"The French are starting to attack!" At this time, 50 kilometers west of Bursa, German officer Colonel Von Crestein picked up the telescope in his hand and began to observe the French army gathering in the distance. He came from the Western Front, and the French attacks were seen a lot. The two sides fought back and forth between the trenches. Logically, Colonel Crestein should have been used to it, but this time, after standing at a high place and seeing the French army in the distance, he felt a little uneasy!

"It's really unscrupulous." After integrating information from all aspects, Crestin shook his head helplessly. The French almost unfolded their troops in front of the German-Turkish army. The front was the strength of at least three armored battalions, and behind them were a large number of cavalry and infantry. The two wings of the attack on the front were towing artillery troops. According to the news from aviation reconnaissance, the French attacking troops were equipped with a large number of 150mm-level cannons. This thing belongs to the ultra-long-range strike firepower that can almost channel Bursa on the front. In the dense armored units, some armored vehicles that have never been seen before appeared.

"The French seem to plan to use Turkey as their training ground. They have invested a lot of new things, giving people the feeling of killing chickens and using a slaughter." Colonel Crestein suppressed his uneasiness and wrote in a telegram to von Sanders. He seemed to have realized that he could not defend the entire line of defense. Before the French launched an attack, Colonel Crestein issued a key defense order to his German subordinates. That is, when necessary, the integrity of the front line can be abandoned to ensure the safety of the main strongholds, so as to delay the French attack!

"Hisser Commander, our troops have been launched and can launch an attack at any time." A French officer reported to Xia Feihui.

"Very good, tell our soldiers that at the end of this month, we will celebrate our victory in Constantinople. I will lead them to visit the Domahbachche Palace along the Bosprus Strait. We will drink happily next to the famous crystal stairs!" Xia Fei said excitedly. He had begun to imagine his victory and did not take the German-Turkish coalition in front of him at all.

After all, Xia Fei is a famous French general, and there is a reason why he is so confident! This time, the French can be said to have been fully prepared, with almost no flaws in terms of materials, military strength, and strategy and tactics. What about the enemy on the opposite side? If the German Western Front Corps were opposite, Xia Fei would take it seriously, but the opposite side was Turks who were several levels worse than the European army! Even the Russian army was inferior. In this case, Xia Fei thought there was nothing to worry about!

The first thing to start the battle is the 50 artillery companies concentrated in the front of the French, with a total of 240 various artillery pieces! Among them, the number of artillery pieces above 100mm is as high as more than 120! This firepower is not even as good as a local battlefield on the Western Front, but in Turkey, the frontal artillery group composed of more than 100 artillery pieces above medium caliber and a large number of 75mm artillery pieces can be described as invincible!

With the issuance of the firing order, the long-dormant French artillery began to suppress the German-Turkish defense line for 40 minutes! More than 200 artillery fired a roar. Every minute, more than 8 tons of artillery shells roared towards the enemy's defensive positions. The entire battlefield was trembling with the long roar of heavy artillery. The dust raised by the storm of the guns when the artillery was fired even covered the entire artillery position. From the air, the sky above the French artillery position was covered by thick dust. German reconnaissance planes could only see the orange-yellow flames occasionally exposed when the artillery was fired, but it was difficult to determine the position and scale of the French artillery.

Tons of rain of destruction poured on the battlefield. On the hasty-built position, the Turkish Legion never expected that it would encounter such fierce firepower. Many troops had collapsed before the shelling was over. The dense shells intertwined into barrage and rolled back and forth on the German-Turkish Legion's positions, shattering and firepower points that could be touched were broken. The entire line of soldiers turned into ashes in the sky under the violent shelling. When the French shelling ended, many places had been blown to white ground!

As the master of artillery use, the German artillery did not sit and wait for death. Not long after the French gun group was exposed, the 150mm and 105mm howitzers prepared by the Germans began to counter-suppress. Unfortunately, the gap in the scale and performance of the artillery between the two sides was too large. The Germans only concentrated about 24 artillery companies, and most of them were howitzers. Because the French obtained a large number of British naval guns, the number of medium-caliber cannons was very large. The latter stabilized the German artillery in terms of range. The artillery showdown between the two sides was decided 20 minutes after the start!

"Order all undestroyed artillery to be dispersed immediately to the main support points!" Looking at the series of destroyed artillery records sent by the front line, Colonel Von Crestin had no choice but to choose to break them into pieces.

When the French bombardment reached its climax, the troops on the ground also began to advance. The French attack routines were very close to their German counterparts. The ft10 and mk1 tanks with better armor protection were used as spearheads of the attack, forming the sharp corners of the wedge-shaped formation. On both sides were Renault-type tanks with poor defense but numerous numbers. Under the cover of the smoke screen, there seemed to be a larger chariot in the rear, with huge bodies and long cannons on the body looming.

The roar of artillery had just come to an end, and the roars of hundreds of engines came from afar like the roar of death. This was the first time that many Turkish troops saw the armored assault formation of European powers, which was not even the Russians had before! The remaining soldiers trembled and picked up the weapons in their hands. If there weren't an officer behind them, their first choice would be to escape.

However, even with the rebukes from officers and the threat of pistols, most of the Turkish troops were collapsed immediately when facing the attack of the French's most elite troops! The French opened fire at a distance of 1,500 meters, and dense shells and machine gun bullets formed fire nets to push the enemy in front of them to the ground. The French tank attack reached its peak when it approached 800 meters. The 75mm and 37mm artillery easily blew machine gun bunkers, bunkers or something into pieces.

In less than 2 hours, the French armored troops broke through more than 80% of the Turkish positions, and a total of about 23,000 Turkish soldiers were deployed on this line of defense. In less than a morning, 15,000 people were killed, injured or captured!

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