Chapter 304

Pershing received the news of the Anglo-French change of fortune and was furious. I once thought about simply withdrawing the US troops, but this year is a flash. Pershing knew very well in his heart that as soon as he withdrew, it was certain that the entire eastern battlefield would collapse immediately. His personal military career is also at the end.

Now the only hope for the U.S. military is the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and Pershing calls Cai Ye, and the two sides decide to have a meeting. Luckily, the road from Saint-Dizier to Troyes was good, and the two sides moved together and walked in the opposite direction. In the middle of the night, I encountered it on the edge of a small village in the middle.

The guards on both sides were also nervous, but fortunately this was behind enemy lines, and they did not misfire. Pershing didn't care about putting on a stand for the boss of the American imperialists, so he got out of the car and strode forward, taking the initiative to stretch out his hand: "General Cai, it's hard work." ”

With a polite gesture, the guards lit horse lanterns on the side of the road, and Cai Ye and Pershing sat on the grass on the side of the road, opened the map, and discussed the battle situation. "Before leaving the country, the chairman of the committee told us to be careful not to let Britain and France sell us. I have always been careful, but I didn't expect it to be sold by Britain and France. ”

Cai Yi's words can be regarded as going to Pershing's heart, but there is still a difference between the two sides, the Chinese Expeditionary Force fought very beautifully in France, but the American Army's appearance was not good. Subconsciously, this simple discussion, the dominance was taken by Cai Yi.

"General Cai, don't talk about this, the top priority is how to face the battle situation, the damn Germans are attacking with a lot of momentum, I really don't know how long I can hold out?" Pershing was in a hurry, nearly 300,000 American troops were beaten, and if it weren't for the tanks and artillery, the shallow defense line of Baledik would not have been able to withstand it at all.

"The situation of our army is quite stable, if your army can hold out for three days. The reinforced French troops should be able to do it. Cai Ye didn't let go, Pershing was clearly here to move the rescuers. Previously, the U.S. military should not rush too violently and not listen! Now there is no such easy relaxation.

"General Cai, I built a joint command between the Chinese and American armies, there is an idiom in China, the lips are dying and the teeth will be cold, and now we are in an interdependent relationship." Pershing didn't know where to ask for a translator, and his lips were cold and his teeth were cold, and he called the translator awkward. Now Britain and France will definitely not be able to count on it, and they can only rely on themselves. Pershing this statement. It's still more realistic.

Cai Ye didn't want to offend the Americans too much, but he still had to take a gesture at this time, so he said lightly: "If the U.S. military can't hold on, it can retreat appropriately, and our army should be able to retreat across the Obu River safely." On the other side of the Orb River, our troops had previously built a defensive line, and six heavy artillery regiments did not cross the river. A new line of defense is easy to form, and the squadron is not here to be cannon fodder in France. The implication is that the ** team is unwilling to continue to hard top, and can retreat. Anyway, the Germans were targeting the American army. The left side is just trying to hold back the squadron.

Dignity and righteousness are fought out, and international status is also played. If you don't hear it, if you don't have the strength, you don't have the right to speak. Just look at the country, the Kuomintang has been clamoring for the Republican Party to betray the country all day long. They want to sell, but if they don't have the strength, they can't call a traitor. Sun wanted to sell Manchuria, didn't he sell it? Why? I don't have the strength!

As soon as Pershing heard this, he broke off the idea of the Sino-US joint command. People even said things that were not cannon fodder. Let's explain it obediently. "General Cai, the current situation of the US military is very passive. Barely holding out in Baledik. At present, after the retreat of our troops has been gathered, there are about six divisions left, which I have placed in Saint-Dizier, and together with the tank units to form a new line of defense. After a short rest and recuperation, the combat effectiveness of the retreating troops should be somewhat restored. In addition, I drew two divisions from the reserve and placed them on the line of Saint-Dizier. It's not that I don't want the tank troops to move west, but I really don't have that ability. ”

That is, the US army, which still has some combat effectiveness, will not exceed twenty divisions. Considering that the U.S. military is still crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a steady stream, and that the U.S. military has room to restore its strength on the future battlefield and the relationship between China and the United States, Cai Ye cannot die without help.

"In that case, our army still has ten divisions in reserve to reinforce your army's St. Diziye line. After your army withdrew from Baledik, try to set up as many lines of defense as possible behind the St. Dizier line, and be sure to withstand the German offensive. Waiting for the British and French counterattacks in the western theater to work is the only option for the Chinese and American armies. After deduction, our army believed that if the current German attack could not follow the encirclement and annihilation of the American army, and the battle line was only flat, the left side would advance to the banks of the Orb River at most, the right side of the army could defend layer by layer, and the final line of defense could be stabilized on the other side of the Marne. How to organize the alternate cover retreat of the American army is not something we should say. All in all, the current situation can only be to block the German army layer by layer, and the Marne River is the last line of defense of your army. ”

Pershing looked at the map, Rushkul upon Marne, which should be the last line of defense accepted by the Chinese.

