Chapter 773 You can consider entering the Mediterranean Sea

"What are you talking about!"

Herger's eyes widened, as if he had seen the most terrible thing. He suddenly stepped forward and grabbed the messenger's collar and shouted, "Say it again!"

The messenger was scared. He had never seen the lieutenant general, who had always been known for his calmness and seriousness, become so excited. He quickly said again loudly: "Report General, Saint-Calais was suddenly attacked by the German [***] team, and General Gonzales lost contact with his headquarters!"

"God!"

As soon as the words came out, the staff officers and officers who didn't hear very well just now covered their mouths. The noisy hall was suddenly heard, and everyone was stunned!

A front-line headquarters may not be a big deal, but a lieutenant general! The supreme commander of the expeditionary force sent by one country to another was arrested, and the headquarters were removed!

Even if there is, it rarely appears!

More importantly, Gonzalez went to the Spanish command in San Gaalez only two days ago! How to explain this? Is Spain cursed by God? Is the army too bad? Is the German army too powerful? Or, this bastard is so unlucky?!

"And." The correspondent officer shivered and hesitated for a long time before continuing: "The last telegram sent by the Spaniard said that Senator Churchill had only left for a few minutes at that time, and it is likely to be so."

"Bastard, these stupid Spanish idiots!"

"Order the 257th, 121st and 132rd divisions to recapture St. Calli immediately!"

Haig roared. Even the ordinary guards could see that the indifferent and famous "butcher" general panicked. The reason was very simple. There were at least more than 200,000 Spanish troops west of Saint-Galais. If Germany took this opportunity to carry out the envelop!"

Lose 200,000 troops at once?!

Has the goddess Mary been forcibly annibbed?! What will happen to Spain, which has just lost two battleships? Will Alfonso XIII withdraw from the war? Will this lead to the collapse of Paris and even the whole of Europe?!

..“ Boom, boom.

"Be careful of shells!"

"Rug, take your company and go to the west!"

"Sergeant Adolf, if you go to the east, I will send a tank battalion to cooperate with you."

"Yes, Colonel." Hitler ran eastward with his soldiers, and the front of the church suddenly seemed empty. The German soldiers began to be nervous and busy. From time to time, the shells flying in from outside the town made the fat man Qiu, who was hanging on the wooden stakes, shiver all over.

Probably afraid that such a useful prisoner would be accidentally injured and blown up by their own people, several German soldiers finally untied the rope for the dying fat man, threw away a broken cotton-padded jacket and dragged it into the cellar where important prisoners of war were held.

Guderian was very nervous, and Ulan also felt unprepared. This raid on San Gaal was just to open the channel for the follow-up troops to pull out the piles and cut off the contact of the Allies from the flank, but no one expected to catch Gonzales, the supreme commander of the Spanish Expeditionary Army, and then catch a former British. Minister of the Navy.

This is a hornet's nest!

As far as we know, there are four enemy divisions attacking their own peripheral defense lines on the east, west and south sides. The European leopard is very strong, but more ants can bite the elephant to death!

Retreat with prisoners of war?

It may be a good idea, but giving up Sankalai means that this mission has failed, and the follow-up troops have to continue to fight a hard tug-of-war with the Allies in the mud pit.

"A three tank companies are used as support points to assist the infantry defense, and the rest of the tanks are pushed outward, trying not to let the Allies get close to the town." Ulan pointed to the map and did not dare to hide it at this time, because this result was too important for the Allies, even so important that it could change the trend of the war, so he also took out his skills and said, "General Ludendorff knows better than us, so I believe that the reinforcements must have set out from Shatodan. It is only 60 kilometers from here, the cavalry can arrive in an hour and a half at the fastest, and the infantry can reach three hours at most!

The time is too hasty. Although the Allied forces are large, the coordination and command are definitely insufficient. We might as well use the mobile surname of the tank to take the initiative to fight.

After the translator finished Ulan's words, Guderian's eyes suddenly lit up and attacked! Yes, take the initiative to attack. The tank troops themselves are sharp weapons of attack, and they may not be able to hold up for three hours instead of attack and defense.

"Coloon, thank you for your advice."

Guderian didn't care much and immediately ordered the remaining tank troops to take the initiative to attack. Nearly a hundred European leopards roared from all over the town to meet the allied forces that came to support.

On March 8, an unexpected battle began in the Saint-Cay area southwest of Orleans, a key French town. In order to save Gonzales and Churchill and close the passage, Haig invested a full of seven divisions, and Rudendorff, who got the news at the first time, also sent five divisions to support Guderian at full speed.

In the large interspersing of 12 divisions, Guderian and Ulan led the armored regiment. After paying the price of more than 40 tanks being destroyed, they finally persisted until the arrival of reinforcements.

