When the Germans attacked, Qin Zhiyuan was restless in the headquarters.

This is no longer Brimont's headquarters, but a basement in the town of Reims.

That's right, it's the town.

The current area of Reims is only about two or three square kilometers, and it is said that the town is considered to be raised, and strictly speaking, it should be a village.

The reason why Qin Zhiyuan was restless was not because he didn't trust his troops, nor was he worried about the next battle, but because of Misha's illness.

The Spanish flu finally reached Reims, and Mischa was fine in the morning, but in the afternoon he began to have cold symptoms, and then he was taken to the field hospital and began to fall into a coma.

Fortunately, the doctor injected Penicillin for Misha in time, otherwise, Misha would have suffered an accident by now.

This is not an exaggeration, and recently Lance has had more than a dozen cases of similar symptoms, each time with the same process, suddenly becoming infected, and then dying a few hours later.

Qin Zhiyuan was not surprised by this, because compared to the "Spanish flu" in history, Lance's situation was already good, after all, there was enough penicillin here.

And those areas where there was no penicillin, such as the German camp, Qin Zhiyuan could imagine what kind of miserable situation it was.

It is true that more than a dozen people died in the Foreign Legion, but this proportion is very low relative to the number of people who have fallen ill, about a 1 in 1,000 probability.

If this probability is calculated, then about 10,000 people should be infected in the German camp, and the death toll should be about 2,000 or 2,000.

This number was not much compared to the German army of half a million people, but it was enough to cause panic in the German camp.

In fact, compared with Qin Zhiyuan's estimate, the number of people infected with influenza in the German army was much higher. The Germans are now chronically malnourished and have very little resistance to the virus, and at present, nearly 30,000 German troops in the Reims region have contracted the flu and 6,000 have died from it.

Just when Qin Zhiyuan was gloating, Pierre, who was ordered to go to the field hospital, walked in with a depressed face.

"How?" Qin Zhiyuan was concerned about the situation in the field hospital.

"It's not good, six more people died today, plus some time ago, because of this damn cold, we have lost 295 people." Pierre shook his head and sighed, sitting on the couch and slamming his head.

"You know what I'm asking." Qin Zhiyuan was dissatisfied.

Of course, Qin Zhiyuan knew the total number of deaths due to illness since April, but he asked about Misha's condition.

"Misha is fine, and now his life characteristics are stable." Pierre replied with a roll of his eyes, and then saw Qin Zhiyuan's relieved look very unhappy: "Qin, I think your concern for Misha has gone beyond the working relationship, you should reflect on yourself." ”

After all, Pierre is Qin Zhiyuan's eldest brother, and for the sake of his sister's happiness, Pierre must always remind Qin Zhiyuan.

"It's you who should reflect on it, you're thinking too much." Qin Zhiyuan finally felt a little relaxed.

To be honest, Qin Zhiyuan didn't like the feeling of handing over his fate to God at all, although he did pray sincerely just now.

"What should I reflect on? Could it be that I didn't work hard, Misha married home? Of course, Pierre refused to reflect on himself, because he did not think he was at fault at all.

"Your mind is so dirty, it's hard to imagine how Father Foch could have taught a son like you." Qin Zhiyuan disliked.

Foch was a devout Catholic, and if he hadn't, Foch wouldn't have necessarily agreed to marry Julie to Qin Zhiyuan.

Review and guide Qin Zhiyuan's entanglement with the Knights Templar.

"Hey, hey, let's talk about ours, don't pull the old man in, okay." Pierre was even more dissatisfied.

"If you have time to mess around here, why don't you go and count the supplies in the warehouse." Qin Zhiyuan found something to do for Pierre.

"Geng's job is well done, and he doesn't need my help." Pierre doesn't move his nest.

Geng Xinmin, who is in charge of the logistics of the Foreign Legion, has indeed done a good job, and he now has to ensure the daily supply of nearly 100,000 people, and he has to maintain a delicate balance between daily consumption and inventory.

Since the siege of Reims, Paris began to use transport planes to airdrop supplies, all kinds of canned food, drinks, and even fresh fruits are in a steady stream, but ammunition does not need to be airdropped, before being besieged, Qin Zhiyuan has hoarded enough ammunition for two months to consume.

"Then you make an attack plan, launch from the eastern front, and attack in the direction of the Bellu forest." Qin Zhiyuan is only responsible for the general direction.

"Attack? God, now we have 500,000 Germans around us, so let's defend well. Pierre disagreed.

"It's not our style to blindly defend to the core, our credo is to attack, only in the offensive can we destroy more enemies, go quickly." Qin Zhiyuan insisted.

"Okay, okay. We're going to attack ......" Pierre couldn't convince Qin Zhiyuan, and muttered that he went to the staff headquarters to do his job.

Qin Zhiyuan is right, blindly defending is not in line with the style of the Foreign Legion, and only by letting go of the attack can he show his strengths.

On the Southwestern Defensive Line, the fighting was very fierce.

