Chapter Fifty-Twenty-Five: Frontier Battles in the French Region
In August 1905, the German Empire, which had already deployed heavy troops in the border areas, finally took the lead in launching an offensive. The German army, with its right wing as the main force, assembled 22 reorganized field armies and 7 cavalry divisions, totaling more than 1.9 million people.
As soon as the war started, all countries in the world immediately understood Germany's intentions. Therefore, the German army's purpose of bypassing Belgium and attacking Paris in a roundabout direction to the west was already clear. Therefore, the French authorities immediately mobilized troops and began to intercept and annihilate the border areas between Belgium and France.
The main force of the German Army, the first battle of World War I, the French border battle broke out.
At that time, the total strength of the British and French coalition forces was approximately 23 integrated armies and 8 cavalry divisions, which was considered a duel with the German Army. However, when formulating the combat plan, the British and French coalition commanders did not consider that Germany would bypass Belgium.
Attacking areas with weak defenses requires the mobilization of a large number of troops to the front lines of Etain, Montmedy, Charleroi, and Landresi.
Therefore, at the beginning of the war, the German army was extremely ferocious, and the British and French forces were retreating steadily. However, after a period of deployment, the British and French forces gradually buffered themselves, and the two armies began to spread out in four areas.
This battle was mainly fought in the northeastern region of France. It was a huge melee, because the total strength of the two warring parties reached 3.5 million. The number and scale were so high that it was jaw-dropping.
But just after the war between the two sides began, the three aircraft carrier battle groups of the Far East Navy Fleet had already arrived in the Indian Ocean, but they did not continue to move forward. At this time, they did not know what the Far East Army was going to do, and when these three aircraft carrier battle groups arrived in British India
After the coastal area, both the British authorities and other countries in the world were very puzzled by the Far East Army's move, but those who were interested seemed to have seen some clues.
Seventeen of the first-generation light aircraft carriers in the Far East have now joined the Navy's battle order. They are replaced by the names of domestic provinces. These seventeen Yanhuang-class light aircraft carriers are different from some of the current US Navy's aircraft carriers because the Yanhuang-class aircraft carriers
It is a specially developed and built aircraft carrier and is not transformed from a large warship.
The Yanhuang-class aircraft carrier uses an all-through deck. The entire battleship is 272 meters in length, 260 meters in waterline, 32 meters in width, 4.7 meters in draft, 28,550 in full load, 26,950 in standard displacement, and powered by:
Eight steam turbines, four shafts and four propellers, maximum speed: 19 knots.
Main shipborne weapons and equipment, main guns: 16 35mm anti-aircraft guns, 10 anti-aircraft machine guns.
It has carrier-based aircraft: a total of 70 (50 light bombers, 18 J-1 air combat aircraft, and two high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft). Crew: 573 people.
Although aircraft carriers have many fatal shortcomings, especially in such a stage where technology is still in its infancy and cannot detect enemy attacks from long distances, Li Ningyu still decided to build a large number of aircraft carriers and planned to build 10 aircraft carriers before 1910.
The battle group is thirty Yanhuang-class aircraft carriers.
It can be said that almost all the money of the Far East Legion was used to build the aircraft carrier battle group. Simple battleships, cruisers, destroyers, and attack submarines were all planned to be built on the basis of building the aircraft carrier battle group, because the entire aircraft carrier battle group
Once the formation goes out, it cannot go alone. There must be many types of warships working together and protecting it.
According to the basic configuration of the Far East aircraft carrier battle group, a Yanhuang-class aircraft carrier is equipped with one or two 10,000-ton mini-battleships, two cruisers and four Huaxia-class destroyers. An aircraft carrier formation is also equipped with an attack submarine formation and three large-scale destroyers.
Supply ship.
Therefore, the total tonnage of an aircraft carrier battle group alone with three Yanhuang-class aircraft carriers is as high as 84,000 tons. Adding in the large-tonnage battleships and cruisers, the total tonnage directly exceeds 130,000 tons. Therefore, the total tonnage of each aircraft carrier battle group exceeds 15,000 tons.
Thousands of tons.
The required construction and maintenance costs are frighteningly high. If calculated using primitive methods, based on the per capita income of the Far East Group-controlled area, an aircraft carrier battle group would require 15 million people to support it, that is, 100 people would support one aircraft carrier.
A 10,000-ton warship, and this number is still very good. For example, in the German naval fleet, a 10,000-ton warship requires more than 300 people.
It is precisely because of the presence of battleships, cruisers, destroyers, attack submarines, and comprehensive support supply ships to protect the aircraft carrier group that the anti-submarine and anti-ship capabilities of the aircraft carrier have been greatly improved, because from the ability to defend sea battleships or defend underwater
For submarine attacks, with these cooperating warships, the aircraft carrier battle group has several layers of protection, making it difficult for any warship to attack the Far East aircraft carrier battle group.
Because the Far East Navy's aircraft carrier battle group, if it wants to attack any target, can immediately dispatch carrier-based fighter jets to attack when the combat radius reaches 300 kilometers, and it can reach the combat area in about thirty minutes.
