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.    Chapter 410 Engineers go first

    "Zian, is this too hasty?"

    The threshold of the small courtyard in Wuchang was almost leveled by people who came to congratulate one after another. Since Miao Luocai gave birth and could not return to Nanjing, Yang Qiu simply rested for a while to accompany his wife. However, with the telegram sent back by Zhang Xiaozhun, the small study room  Being crowded again.

    Yang Qiu has not yet recovered from the excitement of becoming a father for the first time. He is holding the little guy and amusing himself. Every time he taps his finger on the little guy's nose, he will make a babbling protest, which makes him smile so brightly that Xiao Anguo doesn't even say a word.  After hearing this, Ruiyao didn't take the child away until she made tea for everyone, and glared at him resentfully before leaving the study.  The shock of Miao Luo's delivery was so great that even Lu Bicheng sent a telegram "tactfully" saying that she wanted to buy a house in Nanjing to live there permanently.  Faced with this look, Yang Qiu could only cough twice to cover it up, turned around and asked: "Brother Xiao, what did you just say?"

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    Jiang Fangzhen laughed the loudest, and Cai E, He Xi and Feng Guozhang, who had come to Hanyang to inspect the training of the reserve division, also pursed their lips.  Xiao Anguo slapped his forehead and could only repeat the news that Yue Peng was preparing to join the war, and said: "Isn't it too hasty with only two divisions? It will take some time for the second batch to arrive in France. Calculated by days, the next three divisions will be ready by the end of the month.  Training completed, now pull out"

    Although Xiao Anguo is not very capable and far away from Cai E and others, his words still make sense. First of all, if two divisions go out to fight, they will definitely not be able to obtain the command rights given in the agreement. You must know that every investment on the Western Front is at least  Of the strength of 50 divisions, two divisions cannot be seen at all. Even if Yang Qiu opened his mouth, Britain and France would not be able to give the two divisions complete command rights, so this investment must definitely be to join the existing front for coordination.  Britain and France.  Constraints on command will inevitably lead to the inability of the troops to fully exert their full combat capabilities. This alone makes everyone worried.

    Yang Qiu Xiangxiang quickly grasped the key point in his words and asked: "Those two divisions?"

    "It is composed of mixed personnel from each division and two heavy artillery brigades, 706 and 705. External radio numbers use the call codes of the 5th and 8th divisions." Both Bai Chongxi and Li Zongren went to the Western Front for training, and Kuang Xukun did not understand military affairs, so Jiang Zuobin temporarily served as  He became Yang Qiu's military secretary and was responsible for handling frontline battle reports.  Jiang Fangzhen waited for him to finish and analyzed: "Zian (Yue Peng) chose this time well. The biggest battles on the Western Front are currently at Verdun and Compi¨¨gne. The German army in the former has switched to comprehensive defense. Commander P¨¦tain's  The French Army Group Center was also exhausted and could not make a difference. The British Army in Compi¨¨gne began to gain the upper hand, and the Crown Prince's Army of Bavaria now had to retreat significantly and go on the defensive. Hindenburg began to build up his strength after taking over from Falkenhayn.  With the new line of defense, it is expected that the German army will all retreat back to this line of defense to make major adjustments. Judging from some signs, Hindenburg has temporarily given up the extravagant hope of taking Paris. However, because of the instability in Russia's domestic situation, he has begun to actively adjust his forces on the eastern front.  We guess that the main war in the first half of next year will be concentrated on the eastern front rather than the western front. So Zian and his colleagues¡¯ idea is to use this gap period to hone their troops with some sporadic actual combat opportunities.¡±

    Cai E agreed with him and said: "Baili's analysis is very reasonable. Zian and the others also chose the time well, but I'm afraid the results will not be optimistic."

    Yang Qiu walked to the map.  After the Battle of Verdun came to an end, Hindenburg began to build a new line of defense, so there would actually be no major battles on the entire Western Front within half a year. It was not that both sides did not want to fight, but that they needed time to accumulate strength. Before the Battle of Nivel in April  The main fighting was concentrated near Reims.  These small battles are not large in scale, and the maximum investment is only seven or eight divisions.  But the problem is that the German army has now shifted to comprehensive defense!  You must know that the German army is not the Japanese army. Don¡¯t think that the German army is best at attacking because it has suffered fewer casualties on the offensive side than the defensive side in repeated offensives. In fact, the German army is best at defensive counterattacks. The ultimate goal of the German army since Moltke¡¯s era  To prevent a French-Russian flanking attack, a lot of effort was made in defensive counterattacks.  ishu. Especially after Hindenburg came to power, the German army on the Western Front returned to its best defensive counterattack tactics and built the "Hindenburg Defense Line" composed of tens of thousands of simple fortresses. This line of defense had shorter attack positions and more direct firepower.  The balance is very powerful. Although they still like to use heavy machine guns instead of light machine guns, grenades and mortars have been strengthened a lot. With simple fortifications, the defense line mainly composed of heavy artillery and Maxim is unbreakable, so in the Sino-Japanese War  The Wehrmacht's superiority in squad firepower was gone.  What's more, the German army has been fighting in this kind of tug-of-war trench warfare for more than two years. The experienced soldiers are sophisticated and their combat effectiveness is very terrifying.

