Chapter 945 Falling from the Sky

Shire denied Pershing's claim:

"No, General, why would you think so?"

"You know, we've been trying to trick the Germans into moving their forces to Saarbrücken."

"The problem is that the Germans didn't do that. Instead, they secretly gathered their forces in the direction of Offenburg."

Charles walked to his desk, took out the documents from the drawer and handed them to Pershing and Haig respectively.

In duplicate.

Pershing immediately realized that Charles was lying.

Lying blatantly, fearing that others don't know the truth.

There was no need for him to prepare two identical documents, unless he had already thought of the lie!

Haig also realized this. He sat up from the rocking chair with a gloomy face and numbly took the information handed to him by Charles, but he was not even interested in opening it.

"This is the intelligence we gathered in the Offenburg direction," Charles said to himself.

"Not only did the Germans not withdraw their troops there, they were secretly increasing their forces."

"In the last few days the forces at Offenburg and along the Rhine have been increased by 400,000 men."

"They even transferred a batch of anti-tank guns and mechanized troops from Saarbrücken, as if they knew our battle plan and knew we were going to attack Offenburg."

Charles glanced at Haig meaningfully.

Pershing immediately realized what Charles' words and look meant, and he looked at Haig in shock.

"No, you didn't do that, did you?" Pershing glared.

"I, of course I didn't." Haig slowly stood up, his face flushed.

"Of course you won't admit it!" Pershing said more harshly, his eyes red with anger. "I should have known that you wouldn't want to see Charles win easily. This is not in the interests of Britain..."

Haig could not help but retort: ​​"This is also not in the interests of the United States, Brigadier General!"

Then he immediately realized that this was tantamount to admitting to revealing the information.

"No, no, that's not what I meant!" He quickly denied: "Although it is not in our interest, we didn't do it!"

But no matter how he explained it, it was useless. Pershing stared at Haig with his mouth half open. He seemed to understand everything, and Baker was also involved.

After a long while, Pershing sighed, turned to Charles and said, "Lieutenant General, please believe that I was not involved in this."

"Of course." Charles nodded and stepped forward to shake Pershing's hand. "I am deeply grateful for this, General. You are our true ally."

Pershing had a complicated expression, one of shame, gratitude, and embarrassment. After all, it was his country, and he believed that he could not escape responsibility.

Haig looked innocent, he indeed did not reveal the intelligence to the Germans, they were just preparing to do so.

Could it be that Baker or someone else acted on their own initiative?

He vaguely realized that he had been tricked by Ciel, but he couldn't tell what went wrong.

Pershing ignored Haig and asked Charles, "Now, what shall we do, Lieutenant General?"

"That's easy," Charles replied. "Attack Saarbrücken!"

"But what are we going to do?" Pershing asked. "There are mines everywhere."

"Landmines are a minor matter." Charles replied calmly: "The key point is the artillery positions behind the minefield, the 105MM artillery and the 77MM infantry gun."

…

Meanwhile, the Parisian media and military commentators were arguing:

"The 1st Panzer Army stopped at a German minefield. How could he get through?"

"Charle invented the mines, he must have a way!"

"Not necessarily. Those are mines. There are tens of thousands of them. What can Charles do? Besides, there are German artillery behind the minefield!"

…

Gallieni stared at the map in the minister's office, looking at the small flag that Lieutenant Colonel Fernan had just planted to represent the position of the First Armored Army, and muttered to himself: "What can he do?"

…

The originally noisy meeting room of the "League of Nations" fell silent at this moment.

Clemenceau looked confused. Everyone thought he knew the answer, but he knew nothing.

He could only smile and pretend that he knew but was reluctant to reveal it, so that he could appear to be... a core member of Ciel.

Yes, this is important!

The Belgian representatives looked excited. They didn't know the answer, but they believed that Charles would definitely pass. No one could stop Charles, not even mines.

The representatives from Romania and Italy looked nervous, and even a little worried.

If Charles could not capture Saarbrücken through the minefield, Germany would probably not be deterred and their country would still be lost.

The Dutch representative was worried about gains and losses.

Although they joined the League of Nations, they were always divided into two factions, some pro-German and some pro-French.

The current battle is the moment to decide which side is right.

…

Saarbrücken Front.

Major General Bernhard stared at the tank group outside the minefield, watching them deploy along the front and form an offensive formation.

The soldiers whispered:

"What are they doing? Are they really going to storm with tanks?"

"No, this is courting death!"

"But that's Ciel. Ciel is no fool. He'll always find a way!"

…

The last sentence was also what Major General Bernhard was thinking.

Charles is different from the British and Americans. If he attacks, he is definitely not seeking death.

But what can he do?

Just as he was wondering, a rumbling sound of an engine was heard in the air, coming from far away like thunder.

Major General Bernhard raised the angle of the telescope, and a dense swarm of planes immediately entered his aperture.

They were different from any aircraft I had seen before, these monsters seemed to be enclosed, with three propellers carrying a slightly clumsy fuselage.

There were at least 100 planes, and some "Sniper" fighter jets were flying around to escort them. The dark mass blocked out the sunlight.

"Bomber." Major General Bernhard's face changed. "Charles' new bomber. He plans to use bombs to flatten the minefield!"

The German soldiers looked at the sky in horror, and some of them even retracted their rifles and prepared to escape back to the tunnels.

However, the plane slowly passed over everyone's heads amid their puzzled and relieved looks. It never lowered its altitude and did not drop any aerial bombs.

Just as the soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, white round umbrellas floated out of the planes in their sight. The number of them became more and more numerous and dense, like bubbles spit out by fish, or more like dandelions floating in the air.

"What is that?" the soldiers exclaimed.

Major General Bernhard raised his binoculars and took a closer look. He was extremely shocked: "It's paratroopers. Charles actually, actually used paratroopers to land!"

No one has ever done this before, this is the first time.

The soldiers were stunned. How could war be fought like this?

Use planes to transport soldiers behind the defense lines, and then drop them from the sky!

Before this, if someone had mentioned such a tactic, they would have just laughed it off.

But now, it is right in front of me!

Then Major General Bernhard understood:

"Our artillery, they are targeting our artillery!"

"Contact the artillery immediately and ask them to organize defense!"

(End of this chapter)