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Text Chapter 424 Fighting on the Western Front!  (five)

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    Northeast of Reims, Bazangkur.

    The strong wind rustled the woods, and the unpleasant smell left by millions of gas bombs wafted in the jungle.  Ouyang Nan wore a thick gas mask. The sky above his head was so dark that no stars could be seen. Only the continuous sound of gunfire and explosions in the distance told everyone that he was deep in the most terrifying battlefield in the world.

    From the Gui Army to the Jaegers, and then from the Jaegers to the Deputy Company Commander of the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 1st Field Division of the National Defense Force, he made 47 accurate sniper kills, and 23 times the results could not be counted. As a veteran who is only 23 years old but has been a soldier for six years,  Publish a satisfactory test paper.  It's a pity that he worked hard on practicing hunting skills but neglected cultural studies and failed the promotion assessment.  It is precisely because of this that even though he knew that Qiu Wenbin, who had promoted him back then, was in Reims, he did not dare to visit him for fear of being scolded. He planned to wait until the war was over to return home and apply for the Baoding Army Non-commissioned Officer School to reminisce about old times.

    The leading soldier in front stopped. Ouyang Nan made a fist to signal everyone to stop and then walked forward quickly. When he got closer, he discovered that it was a destroyed Air Force Haidongqing combat/reconnaissance aircraft.  The wings and vertical tail were completely broken in the fall, and the dense bullet holes on the body showed how intense the stranglehold was in the air!  The four flag logos on the nose of the plane tell everyone that this is a pilot who almost became an ace, but now he is lying in the cabin covered in blood, and his feet were cut off by the cabin wood when they hit the ground, but even if they are not cut off, he may not be able to  Survive.

    Ouyang Nan asked everyone to carefully carry the pilot out of the cabin and remove the identity plate around his neck.  It was impossible for the reconnaissance company to bring the body back to the army. Even they themselves had to take a detour of hundreds of kilometers from the Lorraine Mountains to get here, so everyone could only bury the pilot on the spot in this unnamed forest.  The small grave mound and plane wreckage are his tombstones.  The scouts bid farewell to the body and continued to move forward. Along the way, they saw the wreckage of many aircraft from Britain, France, Germany and other countries, indicating that there had been a very tragic air battle over this forest.  Searching the cabin is a necessary task for scouts. Useful maps and loot will be taken away, while others will be left in place to wait for post-war cleanup.

    Before emerging from the woods, Ouyang Nan and his comrades untied the water bottle to moisten their throats.  No one dared to drink it all at once, because the German army had recently destroyed water sources in the controlled areas and many places had been poisoned.  They saw with their own eyes that a dozen French refugees all died of poisonous well water after drinking it.

    After checking the equipment again, the reconnaissance company dispersed in platoon units and ran towards their respective areas for reconnaissance.  Ouyang Nan acted with the third platoon, and their mission was to investigate a valley southeast of Bazangkul.  This is the junction of the 1st and 3rd German armies. The terrain is open and it is not considered a strategic location.  But because it is the joint headquarters, the headquarters needs the information here.  The night became the best cover for the scouts. Ouyang Nan pressed the butt of the gun tightly against his shoulder and kept his right eye on the scope as he moved forward.  This was his habit. Although his line of sight would be much narrower this way, with the protection of his comrades, he could kill his opponent as soon as possible if he found a threat.

    The small calm beside the valley is as quiet as death. Being 20 kilometers away from the battlefield cannot bring it peace.  On the contrary, a large number of barbed wire fences and trenches were deployed outside the town.  The reconnaissance company chose to infiltrate from north to south. The advantage of doing so is that it can avoid the main front in the south, which the enemy is most concerned about, and it can avoid dangerous minefields. The disadvantage is that it takes a long time to walk and consumes a lot of physical strength under high tension.  .

