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August 7, 1916, AD 2757, Tangpu.
In yesterday's operation, although the Allied forces did not find the German army at the beginning of the attack, it did not take long for them to determine the location of the German army.
After all, there were hundreds of thousands of people, so how could they hide them?
The Allied plane flew towards Paris for a while and saw them.
Although I don't understand why the German army gave up its carefully constructed defense line, this does not hinder the determination of the Allied Powers to counterattack.
They really wanted to break the deadlock and counterattack Paris.
The Allies urgently needed a hearty victory to boost their morale, especially France, which was even more eager to recapture the capital.
Moreover, recapturing Paris not only has important political significance, but also has important military significance.
Therefore, even if they know that the Germans' retreat must have a purpose, they must continue to move forward.
This is not only a military task, but also a political task.
In other words, even if you know there is a pit ahead, you have no choice but to close your eyes and jump.
Of course, from the perspective of the Allied leaders, the Germans had only retreated for a day, and it was unlikely that they would dig any holes to harm themselves, because there was not much time, and what could be done in one day?
Although the German army must have some advantages as a defender, the number of Allied forces is overwhelming.
Taking tanks as an example, the German army currently has only 620 tanks, while the number of Allied tanks has reached 1,340.
As for infantry, the advantage is even greater.
Britain and France now have more than 1 million troops transferred from the colonies, and there are 250,000 Japanese troops who have traveled thousands of miles to help.
Therefore, to the top leaders of the Allied Powers, it does not matter at all.
Even if Er Dezi has a conspiracy, so what?
I just used force and cleverness to get so many troops to rush over.
Even if it is a pile of people, it can still kill you.
So after confirming that the German troops were gathered in Tempe, the Allied forces marched towards Tempe the next morning.
It is about 60 kilometers from Orleans to Tangpu.
The truck equipped most by the Allied Powers is the Jiefang 52 prototype Jiefang ca15 produced in China.
The highway speed of this 5-ton truck is 40 kilometers per hour.
If you use this kind of car, it will take more than an hour at most.
The tank must not be that fast.
In order to take care of the tank, they slowed down to 10 kilometers per hour.
Although the maximum speed of their tanks is more than this, with the quality of the current British and French tanks, if they really run at the maximum speed, I am afraid that after running such a distance, they will have to lie down due to engine overheating, transmission system wear, etc.
Half of it.
In addition, in order to enter the battle as soon as possible, the British and French tank troops did not take the road, but directly spread out the formation and advanced on the wilderness.
In this way, it was impossible to reach the maximum speed.
Anyway, the French Great Plains are flat enough, so there’s nowhere you can’t walk on.
At this time, it could be seen from the sky that these more than a thousand steel behemoths formed a mighty formation in battalion units, majestically charging towards Tangpu's German army.
At 2:20 in the afternoon, the leading troops of the British and French coalition forces were close to 20 kilometers away from Tangpu, and the bell tower of Tangpu Railway Station could already be seen.
At 2:30 pm, the two sides began their first exchange of fire today, but it was not on the ground, but in the air.
More than 500 aircraft from both sides fought in a massacre over Tangpu.
What is more interesting is that the aircraft currently fighting between the two sides are all of Chinese origin.
The British and French air forces use the J-3 "Swift" single-seat, double-wing fighter developed by Chengdu Aircraft, which is liquid-cooled.
Prototype Rage 2 and self-produced models.
The German Air Force uses the J-4 "Orio" fighter jet developed by Efei, a single-seat, double-wing, liquid-cooled fighter.
Prototype he51 and self-produced models.
As for the "Albatross D" and other models they originally used, they were all sent to the second line to train pilots.
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So later, some domestic media joked that this air battle was a "battle between Chengdu Air users and Hubei Air users."
The performance of the two aircraft is actually similar, and even the engines are exactly the same "hhy01w" piston liquid-cooled engine.
The weapons were also two 7mm machine guns.
Later, in order to facilitate logistics supply, the British changed the machine gun to a 7.7mm caliber, France changed it to an 8mm machine gun, and Germany changed it to a 7.92mm machine gun.
Therefore, the performance of the German aircraft can no longer hold any advantage, and it mainly relies on the quality and experience of the pilots to suppress the opponent.
