ps: This was yesterday's second chapter, but I couldn't land last night, depressed (v?v)

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August 7, Republic 2757 (1916), Down.

In yesterday's operation, although at the beginning of the offensive, the Entente = Army did not find the Germans, but it did not take long for them to determine the position of the German troops. After all, there are hundreds of thousands of people, how can they hide, the planes of the Entente flew in the direction of Paris for a while, and they saw them.

Although it is not understood why the Germans abandoned their carefully constructed defensive lines, this did not hinder the determination of the Entente to counterattack. They really wanted to break the deadlock and counterattack Paris. The Allies desperately needed a hearty victory to boost their morale, especially France, which was desperate to retake the capital. Moreover, the recapture of Paris was not only of great political significance, but also of great military significance.

Therefore, even if they knew that the German retreat must have a purpose, they had to move on, which was not only a military task, but also a political task. In other words, even if you know that there is a pit in front of you, you have to close your eyes and jump down.

Of course, in the eyes of the Allied leadership, the Germans had only retreated for a day, and it was unlikely that they would dig any pit to harm themselves, because C, w@ww. What could they do in a day because they didn't have much time?

Although the German army will definitely have some advantage as the defender, the number of Allied troops is overwhelming! Take tanks as an example, the German army has only 620 tanks now, while the number of tanks in the Entente has reached 1,340. In the case of infantry, the advantage was even greater, and Britain and France now had in their hands more than 1 million troops transferred from the colonies, and 250,000 Japanese troops who had traveled thousands of miles to help.

Therefore, for the top level of the Entente, it simply does not matter. What if Erdezi had a conspiracy and tricks? Lao Tzu directly broke the trick with his strength! With so many troops rushing over, even if they were employing people, they could pile up dead people!

So after confirming that the Germans had gathered in Down, the next morning, the Allied army marched on Down. Orleans is about 60 kilometers from Donp, and the most equipped truck by the Allies is the Liberation 52 (prototype Liberation CA15) produced by China, which has a load of 5 tons and has a road speed of 40 kilometers per hour. If you use this kind of car, it will take you more than an hour at most.

The tank certainly could not be so fast, and in order to take care of the tank, they slowed down to 10 kilometers per hour. Although the maximum speed of their tanks is more than that, with the quality of the current British and French tanks, if they really run at the maximum speed, I am afraid that after running such a distance, they will have to lie down half of the nest due to engine overheating, transmission system wear and so on.

In addition, in order to plunge into the battle as much as possible, the British and French tank units did not take the road, but directly formed a formation and advanced on the field, so that it was impossible to reach maximum speed. Anyway, the Great Plains of France are flat enough, where can't you go?

At this time, it could be seen from the sky that more than 1,000 steel behemoths formed a mighty queue in battalions, majestically killing the German army in Downp.

At 2:20 p.m., the vanguard of the Anglo-French army had approached 20 kilometers from Down, and could already see the bell tower of Downport.

At 2:30 p.m., the first exchange of fire of the day began, but not on the ground, but in the air. More than 500 planes from both sides slaughtered in the skies over Downp. What is more interesting is that the planes that are now fighting on both sides are all of Chinese origin, and the British and French air forces are using the J-3 "Swift" fighter developed by Chengfei (single-seat, biplane, liquid-cooled. Prototype Fury 2) as well as in-house models. The Luftwaffe used the J-4 "Oriole" fighter developed by Efei (single-seat, biplane, liquid-cooled. prototype HE51) as well as in-house models. As for the "Albatross D" and other models they originally used, they were all sent to the second line to train pilots.

Therefore, later, some domestic media ridiculed that this air battle was "a battle between Chengfei users and Hubei Fei users".

The performance of both aircraft is actually similar, and even the engine is exactly the same "HHY01W" piston liquid-cooled engine. The armament was also two 7-mm machine guns (later, in order to facilitate logistical supply, the British changed the machine gun to 7. 7 mm caliber, while France changed to 8 mm, and Germany to 7. 92 mm machine gun).

Therefore, the German army can no longer occupy any advantage in the performance of its aircraft, and mainly relies on the pilot's supreme experience to suppress the opponent. Although the overall morale of the British and French pilots was a little worse, their morale was not bad at all, and they fought quite fiercely.

