Chapter 1421 The decisive battle on the Marne River (second update, please subscribe)
Author: Xiaoyu’s Destiny
Chapter 1421 The decisive battle on the Marne River (second update, please subscribe)
In order to send as many troops as possible to the Marne River and block the attacking German-British coalition forces, all cars in Paris, including not only buses, taxis and even private cars, were requisitioned. In the next few days,
During the day, the road leading to the Marne River was crowded with vehicles transporting troops.
In just two days, more than 300,000 troops were sent to the Marne River.
At the end of April 1995, the fate of France will be decided here!
Sometimes, when is the fateful moment?
It is this moment, for soldiers, this moment is likely to achieve their personal glory and shame.
Whether it's glory or shame, it's just a matter of a moment.
As for the expeditionary force from the Ming Empire, when they came to the Marne River, they knew very well that this would be their place of glory.
As soon as they arrived at the Marne River, the 150,000 expeditionary force began to build fortifications. When they were digging fortifications and cutting down trees, the nearby French people would always look at these short yellow men curiously.
Will give them a friendly smile.
How can we not be friendly? People come all the way to fight for them.
While cutting down trees in the woods, a figure suddenly appeared in the distance, and Honjo Shige was stunned for a moment.
"Benzhuang, what's wrong with you!"
"That, that..."
Shigeru Honjo pointed to the distance and said.
"Bai... really, really white..."
"What is Shiro?"
Oda Song looked in the direction he was looking, his eyes widened instantly, and just like Honjo, he was also stunned.
"It's really white!"
It was indeed very white. I saw two French girls walking by the forest in the distance carrying baskets. Their blond hair shone in the sun. What was even more exciting was their skin, which was as white...as white as paper.
Whether in the African colonies or in the empire itself, whiteness is regarded as beauty. Although this refers to women, for an East African mixed race like Benzhuang, his skin color is darker than that of ordinary Japanese people, slightly darker than brown.
It was a lot lighter, and because of this, when he saw the white girl by the forest, he became a little distracted.
Perhaps the girls felt their direct gaze. The girls turned their heads and looked at the forest, only to see hundreds of guys in khaki military uniforms looking at them. The girls were shy and exposed their faces.
smile.
"Haha, they are smiling at me!"
"It's me,"
"for me……"
For a moment, excited shouts gathered in the woods, and some people boldly whistled at them. In the past, in Africa, they only dared to whistle at the same coffee as them.
Listening to the whistles in the forest, the girls smiled coquettishly, quickened their pace, and then left. However, looking at the girls going away and their graceful figures, Honjo Shige said solemnly.
"I made a decision!"
"What?"
"I must marry a French girl back home!"
"What? Are you dreaming? Will white people marry you? If they want to marry, they will marry someone as wise as Chief Wang!"
"You do not understand!"
I rolled my eyes at Xiaotian and said carelessly.
"For French girls, I am also from the Ming Dynasty, haha. Besides, I am here to help them fight. After defeating the Germans and British on the battlefield, we will be heroes in their eyes! Have you not read the novel?
Is it written on it? When His Majesty the Emperor led an expeditionary force to France, after they defeated the Prussians, the streets of Paris were full of French girls kissing them. When they returned home, there were tens of thousands of French girls
Married to an imperial soldier..."
Listening to Honjo mentioning the past events of the expeditionary force, Oda Matsu couldn't help but yearn for it and murmured to himself.
"It's so white..."
"What?"
"I mean, we must fight the enemy bravely!"
Sometimes, people's dreams are very simple. For young people, they imagine personal glory and the glory of victory. Of course, they also imagine love. They imagine that expeditions like those in novels can take place here.
The same story as Jun’s love story.
But after the fantasy, they still have to face reality. The reality is that there are twice as many enemies in front of them.
"The trenches must be deepened to 1.5 meters! Remember, it is two meters! Only two meters deep trenches can withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery. The enemy we have to face is twice our strength. If we want to stop them, we must
Use the strongest trenches and field fortifications to stop them..."
Wang Youyu, who was standing on top of the trench guard wall, like other officers, was constantly urging the soldiers to dig trenches. After they arrived at the preset positions, the soldiers were like ground rats, covering dozens of kilometers.
On the front line, defensive positions with a depth of more than one kilometer were built. In front of their positions, there were a large number of obstacles composed of barbed wire and landmines.
While the soldiers were building trenches, the expeditionary force commander Zhou Ze came to the front line and inspected the trenches specifically.
"The trench is 1.5 meters deep, plus the 60-centimeter-high parapet, the actual depth is 2.1 meters. There are anti-gun bunkers on the trench surface. Each bunker can accommodate one squad. There are double-layer wooden beams with a diameter of more than 20 centimeters on the top of the bunkers.
The wooden beams are covered with a 1-meter-thick earth layer, and there are drainage channels at the bottom. If the pump can be delivered on time, there will be no water in the trenches even if it rains heavily in summer..."
They are all standard fortification systems of the Imperial Army. A one-meter-thick anti-gun hole can withstand the bombardment of a 100mm field gun. If it is larger, it will definitely not be able to do it. But most of the time, field troops will not have it.
How many heavy guns exceed 100 mm.
When it comes to the construction of fortification systems, the empire ranks at the forefront among all countries in the world. As early as when the world was still in the era of line arrays, the empire began to study field fortifications and then turned it into a science.
Zhou Ze nodded slightly and said to himself.
"Pity……"
"What?"
"We have too few heavy artillery. Both defense and offense require a large number of heavy artillery, at least heavy mortars. But in the colonies, we don't have any heavy artillery at all, and we don't even have many heavy mortars...
"
Because the war broke out so suddenly, the troops departing from Africa did not replenish many heavy weapons at all. Many of the heavy weapons belonged to the French. But they looked down upon the scrap metal from France at all.
Shaking his head helplessly, Zhou Ze glanced at the nearby soldiers. Many of them used Webster 100 rifles. They were the best hunting rifles and were proven to be the best sniper rifles in southern Africa.
It’s unknown how many British people died under its gunfire.
But no matter how good the rifle is, it cannot replace the cannon!
cannon……
"Have the heavy artillery promised by the French arrived?"
When the chief of staff shook his head, Zhou Ze's brows knitted together, and then he muttered to himself.
"Then there's nothing we can do. We have to find a way..."
While talking to himself, Zhou Ze asked again.
"Has aerial reconnaissance determined the position of the Germans from us?"