The French look disappointed. "Oh? What a pity! In that case, I’m afraid you will stay in the French prison camp silently for a while. Maybe we will accidentally forget you, forget to deliver food, forget to deliver water and forget how long you should stay! "
"if you French can last that long!" Dirk replied very calmly.
"all right! The guards took this group to the second lieutenant. If you are too hungry or too thirsty, you may remember something! We French people are very kind to prisoners of war, so please rest assured! "
The very gentlemanly smile on the face of the French general made every German present feel sick. It was really difficult for them to connect such a French general with the enemy French army in Napoleon’s time.
In a short time, a French soldier came up to the general and whispered a few words. The general was stunned and then smiled like a very gentleman.
"That’s great! Let the soldiers try the power of our new weapon! "
Chapter II French Guns
In the French cock crow, the night cloak covering the earth is gradually torn off, and the world is in a monotonous process of alternating darkness, obscurity and light day after day.
When Lieutenant Long Tiris raised his telescope, the distant scenery was still a little blurred due to the light, but the pile of black airship wreckage in the wilderness was still particularly conspicuous.
Soon the officer in charge of exploring the river came running from the river bank.
"Lieutenant, the river here is more than 60 meters wide, and the water flow is relatively slow, and the water depth is about o512 meters. Tanks with gravel structure at the bottom of the river can pass directly, but armored vehicles and trucks need to lay wooden boards at the bottom of the river."
"Good. Let’s cross the river here!" Long Tiris was still observing the wilderness in the distance when he spoke. To the west of the wilderness was a large dense oak forest, and the ignorant shadow looked a little gloomy.
"Please!"
Long Tiris put a telescope and shouted two private Lowe’s head suddenly leaned out of the turret.
"Yes, sir?"
"Report to the headquarters that we have found the wreckage of the airship, but there are no airship members or pilots yet, and no French army has requested further instructions!"
"Yes!"
Law quickly drilled back.
When the engineers were busy laying pads in the water, the armored infantry deployed a temporary defense line around the motorcade according to the officer’s orders. When the engineers walked to the middle of the river, Long Tiris couldn’t help but worry that the armored vehicles and trucks might stall when crossing waist-deep water. When crossing the river, the driver’s ass might be soaked in the water for a while.
Not long after, a team of planes with white iron cross wings flew from the northeast, then circled around this team, and Lao once again poked his head out of the tank turret, with a round head like a little mole sticking his head out of the hole.
"The Lieutenant Command reported that we should continue to search nearby and try to find those airship members and pilots as much as possible. In addition, they sent a team of planes to assist us in the search!"
Hearing the buzz of the day, Lao looked up. "It seems that they have arrived! I tried to get in touch with them! "
"Ask them to conduct a reconnaissance of the forest in the southwest!" Long Tiris added.
When German planes flew overhead again and again, Dirk and others felt overwhelmed. When they heard the sound of the plane, the French officers and men stopped talking or walking here, and even the horses’ mouths were covered. Unless someone actively exposed the target, those German planes could wander around in vain, looking around with bayonets and rifles and looking alert. French soldier Dirk also had the heart.
French soldiers stayed quietly in the same place like mushrooms until the plane buzzed away a few minutes later. These French talents moved as if they had been released from magic. Dirk is not far away. Nearly a thousand French soldiers are whispering passwords to French officers. They have prepared three or four 75 mm guns and several heavy machine guns. Many soldiers are carrying strange rifles on their shoulders. The rifle body is much longer than ordinary rifles. The barrel is almost one and a half meters long, and there are two tripods at the muzzle. Dirk is puzzled by this strange thing.
On the other side, Lieutenant Long Tiris’s tanks and armored vehicles have crossed the river, and dozens of infantry are advancing in the water. The vehicles have marked the channel with pads on the bottom of the water. Without these pads, the tires of vehicles are more likely to sink into the sand and gravel at the bottom of the river. When passing through the central water of the river, several armored vehicles unfortunately broke down. As a result, the soldiers have already crossed the river and towed them ashore.
It was half an hour before the armored reconnaissance team crossed the Boer River with 22 tanks and armored vehicles. After a short rest, the engineers recovered the pads for crossing the river, and the armored vehicles that broke down in the water finally moved. The reconnaissance team soon came to the wreckage of the airship.
"There are no dead bodies or anything like them. It seems that the crew are still alive!"
Long Tiris and the soldiers carefully observed the nearby ground, but there were no parachutes or other things left by the crew. At this time, the sun had already emerged from the eastern horizon, and most of the face was slightly red. The sun shone on the soil, and only the wreckage of vehicles and airships made the fields more spacious in people’s eyes.
The only place to hide seems to be the dense forest in the southwest. Maybe those poor crew members are rustling behind a bush.
"Lieutenant, the reconnaissance plane didn’t find anything unusual in that forest!" Lao Yin came out of the tank cabin.
Half of the body leaned out of the turret, and Tiris quickly reached an order to other vehicles, "Search for that forest!"
