Chapter 42: The Birth of a Hero (I)
Night has fallen again, there are always many sunrises and sunsets in life, but today's sunset will be a very special day for both Li Qi and the rest of us.
"It has never been possible to determine whether the Entente side has discovered that we have been in telegraph contact with our side." Wa~er~ter. Modell frowned for a moment, as if thinking about something, and then said, "We have been intercepting and deciphering telegrams from the Entente side. ”
They were talking about the codebook they had obtained after the occupation of the station, and they had reported the captured telegraph code from the Entente side to the rear. Because it was already possible to crack the telegraph code on the side of the Entente, not only was the German army on the Somme side in an all-round advantage, but even Verdun and other battlefields were changing.
In fact, at this time, even if they failed to successfully bring back the captured generals, they should have been rewarded only because they captured the telegraph code books of the Entente powers!
Perhaps, the biggest gain of this operation is not actually how many generals have been captured, but that they have reached a codebook that does not seem to be of a low level?
However, what seems to be a good direction of development reveals an inevitable thing, and over time, it is very likely to have great self-inflicted consequences......
[If you get the codebook, you can intercept and decipher the telegrams of the Entente side, which should be used at critical moments, not to intercept a little bit and use it immediately, otherwise the Entente side will soon notice that the telegraph code has been deciphered. 】
What Richie didn't know was that the war had reached its current state, and the Allies had begun to find themselves in a situation where they were unable to turn the tide of the war every time, and they had to do their best to win as many victories as possible.
"Flares are fired every 10 minutes in the first half of the night, and gradually change to 15 minutes in the second half of the night...... "Ewald Flares." Feng. Kleist looked at his pocket watch, and the time was 19:45, about 8 hours before the arrival of the receiving troops. He looked at Li Qi, who was a little unfocused, and said: "Captain, in order to cooperate with our evacuation operation, the 2nd Army, the 1st Army, which re-entered the position, and the 18th Reserve Army, which will be supported later, will have a total of 27 divisions to launch a large-scale attack. ”
Litchie knew this, which was mentioned in a telegram from Crown Prince William. Not only the troops on the ground, but also Crown Prince William, Otto. Feng. Bello, Marx. Feng. Galwitz, and several other commanders, they also decided to use Litchie's suggestion to bomb the airfields of the Allied side with 160 aircraft of various types at once.
"We don't have a bomber in the real sense of the word......" Richie doesn't know how many times he repeats the above words. He was very interested in Ewald. Feng. "With 27 divisions, plus at least 160 aircraft, we've never been so important for a moment," Kleist said. ”
Ewald. Feng. A hint of embarrassment flashed across Kleist's face, and he thought that Litchie was taking the credit.
In fact, Li Qi has long been ignorant of this, in fact, he is also grateful for the addition of the Guards, just relying on their squad of fifty people is possible to capture the generals of the Entente, but after retreating to this field hospital, even if those captured soldiers are released, they will face the dilemma of insufficient troops, and with those elite Guards can they ensure that they will not be infiltrated to the greatest extent.
The hands of time were moving by the minute, the shelling in the direction of the main battlefield was intense, and frequent explosions could be heard in the distance. In the same way, the activities of the German air force tonight were as frequent as usual, they were initially dropping bombs at the Allied positions, waiting for the Allied air force to appear and starting the battle in the air, so from time to time you can see planes in the air burning like torches, like meteors dragging the flames, crossing the air and falling to the ground.
In fact, in the night sky, which was invisible to the field hospital, a group of about 100 planes was taking advantage of the cover of the clouds to pounce on the rear of the Allied powers, and the target they were about to attack was the enemy's field airfield.
The soldiers in the field hospital have been informed that tonight is the time for them to evacuate. To this end, they took advantage of the darkness of night to clear a clearing that could accommodate the landing of the airship. As for the personnel in the field hospital who belonged to the side of the Entente, they had long been concentrated in some relatively closed environment, and there was a good reason to move them, after all, this side had been shelled more than once.
"My heart is beating so fast!"
"Don't jump out of that 1,000 francs."
"Shhhh The captain is a good guy and can pretend that he doesn't know anything, but that doesn't mean we can be blatant. Furthermore...... I'm not alone! ”
Joseph. Dietrich had been groping for his chest, he had never been so rich for a moment, and he had not yet returned to plan for the windfall he had gotten.
Similar to Joseph. There were many soldiers in Dietrich, and the officers cared about a sense of honor, and that was because of the two-layer relationship between education and status, and there was nothing to be reserved between non-commissioned officers and soldiers. They were not wealthy people, and many of them joined the army not because they were inspired, but purely because they were forced, and the soldiers' salaries were not much, and it was not like an officer with an allowance, and no one could refuse to pay a windfall.
Marcus. Ergan was silent for a moment, then pouted and stood up, poked his head out of the trench and looked across the road, just in time to see the flash of a bomb landing, and then a large cloud of dirt lifted up by the energy of the shell's explosion.
"Don't look at it, only a fool will run out of cover during shelling." Joseph. Dietrich grinned and said, "Believe me, they hate and fear war more than we do." With the same meager salary, we still have the belief of serving the emperor, opening up living space for the nation and the country. They? The French are defending their territory, but the French ...... You know, they're good at romance; Briton? They were involved in a war that they didn't need to join, and it is believed that apart from the enthusiasm of their higher-ups, the rest of them simply did not want to give up their lives in a foreign land. ”
"It's not like you can think about it." Marcus. Ergen sat down again, smiled and asked, "Did the captain say that?" ”
Joseph. Dietrich did not deny it, nodding very directly. He was about to say something when a sergeant ran over quickly, causing him to keep his eyes on it......
There was not only one sergeant on the run, but many non-commissioned officers were on the move. Ergen and Joseph. Dietrich also knew what was going on.
It was the two captains who had given the order, and the airship that had taken them up had lifted off and would arrive here in an hour!