Although the overall quality of the British and French pilots was somewhat poor, their morale was not bad at all, and they fought fiercely.
The sky here has become a battlefield, with fighter planes from both sides spitting flames and flying back and forth.
From a low altitude of 500 meters to an altitude of 5,000 meters, battles are taking place everywhere.
From time to time, planes would fall dragging black smoke, and some of the more unlucky ones would explode in the air, or disintegrate on the spot.
Aircraft of Chinese origin are equipped with parachutes, and this setting has been widely accepted.
Now military aircraft all over the world are equipped with parachutes.
These downed pilots, unless they were killed on the spot or incapacitated, all parachuted out.
I saw umbrella flowers floating in the sky from time to time, like dandelions in the wind.
However, paired with the background of fierce battles, it doesn't feel poetic at all.
You can only feel the taste of steel, fire and blood.
The airship on which the onlookers were riding had already risen to an altitude of over 6,000 meters, avoiding the battlefield where the two armies were fighting.
Their obvious paintings also showed their identities, and the pilots on both sides also deliberately avoided their location.
But even so, an airship carrying an American observation group was hit by a stray bullet.
One American officer died on the spot, and three others were injured.
The airbags of the airship were also damaged in many places.
They had to stop watching and return in despair.
Looking at the American airship that was returning home in a miserable state, the other observers were speechless.
In fact, this airship is asking for trouble.
If they had raised the altitude earlier, they would have been fine.
But in order to make it easier for people to watch and take pictures, they continued to stop at a height of 2,000 meters.
Just because I was greedy for seeing the scenery, I ended up being stupid.
Major Hua Gaimu couldn't help but vomited: "These Americans are so stupid that they dare to stay in the combat airspace.
Even if the pilots recognize them, do they think the bullets have eyes and can recognize them?"
Major Wei Dabao next to him smiled and said: "Fortunately it is a helium airship.
If it were a hydrogen airship, we would have seen big fireworks today."
"Speaking of airships, I think it's been a long time since I've seen airships from both sides appear on the front line."
Lieutenant Colonel Jin Hai said with a proud face: "I have long said that airships are not suitable for fighting.
Lin Shenhe always It’s time for the reactionary academic authorities who tout the invincibility of airships to stop.”
"That's right, this sky should belong to our aircraft."
Wei Dabao nodded vigorously.
"Things like airships are not useless, but they are only suitable for civilian and second-line use, such as transportation and scientific research.
They do a good job."
Chu Wangyuan said pretending to be fair.
A group of officers with former pilot backgrounds all agreed, even though they were sitting on the airship now.
As we all know, there are two major factions within the Chinese Air Force, the airship faction and the aircraft faction.
At first, the airship faction had an absolute advantage.
They occupied more than 90% of the various resources of the air force.
The aircraft faction could only pick up some scraps, almost like stepchildren.
However, the airship faction was not proud for long.
With the improvement of aviation technology, the performance of aircraft improved rapidly, and the power of the airship faction also expanded rapidly.
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By the time World War I broke out, the two sides were already evenly matched.
After the Great Battle of 1914, the vulnerability of airships was laid bare.
In this battle, 30 British-derived improved versions of the British "Robin Hood" interceptor J-3 "Swift" went to fight against the bombing German airships.
At the cost of two being shot down, they used white phosphorus incendiary bombs to turn 14 large German airships into Into a big fireball.
The myth of "airship victory" is bankrupt.
The airship faction suddenly became disgraced, while the airplane faction became more arrogant.
The airship faction no longer dared to mention air combat.
In the past, the officers of the airship faction who had had enough of the arrogance would pull out the airship and criticize it whenever they had the opportunity.
Most of the aviation professional officers who came to serve as observers this time were sent from the aircraft, and now the entire airship cabin was filled with their cheerful voices.
The two officers of the airship faction huddled in the corner with ugly expressions, pretending not to hear.
At 3:40 pm, after more than an hour of fierce fighting between aircraft from both sides, the Allied Air Force began to gradually withdraw from the battlefield.
Both sides suffered heavy losses.
The Allied Air Force was shot down more than 80 aircraft and more than 60 aircraft were damaged.
The German Air Force was shot down more than 40 aircraft and more than 70 aircraft were damaged.
