Major Zhang Liuji arranged the task of the Second Company and looked at Wu Peifu again and said, "Col. Wu should stay here, but the soldiers of the first brigade must be organized. After the artillery in the German city is suppressed, except for a few troops, we need to send the main force to the city to fight a harsh street battle with the enemy. This requires close cooperation between infantry and combat vehicles, and also concentrate shotguns, grenades and other weapons..."

"I understand that the troops have also done street fighting training and know how to fight the battle.↗," Wu Peifu replied, "but, the German army is said to be a division on the other side, and we now have only one brigade, and the troops are half the difference. Can we wait until the Second Brigade of the 33rd Division arrives before starting the attack?"

"Can't wait, we must attack immediately!" Zhang Liuji had long been struggling with the issue of military strength. If he waited, the troops might be more sufficient, but the German army's defense was also more sufficient. He could now conclude that the German army in Baldic was deploying anti-war trenches and various anti-war chariot artillery fortifications. Maybe he would welcome his cocktail bottles and countless cluster grenades, so the speed must be fast. "In addition, the trucks on your side must be concentrated, and they can only be wheeled, and they must be used to hold infantry and follow the impact of the chariot."

"I understand!" Seeing that Zhang Liuji had made up his mind, Wu Peifu stopped saying more, but just recorded these orders in the market.

"Have you contacted the Air Force?" Because Wu Peifu is not worried about the infantry matter, but Zhang Liuji is very worried about whether the artillery and the Air Force can cooperate closely, so the next question is Major Tong Wansheng from the self-propelled artillery battalion.

"I've contacted it. The nearest airport is Nancy, and it starts from dawn. They have been flying for more than three hours. If you really want to attack, I think it's better to wait until they come back to fight." Tong Wansheng said.

"Where is the second wave of aircraft group? Didn't you say you would cooperate with our attack throughout the whole process?" asked Major Zhang Liuji.

"It is probably the German planes that came. They are fighting together." said the battalion's staff officer Dai Baoshu. In fact, what the artillery wants is the planes in the air as observation posts and is not very familiar with the specific battles of the Air Force.

"Then send a telegram to the Air Force. I'll ask for two school artillery planes. Nancy is only more than 80 kilometers away here, and they will fly over for half an hour." Major Zhang Liuji suggested. He looked at the watch again, and then said to Major Tong Wansheng, the artillery battalion of the 33rd Division, "The artillery battalion is all under your command. You can coordinate with them immediately and establish command contact. In addition, we are very urgent. After the plane arrives, the artillery preparation time will be set for fifteen minutes. Then the artillery uses barrage to cover the troops into the city of Baledik."

All arrangements before the assault were followed by the commander. Although Major Tong Wansheng felt that fifteen minutes of preparation for artillery fire was too short, the commander set it at fifteen minutes, so he could only try his best to shoot out more shells in these fifteen minutes.

After making arrangements for the detoured side attack forces, infantry, artillery, and pre-war reconnaissance, Major Zhang Liuji looked at the table again and said to everyone: "Please check the table. It is now 7:43:24. The artillery should fire the cannon at 8:27, and the attack will start at 8:43. Please prepare for each unit!"

"Yes, sir!" In the hidden vineyard, several chief officials agreed loudly, and then they all went back to the troops to arrange all matters before the attack. After several people left, the political commissar Zhang Yannian handed the division commander's telegram to Zhang Liuji, and he said: "The division commander calls us and we must do our best to occupy Baldic."

"I understand." Zhang Liuji didn't know what happened behind him, but now he was surprised that he could break through the German position so quickly. The division commander who had been hesitant before was now determined to attack Baldic. "Old Zhang, you will be responsible for contacting the division headquarters here later." Zhang Liuji glanced at the political commissar and said.

"Just kidding!" Zhang Yannian immediately rejected his suggestion, "Although I am a political officer, my car is still a chariot, not a carriage. Why do you let me stay behind? Watch you perform? In the future, as a performer, I will do ideological work with my comrades, and everyone will respect me?"

