Chapter 234: The Battle of the Marne (continued)

The news of the defeat at the Battle of the Marne reached Paris on the same day, and the people of Paris were packing up and preparing to get away from the bustling city, and despite repeated assurances from the government that the fighting would not spread to Paris, no one wanted to believe the government, which had promised to fend off the Germans beyond the Marne.

"Bastard, how did Xia Fei command the war, and it failed, did you really think that the Germans would be naΓ―ve and would only attack Paris from Reims? Immediately mobilize two army groups to defend Paris, all deployed in the southeast to prevent the Germans from attacking from the east! ”

Raymond was very disappointed by the defeat of the Marne, he did not think that the Germans were so stupid to attack Paris from only one place in Reims, and would definitely attack from the southeast by bypassing Reims, and he was ready to abandon Paris.

At this time, the north and northeast of France were under strong German attack, and the German army in northern Belgium had broken through the French defense line on the Franco-Belgian border, and more than 300,000 troops did not rush to Paris, but rushed to the French coast, and the purpose was not clear.

At the time of the choice of temporary accompaniment, there were different voices in the government of the developed countries, one was to move to Nantes in the southwest, and the other was Toulouse further south. The voice of the former was very loud, and if Raymond Paris fell in Britain, the government would be moved to Nantes, because Nantes was close to Paris and was one of the largest cities in the southwest, which was conducive to controlling the war situation.

After a fierce dispute, it was finally decided to choose Nantes as a zero-hour escort, and with the help of Raymond sending people to Nantes to prepare, the government of the developed countries would not withdraw from Paris until the last moment of the fall of Paris, and they did not want such a day.

Reims, the Anglo-French coalition army is commanded by the French army commander Xia Fei, and the British army is only auxiliary, after all, this is within France, so Britain wants to give the French army this face.

"Report to the sir, our reconnaissance plane found that the German army had gathered more than five army groups near Reims, forming a semi-encircled offensive against Reims, and found no flaws!"

"Damn Moltke, you ate me to death, if you hadn't taken advantage of me before, I would never have been so passive!" How much strength does the German army have that we don't know, their military strength obviously exceeds our army by too much, could it be that the Chinese have already sold tanks to the German army? ”

The German tanks were not only superior in number to them, but also more in number, and we had to wonder if Huaxia and Germany had done something in secret.

The country has long had airplanes, but before the appearance of bombers in China, they have always been used as reconnaissance planes, and their performance is not very good, and their actual combat performance is even worse than that of airships.

Although it surpassed the German army in terms of troops, Xia Fei was still very worried, and in the current era of thermal weapons warfare, especially the emergence of tanks, the contest of numbers can basically be said to be in the past tense, which can be seen from the wars between China and Tsarist Russia and Fuso.

The British army was still extremely proud, and they were very disdainful to see the French army, which claimed to be the first army in Europe, being defeated by the German army, and said that they should teach the damned Germans a lesson, and their British army was the first army in Europe.

The British did not carry tanks this time, they sold a large number of tanks to Tsarist Russia at a 'low price' before, and the war broke out too suddenly, and they did not have many tanks, but only symbolically sent a tank force that had only been established for a short time and 200 tanks.

"Tell those proud British troops, the Germans have advanced sniper rifles that can penetrate tanks, and they should be specially designed to deal with tanks, so they must be cautious and not act without permission."

As everyone knows, Xia Fei's warning was despised by the British army, and even many British officers believed that this was a lie made by the French army in order to cover up the defeat and save face, and there was no such weapon at all, so they didn't believe that the Germans had developed guns to deal with tanks soon after the tanks came out.

As Raymond thought, the Germans did not blindly gather forces to attack Reims, but sent two army groups to bypass Reims and go straight to Paris from the east.

"I think it's time for the Air Force to be dispatched, our army can't afford to have too many losses in Reims, and it would be a huge blow to the enemy to take Reims quickly, and it would even be able to take Paris easily!" Ludendorff said that because of the compromise of Tsarist Russia, there was no threat from the east, and the army on the Eastern Front did not need to be saved, and he was appointed by the Tsar as the deputy commander of the offensive country, commanding the army together with Moltke.

Moltke didn't speak, in his opinion, Lance must be taken, his own army occupies such a big advantage and opportunity at this time, and it is a sure thing to capture Lance.

"It's time for the Air Force to be dispatched, so let Reims be the first city in Europe to be bombed, and let the enemy tremble under the attack of the Imperial Air Force!" Moltke admired the Air Force and wanted to see the strength of the Air Force.

On the morning of March 30, when the British and French soldiers were still half-asleep, the Germans launched an all-out offensive against Reims, and the horn of war sounded.