    The comrades used pliers to cut the wires short, and then crawled along the opened gap. When a brightly lit reinforced bunker transformed from a building appeared, Ouyang Nan quickly found cover and aimed at the door.  The assault squad specially responsible for catching tongues rushed forward like civet cats.  "Boom" As the wooden door was kicked open, several commandos rushed in. The three German soldiers stationed inside were knocked unconscious by the butts of their rifles as soon as they opened their sleepy eyes.

    "Why are there only three people?" Ouyang Nan immediately noticed something was wrong after entering the bunker.  It stands to reason that such a bunker requires at least one heavy machine gun platoon to be stationed, and even if it is far away from the front line, there should be an infantry squad. After all, this is the junction of the two armies. In war, this junction often becomes the focus of the enemy's assault, so  Why are there only three people?  "Wake up and get the translator!" The scout quickly brought an overseas Chinese who knew German into the bunker. It was probably his first time to undertake such a guidance task. The guy's feet were still shaking slightly.

    The soldier opened the kettle and poured the remaining cold water on an officer's head. The sergeant suddenly opened his eyes with excitement, but his mouth was covered just as he was about to scream.  Sen Han's dagger made him shut his mouth obediently.  Looking at these yellow-skinned and dark-eyed soldiers with horror in their eyes.  The translator finally calmed down and started communicating with him. After a while, the guy explained the entire situation.  It turned out that due to the French army's continuous assaults, the German Third Army was also uncomfortable. Ludendorff had to pull the Hessian 17th Reserve Division, including the First Army stationed here, to assist in the defense. Ludendorff was confident that the French troops were in the rear.  It was impossible to break through the defense line, so after the troops were removed, only one regiment was left to garrison the open area.certainly.  As a master tactician, Ludendorff would never allow such a large gap to exist for a long time. Just in case, after the British breakthrough was defeated, he had already dispatched two divisions from Cambrai and was expected to arrive in two days.  .

    This is important news!

    But the question is how to send it out?  There was a war going on in the south, and no matter how capable the reconnaissance company was, it was impossible to pass through the middle of the nearly one million opposing troops. The only way was to use radios, but the radio they carried broke down on the road, so they had to capture a German radio first.  The German army in the town has a radio station, but there is about one company stationed in the entire town, so if you want to seize the radio station, you must kill this company first!

    "Let him mark the radio station and defensive positions! Tell him that if he cooperates, he can return home alive according to the Hague Agreement"

    Facing the dagger dangling in Ouyang Nan's hand, the officer was also very nervous.  After three years of war, both soldiers and junior officers were tired of it. No one knew whether they could go back alive. So when he heard that prisoners of war could be guaranteed in accordance with the Hague Agreement, this guy simply told the location of other units.  .  But just after he breathed a sigh of relief, Ouyang Nan's dagger slashed his throat.

    "You" The blood spurting out was so frightening that the translator's face turned pale, but the scouts around him didn't seem to see it. Ouyang Nan even wiped the knife as if it was an easy thing, and said lightly  He said: "We have few people and it is impossible to take the prisoners away safely!" After saying that, he immediately arranged for someone to notify the brother troops to come, and began to deploy offensive tasks according to the defense sketch drawn by the German military officer.

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    "Zian"

    In the headquarters of the Lance Expeditionary Force, Cai E opened the door and saw Yue Peng moving a chair and placing it in front of the map. He crossed his arms and stared at the cigarette. The cigarette between his fingers had long been extinguished.  He didn't even notice when he walked in.  After walking in, he said again: "Zian, Wang Zhengting has sent a telegram."

    After Hu Weide returned to China and became deputy prime minister, Wang Zhengting became the new ambassador to France, and also shouldered the important task of coordinating the coordination between the Republic of China and the Allied Countries.  So every time I send a telegram, I ask about morale and military supplies.  Yue Peng thought it would be the same this time, and waved his hand carelessly: "Tell him, there are still too few 12.7mm bullets. We are trying to get some trucks and artillery shells. By the way, there is not enough gasoline."

