773 can be considered for entering the Mediterranean

"What did you say!"

Haig's eyes widened, as if he had seen something terrible, and he suddenly stepped forward and grabbed the Signal Soldier by the collar, shouting, "Say it again! ”

The communications soldier was frightened, he had never seen the lieutenant general, who had always been known for his calmness and seriousness, become so agitated, and hurriedly repeated it aloud: "Report to the general, Saint-Calais has been suddenly attacked by the Germans, and General Gonzales and his command have all lost contact!" ”

"God!"

As soon as the words came out, the staff officers and officers who had just heard it not very well covered their mouths, and the pin drop was suddenly heard in the noisy hall, and everyone was stunned!

A sneak attack on a front-line command may not be nothing, but a lieutenant general! The high commander of an expeditionary force sent by one country to another country was arrested, and the command headquarters was terminated!

If there is, it is rare!

Important, Gonzales went to the Spanish army headquarters in Saint-Calais only 2 days ago! How can this be explained? Spain is cursed by God? The army sucks? The Germans were too powerful? Or is this bastard just too unlucky?!

"And ....... ※※※※※I'm going to *※※ net ※ (5) ※ (1) ※ Ο ※ ΝΕΤ ※ ※" The correspondent shuddered, hesitated for a long time and continued: "The telegram sent by the Spaniards said that Churchill MP had been away for a few minutes and was probably ....... ”

"Bastards, these stupid Spanish idiots!"

"Order the 257th, 121st, and 132nd Divisions to retake St. Calais at once!"

Haig roared, even ordinary guards could see that the notoriously indifferent "butcher" general was panicked, for the simple reason that there were at least 200,000 Spanish troops west of Saint-Calais, and if Germany took this opportunity to outflank ......! ”

Lose 200,000 troops at once?!

Has the goddess Mary been taken?! What will become of Spain, which has just lost 2 battleships? Will Alfonso XIII leave the war? Will this lead to the collapse of Paris and even the whole of Europe?!

"Boom, boom, boom......."

"Watch out for cannonballs!"

"Luger, take your company and go to the west!"

"Sergeant Adolf, you go to the east, and I will send a tank battalion to accompany you."

"Yes, Colonel." Hitler flew east with his soldiers, and the front of the church suddenly seemed empty. The German soldiers began to be nervous and busy, and the shells that flew in from outside the town from time to time made the fat mound who was hanging on a wooden stake tremble.

Probably fearing that such a useful prisoner would be accidentally wounded and killed by their own people, several German soldiers finally untied the dying fat rope, threw a torn cotton jacket and dragged it to the cellar where the important prisoners of war were kept.

Guderian was very nervous, and Ulan also felt unprepared, this raid on Saint-Calais was only to open the passage for the follow-up troops to pull out the stake and cut off the connection of the Entente forces from the flank, but no one expected to catch Gonzales, the high commander of the Spanish Expeditionary Force, first, and then a former British admiralty.

This is a hornet's nest!

Only as far as is known, there are 4 divisions of the enemy attacking their own outer defense lines on the east, west and south, and the European leopard is very strong, but more ants can bite the elephant to death!

Retreat with prisoners of war?

It may have been a good idea, but the surrender of St. Calais would have been a failure of the mission, and the follow-up troops would have to continue to engage in a grueling tug-of-war with the Allies in the mud pit. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

"Use three tank companies as support points to assist the infantry defense, and the rest of the tanks expand outwards and advance, trying not to let the Entente approach the town." Ulan pointed to the map, and didn't dare to hide it at this time, because this result was too important for the allies, and even important enough to change the trend of the war, so he also showed his own housekeeping skills and said: "General Ludendorff knows better than us, so I believe that the reinforcements must have set off, only 60 kilometers from Shatodan to here, the cavalry can arrive in an hour and a half, and the infantry will have three hours more!"

The time is too short, and although the Entente Army is outnumbered, the coordination and command are certainly insufficient, so we might as well take advantage of the mobility of the tanks to take the initiative to meet the battle. ”

After the interpreter finished saying this from Ulan, Guderian's eyes suddenly lit up, attack! Yes, taking the initiative to attack, the tank unit itself is a sharp weapon for attacking, and it may not be impossible to hold out for three hours by attacking instead of defending.

"Colonel, thank you for your advice."

Guderian didn't care much about greetings, and immediately ordered the remaining tank troops to take the initiative to attack, and nearly 100 European leopards roared from all over the town to meet the Entente forces who came to support.

On March 8, an unexpected battle was fought in the area of Saint-Calais, southwest of Orleans, a major French city, and in order to save Gonzales and Churchill and close the passage, Haig committed a full 7 divisions, and Ludendorff, who was the first to get the news, also sent 5 divisions to support Guderian at full speed.

