Chapter 614 Qisheng! Meat grinder!
Although Adolf had not been here for a long time, as a German, he knew some of the situations here.??
Verdun belongs to the province of Maas in France. It is named after the River Maas, and the upper reaches of this River Maas is the Champagne Ardenne region. You will know when you hear this name. The specialty of this piece is champagne, and the usual wonderful champagne can be found almost everywhere. Therefore, the food here is also very famous.
The French may not be very good, but they are really good at making food. After Adolf came here, he did not have the opportunity to taste any delicious food. He ate military rations, but saw the tragic situation of war!
There are wooden stakes and barbed wire everywhere, there are craters everywhere, and there are charred substances after fire. I don’t know what it is.
If all of this is usually very scary, and compared with what Adolf saw today, it is nothing.
Rumble! Rumble!
There were constant explosions, and these explosions came from the Maas River and those bridges!
The city of Verdun was passed by the River Maas, which was originally an island in the heart of the river. The city was very small at that time, and later it gradually expanded, so it was said that the River Maas was passed by.
The Maas River itself is a big river in France. The narrowest part of the section through Verdun is 50 meters. In order to connect with each other, the city has built many bridges. Fortunately, it caught up with the Industrial Revolution, so it expanded very quickly and many bridges have been built.
Since the war has come to this point, Verdun’s entire defensive position is to defend all of himself. You must know that Verdun’s position at this time is a prominent part. On the front lines between the Allies and the Allies, it seems like an arrow, which makes the German army very uncomfortable.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have called here.
This time, after gathering more than 350,000 people, so many cannons and vehicles, the German army finally tore open the external defense line of Verdun and rushed to the city. They crossed the bridge!
And now, the bridge has been blown up!
The timing of this bridge bombing was very wonderful, and it was simply unstoppable. Even the master and apprentice who had been lying in the crater before, they wanted to come out and rushed over with the large army. Because we can't stay here forever, we will be seen by our own people.
Just before Adolf's eyes, the bridges were broken, oh no!
There is a bridge still there!
But, it's just a bridge.
"It's over! We're over!" After seeing this situation, Marx Webber collapsed directly on the ground.
""Adolf was also stupid.
Why?
Because almost all the German troops have passed!
You know, everyone thinks we will capture Verdun, because in the previous battle, under the fierce attack of cannons, the British and French forces also fought desperately, and on the east bank of the Maas River, there were less than ten thousand corpses on both sides.
But in the end, the victory belonged to the German army. Therefore, the German army naturally pursued the victory. They crossed the Maas River, and they did not fail to check carefully when crossing the river. They felt that there was no problem, so they crossed the river.
After crossing the river, it was a smooth road. The German army was progressing very fast, and there were a lot of people crossing the river. Everyone was rushing to the fore, but now!
The bridge was blown up. One was left behind!
“Look there!”
"Open fire!"
"Bare those bastards to death!"
It turned out that the bridge was blown up, not because the German army was accidentally, but because the British and French forces left behind some suicide squads, which were blown up by them. Obviously, these guys were not ready to continue to live.
In fact, blasting a bridge is simply a technical job. It is not just that you can have more explosives, but that you have to bury explosives at key points based on the structure of the bridge, and only a small amount of explosives is enough. Therefore, when the German army crossed the bridge, it was impossible for them to see any abnormalities.
There is only one bridge still there, now
"Let me go!"
"Bastard! Get out of here!"
The German army is not a fool. In terms of personnel quality, most of these people have received relatively good education, so they quickly realized that they had to go to the other side of the bridge so that they could be safe, because the danger would come soon.
Rumble! Rumble!
The shelling of the British and French coalition forces began!
"We're done, it's done!" Marx Webber, who was lying on the ground, was also looking at the other side. He had thought of this situation early in the morning. After all, he was a philosopher.
Marx Webber may not know much about war, which is of course, but he knows knowledge and general thinking of people. This bridge is obviously left by the other party, so that these German troops will fight for this bridge. The German troops will have no intention of fighting, and they will compete with their own people. Then at this time, the British and French coalition forces will fight back again.
