Chapter 281: Super Cannon Breaks Through the Defense

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In the face of the invasion of the Mexican army, the people of the neighboring states of Mexico, Texas and New Mexico were panicked, and they packed up their belongings and prepared to move to the northern and eastern states to escape the war, and riots began to break out in the border areas. ''''''

The U.S. government wanted to stop it, but they were unable to stop it, they had also recruited a large number of troops before, but almost all of them went out to fight, most of them went to Europe, and the rest were also rushing to the Asian colonies and South America, and there were no decent troops in the country except for the two armies that failed to invade Mexico.

In the face of pressure, the U.S. government continued to increase the number of conscripts and allowed people in the Mexican invasion of several states to form their own militia groups to fight the war, in addition to demanding that the state governments must evacuate important local industrial equipment or resources, leaving no money for Mexico.

On the 1st, the United States government declared war on Mexico, declaring that New Mexico and California and other states are the territory of the United States, which was obtained by the United States through legal means, and has been recognized by the Mexican government at the time.

Naturally, the Entente also followed closely in the spirit of the Entente and declared war on Mexico, which also declared war on the Entente and declared its accession to the Central Powers.

What has to be said is that without the blocking of the Mi** team, the Mexican army entered California, Arizona, and New Mexico as if it were no man's land, and it only took one day to conquer five cities, and everyone in the southwest of the country was in danger.

Most of the three states that the Mexican army entered were sparsely populated areas, and the resistance they encountered was nothing more than scattered attacks by herding cowboys, and posed little of a threat.

Huaxia and Mexico had an agreement that after the Chinese army landed, the armies of the two sides would converge in the western part of the country, and then gradually advance eastward, so Mexico did not send troops to Texas at the first time.

Soon after, representatives of the Allied countries held the first summit in Berlin, the capital of Germany, and the meeting ended after only three days, and finally the Allied Powers decided to divide the headquarters into two, one in Berlin, Europe, and the other in the imperial capital of China, with Germany as the leader to govern Europe, West Asia, and Africa, and the Chinese imperial capital as the head to govern most of Asia, the north and south continents, and Australia to jointly administer.

The meeting also set up an alliance committee, and the members of the countries jointly elected Wilhelm II of Germany as the leader, the emperors or prime ministers of China, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman, and Italy as directors, and the rest were ordinary members.

This congress basically stipulated the rights and obligations of all members of the alliance, and the entire alliance camp operated in an orderly manner, in fact, it was in full swing, and both strength and resources were superior to the Entente.

In the ports of Modu, Tianjin, Qingdao and other cities on the eastern coast of China, soldiers are densely lined up in rows to board warships and ships in an orderly manner, a large group of reporters carrying cameras are crackling and taking pictures there, and countless people not far away nearby are reluctantly waving goodbye to the soldiers.

China's 250,000 naval, army, and air forces will join forces with the Fuso Combined Army and the Goryeo Army in Hawaii, and then set off on a combat journey to land in the United States.

The crazy Fusang countries don't know if they are poor and crazy, and they have formed a combined army of more than 300,000, and Goryeo is not willing to lag behind and sent 150,000 soldiers, but most of the soldiers of these two armies are new soldiers, after all, one is newly established, and the other is just defeated and beaten indiscriminately, but with the addition of the entire army of Huaxia will reach 700,000, known as a million army.

After receiving the news that Huaxia had gathered a million troops to attack the western part of the country, the government panicked, and the people in the western part of the country fled frantically to the interior and east, and for a time the west was in chaos.

"Immediately form an army and go to the western coast to stop the landing of the upcoming Chinese army, and must not let their landing succeed, order the army rushed to Southeast Asia to return to the west to support!"

Wilson was afraid, and he chose between home security and Southeast Asian colonies, and he did not hesitate to abandon the Southeast Asian colonies.

There is a more important reason that the passage of the United States into the Pacific Ocean is almost blocked by the Allies, the Chinese fleet and the Mexican fleet are blocked at the exit of the Panama Canal, and the Strait of Magellan and the nearby waters in South America are under the occupation of the Chilean navy.

For this reason, the United States mainland can only support the west by land, while Huaxia can easily use the navy to go back and forth, and with the help of Mexico, it can already have a strategic advantage.

Instead of being discouraged, Mi Guo planned another plan, preparing to set up a defensive line with the long mountain range in the west as a barrier to block the attack of Huaxia.

The Western French defense line of the European coalition forces, the huge concrete military defense construction, thousands of permanent palace fortifications, up to two meters thick, its cover, and the high mountain range in front of it as a barrier, even if the Allied army and air forces shelled and bombed day and night, it was difficult to cause casualties and damage to equipment.

