Chapter 590 The Battle of the Loire
On the European battlefield, the Allies failed successively in the three major battles of Lyon, Verdun and Marne, and the defense line that had lasted for four for a long time was declared bankrupt.
The failure of the three major battles directly led to the withdrawal of millions of troops from the Allies, and nearly ten million French people were forced to leave their homes and continue to retreat towards the direction of Bordeaux, southwest France. The industrial bases in northeastern and southeast of France completely fell into the hands of the Allies, causing heavy damage to France.
However, the military equipment of the Allied Powers was completely dependent on imports. At this time, the loss of the war resulted in a shortage of aircraft, tanks and other major penetration equipment of the Allied Powers, and they had to wait for supply from the rear. The German and Austrian coalition relied entirely on Chinese equipment transported from the Baghdad Railway. However, considering the defeat of the Allied Powers, China deliberately slowed down the supply level, which led to the slowdown of the offensive pace of the Allied Powers. At the same time, without heavy equipment such as aircraft, tanks, etc., facing the trenches dug out by the Allied Powers, the two sides were once again trapped in positional warfare.
In the middle of the month of the year, the German army captured Paris and finally occupied this French capital that was only 5 kilometers away from the German position, but failed to allow the German army to move forward during the four periods.
France occupied by the German army was nothing but an empty city. The French government had moved the capital when the German army arrived in the old and old years, and the people of Paris also evacuated.
At this time, Paris had been bombarded with German-class cannons.
The German army occupied an empty city with little practical significance, but its political significance was very great. In the French-Prussian War, after the Prussian army captured Paris, the Prussian king was crowned as the German king in the Palace of Versailles, France. Now when the German vanguard commander Prince William entered the Hall of Mirror, his sword was imagined.
The German and Austrian coalition forces drove the Allied troops to Orleans on the Loire in one breath. After autumn, the climate began to deteriorate. Due to continuous rain, muddy roads and railways, the battle gradually subsided and arrived. The month completely stopped, and the combat plans of Germany and Austria were not completed, but it severely damaged the morale of the Allied countries. It was soon Christmas time again, and the Allied countries and the Allied countries had to undergo strategic rest and rest, and the atmosphere on the battlefield began to ease, but the movements in the rear accelerated.
At this time, the Allies were able to breathe and stepped up their preparations for war. The Allies can only rely on the Loire line to defend, and retreated to the south of France, and two-thirds of their territory had been lost. However, the Allies knew that if the Allies had replenished the planes and tanks they had lost before, the Allies' troops would be driven out of Europe after the next wave of large-scale attacks.
The situation is extremely severe for the Allies. In order to withstand the attacks of the Allies next spring, the Allies had to reduce the production of "copycat versions" of Chinese equipment and increase the import of advanced weapons from China. The Americans also knew that the war was abnormally unfavorable to the Allies, so they had to completely devote themselves to the war, otherwise the Allies would have really crossed, and the Allies would not let the Americans who participated in the war.
For this reason, the US Congress finally began to fully intervene in the war. Because the United States initially participated in the war just to pay off its debts. According to the Americans' ideas, the United States would not participate in the war under the premise that the European war situation was unclear. However, the situation of the war was estimated by the Americans. The Allies were extremely embarrassed this time, and the defense of more than four fronts was broken by the Allies. The situation was already extremely critical. The Americans had to act seriously.
In the past year and the past month, the US Congress approved up to $400 million in war funds and issued an emergency mobilization order, requiring the United States to enter the nationwide mobilization and recruit tens of thousands of Americans to join the war.
However, the United States has money and some people, but unfortunately the equipment of the 6th Army is very poor. The cheap "Shansai version" produced secretly by the United States is not only rejected by the British and French military, but even the US military does not agree. There is no way, and the United States has no choice but to use the money to purchase large-scale from China.
However, the United States also intervened in the war, and the three years of participation in the war also led to a depreciation of the US dollar to a certain extent. For this reason, China rejected the US dollar and still asked the United States to exchange gold equivalents for dragon coins and then pay with dragon coins. The war was urgent, and the United States had no time to argue with China, and delayed a day might lead to the Allies losing the war. Therefore, the Americans gave in the first time in more than ten years of open and secret struggles with China, and agreed to China's request without any bargaining.
At this time, China's military industry had already developed into the world's largest and strongest military industrial system in more than five years. Its degree of perfection was dozens of times that of the past ten years in five years. Now China supports almost all the steel of the entire Allied countries, and about two-fifths of the steel of the Allied countries, resulting in an explosive exhibition of Chinese steel enterprises, reaching tens of thousands of tons of old and old years, twice that of the United States, three times that of Germany, and five times that of Britain.
Most of these steels were processed into arms exports. Originally, the United States was robbed of major strategic materials such as arms, food, medicine, fabric, cement, etc. in World War I. The United States did not get any benefits in World War I. Instead, it was knocked out many ships and cargo by German submarines. At the same time, the United States had been involved in the war for three years, and its economy was severely restrained, and a large amount of funds was consumed on the European battlefield. By the old and old years, the rapid economic growth of the United States since the civil war was finally pushed off the brakes and the economy stopped moving forward.