    It is right to want to hone the troops in such small conflicts. After all, no "magic soldiers and generals" can form a suitable combat plan before fighting their opponents. Yue Peng and the others need to go through a series of  Only those who are familiar with the German army's fighting style and weaknesses in actual combat can find ways to take advantage of the Wehrmacht's tactical system. It can be seen that frontline commanders are also thinking about how to fight this battle, but when it comes to honing combat operations,It is also very challenging. A slight mistake will definitely lead to a counterattack by the German army, and the probability of serious casualties is also very high!  Thinking of this, he turned around and told Jiang Zuobin: "Send a telegram to the President and Prime Minister. The military operation is about to begin. In order to create a good environment for the frontline soldiers, news control must be strengthened during this period. The army must also send people to keep an eye on random people 24 hours a day."  Talking newspapers. We must also bementally prepared!"

    Everyone nodded.

    Although the outside world cannot know how miserable Europe will be, it cannot be ruled out that some people will spread rumors, so news control is necessary.  Especially the last sentence showed that Yang Qiu was prepared for failure or even heavy casualties.  This is not alarmist. Going to a strange country to fight against a strange opponent, and killing all the enemies in the first battle when the logistics, equipment and supplies are not perfect can only exist in fantasy.  Now it depends on whether Yue Peng and the others can make good use of this winter. If they can realize their intention of training their troops in small-scale actual combat and control the casualty ratio, then fighter jets will appear in April next year.  Thinking of this, Yang Qiu's eyes quickly turned to Reims an important strategic node between Verdun and Paris!

    Diriyah, a small town on the Vail River that is 20 kilometers away from Reims and even difficult to find on the map, has become strange due to the arrival of an Eastern Combat Engineer Regiment.  Using the cover of darkness, brand-new Renault trucks rushed to the shore one after another. The engineers first lowered the iron pontoons and pushed them into the river, and then connected the pontoons one by one with bolts.  A moment later, a larger pontoon appeared on the cold river. When the other engineers saw that the pontoon was erected, they began to unload the steel structural members of Bailey Bridge brought from China. With the sound of clanging knocking, soon a simple  The prototype of the bridge appeared on the river.

    Of course, for a river with a width of more than 40 meters, four sections of Bailey Bridge need to be assembled with pontoons, so the work of the engineers is far from over.  But this rapid bridge-building technology left the townspeople who were awakened dumbfounded, and they rushed to the shore to stare curiously.  There were also several veterans in the town who had been drafted into the army but returned home with disabilities. They stared wide-eyed as if they couldn't believe that there was such a fast bridge construction in the world, so they held lanterns and surrounded the French guide who was also stunned: "Second Lieutenant  , why should such advanced bridge-building technology be given to the Chinese? And shouldn't theyshould be the ones who wear pigtails and smoke opium?"

    The second lieutenant smiled bitterly and spread his hands: "Actually we don't have this kind of technology." "Oh God" His words aroused suspicion, and he really couldn't believe this quick confrontation.  The bridge technology actually belongs to the Chinese!  Soon the deck of the first section of the pontoon bridge was completed, and the truck continued to drive along the bridge deck to transport the steel structure of the second section of the pontoon bridge. A lame veteran looked at his watch and was stunned: "From the beginning to now  God, 2 hours! At this rate, they will be able to open the river tomorrow morning."

    "To their surprise, a Chinese soldier accidentally fell into the river, causing bursts of exclamations, especially the French women in pajamas who covered their mouths one after another.  Fortunately, he was quickly rescued by his companions and returned to the shore. When the soldier shyly hid behind the truck to change clothes, several bold French women actually rushed close, probably wanting to "study and understand" for themselves.  ¡°The difference between East and West¡­.  "These crazy women! My husband is fighting on the front line but here I am showing off! God I don't want many yellow-skinned wild children around me." Several veterans angrily told the women to go back, as if they were protecting them.  Beloved property, but the women would not listen to the words of these cripples. One or two of them wore nightgowns and deliberately raised their high breasts. On the contrary, the Chinese engineers who whispered in low voices were a little embarrassed and only dared to secretly take a look at the beauty and then  continue working.

    Compared with the soldiers, Xie Ruyi, who was in the vanguard of supervising the bridge construction and the accompanying French liaison officer, were already surrounded by the fragrance. The few widows were so busy filling tea and water that they were sweating and panting, but the twinkling general stars on the shoulders of the men made  Their eyes are straighter.  In order to concentrate in the end, Xie Ruyi had to ask each soldier to serve ten cans of luncheon meat brought from home. Then he got a moment to ask the French liaison officer: "How long does it take to reach the German position after crossing the river?"

    The liaison officer looked back regretfully, thinking to himself that he would sleep in the woman's hot bed later, but he did not dare to neglect: "This is the junction of the German Second Army and the Third Army. I'm afraid they don't know that we can sleep overnight.  Build a bridge between them! So after crossing the river, you need to walk five kilometers before encountering the first line of defense Of course!" He raised his voice a little: "If we launch an attack, we will be flanked by at least three German artillery positions.  , these son-of-a-bitches German artillery responded very quickly."

    The liaison officer still seems not to believe that the Eighth Division is preparing to launch an attack from here, and confirms again: "General, are you really going to attack tomorrow?"

    "Yes!"

    The answer is simple and straightforward.

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