With enough strength, Guderian pursued all the way without stopping, following the Nantes rout and advancing towards La Défense. A few days later, the follow-up troops built a pontoon bridge over the Seine that was strong enough to carry a large enough load to allow all the vehicles to pass, using a variety of improvised bridge-building equipment.

The main forces of the Second Army accelerated their advance regardless of consumption, and with the strong support of logistics and fuel, they quickly caught up with Guderian's vanguard troops who were advancing while fighting, and it was only at this time that Guderian breathed a sigh of relief, and the strength of the Second Army was completely restored, and he had the bottom in his heart.

"This Guderian is indeed a talent, and he can use the strength of a group army to advance to the area near La Défense in twenty days, and now the Nantes army is in trouble, I really don't know how ugly that guy de Gaulle is now." Fang Ruijun sat in the joint command center, looking at the electronic map on the big screen on the wall, and said with a smile.

Recently, Fang Ruijun, like his father, has been obsessed with the Joint Command Headquarters, and has been soaking here almost every day, at this time, as usual, he is sitting on a chair drinking tea while tasting the battle situation in the Western Continent. "This kid is really good, I've been paying attention to him since I was a student at the Imperial Military Academy, but he's not the best of those Yaman kids." Zhang Zhonglin, who had been a visiting professor at the Chinese Army Military Academy, had taught Guderian and was very familiar with him, so when he heard Fang Ruijun mention it, he spoke about his students.

"Oh? What's more? Fang Ruijun raised his head and looked at Zhang Zhonglin in surprise with his sideburns already slightly white, he felt a sense of crisis that there were so many outstanding officers in the Yaman Empire, maybe the opening up of the Chinese Imperial Military Academy was a little excessive.

After Tobul and many veterans followed Fang Xiaoyu to retire and enter Zhonghua Island, Su Zhizhen had already taken over the post of chief of the army general staff, and the deputy chief of general staff became Zhang Zhonglin, the two of them were the youngest among the veterans in Fang Xiaoyu's era, so Fang Xiaoyu left them in the empire as a needle to grasp the direction.

Zhang Zhonglin raised his head and said with a thoughtful gaze: "From the perspective of a tactical commander, Guderian is definitely first-class, but unfortunately he always likes to keep an eye on his armored forces, the overall situation and multi-arm coordination ability are not as good as Manstein and Rommel, and the strategic planning ability cannot be compared with Bowker, Paulus and Rundstedt, speaking of which the Yaman Empire is also full of talents." ”

Zhang Haiyang, chief of the general staff of the Navy, walked over with a smile and said: "That's the army, their navy is far behind, I haven't seen any outstanding characters except for Dönitz." ”

Seeing that several military bigwigs were talking about each other's outstanding officers so easily, obviously not taking it to heart, Fang Ruijun secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked, "You know everything about the military of the Yaman Empire. ”

Zhang Haiyang said with a smile: "Little young master, as a high-level military officer, it is necessary to study the generals of every country, in case of emergency, not only the Yaman Empire, but also the Boston Empire, the Saar Empire and other countries, we are also well aware, not to mention that many active high-ranking officials of the Yaman Empire have studied in our Chinese Empire, so we naturally know more." ”

Zhang Zhonglin also smiled and said: "Little young master, don't just look at the other party's outstanding generals, after all, they are only a few people, the real talent is our Chinese Empire, whether it is the army, navy and air force, or staff officers, or political and economic personnel, if we say that the world is second, no one dares to recognize the first."

Fang Ruijun said: "How many times have I said it, don't call me little master, just call me Ruijun." You are all good brothers of your father, why do you have to see each other like this. ”

"Forehead...... "For this new emperor who is more deviant than his father, several military bigwigs are speechless, Fang Xiaoyu does not let the old brothers call him His Majesty, but calls him the young master, it can be said that he is grateful for their years of assistance and brotherhood, and this new emperor actually put himself in the position of a nephew, where is the majesty of this emperor.

But then again, Fang Ruijun treated his father's old brother like this, which made the officials and generals who had been living and dying with Fang Xiaoyu feel warm in their hearts. Since the new emperor did not treat them as outsiders, and even treated them as sons and nephews, how could these people not do their best to assist.

"Rui...... Astute...... Young Master Ruijun. Zhang Haiyang stumbled, and even he felt that this title was awkward.

"Don't you think it's verbose, just call Ruijun, don't call me Little Master." Fang Ruijun corrected.

"Yes, Ruijun. I think that if we continue to fight like this, I am afraid that the Yaman Empire will have a hard time. Although Zhang Haiyang said that he was a little uncomfortable, his thinking was still very clear.