A steady stream of German soldiers attacked Reims, taking advantage of the fact that the Anglo-French forces had not yet reacted to break through a certain section of the defensive line, but it was quickly filled by the Anglo-French forces, and the Allied forces also paid a huge price for it.

"Come on, let them see how powerful the tank forces of the British Empire are!"

"Drive the Germans back home!"

The British army sent tank troops to deal with the Germans without authorization, and 200 tanks 'broke through' the French interception and entered the battlefield.

"Hey, did you send out tank troops with my consent, didn't I warn you? If something happens to the tank troops, you are waiting to be summoned by your military court, what a pig-like teammate! Feixia roared when he found the command of the British army, which simply ignored him as the commander-in-chief, and turned a blind eye to his painstaking warning, if the defense of Reims failed, he would be killed.

"Hey, of course the army of the British Empire is under our command, and the tanks of the Germans can still be compared with those of the Chinese, but our tanks are not as good as the performance of the Chinese tanks! Watch our tanks shoot the Germans out of the! ”

"You only know how to defend but you don't attack, the Germans are nothing to be afraid of, you are not still immersed in the shadow of the Germans who lost to the Germans last time!"

The British commanders thought that Feixia was afraid of the Germans, so their words were full of dissatisfaction and contempt, they had not fought against the Germans, and they would know how powerful the Germans were.

"You ...... Soon you will come to me, but I will report it to your government as it is! "Xia Fei is not familiar with them.

Britain carefully observed the Chinese tanks in Huang Cheng, coupled with the tank drawings in their hands, the Chinese tanks were completely copied, and even had a relatively clear route for the next generation of tanks.

Most of the two hundred British tanks were light tanks, and only two dozen were heavy, and they frantically launched a fierce attack on the Germans with less than half the number of German tanks.

"Boom ......"

The sound of artillery continued, the two torrents of steel sprayed each other, and the flames fell into the camps of the two sides.

"Oh Maiga, the Germans' tanks are not inferior to ours, this ......"

Many British officers were shocked and immediately realized that something was wrong, and that it was very dangerous to have half the number of tank units with the same performance but less than half the enemy, and they realized that they had underestimated the strength of the German army.

"Look, what's that, the bullet pierced through the tank's armor, hell!" A British officer points to where he looks through a telescope.

I saw that a tank was suddenly pierced through the armor by an oncoming bullet, and a series of bullet holes made them take a deep breath, and the tank actually stopped in such a dangerous battle, and was bombarded by others.

Then they saw several of their tanks being beaten into hornet's nests by German snipers, incapacitated, and some were even directly hit by fuel tanks and exploded.

"Quick, withdraw all the tank troops, quick!"

The British commander was anxious to find Feixia to cover the retreat of the tanks, and if the tank department was finished, then his military journey would also be finished.

Even though Feixia was reluctant, she sent her own tank unit to help and ordered the snipers to kill the opponent's tank killers.

In the sky above Reims, several reconnaissance planes were carefully observing the German troops below, trying to find out the flaws in the German army.

"Hey, man, what do you see all that, big birds?"

"It's a fleet! Oh my God, the Germans' fleet of planes, it's so big! Return immediately and inform the Commander-in-Chief! ”

After making a circle, the reconnaissance plane of the country was preparing to return home, and there were more than 30 planes similar to those of the Chinese people, but the wings were painted with the German flag logo. Scouts who love airplanes still know the fire dragon bombing in China, and the German bombers themselves are fire dragon bomber series, but they have made some changes in appearance, which is not difficult to see.

The Luftwaffe also saw the reconnaissance plane, but did not react, but only kept the formation and flew towards Reims, and a few minutes later they rushed to the sky over Reims.

The violent sound of engines in the aircraft units attracted the attention of the Anglo-French forces, but it was too late.

"Oh, it's bombers, so many bombers, don't you say that the Germans didn't bomb them, damn it!"

"Quick, dodge the bombardment!"

"Boom !!"

The bomber group leaned over the coalition positions at a low altitude, and countless bombs fell from the sky, and a cloud of fire broke out on the coalition positions in an instant, covering most of the coalition positions with thick smoke and dust.

The coalition positions were in chaos, the soldiers were frantically hiding in the trenches to avoid the bombardment, the retreating coalition tank units were frightened, the positions were bombed, there were pursuers behind, everywhere was dangerous, their heads were instantly bad, and they didn't know whether to continue to retreat.

The bombing troops in the air set their eyes on the coalition tank troops, and after making a circle, they swooped down and rushed to the sky above the coalition tank units to drop bombs.

The German bombardment forces were soon blown up by the Reimsponpel Fort, on which the Allied forces depended, and the entire fort was in ruins.