Siege warfare has been a difficult technical task since ancient times. Although mankind has entered the * era and the emergence of artillery has reduced the defensive power of city walls a lot, city building techniques have also progressed little by little with technology.
In the face of the development of artillery, the unique defense method of bastion appeared at the end of the Middle Ages. In the future world, with the maturity of reinforced concrete technology, human fortresses will gradually become stronger.
At the end of World War II, the air defense fortress built in Berlin, Germany, to prevent Allied air attacks could be said to be a typical exception. Until the end of World War II, no Allied army or air force weapons could destroy such a fortress.
After Germany surrendered, the Allied forces prepared to destroy these Nazi fortresses. As a result, engineers calculated that the gun required for blasting alone would require dozens of tons.
The British did not believe in evil, so they directly asked engineers to drill holes in the fortress and installed 25 tons of guns. After a loud noise, the fortress was safe and sound. All the Germans who were watching at that time cheered like crazy.
"This is German technology, this is Germany's fortress, long live!"
"Made in Germany! Can't be blown down!"
The British's face was beaten until it was swollen into a pig's head. In the end, the British, out of shame, mobilized 35 tons of gunpowder to blow up the fortress!
But after this lesson, the Allies were no longer interested in the last remaining air defense fortresses in urban Berlin, and no one pretended to ignore their existence.
These fortresses have been preserved into the 21st century and have now become a featured tourist attraction in Berlin!
fortress! It is always a nightmare for the attacking side, and in today's battle of Sedan, the French bastions became massacre points one by one, with countless Prussian corpses lying under the bastions.
Only now did people realize the power of Sedan Fortress. It turned out that the outermost wall was just an appetizer. McMahon's real line of defense relied on street fighting based on these bastions and surrounding buildings.
It has to be said that McMahon was very smart. He had a very thorough study of European military technology at the time. He knew very well that with the limited means of siege, there was nothing he could do to deal with such complex street fighting and bastion tactics.
"How do the Prussians want to attack our castle? Apart from a large number of mortar attacks, only engineers are left to break through. Are they going to have soldiers from the middle world attack the city again?"
"Use a ladder or rush a car? Warriors, as long as the bastion is there, we can greatly injure the Prussian army until they feel distressed and until they have nothing to say to us!"
McMahon has already been to the front line in person. He took his staff team deep into the bastion and impassioned to boost the morale of the soldiers.
Sure enough, when McMahon appeared, the French army would always roar with a roar of long live, and the intensity of the counterattack immediately doubled!
There are many generals like Frossard in the 100,000-strong army. They organize mobile units to counterattack in different areas. They always launch counterattacks when the Prussian offensive is frustrated.
The war has turned into a cruel tug-of-war. Every charge and counter-charge can tear off countless flesh and blood. How many young lives have been wasted in this cruel war.
"Bastion! Bastion...is there really nothing we can do against you? Damn it..." The Chinese officers and soldiers in the bloody battle let out countless angry roars.
Just when the battlefield was reaching a stalemate, when Frossard was reorganizing his new force and preparing for a second assault, a huge dark cloud slowly came up from the north of the battlefield.
The soldiers on the bastion looked at the behemoth in the sky with their mouths open, and they all forgot to fight. The huge 303-meter-long airship in the sky pressed over them like a mountain.
Huge propellers rotated in the air, three oil-fired boilers provided buoyancy to the balloon, and the airship's pod was filled with assault special forces members.
Xiao Letian looked at the battlefield in front of him with a sneer, "The trapped beast is still fighting! But it's a pity that you are two-dimensional, I am three-dimensional!"
"Special Forces... get ready for the assault... I want this bastion!"
"Yes! Head of state!" The three hundred elites behind Xiao Letian responded with murderous intent.
Xiao Letian still participated in the war. William I prepared more than a thousand guardsmen and looked at him without noticing. No one expected that Xiao Letian would go crazy and board the airship on the watchtower. Qi Bolin actually obeyed Xiao Letian. Lotte's direct command.
Just now, when the Zeppelin airship approached the observation tower, the guards under the tower climbed up like crazy. As a result, a group of dragon guards destroyed all the ladders in advance.
All the guards looked at the head of state who climbed the rope ladder and beat their chests one by one. When the airship approached Sedan, these guards also took the risk. They formed a commando formation and ran wildly on the battlefield, following the airship. The course is straight ahead.
The entire Sedan battlefield is in full view, and the front lines of fighting between the French and Prussian troops are completely visible. The two sides are fighting each other inch by inch. The French bastions have become mountains that are difficult to chew.
"At the critical moment, we still have to rely on black technology! The mortars are not prepared, and the engineering casualties are too high. If there had been a group of airship troops, why would they not be able to knock down these bunkers!"
"Speed up! Press on!"
The speed of the huge airship was too slow, but it was this slowness that caused great psychological pressure on people. The French soldiers subconsciously raised their guns and shot into the sky.
At this time, the airship was a total of fifteen meters above the ground, and the kinetic energy of the bullet was severely attenuated when it was shot upward for fifteen meters.
The airship's airbag is made of composite materials. Several layers of asphalt and rubber coatings are as strong as bulletproof vests. A limited number of bullets cannot penetrate the airbag at all.
With the appearance of the airship, the morale of the Chinese soldiers fighting on the ground was suddenly boosted. "Long live! Long live the Führer!"
"Gap, blow up these French guys!"
Artillery shells modified with trigger fuses were thrown from the pod of the Zeppelin airship. The charging French army was knocked upside down by the bombs. Now the Belgian army, which was good at fighting with favorable winds, also regained its breath. Everyone was excited. Yelling.
Frossard was completely dumbfounded. He was helpless in the face of the Chinese's new weapons. He didn't know what to do at all!
"Oh God! Is Xiao Letian the curse of our France? Is he the whip of God?"
The airship bombarded and rushed all the way, and the shadow finally pressed on the top of the bastion. Several bombs were thrown down. There were explosions everywhere on the top of the bastion. The French defenders were scattered all over the place.
Immediately afterwards, more than ten ropes hung down from the pod, and the soldiers descending at high speed fell from the sky like flying men. They drew their pistols in mid-air.
Bang bang bang... gunshots rang out. There was no one alive on the platform of the bastion. The rappelling special forces team quickly opened the cover and dropped a few bullets and pepper down the stairs.
"Quick, quick, quick... assault in... occupy the bastion... provide fire support to our brothers!"
"Quickly... rappel a Gatling, the ammunition needs three bases!"