In the face of this extremely strong military defense line, the allies could not attack it for a long time, and they could not bear the intensive and long artillery bombardment and bombardment, so they could only direct the air force to cross the defense line to bomb the Spanish cities, but the Spanish government had long been prepared for this and did not cause huge losses.

In order to break this line of defense, the Allies made preparations for a full year, and the railway tracks led to the front of the defense line, gathering a huge amount of supplies and ammunition, and the army was practicing day and night.

Not far from the West French Line, Pau and Ossaith, each had five tanks resembling trains, four stories high, 0 feet wide, 140 feet long, and weighing more than 1,000 tons. In addition, it has an extra-long barrel in front of it, with a muzzle diameter of 600 mm.

This is the result of a year of research and development by the Allied forces in combination with the elites of the entire Allied member states to develop and manufacture cannons, because Germany had experience in manufacturing super-large caliber cannons before, so it guessed that the train cannon was more advanced and perfect than the super-heavy howitzer mortar Great Berta gun, which was named "Wilhelm Cannon".

Although William's cannon was bulky and easy to be attacked by the enemy air force, the Allied air force was now the dominant force in the European sky, and it was extremely likely to be attacked by air forces.

On January 5, 1915, when these William cannons were firing towards the western French line, the headquarters of the Allied forces in Berlin issued an order to Italy, Austria-Hungary and other Mediterranean countries to occupy the entire Mediterranean Sea and land in Brazil from the Balearic Sea, and the decisive battle in the Mediterranean, which had been brewing for more than a year, officially broke out.

The naval strength of the Mediterranean Alliance, which gathers the naval forces of Italy, Austria-Hungary, Greece, and the Ottoman countries, far exceeds the combined fleets of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain.

As soon as the U.S. fleet arrived, the allied navy did not dare to mobilize the fleet along the Atlantic coast to the Mediterranean, for fear that the German navy would raid Britain itself.

Austria-Hungary and Italy were the main fleets, and the navies of the two countries almost rushed to the western waters of the Mediterranean.

At the exit to the west of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the two armies met and attacked as soon as they came into range. The Allied Navy found that the enemy navy was only slightly stronger this time, and did not take it seriously, believing that it was only a large-scale attack and not a decisive battle.

As everyone knows, there is also an Allied fleet in the strait between Corsica and Sardinia that is rapidly entering the western seas, and then turning south.

On the night of the 5th, on the West French Line, William's artillery entered a predetermined position in the night, and a huge shell was ready, and the Allies launched another assault on the defense line amid the sound of artillery.

The allied forces on the defensive line were accustomed to fighting the attacking enemy, and some of the soldiers even laughed and chatted loudly while holding off the enemy, not taking the attack seriously at all.

"Boom ......"

The rumbling sound resounded throughout the battlefield like divine thunder in the nine heavens, and the coalition soldiers on the defense line saw several huge fireballs falling from the sky in the night sky, instantly hitting the mixed clay buildings on the defense line, and then erupting with an explosion no less than just now.

Several fireballs smashed together as if premeditated, and after several earth-shattering explosions, you could see in the bright light of the fire that the solid military defense that had been held for a year had been torn out alive, and the military materials in the defense line could be vaguely seen.

"It's not good, it's the enemy's shelling, hurry up and make up for this gap, and definitely don't let the enemy enter from there!"

"Don't be stunned, attack, attack the enemy!"

The officer in command of the defensive line panicked when he saw that a gap had been made in the defensive line, and kept urging the soldiers to give this or that order.

At the artillery regiment with the largest coalition defense line, a lieutenant general officer was shouting at the artillery to counterattack.

"Artillery! Artillery! See where the shells are not fired, find out and shoot them! ”

"Watch the gap and don't let the enemy in!"

Several soldiers with binoculars stood high above to observe the direction of enemy artillery fire with expressions of disbelief on their faces, because they had seen an incredible scene.

"Sir, we know where these huge shells are firing, but they are too far away from us to reach our latest artillery!" A soldier said bitterly, he couldn't believe it when he came out.

"What, how is it possible that such a huge shell is even beyond the distance we fired!" The lieutenant and general also don't want to believe it.

"Sir, it's true, it's likely to be a new type of artillery for the enemy!"

"Fake, what should I do?"

Five huge fireballs landed on the gap just now, and the gap doubled in an instant, and the soldiers who had just gone up to hold on were also blown to ashes.

William's artillery attacked for a night, and the defense line in this area was completely broken, and the two armies were snatching the gaps that had been blown out, more than thirty of them.

Not only was there a gap in this place, but there were also five William cannons not far away in the past that had made dozens of gaps there, and the Allies frantically attacked these gaps.

The next morning, the Allies occupied several gaps, and a large number of soldiers continued to enter through the gaps, and then gradually spread around the gaps, and the gaps were occupied more and more, and the defense line was broken.