Chapter 220: Failure of the Battle of Verdun, ask for a monthly pass) 3000 words
It is said that Kai and his team also played a big role in Italy's rebellion. In order to consolidate its position, the Holy See directly announced that the demons in Serbia were defeated by them. Well, the Holy See directly took credit for Kai and his team.
Yes.
Of course, this also comes at a price, that is, Rome promised that the British must persuade the Italian government to change its flag and join the Allies. The Holy See readily agreed to this. They had long been unhappy with the Germans, a bunch of human beings, a bunch of damned ones.
Protestants are actually mixed up with vampires. They are indeed heretics!
Then the Holy See joined in lobbying the Italian government, which completely changed Italy's already wavering position.
Italy had just declared war on Germany and Austria, and before all European countries had time to adjust their strategies, an even more shocking news came from across the ocean, once again making Europeans stunned.
Two days after Italy changed its flag, on April 6, 1917, the United States announced that it would join the Allied Powers and declare war on Germany and Austria!
In fact, the United States has never been very interested in World War I. They are so far away. Although the United States has made great progress in national strength because of the crazy Europeans, and the army has continued to expand, it has left the army and their weapons and equipment in Europe.
, that would be a bit unworthy. The United States has no territorial requirements for Europe. Therefore, the United States will not provide much help in terms of military strength.
What really matters is the material support the United States gave to the Allied Powers. All the countries participating in the war had large debts in the United States. But in comparison, the United States invested more in Britain and France. Britain and France had a large number of high-quality assets overseas, and the United States had a large amount of debt in those countries.
Things are very exciting, so the United States is more inclined to help Britain. Germany is far behind in this regard. They do not have many colonies and assets overseas, otherwise they would not launch a war.
The interests between countries are still more important, so there is nothing wrong with the choice of the United States.
Originally, these countries participating in the war had almost run out of fuel. Now that the Allies had the support of the United States, Germany was immediately plunged into crisis.
There's nothing I can do about it. Germany's vision in choosing allies is really bad. It's a drag and a rebel. There's nothing you can say about it.
The only good news for Germany now is that at least they don't need to worry about the Eastern Front. The Russians have too much to worry about. Due to a series of defeats, a large number of anti-war elements have appeared in Russia, and Tsar Nicholas II has exhausted his authority.
He has lost control over the country.
On March 5, 2017, the Tsar was forced to abdicate. On April 16, a bearded bald man returned to Petrograd with the help of the Germans, shouting the slogan "Peace, Land, Bread". Then
The offensive on the eastern front came to a complete standstill.
But even so, the situation of the Germans was still very bad.
For this reason, Kaiser Wilhelm II had to come up with something to convince his country and people that they could still win the war.
So Ludendorff and Baron von Grossmann both received orders from the Imperial General Staff, telling them to produce results.
Ludendorff did not give an immediate reply, but Baron von Grossmann was very excited and presented his own result - the super soldier.
A group of super soldiers who have no sense of pain, are powerful, agile, cruel and crazy, and fearless of death. He equipped them with the best weapons, including an MG08/15 machine gun and steel plate body armor, turning them into killing machines.
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This batch of two hundred super soldiers was immediately put on the front line. The first performance of these soldiers in front of the Verdun Fortress was indeed amazing. In one night, they broke through six French positions and allowed the Germans to capture them.
Using this gap, we suddenly advanced 6 kilometers and came directly under the wall of the Verdun Fortress.
Six kilometers, this number was not amazing before the war, but now, the advancement of both sides of the war is calculated in meters! You can imagine how amazing the performance of these super soldiers is. But soon, the shortcomings of these soldiers
It just appeared.
They are indeed brave and not afraid of death, but they are a bit too brave. Once the battle is anxious, they can easily fall into a drug-like confusion. They will completely turn a deaf ear to the outside world and launch attacks frantically, sometimes against the French army.
, sometimes it’s towards one’s own people.
What's even more tragic is that once they fall into madness, they cannot recover. Even the Germans can only humanely destroy them. In just three days, all two hundred super soldiers died. Seventy of them were soldiers.
They were still killed by their own people. And even more friendly troops died in their hands.
At this point, it is basically concluded that this technology can only be abandoned, because the commanders and soldiers on the front line are very afraid of this kind of thing, and they refuse to go to the battlefield with such comrades. Being killed by the enemy is considered a sacrifice for the country, but
What does it mean to be killed by one of your own!
