The whistling sound of shrapnel, like the scream of death, echoed in the gunpowder smoke. The entire land was shrouded in gunpowder smoke. In the suffocating gunpowder smoke, there were desperate screams everywhere.
The desperate and pitiful screams will suddenly stop in the next round of explosions. In the end, it seems that only the sound of continuous explosions is left between heaven and earth.
The god of death covers the earth and everything in the world!
From the afternoon of May 3, death enveloped the land of France. Airship troops launched several silent attacks on the marching German and British forces. The saturation carpet bombing dealt a huge blow to the unprepared army during the march.
It's almost devastating.
And for the German soldiers inside, what did they feel?
It's death!
die!
This is a death march!
Erich von Ludendorff, who rolled into the field during the bombing, saw the regimental commander twitching on the ground. His arteries were broken by fragments, and blood spurted out from his throat like mist.
The leader, who was covering his neck with his hands and twitching all over, died soon after.
The scene in front of him completely subverted Ludendorff's imagination of the war. After joining the staff, he was highly appreciated by Schlieffen and participated in the revision of the Schlieffen Plan. He was even the one who proposed destroying Belgium's neutrality and outflanking France.
, and a battle plan to defeat it in one fell swoop.
In Ludendorff's view, if you want to win the war, you must do whatever it takes.
After the war broke out, he was sent down to "gild". In Ludendorff's view, this was a war destined to be won, and everyone would gain their own military merit from this war.
But what about now?
"Boom! Boom!"
The explosion broke Ludendorff's thoughts. He saw a group of running soldiers suddenly engulfed by clouds of flames and smoke, and then they just disappeared...
An ammunition truck parked on the road was detonated by a bomb. In the violent explosion, flames shot into the sky. From the burning flames, there were continuous explosions like firecrackers. The ignited bullet warheads were scattered in all directions...
…
bombing!
After the intensive bombing, the airships in the sky lowered their altitude again, and then they strafed the ground less than a kilometer away from the ground. The rain of bullets fell from the sky and knocked down patches of German soldiers to the ground.
, those who were lucky enough to survive the bombing, after large-caliber bullets hit the human body, they can even tear those unlucky guys in two.
But in just a short while, the land was completely transformed into a veritable slaughterhouse. Airships in the sky dropped small bombs one after another. Compared with heavy aerial bombs, these small bombs weighing only 1 to 2 kilograms not only have a larger killing radius.
, can produce a large amount of fragments, and because of the large number, it is enough to form a covering bombing effect.
In saturation bombing, hundreds of thousands of small bombs, like hundreds of thousands of artillery shells falling one after another, will blow up the flesh and blood of the German troops exposed in the wild.
One hour!
The bombing lasted for a full hour!
After the bombing, there were corpses everywhere, and wounded people struggling and crying could be seen everywhere.
Looking at this scene before him, Ludendorff felt a certain despair in his heart for the first time.
…
How many people died?
How many people died in the bombing?
Ludendorff didn't know, and he didn't even care about it at all. To him, it wasn't important.
While the uninjured soldiers were dragging out the wounded and helping to treat the wounded, Ludendorff had only one thought left in his mind - what to do now?
Looking at the distant airship, Ludendorff kept talking to himself.
"What now, what now?"
The stumps and broken arms that could be seen everywhere seemed to remind Ludendorff that they would not be able to reach the scheduled location as scheduled under the French bombing.
"If we fail to arrive as scheduled, then we are likely to fail..."
When this idea came to Ludendorff's mind, in a forest only dozens of kilometers away from the border, on a train, Count Schlieffen immediately screamed after receiving a telegram from the front line.
road.
"how so?"
Then, as if he had figured it out, he muttered to himself.
"Okay, that should be it..."
The reason why Count Schlieffen had such a reaction couldn't be simpler, because as early as during the "Battle of Brazil", the legion led by Brazilian Prince Gaston had lost more than 25% of the army in bombings. That mighty army
The huge army was completely destroyed before it even reached the front line.
It was also from that time that air defense was something that must be considered in the army's combat plan. In the combat plan formulated by Count Schlieffen, Germany needed to invest more than 180 combat airships for field air defense, and
Each German division had a balloon battery.
At least, judging from previous exercises, with such a powerful air defense force, they don't need to consider air threats.
But, now... everything has been changed because of the emergence of airplanes.
"Count, plane, Ming's plane turned our airship into a target. As soon as our airship takes off, it will be destroyed. Therefore, the troops have no air cover at all during the march. As for the anti-aircraft guns, they
It’s also difficult to deploy…”
This is the technical gap!
Count Schlieffen sighed helplessly, now he seemed to have realized that his plan had failed.
How did it fail?
It was definitely not a tactical failure. Even until now, Count Schlieffen believed that his plan was perfect.
What caused the operation to fail?
It’s technologically backward!
"If we had tens of thousands of trucks and planes, maybe the outcome of this battle would be completely different."
Why did Count Schlieffen let out such a long sigh?
This is because Germany does not have enough trucks to allow the army to march quickly, and the speed of the army cannot meet the tactical needs, so his plan can only rely on trains and soldiers' legs, and most of the time, it can only rely on legs.
As for airplanes...the emergence of airplanes has also changed too many things.
Although he was very upset in his heart, Count Schlieffen knew that now was not the time to regret. Since the war had broken out, the only thing left was to carry the war to the end until victory.
"The Fifth Army..."
After thinking for a while, Count Schlieffen said, realizing that he had lost the opportunity.
"Order the Fifth Army to retreat! If we retreat to the Verdun line, we still have a chance to regroup. The British are sending their troops, and we still have a chance..."
When he said these words, Count Schlieffen did not even notice that he was repeatedly emphasizing the British, as if he wanted to use this to convince himself.
In fact, deep down in his heart, he knew very well that once the opportunity was lost in the war, many uncertain factors would occur next.
In war, the chance of victory may be fleeting. Once this opportunity is missed, when will the next opportunity be?
No one can tell the reason, but the most important thing at this time is to preserve our strength instead of making unnecessary sacrifices!
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