It took only half an hour for the battle in the skies of Omenankul to cease, and the once-famous hunting brigade was wiped out, and none of them escaped.

The Red Baron was also shot down, but not on Bao De's water account, which made Bao Deshui very regretful.

The Foreign Legion's results are counted differently than the French army, and if it is a group attack, the results will only be counted on the last fighter to attack.

According to the French army's statistical method, the glory of shooting down the Red Baron also belongs to Baude Water.

Fortunately, this result was finally recorded on the head of Bao Deshui's wingman Dou Yongyi, which made Dou Yongyi ecstatic, and after this battle, Dou Yongyi will also become a "double trump card" for shooting down ten enemy planes, and the entire air combat regiment has added two more "ace pilots".

The shelling, which began at 3 a.m. and lasted for three hours, involved about 4,000 artillery pieces and 4,000 mortars, setting a new record in terms of scale.

When the shelling stopped, 14 divisions of German troops attacked simultaneously at Amifontein and Champagne Chalons.

Qin Zhiyuan's worries were confirmed, and the troops in these two places failed to hold their positions.

The first to collapse was Champagne Chalon.

In Champagne-Chalon, in addition to the two Senegalese divisions, there is now part of the Ninth Army under General Denis Duscheon.

Denis Duschenne, who had previously served as Foch's staff officer, was quickly promoted during the Great War, and when Qin Zhiyuan expressed his concern for Champagne to Foch, Foch sent part of Denis Duschein's army to help defend Champagne Chalons.

Dennis Duschein sent three British divisions, all three of which were now under-staffed, and they were supposed to stay in the rear to recuperate while gradually replenishing their forces, but the fierce fighting at the front did not give them much opportunity to recuperate.

Before the Germans attacked, Denis Duschyn would have had the opportunity to strengthen his defenses.

His troops captured two lost Germans, one officer and one soldier.

During the escort of the prisoners, the soldier spoke with the French soldier in charge of the escort, revealing that the Germans were about to attack.

Although this was severely reprimanded and flatly denied by the officers, it was immediately reported.

So the officers and soldiers were interrogated separately.

The soldiers gave more information, such as that they had received enough ammunition and grenades, which was an important signal that the Germans were about to attack. At the same time, however, the soldiers did not receive field rations, so it was impossible to determine the timing of the offensive.

During the interrogation of the officers, the officers spoke eloquently, claiming that the Germans did not have any plans to attack.

The British officer in charge of the interrogation did not go around the bush and told the Germans bluntly: if you lie, you will be treated as a spy.

The officers were frightened and finally confessed something more, including that the Germans would attack on the morning of the 10th.

The British commander, Hamilton Gordon, immediately reported the information to Dennis Dugcheon.

Denis Duscham disagreed, and replied arrogantly: there was no evidence that the Germans were about to attack.

After replying, Denis Dushin left Champagne Chalons for a tryst with his lover in Paris.

Then the Germans attacked in the early hours of the next day.

There was also a problem with the defensive position arranged by Denis Duschein, Qin Zhiyuan had placed two Senegalese divisions behind the Ypres Canal, including artillery positions, and the position was about five kilometers deep.

This was normal in terms of troops, but after Denis Duschein arrived in Champagne Chalon, the number of defensive forces increased to five divisions, and the depth of the position was still five kilometers, which was out of place.

As a result, the German artillery bombardment could easily cover all the front-line positions and the artillery positions in the rear, and the Germans were not stingy with shells at this time.

In the overwhelming shelling, two Senegalese divisions that had not been strictly managed collapsed first, then three British divisions with heavy casualties, and the German Seventh Army, which was responsible for the attack, easily crossed the Ypres Canal and advanced towards Champagne Chalons.

After Qin Zhiyuan got the news of the attack, he immediately dispatched Xiang Ankang Division and an Annan Division led by Hu Yangshu to reinforce it, and the location of the reinforcements was not the Ypres Canal or the Bissi River, but the Marne River behind Champagne Chalon.

Qin Zhiyuan was pessimistic about the combat effectiveness of the British division and the Senegalese division, and estimated that it would be necessary to withstand the German attack on the Marne.

Similar to what Qin Zhiyuan had planned, the Germans crossed the Ypres Canal at 10 a.m., the Bissi River at 3 p.m., and arrived at Champagne Chalons at 7 p.m.

On the first day alone, the Germans advanced 15 miles on a 20-mile-wide front, a brilliant victory, compared to what they had done against the Foreign Legion.

The Bavarian prince was still not satisfied with the current progress, and he asked his troops to continue the offensive, advance and advance.

But the Seventh Army was exhausted, they were unable to attack the positions of the Foreign Legion that were in high formation, and only launched a tentative attack, and the Germans no longer attacked rashly.

When night fell, the Marne line was in misery, the three British divisions were now less than one division combined, and the two Senegalese divisions were even more casualties.

