756 West Wind Flame (2)

February 18, Chinese New Year's Eve. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Paris, inside the train station.

Hordes of French workers in blue coarse cloth overalls were unloading and coaling the occupiers under shiny and cold bayonets in exchange for the scarce rations to feed their families.

Suddenly, a whining whistle sounded from a distance, and a train slowly drove into the station, and when a thick white mist of steam poured out from both sides of the nose, and the entire platform was filled, hundreds of German soldiers with loaded guns had begun to walk out of the carriage with guns on their backs.

Looking at these German soldiers, the French workers were both disdainful and panicked, and most of them were numb, an indescribable, as if they were gradually dying, even though the horn had sounded in the second capital, Porto, and even though countless young French men were rushing here one after another to try to recover the capital, they still could not dispel the cold in their hearts.

One after another, puffing black smoke, like a steel dragon, quickly drove into the capital city of what was once the center of Europe, known as the cultural and political heart of France, and then quickly unloaded soldiers and equipment, and then turned around and rushed back to Germany along the developed railway network between France and Belgium.

The war is scorched under this kind of uninterrupted transportation from trip to car.

Several French workers held shovels and looked at the German soldiers with loaded guns, recalling the scene that happened more than two years ago.

At that time, the streets of Paris were filled with jubilant crowds, waving flowers, releasing streamers, girls giving kisses, and the whole country singing "La Marseillaise", which represents the spirit of France, and bidding farewell to the soldiers.

At the beginning of the war, the lines of both warring sides were written in chalk with the words "Come home for Christmas", and everyone looked forward with confidence to a short but glorious war. However, they soon found themselves embroiled in a protracted and brutal war.

The lights went out in Belgium, then spread to France, Paris, Verdun, etc., and finally the whole of Europe was plunged into a cold night!

The two countries, which were originally neighbors, expanded their hatred to the entire nation, and continued to ferment and sublimate their anger and finally became relatively unable to extricate themselves!

This is the hatred of nations, after the humiliating defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War, France and Germany became the terrible fuse on the European continent, and when France promised that idiot Tsar Nicholas II, it had in fact handed over the fate of tens of millions of people in the entire country!

Today, it is gradually discovered that Germany was in fact unwilling to go to war with Britain and France before Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, and Kaiser Wilhelm II even intended to make compromises, but misunderstanding and hatred eventually made peace drift away.

Austria-Hungary declares war, Russia declares war, Germany declares war, France declares war, Great Britain declares war!

Wait, wait......!

The whole of Europe, like the train in front of it, suddenly went out of control to the station where no one knew where it would end, when the war began to expand indefinitely, and the two sides began to look for more "partners and allies" for their own interests.

The United States came, the Entente rejoiced, and France thought that victory was imminent, but did not expect that the dragon in the East would also join in! In the end, Japan, North Korea, Colombia, Peru and other countries were all involved!

A war in Europe caused by a despicable assassination that even the Entente despised was transformed into a superwar between two major military blocs for control of the world after China and the United States joined!

Ethnicity, religion, marriage, hatred, dignity, power, money...... All of this was like a fuse, ignited, detonated, and finally all of them were stirred into war, setting off a bloody storm all over the world. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

More than two years ago, the Schlieffen Project was like a revolving gate, and with the help of the debut tank brought by the arsonist in the Far East, Paris fell in a short time!

France has lost its proud heart, lost 60% of its industrial capacity, lost the pride of a great European power!

If it is said that the most seriously injured in this war is undoubtedly France, all 80% of the industry and agriculture are paralyzed, more than 10 million young people are forced to take up arms to defend their homes, women and the elderly are also pulled up, the number of troops is no longer an important indicator for France, because as long as you can still run, you must serve the country.

Countless cities, destroyed in artillery fire, blood spilled all over the north of France, even the shroud was no longer satisfied, when the corpses were collected, the only thing that awaited them was a hasty burial.

This is France now.

