When the French Sixth Army could not resist and asked the French General Headquarters for help, a relatively serious problem arose in France's logistics.

The position on the Ork River was so important that the French General Headquarters urgently mobilized a division of elite troops and took a train to Paris to prepare to support the Sixth Army.

But the problem is that there is still a distance of more than 60 kilometers from Paris to the front, and it will take at least two days to reach the front line if you rely on foot.

But war waits for no one, and if the Sixth Army really had to wait until two days later to see reinforcements, I am afraid the war would have been lost.

In order to urgently transport this division to the front, the French General Staff thought of a creative proposal, which was to requisition all the taxis in Paris and use them to transport the troops.

In fact, the French army also has military trucks, but most of these trucks are responsible for logistics transportation, that is, the transportation of weapons, equipment and resources.

If these trucks are called urgently, it will take a certain amount of time to collect a large number of trucks, and the arrival will affect the supply of materials and logistics for all front-line troops.

And requisitioning a taxi in Paris is clearly a better option. Anyway, they are all cars, and it is no problem to transport troops.

What's more, the requisitioning of taxis in Paris affects the traffic in Paris the most. For the victory of the French War, it was only natural that the citizens of Paris should make some contributions.

Thanks to the development of French industry and economy, Paris, as the capital of France, has thousands of taxis.

After the French General Headquarters issued an order to requisition all taxis, in just half an hour, more than 600 taxis of various types arrived at the designated place, which also made General Garrieni, who saw this feat, burst into tears and said excitedly: "Look, what an extraordinary thing! ”

The taxi drivers in Paris, so excited that they could help defend their country in this way, chose to drop off all the passengers at once, and proudly explained: "I'm sorry sir, I'm going to war." ”

And most of those passengers will say understandably: "It's okay, for France." ”

In just one night, thousands of taxis made two round-trips, transporting nearly 6,000 soldiers from an infantry division to the front line 60 kilometers away.

This also allowed the Sixth Army led by Monuri to receive reinforcements when it was about to collapse, and temporarily stabilized its position.

Compared with Xia Fei's excessive attention to the battlefield, the attitude of the German Chief of Staff Moltke Jr. was diametrically opposite.

Having assigned tasks to the armies, Moltke Jr. did not intervene, but sat firmly at the staff headquarters.

Even worse, how is the situation at the front, especially the First Army, progressing? Did you execute the order smoothly? Little Moltke didn't know anything.

Although Moltke the Younger sent his chief of intelligence, Lieutenant Colonel Hans, as plenipotentiary, to the armies to learn about the execution of orders.

But the question is, how can a small lieutenant colonel order the commander-in-chief of the group army who is in a high position when Moltke Jr. does not come forward?

Lieutenant Colonel Hans was indeed not incompetent, not only seeing the problems that the First Army was currently showing, but also urging the commander of the First Army, Crook, to carry out Moltke Jr.'s orders, make a detour back to the north bank of the Marne, and cooperate with the Second Army.

However, Crook did not realize the gravity of the situation, believing that the possible French offensive was only an auxiliary operation, and the purpose was only to cover the retreat of the troops and cross the Seine.

By the time the First Army found the order from a prisoner of war, the Battle of the Marne had already begun, and it was too late for Crook to regret it.

It is worth mentioning that at the very beginning of the war, the First Army was under the control of Pilov.

But since the war entered a state of intense intensity, Pilov no longer controlled the First Army, but left it to act on its own.

However, because of Moltke's inaction-oriented attitude, the First Army, which was supposed to return to the management of the German High Command, became an autonomous action in the true sense, which led to Crook's blind arrogance and the danger of the First Army.

In order to deal with the danger he faced, Crook ordered the 3rd and 9th Armies in the southern sector to march to the Volker River to participate in the battle, leaving only two cavalry divisions in the southern sector to resist the British army.

Crook's blind decision directly put the right flank of the Second Army, which was in the rear of the First Army, in greater danger.

Originally, these two armies were responsible for covering the right flank of the Second Army, but after they withdrew, the right flank of the group army was directly exposed, and the distance between the First Army and the Second Army was completely widened.

Faced with such a stupid maneuver by the Germans, the morale of the French army was greatly boosted, and the charge became more courageous.

Battlefield of the Urke River, a tributary of the Marne.

"For France, attack!"

A French officer armed with a command knife drew his saber, pointed it in the direction of the enemy, and shouted for the soldiers to attack.