Next, after driving away its opponents in the sky, the Luftwaffe began to launch attacks on the ground.
However, their attacks were not very effective against Allied tanks on the ground.
The 7.92mm machine guns on German fighter jets are still too difficult to deal with these turtle shells.
Even the Renault ft16, which has the thinnest armor, has armor that is immune to machine guns.
After a few rounds, only four or five tanks were destroyed.
This was the pilot's outburst of character, which happened to damage the tank engine.
Most pilots did not have such good luck.
Apart from causing some ding-dong-dong noises, they achieved nothing.
Instead, they were shot down by the anti-aircraft machine guns on the tanks, six planes were shot down, and three others were damaged.
Such an exchange ratio was obviously not worth it.
The German planes had no choice but to stop the attack in frustration.
Most of them returned to the airport to replenish oil bombs.
The remaining few planes flew to high altitudes and circled to suppress their own forces.
Some people may ask, tanks are made of turtle shells and are difficult to fight, but aren’t there a lot of cars behind the tanks?
Why not fight those unarmored cars?
Of course the Germans wanted it.
Before 1915, they often used this tactic.
Relying on their air superiority at that time, they often flew to the Allied Powers to attack transportation lines and killed many vehicles.
But the officers and soldiers of the Allied Powers are not fools.
Installing a machine gun or cannon on a car for air defense is something anyone with normal intelligence would want.
The beaten Allied forces began to rush to install machine guns, machine guns and even anti-aircraft guns on their vehicles.
They even specially modified anti-aircraft firepower vehicles.
Many models of "self-propelled anti-aircraft guns" and "self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns" appeared.
At this time, the speed of the aircraft is relatively slow, no more than 300 kilometers at most, and the defense is also very low.
The effect of using anti-aircraft machine guns is still very sour.
Since then, most of the vehicles on the front line of the Allied Powers have added a machine gun.
If a convoy is dispatched, several "self-propelled anti-aircraft guns" and "self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns" will follow.
After paying a heavy price, the German Air Force no longer dared to attack Allied convoys unscrupulously.
Not to mention the current Allied forces.
Not only are there many specially modified anti-aircraft tanks mixed into the tank formations, but even the convoy behind them is also followed by many "self-propelled anti-aircraft guns" and "self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns".
Almost all cars are equipped with them.
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A machine gun, in front of such a strict formation, the German aircraft did not dare to try their own character.
Of course, the Germans attach no less importance to air defense than the Allies.
They have also developed "gun cards" and a series of modified self-propelled air defense weapons.
At 3:50 in the afternoon, the torrent of armor from the Allied Powers approached within 15 kilometers of the Tangpu defense line, and the leading troops were less than five kilometers away from the defense line.
At this time, the German artillery began to fire.
Each artillery position was filled with smoke, and muzzle fireworks continued to flash in the smoke.
More than two thousand artillery pieces ranging from 75 mm to 150 mm roared in unison, roaring continuously towards the armored torrent in the south.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom" The British and French tanks sped up.
They broke up and rushed toward the German positions at full speed, braving raindrops of shells.
Observers from various countries on the airship were watching the artillery battle on the ground attentively.
"The effect of the German artillery bombardment is not very good.
It seems that they haven't learned the coordinate bombardment method yet."
Colonel Yi Damao shook his head after seeing this.
The firing of thousands of German guns was exciting to watch, but very few Allied tanks were actually destroyed.
The so-called coordinate bombardment method is to divide the battlefield into a number of squares in advance, and each square has a coordinate representation as a shooting reference.
When shooting, when the enemy appears in which square, you can shoot directly according to the preset parameters, which can greatly improve the artillery efficiency and hit rate.
In the original time and space, this kind of gunnery did not appear until World War II.
However, as a time traveler, Wen Desi naturally let the Chinese army use this set of things early on.
Colonel Yang Ning next to him said disapprovingly: "Even if the German army uses coordinate bombardment, the effect will not be much better.
Most of what they shoot now are curved cannons, and the hit rate of curved cannons against moving targets is not ideal. , and it still uses grenades.
Grenades are very effective against unarmored targets, but when facing armored targets, unless it is a direct hit, it is difficult to damage an armored fighting vehicle with shrapnel and shock waves if it just explodes next to the target
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