As in the dark Middle Ages, the spark of revolution and change began to brew in these lands, and the anti-war and the search for an end were unstoppable, and for the current French government, war had turned into torment, and all the glory of France had been thrown out of the sky.

There is only one antidote, regain Paris!

But is Paris easy to recover? Watching in a daze as another flatbed train drove into the station, as never-before-seen tanks rolled off the train under the command of soldiers, the workers could no longer predict tomorrow.

"Colonel Guderian, here's the list, it's 150 in total."

The corporal ran to Guderian, who was already a colonel, and handed the transport list to the young officer, who had rushed to Paris in one fell swoop and was received by His Majesty the Emperor.

Guderian took the list and excitedly walked to the train.

This is a completely different tank from the 7V, it is similar to the Hua 3 Cheetah in terms of appearance, but the turret is larger, using a short-barreled 50 mm gun and an 8/15 light water-cooled machine gun, the turret shape is square, using a 150 horsepower gasoline engine purchased from China, and the high driving speed reaches 25 kilometers on the road and 15 kilometers off-road.

This is the tank he has been looking forward to for a long time, a year ago when China entered the war and used the Cheetah for the first time in Siberia, Germany has always wanted to get that type of tank, although the Chinese did not provide all the manufacturing technology, but provided some technical support for the German development of the tank, because of their technological leadership, tanks from various countries have imitated their shape design, Germany is no exception, and finally born this tank.

The Germans called it the "European Panther." ”

Compared with the 3 Cheetah of the main station of the Chinese Army, the European Leopard is stronger in the case of comparable speed, only slightly worse than the Siberian Tiger, the big surprise comes from the power, after the opening of the Baghdad Railway, China began to deliver hundreds of 150 horsepower 3 Cheetah standard engines as promised, this engine is lighter than the same horsepower engine made in Germany, the starting speed, and also fuel efficient, so that the European Leopard has increased the driving distance to 220 kilometers.

It is this batch of engines that makes Germany feel the advantages of China in terms of power, you must know that this is only the heart of 3 Cheetah, so Germany has also begun to strengthen the development speed of engines.

For Guderian, these are not things that his little major thinks about, he cares about what kind of variables the arrival of these tanks will bring to the battle of Paris at this critical moment!

"Colonel, General Ludendorff asks you to go to the command immediately." "Okay." Guderian reluctantly glanced at the "European Leopard" that was being unloaded, and then walked into the military vehicle that came to pick him up.

In front of the beautiful and majestic Élysée Palace, all kinds of military vehicles were parked, and it was no longer the French who were busy coming and going, but its owners and officials. The palace, once the presidential palace of the French Republic and a symbol of France's high power, has gradually faded out of the ranking of the center of the world, and it has been replaced by the recently opened Donghua Court in Europe.

Standing in front of the luxurious office window of the Elysee Palace, looking at the beautiful Seine River in the distance, Ludendorff could not see any trace of tension and worry before the big war on his face, which made Wang Shizhen next to him secretly admire.

After living in Germany for more than two years, Wang Shizhen never knew that he was slowly familiar with this army, which was known as the best army in Europe, and their strict discipline and tenacious combat style left a deep impression on people.

Since the beginning of the war, Germany has had both gains and losses, and the Schlieffen plan helped Germany knock on the door and sweep through the north of France with a devastating momentum, but the executors were in various considerations and underestimated the stalemate of the war, as well as the scale, etc., resulting in the follow-up troops not coming after the German occupation of Paris, and could not continue to penetrate deep into southern France.

Fighting on two fronts, Germany fought very tenaciously, but the failure of the Battle of Verdun before Russia's withdrawal was a stain, not so much because the German army held on to an unfavorable position, but because of the failure of the command of the former chief of staff Falkingham, who blindly defended and buried Germany's early efforts. Before Falkingham could recover from the defeat, the Anglo-French campaign of Lower Normandy left the chief of staff at a loss, and after another attrition and stalemate, he left the staff in disgrace.