In order to help the Allies, the United States had to use gold as collateral and began to slowly delete the books, so that the gold and silver controlled by the world's characters were concentrated in China. Beijing, China, has become the world's financial center.
In order to stabilize the European war situation, the Chinese government asked major arms dealers and armed enterprises in China to adjust their direction and give priority to the supply of the Allies. In this way, as the United States carefully exchanged gold for China's 100 million yuan coins and placed orders with major arsenals in China, China immediately met the wishes of the Allies.
Since the old and old years, the Chinese military has begun to hoard strategic materials, including arms. Zhang Yunfei knew that the war was about to break out, so he made a big gamble. The continuous large-scale hoarding of strategic materials every year has caused China to hoard a considerable amount of various materials by the end of the old and old years.
At this time, Zhang Yunfei suddenly issued an order, requiring major arms dealers to clean up the stockpiled materials in the arsenal and to ensure that the stockpiled materials should be lowered to a normal level. The major arms dealers naturally strictly enforce the orders of the emperor of the Chinese Empire. At the same time, they also smelled the scent from the orders, that is, the world war may end in a short time in the future. Because cleaning up the inventory is to indirectly tell them not to pre-production and to produce according to orders from Europe and the United States. Otherwise, once the world war is over, the materials they hoarded will rot in the warehouse and lose themselves
For this reason, the major arms dealers in China did not start production directly for the large orders of the Allied Powers, but directly took out the hoarded materials from the warehouse. And they also informed the Allied Powers with confidence that if they added a little money, they would immediately cash the order.
The Allies knew that the Chinese arms dealers were clearing their stock, but the Allies really needed to cash out the arms deal immediately, because they could not be sure that the Germans would not blitze the Allies like they did last time when they suddenly blitze into the Netherlands. In the end, the Allies had to make a small sense of the original sky-high price, and then immediately cashed out the arms.
In this way, the Allies spent 400 million dragon coins to receive real-time arms cashed from China. Moreover, China also transported the arms ordered by the Allies to the European front for free, and took on the transportation risks on the way.
In the early month of the year, the last batch of weapons arrived in the French accompaniment Bordeaux, and the ban on the Allies and China was completed.
At this time, with the large-scale help of the Americans, the Allied Power increased to 10,000 people falling from the mouth. Among them, the US military occupied 10,000 people, French army brewed 10,000 people, and British army. It has various types of aircraft, knife holders, tanks, blades, armored vehicles, and 80,000 guns. Light and heavy machine guns fell from 10,000 people, aviation fuel and tanks, armored vehicles stored up 10,000 tons of fields, and millions of spare guns of various types.
On the contrary, the Allies were at a disadvantage. After China gave priority to the inventory of goods to the Allies, the Allies obtained more than half of the resources. By the end of January of the year, the Allies had only obtained concave knife-mounted aircraft and four tanks, with a total force of only 10,000 people, which began to highlight the weakness of the troops and some were weak in equipment.
However, the Allied armies were still very motivated, and the remnant power of the victory did not decrease after several months of truce.
On February 2019, the Allies launched an attack again. This time, the Allies concentrated the Han Wan army, which was composed entirely of the German and Austrian coalition forces, and launched a full-line attack on Orleans, the support point of the Loire defense line. The Allies had previously invested in the defense of the Dawan army, but the German and Austrian coalition forces attacked very fiercely. On the first day of the battle, the two sides launched a fierce battle.
The German and Austrian coalition air force and tank troops fought with the Allies' air force and tank troops. The German and Austrian coalition did not choose to fight with the Allies, but rushed towards Orleans regardless of everything. The subsequent German and Austrian infantry followed, under the cover of tens of thousands of cannons, rushed towards the Allies' positions.
Although the Allies had the advantage in the number of aircraft and tanks, they soon fell into a melee. Nearly tens of millions of troops fought a melee on the dense Loire defense line and Orleans defense line. The number of people and equipment could not be used to show their power. On the contrary, the German and Austrian coalition became intact because they were directly commanded by Prince William of Germany. However, the Allies' army, Britain, France and the United States, fought on their own and had different ranks.
As a result, although the Allied Air Force repelled the Allied Air Force, it was unable to support the ground forces because the ground was full of congestion and could not distinguish between the enemy and us. At the same time, the Allied tank troops blindly searched for the Allied tank troops to fight the decisive battle, and were led by the Allied tank troops. On the contrary, the Allied took advantage of this opportunity to break through the Allied Defense Position with tanks, so that the Allied infantry and cavalry who followed behind could break through the Allied Defense Line.
The battle was dawn on March. Under the cover of night, the German army unexpectedly broke through the Orleans defense line and invaded the city of Orleans, breaking the Allied's defense line, causing loopholes in the overall defense line of the Allied.
At the same time, other coalition forces of the Allied Powers in southeast France also launched a fast attack on the hinterland of France.
