"The master is here, all stand and salute!"

With the shouts of the staff officers of the division headquarters, more than 40 officers of the three regiments stood up in the conference room, raised their hands and saluted.

Major General Wu Shixun strode in, followed by the deputy division commander and chief of staff and other senior officials of the division headquarters, he glanced at the officers with a grim face, his eyes swept over each officer as if he were substance, and the officers who were seen couldn't help but puff up their chests and stand more straight.

"Breathe, gentlemen, please sit down." Major General Wu Shixun raised his hand to return the military salute, then pressed his hands downward, and watched the officers sit back in their positions, with a hint of satisfaction in their expressions.

The officers of the imperial army have all been trained in professional military academies, and many of them are from semi-militarized eagle schools.

Major General Wu Shixun himself is the 14th class of the Young Eagle School, and now the latest graduating cadets are already in the 5th class, a full year late. And Li Xuanzhu is the first batch and one of the earliest graduates.

The people who have remained in the army after the graduates of the previous batches are now at least at the rank of brigadier general, and belong to one of the founding martial arts families of the empire, and they have a lot of face in front of today's saints, which is the glory obtained from the birth and death of today's saints for 10 years, and this deep friendship is not envied by others.

Major General Wu Shixun walked to the center of the conference room, looked around and spoke;

"Ladies and gentlemen,

Presumably everyone is concerned about the current political situation, an unprecedented major war in European history has begun, involving more than a dozen European countries in the flames of war.

Just today, according to the most recent news.

August 4th

More than 30 divisions of the German right flank corps on the Western Front invaded Belgium on a large scale, and fierce battles broke out with the Belgian army in the fortress of Liège.

The German offensive was extremely fierce, especially the Panzer Corps, which had just received news that Brussels had fallen on No. 0 and that the Kingdom of Belgium was finished.

The French First Army and the British Expeditionary Force were already engaged with the Germans, and the battle was raging throughout Belgium, with millions of troops on both sides in the midst of a desperate fight.

In the face of this catastrophic all-out war in Europe, the soldiers of the Reich should not be indifferent because they were thousands of miles away, but should actively reorganize their armies, obey the call of the Reich at any time, and be ready to meet a strong enemy at any time.

According to information from secret sources, Fuso was preparing to declare war on Germany under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance treaty, and the target might be the Qingdao fortress where the German army was entrenched on the Jiaodong Peninsula.

This shows that war is all around us.

As a soldier shouldering the sacred mission of imperial security and peace, we must devote ourselves to intense military training with the spirit of not waiting for time, so that these recruits can grow up quickly and be able to undertake the most arduous combat missions.

Our fourth division should train its elite soldiers hard and wait for the ...... with the fearless spirit of "being loyal to the empire, being loyal to the saints, using me in the first battle, and using me to win."

Major General Wu Shixun's loud voice resounded in the conference room, stirring up the enthusiasm of the young officers and their will to fight, and they were eager to immediately plunge themselves into the battlefield and make meritorious contributions.

Different from the atmosphere of training and preparing for war in the barracks, because the war in Europe took place on the other side of the world, far away from the mainland of the Ocean Empire, the masses in society generally still held an attitude that it was not their own business, and their lives were not greatly affected.

Soon it became noticeable that a large number of orders from Europe were flying like snowflakes, and the demand for supplies was almost endless, from groceries to guns and ammunition, from chemicals to cigarette cans, the amount was staggering.

Fortunately, after the large-scale wool war of the Ocean Empire a few years ago, the corresponding material supply capacity has been greatly improved, although the demand has shrunk sharply in the past two years, but the production capacity is there, and it is not difficult to recover.

As a result, the factories were working day and night at full speed, the farms and tobacco plantations were sown more and more, the pastures were multiplied in large numbers, and the economy was strongly pulled by the demands of war, and it was like a train that was running faster and faster.

As the economy has become more and more popular, there has been a large labor gap in society, companies are attracting talent with higher salaries, and some young people from plantations and remote pastoral areas are flocking to the cities in search of new development opportunities.

When the employment gap is getting bigger and bigger, many people invariably turn their attention to the turbulent continent, where ...... There is an almost endless supply of cheap labor.

As a result, a new round of immigration boom has quietly formed under the impetus of well-intentioned people.

It's been more than a month

More than 110 senior officers of the Royal Army with the rank of major general and brigadier general gathered here to receive military command training at the strategic and campaign levels, discuss new tactics, and strengthen military command capabilities in light of the current situation of war in full swing in Europe.

The general class is divided into three classes, A, B and C, and Major General Wu Shixun is a student of Class B, and according to the regulations, he needs to report to the Royal Army Whampoa University before September 1.

