Xia Fei's face was distorted as he grabbed the report in front of him, angry, shocked, and painful, and his complicated expression was mixed on Xia Fei's face, and Colonel Languemezon, the chief of the operations department who sent this report, did not dare to look directly at the face of the commander-in-chief.

However, to the surprise of Languemerson, the commander-in-chief did not react excessively. Xia Fei suppressed the emotions in his heart and said in a deep voice: "We have paid a heavy price for our contempt for technology. ”

Langermesson understood what the commander-in-chief was talking about, and the power of the plane, this "toy" that Principal Foch disdained, was terrifying.

More than 200 vehicles, more than 300 artillery pieces, 30,000 tons of ammunition, and more than 100,000 tons of various materials were destroyed, more than 7,000 people died, and nearly 30,000 people were injured. The Germans, with a few hundred aircraft, with one attack, inflicted such great losses on tens of kilometers behind the battle line!

Langermesson could not have a real sense of what hell was going on in Baledik by this time, nor did he know that not many of the nearly 30,000 wounded would survive, but he was still deeply terrified by the air power in the hands of the Germans.

Xia Fei felt a little powerless, the course of the war did not develop as he expected, and before the 17th plan was launched, the Germans had already attacked, and only 2 army groups disrupted all their previous plans. Despite having the advantage of forces, the team made no progress, losing troops in both directions.

The technical superiority of the Germans was frightening, and the leadership in the use of new technologies was even more desperate, and the anti-aircraft guns that had been hoped to de-escalate the situation did not help, and the Germans had clearly developed a well-developed system of air power and had an effective response to ground air defense. Even if the gap in technology can be caught up, the gap in application cannot be smoothed out in a short period of time.

However, Xia Fei's frustration lasted only a moment, and the French commander-in-chief, who was a little sluggish but mentally tough, immediately regained his ability to think: "The reason for such heavy losses is that we are completely unprepared and unprepared in the face of a massive German air attack. Slack in the rear of the battle line. Resulting in a lack of effective organization. In a short period of time we were technically unable to effectively counter the German air raids, but we were able to reduce our losses. We need effective early warning mechanisms, evacuation mechanisms, concealment mechanisms, and defense mechanisms. Gathering together like this, not being able to evacuate, dodge, and resist the bombardment of the Germans in time can no longer be repeated! ”

"Early warning can be set up to set up forward anti-aircraft observation posts, but visual vigilance alone is still limited, and we need the technology to detect German aircraft at a greater distance. Barracks, storage yards, distribution centers and other important locations, no matter where they are. Concealment and camouflage were necessary, and the Germans had repeatedly conducted reconnaissance over the city of Baledik before this attack, but had not aroused vigilance. The garrisons of the troops should be dispersed, and cities and barracks should have scattered and strong fortifications, and in the event of an attack, special personnel should be used to evacuate and guide personnel to take refuge in the fortifications. Langeresson suggested.

"Your worries are also my worries, if the Germans can attack Baledik, they can attack other cities, if they attack Paris......" Xia Fei was a little unexpected.

"This is likely to hit the morale of our population. Influencing the government's war policy. Langermesson was also shocked when he heard Xia Fei's words.

"Therefore, the development of the city's response to the air raid needs to be carried out immediately, and the civilian casualties caused by the air raid on Baledik must be minimized as much as possible!" Xia Fei guessed correctly, the German emperor did want to attack Paris, but the purpose was not quite what he thought.

The will of the people in war is wonderful and inscrutable. At this time, both psychological warfare and public opinion warfare were still in the embryonic stage of theory, and no one had carefully and scientifically studied and analyzed public opinion in war.

In both World War I and World War II, the attempt to destroy a nation's will to resist by attacking cities and injuring civilians ended in failure. Historically, Germany's air raids on Britain in World War I and World War II not only did not destroy the British people's will to resist, but made the people in the rear realize that they had to work harder. Only by providing more weapons, ammunition, and supplies to the front line can the war be won. to avoid the pain of being attacked.

In order to enhance the feelings of the people at home who share the same hatred for the enemy, Churchill even brazenly called two German planes that deviated to the skies over London as German air raids on London, and under the pretext of retaliation, took the initiative to launch a large-scale bombing of Berlin, forcing Hitler to break his order to prohibit the air force from attacking London, and Churchill finally swept away the capitulationist tendency in Britain. After the bombing of the capital, not a single British person opposed the continued resistance.

