Chapter 159 Fighter Trap
La Foulkes Line, headquarters of the German 2nd Infantry Regiment.
Team leader Khalil sat at his desk, staring blankly at the map in front of him. The dim light above his head was swaying, just like Khalil's wavering mood at the moment.
"Is there any latest intelligence?" Khalil asked anxiously when he saw Staff Officer Wolfe coming forward.
Wolfe shook his head helplessly: "Our telephone lines with Andrusi and Tamon were cut off. They only had time to send a few telegrams to General Waldeck requesting reinforcements, and then we completely lost contact!"
Khalil turned his gaze back to the map and asked muffledly, "What are General Waldeck's orders?"
"Wait for orders!" Wolfe replied: "The general has sent reinforcements to these two places. They will figure out the situation and then plan the next move!"
This is General Waldeck's command style. He always does intelligence work first and then makes decisions. People call this "steady."
But Khalil felt that this method might be useful against others, but a surprise attack on Charles might "lose the opportunity."
"Have you ever thought about this..." Khalil pointed to the two points on the map that were under attack and said with some worry, "If Charles' troops can quickly break through these two points and then attack and surround our rear, it may only take two hours to completely end this battle?"
Wolfe's face changed slightly, and he understood what Khalil meant.
Lafox, Andrusi and Tamon roughly form a triangle, and are more than ten kilometers away from each other.
If Charles's troops had broken through Andrusi and Tamon and were heading towards each other at this time, with an advance speed of three kilometers per hour, they would be able to meet up and completely surround La Foulkes in more than two hours.
However……
"Is this possible?" Wolfe's face was uncertain. "I mean to quickly break through Andrusi and Tamon. There are thousands of defenders in each of these two places. They have built trench fortifications and barbed wire. The total strength of Charles's troops is only 2,000, and now they are divided into two..."
"You forgot that Charles has tanks, Wolf!" Khalil suddenly became excited and spoke faster. "This is probably what Charles is planning. This is a battle we have never fought before. If we stay here and do nothing, we will eventually be surrounded without firing a single shot and will have no choice but to surrender! Do you want to see this result?"
Khalil was unwilling to do so because this result was caused by him. It was his request that all the artillery on both wings be transferred over.
These artillery pieces have never fired a single shot, but they may become Charles's spoils in the near future!
What an irony this is!
Charles slapped him hard!
"But what can we do?" Wolfe asked, "Give up LaFox?"
Obviously not. Abandoning the position without the general's order would be tantamount to desertion, and they would undoubtedly be faced with a military court.
Then Wolfe added: "Or send troops to reinforce the flank? That might be possible, but we don't even know where the enemy is!"
Khalil was silent, it seemed like he could do nothing and change nothing!
But after thinking for a while, Khalil said slowly: "We have artillery, Wolfe, a lot of artillery!"
Wolfe was stunned: "But what can the artillery do?"
Khalil pointed his finger to the rear and said firmly: "If Charles intends to concentrate his troops behind us, then our artillery... of course we must aim our guns to the rear!"
Wolfe stared at the map for a while, then nodded slightly in agreement with Khalil's plan.
Another advantage of doing this is that if Charles' troops really formed an encirclement in the rear, the German army might be able to use artillery to create a gap and break out!
…
With Khalil's order, the artillery began to move.
Colonel Miller, commander of the Sixth Artillery Regiment, ordered his troops to put away the artillery. The grooms brought the carriages, and then harnessed the artillery pieces one by one and drove them onto the road.
In order to improve the mobility of the 105MM artillery, the German army made a reasonable configuration of the artillery and the carriage. They added a very simple carriage between the artillery and the horses, which could seat three artillerymen.
The six artillerymen can be distributed as follows during the transfer: two artillerymen sit in front of the cannon's shield, three artillerymen sit in the carriage, and one artilleryman acts as a groom to drive the carriage.
In this way, as long as the cannon is hung on the carriage and the artillerymen sit in their respective seats, the carriage can carry the cannon and the crew to the destination at a speed of 8 kilometers per hour.
The German artillery was well-trained and was ready in just over ten minutes. An artillery regiment had 36 artillery pieces plus some horses to transport the shells. They drove onto the road one after another and rushed to their destination in the rain.
However……
They walked for a while and thought everything was going well, and were about to speed up when suddenly a rumbling sound like thunder came from the sky.
"Plane!" someone in the German army shouted.
The artillerymen looked back and saw more than a dozen Avro planes flying in the sky. Someone cried out in surprise immediately. Those were the things the German army called "air death gods."
Colonel Miller shouted, "Disperse and hide!"
But after the order was passed down, everyone looked around and was stunned.
On one side was a steep slope more than 20 meters high, and on the other side were farmlands flooded by rainwater. There was nowhere to escape!
Colonel Miller's face turned pale. At this moment he realized that the French plane might have already chosen the terrain and was waiting overhead!
Colonel Miller guessed correctly that this trap was set by Charles specifically for the German artillery.
"Now that I have tricked the German artillery into La Faux, it will be impossible for them to go back and blast open the encirclement!" Charles confidently told Gallieni about his plan.
"But what can you do?" Gallieni asked, "The German artillery only needs to move back a few kilometers to aim at you, and your infiltration troops have no artillery to suppress it!"
"Plane, General!" Charles replied calmly, "We have planes!"
Gallieni smiled and asked back: "You plan to use rocket planes to bomb their hidden artillery positions? I don't think it will have any effect!"
It's not just that rockets are easily damp on rainy days, but also because of visibility. It's difficult for pilots to detect camouflaged artillery on the ground.
Charles smiled and answered: "What if their guns were not in their positions, but were in formation on the road?"
Gallieni suddenly realized, he said "hmm" thoughtfully, with approval in his eyes, this is much easier!
What Charles had to do was to first let the pilots scout the approximate location of the artillery, and then send a few reconnaissance planes to monitor their movements.
Once the artillery was concentrated and drove onto the road and reached the preset ambush section, it was time for the 1st Flying Group to launch the attack.
(The picture above shows the configuration of German horses transporting artillery and artillery)
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