September 2nd, this day, the dragon is showing off and the phoenix is flying.
Seventy-nine huge airships, like the legendary "Leviathan" in the Bible, fly in the sky, and they seem to have become the patron saint of the French.
After Marshal McMahon ordered a breakout, when the 7th Army, led by Felix Douai, attacked the town of Na-Monsale, Li Du, who was standing on the airship and observing the battle on the ground, immediately issued the order
, while he ordered to cover the French army's breakout, he also used signal flares to regroup the airships. The huge airship force took almost three hours to complete the assembly.
In this process, the airship provided unprecedented cover to the ground, and 30mm grenades rained down on the defending Prussian front. Although the small artillery shells easily defeated the Prussian defense line, they were unable to defeat the Prussian defense line.
The defense of the town of Salle is still very tenacious. They rely on the buildings in the town to stubbornly resist the French attack.
"Don't these French people know that a frontal attack is not possible, so they attack from the side in a roundabout way?"
Li Du didn't even bother to complain about the stupidity of those French people.
"Should they do something?"
The French, whose attack on the ground was frustrated, looked at the airship in the sky and thought with expectation.
As the French watched, Li Du ordered a huge bomb to be dropped.
A giant bomb several meters long, like Thor's hammer, fell from the sky and landed directly on the edge of the town of Na Monsal. In the violent explosion, three-thirds of the ruins of the buildings in the town were directly destroyed.
One, the violent explosion frightened everyone,
For at least a minute, everyone stood there stunned and completely unresponsive. Whether it was the French or the Prussians who survived the explosion.
All of them were stunned by the power of the giant bomb.
In the choking smoke, when the French soldiers rushed up like a tide, they saw body fragments everywhere in front of them. Many Prussian soldiers seemed uninjured, but their internal organs were shattered. The surviving Prussian soldiers even
They all forgot to resist and allowed the French troops to rush forward and end their lives with bayonets.
Victory is just a momentary thing.
"God can testify that today, God is on our side!"
General Felix Douai, who was riding on a war horse, waved his military cap and shouted excitedly to the sky,
All the French were like this. The French soldiers, who had been bombarded by Prussian cannons in the past two days and were dying, looked up at the sky and shouted excitedly at the airships in the sky.
Even Emperor Napoleon III shouted excitedly into the sky.
Once upon a time, like all soldiers, he was struggling on the edge of death. Not only would he lose his throne, but he would also die at any time.
What now?
He escaped and not only survived, but also kept his throne.
All this is because of the airship.
An airship from afar saved them all.
"The French seem very excited!"
Observing the movement on the ground through the telescope, Li Du said with a smile,
"Can they not be excited? We saved them!"
Wang Xinyue said a little incredulously.
"It seems that the Prussians are not as tenacious as we thought. It seems that we can..."
Just as he finished speaking, a signal came from the left wing.
"Prussian troops are approaching on the left wing, with cavalry!"
"Order the Third Brigade to intercept them!"
Following Wang Xinyue's order, the Third Battalion flew out of the formation according to the order. Ten minutes later, they aimed their guns at the attacking Prussian cavalry, and aimed at the billowing smoke and dust on the ground, pouring out dense
The rain of bullets and the continuous explosions instantly enveloped the cavalry, but in just a blink of an eye, they were overturned. Thousands of cavalry died before they even saw the appearance of the French.
On the battlefield.
After the rapid bombardment ended, the mighty pair of cavalry either fled in all directions or turned into a pile of minced meat on the ground.
After receiving the news that the 3rd Cavalry Division had failed to intercept, Moltke was silent for a moment, then he glanced at the sky in the distance and said in a tone full of helplessness.
"It seems that the goddess of victory just lifted her skirt to us..."
Bismarck did not speak. He looked very ugly and just smoked silently. The answer could not have been clearer. They were just a little unwilling. And those dead soldiers were the price of their unwillingness.
Not far away, officers from Britain, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and other countries - they were all military attaches stationed in Prussia from various countries. Once upon a time, they thought they would witness the greatest victory of the nineteenth century.
What now?
What they witnessed was a change. Although no one knew how long it took Nanhua's airship to fly from the New World to Sedan, they clearly realized that the war had fundamentally changed.
"Gentlemen, I think we are witnessing a revolution!"
"Revolution... in front of the airship, everything is worth mentioning. Rifles, cannons, including people's courage, it can easily destroy everything."
"In future wars, the side without airships is doomed to fail!"
"So now, the Prussians don't have airships. In this case, how can they win this war?"
When officers from various countries discussed the changes brought by airships to the war in a thoughtful tone, under the cover of airships, hundreds of thousands of French troops broke through the Prussian siege like a tide, and the airships in the sky were
Their patron saints, they will not only use bombs in the air to clear the way for the troops on the ground, but they will also drop map tubes from time to time to tell the troops on the ground in which direction to break out.
For airships in the air, the defense of the Prussian army on the ground is unobstructed. Observers can always find the weak links or joints of the Prussian army's defense, and then communicate with the ground by dropping parachute signal barrels to provide them with intelligence.
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"Oh my God, is this still war?"
Kitchener, who came to France to participate in the war as a volunteer, was a future British field marshal who would be known as the "Butcher" in South Africa decades later. When he saw McMahon adjusting the direction of the troops' breakout based on aerial intelligence, he
There was only one thought left in my mind - war has been completely changed.
"Sir, of course this is war!"
A French officer next to him smiled and said,
"It's just a war in which God is on our side. Look, those airships are so cute. I dare say the angels are nothing more than that!"
For these French people who escaped, the airship was indeed the cutest angel in the world. It was their arrival that saved them, and it was their arrival that defeated the arrogant Prussians.
"Yes, they are angels, angels sent by God!"
A few hours later, as night fell, the French Second Army, which "broke out of the encirclement" under the cover of the airship, was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief. However, McMahon did not stop, but ordered the army to continue to attack.
They retreated towards Paris, where there was a strong fortress, which they could rely on to resist the Prussian attack.
McMahon, who was afraid that the Prussians would pursue or even launch an attack at night, ignored the emperor's order and ordered the troops to march all night. Above their heads, the airship was still hovering, and even the night sky was torn apart by the airship——
Several beams of light falling from the sky tore through the dark night.
That was the light of a searchlight. The bright light shone on the earth. It was like the eyes of a giant dragon, staring at the earth vigilantly. It seemed to be reminding everyone that he could see clearly even at night.
This night, the French were running, but what about the Prussians? They were licking their wounds in the dark...
This chapter has been completed!