Chapter 353 Violent Demolition
Chapter 353 Violent Demolition
He has been invincible since he left the ancient cave, but today he suffered a setback in Paris.
The first loss of the powerful armored vehicle occurred in the street fighting in Paris.
It is impossible to fight a war without losses. The Gatling machine guns on the two tanks at the back immediately turned their muzzles and fired fiercely at the windows in the distance where the shells were fired.
Under concentrated fire from two Gatling machine guns, dense bullets poured in through the window, and the enemy's rapid-fire cannon immediately went silent.
But more gun muzzles immediately appeared from the residential buildings on both sides of the road and began to attack the infantry following the tanks.
There was no ambush in the roadside buildings in the first few hundred meters because they were close to the attack range of the heavy siege artillery outside the city and the National Guards had withdrawn last night.
As the Huai Army's attack deepened, roadside cold gunfire arrived as expected.
The tank division's infantry did not retaliate against the sniper's shots, but the Guangxi New Army's street fighting divisions on both sides of the road responded immediately and threw a large number of grenades into the windows from which the sniper's shots were coming out.
There were constant flames and explosions in the rooms of the roadside buildings. However, this only stopped two-thirds of the cold guns, because - unlike the four-story simple buildings during training, the buildings on the roadside in Paris were actually seven stories high.
This - the reason why we built a four-story building to simulate street fighting was because someone had been to Paris before and said that the buildings on the roadside in Paris were all four or five stories high. But this information was out of date, and the Huai Army had no basis for intelligence in France.
In the past two years, Mayor Haussmann has built a large number of seven-story residential buildings in Paris.
Especially along main roads like the Seine River, when the road was widened, the original low-rise buildings were demolished and replaced with new seven-story buildings.
This was no problem for the street fighting division. They prepared small teams, divided into squads of a dozen people each, and broke into the residential building.
The soldiers ran up the stairs, kicked open the door, threw grenades in, and then rushed into the house, firing shotgun blasts at any resistance fighters who could move or any places where people were suspected to be hiding.
While clearing the threats from the buildings on both sides of the road, the tank division continued to attack forward.
Behind the tank whose vanguard armor was riddled with holes, five infantrymen immediately jumped onto the paralyzed tank and carried off their dead comrades. The scarred tank started moving again, and the Gatling machine gun roared again.
The infantry of the Huai Army's 1st Tank Division can also drive tanks, and the infantry following the tanks can serve as backup drivers and machine gunners at any time.
The tank started moving, and the tanks and infantry behind it followed, bypassing the overturned tank and continuing to move forward.
The attacking tank division occupied two roads. On the spare road next to it, engineers drove a steam tractor, tied iron chains to the damaged tanks, towed the tanks away from the center of the road, and placed them on the side.
The medical soldiers finally rushed to the front line and carried back the soldiers who were shot by snipers on stretchers.
Suddenly, the rapid-fire gun spewed out flames again from the window that had just been silenced, and the two leading tanks were immediately paralyzed again.
Apparently the gunner had just been killed, but the gun was still there, and the defenders were still fighting one after another.
Immediately, the machine guns on two more tanks silenced the enemy's artillery positions again. As the tank division moved forward, the street fighting division had approached the enemy's artillery positions.
The Huai Army attacked along the left bank of the Seine. There were dense buildings on the left side of the road, and the Seine was on the right side of the road. The buildings along the river were intermittent, and the river surface could often be seen.
The troops on the left side of the Street Fighting Division had a heavy task, so Commander Lin Bozai followed on the left flank.
Seeing that the enemy's artillery position was so tenacious, it was unknown when they would open fire again. Lin Bozi, who was following behind, ordered, "Rush into the building! Completely eliminate this firing point!"
As the vanguard of the street fighting division broke into the building near the enemy's artillery position, fierce gunfire suddenly broke out in the building, and the enemy also threw grenades, and the soldiers who broke in were pushed back.
The windows of the gun position had disappeared, but the gun position was revived, and the firepower in the building was very strong. It was obvious that the enemy had deployed a large number of troops here, and it was defended by professional troops. Lin Bozi ordered his men to break in from the front, and personally led his men to start a surprise attack by blowing up the wall from the neighboring building that had been captured.
"boom!"
As the wall was blown open, grenades were thrown out from the room and several bullets were fired. Lin Bozi, who went to the battlefield himself, felt his head buzzing. At one moment, the bullet embedded in his helmet, his scalp was pierced by the bullet, and blood flowed down his face. It was very scary.
Several French soldiers with swords pushed back. Fortunately, Lin Bozai's guards were strong in combat. With a series of bangs from the cannons, all the French soldiers fell to the ground.
The guards ignored Lin Bozai's screams and dragged him back, and asked other troops to take over. They bandaged Lin Bozai urgently and wrapped gauze around his head.
Lin Bozai was a tough guy but he was smart. He suddenly recalled that the French soldiers he had just met were wearing blue uniforms, not red pants.
Ahem, that’s right, the French Army is unique. They all wear red pants, which makes them very conspicuous on the battlefield.
This would easily be recognized and targeted by the enemy, but the French army refused to repent, believing that wearing red pants would help enhance their sense of honor...
Of course, the National Guard wears all kinds of clothes, and there is no uniform. But the one that Lin Bozi encountered just now was obviously a professional unit with very accurate shooting skills, but they were all wearing blue uniforms.
Lin Bozai recalled the intelligence from the General Staff and realized that he had encountered the Marines coming ashore.
I heard that there was fierce fighting in the building near the artillery position. The street fighting division was fighting with the enemy room by room, and both sides suffered casualties. The street fighting division had better weapons, but only suffered fewer casualties.
Lin Bozi yelled, "Blow the whistle, withdraw the attackers, engineer battalion, load the explosives!"
A shrill whistle sounded, the soldiers of the street fighting division ran out of the battle, and the soldiers of the engineering battalion rushed into the first floor carrying explosives.
They heard the enemy's artillery fire from the upper floor again. It was obvious that the tank division was under attack. The soldiers of the engineering battalion had no time to figure out where to place the explosives more effectively.
A platoon filled a room with more than thirty explosive packs, and the soldiers of the engineering battalion rushed out, followed by the laying of an electric wire.
Count the comrades who had entered the building and they all came out. The soldiers from the engineering battalion pressed the button from dozens of meters away.
The electric detonator invented by Nobel detonated with a shocking explosion. The artillery position that had just resumed firing was feeling proud, but suddenly the house collapsed and the building slowly fell down in the smoke and dust.
Stones flew everywhere, injuring two soldiers and hitting the armor of a passing tank, making a clanging sound. The entire building was violently demolished.
The enemy's rapid-fire guns finally stopped firing. Bulldozers moved forward to clear the rocks that had fallen on the street. The four or five tanks in the vanguard, which had been wounded by the enemy's rapid-fire guns, changed two batches of drivers and machine gunners and continued to move forward with their heads held high.
The engineering battalion's tow truck towed the overturned tank to the side of the road, and a large hole suddenly appeared on the road, with the sound of water flowing from inside.
The soldiers of the Street Fighting Division jumped into the cave to investigate and immediately discovered the vast underground world of Paris.
The soldiers were seeing this spectacle for the first time and were collectively exclaiming in amazement when suddenly, fierce gunfire broke out in the cave.
Lin Bozai was slightly injured but refused to leave the front line. He changed into a helmet and was about to lead his men down to take a look when Shao Quanzhong's messenger came running from behind.
"The Marshal ordered the Engineer Battalion to leave people behind to search for the enemy's rapid-fire gun in the demolished ruins."
(End of this chapter)