"Brother Yannian, this battle is not bad. Although we attacked a division's position during training, this time we will fight a division that is stationed in a city or a regular German division, which is different from the past." Zhang Liuji looked at his own family and felt helpless.

"So what about regular division?" Zhang Yannian asked loudly, "No matter how regular it is, it is an infantry division. As long as his artillery is suppressed, he can only watch us charge and be helpless. We will not fire the cannon and press it over!" At this point, he looked at Dai Baoshu, the battalion officer next to him, "Is this the reason?"

The battalion commander and the political commissar were not easy to answer, especially at this time the battalion commander and the political commissar looked at each other. Although Dai Baoshu did not speak out, under Zhang Yannian's insistence, Zhang Liuji could only order the guard platoon to send two tanks to escort Zhang Yannian. As for what would happen on the battlefield, he didn't know the result.

When the troops launched artillery and contacted the air force, the armored battalions and the brigade from the 33rd Division were nervously making the final preparations before the attack. After the emergency repair, the fifty-nine tanks that could still fight were not allowed to fight. In addition to the six sent to detour to the northeast, the remaining fifty-three will use the Yanxing Formation to attack the German defense line outside Baldic. Twenty wolf-type tanks, including the battalion commander's commander, rank first, and are commanded by Major Zhang Liuji himself. They will be responsible for drilling through the German defense line in front and attacking the city; the remaining thirty-three jackal light tanks followed closely, commanded by the third company commander Captain Song Desheng. The task is to supplement the wolf-type, but if an opportunity is found, they can use their speed advantage to do a flanking attack;

The battle chariot formation was followed by trucks and infantry, 30 four-wheel drive trucks from the Mojian Battalion, and more than ten trucks carrying baggage. They will follow the chariots to attack, so that the infantry can be transported closer to the city to speed up the attack speed and reduce the German defense time. But these trucks are obviously not enough. Not to mention the Mojian Battalion, for the 331st Brigade, except for the more than 500 infantry battalions as reserves, and the battalion taken away by the Erlian who deviated to the northeast, the remaining troops of the 331st Brigade still have a regiment and a battalion, with a total of more than 2,500 combatants, and more than 40 trucks can only carry more than 1,000 people. The remaining nearly 1,000 people will follow the chariots at the speed of a rapid march...

Major Zhang Liuji imagined the scene of nearly a thousand people running towards Baldic, and felt that this was unreliable. Once the artillery fire in the city was not completely suppressed, they would suffer heavy losses in this charge. What artillery is there in the city and how many troops are there? Is the organization of the 86th Division completely unsettled? Is the will to defend this place firm? When will the reinforcements closest to Baldic arrive? Thinking about these questions that no one can determine. It was not until the reconnaissance platoon that went to reconnaissance that Zhang Liuji made an appointment to learn about some of the enemy's situation.

"I probably didn't expect that we could break through the front line trenches. The roads outside the city were not destroyed, very flat, and there were basically no terrain barriers, which made our troops launch an attack." Captain Song Desheng, the third company commander, knew that for the armored division, the first important thing was the road and terrain. If the chariots were not spread out, no matter how many vehicles were used, it would be useless. "Defense is basically an ordinary trench defense system. That is, relying on barbed wire, trenches, machine gun positions, and field cannons. It is not difficult for us to break through. But we cannot know how many anti-war trenches and 77mm field cannons are behind the trenches, and what is even more difficult is how many German troops are in the city."

"That's right, here's the problem!" Major Zhang Liuji stood up from the front of the map with his hands on his back. "Although we are not fighting in the enemy's territory, this is France, we are not familiar with the place and have no language. If we were not going to fight here, we know that this place is called Baldic." After he said that, he turned around and said, "Let's do it, this is a tiger's nest. We must also rush in and see what's going on!"

"I understand, battalion commander." Song Desheng also knew that the information obtained by reconnaissance was extremely limited, especially the enemy was already stationed here. At the same time, these people were all shackled within the wire mesh of the trench. He could not break into the trench and grab one or two German prisoners.

