After a day in the car, Chentian felt that he was about to be turned apart.

Today, the headquarters of the 8th Army was temporarily located in a small French village, where the soldiers requisitioned most of the dwellings, and the villagers today had to spend the night in the church.

Seeing this scene, Chen Tian couldn't help but think of some scenes in the old movies, it seems that during the American Revolution, the British drove all the people in the American village into the church, and then locked the door and set a fire.

"The church won't catch fire at night!" Chen Tian turned his head and said to Hoffman on the side.

Hoffman looked confused, "Your Highness, why do you suddenly ask that?" ”

"Huh! Let the soldiers pay attention to safety at night and be careful of fire prevention or something. In case the church catches fire and those French hang up, we will be demons! If you don't go to hell, you will be scolded for going to hell! Chen Tian said half-jokingly.

"That's right...... The French civilians are still cooperative along the way, and we don't have to embarrass them! Hoffman seemed to be serious, and called an officer to tell him carefully.

Chen Tian moved his neck, arms, and legs as he walked over to the map that the staff officers had just laid out, and one of the staff officers was still making the latest markings.

"Major, how many kilometers have we advanced today?" Chen Tian felt that the armored car was already like this, and I was afraid that those tankers would be even worse, and they could see broken down tanks from time to time along the way, and the tankers were extremely depressed to repair on the side.

The staff officer straightened up as if reflexively and saluted, "Report to His Royal Highness, about 75 kilometers, this is already fast, we only advanced 60 kilometers yesterday." ”

"Oh, that's good! Major, don't be restrained, keep busy with you! Chen Tian silently calculated in his heart, when the French army retreated, almost all the bridges and most of the roads were destroyed, and now the vanguard is almost advancing while building bridges and paving roads, from Paris to the southernmost part of France is about 1,200 kilometers, if you must penetrate the whole of France, it will take more than half a month to walk. This is still not blocked by the other side, once the French army encounters, it is difficult to say how many kilometers a day can be advanced, but sweeping France does not necessarily have to see the Mediterranean coast to count, maybe in a few days the French government will decide to surrender, or a Vichy puppet regime or something.

At this time, Hoffman also walked to the side of the map after arranging the security guard task, "Your Royal Highness, now that our army's three routes have not encountered decent resistance from the French army, it seems that Xia Fei has decided to concentrate his forces to fight our army in the heart of France!" ”

"That's good, I'm still afraid that he will divide his troops and deal with our army! Is there anything new on the side of General Hindenburg and General Herringen? ”

"General Hindenburg's 5th Army is also going well, they are now on a par with us, and the two armies are separated by about 30 kilometers. General Heringen's 7th Army also followed behind our two armies as planned to support and protect the logistics and transport lines, and since they were also responsible for repairing the railway lines, the main force of the 7th Army was about 60 kilometers away from us, which is a day's journey! ”

"Hmmm! I don't think the French will be able to play any tricks as long as they continue to make steady progress like this. The Chief of the General Staff has no latest instructions! ”

"Not yet! The Chief of the General Staff is still firmly in Paris and in control! ”

"Good!" Chen Tian touched his stomach, it was almost time for dinner.

Outside the headquarters, the soldiers were still setting up guard posts and setting up telephone lines, and it was a busy scene. Above them, several large objects floated quietly, and some of the soldiers looked up and went back to their busy work.

Prince's 5th Army was originally a big airship company, and when the reconnaissance effect of aircraft was poor at night and there was a certain danger in taking off and landing, Hindenburg did not hesitate and stingy to send a large number of airships out to carry out air vigilance and reconnaissance tasks, and the three group armies in the middle were under the protection of these big guys.

On the airship, a young officer looked at the beautiful night scene outside the porthole with a mesmerized expression, the ground was dotted with fires and lights, and the bright moon in the sky almost obscured the light of the stars, and there were a few puffy clouds floating in the clear sky.

"Second Lieutenant Dirk, let's get a beef burger!" One of the crew members enthusiastically handed over the fragrant burger, and their airship was going to stay in the sky all night, so the airship had all the food, water, and even the toilet.

"Oh, Mr. Marcus, thank you so much!" The young lieutenant turned his head, and this elegant environment whetted his appetite. The medium-sized Zeppelin's pod could accommodate more than 20 people, and now there was only one transmitter and three heavy machine guns in addition to the six crew members and his trainee officer, so there was plenty of space on it, and the crew even put a cloth around the corner of the toilet, all of which meant a comfortable flight for Dirk.

"Second Lieutenant, you are too polite, you can call me Corporal Marcus in the future!" The crew member smiled and replied that the engine of the airship was far less loud than that of an airplane, so the people above could also talk more easily.

Dirk picked up the burger and took a bite, and it seemed that the chefs were very good at their work.

"And Corporal Marcus, have you been on the airship for a long time?"

"It's been 8 months!" Marcus said as he handed out food to the others, and motioned to Dirk for the kettle to be in a basket next to them.

"Is it safe to fly in an airship? I mean, it's all hydrogen in the airbags! Dirk cautiously asked the question he had been wanting to ask before he got on the airship.

"What's not safe about this!" Marcus took a big bite of his burger, chewed and swallowed it before he continued:

"This is war, and wherever you are, you can die at any time. It could be a bullet that kills you, or a piece of shrapnel, or an enemy bayonet or something, and it's useless to worry about when you're going to die. Our fate is destined to fight for this country, and to die for this country if necessary. It's no problem for this big guy to be drilled a few times, and once there is a big explosion, we won't have a painful feeling, and we will go to heaven all of a sudden, hehe! ”

Dirk thought for a moment and felt that what he said made sense, so he continued to attack the burger in his hand.