The reverse was also true, after the British carried out strategic bombing of Germany in an attempt to destroy the Germans' will to resist, Germany's domestic military production capacity increased instead of decreasing, until the Americans began to carry out focused bombing of German industrial production facilities. The situation has changed.

The bombing of cities by Britain and Germany did not have any effect on hastening the end of the war, except for turning human civilization into rubble and leaving corpses all over the ground.

But this is exactly what Jochen wants to see, if the bombing of Paris can arouse the determination of France to continue to attack and completely destroy Germany, an "evil empire", then the short front on the German-French border will become a wound for Germany to bleed the French!

And if the French try to retaliate with air strikes, then Germany, which has the advantage in technology, will not let France take much advantage, and even if the French succeed in air raids on German cities once or twice, then these attacks will become a pretext for the German government, which controls public opinion, to stir up the nerves of the whole of Germany and mobilize all the forces of the entire empire to push the French into the abyss.

Xiafei's attempt to block the news of the air raid on Baledik was undoubtedly a failure, because if this incident could not be transformed into hatred of the French people for Germany, then after a period of fermentation and circulation, it would eventually turn sour, and thus become an excuse for the French people to attack the incompetence of the army.

But now, not a single Frenchman realizes this.

It is difficult for his side to make progress now, and Xia Fei can only hope that there will be a change from the outside to turn the situation around: "What about the Russians? No news yet? ”

"There's no news yet." Langermeison shook his head: "The news that our envoy in St. Petersburg delivered before said that the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Grand Duke Nikolai, told him that the Russian army had not yet completed its mobilization, but Grand Duke Nikolai also said that even if the mobilization was not completed, he would launch an attack on Germany as soon as possible to relieve our pressure. ”

"Didn't the Russians say they could mobilize and launch an offensive in two weeks? But there has been no movement yet, and we must continue to urge them to act as soon as possible! Xia Fei was a little anxious.

"However, there is something strange about the movements of the Germans, so far there are only two armies in direct contact with us, and the ...... we originally expected"

Before he could say anything, Langeresson was interrupted by Xia Fei's voice: "As long as the Russians attack, the Germans must fight on two fronts, and we need the Russians to attack now." “

Of course, Xia Fei had already seen the strange situation on the Western Front, and the Germans did move quickly, but after they were caught off guard at the beginning, they did not continue to invest their troops, in order to expand the results of the battle and continue to go deeper, but formed a confrontation with the French army. This was completely inconsistent with the expected all-out attack by the Germans.

There were not many troops on the Western Front, so it was very likely that the Germans would concentrate their forces on the Eastern Front, but there was no news of an attack by the Germans on the Eastern Front, which made Xia Fei instinctively feel that something was wrong. But none of this matters now, according to the Russians, they can mobilize more than 5 million troops at most, so whether the Germans have plans to live or not, it will not make much sense to be crushed by such forces.

At most, it is just to make the Russians suffer more losses, and at this time, the losses of the Russians are not in Xia Fei's consideration at all, allies or something, aren't they just sold? Therefore, Xia Fei was not ready to warn the Russians, but to exaggerate the pressure on his side and urge the Russians to act as soon as possible.

"Yes, Your Excellency." Langermetson nodded: "We will continue to urge the Russian side to act as soon as possible." But the British side ......"

"Don't mention the damn Brits! They had promised that if we were attacked, they would send at least 10 divisions of the expeditionary force into battle! But by now they did not even have the courage to declare war on the Germans! "The mention of the British Yake Xia Fei is full of anger, and even the Germans who have caused huge losses to their own side are not as ugly as those damned Brits.

Not to mention the fact that the expeditionary force promised by Britain and France when they concluded the defensive alliance was nowhere to be found, and the British government is still arguing in the House of Representatives over whether to declare war on Germany or not, and the mighty Royal Navy has no effect at all except to create some troubles for the Germans on the Northern Sea Route.

The French government has constantly demanded that Britain fulfill its alliance obligations, and the British government has also shirked it for various reasons, and those damned British guys just feel that the Germans can't threaten them now, so they wish that France and the Germans would fight to the death, and they will be good fishermen! Instead of counting on the British, you should count on the Russians!

Suddenly, there was a sharp knock on the door.

"Come in!" Xia Fei's brows furrowed, could it be some bad news? I've heard enough bad news for so many days.

The young staff officer who hurriedly walked in saluted Xia Fei with excitement on his face, and then handed over the telegram with both hands: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, the Russians have attacked!" ”

This news made Xia Feiluo stand up, and he didn't even reach out to take the report: "Great! (To be continued.) )