Chapter 671： Attack begins (1/2)
The advent of night did not stop the confrontation between the two sides of the war. Although night fighting is prohibited to prevent large-scale accidental injuries, it does not prohibit the preparations of both sides. Now, both sides are sitting and preparing for the second day of the war. The quality of the Prussian army is still excellent. In just two hours, the 6 battalion’s replenishment and the 8th company’s artillery were dispatched to the attack position. Behind them, there were the other 8 battalions of infantry. It is already all the frontline forces that a Prussian division can hold. Mackenson's mobile units are located on the flanks of the entire map cluster, and they are not involved in the first wave of offensive.
A 75MM artillery was towed by horses or vehicles to the designated position. The artillery was only 800 meters away from the opponent’s guard position, while the engineers and pioneers were closer to the opponent. They had detoured back to a distance of 300 meters, and at this distance The reason why they have not been discovered is more important because what they are facing is only an incoherent line of defense composed of one guard post and a few support points. This position is like a probe, responsible for sensing the opponent's attack.
The real trouble is those 150MM heavy howitzers, which were originally deployed behind the second line of defense. They need to advance 4 kilometers to meet the new strike requirements, but this also shortened their distance from the first line to 4 thousand. About meters. ”We can see the artillery position behind when we stand on the high ground on the front line, and there is no obstacle between our front line and the artillery position.” Hindenburg said with some worry. He now began to wonder whether it was the right choice to let the large-caliber howitzer leave the long-established artillery position.
There are some things that can’t be seen without actually walking. When the entire Prussian army was about to move forward, Xiao Maoqi and others discovered that the entire defense line seemed to be very fragile. Xiao Maoqi even had some illusions that he returned to Napoleon. In the era, the two sides played in line to shoot the feeling, the entire formation lacked depth, lack of concealment and defense.
”So my mobile corps must not be exposed in advance. This is the last guarantee for our rear artillery positions and logistics units. We can do this.” Mackensen said as he drew a line and a few points on the map, we took After getting off the opponent's security position, the rapid-fire artillery units should not be too far forward. We gathered them and stuck in these positions to form a back security line. ”
”If the opponent attacks from here along the road, we can rely on the constructed position to counterattack. If the opponent bypasses, their sides will be exposed within the range of my fast army attack.”
”What about the Bavarian Army aircraft?” Hindenburg asked.
”There is no way, this is originally an injury-for-injury play.” Mackensen replied simply.
”Well, we have done our best. The only thing left is to wait.” Xiao Maoqi sighed and looked at the Venus who had already risen from the horizon. The Prussian army, after exhausting all night, finally completed its pre-war deployment. Before the official start of the war, they can use this time to take a break.
When the sun filled the ground again, the Prussian Army's attack officially began. The first wave of four infantry battalions under the cover of the front line rapid-fire guns and howitzers launched an attack against the Bavarian Army cordon, the company was a mortar company. Fired smoke bombs, the engineers rushed to a position several hundred meters away under the cover of intensive firepower with various tools, and then used steel tongs to break the barbed wire, and use the detonating cord to remove the mines, and the subsequent infantry followed the engineers. The road opened quickly moved forward.
The Bavarian regiment reacted very quickly. Under the guidance of the frontline observation post, it began to intercept and shoot the Prussian regiment. The long-range artillery at the rear also began to try to suppress the rapid-fire guns and howitzers deployed by the Prussian regiment at the front. Amid the roar of artillery fire, the two sides launched the first large-scale ground confrontation.