Chapter 612: Paris Falls
At this time, if someone who knows about it sees it, he will definitely not believe that this is the station he is familiar with. Because at this time, the Shoni station had changed greatly, and after two days of high-intensity work by the German engineering railway soldiers, the tracks of the Shoni railway station changed from three to eight.
Although the extra rails are simple, some of them don't even have gravel under the rails, so they are directly laid on the ground with sleepers.
In order to increase the capacity of the Shoni railway station, the German engineering railway soldiers were also exhausted and paralyzed. Now that they've reached their limits, they're just waiting for the train to arrive.
At this time, the trains from Aachen also began to arrive.
"Woo woo woo~"
A train whistles and enters the train station, its carriages full of heavily armed soldiers.
"Crunch~"
With the sound of the train's brakes, it means that the train is about to stop.
"Wow~"
The compartment of the stuffy tanker was opened, and an officer stepped onto the platform.
"Quick, get out of the car, hurry!"
"Get off, get off!"
"Everybody get off!"
Amid the greetings of more than a dozen officers, the soldiers in the entire train carriage stepped onto the platform one after another.
After counting the number of people, led by a major battalion commander, they boarded the trucks that had gathered from all over the country, and then they were on their way to the Marne.
And just as they were boarding, another train full of soldiers roared to the train station.
As the train arrived, the wrenchers were busy, for behind them were six more trains that were about to arrive at Shoni at a distance of less than five hundred meters.
This is an officer of the Transportation Department of the General Staff, who deliberately took eight trains as a group according to the transportation plan drawn up by the Shoni railway station, which happened to have eight tracks at the Shoni railway station.
The regulation of a group can maximize the utilization of the station, so that more trains can reach Shoni as soon as possible.
Of course, this method is not without its drawbacks, the biggest of which is that the train is more difficult to return.
However, this difficulty was for the Transport Service, but it had advantages that the General Staff could not refuse. That is, the speed is fast, and under this kind of formation, the train can reduce the stopping time, just gallop all the way to Shoni. Of course, this is not without its drawbacks, that is, the section of the railway after Shawni will be filled with enough trains.
What a disadvantage this can be, compared to the Germans at the front and the whole plan, it is nothing, so the trains came to the pit station one after another.
In just one day, the Shoni railway station received more than 500 trains, which were basically loaded with soldiers, but there were also a small number of carrying artillery ammunition and other supplies.
Of course, no matter what they are loading, these trains have to stop here to unload personnel, materials and equipment, etc. Among them, the logistics officers and men in charge of loading and unloading were even more tired and paralyzed.
However, regardless of whether it was personnel or supplies, or those heavy artillery, the F75 trucks waiting in long queues at the station could be transported to the front line of the Marne as soon as possible.
From the afternoon onwards, Fiat's F75 trucks were on the road from Shony to the Marne, bringing in a large number of long-awaited reinforcements from the First and Second Armies.
And the arrival of this group of fresh troops gave the German officers and soldiers who were struggling to support themselves on the Marne a breather, and more importantly, it gave the hot a hope.
People who have hope and vitality will naturally behave differently, at least they will work harder and harder, and on the battlefield, the line of defense will gradually change from precarious to strong.
The change in the position of the German army naturally made the attacking French army feel the difference.
The situation of the German army was immediately known to the French high-brass, and of course, in addition to the information obtained from the front-line officers and soldiers, the French army also used airships and aircraft to conduct aerial reconnaissance. And the reconnaissance pilots saw a steady stream of convoys from Shoni to the Marne, which naturally let the British and French high-level know.
Faced with the fact that the German army had already been reinforced, the Anglo-French forces, which still had the advantage on the battlefield, certainly needed to find a way. After some short deliberations, the British and French decided to join in the investment of troops and must win the battle of the Marne.
As for why we should invest more?
Quite simply, they did not win a single battle on the Western Front, and the successive defeats made the morale of the officers and soldiers of the British and French forces a little low, which is why Xia Fei wanted to make the army retreat across the Seine in the first place.
However, after the German army revealed a flaw in the Marne, the British and French forces saw this as an opportunity, so a major war began here.
Now in the Battle of the Marne, after the German army was reinforced, the situation has entered the stage of stalemate between the two armies from the German army facing a rout.
Knowing this, the French army then began to collect troops from all over the country in an attempt to throw them into the battlefield of the Marne. In addition to this, it is also important to collect transport vehicles, especially various types of trucks. Among these trucks, Fiat's F75 truck is the favorite means of transport for the French army.
Although it was only a civilian model and had not been strengthened in various support structures, the outstanding performance of the F75 truck won the hearts of the French army's logistics department. However, there are not many F75 trucks in France, and according to Fiat's sales statistics, only more than 20,000 F75 trucks are sold in France.
At this time, the battle between the two armies on the Marne, like two red-eyed gamblers, desperately collected the chips they could find and threw them into the Marne table.
On the German side, Moltke Jr.'s other divisions and reserves continued to reinforce the Marne.
And the same was true on the side of the French army, where troops were thrown into the Marne battlefield without hesitation by Xia Fei.
The fighting between the two sides on the Marne lasted from 28 November to 14 December. In this battle, Shuangfa devoted all his energy, as well as various weapons and equipment. In the end, with the use of poison gas, a secret weapon, the Germans won the battle.
In order to win the red-eyed little Moltke, he threw all the only 340 tons of chlorine gas that the German army had into the battlefield of the Marne. And the French army, who did not understand all this, was defenseless in the face of the drifting green-yellow fog.
Many of the French soldiers began to suffocate and gasp in pain as the clouds drifted before them, and many fell down and suffocated, their eyes, noses, and throats burning as if they had been burned by acid.
The use of poison gas caused the French army to lose a large part of its key positions.
At this time, various rumors about poison gas also became more and more fierce within the French army.
Some people say that this is a mysterious gas obtained by the Germans by sacrificing their souls to the devil, while others say that the Germans used black magic, but either way it is rumored, it is a great blow to the morale of the French army.
In addition, the French army became more and more unfavorable on the Marne, and after some negotiations with the British army, the French commander-in-chief Xia Fei reluctantly gave the order to retreat.
The French troops gradually withdrew towards the line of the Seine.
In this battle of the Marne, the total number of troops invested by the two sides was as high as 2.3 million. The British and French lost 459,000 men, while the Germans lost 423,000. The total losses of the two sides were as high as nearly 900,000, which can be described as quite heavy casualties.
So not only the defeated British and French armies, but even the victorious German armies did not continue to pursue. They desperately need a break.
However, before resting, the German army still has one victory to gain, that is, Paris, the capital of the French army.
At the height of the Battle of the Marne, the French army threw in all the forces it could mobilize, and the defenders of Paris were naturally involved. At this point, you have to let them hold on to Paris again, and beware of these soldiers who have suffered a lot of casualties and shoot you with black guns.
Now Paris is like a ripe fruit, just waiting for the Germans to attack.
The French government, for its part, announced that it had moved to Bordeaux the day before he ordered the retreat.
Finally, in the early morning of December 16, the Germans entered Paris.
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Losses include casualties, missing, sick and all other non-combat casualties
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