Once upon a time, when the Chinese Imperial Army defeated millions of American troops during the Battle of New York and the Battle of Washington, the Western Entente group scoffed at this, and they were unwilling to admit that the Chinese Empire was too strong, so they deliberately spread the American army too much. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Whether it was the French Emperor Napoleon IV, Tsar Nicholas II, or the British Prime Minister Ross, in order to appease the fighting determination of the Allied people, they all openly stated that the Allied army was invincible, and the tragedy of the American army would never happen on the European battlefield.

As a result, just when the Anglo-French forces thought that they were about to defeat Germany, the Germans suddenly counterattacked, broke through the defense line of the Mars River, and copied the back of the main force of the Anglo-French forces in Verdun.

The Anglo-French forces in Meizer and Mar, which urgently reinforced them, encountered the main German army on the way and were defeated by the German tank cluster and fighter group, and the news was transmitted back to the British and French army headquarters, which immediately caused a panic.

Chamberlain urgently made a suggestion to Ross, asking the British and French high command to immediately order the main forces of the British and French forces on the Verdun line to retreat immediately, and if it was too late, they would be surrounded by the Germans.

Ross trusted and admired Chamberlain as much as Wilhelm II reused Hitla.

So Ross immediately spoke on the phone to the French Emperor Napoleon IV, who was not a fool and understood that Verdun could not hold on, and if he could not quickly withdraw from the battlefield of Verdun, more than four million Anglo-French troops would be wiped out.

If it was a head-to-head battle, the four million Anglo-French troops were not afraid of the German army of less than 200 men at all, and the problem was that the Germans suddenly broke through the two flanks of the Verdun line and penetrated directly into the supply base of the Anglo-French forces behind Verdun, cutting off the logistical supply of the main force of the Anglo-French forces.

Assuming that there were only 400,000 Anglo-French troops on the battlefield of Verdun, with Verdun's food reserves, then they could hold out for a while and make counterattacks.

However, there were four million Anglo-French troops on the battlefield of Verdun, not to mention the supply of ammunition and weapons, the difference between four million and 400,000 was not an order of magnitude, and the food in Verdun was only enough for four million people in a day.

If they could not retreat quickly, then the four million Anglo-French troops would not have to wait for the Germans to attack, and in a few days, all four million Anglo-French troops would starve to death.

Of course, the British and French high command did not want to recapture the supply base, but unfortunately the Germans were even more ruthless, directly burning the food of the British and French forces and blowing up the weapons, ammunition and oil warehouses.

As a result, the main force of the four million Anglo-French troops could only withdraw to Paris.

However, Stephen and Hitler would not give the Anglo-French forces a chance to safely withdraw to Paris.

Along the way, the German fighter group frantically strafed all the units of the British and French forces, killing corpses like mountains and bleeding rivers.

After the break, the Anglo-French coalition army, in the face of the steel torrent of the German tank cluster, was directly crushed and formed into an annihilated regiment.

Faced with the new German tanks and fighters, the Anglo-French army fell into a panic, and the will to fight was constantly weakened, and the retreat soon turned into a rout.

The British and French troops fled to Paris in spite of each other, and the snail-like Mark tanks were the first to be abandoned, then the trucks ran out of gas, and the 128 mm and 152 mm heavy guns were abandoned, and then the soldiers were so hungry that they killed the pack horses and ate meat, and as a result, the light infantry guns, ammunition boxes, and other animals were not dragged by livestock, and they were abandoned together.

At first, there were four men who carried heavy machine guns to retreat, but as the German planes continued to dive and strafe, more and more British and French soldiers ran out of heavy machine gun bullets, so they abandoned them, and finally evolved into infantry carrying their own rifles, not daring to take the main road, and fled to Paris.

Seven days later, in Paris, less than 300,000 Anglo-French troops had fled, of whom more than a million had died on land, and the rest had basically become deserters and become missing.

As for how many were captured by the Germans, it was not clear to the British and French forces, and all of them were counted as missing persons.

In fact, the German army did not keep prisoners at all, because they had no time to capture prisoners, and those British and French soldiers who voluntarily surrendered were all slaughtered, and the corpses were too lazy to bury, so violent corpses in the wilderness, which made the French people panic all day long, and the French people who were about to be defeated in France quickly soared from 10% to 80% before.

For a time, the French were panicked, lost confidence in the government, and the whole country was filled with the shadow of defeat.