Weber no longer dared to think about this ending, because according to normal deduction, it is very likely that the German army that charged in the front would be completely wiped out!
"Teacher" Adolf naturally thought of this ending. He wanted to do something, but he didn't know what to do.
"Look down! Shoot with me!" Webber had no choice but to pull his students down, and then began to shoot into the sky as if he was really fighting.
There is no way. If you hit the front, you might hit your own people. Although Weber is greedy for life and fears death, he is not so bad yet.
"Teacher" Adolf still wants to ask.
"At least we are still alive." Webber explained this
Of course, except for Xia Fei, no one knew that this was the Chinese military strategy. This trick was to simply close the door and beat the dog. Henry Roberts used his knowledge of Sun Tzu's strategy of war that he had learned from his friends to do such a conspiracy based on Verdun's special terrain.
In fact, this is not difficult. Just leave troops normally on the east bank of the river and tell them everything is normal. An empty city plan was laid out on the west bank of the river to let more German troops come over. Then, in a secret organization of suicide squads, blow up the bridge, and leave one. Anyway, it's just to talk more about national justice.
What if those Germans came?
They are barbarians! They are evil!
These guys are just half-orcs
Well, that's right, Roberts has watched a lot of movies like Lord of the Rings.
But, after all, they were the German army, and they were not so idiots. In the end, they launched a crazy counterattack, and their strength was still there.
On this day of the Battle of Verdun, 10,000 people were killed in both sides within one day, and this number became one. By the way, it would have become a record, but there were the pearls and jades of the Tokyo War before, so the most tragic battle on the European battlefield could only rank second.
The German army lost more than 70,000 people in one day, and the British and French coalition forces were also very miserable, but after all, it was a trick that succeeded.
And so
"The opportunity is here!"
After Li Mengyang, who is in Washington, got the news, he immediately made this judgment.
"Order MacArthur to Europe!"
“yes lure rmajesty!”
The great emperor, Clint Lee I, issued such an order, but this place of landing 6, and this business, etc.
"Call the arms company, stop all the orders for the Allies."
“yes lure rmajesty!”
It is easy to say about arms. In fact, before, the British had already criticized the Pacific Empire countless times, and they called the Pacific Empire a profiteer every day and sold excellent weapons to those evil allies!
Well, we are here to preside over justice now.
By the way, after Li Mengyang praised justice, he became different. His waist was no longer sore and his legs were no longer hurt. He could reach more than ten floors in one breath. It was too slight to have a floor of six.
In addition, there is one more thing that is the most important
"Rockefeller, now I will give you an important task. You must defend the Romanian oil fields. And from now on, Standard Oil will no longer continue to do business with the Allies.
You said this is difficult?
I don't care! You must not do this! As for the method, then you can think about it.
Yes, you can arm the oil field!"
Li Mengyang called Rockefeller in New York directly, saying that he wanted an oil embargo!
Telephone is already very popular in Xinda 6, and Li Mengyang is still working hard in the Chinese region. But to be honest, I feel a little tired because the telegrams there have not been popular yet, so I will be on the phone again soon. It is indeed a bit over, but this is also a later advantage.
Speaking of the oil embargo, this matter is extremely critical. Even Li Mengyang thinks that this is even more critical than the weapon embargo!
At this time, there were already many cars and various fuel-consuming machines in the European battlefield. At present, the most popular thing in the arms market is to talk about tanks. The British guys are smarter. They took out their diamond-shaped quadrilateral tanks first, so they seized the initiative in the market.
But nothing, soon, the Pacific Empire launched a tank that could be equipped with a small cannon. Of course, this thing is not 59, oh by the way, it is Type 1883, how can this killer be used casually?
Well, in fact, it is mainly because it has not been really successful yet. Now I have just created a model similar to T34 and has a much thinner barrel.
But it was exported and it was said that the performance was pretty good. Both sides used it in this Battle of Verdun. Well, both sides used it.
Then, all of this requires oil!
And Europe is almost the only oil field, that is Romania (to be continued.)
Chapter completed!