Kay was taken by Cotterman to visit a Belgian detective named Hercule Poirot. Poirot was a retired Belgian police officer. However, because he spoke French, he was often mistaken for a Frenchman. Before the war began,
He came to the UK to settle down and lived in 56b Whitehaven House, Sandhurst Square, London. He is now a very famous detective in London.
And while Kai was traveling with Cotman in London, the Germans finally started to take action.
At 5 o'clock in the evening on October 22, 1916, near Reims, France, when the Germans' routine heavy artillery bombardment stopped roaring, there was silence all around. Only the breeze blew through the position, and the soldiers got up from the trenches to stretch their bodies.
, they saw the clouds of mist coming with the wind from the north, and they were amazed and thought they saw the mysterious European landscape, but they didn't know that an unprecedented God of Death was wielding a sickle at them.
At 7 o'clock in the evening that day, the French army headquarters lost contact with the front line. Neither the radio nor the wired telephone could be connected. At that time, the headquarters thought it was a radio fault and a wired telephone failure, so the headquarters decided to use the safest method at the time.
Contact the front line by means of communication - dispatch messengers directly.
In the early days of World War I, radio equipment was spread to the corps level. The division level did not have its own communication equipment, so it was quite common for troops to lose contact due to radio failures. At that time, the most common communication method in the French army was wired.
Telephones, but wired telephones also have their own disadvantages, that is, the lines are easily disconnected for various reasons.
Therefore, the most reliable method of communication at that time was to use messengers to communicate.
But by 9 o'clock that night, all the sent messengers had not returned. At this time, the French command finally realized that there was a problem on the front line. So the command immediately mobilized the reserve team. Unfortunately, it was too late, the German army had already broken through the front line.
The position reaches directly to the foot of Reims City.
At about 12 o'clock that night, Reims was declared lost, and the French army retreated nearly 60 kilometers before using a large number of reinforcements to withstand the German attack.
According to the statistics of the French army during the day of the next day, the French army lost a total of 9 infantry regiments with a total of 9 people, including hundreds of artillery and thousands of mortars, as well as countless weapons and equipment. Among them, more than three
The infantry regiment lost contact before the war began and never appeared on the battlefield again.
The French command was at a loss as to how these three infantry regiments disappeared. According to the confessions of French troops in adjacent positions, they heard no sound of fighting, no gunfire, and no artillery fire. The German army suddenly disappeared from those three infantry regiments.
The position of an infantry regiment launched an attack on them without any warning.
In order to figure out what happened in the meantime, the French intelligence agency began to operate at full capacity, and at the same time, Paris once again strengthened the troops in Reims.
But here we still haven’t figured out what happened. The next day, the German army launched an attack in the Aisne River area. It was also heavy fog, and the frontline troops suddenly lost contact. It was also silent. The German army suddenly appeared in the French position.
In the middle. Subsequently, the German army formed a Marne River protrusion with a front of 80 kilometers and a depth of 60 kilometers in the French front.
Immediately afterwards, the German high command planned to concentrate the forces of three armies in the Marne River area (the 7th, 1st, and 3rd armies, a total of 48 divisions, 6,353 artillery pieces, and about 400 aircraft), from Chateau Thierry, Elysee
Breaking through the Allied defense lines in the Na River area, they then launched an offensive toward Paris.
The French 6th, 5th and 4th Group Armies (a total of 36 divisions and 3,080 artillery pieces) organized defense in a deep echelon configuration and formed a confrontation with the German army. The two sides were in a stalemate. However, the French army command insisted on this defense.
They have a negative attitude because they are afraid that the situation like the previous two times will happen again. They are still not sure how the German army managed to break through their forward positions silently.
The British government was also very frightened. In order to stabilize France and prevent the German army from entering Paris, they could only increase troops on the French front line. The British temporarily mobilized 4 British divisions to increase troops to the Marne River front line, and in order to make up for the French army's
With huge losses, Britain could only recruit troops from home again.
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The changes on the front line also affected London. At least from Kai's perspective, London has become a lot more depressed. Even if you see pedestrians on the street, they are all in a hurry. In addition, it has entered the depth of winter and the weather is cold and cold.
It gave the whole of London a feeling of sunset.