Napoleon IV had just prepared to move back to Paris, except for Versailles, he was not used to living anywhere else, but the butt was not yet hot, and the Anglo-French army at Verdun was defeated, and the main force of four million Anglo-French troops was crushed, and only less than 300,000 people fled back to Paris.

This blow instantly made Napoleon IV vomit three liters of blood, and Paris was in no danger at all, and only 300,000 frightened Anglo-French troops could not stop the army of two million German tigers and wolves.

As a last resort, Napoleon IV left Paris again and returned to the provisional capital of Bordeaux.

This time, Napoleon IV was even more decadent.

In the last German raid, the French army failed to complete the general mobilization of the war, and the scale of the force was inferior to the German army, so that in the early days of the war, the French army lost one battle after another, losing a large part of the northern territory, and even losing Paris. However, on the whole, the French army suffered no more than 780,000 casualties, and although they lost the battle, they did not lose their vitality.

However, this time, the four million Anglo-French troops were defeated, of which the French accounted for 3.3 million people, and the defeat of the Battle of Verdun almost wiped out the elite of the French army, which can be described as a great loss of vitality.

You must know that the French Empire today, with a total population of only 45 million, lost 3.3 million people at once, and almost all the young men in France died, how terrifying it is.

Of course, there are millions of French soldiers missing, and it is possible that they have survived by hiding in civilian homes and pretending to be ordinary people, but for the French Empire, their main army can be said to be dead.

So this time, after Napoleon IV left Paris, the whole person was decadent and full of pessimism about the future.

Paris is undefendable, and even Bordeaux is difficult to hold, after all, the main force of the French army has been defeated, and the other main force of the French army is in the south of France, which is being pinned down by the Italian army and cannot get out of reinforcements.

In this way, the French army in the direction of Bordeaux was less than 700,000 men, and most of them were improvised strong men, not even strong men, many of them were old men of fifty or sixty years old, and even strong women had to carry guns and be trained.

Of course, there are more than 10,000 British troops, and there are enough 35 divisions and regiments without visas, but there are 2 million German troops coming head-on, plus the German army has a huge tank cluster and fighter group, advanced equipment, and fierce firepower, the British and French forces have been defeated by the fighting spirit, and the troops, equipment, and will to fight are all up to standard, and they cannot stop the fierce offensive of the German army at all.

"Urgent reinforcements from Britain!"

This was the only order given by Napoleon IV, and there was nothing else to do.

When the news reached London, Ross and Chamberlain were also terrible.

The defeat at the Battle of Verdun completely collapsed the Western Front, and 300,000 British troops were basically killed, which made the British military very painful, after all, the British Empire's army was very weak, with a loss of 300,000, which was strategically equivalent to the loss of 3 million troops in France.

However, when the war was fought, the British Empire could not care about calculating how much it lost, and saving France was equivalent to saving the British Empire, so Russ immediately sent all the reserves of the British Empire to France.

This is a powerful reserve, as the elite force after the general mobilization of the British Empire for war, this hundred British troops are also the essence of all the British Empire. Because the population of the British Empire is not as large as that of France, only more than 30 million people, more than one million troops have been transferred before, and now it is enough to draw out one million people, which is already the limit of the limit, and even many factories in the British Empire have been forced to shut down, workers have been arrested, schools have been suspended, teachers have been arrested, rural farmland has been shut down, men have been arrested, and women have come to farm.

This is almost to quench the thirst, because the men are going to war, there is a shortage of labor, the industrial production capacity of the entire British Empire will be seriously affected, once the war cannot be ended in a short time, the British Empire will collapse economically, even if it is not defeated militarily, there will be no food, no steel, and it will eventually be defeated.

Therefore, Ross also knew very well that this would be the last battle, and if the two million German troops could not be defeated, then the British Empire would also be finished in half a year because of lack of food and steel.

A million British troops marched to Dunkirk, France, and the French army in the direction of Bordeaux also approached in the direction of Dunkirk, intending to gather the Anglo-French forces together, with a large number of people and a large strength.

At the same time, Britain and France also urgently appealed to the Tsarist Empire for help, demanding that the Tsarist Empire must attack the German Empire on the Eastern Front and force the German Empire to transfer troops from the Western Front to help the Eastern Front, so as to reduce the pressure on the British and French forces.

In normal times, Nicholas II decided to knock a bamboo pole hard, Britain and France were richer than Tsarist Russia, and had more oil and water, which just happened to subsidize the backward industry of Tsarist Russia.

But this time, Nicholas II did not take the opportunity to rip off the bamboo, and he was also afraid, because once Britain and France were defeated, the next goal of the German Empire would inevitably be to turn around and attack Tsarist Russia.