In Wang Shizhen's view, Ludendorff is indeed a rare person, although he stole some credit that belonged to Max Hoffmann on the Eastern Front, but from the deputy chief of staff of the Second Army before the war, all the way to the deputy chief of the general staff of the German army, this proud resume became famous for his ability.

In particular, after Hindenburg came to power and reused him, he did not fail to live up to Hindenburg's great trust, resolutely abandoned Falkingham's previous idea of "keeping all positions at all costs", took the initiative to abandon all worthless and unnecessary positions, and greatly reduced the number of troops to preserve the vital forces. Moreover, he also attached great importance to the use of artillery and tanks, and dragged the Battle of Lower Normandy into a stalemate after inflicting heavy losses on the British and French armies and greatly depleting the forces of the Entente, but because Falkingham lost too much land in the early stage, he could not regain it at once.

This time, at a critical moment, he once again took on a heavy responsibility and came to Paris to become the commander of this front.

323 divisions, a total of 4.29 million German troops, will face the Entente forces that are almost more than double their number, and it is false to say that they are not nervous, because this kind of big war with more than a million people is a great test for anyone!

"General Ludendorff, once the war starts, please allow me to go to the front in person, I very much want to feel this great battle." Wang Shizhen broke the brief silence.

Ludendorff hurriedly shook his head: "No, Chief of Staff, this is too dangerous, you are our honored guest." Moreover, the enemy is fighting with all his might this time, and from what we know so far, there are more than 10,000 artillery pieces of various types deployed on the front line! Once the war starts, the passages from Paris to all fronts will be cut off, and even hiding in concrete fortresses will be dangerous, and if you ......, I will not be able to account for it. ”

"General, please rest assured, I will be careful to protect myself." Wang Shizhen was very confident, but before he could continue, Ludendorff shook his head again: "Your Majesty, Chief of Staff, I understand your feelings, but I hope you can also understand me, but please rest assured, I will definitely go with you if conditions permit." ”

"Okay." In the face of Ludendorff's insistence, Wang Shizhen had no choice but to agree first, to be honest, if he missed watching this battle with his own eyes, I am afraid he would not be able to sleep for the rest of his life.

Hearing that Wang Shizhen no longer insisted, Ludendorff also breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to talk about the situation when a report sounded outside the door: "General, Colonel Guderian is here." ”

"Ask him to come in."

"Report." Guderian walked into the office in good spirits, and after seeing that Wang Shizhen was also present, he hurriedly saluted and said hello.

"William, you take a look at this first."

Guderian took the battle plan, and was surprised while reading it, because he always felt that this plan was a little familiar, and it didn't seem to be from Germany, so after reading it all, he immediately looked at Wang Shizhen next to him and asked, "General, this is ......." ”

Ludendorff didn't seem to hear him, and after waving his hand to the guards at the door, he smiled and said, "I'll introduce you to a good officer." As soon as he finished speaking, footsteps sounded behind him, and Guderian quickly turned his head to look, and found that it was a Chinese officer who had never seen before, short and stout, about thirty years old.

"The Flying Tiger Regiment of the Royal Chinese Army, Colonel Ulan, has seen two generals."

"Flying Tigers!"

Guderian's eyes suddenly enlarged, this number is now famous in Europe almost everyone knows, the classic battle across the Arabian Peninsula has been worshiped by the tank forces of various countries, in addition to excellent equipment, their maneuver in the march, cooperation in battle, etc., have been repeatedly studied by various countries.

As an avid tank officer, how could he not have heard the name! It's just that how could he suddenly appear in Paris! Could it be that Hua changed his mind and will send an expeditionary force to the Western Front?

"Major Guderian, because our country is attacking the United States, we can't draw troops to the Western Front, but Colonel Ulan is a good tank commander in our country, he has a lot of experience, I believe he can bring you some help, and he will be your assistant in the next six months, and cooperate with you to win this war!"

"I hope you can work together."

"My assistant?" Guderian's heart suddenly warmed up when he thought of the plan he had just made.

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