In the great penetration of 12 divisions, Guderian and Ulan led the armored regiment, and after paying the price of more than 40 tanks being destroyed, they finally held out until reinforcements arrived.

On the morning of 9 March, the next five German infantry divisions made a detour west along the St. Calais Pass, forced by tanks, and captured Fort Berna at 2 p.m.

On March 10, the Germans again increased their strength to 15 divisions, and under the strict orders of Ludendorff, they abandoned all the work that could delay the construction of defensive lines, digging trenches, etc., and forced an attack on Legle.

On March 11, the railway town of Leegle, 170 kilometers west of Paris, fell, and nearly 350,000 Allied troops, including 230,000 Spanish expeditionary forces and 150,000 French troops, were surrounded in the central area from Saint-Calais to Leegle.

At this point, a total of 23 cavalry divisions, led by a tank regiment, completed a great detour, and judging from the map, a ferocious left hook appeared with Paris as the center!

Neither Haig nor Pétain, the commander-in-chief of the French front, could have expected that the German army, which seemed to be in full defense under the pressure of millions of troops, would take such a ferocious initiative, and the unexpected capture of Gonzales led to the complete loss of the defense line west of Paris.

The Battle of Paris, which had been poorly prepared in the early stage, suddenly took a major turn, and the German army, which was in full defense, began to take the initiative to counterattack.

On March 15, after four days of preparation for the deployment of troops, Ludendorff decisively put in the reserves of 15 divisions again to carry out a general attack on the West and French coalition forces in the encirclement, with the cooperation of nearly 4,000 artillery, more than 500 tanks and more than 1,000 fighters, the German army launched an attack from many sides, and the Spanish army, which was already low in combat effectiveness, was the first to be defeated, losing 7 villages and towns in just one day.

On 17 March, the encircled Spanish Major General Jahn announced his surrender.

On March 23, the lone French army finally laid down their arms and surrendered after six days of hard resistance, almost running out of ammunition and food, and without waiting for reinforcements.

Thus, the first major battle of the Battle of Paris, the Battle of Saint-Calais, ended, in which more than 560,000 West French soldiers were killed and all the rest were captured.

"Boom......."

"Ahh......h

A miserable cry came from the other side of the net, and the poor head of the Royal Praetorian Guard, who was playing tennis with Emperor Li for recreation, was covering his crotch, his legs were twisted together, and his face turned pale.

Several imperial concubines who were watching the battle bit the corners of their lips and their faces were flushed, and the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard turned their heads one after another and gasped for breath, Emperor Li looked at Du Dazhuang, whose face was purple and black, and then looked at Chen Ping, who was shocked by the emperor's divine ball, and finally gave up asking and hurriedly walked in front of the latter.

"So, Ludendorff is going to fight back?"

"It's not like that."

Chen Ping retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "The loss of more than 300,000 troops is just a fraction of the total strength of Kitchener and Xia Fei, although this time Ludendorff has been praised as the "king of infantry" in Germany, but it is not against the sky to break the passive situation of the whole line, but this time there are too many casualties of the Spanish army, and Haig and Petain have not come up with a good support method after they are surrounded, which eventually led to the surrender of 230,000 Western troops, plus Gonzales was captured, Alfonso XIII may be ....... ”

Li Mo nodded subconsciously, the domestic situation in Spain before the war was turbulent, and there were large-scale revolutionary movements in Madrid and Barcelona one after another, if it weren't for the British promise of the unrefusable interests of Gibraltar, coupled with Alfonso's marriage to Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Spain would have avoided this world war like the future generations.

First, Tonys was mistaken by Hill as a backing in the Seychelles, and now after the 230,000 Spanish troops were surrounded, Haig and Petain did nothing.

In this way, after all, it will provoke a revolutionary movement that has been dormant in Spain for a long time, and once the spark starts, Alfonso XIII must send troops from the front to come back to suppress it, and if one is not done well, the Spanish royal family may even be overthrown!

Spain is not Russia!

Once Spain, located in the Iberian Peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean, collapses, the connection between Portugal, Italy and Britain and France will also be affected, and even Greece and Serbia will have a chain reaction, so that the Mediterranean will quickly collapse and erode, and after that step, even if Britain and France are strong, they will have to switch from active offensive to passive defense, and the German army will have a great chance to end the Battle of Paris and then put into a strategic counteroffensive!

"Your Majesty, if you don't want to be confined to the Mediterranean Sea after the war, we ...... and should consider entering the Mediterranean!"

The words made Li Mo's eyebrows jump a few times, and after slowly sitting down, his fingers tapped on the edge of the table one by one, this suggestion made him feel both heartfelt and a little unwilling.