At 8:15, the school gun planes flying from Nancy arrived over the battlefield because of the limitation of radio power. These planes could only contact the ground gun regiment at a very limited distance. However, no matter how limited the distance was, the plane could shuttle back and forth between the shelling target and the gun regiment, which was just a turn for the pilot.

As soon as these school gun planes arrived, the howitzers of the chariot battalion, which had been deployed, began to be tested. Although the rumbling sound of the cannon was far away, it could still be transmitted to the near side of the armored troops hidden in the vineyard. The sound of the cannon seemed to be an order. Although the general attack time had not yet come, the chariot commander who could not hold back started the engine early, and the infantry of the Mofang Battalion and the soldiers of the 331st Brigade also turned over the chariot and trucks. In order to bring as many people as possible, not only the chariots but also the truck compartments were crowded, but also a few soldiers were stripped of the truck cab roof and the sides of the door.

Not to mention the Moban camp, the 33rd Division also fought the Sino-Japanese war. Since they were all veterans, they all knew that once the attack began, the enemy's artillery could not be suppressed, and would always carry out a covered shelling on the attacking side. In this case, only by quickly passing through the starting position to the enemy's trench and wedging into the enemy's army will it be safe. Therefore, the probability of survival in a car and not in a car is different.

The chariot commander and the truck driver had no objection to these infantrymen who were trying hard to squeeze in their cars. They also wanted more infantry to advance with the convoy. So after rushing and crowding, more than fifty people were squeezed into each truck, and each carriage was carrying ten people. With just one piece, plus the Mojian Camp, more than two thousand and eight hundred people got on the car. Wu Peifu, who had never seen such a scene, was secretly shocked by this, and Major Zhang Liuji was not surprised by this. He wanted to stuff all the more than two thousand infantry into the car, but he did it himself without waiting for his order.

At 8:415, the major who had breakfast from Meimei left the temporary camp. He glanced at the convoy that had overwhelmed most of the vineyards, and then calmly walked towards the command vehicle No. 065, which was in the leading position of the Yanxing Formation, amid the roar of the engine; at 8:42, he stood in the position of the cap of the chariot, stretched out half of his body and waved his hand forward. The body of the No. 065 shocked, and the guide wheel instantly overwhelmed the grape trellis and rushed forward.

Although Baldic belongs to Lorraine, it is only a river separated from the Champagne region. The wines here are also famous as Bordeaux and Burgundy. In this famous wine-producing area, there are very vast vineyards on both sides of the Ornan Valley. Now, armored troops gallop in the vineyards, and tracks and vehicles overwhelm all the grapes in the garden. But such good things did not last long. The German troops stationed in Baldic also knew what hidden dangers the vast vineyards would bring to the defense. So just like the Russians cleared the sorghum field in the northeast twelve years ago, all the vineyards within three kilometers of the city were pushed down by the German army. The armored troops did not walk 200 meters, and the vineyards reached their heads. In front of everyone was a small European city with white roofs and gray walls without city walls.

Churches, castles, bell towers, and Western-style buildings built with the undulating mountains, all of this allows strangers from thousands of miles away to experience the European style; this is beautiful, and ugly things are all on the outer edge of the city. The three-meter-high layer of black wire mesh is like a rope cover, densely packing the entire city into the pockets of the bandits. Although it is in the fire of the gunfire at this time, it makes people unable to see through what is waiting for it behind the wire mesh.

The group of artillery behind him was suppressing the German artillery in the city under the guidance of the school artillery plane, but even so, some artillery shells were still hitting the assault troops' offensive route. Some exploded with a thick layer of soil, while others were harvesting lives and splashing flesh and blood. A three-kilometer distance away from the German army stretched out from the outside of the city, the real distance to assault was only two kilometers above the top. The tanks were propelling at a speed of twenty-five kilometers, which only took five minutes, but these five minutes were difficult.
Chapter completed!