"The front line is not good. The Germans have now taken the initiative, and the French side is preparing to move the capital again." (During the first Battle of the Marne, the French government moved to Porto)
Cotman seems to be used to chatting with Kay these days when he has time. In fact, Cotman likes to come to Kai, not only because Cotman is curious about Kai, but also because the British government is also adding fuel to the fire. They hope Cotman
Mann was able to exert a subtle influence on Kai, and Cotman did not refuse. Kai knew many things that happened on the front line through Cotman's mouth.
Kai looked at the briefing on the battle situation on the front line that Cotterman had gotten from nowhere, and he was extremely confused. He had studied the history of World War I when he was in school. Although many details were unclear, he still knew about the two battles of the Marne.
of.
If my memory is correct, the first Battle of the Marne took place in September 1914, which is the same time as here. The second Battle of the Marne took place in July 1918, but it is only the end of October 1916!
The Battle of the Marne actually happened two years earlier!
Moreover, judging from the situation on the battlefield, the situation of the Allied Powers is not good.
You must know that in the last time and space, the Allied Powers had prepared a counterattack plan when they organized their defense. However, according to the news brought by Cotman, the Allied Powers' main energy now still remains on blocking the German army. They are not even sure whether they can hold Paris.
Be pessimistic, let alone counterattack.
Judging from the current situation, Germany must have used some extraordinary means.
Just when Kay was about to discuss this issue with Cotman, Catherine knocked on the door and came in.
"Your Majesty, Reverend Dalton is here to visit."
Kai's daily routine is to read at home or visit friends with Cotman. This old man has many friends. Then there is sex with Cotman at home. Men, no matter what their age, it is engraved in their bones to give advice and criticize Fang Qiu.
Hobby, everyone likes to act like a national leader.
Undoubtedly, both Cotterman and Kay had such a hobby, and they even personally conducted simulations of war situations.
Of course, this deduction is extremely unprofessional and is completely based on subjective assumptions. But neither of them cares. Why do they care so much if they are bragging?
Kay lived a very comfortable life like this, and sometimes George V would join in. However, Pastor Dalton had never been seen again since the first meeting.
However, Kai could probably guess that what this guy wanted to say was that he wanted to join their camp.
"Let him in."
Kai didn't turn a blind eye to him, because he was short-handed. During this period of time, Kai was still aware of the overt and covert preferential treatment given to him by the royal family and the British government. This face must be given.
Soon Dalton opened the door and came in.
But contrary to Kay's expectations, Dalton did not persuade Kay right away. Instead, he handed a stack of photos to Kay.
Although Kai was a little confused, he still took the photo. When he saw the content in the photo, Kai's face changed immediately.
"demon?!!!"
Although the photo was a bit blurry, Kai could still see what was in the photo.
“Where did you get this kind of thing?!!”
The content in the photo is very shocking and very bloody. Countless human bodies have been dismembered, their blood has been drained, and they have been piled up in a huge pit. Some humanoid creatures are reveling in such an environment.
Most of them were pictures of sacrifices. Although Kai didn't recognize many of these sacrifice rituals, the core things were not much different from what Kai had seen before.
Demons are a very ancient creature. But unlike most people's imagination of demons now, demons have nothing to do with things like God and angels, and their birth has nothing to do with humans. In Kai's concept
, they are more like an alien creature.
Just like the ice giants Kai met in Asgard, they come from other spaces. Just because of some special coincidence, the demon world and the earth have a very subtle link. Demons can pass through things like space channels.
Run to the earth.
Kai had fought against this creature with Asgard's tough men, so he knew a few things.
These things feed on human flesh and soul. It can even be said that human flesh and soul have extraordinary temptations for them. These things can allow these demons to evolve, so in order to obtain these things, demons will try their best to come.
to earth.
However, because there is a group of people who have been fighting against them and preventing them from entering the earth, Asgardians usually rarely confront demons because the chance of them appearing is very low. Kai only encountered them once by luck.
Unexpectedly, after thousands of years, these demons would appear again, and judging from the photos, there were quite a few of them.
Dalton faced Kai's question and said with a gloomy face: "Battlefield! Our spies took photos from the Reims battlefield. However, due to some changes, these photos have not been received until now."
