Chapter 233 Launched in advance

The plane circled and circled over the woods, and seemed to have discovered something. Bob's adjutant was not at ease, and came in again to report: "Sir, the Chinese's plane has been going around in circles, is it to drive it away?" ”

Bob looked solemn and didn't raise his head: "What about our plane?" ”

The adjutant said, "I see, sir. ”

In fact, the pilot did not find anything, he was waiting for the German plane. The pilot's name is Muen, an American expatriate. My parents bought piglets and went to San Francisco, and after a railroad was built, they saved a life and opened a restaurant in Chinatown. It is difficult for Chinese people who have not been in the United States to understand the situation of Chinese people in the United States. Especially after the introduction of the Chinese Exclusion Act, the situation of Chinese people in the United States is extremely difficult. Even in such an environment, the Chinese are tenaciously persevering and spreading their branches.

The anti-Chinese incident that occurred in Surabaya Port, and the subsequent events and trends, made overseas Chinese feel the warmth from the motherland. Mu En also remembered the name Fang Jianxiong, so when he saw that the newspaper was Fang Dashuai who wanted to recruit pilots, he took the initiative to sign up. In fact, at that time, he didn't know how to fly an airplane. In order to register for the name, I went to rent a plane and practiced trembling for a few days.

Mu Eun's luck was good, although the craftsmanship was very trendy, the plane did not fall. Mu En participated in the Battle of Qingdao, but unfortunately he did not achieve anything. It's all fate, who let the owl that he chose to drive in the first place, he already knew to fly a bomber.

After another circle, still not waiting for the German plane, just as they were about to shake their wings and get out, three black dots appeared in the sky. Mu En's eyes were very good, and he saw it at once, and suddenly the adrenal gland secretion accelerated.

The Germans were mobilized and assembled with great care to protect secrecy. However, with a large-scale build-up of troops, it is difficult to conceal the opponent. This time, the Germans did not intend to brutalize the strategic intentions of the opponent, but wanted to hide the tactics. So this cluster of tanks cannot be detected. There have been three German planes taking off from a nearby airfield, which shows the importance of Cheng dù.

Mu En pushed the lever and quickly greeted it, without the slightest intention of running away. Seeing that the distance was getting closer, it suddenly pulled up. Looking at it from the bottom, it is easy to make a judgment, one to three, the completely inferior Chinese plane is going to run. The German pilots also judged it this way, since they wanted to run, then chase. At least get out of this area.

The three planes accelerated in pursuit, but soon found that they could not catch up, because the altitude could not keep up at all. Just when the German plane was about to give up, Muen at a high place had already completed the movement behind the enemy plane, and it was this opportunity to push the lever hard and dive!

The swooping plane makes a ghostly scream. Sharp and palpitating. The three German planes had already realized that something was wrong, and it was too late to turn around at this time, the other plane's performance was too powerful. Tata Tower, the latest installation of the Lewis machine gun shoots tongues of fire.

"Let me go down!" Mu En's hands were shaking with excitement with a hideous face. It's so fucking cool. An enemy plane turned into a ball of fire in front of him, and the Thunder Dragon, which reached a speed, instantly overtook the other two enemy planes, pulled up with the momentum, and then used the speed to fly behind the enemy. Repeat the trick from the previous time.

It was an air battle that stunned the Germans and cheered the French. One-on-three. The result was three to zero. When the last German plane was hit and black smoke came out, Mu En waved his fist excitedly, and then spun around again as if demonstrating over the German position, and then walked away. The German position and the French position were not too far apart, no more than two thousand meters, and the French soldiers on the position could see clearly, and some soldiers jumped out of the trenches happily and cheered excitedly.

The Germans, having suffered losses, certainly could not make the French too happy, and in less than a minute mortar shells came. How dare you jump like this, where do you think this is? Not to be outdone, the French army quickly returned fire with artillery fire, and after a wonderful air battle, the German and French armies engaged in another artillery battle.

The artillery battle unexpectedly became more and more intense, at first it was only some small-caliber artillery, and later the German heavy artillery joined, and the French heavy artillery also opened fire one after another. Later, with an order from the German General Staff, large-scale artillery fire preparations of the German army began.

When the news of the downing of three German planes reached the German command, Ludendorff, the commander-in-chief of the campaign, heard that it was the Chinese planes that were fighting, and he unexpectedly made a decision, that is, to launch the campaign 24 hours in advance. In fact, the main factor in making this decision was the fact that the Chinese Expeditionary Force, twenty-one infantry divisions, one tank brigade, was moving towards Saint-Meneurde. This informed Ludendorff's decision, and the reason was simple: from any point of view, it was definitely better than China to defeat and destroy the current French army before the arrival of these 300,000 men

It would be better when the army arrived. Launching an attack at the scheduled time will only lead to the defeat of the zhì battle. More than 300,000 squadrons are not a small force. Sometimes the key to a battle is the appearance of a few infantry divisions at the critical time and place.

