Berg Ⅳ

The attack of dozens of French troops in the area did not bring much trouble to the German army. The MG42 with a rate of fire of up to 1200 rounds per second taught the French army a good lesson, making them understand that Germany is not something they can teach them if they want to. .

Although the sacrifice of dozens of French soldiers only resulted in single-digit German casualties, Bruno achieved his goal. He figured out the location of the German machine gun positions.

"Gather all our mortars and give the Germans some color!"

"Understood, the artillery platoons of each company are assembled at the battalion headquarters!" The adjutant received the order and quickly conveyed it to his subordinates.

After a while, a total of 8 60mm mortars from the four company artillery platoons, plus 4 60mm mortars and 4 120mm mortars from the battalion artillery company, arrived at the predetermined position.

The commander in command of this "gun group" quickly calculated the shooting of Zhu Yuan based on the positions of the German machine gun positions that he had learned during the previous exploration and attack.

"Quick fire in one minute!"

With the firing commander's order, 12 60mm mortars and 4 120mm mortars poured fire on the German positions at the fastest rate of fire.

"Damn it! Mortar!" Groo quickly discerned what the whistle-like sound in the air was about.

"Boom boom boom!" One after another mortar shells fell on the position, stirring up large chunks of soil.

In just one minute, the French mortar group poured more than 360 rounds of 60mm shells and more than 40 rounds of 120mm shells on the German positions.

"Hehe, just one of your infantry companies is like blocking my footsteps?" Bruno looked at the devastated small village and the blown up trees in the nearby woods, his face full of pride.

"Let's go and look for the German's body and see if it's not broken." Bruno ordered, "If there is any broken, put a grenade in it, and we'll give the German a good ride."

"Hahaha." The French soldiers laughed in cooperation after listening to the commander's joke.

But soon they stopped laughing because they heard the familiar ripping sound of the German MG42.

"My Virgin Mary, how is this possible?" Bruno said dumbly, looking at the firepower of the German machine guns that were wantonly harvesting the lives of French soldiers.

Each of his guns fired half a cardinal number of shells. This round of rapid fire has consumed half of his shells. Bruno can't imagine how the Germans were so precise and so violent. survived.

"Huh, thanks to the infantry tactics tutorial written by the Führer, it is said that when setting up positions, you must dig enough anti-gun holes, otherwise there will be few people who survive this round of guns." Hans said to himself. said, while holding his machine gun, he drilled out of the anti-gun hole, returned to the position and began to set up the machine gun, shooting towards the dense formation of the French army.

"What is this hole called?" Fogel followed Hans and drilled out.

"Cat, cat ears?" Hans replied while pouring bullets.

"Cat ears pierced, yes, cat ears pierced." Fogel held up his G41, "It's an apt name, it really looks like cat ears."

The two of them chatted leisurely here. The French army on the opposite side was not feeling well. In addition to killing a few unfortunate Germans, the other result of their round of violent artillery bombardment was to give the German soldiers a layer of dirt on their faces. .

Looking at the undiminished German positions and the suppressed soldiers lying on the ground unable to get up, Bruno angrily smashed the binoculars on the ground.

"Mortars can't kill you, and I can't kill you even with bayonets and bullets." Bruno gritted his teeth and said, "Heavy machine gun platoons suppress the shooting, and the Second Company will shoot for me!"

The M1914 "Hatchkiss" heavy machine gun equipped by the French army is an old gun of World War I, and its performance is slightly outdated. It is crushed by the German MG42 general-purpose machine gun in all aspects, but it is a heavy machine gun after all. Although ensuring its shooting continuity, with the German FM24-29 light machine gun, it still caused some trouble to the German machine gun firepower to a certain extent.

Moreover, the French mortars did not stop firing after a minute of rapid fire, but switched to free firing of various artillery positions. This kind of mortar shells flying over the cold son brought a lot of casualties to the German army. The rapid fire is much more effective.

"No, there are too many people, machine guns alone can't stop the French attack." The company commander looked at the approaching French troops, gritted his teeth, and ordered, "Everyone pay attention, allow the infantry fighting vehicles to enter the field. Provide fire support!"

"Just waiting for this sentence!" Nick and Anneke crawled back excitedly after hearing the words.

Amid the cries of crying fathers and mothers, the French soldiers fled back to the starting position in despair.

"Damn it! This unit in front is really a company of the German army?!" Bruno's eyes widened, his face full of incredulity, "Can a company have such strong firepower?"

"Batch commander! Put on the anti-tank guns, we have nothing to do with those armored vehicles." Ben Shaming advised.

"Well, now, it doesn't matter if they stay behind or not." Bruno gritted his teeth, "Let the anti-tank team come on!"

The anti-tank group that received the order quickly pushed their buddies up, and after tearing off the camouflage, the four Model 1934L/72 anti-tank guns revealed their hideous faces.

Originally, the first-level units of the French battalion were not equipped with anti-tank guns, but because their opponents had tank units of the German Wehrmacht, when they went out, the first-level battalion installed 4 small-caliber anti-tank guns as a supplementary firepower.

The Model 1934L/72 anti-tank gun has a small caliber, only 25mm, but because its diameter is 72, its armor-piercing ability is also very impressive, which can pose a threat to the German No. 3 tank, not to mention the current design. Infantry fighting vehicles used to defend against bullets.

After a burst of gunfire, 7 of the 18 German infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed, and the remaining 11 turned and ran away when they saw that the situation was not good.

"Hahaha." Bruno laughed as he looked at the fleeing infantry chariots, "Without these iron kings, I see what you can do with me! Keep attacking!"