Time quickly slipped towards the end of 1916 in the smoke of war. By the time December 25, 1916, the entire Western Front battlefield fell into temporary peace.

Before this, the Three Kingdoms, which had not shed enough blood, seemed to have no intention of stopping, and kept throwing teams of young soldiers onto the battlefield.

It was also in these three months that the Chinese workers in the MMP Military Industry Group had reached about 200,000, including the Chinese families collected by the "Chinese Guild Hall" from the UK, and also the Chinese workers transported from China in batches using giant airships.

Now, due to Li Zhicheng's publicity in Shanghai, a wave of gold hunting in France has spread among Chinese workers.

Of course, there are also intellectual youths who left their hometown for the future of the motherland during the tide of studying abroad in the Chinese Baeking Party.

This has greatly increased the production capacity of the MMP Military Industry Group. Of course, due to the maturity of tanks and other equipment technologies, production lines have been established for a considerable number of equipment, which has increased the production capacity by more than doubled.

However, Britain, France, Germany and the MMT military industrial group that were fighting signed secret documents, preventing them from directly producing these weapons and equipment.

Although, for example, Krupp Group and French Renault Automobile Manufacturing Company were extremely interested in tanks, the orders of the country had to dismantle and study the acquired tanks and develop their own tank weapon systems.

In addition to France, Britain and Germany have chosen assault guns, a type of easy-to-produce combat vehicle. As for France, with the support of the MMP Military Industry Group, they got tanks with turrets that can rotate. They will naturally gain a certain advantage in the conflict between armored clusters.

In addition, all countries seem to be extremely interested in the use of paratroopers, but Thunder International refuses to trade on this matter. In desperation, all countries have to explore and establish paratroopers on their own.

As for the weapon system of the MMP Military Industry Group, another upgrade began as the troops increased.

The tank's armor becomes thicker and the body becomes larger. It uses a high-power engine. The artillery fire still uses a 37mm caliber cannon with a caliber ratio of 30 times, and is equipped with projectiles as steel-core armor-piercing bombs and killer grenades.

At the same time, it is equipped with a parallel machine gun and a turret machine gun. This tank with a somewhat similar appearance to the T-34 was officially named the "T-1 Gray Wolf Tank". The shells they supply to other countries cannot penetrate the armor of this tank.

At the naval shipbuilding plant of the MMP Military Industry Group in Cherbourg, "simple aircraft carriers" have begun to be built in batches, supplying them to all countries in the Allied countries.

As for Germany, due to the loss of "simple aircraft carrier", it had to use some of the artillery processing technology of Krupp in exchange for the production license of the "simple aircraft carrier", and the number of ships produced at a time was as many as 25.

Thunder International's mercenary organization reached five entire brigades with the division level unchanged. Among them, two tank assault brigades equipped with the "T-1 Gray Wolf Tank", one heavy infantry brigade, one paratrooper brigade, and one support brigade, including the heavy artillery regiment.

In addition, there are Iron Wing Flying Teams with air superiority and large airships that can be called at any time, almost doubled in number.

Air routes have gradually taken shape due to the increase in the number of airships. At this time, countries have developed this purpose of airships, but air routes are obviously not something that warring countries intend to make it easy for other countries to use.

Therefore, the number of attacks on airships in various places has increased. The only thing that is unlikely to be attacked in the war zone is still the "H" airship of the MMT Military Industry Group. Because no one can understand that the materials on it are transported to whom.

Oh, I almost forgot to introduce the development of the newly emerging aircraft industry during World War I.

Following the heavy air combat fighter of the Tomcat, MMP Military Industry Group replaced it with a 200-horsepower engine, added a 20mm cannon in addition to the two 12.7mm machine guns, and added four external plug-ins for it.

Make it a "Tomcat-a" heavy air combat fighter, or a "Tomcat-b" heavy air combat fighter with two 20mm cannons.

However, the Iron Wing Flying Team, just used the MMP Military Industry Group, has produced the world's first "Saber-A" fighter with laminated mid-single wing, landing gear can be retracted and equipped with wing fuel tanks, and weapons are two 12.7mm machine guns and two 20mm cannons.

The 230-horsepower most powerful engine in the world not only inherits the speed and maneuverability characteristics of the Tomcat heavy air combat fighter, but also has the leading advantage in protecting other aircraft in the world. Its ultra-long range allows it to escort the long-range attack of the Thunder-type attack aircraft.

