Chapter 487: Counteroffensive on the Western Front

"Also, Brian has pardoned the arrested Alabama dubarists and is now asking the Alabama government-in-exile to begin negotiations with them." Yuan Shikai said again.

"Okay, then let them talk, and let Johnson arrange a few trustworthy people to infiltrate the territory of Alabama, attack the U.S. troops in Alabama, create some roadside bombs or something, exaggerate the tension there, and then let the Alabama government-in-exile have a tougher attitude, it's best to talk about it the first time, so it's almost the same for two years to toss a few more times, anyway, Brian is not in a hurry." Yang Feng said with a smile.

This is the case for the United States, as more and more American investors turn their attention to agricultural production, coupled with the large imports of agricultural products from Europe and China, Americans have begun to adapt to their pastoral life, the power of industrial capitalists is shrinking significantly, and the United States itself can absorb a part of the industrial goods market, although it is not much, but it can still make some American factories survive and not force everyone to jump over the wall.

As for the rest, it is only a matter of time, so that in the end, there are still a few large monopoly consortia left that insist on breaking the blockade, and these people should be left to Brian to have a headache himself, and he is not thinking about taking these people for a day. When he failed in the first election, it was mainly because Rockefeller and Morgan Sr. paid for it, this guy can't not hold a grudge, let the hatred add a righteous coat, his revenge will not have any psychological pressure, he has the support of larger and larger farmers behind him, it is not too difficult to clean up these people, and it is a universal truth to fight local tyrants.

As far as Emperor Yang is concerned, as long as the Americans are content with the status quo, there is no need for him to continue to toss, anyway, it is only a small country with a total population of 50 million, and there is still a circle of enemies around it, and it is impossible for him to pose any obstacles to China. Historically, the U.S. economy has been unbeaten. One is technology, now they will never be able to play China, and the other is resources, the super iron ore veins in Minnesota and the vast oil wells in East Texas and Louisiana give them an unrivaled huge advantage, but now one of the two legs has been unloaded.

The third is talent, and the successive wars in Europe and some other messes like Jews, nationalities, and so on have brought a large number of talents to the United States, where there is no such problem, and these continuous immigrants form the basis of the development of the United States, but now there have been wars for many years. The economic recession has made Europeans lose interest in this former haven of refuge, they don't want to run out of the war in Europe and get caught in the war in the Americas, compared with the current United States, South America and Australia are the most popular, and even India as a migration destination is more popular than the United States.

After losing these, the United States is now on the same level as Brazil, or even inferior to Brazil! At least there aren't so many hungry wolves staring around Brazil yet.

Just when Yang Feng and his subjects were making a lot of war money, Nikolai, who was overwhelmed by the situation on the front line, finally issued a threat to his allies. He made open, secret contacts with Wilhelm through the Swedish government, which frightened the British and French, and it was clear that Nikolai was expressing his displeasure with them.

In fact, Nikolai was fully qualified to be dissatisfied, as allies, Britain and France always sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight on the Western Front. Watching the Germans beat him all over the ground to find teeth, it was not even as much help as Yang Feng gave him, it was difficult not to make him angry, although he could understand this behavior. After all, it's not strange for allies to stab each other, but understanding doesn't mean he can accept it, especially now that he's in a critical situation. Britain and France will certainly not be able to continue to wait and see.

Just when Nikolai's younger brother, Grand Duke Mikhail, visited Stockholm, and Nikolai's brother-in-law, De Vig, the German Hesse Highway, also happened to visit the city of Wèn, knowing that he could no longer continue to watch the lively Britain and France, he finally launched an offensive on the Western Front.

This time the task of the main attack was in charge of the British, in fact, the French did not have the ability to launch a counteroffensive, more than two million casualties made the Gallic chickens become pestilence, they are now able to hold the line of the Marne River is already a high incense, especially the Verdun fortress that was burned into glass, completely shocked the small hearts of the French, and they do not have the Russian anti-aircraft machine guns, although there are also a lot of anti-aircraft guns, but the density in the front-line trenches is very small, At this time, the French soldiers were just like the Russians at the beginning, and their favorite thing to do was to look at the sky overhead.

The only thing that is better than the gray cattle is that the problem of deserters in the French army is not so strict, mainly because of the unity of the French nation and the hatred that has been suppressed for more than 20 years, but it is not uncommon to shoot yourself or take a cigarette butt and stretch out the trench at night to let the German sniper on the opposite side do the work for you.

The British Expeditionary Force and the Belgian government-in-exile are still able to maintain their will to fight. Under the command of Field Marshal Wood, this powerful corps could be said to be the mainstay of the entire Entente bloc on the Western Front, so the burden of the offensive naturally fell on them.

However, the target of the British counteroffensive was not France.

The battle was still fought on the Marne line, and on the long front from Saint-Michel-West to Paris in the east, in the roar of tens of thousands of great paupons, 1.5 million French troops, carrying heavy backpacks and Lebel rifles in their hands, mechanically charged at the German positions opposite them under the leadership of officers, as they had repeated again and again in vain before. Opposite them, in the flames of the PAO bomb explosion and the raging mustard gas poisonous mist, the German soldiers also kept firing with mechanical movements, and under the muzzles of countless machine guns that sprayed flames, the attacking French troops fell in pieces, and at the same time, the French artillery fire became more intense, and the corpses of German soldiers flew into the sky in the explosion.

This kind of pure bloodletting killing has been going on for more than a year now, the only difference is that now there are some new tricks, some new killing tricks.

Tanks appeared in the attacking ranks, and the same German tanks rushed through the trenches, armor-piercing shells streaked across the battlefield with firelight, and the pierced tanks were in flames, decapitated by the explosion of ammunition, adding a novelty to the already boring battlefield.

The war has likewise extended into the skies.

At the same time that millions of people on land are fighting to the death, the planes in the sky are also fighting to the death, because they have obtained the design of Yang Feng's Newport aircraft, so Britain and France have also obtained the design of the firing coordinator, although the new fighter is not completed, but now the old Falman fighter has begun to install this kind of thing, although the performance of the aircraft is still much worse than that of the Germans, but those French pilots driven by the belief in defending their homeland, still fly their planes bravely to face the powerful enemy.

Thousands of planes were entangled in the sky over the battlefield, tracer bullets were crisscrossing and crisscrossing, the hit classical biplanes fell to the ground with smoke and flames, huge airships also appeared, including the French, these aerial monsters each poured ZHA bombs or solidified qiyou bombs on the enemy, under the anti-aircraft fire of the ground counterattack, from time to time there would be burning airships falling in the sound of explosions, bombers also appeared, simple twin-engine small bombers, which looked like a pile of garbage, But it was a deadly pile of garbage, and small bombs whizzed and fell to the ground, exploding one ball of fire.

It was an all-out war, an all-out war from land to air, a never-ending decisive battle between two peoples.

At the same time as the French army launched a full-scale counteroffensive on the Marne front, the British offensive also began, from Ypres in Belgium to Compiègne in France, on a long front of more than 200 kilometers, more than a million British troops under the cover of more than 500 chariots, like their French allies, launched an attack on the opposite side of the German army

And the British offensive was more ferocious, the British soldiers who were inspired by justice or honor, in short, some messy things, hit the German defense line again and again like a tsunami raging waves, in the face of such a scale of attack, the German army, which was already inferior in strength, immediately felt heavy pressure, in order to alleviate the crisis on the battlefield, the coagulation qiyou bullet became the most important weapon in William's hands, and he even transferred all the airships back from the Eastern Front, Directly loaded with coagulated qiyou bombs, under the protection of fighter jets, unscrupulously poured hellfire on the heads of the enemy troops on the front line, especially the British troops.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be used on the battlefield in the melee, and the main targets of the bombing are the arsenals, assembly areas, stations, docks and even hospitals for wounded soldiers in the rear of those lines, and the entire rear of the French land is full of fire, and countless unlucky civilians have died in the flames of war.

In retaliation, British and French airships also bombed the rear of the German army, including bombers, although they did not freeze qiyou bombs, but there was no shortage of bombs and white phosphorus incendiary bombs, and even Cologne and Düsseldorf in Germany were bombed by the British, and the war was burning from the front line to the rear.

However, this super war of unprecedented scale turned out to be very helpless, as the great Chinese emperor His Majesty said, this is an era when the defensive power far exceeds the offensive power, whether it is the British or the French, the bloody battle only gains death, the result of tens of thousands of casualties every day is still the rock-solid Germans, and even the British newspapers are lamenting that this is a desperate battle, a pure meat grinder. (To be continued......)