At this time, the European theater of operations took a new turn.

The German Army strictly implemented the "Schlieffen Plan", and the right flank corps bypassed the heavily defended Franco-German border line and invaded Belgium, occupied the Netherlands and Belgium successively, and attacked the French mainland from the right flank of the Western Front.

The route of the march was like a trajectory of opening the door, with the Franco-German border as the axis, passing through the Netherlands, Belgium attacking the French mainland, and crossing an arc along the right side, and the initial progress was very smooth.

meanwhile

Several of the main French armies, in accordance with Plan No. 17, launched an offensive on the left flank of the German army, however, the battle was very difficult and advanced almost at a turtle speed.

Both France and Germany wanted to push the war into enemy territory, and the "Plan 17" was based on this war plan, which on the surface looked good, but in fact it was a terrible battle plan.

Thanks to the rapid build-up of German troops with high-quality reserves and unobstructed road and rail facilities, the 1st Army under the command of General Kluke has concentrated 00,000 heavy troops in the Lorraine area, and is equipped with nearly 00 tanks, armored vehicles and thousands of artillery pieces.

The French 1st Army and the 1st Army, in their attack on the German defensive lines at Saarburg and Morange, were confronted with a heavy German army group armed to the teeth, and were overwhelmed by heavy artillery fire and counterattacks, suffering heavy losses and struggling to move forward.

The German troops on the defensive showed extremely high combat quality, and often one German division was able to withstand the attack of four French divisions, and fought back and forth without falling behind.

After the right-flank German army occupied Belgium, nearly a million men and horses of its five armies, like a wielding sickle, plunged diagonally from Belgium into France.

September day

The German vanguard had advanced only 15 miles from Paris, and the main French forces under the command of Chauffeur had failed to contain the German right flank, and the Parisians were panicked and the French government was forced to move to Bordeaux.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield was extremely favorable to the German army, and the German First Army, with 00,000 troops, was already standing on the outskirts of Paris, and was only one step away from victory.

However, it is strange that General Kluke did not attack Paris directly, but strictly followed the orders of the German General Staff Headquarters, and continued to move eastward on the edge of Paris, in order to cooperate with the German Army Group commanded by Bíraud to encircle and annihilate the French 5th Army.

In this way, the flanks of the German revolving front had to pass near Paris and cross the front of the French 6th Army.

00,000 German troops in a roundabout battle, the long marching column stretched like a comet for more than 140 kilometers, when the weak flanks were completely exposed in front of the French army, this was a once-in-a-lifetime fighter for the French Sixth Army defending Paris.

If it can be grasped correctly, it has the opportunity to cut off or even defeat the German 1st Army in one fell swoop, and reverse the decline on the battlefield.

It's a pity

At the same time that the Germans made mistakes, the French did not seize the fighters.

The commander-in-chief of the French army, Chauffeur, did not realize this wonderful fighter, and he still ordered the troops to continue to retreat, but the commander of the Paris garrison, General Gallieni, saw this clearly, and he excitedly shouted:

"They've sent the flanks to the door! How can the Germans be so stupid! I can't believe there's such a thing, it's great. ”

General Gallieni immediately asked the French 6th Army under General Maunuri to prepare to attack the flank of the German First Army, and he called Xia Fei again to ask him to approve the attack.

But Marshal Xia Fei hesitated and did not say anything, because the 6th Army was the last barrier of Paris's defense, and if it failed, it would mean that the French capital Paris would open its doors and there would be no longer the slightest ability to resist.

Gallieri drove to the British headquarters again, hoping to win their support, but unfortunately the British chief of staff said that he was "not interested", and now the British and French forces were beaten back by the Germans, and they urgently needed to gain a foothold on the Marne, and they were not at all interested in any initiative plan.

It is not to blame the chief of staff of the British army for missing the opportunity, under the combined attack of the German heavy army group and the armored forces, the French 5th Army and the British Expeditionary Force were defeated in successive battles, and the heavy equipment of tanks and artillery was almost lost in the hasty retreat, and the two tired and confused teams urgently needed to cross the Marne and re-establish the defensive line with the help of favorable geography.

The German 1st Army bit its ass and chased fiercely, and it was too late to escape, how could the British be in the mood to cooperate with the French 6th Army to fight back?

Royal Army Whampoa University

Class B

Lieutenant General Bian Chunsong, who served as an instructor, hung a large military map of Europe in front of him, marking the routes of the German, British, and French advances and retreats with thick arrow lines, and using small red and green flags to clearly show the positions of troops at and above the division level, which seemed to be clear at a glance.

He is using the current European combat examples to teach the tactics used by armored arms in super-large battles, and to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the two armies in order to deepen the understanding of the trainees. (To be continued)

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