There are no major changes in the "Thunder-Benzing Attack Plane", but it has been replaced with the engine, increasing the hanging point and the load weight. Now, whether it can be used in the Navy to mount torpedoes or bombs, or the "Thunder-Benzing Attack Plane" that fires rockets and drops bombs, the Army has completely monopolized the entire market of European battlefield attack aircraft in World War I.

While the above industries earned a lot of money for the MMM Military Industry Group, a large number of legitimate industries in the United States "Chinese Hall" opened, which also gave the US economy a rare vitality. The US has improved its status in the United States, especially in New York City. There is even a few American businessmen who have considered whether to establish a special connection with the "Chinese Hall". I heard that this would be less troublesome.

As for the war, it did not stop due to the expansion of the production of the MMP military industry group. Instead, due to the increase in the number of weapons and equipment they produced, the battle on the battlefield was even more bloody.

A large number of tanks and armored vehicles further increased the intensity of the war. The third phase of the Somme Battle, which began in July, began in October 1916, and Britain, France and Germany began a fierce battle on the Somme Defense Line.

France uses tanks and armored vehicles produced by the pure-blooded MMT Military Industry Group, while Britain chooses to continue to use the improved "Big Vagrant Tanks" and MMT Military Industry Group armored vehicles and assault guns. As for the Germans, Krupp used the assault guns produced with production licenses obtained by technology, and the wheeled armored vehicles developed and produced by itself.

During this battle, Britain and France concentrated the newly established armored troops, a tank division, and an assault group composed of a considerable number of armored vehicles. The German army formed four armored assault brigades in accordance with the model of the armored assault brigade to launch a battle.

At the beginning of this battle, probably both sides felt the importance of air superiority. Therefore, the air battle seemed quite intense from the beginning.

Although the British and French coalition forces had a considerable number of dual-aircraft units composed of two heavy air combat fighters, "Tomcat-a" and "Tomcat-b" in the air. However, they did not have a very strong advantage in the competition with the Germans.

Because, if the other party and the plane they use are almost exactly the same, and the methods of both parties are surprisingly similar.

However, the German Flying Team uses two heavy air combat fighters "Knight-a" and "Knight-b" produced by a company controlled by American businessman Charles King. They also equipped the troops at the same time and matched them into a dual-plane crew, and are equipped with a "hunting team" composed of outstanding pilots in the German Flying Team.

In the early competition of air power, both sides almost tied. Relatively speaking, the German air power had a little advantage that was not enough to determine the outcome of the battle.

As the defense side, the German armored forces were not as strong as those of the British and French coalition forces. A few days after the war started, the German flying team suddenly decreased a considerable number, and the air superiority fell into the hands of the British and French coalition forces, which were fully equipped with MMP military-industrial group fighter jets. They launched fierce attacks on ground targets, but when the war started, the losses were 1/3 of the assault guns of four armored brigades were lost.

But the Germans were officially building the defense line named after the Chief of Staff, which was persistent and was not broken through by the large-scale attack of the British and French coalition forces.

The reason is that they completely use the "fast front" produced by the MMP Military Industry Group to arrange a strong defense system. In particular, the dual-equipped 12.7mm machine gun, which the Germans prefer, played a considerable role in defense operations.

In addition, the German flight team also attacked the supply base behind the French front, causing the French soldiers fighting in front to lose supplies for a while, causing serious losses in the German counterattack. The soldiers who were even unable to eat had a meal had a riot, although they were finally suppressed by severe means.

The third phase of the Somme ended on November 18, 1916. As the first battle launched after winning the throne of command, General Robert Neville, who suffered losses in such troops and equipment, was directly eliminated.

This battle alone was a loss to Britain, with 420,000 people killed, injured, captured and missing. Similar casualties in France were about 400,000, while the German army had a total of more than 700,000 people.

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While both sides were killing each other in the direction of the Somme, a medium-scale battle also took place in the direction of Verdun, which was once calm. The main force of the ground attack was composed of the entire French First Assault Cavalry Division, and the air was completely covered by the Iron Wing Flying Team of Thunder International.

Due to the fierce battle in the Somme, Germany's air force on the Verdun front was extremely weak. In the first confrontation, the German army lost most of the "Fokker Dr.1". Its thin fuselage was no match for the "Sabre-A" type fighter.

The loss of air cover capability has made the German ground unblocked to the continuous attack of the "Thunder-Breaking" attack aircraft.

Therefore, the 5th Army led by the German Crown Prince increased its losses when defending against the French attack on Verdun. In desperation, Germany transferred some hunting teams from the Somme River, intending to move back to its previous disadvantage in this battle.
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