Chapter 413: Accidentally Entering a Jedi

Chapter 413: Accidentally Entering a Jedi

Chapter 413: Accidentally Entering a Jedi
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The shells flew over the heads of the tanks and the infantry behind them and hit near the enemy trenches, but the shelling soon stopped.

Not everyone can play the role of Danmu Xu Jin. The Ottoman soldiers are poorly trained and it would be embarrassing if they accidentally hit their own tanks.

In addition, while shells continued to explode here, the trenches on the opposite side were silent.

What's going on? Could it be that the enemies have been scared away? That's possible.

The tank drove all the way to the enemy's trench without being attacked, and there was indeed no one in the trench.

The trench here is so wide that tanks can't pass through.

Looking left and right, the width is several kilometers.

The Ottoman mechanized army advanced along the main road with great momentum, without even encountering any guerrilla attacks. In four days, it had reached the outskirts of Sofia from Thrace. It turned out that the enemy had been digging trenches outside the capital during these four days.

Take a detour? There are farmlands on both sides of the road. Tracked tanks can go, but wheeled personnel carriers and armored vehicles cannot.

The kilometres used by tracked tanks are very precious. Can they be used to take detours?
Historically, in World War II, the maximum distance for tanks to launch a blitzkrieg was 600 kilometers, after which the tanks would break down and require major repairs.

Today's manufacturing technology is much worse, and it's good enough to have a range of 80 kilometers.

In fact, the Huai Army used tanks for the first time and defeated the Loire Corps, but the tanks only traveled five kilometers.

Most of the time, tanks are either on trains or tank transporters, and are very delicate. They are only used when they are needed for a charge. It is basically the same as a heavy cavalry charging in armor, just a hard blow at the critical moment.

The Turkish engineers immediately moved forward and began to fill the anti-tank trenches, but the enemy still did not react. Could it be that the enemy was frightened and fled after seeing the might of our mechanized army?
Can we drive directly into Sofia and announce the recovery of Bulgaria's homeland?

The engineers filled in five passages, and the tankers carefully drove through the narrow passages, and then - fifty meters later there was another anti-tank trench.

How much manpower did it take to dig such a long and deep trench? And then after all the effort to dig the trench, there was no one to defend it.

It seems that the Bulgarians are hardworking but timid, and they are really good slaves...

The enemy did not show up at all. General Bey was so bored that he was thinking about the metaphysical issue of Bulgarian national character. The engineers over there were already filling up the second trench.

You can't stop our professional engineering team just by relying on trenches.

The second trench was quickly filled with five passages, and the tanks drove through the passages carefully without any problems.

There were actually trenches behind, but this time the trenches were about 200 meters away. It seemed that the Bulgarians' manpower was not unlimited.

The next trench was covered with sandbags, with shooting holes between the sandbags, making it look much more formal.

We fired a tentative artillery bombardment here, but there was no response, and the initial judgment was that it was empty.

The tanks drove through two trenches and moved forward proudly. After the front team had driven a hundred meters, something strange happened!
"Boom! Boom!"

Instead of being bombarded, the five tanks leading the way were hit by anti-tank mines at the same time, and their tracks were immediately blown off.

The engineers rushed forward to explore and soon found more mines.

Tanks have only been around for a short time, and the current anti-tank mines are not very high-tech, they are simply modified artillery shells. A spring is added to the bottom, and it will explode when it is pressed by a tank. Infantry is light and will not be hurt if they step on it.

The entire engineering battalion went into battle, continuously digging out mines from the front line, carrying them out and discarding them on both sides. More than a hundred mines were dug out, and it seemed that the ground more than a hundred meters ahead was full of mines.

While the mines were being cleared in front, the tanks stopped and waited. The tanks in the rear kept crossing the two trenches, moving forward and gathering between the minefield and the two trenches.

Just as the last tank crossed the trench, something strange happened!
"boom!"

There was a deafening explosion, and the area where the tanks and the soldiers behind them gathered was filled with smoke and dust. Clods of earth, rubble, tank fragments, and soldiers' limbs flew into the sky, reaching dozens of meters high, and hundreds of explosion points detonated simultaneously.

Behind the sandbags of the third trench in the distance, Bulgarian engineers kept pressing buttons. The electrical signals traveled along the wires buried underground, stimulating the electric detonators, and then tons of TNT explosives buried deep inside exploded...

This place basically became a blasting site for opening up the mountain and building a road. Hundreds of tons of TNT were thrown in at once, and even a mushroom cloud formed in the sky.

The vanguard of the Ottoman Empire's First Army, the First Brigade of the Tank Division, two tank regiments with two hundred tanks, plus an infantry regiment following them, were almost wiped out.

If we had stopped the enemy at the Balkan Pass, the battle would have become a war of attrition. Now that we have let the enemy in, the battle has become a war of annihilation.

