Chapter 624: War on the Western Front

With all the German air force airfields in France and Belgium destroyed by the Chinese air force, and the fighters were also lost, the situation on the Western Front was completely reversed, and air supremacy was completely controlled by the Allies.

In the days that followed, Allied warplanes regularly flew over the English Channel to bomb the German beach fortifications on the west coast of France, especially a military camp and significant military installations.

After the Chinese Air Force blew up all the air bases and fighters of the German army in France and Belgium, it successfully reversed the occupation, which made the reputation of the Chinese fighters even louder than before, and for a time the Allied member countries and other neutral countries sent representatives to China to discuss the purchase of fighters, which made Cai Guodong and Xiao Zhenlei see that large orders were coming.

Cai Guodong sent a telegram to Xiao Zhenlei, and the message said that the first-generation fighter could be modified to reduce the bomb load and increase the volume of the fuel tank in the freed up, so that the first-generation fighter could have a larger range.

After Xiao Zhenlei received Cai Guodong's telegram, he happened to hear a report from the diplomatic department that diplomats from various countries had requested to purchase from China the kind of fighter planes capable of carrying out long-distance bombing.

After several days of negotiations, the representatives of various countries returned satisfied, and the Chinese side received an order for more than 2,000 fighters, which was a lot of money. Even the United States sent representatives to order 500 fighters from China again, after all, the United States had also joined the Entente to participate in the war, and the US top brass believed that sooner or later it would have to confront the German army. And in addition to the fact that the Navy is slightly able to handle it, the army and air force are simply scum. Now the only way to build an effective air force is to buy fighter planes and train pilots as quickly as possible.

After the elimination of German air bases and warplanes in France and Belgium. Britain and France began to prepare for the sea crossing operation, in fact, the preliminary preparations have been completed, and the remaining thing is to choose a day with good weather for the landing operation.

On April 28, the British and French troops officially began the battle of landing across the sea, and the landing site was selected in Normandy, which was indeed a good place to carry out the landing, not only the British and French military thought it was a good place, but even the Germans knew about it, so a large number of troops were deployed on the nearby coastline.

Before the official landing. The British and French naval fleets carried out a large-scale artillery bombardment of the German defensive positions on the beach on the English Channel, which began before the full dawn at five o'clock in the morning, and continued until eight o'clock in the morning, and the real three-hour shelling turned the German defensive positions along the entire coastline almost several times.

However, after reconnaissance by the air force reconnaissance plane, it was found that the German trenches on the coastline were still clearly visible, which showed how strong the defensive trenches built by the Germans were. This is also normal, thinking that the German army has always been famous for its army, and the tactical quality of officers and soldiers is among the best in the world, and the construction of defensive trenches must be done to the best extent possible to avoid large casualties among soldiers.

"Commander-in-Chief. The reconnaissance aircraft reported that the results of the shelling were not very satisfactory, that the German defensive trenches along the coastline were still intact and that there was no major damage, and that if a beach-grabbing landing operation had been ordered now. Our army may suffer great casualties! Marshal Pétain, commander of the French Army, walked up behind Foch and said.

Foch had previously been the chief of the general staff of the French army, and at the last Cairo meeting, the heads of state of China, Britain and France discussed the issue of joint command operations. In the end, Xiao Zhenlei did not agree to unite the eastern and western fronts, and proposed that the British and French on the western front form a unified command. The Eastern Front was under the command of the Russian army itself, and the Chinese Army was responsible for containing the German-Austrian forces in southeastern Europe to reinforce the Western Front. In conjunction with the offensive operations of Britain and France on the Western Front, this proposal was finally accepted by Britain and France.

Later, the heads of Britain and France separately discussed the establishment of a unified command on the Western Front, French Prime Minister Clemenceau believed that the future battle should be fought on the French mainland, and the commander-in-chief of the joint command should be the French marshal, and British Prime Minister George had an extremely bad relationship with his chief of general staff Robertson and Army Commander-in-Chief Hague, so he did not want these two people to be in the limelight, so he agreed to the request of the French, and the two countries jointly appointed Foch as the commander-in-chief of the joint command, with full responsibility for the war against the German army on the Western Front. With supreme command.

