Immediately after Italy's surrender, the Allies took over all of Italy, including the Italian island of Sardinia. After the occupation of Sardinia, the marines successfully landed on the French island of Corsica under the cover of the expeditionary fleet, and then occupied Corsica, the largest island in France, and the expeditionary fleet blocked the ports on the Mediterranean coast of France.

On September 3, 1917, Germany and Austria and other Allied powers gathered 3 million troops to launch an attack on France, hoping to defeat France in one fell swoop, and the entire northern part of France was completely plunged into a war. The Entente side, unwilling to lose, resisted desperately, especially France, which was a matter of life and death, mobilized all the forces it could muster, hoping to block the attack of the Central Powers. The two sides fought to the death on a long front, and although the Central Powers attacked fiercely, they made slow progress under the desperate resistance of the Entente side.

At the strong request of Germany and Austria and other countries, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Chinese Empire's Western Expeditionary Army crossed the Alps on the border between France and Italy and invaded France.

On September 15, just as the battlefield in northern France was at a stalemate. The expeditionary fleet dispatched more than a hundred warships to cover and forcibly landed in Marseille, on the southeastern coast of France. After two days of bloody fighting, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army finally succeeded in occupying Marseille.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief! Our army has managed to occupy Marseille! In the General Headquarters of the Western Expeditionary Army, a staff officer walked up to Zhao Bin and said loudly with a stern face.

"Good~! That's great! Zhao Bin said excitedly that in order to land in Marseille, the Western Expeditionary Army prepared for a whole month and mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops. Zhao Bin even moved his headquarters directly to Corsica, France, so that he could command nearby.

"Now that we have captured Marseille, we can go straight into the heart of France and help the German-Austrian allies defeat France completely." Song Zhen, chief of staff of the Western Expeditionary Army, said excitedly.

"Not bad! Now France is at the end of its power, as long as we can give it a fatal blow, we can completely defeat France, and order the follow-up troops to rush to Marseille to land. The 3rd Front, which landed in Marseille, continued to advance in the direction of Lyon. Flank Lyon with the Second Front, which crossed the Alps. Zhao Bin ordered with a stern face.

"Yes!" Song Zhen replied with a stern face.

After the surrender of Italy, the African Front of Niu Triumph successively occupied Algeria and other places, the war in Africa has basically ended, although Central Africa, South Africa and other places are still occupied by the Western powers, but the combat effectiveness of the colonial troops stationed in these colonies is quite limited, and it is no longer important to the whole war situation, so the Western Expeditionary Army transferred the Twelfth Army and other units from the African Front Army to join the Third Front Army and the Fourth Front Army to strengthen the strength of the European battlefield.

The Twelfth Army was transferred to the Third Front. Shen Hongcai, the former commander of the Twelfth Group Army, was promoted to commander of the Third Front Army, and Song Laohu took over as commander of the Twelfth Front Army. The 12th Army served as the main force in the battle of landing in Marseille.

"Order Zhou Tie to do his best to take Cavayong." At the headquarters of the Twelfth Army in Marseille City, Song Laohu ordered with a stern face.

"Yes!" The communications staff officer respectfully answered, turned around and went to deliver the order.

The chief of staff said with a smile, "Commander, rest assured, under the attack of our Western Expeditionary Army, the French army will be crushed at the first touch, and I believe that it will not be long before we can capture Cavaillon." ”

Song Laohu smiled and nodded and said, "Hmm! After three years of war, the last vestiges of France's vitality had been exhausted. Now our Chinese army has landed in France. It is inevitable to defeat France in one fell swoop. Naturally, I don't have to worry about this, and the only thing we have to worry about now is whether we can take Paris before the German-Austrian coalition. Our 12th Army as a vanguard. The responsibility is still very heavy. ”

"This depends on how much time the French army on the northern front can support!" The chief of staff frowned and said, "Now the main forces of the British, French and American forces are mainly concentrated on the northern front to resist the attack of the German-Austrian forces, and over the years, the French have built strong fortifications on the northern front. Therefore, although the German-Austrian army attacked fiercely, it was not so easy to defeat the British, French and American forces and occupy Paris. ”

"Hmm~!" Song Laohu nodded and said. "Having said that, we must not be negligent because of this, and we must intensify our offensive and defeat France as much as possible."

"Kill~!" Amid the earth-shattering shouts of killing, thousands of heroic Chinese soldiers rushed towards the French position under enemy artillery fire.

"Da Da Da Da~!" In the dull roar of the machine guns, a rain of bullets was fired, blocking the pace of the Chinese army's attack. There were constantly Chinese soldiers who were shot and fell to the ground, but the heroic soldiers still went forward to attack.

Although the city of Cafaillon, a small city in southeastern France, has been successfully captured by the Western Expeditionary Army, some of the strong fortifications built by the French army are still firmly in the hands of the French army in the mountains near Cafaillon and on both sides of the road. These fortifications were like nails nailed to the choke points everywhere, causing great trouble to the Western Expeditionary Army.

"We must do everything possible to remove all these nails, otherwise our army will not be able to continue to attack the heart of France with peace of mind." Ge Lin, who had just been promoted to brigade commander, yelled at the three regiment commanders under his command.

"Brigade commander, the French army has built a large number of fortifications according to the local terrain, and these fortifications are permanent and extremely strong. At present, the airport in Marseille is still being repaired, most of the heavy artillery units are also delayed on the road, and our army's firepower is obviously insufficient. After repeated battles, the casualties of our brigade were already quite severe, so I decided to temporarily stop the offensive and wait for the arrival of the follow-up heavy artillery units before launching the attack. One of the regiment commanders said with a frown.

"Humph! The whole of the Middle East and North Africa has been conquered by us, can a small Cavaillon stop our attack? Now the French army has become a frightened bird, and if we give it one last blow, we can defeat it completely! What's more, the headquarters of the group army and the military department have repeatedly ordered us to speed up the progress, so no matter how difficult it is, these nails must be pulled out in the shortest possible time! Ge Lin said with a stern face.

"Report to the brigade commander, the third assault on the 391 heights has failed again!" At this time, a staff officer came over and said loudly.

"A bunch of trash! Go to the front line and have a look! Lao Tzu wants to see for himself how hard this hard bone is! Ge Lin scolded loudly angrily. (To be continued......)