On the morning of March 9, the five subsequent German infantry divisions detoured west along the St. Calla Channel and captured Fort Berner at 2 p.m. under the forced opening of the tank.

On March 10, the German army once again increased its troops to 15 divisions. Under Ludendorff's strict order, they gave up all the work that might delay the speed of building defense lines, digging trenches and so on, and forcibly attacked Legler.

On March 11, the railway town of Legler, 170 kilometers west of Paris, fell, and nearly 350,000 Allied troops, including 230,000 Spanish expeditionary troops and 150,000 French troops, were surrounded in the central area from Saint-Gay to Legler.

So far, with a tank regiment as the guide, a total of 23 jockeys have completed a big detour. Judging from the map, a fierce left hook appeared with Paris as the center!

Neither Haig nor Beton, the commander-in-in-chief of the French front line, did not expect that the German army, which seemed to be under the oppression of millions of troops, would take the initiative to attack so fiercely. In addition, Gonzales was accidentally captured, which led to the complete loss of the defense line west of Paris.

The battle of Paris, which was not well prepared in the early stage, suddenly took a major turn, and the German army in full defense began to take the initiative to counterattack.

On March 15, after four days of deployment and general preparation, Ludendorff decisively once again put into the reserve of 15 divisions to carry out a general attack on the Western-French coalition forces in the encirclement. With the cooperation of nearly 4,000 cannons, more than 500 tanks and more than 1,000 fighters, the German army launched an attack from many sides. The Spanish army, which had low combat effectiveness, was the first to defeat and lost seven villages and towns in just one day.

On March 17, the Spanish Major General Yaen in the encirclement announced his surrender.

On March 23, the French army, which was hard to support, finally put down its weapons and surrendered after six days of hard resistance and almost ran out of food and couldn't wait for reinforcements.

So far, the first major battle of the Battle of Paris, the Battle of Saint-Cáré, ended, and more than 56,000 Spanish-French soldiers were killed, and all the rest were captured

..“ "Let's do it."

"Ah."

A scream came from the opposite side of the net. The poor head of the Royal Guard Corps, who was accompanying Emperor Li to play tennis for a pastime, covered his crotch, and his legs were twisted together and his face turned pale.

Several imperial concubines who watched the battle bit the corners of their lips and blushed, and the soldiers of the Guard turned their heads and gasped one after another. Emperor Li looked at Du Dazhuang, whose face was purple and black, and then looked at Chen Ping, who was shocked by the emperor's ball. Finally, he gave up the inquiry and hurried to the latter.

"So, Ludendorff is going to fight back?"

"The counterattack is not so fast."

Chen Ping withdrew his eyes and said with a smile, "The loss of more than 300,000 troops is just a fraction of the total troops in the hands of Kitchener and Xiafei. Although Ludendorffou has been praised as the "king of infantry" in Germany this time, he has not been able to break the passive situation of the whole line so quickly. It's just the Western class of casualties this time. There were too many troops, and Haig and Bedon had not come up with good support after they were surrounded, which eventually led to the surrender of 230,000 Western troops. In addition, Gonzales was captured, and Alfonso XIII was afraid.

Li Mo nodded subconsciously. Before the war, the domestic situation in Spain was turbulent. Madrid and Barcelona also had large-scale revolutionary movements one after another. If it hadn't been for the British interests of Gibraltar that Britain could not refuse, coupled with the relationship that Alfonso married Queen Victoria's granddaughter, the Spanish iron Targeting future generations will avoid this world war.

First, Tonis was mistakenly used as a cushion in Seychelles, and now after the 230,000 Spanish troops were besieged, Hage and Bein did nothing. The crime of "pulling the cushion back" is confirmed by Britain and France.

In this way, after all, it will arouse a revolutionary movement that has been silent for a long time in Spain. Once the flames start a fire, Alfonso XIII must transfer troops back from the front line to suppress it. If one thing is not good, the Spanish royal family may even be overthrown!

Spain is not Russia!

Once Spain on the Iberian Peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea collapses, the ties between Portugal, Italy and Britain and France will also be affected, and even Greece and Serbia will have a chain reaction. In this way, the Mediterranean Sea will quickly collapse and rot. After that point, no matter how strong Britain and France is, Having to switch from active attack to passive defense, the German army has a great opportunity to end the Battle of Paris and then launch a strategic counterattack!

"Your Majesty, if you don't want to be restricted in the Mediterranean after the war, we should consider entering the Mediterranean!"

The words made Li Mo's eyebrows jump a few times. After sitting down slowly, he tapped on the edge of the table with his fingers. This suggestion not only made him feel moved, but also a little unwilling.