Qin Zhiyuan and Dennis Duschein were speechless by the statistics, and nearly 70,000 men had lost 46,000 in one day, leaving only more than 20,000 frightened soldiers to cross the Marne.

Someone must be responsible, but not Alex Steele and Hamilton Gordon, who was killed in the battle and Hamilton who was mortally wounded and in a coma.

In Amifontein, the Germans also made progress.

MacArthur was so radical that he placed his troops in the front line and faced the shelling of the Germans.

In the process of German shelling, about 3,000 American soldiers were killed, the same number of American soldiers were wounded, and the 84th Brigade was basically disabled.

By the time the German ground forces began to attack, the American army's will to fight came into play, and the soldiers held up their rifles equipped with bayonets and fought with the Germans inch by inch.

Pershing made the same mistake as Foch at the beginning of the war, believing that the courage of the soldiers should be reflected in rifles and bayonets, and that machine guns should not be a key factor in determining the course of the war. Under the guidance of this ideology, the number of machine guns equipped in the US troops was very small, and the entire 84th Brigade had only six heavy machine guns, which was only the number of machine guns of half a battalion of Chinese troops.

Because of the lack of machine guns, the battle was extremely fierce, and the American troops suffered heavy casualties, but they swore not to retreat, and on many fronts, even if there were only three or five soldiers left, the soldiers would resist desperately. They relied on a rudimentary position, or the ruins of a house, or even a tree, and fought with the attacking Germans.

The battle lasted from morning to noon, and after Qin Zhiyuan ordered the 84th Brigade to retreat to Qin Haoge's defense line several times, the 84th Brigade was unable to withdraw from the battle because the troops on both sides were too tightly entangled.

At noon, Qin Zhiyuan ordered the tank troops deployed in Kolbeni to go to Amifontein to support, and after some hard fighting, the 84th Brigade finally withdrew from the battlefield, but at this time, there were only more than 2,000 of nearly 10,000 soldiers left, and there were a large number of wounded.

The Germans did not give up on annihilating this American unit, and they pursued it all the way to Kolbeni.

Qin Haoge had already established a strong defensive line in Kolbeni, which relied on forests and not too high mountains, and had a condescending advantage enough to hold back the German attack.

In April, when the American troops were on their way to the front in trucks, they sang in their carriages at the loudest voices, told slightly meaty jokes, and talked unbridled about the battle that was about to begin, as if they were saviors, who would save the British and French from the quagmire of war.

Reality dealt a heavy blow to the US military, and the US military was unable to turn the tide, and they were crushed in the first battle and suffered a heavy blow.

It was not meaningless, because of the fiasco of the 84th Brigade, the American army finally put away its arrogance, and Pershing also began to be pragmatic, not pinning his hopes on rifles and the courage of the soldiers, but turning his attention to new weapons such as tanks and machine guns.

MacArthur lost the first battle.

This was also the first battle in which the U.S. military participated, but because of the recklessness of the commander, it ended in the near annihilation of the entire army.

Pershing, who had learned from the pain, summed up his experience and demanded that the troops be equipped with more machine guns, and at the same time proposed to Foch that the American troops scattered to provide support in all directions should be concentrated and used.

Foch partially agreed to Pershing's request to allocate more machine guns to Pershing's troops, but said that the American troops who had already entered the position could not be withdrawn because Foch did not have more troops at his disposal to fill those holes.

If there are reinforcements, Foch will be the first to send to Qin Zhiyuan, although Qin Zhiyuan still has a complete Chinese army and the Annam army in his hands, but after all, they are facing 50 German infantry divisions, and there is also a certain number of K7Vs.

Crown Prince Wilhelm had already been captured by Qin Zhiyuan, and Germany could not withstand the blow of another prince being captured, so the proportion of tanks in the Bavarian prince's army was much larger than that of other troops.

At midnight, Qin Zhiyuan finally got the final battle report, in this day's battle, the Foreign Legion, plus the American and British troops, lost a total of nearly 60,000 people, and they consumed at least the same number of German troops.

Champagne Chalons suffered heavy casualties and did not have much to gain.

The Americans fought bravely at Amifontein, inflicting about twice as many German casualties as they were, but there are no exact statistics, and final figures will not be available until the end of the battle.

The biggest result came from the attacking tank units, who routed at least two German divisions, inflicting nearly 10,000 German casualties and capturing 5,000 German soldiers, the only bright spot in today's battle.

This night, Qin Zhiyuan stayed awake all night, and he finally felt anxious.

Excluding the two divisions sent to Yalang, as well as today's losses, Qin Zhiyuan still has almost complete Chinese troops and Annan troops in his hands.

At the same time, although the Bavarian prince opposite Qin Zhiyuan suffered a lot of losses, the troops available for mobilization in his hands did not decrease but increased.

Ludendorff replenished all nine divisions that had been prepared to attack Flanders to the Bavarian prince.

And Qin Zhiyuan has no reinforcements now.

(To be continued.) )