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In the early morning, everything in Germany was silent, and the tired Berliners rested early, but the senior Imperial Army officers guarding the combat command room of the Army headquarters in the Konech Square were destined to be unable to sleep

"It's already clear." The combat staff put down the phone and microphone, turned their heads and spread their hands towards their colleagues with anticipation, and said with a heavy face: "The first reconnaissance fleet was not the battleship South Africa, but the disguised Warrior-class armored cruiser, which went north to look for an opportunity to fight to the decisive battle, and did not find any trace of the British fleet, which means that the navy was fooled by the British."

Falkenhein, chief of staff of the Army standing in front of the sand table, looked gloomy

After the Battle of Galicia in 1915, the Eastern Front Command Hindenburg and Rudendolf demanded continued attack on Russia, forcing the Russians to surrender first, but Falkenhein was very concerned about defeating Russia completely.

France is not a weak Russia. The Empire cannot draw troops from another front like in 1914 and attack the Western Front. After retaining a large number of troops on the Western Front, the Imperial Army will be relatively insufficient in the battlefield on the Eastern Front. It will easily be dragged down by the Russians' huge national strategy, and then repeat the Napoleon-like failure in the cruel winter.

This is not the only reason Heidi Sileme's prediction of the European war situation after the Jutland Naval War has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The Battle of Jutland can win the empire a period of strategic advantage for one and a half to two years. This period is the most favorable time for the empire to break the cage of attrition war. Once the strategic advantage period passes, the war will enter a strategic stalemate period. Considering the natural unfavorable geographical location of the empire, for the German Empire, which lacks a stable resource transmission channel, strategic stalemate means chronic suicide.

Seeing that the strategic advantage period was about to end, the navy without Heidi Sileme could not buy more time for the empire. In order to avoid failure, the army that drove Heidi Sileme out of power could only rush to stage a battle of burning and storm at the last moment of the strategic advantage period.

The army is too far from St. Petersburg and Moscow, but it is only a short distance from Paris. Under pressure, Falkenhein rejected the request of the Eastern Front Command. While betting on his personal honor and future, he also bet on the empire's national destiny for a hundred years, planning the most tragic land war since the outbreak of the European War - the Battle of Paris

As long as the army can take over Paris, even if France announces its capital and continues to fight, the French Army, which has lost nearly half of its population and the most important area of ​​French industry, will be in silence. On the contrary, if the empire devotes its power to the country and fails to achieve its contribution in one battle, everything will be over, and the best ending is to find a decent peace.

The last obstacle to the British Defense Council's increase in troops to its precarious allies France has disappeared

Following the successful breakthrough of the Canadian battleship, its sister ships repeated the miracle again after a year. This will not only greatly encourage the morale of the Royal Navy since the Battle of Jutland, but also declare that Britain does not need to worry too much about their local defense. The Ocean Fleet will not rule the North Sea for too long.

Falkenhein unconsciously saw a scene of thousands of sails competing on the British Strait, and the British team kept moving into Paris. At this moment, the Chief of Staff of the Army finally felt scared.

"Get in touch with Prime Minister Mr. Bateman Holwich as soon as possible, and the propaganda machine should make the Battle of Newcastle a brilliant victory for the Navy, because the front line does not need other voices"

--The gorgeous dividing line-

The unprecedented battle of Crey a week ago finally ended with the victory of the German army

Since Major Franz von Ahalder's land cruiser company broke into the beautiful town on the banks of the Oates River in France, peace and tranquility have been broken. In just one week, the town turned into ruins, becoming a purgatory on earth depicted in nearly thirty movies and more than two hundred novels and biography.

In the muddy spring of April 14, 1915, a mixed land cruiser company defeated a French local defense army infantry regiment and a small number of defeated soldiers at a slight cost of less than fifty casualties.

This is the starting point of the Battle of Clay

After the breakthrough station in the early stage of the Paris Battle, the three armies deployed by the British and French coalition forces collapsed across the board, and the casualties were calculated every day.

Although telegrams and alarms flew to the headquarters like snowflakes, the men who stayed in the safe rear - the French capital Paris Command, believed that the situation was not yet at the end of their lives: "We are in some trouble," a general wrote in his diary.

Because the headquarters made an optimistic judgment on the front line, they not only did not rush to gather the defeated troops, but asked them to stop retreating and establish a solid defense line on the spot. For a large number of local defense troops who were rushed to recruit lack training, the men's order was to move forward and then move forward.

An extremely strange scene in the history of war happened. The regular army on the front line was retreating, but the local defense army, which was so powerful that it was still crossing the river. The headquarters of Crey, which is crucial to Paris, only sent one local defense army with extremely poor combat effectiveness.

Crey is lost, proud Paris is finally shocked

The panic spread, and the heads and minds of the French Army Command finally panicked. They didn't know what they should do in chaos. Various controversial stopgap measures were issued and implemented.

The British and French coalition forces began to shrink their defenses and the British troops stationed on the French coast of the English Channel and the French troops near the mountain defense lines of Switzerland began to move towards Paris, so fast that the Imperial Army had no time to accept these abandoned territories.

The arrogant Parisians and even criminals, discriminated Chinese workers were all armed by the French. The distribution of a rifle that could be traced back to the era of the French-Prussian War and a small amount of "lemon" grenades were pulled to the front line. The reorganization plan of the troops who stayed in southern France was completely disrupted. These tired elite troops were organized into temporary divisions and were pulled back to the battlefield by trains after trains.