The sky here has become a battlefield, and the fighters of both sides are spitting tongues of fire, shuttling back and forth, from a low altitude of 500 meters to an altitude of 5,000 meters, fighting everywhere. From time to time, planes fell with black smoke in tow, and some of the more unlucky ones were hit with volleys and exploded, and they were beaten to disintegrate on the spot.

Aircraft of Chinese descent are equipped with parachutes, and this setting is widely accepted, and now military aircraft around the world are equipped with parachutes.

The pilots who were shot down parachuted only if they were either killed on the spot or incapacitated. I saw umbrella flowers floating in the sky from time to time, like dandelions in the wind. However, with the backdrop of fierce battles, it will not feel poetic at all, only the smell of steel, fire and blood.

The airship on which the onlookers rode had already been raised to a height of more than 6,000 meters, avoiding the battlefield where the two armies exchanged fire. And their obvious livery also shows their identity, and the pilots on both sides also deliberately avoided their location. However, even so, an airship on which the American observer group was traveling was hit by a stray bullet, one US officer was killed on the spot, three others were wounded, and the airship's airbag was also broken in many places.

Looking at the wolf-bèi American airship that was returning home, the rest of the observers were a little speechless. In fact, this airship is also a self-inflicted trouble, if they had raised the altitude earlier, it would have been fine. But in order to make it more convenient for onlookers and shooting, they continued to stop at an altitude of 2,000 meters. Just because I was greedy to see the scenery, I ended up stupid.

Major Hua Gaimu couldn't help but spit out: "These Americans are really stupid! They dare to stay in the airspace of war, even if the pilots recognize them, do they think that the bullets have long eyes, and they can't recognize them?"

Major Wei Dabao next to him smiled: "Fortunately, it's a helium airship, if it's a hydrogen airship, we can see big fireworks today......"

"Speaking of airships, I don't think it's been a long time since I've seen airships on both sides appear on the front line...... Lieutenant Colonel Jin Hai said with a smug face: "I said a long time ago that airships are not suitable for combat, Lin Shenhe, a reactionary academic authority who always touts the invincibility of airships, it's time to stop!"

"That's right, this sky should be the world of our planes!" Wei Dabao nodded vigorously.

"It's not useless to have such a thing, but it's only suitable for civilian and second-tier people, like running transportation, engaging in scientific research or something, and they're still doing a good job. Chu Wangyuan pretended to be fair and said.

A group of pilot-turned-officers chimed in, even if they were sitting on an airship right now. As we all know, there are two major factions within the Chinese Air Force, the airship faction and the aircraft faction. In the beginning, it was the airship faction that had an absolute advantage, and they accounted for more than ninety percent of the various resources of the air force, and the aircraft faction could only pick up some leftovers, just like the children raised by their stepmothers. However, the airship faction did not have to be proud for long, with the improvement of aviation technology, the performance of the aircraft has improved rapidly, and the power of the aircraft faction has also expanded rapidly. By the time World War I broke out, the two sides were evenly divided.

After the "Great 730 Air Battle" in 1914, the vulnerability of airships was laid to light. During the campaign, 30 British "Robin Hood" interceptors (a British derivative of the J-3 "Swift") went out to meet the German airships that came to bomb, and at the cost of two shot down, they used white phosphorus incendiary bombs to turn 14 large German airships into large fireballs.

The myth of the "airship triumph" is bankrupt. The airship faction was suddenly discouraged, and the airplane faction was arrogant. The airship faction now does not dare to mention air combat, and the officers of the aircraft faction, who were fed up with bird spirits in the past, will pull out the airship and criticize it whenever they have the opportunity.

Most of the aviation officers who came here to serve as observers this time were sent by airplanes, and now the entire cabin of the airship was filled with their pleasant voices. The two officers of the airship faction cowered in the corner with ugly faces, pretending not to hear.

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At 3:40 p.m., after more than an hour of fierce fighting between the planes of both sides, the Allied air forces began to gradually withdraw from the battlefield. Both sides suffered massive losses, with the Allied air forces shot down more than 80 and more than 60 damaged, and the Luftwaffe shot down more than 40 and more than 70 damaged.