The starting point of the German offensive was about a kilometer away from the forward positions of the Foreign Legion, and the reason why the starting position was set so far was because of the strong firepower of the defenders.

Even if it is a kilometer away, the Germans still do not have the slightest sense of security, whether it is MG08 or Miss 75 of the Foreign Legion, they can easily cover the starting point of the German army.

Of course, at this distance, the accuracy of Miss 75 can be guaranteed, and the accuracy of MG08 is debatable.

So the machine gunners of the Foreign Legion did not conduct harassing fire, it was useless.

The A7V tank is three meters tall, and its huge body stands in the wilderness, like a siege engine built for war in the Middle Ages, which has become the most conspicuous target on the battlefield.

Almost as soon as the A7V appeared on the battlefield, it attracted harassing shooting from Miss 75.

It's not a harassment, because even a kilometer away, more than a dozen A7Vs have been destroyed, or they have malfunctioned and cannot move forward.

At this time, tanks were still in their infancy, and it was not unusual for even the Germans, who were famous for their precision manufacturing, to have problems of one kind or another.

When the offensive began, the closer you got to the positions of the Foreign Legion, the more serious the tank losses became.

On the positions of the Foreign Legion, the density of artillery is very large, and the four-kilometer defense line, almost every 10 meters, there is a 75 miss, plus the 75 mm tank guns on the FT-17, the density of fire is amazing.

The A7V is indeed massive, with a crew of 18 guaranteed to have enough people to operate the tank, with enough machine guns in the front, rear, left and right, and is also armed with a 75mm tank gun.

However, only a hundred tanks did very little damage to the positions of the Foreign Legion.

The Foreign Legion often conducted exercises within the Foreign Legion, where the tankers were trained to shoot at fixed points and the artillerymen were trained to be anti-tanks, and they were to try to hit the joints of the tanks as much as possible.

The FT-17 tank has a welded turret, and although the frontal armor is thicker, if the first shot is at the junction between the turret and the body, it can still be fired into the soul.

At the same time, the most important thing is that the Foreign Legion is equipped with armor-piercing shells, which are the kind of armor-piercing shells that evolved from naval artillery shells and are specifically used for anti-armor.

In the St. Michael offensive three months ago, the Germans used the A7V, and after Qin Zhiyuan learned the news, he immediately asked the old Renault to organize the production of 75mm armor-piercing shells, which can be used not only for Miss 75, but also for tank guns.

The French military production capacity is still okay, and in two months, the Foreign Legion has hoarded more than 30,000 rounds of armor-piercing shells, which are enough to destroy all tanks in the world even if they destroy a tank with ten armor-piercing rounds.

What's more, in actual combat, destroying a tank is at most two or three shots, and many times even one shot into the soul, and the huge A7V has no ability to resist.

The armor-piercing projectile does not just penetrate the armor of the tank, but after penetrating the armor of the tank, the warhead directly penetrates the inside of the hull and explodes, relying on the fragments of the warhead to kill and injure the enemy.

The A7V uses a gasoline engine, because there are a large number of machine gun emplacements and guns, and there are more bullets and shells in stockpile. In this way, when the warhead of an armor-piercing shell explodes inside the hull, it often causes the detonation of gasoline and artillery shells.

So on the road of A7V's charge, will there be an unlucky guy turned into a brilliant big firework.

Targeted defense, the result of which is slaughter.

The Germans used the A7V in attack because they wanted to rely on the impact of the A7V to form a breakthrough. But in actual combat, the A7V played the most important role in providing some cover for the infantry, and was destroyed one after another on the way to the Foreign Legion position.

This result was a surprise to both the attackers and the defenders.

The Germans did not expect that in the end it would be up to the infantry to solve the problem; The defenders were even more surprised, they still had many means of dealing with tanks that were not used, and they lost their usefulness.

Then let's use traditional means to solve the problem.

Having lost the protection of their tanks, the infantry had nothing to rely on, and they launched a tragic charge.

The crowd tactic, which proved useless in last year's battles in the face of positions defended by numerous machine guns.

It cannot be said that it was useless, at least it proved the courage of the German army and added to the combat merits of the Foreign Legion.

When the battle was over, Qin Zhiyuan and Bavarian **** Ruprecht were surprised.

The difference was that Qin Zhiyuan felt that it was too easy to win, and Ruprecht finally knew why Crown Prince William was wiped out.

Thus the first siege of Reims, which seemed to be huge, came to an abrupt end.

Until an effective breakthrough is found, Ruprecht will not launch the next attack, which will only cost the precious lives of the soldiers in vain.

Although the Foreign Legion is as stable as a mountain, it does not have much offensive power, and once it leaves a well-equipped defensive position, the Foreign Legion's weapons will not be effective when defending.

From late June, the war fell silent, and both sides needed to take a breather and regroup their forces to prepare for the next phase of the offensive.

But the delay of time was not good for the Germans, because with each passing day, the balance of power on both sides changed in favor of Germany.

(To be continued.) )