To be the way, he never wanted to enter the Mediterranean so early. If he could, he even wanted to postpone it until the end of the year or even the beginning of next year, in order to let the European powers continue to hang and bleed. However, the big accident of Sankalai suddenly disrupted all plans. Once Spain really collapsed, the German army was bound to turn to a strategic counterattack. If millions of German troops were released, no one could predict how long Britain and France would resist, so if it did not enter the Mediterranean at this time, once Germany took the initiative in the war. Right, France will even quickly surrender and collapse! If this situation really occurs, Xinhua's voice in Europe after the war will be greatly reduced!

This is not the post-war pattern that Li Mo wants. He is not afraid of confrontation with Germany in the future. What he is afraid of is the confrontation between Xinhua and the whole Western world!

So he gritted his teeth to attack the mainland of the United States, and pulled Mexico to divide the most important southwest oil area of the United States, because he knew better than anyone that it was not so easy for the United States to take revenge after losing the oil production area of New Mexico, Texas and even the entire Gulf of Mexico.

But he didn't expect that there would be a sudden accident in the Mediterranean at this time. Chen Ping was right. Now he must make up his mind to enter the Mediterranean as soon as possible and gain control of one or two European countries. As long as he can intervene in Europe, and Britain and France will certainly not be willing to be suppressed by Germany all the time after the war, then Europe It is impossible to really unite!

However, it is unrealistic for large army troops to enter Europe. Even if it is extremely difficult to maintain the American battlefield, even if he is unable to carry out such a distant cross-oceanic expedition, the navy can take the initiative to attack.

So.

Spain, should we do something?

Geographically, the Iberian Peninsula is a natural barrier between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Even if Germany defeats France and wants to take advantage of several major ports on the Mediterranean coast, including Marseille, it will not be so smooth. Even if it can't control Spain, as long as it occupies Majorca, Germany will want to enter the land smoothly in the future. The sea is not that easy.

Thinking of this, Li Mo immediately asked, "How is the preparation for Zhen'er's going to India?"

"To the emperor, the Bashu and Taiwan have completed the sea trials and are undergoing final adjustments. It is expected to depart in half a month. If we can wait for another ten days, the Xi'an can also be completed and delivered, so that the Seventh Fleet can have 1 mother ship, 1 Taiwan class, 2 Guam class, and 1 Xi'an class. It is the core combat force!"

"Italy alone can't stop us!"

"Where is the Panama Canal?" Li Mo continued to ask.

"The whole line can be navigable at most in early May. I have ordered to speed up the hoarding of combat supplies to Panama City. Sa Zhenbing has also led the fleet to do exercises before entering the Caribbean Sea. If it goes well, we can attack the Caribbean Sea in early June and open up the East Coast Channel of the United States."

"Let Long Guozhang transfer the two Yinshang aircraft carriers to Gu Junhuo." Li Mo stood up again with burning eyes: "Give all the recent dive bombers to the Seventh Fleet, and be sure to form combat effectiveness in early May."

"Yes."

"Tell Xue Muhua that the strength of the Sinai Peninsula will be strengthened. If the Seventh Fleet leaves, the canal will be completely supported by their air force. In addition, we must be prepared for strategic bombing of Greece!"

After hearing Li Mo's words, Chen Ping's mouth hooked slightly. After the two discussed the new situation, he was about to leave. He suddenly remembered something and said with a smile, "Your Majesty, Churchill, who you let the intelligence department pay attention to, has been captured."

"Is Churchill captured? Isn't he in England?"

"Yes, but this guy didn't know what was wrong. He ran to the Western Front to see Haig, and then went to Sanjia."

"Chill went to St. Canada?!" The black line suddenly flew across Emperor Li's forehead. Qiu Fatty didn't look like a guy who didn't cherish his life. First, he was captured once in the Boer War. After being dismissed, the Minister of the Navy was so angry that he went to the Western Front to gil. Finally, he finally left the front line. He didn't work well as a promising congressman, and unexpectedly ran back to the Western Front War to die!

Is this fat man idle?

"Ha ha." Thinking of the report of the Intelligence Department, Chen Ping couldn't help laughing: "After Churchill was captured, he was ordered by a German sergeant named Hitler to strip naked his clothes and hang his buttocks with a horse whip. I heard that it is still blue and purple on it now."

It's over, heaven and earth are turned upside down!

"What!" Emperor Li's eyes widened, and after a long time, he suddenly patted his forehead and lamented in his heart!

It's completely messed up.

The little beard actually dared to cut the fat man Qiu into a naked pig and beat his buttocks with a horse whip. The universe turned upside down, and the river flowed back! No wonder all the situations are out of control, and there is no historical context at all!!!

(to be continued)