    His soliloquy made Cai E burst into laughter, and he shook the telegraph newspaper in front of him: "Don't think about the truck. This time we have caused a big trouble for the commander-in-chief! Mang Ran refused to send troops to Soissons."  The matter has been brought to the fore. Niweiler and the French government are now pressuring the country to remove you from your post and investigate, and strictly order us to send troops to support you within 5 days! What Wang Zhengting means is to send a few divisions to deal with it. "

    "What the hell! Let Li Zongren send a telegram back to Mang Ran. I won't give him a single soldier!" Yue Peng angrily crumpled the telegram into a ball.  Can I go to the quagmire in Soissons?  Mangran and Niweile have gone completely crazy!  He completely disregarded the life and death of the soldiers for the sake of the stars on his shoulders. If he hadn't been afraid that revealing the number of casualties would seriously affect the morale of the frontline troops, he would have thought of letting reporters come and take a look.

    Cai E is also full of bitterness. He knows how heavy the burden is on Yue Peng's shoulders.  A total of 22 divisions, the last three of which will arrive in August, will total 25 divisions with more than 500,000 soldiers. If they go astray, there will be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of casualties.  Any general with a sense of responsibility might not be willing to plunge his troops into Siegfried's quagmire!  But the problem is that if there is no further action, the newly improved Sino-French and Sino-British relations may be in crisis, and even Yang Qiu's diplomatic victory in Russia will be overshadowed.  So he advised: "It's impossible not to fight. I think we can simply use the Avila Mountain west of Pronunciation as a breakthrough point, follow the Moronvilliers gap opened by the French Fourth Army, go straight to the Aisne River to the northeast, and then  Take advantage of the opportunity.¡±

    Although Yue Peng was angry, it was not to the extent of disregarding the overall situation.  It is not difficult to break through Mount Vera, but what is difficult to do after reaching the Aisne River?  When the French Fourth Army was afraid of being beaten and unable to cooperate, once the assault force and follow-up troops were cut off, they would have to face the strangulation of an entire German elite group army!  But he could also feel how reluctant Cai E was when he said this, but in the absence of a clear breakthrough and expansion goal this is probably the only option!

    "I'm going to call and ask everyone to come to the meeting." Cai E patted him on the shoulder, sighed and walked out. As soon as he reached the door, he almost ran into Bai Chongxi, who came to the Western Front for internship: "Chief of Staff, 201 Division (by  Composed of the 1st Brigade and two reserve brigades, into which the 1st Division Reconnaissance Battalion was incorporated) Telegram from the Reconnaissance Company."

    Cai E, who was sighing just now, jumped up suddenly after receiving the telegram: "Quick! Call all officers above the regiment! I don't care where they are. We must arrive at the headquarters within an hour!"

    Soon after the officers who had been on call for a long time arrived from all directions, Yue Peng's sonorous and powerful voice sounded in the war room: "Contact the heavy artillery unit of the Fourth French Army to assist. Give up the averageThe artillery tactics all targeted the German defense line on the west side of Mount Avila, extending a width of 2 kilometers.  Abandoning layers of suppression, the heavy artillery directly targets the second line of defense!  All light artillery assumes the first line of barrage tactical cover. After the heavy artillery completes its mission, it expands to both wings of the breakthrough point to block its reinforcements!

    The air force is responsible for sky reconnaissance and interdiction missions.

    The 88th Armored Brigade (Xue Yue) was organized into the breakthrough group.  After completing the breakthrough, go straight to Moronvilliers. Don't be reluctant to fight along the way and assume a posture of going straight to Sedan. When you arrive, turn west along the Aisne River parallel!  The five infantry divisions of the second group attacked Bazangkul to the southwest, blocking the connection between the two German armies!  The main force of the Third Group attacked the First Army of Reniveld in a straight line!  Secretariat, send a telegram to the French Army Command¡­.  ".

    (To be continued.

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