Foch, who was smoking a pipe, looked at the deployment of troops on the map, and he turned to Marshal Petain and said: "We must find a way to destroy the German defensive trenches, otherwise the losses of the attack will be too great, and we now only have a total of 1.5 million people, and it will be difficult to replenish the losses." In this case, contact the commander of the Allied Air Force, Luo Zelin, and ask him to send a group of bombers to bomb the German defensive trench positions on the coastline in batches for two hours, and be sure to destroy most of the German defensive trenches! ”

After the Chinese Air Force flew to Britain, in view of the fact that the Chinese Air Force had the most experience in combat, the officers had the most experience in command, and the number of fighters accounted for a large part, Luo Zelin was appointed commander of the Allied Air Force, responsible for directing the Air Force to cooperate with the ground offensive.

"Good!" Petain said yes and turned away.

Soon, the first batch of sixty fighters flew over the English Channel to bomb the defensive positions along the German coastline, and the fighters escorted the bombers and joined in the strafing of the German troops in the trenches.

Although the Germans deployed a lot of anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns on the positions, these anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft gun positions basically did not play a role and were destroyed at the first time. After the destruction of the anti-aircraft positions, bomber groups bombed and strafed the German positions.

As soon as the first group of planes turned around, the second group of bombers arrived, and after nearly half an hour of bombing and strafing, a large number of machine-gun forts, air-raid shelters, and bunkers on the German positions were bombed.

Six successive waves of bombers bombed the defensive trench positions of the German army along the coastline of Enormandy, which took more than two hours before and after.

"Marshal, the reconnaissance aircraft reported that the German positions had been bombed into ruins, a large number of corpses had been left on the positions, and more than half of the trenches had been razed to the ground," the staff officer reported to Foch.

"Good!" Foch clenched his fists excitedly, and immediately instructed the staff officer: "Order, immediately order the first echelon to launch a beach-grabbing landing operation, and the naval guns will provide artillery cover!" Tell the Air Force not to stop bombing until our army has not fully established itself on the beach"

"Yes, Marshal!" The staff officer saluted in agreement and turned away to deliver the order.

"Boom, boom, boom??????" The guns of a large number of naval warships anchored in the English Channel erupted in rage again, and a large number of landing craft began to rush towards the coast at a rapid pace.

The first to rush to the beachhead were dozens of Mark 1 tanks manufactured by the British and the Dragon Zhan 1 tank purchased from Huaguo, the Dragon Zhan 1 tank was slightly stronger than the Mark 1 tank, but it was a big step worse than the Dragon Zhan 2 tank that China now uses.

This kind of big monster is no stranger to the German army on the Eastern Front, after all, when attacking the Middle East and the Asia Minor Peninsula, Hua Guo used the Dragon War II tank to carry out lightning assault attacks, and the Germans were often beaten in the Middle East and the Asia Minor Peninsula at that time.

But when the tanks of the British and French troops rushed to the beach, many of the German soldiers at the front were frightened, and the German soldiers, who had never seen such a big iron monster, thought that they had been sent by the gods to help the British and French forces fight.

The German army in the first line of defense only resisted for less than ten minutes before collapsing, although the German soldiers were all well-trained and strong in combat, but this weapon of war that subverted the concept of war appeared in front of many German soldiers who had never seen these monsters, and the German soldiers were frightened unimaginable, just like a person really saw the scene of a ghost.

"Okay, our soldiers have attacked, the first line of defense of the German army has collapsed, we have occupied the first line of defense, and immediately order the troops to continue the attack, and pursue with all the victory!" General Charles, a famous French general who commanded the French landing operation, immediately gave orders to the troops.

The Germans who fled from the first line of defense to the second line of defense were quickly collected by the officers, and they were placed in the rear of the second line of defense, at this time the middle-level officers of the German front line command also saw the tank groups lined up by the coalition forces, and one after another orders were quickly issued, and some German soldiers pushed out some small-caliber long-barreled guns from the trenches, this small-caliber long-barreled 37mm guns were generally installed on ships, and the Germans suffered the losses of Chinese tanks in the Middle East theater and the Asia Minor peninsula, so they came up with this weapon to deal with tanks, although the effect is not particularly ideal, but before the invention of other weapons capable of restraining tanks, this artillery is undoubtedly the best option.

"Boom, boom, boom??????" The small-caliber guns that had been pushed out of the German line opened fire, some of the first Mark and Dragon Battles tanks were hit, more than half of the Marks were destroyed, and a third of the Dragons were destroyed.

The Anglo-French tank group that was attacked and destroyed a lot of tanks was suddenly forced to stop by the attack, which was also the first time that the Anglo-French army used tanks on the battlefield without experience, if it was the tank commander of the Chinese army, at this time he would definitely order the tank troops to rush to the German position as quickly as possible, and at this time he could only be used as a live target by the German blocking artillery. (To be continued......)