Chapter 159 Fighter Trap

La Forks Defense Line, headquarters of the German 2nd Infantry Regiment.

The group leader, Khalil, sat at his desk and looked blankly at the map in front of him. The dim light swayed above his head, just like Khalil's unsteady mood at this time.

"Do you have the latest information?" Khalil asked anxiously when Staff Wolf stepped forward.

Wolfe shook his head helplessly: "Our telephone lines with the Andrusi and Tamon areas were cut off. They only had time to send a few telegrams requesting reinforcements to General Waldeck, and then they lost contact completely! "

Khalil turned his gaze back to the map and asked in a low voice: "What is General Waldeck's order?"

"Waiting for orders!" Wolfe replied: "The general has sent reinforcements to these two places. They will figure out the situation and then plan their next move!"

This is General Waldeck's command style. He always does intelligence work first and then makes decisions. People call this "steadiness."

But Khalil felt that this method might be useful against others, but the raid on Shire might "miss the opportunity."

"Have you ever thought..." Khalil pointed to the two points under attack on the map and said with concern: "If Shire's troops can quickly break through from these two points, they will then attack our rear. With a combined attack and siege, it might only take two hours to completely end this battle?"

Wolfe's face changed slightly, and he understood what Khalil meant.

La Fox, Andrusi and Tamon roughly form a triangle, and are all 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, at an advancing speed of three kilometers per hour, they would be able to unite and completely surround La Fox in more than two hours.

However……

"Is this possible?" Wolfe's face was uncertain: "I mean quickly breaking through Andrusi and Tamon. There are thousands of defenders in each of these two places, and they have built trench fortifications and barbed wire. The total strength of Charles's army is only two thousand, and it is now divided into two..."

"You forgot that Shire has tanks, Wolf!" Khalil suddenly became excited, and his speech speed increased unconsciously: "This is probably what Shire planned. This is an unprecedented battle for us. If we If you continue to stay here and do nothing, you will eventually be surrounded without firing a single shot and have no choice but to surrender! Are you willing to see this result?"

Khalil was unwilling because this result was caused by him. It was his application that transferred all the artillery on both wings.

These artillery pieces have not fired a single shot, but they may become the trophies of the Ciel in the near future!

What an irony!

Ciel gave him a hard slap!

"But what can we do?" Wolfe asked: "Give up La Fox?"

Obviously not, abandoning the position without the general's order means running away, and there will no doubt be a court martial waiting for them.

Then Wolfe added: "Or send troops to reinforce the flanks? This may be feasible, but we don't even know where the enemy is!"

Khalil was silent, it seemed like he could do nothing and couldn't change anything!

But after thinking for a while, Khalil said slowly: "We have artillery, Wolf, a lot of artillery!"

Wolfe was stunned: "But what can artillery do?"

Khalil pointed his finger back and said firmly: "If Charles intends to concentrate his troops behind us, then of course our artillery... must aim its muzzles at the rear!"

Wolfe stared at the map for a while, then nodded slightly and agreed to Khalil's plan.

Another advantage of this is that if Charles' troops really form an encirclement in the rear, the German army may still use artillery to create a gap to break through!

…

Following Khalil's order, the artillery moved.

Colonel Miller, the commander of the Sixth Artillery Regiment, ordered the troops to put away the artillery. The grooms rushed the carriage, and then hitched the artillery pieces to the carriage one by one and drove them to the road.

In order to improve the mobility of the 105MM artillery, the German army made a reasonable arrangement of the artillery and the carriage. They added a carriage with an extremely simple structure 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 mantlet, three artillerymen ride on the carriage, and one artilleryman acts as a groom and is responsible for driving the carriage.

In this way, as long as the cannon is hung on the cart and the artillerymen sit in their respective positions, the carriage can take the cannon and the artillery crew to the destination at a speed of 8 kilometers per hour.

The German artillery was well-trained and was ready in less than ten minutes. An artillery regiment with thirty-six artillery pieces and some horses transporting artillery shells 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. When they were about to speed up, suddenly there was a "rumbling" sound like a low thunder in the sky.

"Airplane!" someone in the German army shouted.

The artillerymen looked back, and sure enough they saw a dozen "Avros" flying in the air. Someone immediately exclaimed, those were what the Germans called "airborne death".

Colonel Miller shouted an order: "Disperse, hide!"

But after the order was conveyed, everyone looked to both sides and was stunned.

One side is a steep slope more than 20 meters high, and the other side is farmland flooded by rain. There is no way to escape!

Colonel Miller's face turned pale. At this moment, he realized that the French plane had probably chosen the terrain and was waiting overhead!

Colonel Miller guessed correctly. This trap was set by Charles specifically for the German artillery.

"Since I have tricked the German artillery to Lafox, it is 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 the muzzle at you, and your interspersed troops have no artillery to suppress it!"

"Plane, General!" Charles replied slowly: "We have planes!"

Galieni smiled and asked back: "You plan to use rocket planes to bomb their hidden artillery positions? I don't think it will work!"

This is not just a problem that rockets are easily damp in rainy days, but also visibility. It is difficult for pilots to find camouflaged artillery on the ground.

Charles smiled and replied: "What if their artillery is not in the artillery position, but in a neat formation on the road?"

Galiene suddenly realized, he said "hmm" thoughtfully, with approval in his eyes, it would be much easier!

What Charles has to do is to let the pilots scout the approximate location of the artillery first, and then send a few reconnaissance planes to monitor their movements.

Once the artillery is concentrated and drives onto the road and reaches the preset ambush section, it is time for the First Flying Squadron to launch an attack.

(The above picture shows the configuration of German horses transporting artillery and artillery)

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