After the plan was deployed, all the troops entered the preparatory stage, but the heavy artillery brigade was still carrying out the shelling mission every day, the twenty kilometers of the front line of defense were constantly recalling the sound of artillery, and far away in the Allied general headquarters in Paris, Petain and Haig were studying how to use the American army.
"What does the United States mean, with such a young general, and their first echelon does not have a single lieutenant general, although they took over part of the defense, but only twenty kilometers."
Pétain said.
Haig disagreed, "This is normal, the US army is all new recruits, they have not experienced the war, although there are 50 divisions, 20 brigades, but their establishment seems to be very small, each division only has more than 10,000 people, not even half of ours, but their weapons are good." ” "Well, that's true, you can't count on them, but where do we need to replenish the troops we replaced?"
"Let's add to the Marne line, how about another attack at the end of the year" Haig was eager to attack.
"This" Petain had to think about his predecessor, who was dismissed because of the great losses in a battle, so he hesitated and changed the topic directly, "I heard that the Americans are now shelling every day, do they have any action?"
"How is it possible, what can their recruits do, and being well equipped doesn't mean that they have combat effectiveness."
The two didn't know that Wesley had already deployed an attack, and at the same time did not notify the headquarters, the spy war of the double release has been going on, Wesley didn't know if the news would be leaked, so he didn't notify at all, although the disadvantages of doing so were great, and it was possible to let the U.S. army fight alone, but Wesley didn't care about these at all, his troops had enough strength to deal with it, even in the face of two million enemies, he was not afraid.
On September 27, 1917, the start of the First World War here will be different, at six o'clock in the morning, the heavy artillery brigade began shelling again, this time ten heavy artillery brigades, plus fifty divisions of 105 howitzers, this is the first large-scale assembly and use of rapid-fire guns in human history, which is not comparable to the French Miss 75, not at all on the same level.
After an hour of artillery bombardment, the shelling began to extend, and then the soldiers jumped out of the trenches, in a squad, in three battle groups, and advanced in finished uniforms, and their tactics were carried out completely in accordance with the new infantry drills.
These soldiers are recruits, but they are recruits who have been trained for two years, and there is no problem with tactical movements, but soldiers who have not seen blood are recruits after all, and this is their first time.
The vanguard of the three divisions was concentrated at three points, and the follow-up troops were still following up, and the shelling had been replaced by 75 rapid-fire guns, and the heavy artillery was all extended, which was to prevent accidental injury, and they began to deploy mortar groups 500 meters in front of the local position, and when the fighters arrived at the local position 200 meters, the shelling stopped, and then a large number of machine guns began to prepare, and the soldiers assaulted.
The German positions were in a panic, they did not know if the enemy had attacked, but the observation post could finally see the situation ahead, "The enemy has attacked."
A shout was raised, and the surviving observation posts shouted loudly, followed by the whistle being blown.
The whistle was commonly used in the First World War, and it was very useful for carrying messages.
The Germans took up arms one after another and came to their combat posts, but at this moment, a piercing scream came, "shelling".
Mortars have been used in the First World War, but they are not used very much, but after all, these soldiers have been subjected to different shelling for two years, they are used to it, but this time they miscalculated, because there are too many mortars, 60, 80, 120 mortars attack in groups, directly in the trenches, and now the trenches are not zigzag.
A straight line of trenches, the lethality of one shell can be maximized, five minutes of shelling, the infantry has moved to a position of 100 meters to the front line, they prepare grenades, the shelling stops, the soldiers jump up, quickly rush to a distance of fifty meters, and then the grenades are thrown.
"Boom" exploded again, the Germans were about to collapse, a week of shelling, followed by more massive shelling today, followed by shelling, and now they could not tell what it was.
"Bang da da bang "The forces of the first three divisions had no other task, which was to attack and advance, and in the trenches they were like fish in water, a grenade was opened by Gibson submachine guns from behind, and under the cover of automatic weapons alternately, they were like bamboos.
And at the agreed time, behind the German lines, on the shore of the North Sea, a fleet suddenly appeared, followed by shelling, but it seemed that nothing was shelled, and the landing craft began to continue to advance towards the coastline.
This is a Marine Brigade personally trained by Wesley, four brigades of troops to land one brigade at a time, their position is in the rear of the German army, this is Wesley's killer weapon, he wants to drive the German army out of Belgium at once, and at the same time destroy the enemy's living forces as much as possible.
The bunker is the most terrifying, because of the presence of machine guns inside, which is a nightmare for the infantry, the US army encountered a large number of bunkers, and they found some of them through artillery fire, but there are many that have not been found, but as soon as the bunker fires, you will see a terrible weapon, flying over with white smoke.
Bazookas instantly became a favorite of the soldiers, and there were not many concrete offensives, most of them were bunkers made of civil engineering and sandbags, which were completely incapable of resisting the attacks of bazookas, especially armor-piercing shells.
How could Wesley not pay attention to the bunker, this is the most headache, and the main role of the bazooka is not to fight tanks, because the tanks of World War I can only respond with hehe, the US military department sent a few tanks, which were developed by Ford.
The American 1918 tank, which was supposed to appear only in 1918, appeared ahead of schedule, because Wesley cooperated with them in the production of sedans, and at the same time the power company produced new engines, both gasoline and diesel, so the power of the tank was not a problem.
However, Wesley was not too far ahead, so the Ford tank did not change much, and Wesley directly ordered after reading it, "Throw it away." ” Need a tank he won't design it himself Now the conditions are not ripe, not that you can have the technology, it requires a large number of industrial workers to learn skillfully, and Wesley's factory workers are undoubtedly the best workers, because new technologies are the earliest. t1706231537: