Chapter 632: People's hearts are scattered
In Moscow, on a bitterly cold winter night of more than minus 30 degrees, the whole city was suddenly awakened by the terrible sound of air raid sirens, and the citizens of Moscow, who had never experienced such a thing, were at a loss, but then they came to their senses, and one by one they screamed and fled from their homes despite the biting cold wind outside.
Above them, one hundred and twenty Liberators from the three military airfields of Tbilisi, Gori, and Kutaisi were beginning to descend in altitude, when columns of searchlights shot out from the ground, followed by sporadic flashes of fire, and large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery shells with time fuses exploded in the sky.
It should be said that the response of the Russian army is still very fast, but the problem is that their weapons are too rubbish, and only a few large-caliber anti-aircraft guns can reach the liberators, but the rate of fire of this kind of thing is only in the single digits per minute, although there is a time fuse, but it is still a very unnatural thing to expect such anti-aircraft artillery to hit an aircraft at an altitude of five thousand meters. At such a distance, their shells would have to fly for more than ten seconds to arrive, which was enough time for the liberators to fly a kilometer, and in order for the two to meet in the sky, and to complete the calculations in the same seconds, well, then you have to get a high-speed computer from modern times, anyway, it is better to rely on the brains of Russian soldiers, so it is better to count on God to bless.
In the light of the shells that exploded like a salute, the two liberators quickly threw a cross of flames on the ground, and when the fire lit up the city, the bombardiers on the other bombers in the sky began to look for their favorite targets to complete the aiming, and then immediately poured all the 180 tons of coagulated qiyou shells at the fastest speed, just after Moscow instantly turned into a sea of fire, the liberator formation turned around and returned without hesitation, the bombing work is so boring and tedious, of course it is not the case for the Russians, Their tedious voyage brought real disaster to the Russians.
One hundred and eighty tons of coagulation qiyou shells caused a fire in the city, and at least one-fifth of the city was poisoned by fire demons, and this bombing alone. More than 3,000 Russians were killed in the fire, and more than 2,000 refugees who lacked protection froze to death in the severe cold that followed, in fact, the most lethal damage to the bombing of Russian cities at this time did not come from the bombs or the coagulated qiyou bombs themselves, but the severe cold of minus 30 degrees Celsius in Russia, without the protection of houses, the cold was more deadly than any weapon.
The Russian government strongly condemned the Chinese's behavior, of course, this is just a process, but the Russian royal family did not express it too directly. Because Emperor Yang had already stated that because of his friendship with Empress Alexandra, he would not bomb St. Petersburg. As for his friendship with the British royal family, this, the order to bomb Britain has nothing to do with him, the eighty liberators were commanded by Austria-Hungary, and the order to bomb Britain was given by Archduke Ferdinand, this really has nothing to do with him, he can stop the bombing of Rome because of the Pope's relationship, but he will not interfere with Archduke Ferdinand's command for the sake of the British royal family, right?
And the order to bomb Russia was given by the General Staff of the Chinese Army. This he could have limited, of course, in fact he could not reach St. Petersburg, which was beyond the combat radius of bombers taking off from Georgia.
The bombing of Moscow was only the beginning, in the days to come. Bombers on the territory of Georgia began to wreak havoc on almost all of Russia, Tsaritsyn, Kazan, Ryazan. Kharkov, Kiev, Rostov. Sevastopol... Almost all of Russia's major industrial cities within the bombardment area were bombed, and even Minsk did not escape the clutches of the liberators after the opening of the military airfield in Ankara, and the whole of Russia was in panic.
And at this time, the Chinese capital ships going north were also approaching Europe day by day, and the day after the bombing of Moscow, this huge fleet had already recovered Douala, the former capital of the German Cameroonian colony, and began to stop and wait for the follow-up landing fleet, because there was a stronghold mainly controlled by the British, Lagos, which needed to be captured, where there was a whole division of British troops, and a large number of armed oil field workers, anyway, it was impossible for the Nigerian oil fields to be transported back to the British, But the oil workers were qualified soldiers, even more experienced than the regular army, and such people naturally needed to be put to good use to resist the invaders.
This is due to the Nigerian guerrillas, whose incessant attacks tempered the British.
In addition to Lagos, other major ports along the Gulf of Guinea, such as Lomé, Abidjan, and Cotonou, also had a certain number of British and French troops, none of which could be taken over by naval warships, not only to be cleared, but also to be occupied by garrisons, this task had to wait until a large number of land forces arrived to solve, of course, in fact, it would not take much, two armies would be enough to control the entire coast of the Gulf of Guinea.
While waiting for the army troops to arrive, Lin Yongsheng's fleet could not be idle, anyway, the water depth in the port of Douala was not enough, and neither aircraft carriers nor super battleships could sail in, so they simply drove the aircraft carrier formation to the sea south of Ghana, and then sent carrier-based aircraft everywhere to bomb all for the pilots to train with live ammunition.
While he was training pilots with the lives of the British and French colonists and, the Dingzhen formation, which had returned to Puerto Rico to complete its supply, and the other servant fleets set sail back to Europe, this time with a division of the army, and then directly occupied the Azores, where they rested a little and then sailed to Spain, where they docked at the northern Spanish port of Bilbao, and with the arrival of this fleet, the French who held on to the Pyrenees were unlucky.
The French army had a total of three armies on the Franco-Spanish border, although all of them belonged to Yan Zhan's dissatisfaction, but the total strength also reached 400,000, of which 200,000 formed a 50-kilometer-wide stretch of defense line south of Bayonne to block the largest gap in the Spaniards' northward advance, and the other 150,000 men blocked the eastern exit of the Pyrenees in Perpignan, and defended several passages in the mountains with 50,000 men in the middle, so that it was also built like an iron barrel. The Spaniards concentrated an army of one million, and so far they have not been able to break through the French defense, but have lost more than 300,000 themselves, because the main targets of the Spaniards were Gibraltar and Portugal, so this front has been stalemate, until now, in order to cooperate with Emperor Yang's strategy, they have begun to launch a large-scale offensive again.
The arrival of the formation gave the Spaniards the most powerful support, the battleships on the coast, the battle cruisers sprayed flames from their muzzles, and the shells of 300 kilograms of shells whistled and fell, exploding terrifying fires on the French defensive line, and the Eagle fighter-bombers in the sky circled like golden eagles foraging for food, smashing bombs or solidified qiyou bombs on the heads of the French at any time, and even some bombers that had completed the bombing directly strafed the ground.
Those poor French soldiers, one by one, with large-caliber shells and heavy bombs falling from their heads, lay in the trenches and struggled to support, defending their homes with their own lives.
At this time, France was really pitiful, the five-year war left less than 30 million in this country with a population of only more than 30 million, including those who were crippled with arms and legs, their total casualties so far have reached 8 million, of which nearly 3 million are civilians, the entire north has been completely destroyed, including the capital Paris, and even after the recovery of Paris, the French government has not moved back to this real capital, and from the shape of the war, It is estimated that it will be difficult for them to own the city again after the war, and the French government is still in Bordeaux.
But with the attack of the Spaniards, it is estimated that Bordeaux is also difficult to keep, after all, the city is less than two hundred kilometers from the front line, and now the Chinese carrier-based aircraft have bombed Bordeaux, and it is said that the French government is preparing to move the capital again, this time directly to Lyon, and after changing three capitals in five years, the French are almost numb to shame.
"Thinking back to before the war, when we were so confident about retaking Alsace and Lorraine, who would have thought that we would have such a day? Thirty years ago the Germans did not take our Paris, and this time I am afraid they will not be so kind. Marshal Foch said bitterly, looking at the bombers in the sky.
"Your Excellency, we must defend this place no matter what, otherwise even our southern territory will be ravaged by war, and half of France has been destroyed, and the remaining half cannot be destroyed again in any way." His chief of staff, Wei Gang, said with a sad face.
"What shall we keep? On our right are five battleships and six battle cruisers plus a hundred cruisers, destroyers, their farthest artillery can cover half of our entire defense line, we have hundreds of bombers above our heads, their motherships are in the harbor dozens of kilometers away, and our front is more than 600,000 troops, how do you say we can defend it? Foch said bitterly, in fact, in his opinion, it was only a matter of time before this line of defense was breached.
"Persuade the General Staff to withdraw our troops from the northern front, where we still have 600,000 troops, and with their reinforcements, we can fully hold this front. We don't need to care about the Germans anymore, even if we withdraw all our troops, the Germans will not step out of their lines, so we don't have to continue to be tied up with the British, we have lost this war, and the most important thing for us now is not some illusory victory, but to keep our last piece of land that has not been scorched by the flames of war. Wei Gang gritted his teeth and said. (To be continued......)