The Sophia Basin was flat and it seemed impossible to set up an ambush. But it didn't matter if there were no difficulties. Man can conquer nature. We can create difficulties. During the four days when the enemy was advancing, Shao Quanxiao mobilized civilian workers and steam shovels to dig three trenches, bury a large number of mines and explosives, and create an ambush terrain for the enemy on the plain.

"Boom! Boom!"

Now the Bulgarian army's artillery bombardment finally came, hundreds of cannons roared at the same time, and they were all 150mm Krupp heavy artillery.

The shells hit the 2nd Tank Brigade, the Engineer Battalion, the Support Battalion of the subsequent Turkish Tank Division, the Infantry Regiment's armored vehicles, wheeled personnel carriers, logistics transport vehicles, and the machine gun and rapid-fire artillery support battalion, all of which turned into parts and flew into the sky.

Major General Bey, who was staring blankly at the ruins of the demolition site in front of him, shouted, "Artillery fire back!"

"Report! We have no heavy artillery, only a battalion of field artillery, and we can't hit the enemy."

Even with heavy artillery, you still can't hit them. The Bulgarian troops are equipped with artillery shells with smokeless powder primers, which triple the range. You still can't hit your opponent with the same artillery, but the Turks have no chance to know.

"Don't the Bulgarians have only one regular army division? Are our intelligence agencies all idiots? The enemy's heavy artillery force is at least two damn divisions!"

Well, the Turkish intelligence services are not idiots, but they underestimated Bulgaria's 800,000 reservists. Around the capital, it is easy to recruit 100,000 reservists a day, and these four days have passed.

"withdraw!"

There was no way to retreat. Flames were spitting out from the trenches opposite. There were Maxim machine guns, Hotchkiss rapid-fire cannons, the latest long-range firepower.

The infantry were killed, and the same was true for armored vehicles. Armored vehicles are not tanks and can only resist machine guns and rifles, but not rapid-fire cannons.

"all!"

A dull gunshot was heard. This was the latest 50mm anti-tank gun, chasing and firing at the tanks of the Second Tank Brigade that had turned around.

Armor-piercing shells from anti-tank guns kept coming out of the trenches on the opposite side. More than a dozen of the 100 tanks of the Second Tank Brigade were hit by the intensive bombardment, and more than a dozen were paralyzed by anti-tank guns. The rest turned and ran away.

Oh no! An enemy tank division penetrated from both sides and cut off the Balkan Pass.

"Don't the Bulgarians have only two training tanks? Where did this division of tanks come from?"

Well, it’s a modified tractor.

As the shadow of the European war approached and the ghost of war lingered over Europe, Bulgaria immediately recalled all agricultural tractors.

At the Sofia Tractor Repair Factory, a steam crane hoists a ready-made cover and drops it on the tractor with a click. The corresponding parts of the tractor, even the protruding bolts, are pre-buried.

Technicians only need to tighten dozens of bolts and the crawler tractor will be transformed into a tank in seconds.

A tank battle broke out between the two sides - no, it was a tank massacre.

Three hundred tanks equipped with 105mm main guns bombarded more than sixty tanks that were only equipped with rapid-fire guns and machine guns. It was a massacre.

Major General Bey was upset to find that my tanks were female, but Bulgarian tanks were all male? And the barrels were particularly thick and installed in the center, unlike my rapid-fire guns which were installed on both sides?
Currently, only Germany, Russia, the Grand Duchy of Crimea and Bulgaria have tanks equipped with main guns in the world. Of course, the Huai Army also has them.

When a female tank meets a male tank, she can only lie low.

Three hundred tanks blocked the mountain pass. The infantry behind them relied on the tanks to shoot and throw grenades continuously. The main guns and machine guns on the tanks spewed flames and shells.

In the distance, a large number of Bulgarian soldiers wearing helmets jumped out of the trenches and surrounded the remnants of the Turkish tank division.

Not only were the three trenches a man-made death zone, but the Balkan Mountains behind them were also a death zone encirclement.

The Ottoman Empire's only mechanized tank division broke into the Balkan Pass and entered the Sofia Plain, and quickly fell into the desperate situation, encirclement and death zone created by Shao Quanxiao using the Balkan Pass and trenches. It was completely wiped out in less than half a day, and the Major General Bey, the division commander, surrendered to Bulgaria again.

……

"As for the way of being a guest: if you leave your country and cross the border to fight, you are in a desperate situation; if you have a strong back and a narrow front, you are surrounded; if you have nowhere to go, you are in a dead end."

“The so-called ancient good generals can make the enemy unable to reach each other, the majority unable to rely on each other, the noble unable to help each other, the upper and lower unable to support each other, the soldiers unable to separate and unable to gather, and the troops unable to unite.”

"The changes in the nine lands, the benefits of bending and stretching, and the principles of human nature must not be ignored."

"——"The Art of War by Sun Tzu. The Ninth Chapter of Terrain""

(End of this chapter)