"Oh?" Fang Ruijun looked at Zhang Haiyang in surprise: "How is it possible?" Now that the Nantes army is under attack from several sides, especially Guderian's troops have entered the suburbs of La Défense, no matter how you look at it, the Nantes Empire can no longer support it. ”

Zhang Haiyang said: "Have you forgotten the powerful navy of the Boston Empire and the Axis bloc? The direction of Guderian's attack was in the lowlands of the Nantes Empire, that is, near the coastline. The terrain may have made it difficult for the Nantes Empire to build a strong defensive line, but it also exposed its flanks to enemies from the sea. If an amphibious landing was carried out from the rear by the troops of the Boston Empire or the Saar Empire, the consequences would be unimaginable. ”

Zhang Zhonglin also nodded on the side and said: "Yes, I think so too, if it is my command, I will be more ruthless, land from the rear of the Yaman Empire, directly attack the territory of the Yaman Empire, and turn him upside down." ”

Listening to Zhang Zhonglin's words, Fang Ruijun gasped: "So ruthless, it seems that the importance of sea supremacy should not be underestimated, how is the construction of our additional twenty aircraft carriers and supporting escort ships?" ”

Zhang Haiyang spread his hands and said helplessly: "Our estimate of the expansion of the Axis countries is insufficient, and it is easy to support escort ships, but the aircraft carrier has just been half built, and it will take a year to launch at the earliest, plus one year of outfitting and half a year of sea trials, the army will not be earlier than 925, which is already the most optimistic estimate." ”

Fang Ruijun sighed: "It's true that I have underestimated the situation, we can only increase our support for the Yaman Empire, hoping to drag on for more than two years, but the training of the ship's crew and aviation must start as soon as possible, so that the warship can immediately form combat effectiveness after launching, and the expansion of the army and air force must be accelerated." ”

"No problem." Zhang Haiyang and Zhang Zhonglin agreed in unison.

The battle on the Western Continent was in full swing, and the expansion of the Chinese Empire was also extremely lively. Fang Xiaoyu has always believed that sharpshooters are fed bullets, and ace pilots are piled up when they are flying. Therefore, during his reign, he not only trained a large number of qualified soldiers through a batch of compulsory soldiers every two years, but also established a series of clubs such as shooting, vehicles, artillery, and airplanes in the form of government subsidies, providing a place for civilian people who like weapons, especially those veterans and enthusiastic young people, to practice their skills and have fun. Therefore, the Chinese Empire has always been a martial style, and not only men, but also many women are sharpshooters.

With such a solid foundation laid by Fang Xiaoyu, the expansion of the army was very smooth. Of course, in order not to provoke the Axis bloc too much, the Chinese Empire did not blatantly expand its army, but only used the pretext of strengthening the training of militia reserves, established a large number of workers and peasants into a strict organization, used their leisure time to conduct military training, and the training venues mainly relied on those military project clubs that could be found everywhere, and at the same time strengthened the training of the armed police force, which could soon become the backbone of the army once it was necessary to organize a reserve.

However, in order not to expose their intentions, those carrier-based aircraft pilots were recruited in the name of shore-based aviation, and now there is no new aircraft carrier, so they can only build a simulated site on land to conduct aircraft take-off and landing training on aircraft carriers, and of course, from time to time they will also use existing aircraft carriers for rotation, after all, there is a certain gap between land training and sea training.

Standing on his armored command vehicle, Guderian held up his binoculars and looked at the cascading fortifications around La Défense, and his scalp tingled. This was certainly not a hastily established defensive position of the Nantes Empire, but a group of fortifications that had been operated for a long time.

Although these fortifications were the product of the last Great War of the World and had been left unattended since the construction of border fortifications, they were now the only barrier against the Jamans from entering La Défense, and the Nantes army had mobilized all the forces they could muster.

Most of the Nantes Air Force was destroyed at the front-line airfields as early as the beginning of the war, and some of the remaining Soneuer Type 406 fighters were no match for the Allied Lightning fighters, while the Saar Empire paid more attention to naval development, and most of the aircraft were in service on naval aircraft carriers, and the remaining air force was only enough for its own homeland air defense.

The Boston Empire was too far away from the Western Continent, and in the era when there were no tankers, those advanced F84 fighters could not be directly transferred to the battlefield of the Western Continent, and could only rely on the transport ships to deliver little by little, and the speed was naturally extremely slow.

As for the other small countries, there are only some of the oldest models, such as the Viking Kingdom, which is still using the camel fighter with a biplane wooden fuselage from the last war, and even if it is replenished, it will be sent to the Yaman Air Force. Such a coincidental situation created a vacuum of Axis air supremacy on the western continent, which also gave the Allies an opportunity.

Admiral Guderian's assault, with the favorable support of a large number of air forces, was so swift that only the outlying positions of La Défense remained. Even though the 2nd Army of Yaman had not yet broken through the defense line of La Défense, the offensive posture they made was already terrifying to the Nantes army stationed on the front line.

Under the leadership of General Rommel, the First Army of the Yaman Empire took advantage of the air force and artillery fire to launch a fierce attack on the Nantes Army hiding in the fortifications, and rushed to the forefront not only the Grizzly Bear 2 tank purchased from the Chinese Empire, but also the Type 4 tank designed and manufactured by the Yaman Empire itself.