A minute earlier, the French artillery had just carried out a major bombardment of the enemy's positions, and as soon as the artillery was extinguished, the commander of the army could not wait to launch the offensive.

Unlike those officers who were greedy for life and afraid of death, after shouting the charge, the French officers rushed forward first, followed by hordes of French soldiers.

Obviously, the officer's heroic actions also affected all his men, and this scene played out throughout the French Sixth Army, and also made the French army's charge extremely fierce.

Unfortunately, the airship in this area has long been shot down, and the plane has left the battlefield due to running out of fuel.

Otherwise, we would have been able to see from God's point of view, the dense crowd of French soldiers, like a tidal wave rushing towards the German positions.

While there were many black dots that stayed in the charge, there were many more that rushed forward.

On the other side of the French army was the German First Army, which was on high demand.

The good news was that the German First Army was mostly elite soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was far superior to that of the French army opposite.

But the bad news is that the soldiers of the First Army are already exhausted after a long period of marching.

This, combined with the growing distance between the First and Second Armies and the German General Command, led to the fact that part of the logistics supply of the First Army was already insufficient.

Exhaustion combined with the lack of logistics, the double de buff made a strong army like the German army exhausted, and its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

Da-da-da-da! Bang Bang Bang!

The seemingly orderly firing between the two sides was actually just a large number of gunfire overlapping each other.

Some French soldiers didn't even have time to fire a single shot before they had already ended their short career as soldiers.

Yes, by the beginning of the war, French casualties had already reached six figures.

This, coupled with the implementation of the domestic mobilization order, also led to a large number of conscripts, that is, newly trained recruits, on the French front.

But there is no way, including countries like Germany, they cannot guarantee that their millions of troops are all elite veterans.

In order to prevent the army from losing its combat effectiveness due to too many recruits, it is necessary to add more rigorous training to the recruits, or to try to retain some elite troops.

Of course, there is also a relatively fast and very cruel method, that is, let these recruits experience in the battlefield, and after experiencing several lives and deaths, they will smoothly become veterans of a hundred battles.

This is now the case in Germany and France, where conscripts can enter the battlefield with their weapons and equipment after a few weeks of training and enjoy their short but long career as soldiers.

The French charge was repulsed wave after wave, but this still did not stop the French army from a single step.

In just over an hour, the Sixth Army had moved closer to a distance of nearly 200 meters, and the German positions on the opposite side were already visible to the naked eye.

Of course, in order to achieve such results, the Sixth Army has so far killed and wounded a whole division, and the number of casualties is constantly mounting.

Although the German army was visibly tired, the Maxim heavy machine gun, a powerful weapon, played an irreplaceable role in offensive and defensive warfare.

Most of the casualties of the French army were caused by the Maxim machine guns, and only a small part came from enemy artillery bombardment and rifle bombardment.

On the German side, the weapon that France could inflict the greatest casualties on the German army was artillery, not only because the German soldiers were in the built positions, which was safer in offensive and defensive battles.

It is also because many French soldiers are killed before the first shot can be fired, and the recruits are forced to leave the battlefield as soon as they enter the battlefield.

The suppression of the fire of the Maxim heavy machine gun quickly repelled the French soldiers who were about to approach the German positions.

No matter how fierce the French soldiers are, in front of such a powerful weapon, they can only deliver food one after another.

General Garieni watched his subordinates fall under the enemy's machine guns one after another, and he was so angry that he hurriedly ordered the herald next to him: "Let all the artillery immediately fire at the enemy's machine gun position, don't care about any artillery, kill the enemy's machine gun position first." ”

At the very beginning of the war, the main targets of French artillery were German artillery. However, judging from the current situation, the damage caused by German artillery is less than one-third of the German machine-gun positions, and it is conceivable which position to destroy first.

Under the suppression of artillery, the machine guns of the Germans did not dare to show their heads easily. After all, France was heavily equipped with Miss France, who was famous for her rate of fire, and as soon as the German machine-gun positions appeared, they would face bombardment with at least a dozen artillery pieces.

Even if the accuracy of these shells was not very good, and the number was large, there were still relatively lucky positions that suffered the baptism of artillery fire.

As soon as the Germans' machine guns were retracted, the pressure on the front of the French army was much reduced.

Seeing the reduction in the fire of the Germans, the French commanders were blinded and gave the order hoarsely: "Charge!" ”

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