Chapter 1431: Great France also has airships (Second update, please subscribe)
In war, the victorious side is always the one that makes the fewest mistakes, and in order to win the war, they often take the initiative to offer bait.
On the Marne River in another world, the German army deliberately exposed its weak flank to lure the French army to attack, and then surrounded and annihilated the French army with its powerful other wing.
The same is true in this world. When the German army used Pabel's Fifth Army as bait to lure the Ming-French coalition army, the Ming army took the bait. However, the Roman Emperor Alexander III in this world did not do what his son Nicholas II did. He did not launch an attack at the request of Britain and France, ignoring the fact that the Russian army was not prepared for offensive operations and that the troops were far from being in place and the weapons were fully equipped, forcing the German army to transfer the other wing of the army to the Eastern Front.
When the Ming army took the bait, Alexander III was transferring his troops to Persia. Compared to Germany... he would rather occupy the rich India.
In other words... the German army had enough troops to cover the flanks of the Ming army. At the same time, the main force of the British Expeditionary Force also arrived at the war zone. For a moment, the balance of the battlefield seemed to tilt towards the direction of the Anglo-German coalition forces.
After learning that the Ming army had taken the bait, the German Chief of Staff Count Schlieffen shouted excitedly.
"By God, we won the war!"
It is not only the Ming army that takes the bait, but also the French army. They will also be deployed to the battlefield. After this army is destroyed, Paris will open its doors to Germany!
So Count Schlieffen immediately ordered his troops to march quickly as planned, attack the flank of the Ming-French coalition force, and while rescuing the Fifth Army, completely annihilate the Ming-French coalition force.
God bless all the best!
Just as Count Schlieffen joyfully decided to win the war in one fell swoop, they did not notice that the battlefield had actually changed.
Perhaps on land, the Ming-French coalition was at a disadvantage in terms of manpower and even faced the threat of being surrounded at any time. However, after another batch of planes arrived in France by air, although there were only 38 planes, they were the only aircraft unit in Europe. The arrival of these planes allowed the coalition to completely gain air supremacy.
How important is air superiority?
Nobody knows.
However, after gaining air superiority, the French airship force got the opportunity to perform. After all, France also had more than 200 airships, most of which were bombing airships.
At the request of the expeditionary force, Emperor Napoleon V directly handed over the command of the airship unit to the expeditionary force. This was not because they did not trust their own staff, but in order to bypass the links and maximize the results of the battle.
On May 3, almost when the nearly 300,000-strong British and German Allied Forces began to maneuver from the left wing, 213 airships took off from several airship fields in France on the order of the expeditionary force headquarters.
The blue-gray columns on the French land were moving towards the southeast like an unstoppable wave. At this time, although this German army seemed very tired, everyone seemed very excited.
As long as we win this battle, we will enter Paris!
As the commander of the Fourth Army, Luklu once again had that thought in his mind - to attack Paris!
God is my witness, twenty-five years ago, they almost entered Paris!
Just that little bit.
Until now, he still remembers the new weapons of the Ming Dynasty that appeared on the battlefield that day - armored vehicles and airships.
That time, they missed the victory, but this time... they will win.
Just when Luklu was thinking about victory, he did not notice that hundreds of airships were flying over in the sky.
No, it should be "floating" over.
This was the tactic used by the Ming Empire's floating forces during the Battle of Brazil - silent engagement and silent bombing.
After shutting down its engine, the airship floated over the enemy from an altitude of 5,000 meters under the influence of wind, and then carried out bombing by releasing hydrogen to lower its altitude. Because there was no roar of the engine and the flying altitude was too high, the enemy did not even have time for air defense warning.
After the airship at high altitude discovered this German force, it immediately assembled according to the plan, then turned off its engine, and slowly floated towards them under the influence of the wind.
Floating like this, there is no sound. All the airships are like sailboats sailing with the wind on the sea, heading towards their targets quietly.
In the air, everything was quiet and only the sound of the wind could be heard.
On the ground, however, there was a lot of noise. The marching Germans seemed very excited. As they marched, they talked about Paris, wine, and of course, the fashionable girls in Paris.
Just as they were discussing those women, someone suddenly looked up in surprise and looked at the sky in confusion.
"What is that?"
"airship!"
Suddenly, someone shouted in fear. After releasing a large amount of hydrogen, these airships painted with sky camouflage began to drop in altitude rapidly. To the people on the ground, it looked like the sky was falling.
Hundreds of airships silently descended upon the Fourth Army, and the marching column of tens of thousands of people fell into chaos with screams of terror.
People looked up at the sky and saw that a large group of airships as big as clouds had appeared in the blue sky at some point.
It's the French air fleet!
Luklu also looked at this huge air fleet in astonishment. At this moment, only one thought flashed through his mind - it's over!
As if to confirm his prediction, strings of bombs fell from the sky, and as the bombs fell from the sky, the air was filled with sharp whistling sounds.
Amid the friction between the tail of the bomb and the air, the marching column of the Fourth Army began to walk towards death. This was the first saturation carpet bombing in human history. Although the Imperial Air Force proposed "saturation bombing" as early as 20 years ago, and during the Brazilian Campaign, it had used dozens of airships to use cluster bombs to severely damage Prince Gaston's army. However, the Imperial Air Force had never mobilized more than 100 airships to carry out "saturation bombing" on a certain unit.
This... is the first time!
The first saturation carpet bombing in human history!
One hundred airships carried more than 200 tons of bombs, which seemed not a lot, although the French did not have the cluster bombs unique to the empire.
But when hundreds of thousands of small bombs weighing one kilogram fell like raindrops, it was like a downpour, completely covering the Fourth Army. The smoke from the explosion of the small bombs immediately set off a frenzy of death on the earth. The Germans who were marching did not have time to escape or even lie down until the bombs fell. They stood there like tree stumps, allowing the bombs to fall on them and explode beside them.
Not an explosion, but a wave!
In just a blink of an eye, hundreds of thousands of bombs completely enveloped the Fourth Army. The violent explosions and smoke were like a raging sea, turning the Fourth Army upside down. When countless people were blown up into the sky and torn to pieces like dolls, the whistling and scattered fragments swept across everything around like the sickle of the god of death. Groups of German soldiers were knocked to the ground like weeds...
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(End of this chapter)
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