This made the Thule Society very disappointed, but it was not despairing. This was just a primary product. Just find the problems and improve them. But the problem is that war waits for no one, and the Army General Staff can't wait any longer.
So they abandoned Baron von Grossmann and turned to their "own man" General Ludendorff for help.
This time Ludendorff did not refuse. He personally led his unit, the Viper Commando, to Verdun.
But this time the protagonists are not the Viper Commandos, but a group of mysterious warriors wrapped tightly in combat uniforms, steel helmets, and gas masks. The Viper Commandos even set up isolation zones in the camps of these mysterious warriors, prohibiting anyone from contacting them.
On the night of April 29, 1917, without warning, the German army suddenly launched an assault. The French army was defeated that night. The Battle of Verdun that started in February 1916 was finally lost on the last day of April 1917.
For exactly one year and two months, the Verdun Fortress completely changed hands!
By occupying Verdun, the German army also opened the way to Paris. Once Paris is occupied, France will be destroyed. With Russia almost withdrawing from the war, Germany's only enemy is the British.
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But as a maritime country, how could the British army pose a threat to Germany?
The Germans saw the goddess of victory waving to them.
This was not so good for the Allies.
Italy even wanted to slap itself twice. Hell, when they were in the Allied Powers, Germany was blocked from advancing at Verdun. As a result, just a few days after they jumped back, France was about to finish the ball! What's worse is that,
Once France is finished, no country on the European continent can be a rival to the Germans.
So our Italian classmates immediately ignored the agreement they had just made with the Allied Powers and sent an ambassador to Germany to discuss the possibility of the continuation of the Triple Alliance.
Of course, Germany did not agree. Especially Austria-Hungary was even less likely to agree. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had always been timid, even sent troops directly to the south, intending to settle the score with Italy for betraying the alliance.
This made the British so popular that while they threatened Italy not to do anything that would undermine the dignity of the country, they immediately urged the Americans to get their troops and supplies to Europe as soon as possible.
The Americans are also panicking at this time. Damn it, if they don't work hard and continue to play soy sauce, all their investments in Europe will probably be lost. Because of the declaration of war on Germany, the debts of the Germans have become bad debts. If Britain and France are destroyed, then the United States will be ruined.
I'm going to wet my pants at such a loss.
So the United States immediately passed a new war budget bill and gave Britain a new war loan. This loan did not go to the British account, but was directly converted into supplies by the U.S. government and shipped to the United Kingdom.
In fact, before the war budget was passed, the U.S. government had bypassed Congress and sent supplies to the United Kingdom in advance.
A large amount of weapons, ammunition and medical supplies arrived at the European battlefield as quickly as possible. At the same time, an expeditionary force of 30,000 people led by Army General Pershing also boarded the warship. The U.S. government guaranteed that at least 500,000 American soldiers would be there.
Go to Europe to join the war.
But these are all things for later and are not of much help to the situation at hand.
France will not be able to hold on anymore. There are already voices within the French government that want to surrender to Germany. The military has also begun to show fear of war, especially the French troops who have retreated from the Verdun Fortress. They cannot muster the courage at all.
To recall what happened that night.
In fact, this time, the French army's losses in Verdun were not great. The German army on the opposite side was not at all psychologically prepared for the results achieved that night. When Ludendorff tore through the defense of the Verdun Fortress, most of the German army
It was still in its own position. As a result, the follow-up troops failed to keep up and failed to surround the French army. After losing 5,000 men, the French army retreated to the follow-up position and regained a firm foothold.
Behind them was Paris, and they really couldn't retreat. But the problem was that the things they encountered in Verdun were beyond the ability of ordinary French soldiers to understand and deal with.
In order to ensure the morale of the French army, the British had to use their trump card - Diana's commando team.
The British attitude towards this commando team is actually quite contradictory. They have been using Diana for a long time, but they carefully concealed the news about her and made her a battlefield legend. This was a political consideration.
But now the British can't care anymore. If they continue, the Allies will be doomed.
At the same time, the British did not forget that there was another big killer.
Kai!
Although Kai is more fantasy-like than Diana, the British have an inexplicable sense of trust in him. Probably because he is the ancestor of the British in a sense.
Hmm... This statement is very strange. According to blood, Kai is a Celtic, and according to his heart, he is Chinese. He has nothing to do with those Anglo-Saxons, but the stubborn British always think that he is a Celtic.