Under the cover of planes and tanks, the coalition forces of Italy, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and other countries quickly broke through the defense line of the lower Loire River and rushed into the area of Limori, directly threatening the French accompanying Bordeaux.
The Allies operated joint operations every time, and the armies of each country cooperated very well, and the timing was not accurate. The Allies were at this time and were both superior to the military and military power of the Ming Dynasty. "As soon as they coordinated and commanded, especially the lazy US military was lazy, the Allies' Command was very annoyed.
To this end, the Allied Command held an emergency meeting to discuss the issue of forming a unified command. The war was urgent, and the Allied countries did not want to waste time. In the end, the United States made concessions and continued to hand over to French Marshal Xia Fei to unify command and dispatch.
In this way, under the attack of the Allies, the Allies finally stopped intrigue and reached a united front.
On March 3, the Loire defense line was completely lost, and the Allies were forced to abandon the defense line and retreated into the Odorli Demori-Monto Gang defense. This was the last province of France and the last barrier to the French accompaniment of Bordeaux.
To this end, the commander of the coalition forces Xia Fei ordered all combat units of the Allied Powers to tell them, "We have no way to retreat. If we retreat again, we have to jump into the sea. The British can retreat because they still have the British Isle, the Americans can retreat because they still have the Great American 6, and we French can't retreat because we have no way to retreat!"
Xia Fei's words were very targeted, first mobilizing the French army to fight, then mobilizing the British and American troops. He told the Americans and the British, "When will you retreat? The French situation in front of you is the role model of Britain and America in the future. Will the Allies let you go? Obviously not! Then what are you still hesitating about? Should the beasts of the Allies board the land of your country and ruin your wives and daughters?"
Xia Fei is worthy of being a veteran guy. His inflammatory speech stimulated the last line of defense in the heart of the Allied forces. The British, French and American coalition forces finally really fought side by side. They picked up their weapons and rushed into the trenches to prepare to fight back.
On March 5, the Allied forces encountered an ugly problem again. Because they had just completely eliminated the British and French remnants in Verdun, they once again launched a street battle with the Zhan Wan army in Orleans, which had no time to withdraw from the British, French and American troops.
The Allied forces in Orleans have a total of multiple divisions, of which one directly attacked Orleans had a division with a 10,000 people. Although the army of Orleans in the Allied Powers had a strong division, the number of personnel was severe. The actual defense of Orleans was the First Regiment Army, with a total of more than 10,000 "Quyumen Artillery" tanks.
On March 6, the German army began to attack the city. The 6th German Army took the lead and carried out fierce assaults from the north of the city. The 4th Armored Division advanced from the south of the city to support the German army's main attack in the north of the city. The French Army and the remnants of the regiment were tasked with defending the city of Orleans.
On the 8th, the German army broke into the city from the north of the city and started a fierce street battle with the French Army. The two sides fought repeatedly from street to building to house. Orleans became a rubble field, and the residential areas in the city were destroyed. In the city full of rubble Liu Junxu, the French Army resisted tenaciously, and fierce gunfights occurred in every street, building, and factory in the city. The number of German soldiers who invaded the city continued to increase.
Although the German army frequently bombed the east bank of the Loire River, the French army still received constant supply and support from American speedboats that were flowing upstream from the Loire River. The average survival time of the Allied soldiers who had just arrived in the city was only an hour. The German army's main tactic was joint combat between various arms, and attached great importance to the coordination of ground bombing of infantry, engineering troops, artillery and air force. In order to fight against this tactic, the Allied commander adopted a close-fitting strategy and tried to get his front line close to the German army. This led to the German artillery troops being unable to use the advantage of long-range attacks.
On March 19, the German army launched a key assault on the western highlands of the city. The highland is the commanding height in Orleans. From here, you can overlook and control the entire city. The French Army Army Command is located here.
After a day of the most brutal battle, the German army occupied the highlands in the west. But in the old days, the French Division crossed the Loire River and entered Orleans, and suddenly launched a counterattack against the German army.
The French army fought for their hometown and launched the most brutal charge regardless of life and death. They regained the high ground that night. Many important strongholds fought repeatedly, and the battle for Xicheng Railway Station lasted for a week. The German army approached the city center step by step regardless of everything.
On March 10,000, the German army occupied the city center. Daori rushed into the western factory area and re-occupied the highlands in the west, but was recaptured by the French army in the Concaoji. The battle later became more intense, and the two armies continued to occupy the highland alternately. The Orleans industrial area was built in hills, and the buildings were poured with reinforced concrete or made of stone. The German army's advance was not measured by kilometers, but by rice. The Chinese observer of the German 6th Army wrote in the book "Advance of Orleans": "Germany."
The feud of France was sublimated to the extreme at this moment! The two sides fought fiercely for every house, workshop, water tower, railway subgrade, and even for a wall, a basement and every pile of rubble. The intensity was unprecedented." The railway station was repeatedly fought for three times. In a large grain warehouse, the soldiers of the two armies were very close and could even hear the breathing of each other. After several weeks of hard fighting, the German army had to withdraw from the warehouse.
Chapter completed!