Pilot Mu En never thought that his behavior of looking for trouble would become the prelude to this battle codenamed "Iron Fist".

The purpose of Operation "Iron Fist" was not to use the armored forces as the main assault force, but to prepare with heavy artillery fire, and then to launch an attack with the infantry, after opening a gap in the French position, the armored troops followed the gap to the depth. Bob's task was to pounce on the second line of defense of the French army at the fastest speed after the Germans broke through the first line of defense of the French army, and after opening a gap, he continued to pounce on the flank of Shambani in the direction of Reims, cutting off the contact between the French army and the Shambany side.

In other words, the purpose of the German military operation this time was not to capture Paris, but to encircle and annihilate the main forces of the French army in the direction of Verdun and Shambany. The boldness of this battle plan was far beyond the imagination of the French army. You must know that the French army deployed 50 infantry divisions with more than 700,000 troops on the Shambny-Verdun line, and the total strength of the French army was close to 800,000 with other troops. The strength of the German army on this line is basically the same as that of the French army, and the combat idea of using a comparable number of troops to encircle and annihilate the opponent is not something that ordinary people can think of, but Ludendorff thought of it and did so.

The battle was divided into two truncations, the first stage was to encircle and annihilate the main force of the French army on the Verdun line, about 300,000 men. Bob's task was to rush past St. Meneourd in the shortest possible time. The total strength of this assault group, with armored clusters as the main force, was 580 tanks, three cavalry divisions, and three infantry divisions running in cars. This was a bold attempt by the Germans, and the person who proposed it was none other than Bob.

How to use armored forces to carry out a quick assault and divide and encircle the opponent, when he was on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, Bob accumulated a certain amount of experience, so this time the operation was not a blind battle, but a very targeted battle.

The German artillery preparation time this time was only three hours, but this time the artillery preparation was more special, focusing on one point of the French army, and at the same time the German planes took off to find and bomb the French artillery positions. The German aircraft were modified on the basis of the Chinese aircraft, especially the engine reached 450 horsepower, and in this respect alone, the Germans were indeed very powerful. It is a pity that the Germans have not yet recognized the importance of fighters, and in this time and space, although the level of bombers has increased a lot, there are no corresponding high-performance fighters. In that sense, Muen is shit lucky.

When the Germans began to prepare for artillery fire, the Chinese Expeditionary Force had only loaded three armies. There were still four armies waiting to be loaded, and at this time, Cai received a telegram from the commander-in-chief of the French army, Xia Fei, asking the Chinese expeditionary force to assemble in Paris as quickly as possible.

This change was shocking, and soon Cai received another telegram from Feng Hua of the air force. The telegram said that at 9 o'clock this morning, the Germans began artillery preparations.

Cai Ye immediately realized that the Germans had made a move and were ahead of the French. Frankly speaking, Cai Ye was quite speechless at this time, because although the French army was a European powerhouse, after a period of contact, it was not difficult to find that the French army was very poorly organized, and it did not fully reflect the combat effectiveness of the French army. Combined with the previous battles, the French army was quite clumsy, and if it weren't for the mistakes made by the Germans, the war might have really ended.

Let's put it this way, the French army is still very strong in defense, but the offensive is not good. Of course, the French army at this stage was indeed relatively backward in terms of tactics, but in the subsequent Battle of the Somme, the French army made some achievements by means of barrage Xu Jin. In parallel history, barrage Xu Jin was a tactic invented by the French, but in this time and space, barrage Xu Jin was the first to be used by the German army in Europe.

After three hours of artillery preparation, German artillery fire extended and the infantry charged. Just five hundred meters before the infantry line, German artillery fire broke a wall and slowly advanced forward, which was the so-called barrage Xu Jin.

The resistance of the French army cannot be said to be indomitable, but in the face of the full preparation of the German army, the French army can only be passively beaten. Before dark, the Germans broke through the first line of French defense and carved a gap in one point of the French line. Despite the fact that it was already dusk, the German tank units struck out.

This is the biggest feature of Bob's tactics this time, full of suddenness. No one expected that the German tanks would attack at night. Taking advantage of the cover of night, the German tanks rushed towards the intended target. The target of the assault cluster is an unnoticed village on the map, Ravov!