The original vehicles lined up in a single file quickly dispersed into a horizontal line, with tanks and armored vehicles mixed with the top four supply vehicles. After that, the whole armored team sailed to the mysterious and deep oak forest in a cloud of dust, one by one, wearing m16 helmets, leaned out of the armored vehicles to observe the surrounding situation. It seems particularly quiet in the morning here, and even the singing of birds is particularly rare. It is doubtful whether those birds were still asleep after watching the evening movie last night.
In this quiet and deserted scene, several shells darted out of the Woods, and then plunged into the field near the vehicle. Red flames mixed with yellow soil raised high and several shrapnel scattered in high rotation, and the armor outside tanks and armored vehicles was smashed properly.
At this time, Long Tiris reconnaissance team was less than 2oo meters away from the forest.
Before the German soldiers in the reconnaissance team could react, a crisp and loud gun came out of the Woods under the cover of the shell explosion.
"ah!"
The soldiers in the carriage of an armored combat vehicle were surprised. Now a machine gunner fell to the ground clutching his chest in pain. The floor of his body was soon dyed red with blood. A round bullet hole appeared on the carriage wall in Huo Ran. Just when German soldiers were puzzled by the mm-thick armor being penetrated by bullets, more bullets went through the wall and entered the carriage. Suddenly, there was a painful cry. Finally, even the driver of this armored vehicle was not lucky. The whole armored vehicle suddenly lost control and staggered out of the team like a drunken beetle until it hit a small mound. After that, they barely stopped, and the rest of the German infantry in the carriage quickly jumped out, but they were immediately shot by the French fire. For these German soldiers, the gas seemed to boil in the roaring bullets, and the earth trembled with their fast movement.
In the muffled sound of high-moving metal penetrating the human body and the screams of the shot, clouds of blood burst out from these poor German infantry from time to time, injured or uninjured. Fortunately, those who are lucky can hide behind armored vehicles or on the ground to avoid French attacks. There is always a particularly crunchy sound of steel plates that can penetrate the walls of armored vehicles.
Long Tiris didn’t know everything about armored vehicles at this time. He slipped into the tank turret at the moment when the French artillery shells came. At this time, he was looking at the unusual forest through the turret observation hole. Although he didn’t see the French figure, French artillery, machine guns and countless rifles were attacking his reconnaissance team from there
Although Ron Tiris method ordered other tanks to stop consciously in this battlefield environment, their turret surface 37mm caliber guns quickly turned to the place where bombs were being sprayed in the Woods
Boom …
Before the fire of the German tank, the second batch of French artillery shells had come with a low-level trajectory, and one of them hit a German tank head-on. Although this ordinary artillery shell could not penetrate the front armor of the German tank at one time, the rivet steel plate was not so slack. It can be seen that the front armor of the tank was severely distorted in the explosion, and the turret was also severely deformed. The whole tank lost most of its combat effectiveness in an instant. Although the tank crew was not in danger, the violent explosion and shock were enough for them to drink a pot.
Although the companions were badly hit, the remaining five German tanks were on fire one after another at the edge of the forest. Suddenly, the branches and leaves were dusty, and the French firepower was temporarily weakened at this moment. While herrlich was filling the gap between shells, Long Tiris observed his own situation, but even he was frightened by this scene. The ag1o9 tank moved again, but its turret and the machine gun on the front body had been used. In addition to attracting firepower and crawler crushing, it seems that it has already done something. Three armored vehicles have been unable to move. Some infantry use their bodies as a cover to shoot at the Woods. Other armored combat vehicles are moving while machine guns are being fired at by the French. A large number of infantry have come from armored personnel carriers, lying on the ground or covered by personnel carriers to shoot, while fuel supply trucks are far behind the convoy
With the French special rifle shooting at armored vehicles again and again, German officers and men are now suffering more and more casualties, and the armored vehicles are protected from those demonic bombs by thin steel plates. The French also fired guns at German tanks again and again. Fortunately, the shooting rate of guns for such small targets as tanks was really not high. Team Long Tiris was not hit harder.
The first few minutes of a sudden attack seemed like an extremely long time for the German soldiers. At first, they were at a loss, and the French army violently attacked them and became uneasy. Until the German plane circled nearby and came to fire support, the soldiers felt guilty. Only then did they settle down a little. The German plane roared and flew low, throwing aerial bombs at the edge of the forest, and the French firepower was once again temporarily suppressed. With this opportunity, Long Tiris ventured out of the turret signal flag and reached the latest order to the reconnaissance team.
Tanks dragged behind to cover armored vehicles and infantry retreated first!
After that, the tanks and armored vehicles finally had a direction. The tanks kept moving in parallel while shooting at the French, while the infantry slowly retreated together with armored vehicles.
"Lao reported to the headquarters that we were attacked by the French in the southwest of the Boer River!"
Long Tiris shouted after drilling back into the turret, but no one responded. He looked down and looked pale. He leaned against the bulkhead and covered his abdomen tightly with his hands.
"God!" Ron Tiris couldn’t believe that someone in the tank department would be injured by a bullet. Although the steel plate in the middle and rear part of Lao’s tank is 1omm thick, it is impossible for a general machine rifle bullet to penetrate it.
"Damn the French, they must have acquired some new weapons!"