Both quickly wiped out their burgers, and after a few sips of water, they felt satisfied.

Marcus sat down next to the machine gun that belonged to him, "In addition to these three machine guns, the weapons of this airship have a few bombs hanging in the magazine at the bottom of the pod, but the probability of using bombs is much higher than that of machine guns, because machine guns are mainly used to deal with air targets, but the group of young men who flew the planes have already killed everything that can fly over France, so that we rarely even see birds now!" ”

There was laughter in the closed pod, and Dirk laughed along.

"Second Lieutenant, I heard that you studied at some military school in Berlin before?" Another crew member asked from afar.

"Yes, sir. I just graduated from the Higher Military Academy in Berlin, and I came to the front voluntarily! Dirk felt that it was a coincidence that he had boarded the airship, and not long ago he had just reported to the staff of a regiment of the 5th Army, and his superiors had let him take part in a night reconnaissance operation in order to better understand the situation.

"Oh, Berlin!" Several crew members said enviously, it seems that most of them are from some remote small towns.

"When the war is over, I will definitely invite everyone to Berlin for beer!"

"Oooh!" There was another cheer in the pod.

"We've been to the tavern in Paris, and now the ensign says he's inviting us to Berlin for a drink, so next, let's all go to London for a drink!" Marcus proposed, but was immediately refuted by the crew in front of him.

"Didn't we go to London for a drink?"

Marcus patted his head, "Oh, oh! I forgot! But we should also ask Second Lieutenant Dirk to go once! ”

"You've been to London?" Dirk was a little surprised.

"Yes! We went to bomb London once last month, and we brought wine with us, and then opened a bottle over London and drank it. Marcus replied triumphantly.

Looking at this group of simple people, Dirk felt that he liked the life of the army more and more, especially the life on the airship.

"Alright, everyone be quiet! We have flown over the area occupied by our troops, and now we are on the territory of the French! ”

There was not much noise coming from the front, but the whole pod was quiet all at once, and the only thing in people's ears was the muffled sound of the engine behind the pod.

Dirk found that apart from the improvised scope in the middle of the pod, the crew had to use the telescope to look underneath. The airship flew smoothly at an altitude of about 2 km, which not only avoided being hit by bullets fired by the French from the ground, but also guaranteed a certain viewing distance. He also took out his binoculars and looked at it for a while, but the ground was mostly dark, and few French villages were still lit up, and only the moon seemed to be the most beautiful.

Soon after, Dirk noticed several long strips floating by on the other side of the moon, and he hurriedly stabbed Marcus in the arm.

"There's an airship over there, I can't see the sign on it, could it be French?"

"I'll see!" Marcus took the binoculars and observed for a while, "From the appearance, it is our Zeppelin, from the course, they should have set off during the day and now returned, more importantly, the airship is no better than the plane or the ground troops, it is impossible for the French to hide such a big guy in a place where we can't see, during the day our airship and plane have done detailed reconnaissance of the area within a radius of 200 kilometers!" ”

"Oh......" Dirk relieved.

To the people on the ground, the figures of those behemoths stand out in the moonlight.

"It's time to give these arrogant Germans a little color!" Near a large flat meadow, two French officers talked in low voices. Behind them, a group of French soldiers was pushing several planes out of a makeshift hangar disguised as a granary. The planes, which were biplanes and single-engine, did not look much different from the French planes that had preceded them, and what gave the French officers confidence was the Shooting Synchroniser technology they had recently received from the British, a small technology that would largely close the gap between the French and German aircraft.

This device relies on the rotation of the propeller to control the machine-gun fire, and the bullet is fired when the muzzle is pointed at the blade gap, and the shot is stopped when the muzzle is aimed at the blade, allowing the aircraft to fire from the front. Prior to this, the French planes basically relied on the co-pilot to operate the machine gun at the rear of the plane to attack air targets, which made the air combat performance of the French aircraft far inferior to the German planes, which generally adopted the technology of shooting synchronization and coordination.

During the Battle of Paris and the Battle of the Seine, the French also obtained the actual version of this device from several crashed German planes, which also accelerated the progress of the French to install synchronization coordinators for their own aircraft, so that the first planes were just retrofitted, and the French officers could not wait to push them into battle.

Nevertheless, the French realized that their aircraft were far behind the German in terms of numbers and flight performance, so they did not want to engage the German air force head-on, but also hoped to achieve some victories to boost the morale of their troops, and those cigar-shaped German airships became their new targets.

When the French pilots boarded the plane, one of the French generals seemed more worried, in this moonlight situation, the plane take-off is not a problem, but when landing is more troublesome, first, the pilot is not easy to find the location of the airport, and second, when landing, the ground situation is not clear, so in this era, the plane is trying to avoid taking off and landing at night.

"Flares and flares are ready! Also, when will our newly developed anti-aircraft artillery arrive? ”

"General, everything is ready, and there will be no problems when the plane lands. It is said that there are still some technical problems with the new anti-aircraft artillery, and the test firing carried out in the south does not seem to be very good! The officer on the side replied.

"May God bless the brave French army!" The general prayed silently, but it seems that after the Napoleonic era, God rarely favored the French army, especially the French army, and it was even more dishonorable in the Franco-Prussian War.

After the engines were activated, the French soldiers, each armed with a lit signal baton, formed two straight lines in the open space in front of them, indicating the runway for the pilots to take off, and the same method was used when the plane landed.

In a short time, four French "Intra" fighters rose into the air one after another, and the giant German airships were now completely unaware of the danger that was approaching them.