Chapter 206

"The cannonball is loaded! Firing parameters confirmed! Fire at any time A French artillery officer loudly reported to his officer: "the two guns are aimed at the large blockhouse on the main peak of the opposite German position, and the other three have chosen their own targets."

"How are the field artillery groups getting ready?" Asked the officer of the French railgun army, looking at the distance.

The Officer immediately handed over a document: "a few minutes ago, they have reached the designated position, 60 guns will fire with our guns, absolutely can destroy the German bullshit Ziegfeld line."

Nodding, the commander of the railgun ordered: "start timing. According to the mission instructions, seven minutes later is the operation time. Fire on time to cooperate with our army to break through the Ziegfeld line."

"Yes Said the junior officer at attention.

At this moment, on the top of the mountain closest to the German border, in the field headquarters temporarily excavated, Charles de Gaulle is looking through a telescope at the Ziegfeld line in Germany.

Vaguely in the Bush, you can see the concrete walls of German blockhouses; In some dangerous positions, there are machine gun shooting holes. Although these holes are full of weeds, you can still see the black machine gun barrel inside.

But somehow, there was always a bad feeling in his heart, and the feeling of being cheated was lingering in his mind like a shadow. He put down his telescope and looked at his adjutant and staff: "although the German defense line is ingenious, it has many defects."

He pointed to the opposite hill: "they prefer to deploy machine gun blockhouses and artillery bunkers, but they are not willing to plant anti tank obstacles and barbed wire in the front. This is a very strange thing in itself."

"General de Gaulle, the Germans have been short of steel and other resources, so they are not willing to waste precious steel to build barbed wire and tank barriers. This is the result of the intelligence analysis, which is very convincing. " The staff officer replied with a smile.

"We also lack steel." Charles de Gaulle took a look at his own staff, obviously dismissive of this statement: "in the non key sections of the Maginot line, the anti tank barrier is made of wood, which also has a very good effect. Why didn't the Germans set up simple anti tank barriers in such a suitable area for tank attack? "

"General! It's possible that they are leaving a place for their tanks to attack. " Charles de Gaulle's adjutant thought for a moment and said, "intelligence shows that the German army has laid a large number of mines in other areas. Maybe the Germans prefer to use mines to defend tanks?"

"Have you ever seen the German army laying a lot of mines?" Charles de Gaulle picked his eyebrows. He seemed to have guessed something, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't think of anything.

"No... but the scouts have seen a lot of minefield warning signs." The adjutant frowned and replied, "maybe the German army was buried at night..."

"It's too late to say anything. We'll have to fight and change our operational plan. " With a sigh, de Gaulle said, "victory has made us forget the scars of war. The German on the other side is working hard, while our officers are thinking about their holidays. I set up an armored force in the second line, but I didn't come to the front line for more than half a year. You didn't even investigate the defense line of the other side clearly. "

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Opposite the German position, two fat wild mice are mating under a German cannon. Several painted black poles were buried in the soil, revealing a round shape, acting as a fort on an important German defense line.

Not far away, the exposed reinforced concrete fortification is just a small cement lump. The machine gun shooting holes are simply dug out caves - most of them live with mice.

The barrel of the gun is just a damaged mop stick, the keel of an abandoned bicycle, or just a broken flute. Those so-called minefields are just a warning sign - only a few mines are buried inside.

The whole Ziegfeld defense line is a shocking deception. When the deception is carefully arranged, all the voices questioning this flawed deception will lose their effectiveness. If we use the strength of a country to mobilize a scam, no matter how false the scam is, it will have a certain real effect.

The French had been warned by the Comintern that the Ziegfeld line did not involve a large number of civilians. This huge loophole was justified by the French themselves, who believed that the Germans secretly recruited prisoners in the concentration camps and persecuted political opponents to participate in labor.

A French businessman once saw Germany set up false positions and reported everything he saw to his motherland, but he was arrested by the French as a spy because he tried to help the German spread false information.