Therefore, the aircraft carrier formation of the Far East Navy has strong offensive and defensive capabilities. Only in this way can the aircraft carrier be able to undertake a variety of maritime missions, including this non-war military operation mission to the Indian Ocean.
Of course, the aircraft carrier battle group is a maritime overlord that integrates various high-tech and many advanced weapons and equipment. Li Ningyu often uses eight characters to describe this super powerful maritime combat platform, which integrates ships and aircraft, and is both offensive and defensive!
However, any military development is inseparable from the comprehensive strength of a country. However, the Far East Group is to a large extent ahead of other countries in the world. Even the United States, which is also building aircraft carriers, cannot surpass the Far East Group because it directly
This can be seen on the aircraft carrier.
At the same time, it is also testing the military strength of the entire Far East Army. The most direct ones are the naval force establishment system, the maritime combat command system, and the logistics support of large maritime formations, and even a series of factors such as the doctrine of the naval force, the theory of maritime operations, etc.
, but the aircraft carrier is also the adjustment and change of the Far East Corps' sea and air force structure, which has far-reaching significance and future influence, and is also very huge.
Therefore, the Far East Corps is very concerned about the construction of aircraft carriers, especially Li Ningyu himself. Every once in a while, he will personally call the Far East Military Equipment Department to learn about the construction and research and development of aircraft carriers.
Therefore, the aircraft carrier has become a major event in the construction and development of the Far East Navy's system and weapons and equipment. It has also begun a knowledge-intensive and technically complex upgrade of the Far East Navy's research and development department. Through the concerted construction of the Far East Navy, under Li Ningyu's careful planning
Only under this circumstance can the Far East Navy aircraft carrier battle group form three large-scale maritime combat forces in such a short period of time.
Of course, people tend to only see the bright side, but they don’t know that in order to form this combat effectiveness, in the early stages of training for the three aircraft carrier formations of the Far East Navy, an aircraft would crash or fall into the sea on average every day.
After losing hundreds of fighter planes, these three aircraft carrier formations were the first to be put into battle order and began their extraordinary journey.
After the incident of three aircraft carrier battle groups of the Far East Navy approaching the Indian waters, it did not change the battle between the British and French forces and the German army. Shortly after the 1st and 2nd armies of the British and French forces launched a sneak attack into the Alsace and Lorraine areas.
The 6th and 7th German Army Groups immediately launched a counter-assault military operation. In the end, the British and French forces were defeated and retreated step by step to the Nancy Heights line.
But all this was just the beginning. In the face of successive victories, the German army naturally caught up. So the German 4th and 5th armies had a comprehensive encounter with the British and French 3rd and 4th armies in the Ardennes area.
In the end, relying on their superiority in military strength, the German army defeated the British and French forces.
However, the British and French forces that retreated to Verdun and the Meuse River were not discouraged. Three days later, when the German 2nd and 3rd armies began to forcefully cross the Sambre and Meuse rivers respectively, the British and French forces launched an attack.
However, after repeated desperate battles, the British and French 5th Army took the initiative to retreat to the area south of Philipville.
At the same time, the German 1st Army pushed back the British Expeditionary Army in the Mons area to the Lecateau and Cambrai lines. In just over ten days, this battle in the French border area caused the world's two largest military forces to retreat.
Group, with a total combat force of about 3.5 million people. This battle brought about 300,000 casualties to the British and French coalition forces. Since then, the British and French coalition forces have lost all fronts north of Verdun. Paris, the French capital, has begun to be threatened. The British and French coalition forces have formulated a plan
The German combat plan was declared bankrupt, and from then on the German Army took full control of the military initiative on the entire Western Front battlefield.
But just when William II was toasting and preparing to celebrate, a message from the Middle East suddenly reached his hands. Upon seeing it, William II was extremely surprised and at the same time extremely angry, because he never expected that in
At this time, Li Ningyu would actually make such a big move on German territory.
In response to this, William II directly called Li Ningyu. This time William II's words were extremely tough and sharp, but Li Ningyu had nothing to say to William II at all. In the end, he just replied a letter to distance himself from the Far East Army.
telegraph.
It turned out that on the day of the German victory, large-scale civil strife broke out in Iran and Iraq at the same time. In addition, three aircraft carrier battle groups of the Far East Navy suddenly appeared in the Persian Gulf, causing the situation in Iran and Iraq to become one-sided.
After all, the deterrent power of the Far East Legion is there.
Since the German authorities' plan to build the "Three-B Railway" was fully completed, it can be said that Iran and Iraq have been basically trapped in Germany's embrace. Therefore, William II mistakenly thought that Li Ningyu had turned to the Allies and the United Nations.
Edward VII came to deal with him.
Of course, all of this is naturally inextricably linked to Li Ningyu, because the main leader who triggered the armed independence uprising in Iran was Levi, who was helped by Li Ningyu. And this time, most of the weapons in the Iranian armed independence uprising
The equipment is secretly provided by the Far East Group.
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