Against this background, the Battle of Crey entered a white-hot stage from the beginning. The unprecedented intensity of the war caused the lazy French to be soaked in their bones. They finally burst into blood. They used their flesh and blood to repel the third land cruiser company of Dragoons who used their precious land cruisers as fixed turrets for use in the defense operations of Crey.

The Imperial Army wasted too much time by collecting troops on the north bank of the Oates River. Although it took the opportunity to eliminate almost two armies of the British and French coalition forces and a large number of cannon fodders that crossed the river - the French local defense army, to some extent, it completely ruined the possibility of the close of the Paris Battle, which transformed the Paris Battle to a protracted meat grinder.

After the Imperial Command decided to recapture Clay and sent an army to the two wings of the town of Clay, the Western Front Army assembled a half army of 300,000 troops, 1,000 artillery, including 420mm siege heavy mortars, 305mm naval guns removed from old warships, a large number of train guns and 152 giant mine launchers, to attack Clay

In just three days, the French mobilized all the trains, locomotives, trucks and even cars in Paris to build Crey into a reinforced concrete maze equipped with heavy artillery and machine guns. The launch points that can support each other form solid rings around Crey, and then invest a large number of troops to fight against the Germans in the small Crey and surrounding areas.

The battle started in every corner, the fire point and the hill were flattened by large-caliber artillery, the trenches were constantly dug deep and then covered by floating soil, and every inch of land was stained with blood.

In the end, the Germans with high morale laughed to the end. On April 24, Crey lost the tired Imperial Army's main force and did not have time to cheer. They continued to move towards Paris and engineers also repaired the damaged railway line day and night. One artillery was set up and aimed at Paris.

Major Ahalder once again rushed in front with only four land cruisers and one chariot left to join another land cruiser company, seven land cruisers and one chariot accompanied the army of a regiment, bypassing one French town after another, and heading towards Paris.

It is not the whim of Major Ahald's detour, but the experience accumulated from one bloody battle after another. Land cruisers are used to actively attack rather than to defend as a fixed turret. When land cruisers take the initiative to attack, it is unwise to leave the infantry and act alone. It is extremely stupid to put the land cruiser that can penetrate even a 37mm direct gun at a close range to the street fighting.

The land cruiser was moving forward, and the sound of gunfire like fried beans suddenly exploded in the center of the town. The experienced land cruiser captain was unmoved and continued to advance forward for more than ten meters. Several French troops holding bags jumped out of the hidden area beside the road. Since the land cruiser was put into actual combat, the French have destroyed many land cruisers with Dong Cunrui's fearless revolutionary heroism, and the land cruiser machine gunners have also had a complete solution.

The driver aimed the front of the thickest armored car at the French suicide squad, while the machine gunner gathered fire at the Frenchman and hit the Frenchman with heavy machine gun bullets. In an instant, his limbs were lying all over the floor.

Infantry began to enter the town to clear out the enemy, while the land cruisers continued to set off on the road, and soon arrived at the fork outside the town.

There was a mottled wooden sign hidden in the weeds at the fork at the fork. Major Franz von Ehald, who only knew the words "Snatch the gun and don't kill it", pointed at the sign and turned his head and asked, "Does our company know French?"

"I will do a little bit..."

Martin Bowman, who has been upgraded from a free-ride infantry to a car-mounted infantry, volunteered to jump out of the car, scraped off the moss on the street sign with a saber, and read the text on the street sign in a low voice

"The Road to Paris, 1871, the Prussian Army"

Martin Bowman turned around suddenly, pointed to the road facing south, shouting:

"Haha, this is the mark left by our brave ancestors. In front of it is Paris, where our German emperor ascends the throne and is crowned."

--The gorgeous dividing line-

Just like the state before the Italian-Turkish War in 1911, the Roman Capitol fell into fanaticism and restlessness.

"We have had a covenant with the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. We once solemnly swore and determined to fulfill our promises. Now, our allies are fighting bloody battles in every corner of Europe and the world: Germany has just sunk a British capital ship off the coast of Newcastle in the United Kingdom. Their army has occupied the gateway of Paris, and is advancing to Paris. Ollithi and Bulgaria have occupied the entire territory of Serbia and the southern Balkans. Although the Turks are not strong, they are still bravely fighting in the North Caucasus, Palestine and the Persian Gulf. Our powerful Italy has become a boring spectator, a treacherous villain in the eyes of the world."

On the parliamentary podium, the foreign minister of the Kingdom of Italy, Song Nino, shouted loudly:

"We are not cowards, not villains. Italians should stand up bravely, shoulder the mission of safeguarding national honor and dignity, and assume the obligation to peace and prosperity in the Mediterranean. We must declare war and declare war on France."

"Declare war on France"

The well-dressed Italian parliamentarians took off their suits and tied, raised their arms and shouted together

"Mr. Gormiti, the king will sign a decree for war. If you do not act, it may be the beginning of the destruction of the Italian Kingdom."

In the small reception room of the parliament hall, the ambassadors of these allies to Italy surrounded Giomdi, either humbly or squeaking on the inside, and were timid and sluggish.

"Gentlemen, this is the choice of the Italians." Gormiti opened the door to the reception room and let the fanatical atmosphere vent in, saying lightly: "Although I, Gormiti, have the joke of the Italian Emperor, I will never betray the system I established, and I will never betray the choice of the Italian people. Gentlemen, the war has begun."

On the bloody April 29, 1916, the scale and scope of the European war expanded again. Not only did Italy not join the Allies, but instead turned to the embrace of the Allies. Although they did not declare war on Britain, the moment they declared war on France, according to the treaty signed by the Allies, the Italians had automatically entered a state of war with Britain, Russia and other Allies.
Chapter completed!