Even the adjective "vulnerable" used by the Fuehrer himself when talking about the Ziegfeld line in public has been taken as a genuine word of modesty. The French government, after evaluating its own Maginot line, explained the adjective "vulnerable" given by the head of state to the Ziegfeld line that it could stop the French attack for at least half a year.

However, if one thinks that the German army is unprepared for war on the western front, it is a big mistake: after the end of the Polish campaign, about half of the Eastern Air Force has moved to the Western Airport, so the German Air Force has an absolute advantage in both quantity and quality. At dawn on September 30, the west front airport of the German air force had a total of 1970 fighters, more than three times the total number of fighters used by France in this operation. And these fighters are the advanced fw-190d fighters, which are much more advanced than those fighters that the French can fly to the sky. Similarly, the German air force also prepared a large number of bombers, who played an important role in the top secret Western defense plan "preparatory plan": these bombers would paralyze the French ground forces, attack their supply lines and assembly areas, and buy time for the ground forces to fight back. At the same time, the German ground forces on the western front are also full of strength. Under general lundstedt's command, there are a total of 800000 troops, with the fifth and sixth non main armored forces. These troops are equipped with old but not outdated No. 3 assault guns, No. 2 tanks and other weapons and equipment, as well as a large number of anti tank guns and iron fist rocket launchers. It can be said that they are ready to face the French attack alone, let alone hundreds of kilometers behind them. Several world-famous tank troops are coming as reserves by train. These troops are now well-known, including Rommel's seventh armored force, and the second armored force under the command of general bokenov, Guderian's first armored force, which is resting in Poland and will gather westward in half a month. These troops are now synonymous with victory. They won in Poland in just 16 days. Moreover, Germany is now mobilizing its own reserve personnel. The head of state has ordered the civil administration and the military to complete the expansion of the army by 3 million in 1938 and to expand the total number of the army to 4.5 million by 1939“ Fire On September 30, when the fire broke out, the French cannons roared with deafening noise. The cannonballs flew to their predetermined targets, making the so-called defense lines along the German border a sieve. The heavy railgun fired a lethal shell, and then began a long process of cleaning the barrel. However, those field guns of various calibres could roar incessantly. The shells exploded on the German Ziegfeld line like free money, turned up the soil and flew away with gravel, and the earth trembled with it“ This is observation post two! The Krauts didn't fight back A French artillery Observer reported loudly to the walkie talkie. At the other end, soldiers at another observation post were saying the same thing: "report, the Germans did not fight back." Hundreds of French fighter planes appeared below the clouds. They came to control the air supremacy of the battlefield. Below them, there were dozens of French bombers with bombs. They wanted to drop these bombs on the German positions to help French artillery completely destroy the Ziegfeld line. Before the end of the artillery fire, the French infantry began to charge with their rifles. They groped carefully in the place with warning signs of minefields. From time to time, some people were killed by mines, but most of the soldiers came to the front of the German position unharmed. They chanted slogans and waited for the German troops to shoot at them, only to find that there was no German fighting back in the whole position except for their own artillery which kept exploding“ cease-fire! Our soldiers are up! Cease fire An officer at the observation post called out with a walkie talkie. After more than ten minutes, the French artillery fire finally stopped, and the whole German Ziegfeld defense line returned to the pre war peace. Except for the black smoke crater, there was little change here“ It's not, it's not an exercise, is it A French battalion commander helped the helmet on his head and looked at the enemy's machine gun holes nearby. He pointed to the blockhouses that should have been burning to harvest their lives: "go up and have a look! Are the Germans scared to death? " Of course, the German army would not be scared to death in the position. A group of infantry climbed behind the blockhouses and found that there was no most important place for these blockhouses and Fort: the gate. When the soldiers brought back a few mops and rusty iron pipes, the French infantry who were ordered to attack knew they had been cheated“ Get the tank up here! We've been fooled by those damned Krauts Charles de Gaulle angrily holding the phone, gritted his teeth and roared: "cross the German border, search forward, attack 10 kilometers!"