Therefore, Nicholas II decided to send troops on a large scale.

Although the Tsarist Empire was poor and industrially inferior to the British and French, it had a huge demographic advantage.

In 1896, the population of the Russian Empire was 127.2 million, four times that of Britain, three times that of France, and 2.8 times that of Germany.

The Tsarist Empire lacked everything, that is, there was no shortage of people.

On the Eastern Front, the equipment of the Tsarist Imperial Army was the worst, still using old-fashioned rifles and old-fashioned heavy machine guns, so far, there were no tanks, and as for the fighters, there were only a few hundred, which were aided by Britain and France.

This time, Tsar Nicholas II mobilized an army of five million in one breath and simultaneously launched a combat operation codenamed "Dongzheng Eternal" against Germany and Austria on the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

However, to the shame of the Tsarist military, at the critical moment, the weapons in the warehouse were not enough.

Originally, the Tsarist Empire had a reserve of 2 million rifles and 3,000 heavy machine guns, but unfortunately after two years of war, it was seriously damaged, not only did it run out of stocks, but it could not even produce it because of lack of money.

Of the five million army, only one and a half million people have weapons, two or three people with a rifle, and the bullets are not enough.

The British and French militaries were also angry and vomited blood, and scolded Tsarist Russia for being really poor.

But at this time, Britain and France did not sit idly by, but actively sent 1 million advanced rifles, 3,000 heavy machine guns, and 500 million rounds of ammunition to the Tsarist Empire.

The British Royal Navy went out to escort the supplies to St. Petersburg.

The news was soon learned by the General Staff Headquarters of the German Empire, and Wilhelm II immediately ordered the German Imperial High Seas Fleet to go out to intercept the supplies.

The war has reached this point, and everyone knows that victory or defeat is here.

So whether it is the Royal Navy of the British Empire or the High Seas Fleet of the German Empire, this time both sides are ready for Armageddon.

At the same time, the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, far away in the Pacific Ocean, was also ready to move.

Soon after, after careful study, the Military Department and the General Staff Headquarters submitted a report to Li Weiguo for approval, and decided to intervene in the European theater in spite of the opposition of Germany, Italy, Austria, and other countries.

From Li Weiguo's standpoint, this time it is about the outcome of the European war, as well as the political and military situation in Europe in the next two decades, he does not want the German Empire to win, but at present it seems that the possibility of the German Empire's victory is very high. Therefore, Li Weiguo decided to transfer the main force of the Pacific Fleet to Europe, whether Germany wins, or Britain and France survive, the Chinese Empire will intervene and get a piece of the pie.

"Your Majesty, the Pacific Fleet is heading to Europe, and a Suez Canal is blocking the way, and if you make a detour, it will take an extra month and a half."

Lin Jiyun, Minister of the Navy, told Li Weiguo that after the end of the Pacific War, the fleet would be handed over to Li Weijun's command, and Lin Jiyun would return to Wuhan, the Great Kyoto.

It was only at this time that Li Weiguo remembered that the Suez Canal had been strategically defended, mainly to block the Suez Canal, with the original intention of preventing the Royal Navy of the British Empire from entering the Pacific Ocean through the Suez Canal, but now the Chinese Imperial Navy was going to Europe, but the Suez Canal had become an obstacle.

"The Pacific Fleet will set off immediately, send an order to the Governor of Djibouti and the Governor of Cyprus, mobilize all the forces that can be used, and must take the Suez Canal within half a month!"

Hearing Li Weiguo's order, Zhang Xiaoliu said for the first time: "Your Majesty, half a month is too tight, there are 100,000 British troops stationed in the Suez Canal, there are strong fortifications, it is difficult to capture in half a month, please ask Your Majesty for a period of time!" ”

Li Weiguo waved his hand and said: "Whether you can defeat it or not, you army, navy and air force will figure out their own way, I only look at the result, not the process!" ”

Zhang Xiaoliu suddenly smiled bitterly and looked at Lin Jiyun and Zhuang Jiuxia next to him, the latter also had a bitter expression.

Although the time is tight and the task is difficult, it may not be impossible if the Chinese Empire's navy, land, and air force take joint action.

Therefore, after Zhang Xiaoliu, Lin Jiyun, and Zhuang Jiuxia retreated, they immediately returned to the General Staff Headquarters and worked out a detailed battle plan.

At the same time, Li Weijun had received the holy decree and led the main force of the Pacific Fleet to the Gulf of Aden. (To be continued.) )