To be honest, he has never wanted to enter the Mediterranean Sea so early, and if he could, he even wanted to postpone it until the end of the year or even the beginning of next year, in order to let the European powers continue to strangle and bleed. But the big accident of Saint-Calais disrupted all the plans, once Spain really collapsed, the German army will inevitably turn to a strategic counteroffensive, if millions of German troops are all released, no one can predict how long Britain and France can resist, so if you do not enter the Mediterranean Sea at this time, once Germany gains the initiative in the war, France will even quickly surrender and collapse! If this situation really arises, China's voice in Europe after the war will be greatly reduced!

This is not the post-war pattern that Li Mo wants, he is not afraid of confrontation with Germany in the future, he is afraid of confrontation between China and the entire Western world!

Therefore, he gritted his teeth and also wanted to attack the United States, and dragged Mexico to carve up the important southwest oil region of the United States, because he knew better than anyone that after losing Mexico, Texas and even the entire Gulf of Mexico oil-producing area, it would not be so easy for the United States to take revenge.

But he didn't expect that there would be a sudden accident in the Mediterranean at this time, Chen Ping was right, now he must show determination, enter the Mediterranean Sea at speed, and gain control of one or two European countries, as long as he can intervene in Europe, plus Britain and France will definitely not be willing to be suppressed by Germany all the time after the war, then Europe will not be able to truly unite!

However, it is unrealistic for a large army force to enter Europe, and even he is not capable of carrying out such a distant transoceanic expedition when it is already extremely difficult to maintain the American battlefield, but the navy can take the initiative.

So.......

Spain, should we do something?

Geographically, the Iberian Peninsula is a natural barrier separating the Atlantic Ocean from the Mediterranean Sea, even if Germany defeats France and wants to use several major ports along the Mediterranean coast, including Marseille, it will not be so smooth, even if it cannot control Spain, as long as it occupies Mallorca, it will not be so easy for Germany to enter the Mediterranean Sea smoothly in the future.

Thinking of this, Li Mo immediately asked, "How are the preparations for Zhen'er to go to India?" ”

"Back to the emperor, the Bashu and Taiwan have completed the sea trials, and the adjustment is underway, and it is expected to be ready to set off within half a month, if you can wait for ten more days, the Xi'an can also be completed and delivered, so that the Seventh Fleet can have 1 mothership, 1 Taiwan-class, 2 Guam-class, and 1 Xi'an-class as the core combat force!"

"Italy alone can't stop us!"

"Where's the Panama Canal?" Li Mo continued to ask.

"In early May, the whole line will be navigable, I have ordered to speed up the stockpiling of war materials to Panama City, and Sa Zhenbing has also led the fleet to do exercises before entering the Caribbean Sea, if it goes well, we can attack the Caribbean Sea in early June and open up the East Coast passage of the United States."

"Let Long Guozhang transfer the 2 Yin Shang-class aircraft carriers to Gu Junhuo." Li Mozhong stood up, his eyes burning: "Give all the dive bombers that are close to the offline line to the Seventh Fleet, and we must form combat effectiveness in early May." ”

"Yes."

"Tell Xue Muhua that the strength of the Sinai Peninsula needs to be strengthened, and if the Seventh Fleet leaves, the canal will completely need to be supported by their air force, and in addition, it is necessary to prepare for the strategic bombing of Greece!"

After hearing Li Mo's words, the corners of Chen Ping's mouth hooked slightly, and after the two discussed the situation again, he was just about to leave, and he suddenly remembered something and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Churchill, who you brought the attention of the Ministry of Intelligence, was captured. ”

"Churchill was captured? Isn't he in England? ”

"Yes before, but this guy didn't know which tendon was wrong, and went to see Haig on the Western Front, and then to St. Calais."

"Churchill went to Saint-Calais?!" Emperor Li suddenly had a black line flying on his forehead, Qiu Fat didn't look like a guy who didn't cherish his life, he was first captured once in the Boer War, and after the Minister of the Navy was deposed, he was so angry that he went to the Western Front to gild, and finally got out of the front line, and he didn't work well as a promising parliamentarian, so he actually ran back to the Western Front War to find death!

Is this fat, is it painful to be idle?

"Hehe......." Thinking of the report of the Ministry of Intelligence, Chen Ping couldn't help but wonder: "After Churchill was captured, he was ordered by a German sergeant named Hitler to strip off his clothes and hang him, and he also whipped his buttocks with a horsewhip....... ”

It's over, heaven and earth have turned upside down!

"What!" Emperor Li's eyes widened, and after a while, he slapped his forehead suddenly, lamenting in his heart!

It's a complete mess.

Xiaohu actually dared to turn Qiu Fat into a bare pig and whip his ass ......, the world was reversed, and the rivers flowed back! It is no wonder that all situations are out of control, and there is no historical context at all!!

RO！ ~！