Next, having driven away the opponents in the sky, the Luftwaffe began to launch a ground attack. However, their attacks did not work well against Allied tanks on the ground. 7 on German fighters. The 92mm machine gun was still too difficult to deal with these turtle shells, and even the thinnest armor of the Renault FT16 had armor that was immune to machine guns.

After a few rounds, only four or five tanks were destroyed. This is still an explosion of the pilot's character, which happened to break the tank engine. Most of the pilots were not so lucky, and they didn't get anything out of the battle except for a few tinkling noises, and instead they were shot down by anti-aircraft machine guns from tanks, and three were damaged.

The German planes had no choice but to stop their attacks in frustration, and most of them returned to the airfield to replenish their fuel bombs, leaving a few planes flying high in the air and circling to press their own formation.

Some people may ask, tanks are all turtle shells that are not easy to fight, but aren't there still a large number of cars behind the tank, why not fight those unarmored cars?

The Germans, of course, wanted that before 1915, they used this tactic a lot, relying on their air supremacy at that time, and often flew to the side of the Allies to attack the transport lines, killing a lot of vehicles.

But the officers and soldiers of the Entente were not stupid, and they could install a machine gun or cannon on a car for air defense, as long as anyone with a normal IQ wanted to do it. The furnished Entente began to scramble to install machine guns, machine guns, and even anti-aircraft guns on their vehicles, and even specially modified anti-aircraft fire vehicles, and many models of "self-propelled anti-aircraft guns" and "self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns" appeared. And at this time, the speed of the aircraft was relatively slow, no more than 300 kilometers at most, and the defense was also very low, and the effect of fighting with anti-aircraft machine guns was still very sour.

Since then, most of the Allied cars on the front line have added a machine gun, and if they are sent in convoys, they will be accompanied by several "self-propelled anti-aircraft guns" and "self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns". Having paid a heavy price, the Luftwaffe no longer dared to attack Entente convoys with impunity.

Not to mention the Allied armies now, not only are there many specially modified anti-aircraft tanks mixed in the tank formation, but even the convoys behind are followed by many "self-propelled anti-aircraft guns" and "self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns", and almost all the cars are equipped with a machine gun.

Of course, the Germans attached no less importance to air defense than the Entente, and they also came up with "gun cards" and a series of modified self-propelled air defense weapons.

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At 3:50 p.m., the Allied armored torrent approached within fifteen kilometers of the Tangpu Line, and the vanguard was less than five kilometers from the line.

At this time, the German artillery began to fire, and the various artillery positions were filled with gunsmoke, and the muzzle fireworks were constantly flashing in the smoke. More than 2,000 guns, ranging from 75 mm to 150 mm, roared in unison, roaring continuously towards the torrent of armor to the south.

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

The British and French tanks picked up speed, they spread out in formation and rushed towards the German positions at full speed with raining shells.

The observers of various countries on the airship were watching the artillery battle on the ground intently.

"The effect of the German artillery bombardment is not very good, it seems that they have not yet learned the coordinate shelling method......" Colonel Yi Damao shook his head at the sight. The Germans watched a lot of excitement with a thousand guns, but there were very few Allied tanks that were actually destroyed.

The so-called coordinate shelling method is to divide the battlefield into a number of squares in advance, and each square has a coordinate representation as a reference for shooting. When firing, when the enemy appears in which square, you can shoot directly according to the pre-set parameters, which can greatly improve the efficiency and hit rate of shelling. In the original plane, this kind of artillery technique did not appear until World War II. However, as a traverser, Wen Desi of course let the squadron use this set of things early on.

Colonel Yang Ning next to him said disapprerovingly: "Even if the German army uses the coordinate artillery method, the effect will not be much better." Most of the guns they are shooting now are curved guns, which have an unsatisfactory hit rate on moving targets, and they still use grenades. The grenade works well against unarmored targets, but in the face of armored targets, unless it is a direct hit, it is difficult to damage the armored combat vehicle with shrapnel and shock waves if it only explodes next to the target. ”