real war. We can only fight ourselves and defeat France and Russia with time. Once we occupy the European continent, we will become the new world overlords. So, don't be afraid of sacrifice, attack overnight, and be sure to eliminate all resistance from the Scarlet Fortress within three days."
The Chief of Staff's words immediately set off a bloody storm. The German soldiers all over the mountains and fields were silently blazing artillery fire and began to attack powerful fortresses with flesh and blood. The fortress could be flattened to the ground with these flesh and blood. The fortress of the scorching sun was like snow that encountered the scorching sun, and it quickly shrank under the corrosion of blood.
Chapter completed!