Germanic Empire: please call me William III

“Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The cannons began to roar, and the shells fell like raindrops on the defenses of the Gauls and the sun.
This time, the Germanic Army mobilized a total of eight army groups and eighty infantry divisions. Plus eight heavy artillery brigades, eight cavalry brigades, and 3 armored divisions. The total strength of the army has reached 1.6 million people.
The number of guns with a caliber of more than 75 mm used alone is very large. Among them, the 150 mm heavy howitzer reached more than three thousand. In addition, there are more than 3,800 105 mm light howitzers, and more than 1,400 75 mm field guns.
All the artillery pieces added up to more than 8,000 pieces. Moreover, the proportion of heavy artillery is very large.
The entire northern front of Gaul is actually just over two hundred kilometers.
On average, the Germanic Army put in more than forty artillery pieces per kilometer of the front.
This density is already very frightening.
You know, the Germanic Army didn’t include mortars yet. Especially the 120 mm heavy mortar, the power is also quite good.
Even if it doesn’t appear in fire preparation. However, when the infantry attacks, these heavy mortars will also be fully fired to provide fire support for the attacking infantry.
Although the Gallic Army and the Imperial Expeditionary Force of the Everlasting Sun also gathered a number of troops in the north of the Gaul State, the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Armies of the Gaul Army, together with the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Armies of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, reached 11 armies, with more than 2.2 million people.
Faced with eight armies put in by the Germanic Army, one hundred and sixty thousand men. The Gauls and the Sun Never Set undoubtedly had a great advantage in troop strength.
However, in terms of artillery fire, they are at a disadvantage.
In the GaulIsh Army, the 75 mm field gun was the main force, and other calibers such as the 105 mm light howitzer and the 155 mm heavy howitzer were less equipped. The Imperial Expeditionary Force was also dominated by 76.2 mm field guns, with 114 mm light howitzers and 152 mm heavy howitzers less equipped.
Coupled with the artillery equipment of both sides, the Gallic Army and the Imperial Expeditionary Force were inferior to the Germanic Imperial Army.
So that although the Gauls and the Sun never set were superior in terms of troop strength, the two sides were half a pound and eight two in terms of artillery. Moreover, in the comparison of heavy artillery of more than one hundred millimeters, the Germanic Imperial Army had an absolute advantage.
This led to the start of the shelling of the Germanic Imperial Army, although the Gallic Army and the Sunless Imperial Army also launched a fierce shelling. However, in the artillery battle, they were suppressed by death and were completely at a disadvantage.
Fortunately, in the past month or so, both the Gaul and the Sun never set have anticipated that the Germanic Imperial Army will certainly launch a large-scale offensive. So they mobilized a large number of civilians and built a series of strong fortifications in the north of Gaul.
Trenches up to two meters deep, pulled up with barbed wire. Machine gun fire points were reinforced. Together with mines, bunkers, and communication trenches, they formed a solid defensive line.
The advent of automatic weapons gave the defending side a great advantage in battle by relying on strong fortifications and permanent fire points.
If the attacking side wants to break through the enemy’s position, it must pay a very heavy price.
This is also the reason why in another time and space war, both sides have paid extremely heavy losses.
In this time and space, after the outbreak of war, the Germanic Imperial Army easily broke through the Pylitric defenses with strong firepower and the strong surprise ability of the armored troops, so that the Gauls and the sun that reinforced the Kingdom of Pylis also paid a heavy price.
After the battle, the Sun and the Gauls also learned their lessons and changed their tactics.
Trench warfare, hence, came into being.
In addition to infantry trenches, the Gauls and Suns never set even dug anti-tank trenches to intercept the armored forces of the Germanic Empire.
The tanks and armored vehicles that the Germanic Empire put into the battle had a strong breakthrough ability, which left a deep impression on the Sun and the Gauls.
The Empire of the Rising Sun and the Gaul Empire also carried out research on tanks and armored vehicles.
However, it is unlikely that the troops will be equipped in a moment and a half.
As for anti-tank weapons, they were developed. Dedicated large-caliber anti-tank rifles, as well as anti-tank guns modified from two-pounder guns or three-pounder guns that never set on the sun, and so on.
These anti-tank weapons, combined with anti-tank trenches, as well as explosive packs and cluster grenades, made the Gauls and Sunfall men less able to fight back when facing the armored forces of the Germanic Empire.
“Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
More than eight thousand guns of the Germanic Army opened fire violently, as if the shells were completely out of money.
In the battle plan drawn up by the Germanic General Staff, before the infantry attacked, the artillery would prepare for fire for three days, firing more than two million shells, and using shells to plough the positions of the Gauls and the sunless people several times, destroying their fortifications as much as possible and reducing the casualties of the troops during the attack.
The Gallic Army and the Imperial Expeditionary Force were not to be outdone. Even if their artillery fire was much weaker than that of the Germanic Imperial Army. However, their artillery was also bravely firing.
This is the collision between powerful industrial nations.
Powerful industrial manufacturing capabilities, able to create an extremely large number of weapons and ammunition, used on the battlefield. It was a feeling of a world falling apart.
The great wars in Europe have always been like this.
Powerful industrial countries simply don’t take ammunition seriously. Because of their strong industry and convenient transportation support, their logistics supply is often very smooth.
This allowed the artillery on both sides to show their great strength on the battlefield.
The title of artillery, the god of war, is even more vividly expressed in such a big war.
Of course, it was better than the artillery.
The infantry is much more demanding.
In the face of heavy enemy shelling, infantry can only shrink into the artillery hole, or simply lie on the bottom of the trench, praying that the enemy shelling will end soon, praying that the enemy shells will not fall on their heads.
In such a magnificent battle, the lives of ordinary soldiers seem too small.