"There are still two divisions of our army that have just disembarked from Marseille, and they can be done in three days at the latest, plus a steady stream of follow-up and the French Ninth Army, as long as they hold out for half a month, the momentum of the German army will be contained." Pershing breathed a sigh of relief, reinforced by ten Chinese infantry divisions, this is the Chinese throwing out all the reserves, which shows that the Chinese defense on the left is not too difficult.

"Doesn't the U.S. military have planes? Send them all out, in several batches, take turns bombing the Germans, and count them if you can block them. Cai Yi proposed another Jianyì, and Pershing accepted it.

After a brief meeting, the two went back to their respective discredits. In fact, Cai Ye and Pershing knew very well that both armies were pitted by Britain and France. Cai Ye didn't ask for benefits, and Pershing didn't mention this, anyway, if he talked about it after the war, it would definitely not make Britain and France feel better. I can't swallow this breath on either side.

The final decisive battle in the European theater finally became an all-out decisive battle with the Anglo-French forces in the western theater to launch a campaign to recover Paris. According to the assumption of the British and French, more than 100 infantry divisions, more than 2,500 artillery pieces, and 2,000 tanks could not have any problem in leveling the German defense line on the Seine.

There is always a huge gap between the ideal and the reality. The Anglo-French counterattack began with a long artillery preparation and bombardment for five days, before the infantry made a sortie and crossed the Seine. After the occupation of Paris, the Germans received a large amount of military supplies that they did not have time to transport, and the French did not have time to destroy them. A large amount of munitions and reinforced concrete and the like allowed the Germans to build strong fortifications, and under Bob's construction, the Germans did not make the previous mistakes, and the defense was hundreds of kilometers deep, which was a bit of a rudimentary form of a large-depth defense.

The well-prepared German troops, with the most intense artillery fire, caused great problems for the British and French artillery during the preparation of the British and French artillery. In the artillery battle between the two sides, the German army did not lose the wind at all, and at the same time, the German planes, which had an absolute advantage, gave the British and French troops a bombing lesson. More than 400 planes were shot down in five days, and the artillery lost nearly 1,000 guns due to German bombing.

Even so, the Anglo-French forces considered the artillery preparations to be remarkable, and the infantry was dispatched. The Germans built a large number of strong fortifications on the other side of the Seine, and the British ** team that crossed the river suffered 80,000 casualties on the first day. After three days of fierce fighting, the Anglo-French forces were able to cross the Seine, paying the price of 210,000 casualties.

At this time, the Chinese and American armies, in the case of the Seventh Army's success in blocking the German assault cluster, the US army took the initiative to abandon Baledik after receiving reinforcements from the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and after ten days of fierce fighting, the Sino-US coalition forces stabilized the front line from Alsi on the Orb River to Rashkul on the Marne, and after ten days of fighting, the Chinese Expeditionary Force suffered about 50,000 casualties and more than 18,000 casualties. The U.S. military suffered 280,000 casualties and more than 30,000 missing.

What angered the Chinese and American armies the most was that the French Ninth Army, under the command of Fuxi, actually came to Troyes after the battle line was basically stabilized. Because of this incident, the Chinese and American militaries jointly protested, insisting that they had been betrayed by Britain and France, and demanded that Britain and France give a reasonable explanation.

Of course, the British and French governments refused to admit their accounts, and the governments of the four countries began to fight a war of words. The next thing is even more interesting, the Chinese and American troops took the initiative to retreat, and the German army, on the premise that it could not complete the encirclement and annihilation of the American army, determined that it was impossible for the Chinese and American troops to launch a counterattack, and turned the main force of the guns to move westward. At the end of June, the eastern battlefield gradually subsided, and in early July, the Anglo-French army had crossed the Marne and advanced only five kilometers, and only the shadow of Paris could be seen, and there was still a lot of blood left to recapture Paris.

At the end of July, the French army finally regained Paris, the German defense line retreated step by step, and the British and French troops fought fiercely for more than a month, suffering more than 500,000 casualties, and were no longer able to attack. At this time, Petain asked the Chinese and American troops to launch a counterattack, but the United States and China jointly refused. The Chinese Expeditionary Force even demanded that the French take over the defensive line immediately after the French Ninth Army arrived at Troyes, shouting the slogan "The expeditionary force should not return to China as cannon fodder."

The British and French troops, who had suffered heavy casualties, were unable to maintain their offensive, and in early August, the Germans launched a counterattack and again hit outside Paris. Petain again asked China and the United States to fight back, but again he was refused. The French government had no choice but to remove Pétain from his post as commander-in-chief, and Fuxi took over as commander-in-chief of the French army, and at the same time promised to provide China with more than a dozen technologies, and signed a series of documents for Chinese students to study in France, which was able to appease the Chinese and American troops.

At the end of August, the Chinese Expeditionary Force, with the cooperation of the US military, launched a counterattack. At the request of the US military, the Chinese Expeditionary Force played the role of a strategic reserve, and at the same time sent a corps of officers of 2,000 men to serve as advisers to the US military. Pershing was grateful for the Chinese Expeditionary Force's outstretched hand, and this time he did not intend to let the Chinese Expeditionary Force have room to play, and the war was over, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force had no chance to go to the battlefield again.