Chapter 31: The Battle of the Somme (2)
On 3 September, General Michelet's 10th Army of France and General Gaff's 5th Army of Great Britain were engaged in battle, and the frontal area of the battlefield was expanded to a front 50 kilometers wide.
The Germans were reinforced to 40 divisions and constantly strengthened the fortifications of the positions. Therefore, the advance speed of the British and French armies was only 150~200 meters per day and night on average.
For the first time, the British army used a new weapon, tanks (a total of 49 tanks, only 18 actually participated in the battle), cooperated with the infantry attack, and advanced 4~5 kilometers.
This was the first time in the history of warfare that tanks were used, and it had a psychological shock to the German infantry on the defending side, causing them to abandon their positions and retreat without a fight.
However, due to the fact that the technology and equipment of the tank have not yet been perfected, and the battle front is wide (18 tanks in 10 km), the combat goal of opening a breakthrough has still not been achieved.
The success of the tactical hierarchy did not lead to victory. Although the British army later used tanks twice, it was also not very effective, but the Germans began to learn how to deal with the enemy behemoth.
In September, the Chinese side declared war like Britain and France to join the German camp, the 18th New Army Wehrmacht attacked the French position in Vietnam with the cooperation of tanks and armored vehicles and bombers, and the other South China Sea Navy landed on Ryukyu Island, the special forces of the fifth helicopter brigade carried out a decapitation operation on the French infantry division under the leadership of Li San, and a special operations battalion attacked all the posts outside the French headquarters on the Somme overnight, all of which were killed with a knife, and the German army knew that the reinforcements arrived Kaiser Wilhelm II was also very happy when they saw the appearance of the Eastern soldiers. The battle continued, the German army began to attack with the support of special forces, the Wehrmacht No. 19 quickly defeated the French troops with the cooperation of tanks and bombers, after so many years of development, the weapons of the new army have long caught up with European imperialism, the new army was stationed in Southeast Asia, and Southeast Asia on the 25th was swept by the new army, the Pacific Fleet started in the South China Sea through Ryukyu Island, landed on Saipan Island to fight, the Fuzhou Navy also launched an attack on the Japanese army in Taiwan, and the north due to the weak garrison of the new army, Cullen, The Mongolian prince began to promote independence at the instigation of Tsarist Russia, and then Nicholas II sent troops to Kulen to fight fiercely with the new army, and on the 27th, the head of the Chinese ** new army signed an order to suspend all trade between the declared warring states, stop the arms trade, and the construction of railways and highways was also stopped, only the embassies of various countries were retained, and Li Ming sent three bomber groups to bomb the Russian army, Mongolian cavalry, and rebels in Moscow, Siberia, Black Blind Island, Ussuri River, Kulen, and other places for three months. These areas were destroyed under the bombing of bombers, factories, large areas, Tsarist Emperor Nicholas II asked the United States, Britain and France for support, Li Ming knew that in history, these rebels in the Mobei, Western Regions, and Southern Tibet regions were planning to become independent every year under the planning of the special agents of the great powers, and they must be beaten and beaten hard, the Fushun New Army and the Korean New Army began a large-scale bombardment of the Japanese island with the cooperation of the Air Force, and the German 20 mobile divisions took the Somme River position with the cooperation of the special forces of the New Army, and the British and French forces lost their supplies and began to retreat, The U.S. military sent troops to fight fiercely with the new army, the United States and Japan began to increase troops in the Pacific, on October 1, the German army occupied Paris, under the attack of bombers, the British and French forces retreated to the English Channel to cross the river, the battle was originally ended in November 1918, the battle ended in November 1918, the battle continued due to the addition of Li Ming's new army, in December, Emperor Wilhelm recruited a large number of troops to develop 50 divisions of the SS, and Li Ming also formed 50 new defense divisions to continue to expand the battle.