Iron Wing Eagle Yang Chapter 28 The Last Battle (Revision)

Chapter 28: The Last Battle (Repair) Iron Wing Eagle Yang

Time slipped quickly towards the end of 1916 in the smoke of war. By the time the day came December 25, 1916, the entire battlefield on the Western Front fell into a temporary lull.

Before this, the Three Kingdoms, which had not shed enough blood, did not seem to have any intention of stopping, and constantly threw groups of young soldiers into the battlefield.

It was also during these three months that the number of Chinese workers in the MPM military industrial group has reached about 200,000. These include Chinese families collected from the UK by the Chung Wah Association, as well as Chinese workers who were transported in batches by giant airships from China.

Now, as a result of Li Zhicheng's propaganda in Shanghai, there has been a craze among the Chinese workers to go to France to pan for gold.

Of course, there are also intellectual young people who have left their hometowns for the sake of the motherland's tomorrow in the tide of studying abroad in the Chinese Renaissance Party.

This led to a significant increase in the production capacity of the MPM military-industrial complex, of course, due to the maturity of the technology of tanks and other equipment, production lines were established for a considerable amount of equipment, which more than doubled the production capacity.

However, Britain, France, and Germany, which were at war, signed secret documents with the MPM military-industrial complex, which prevented them from directly producing these weapons and equipment.

Although, for example, the Krupp Group and the French company Renault are extremely interested in tanks as weapons. However, the orders of the obstructive countries had no choice but to disassemble and study the combat vehicles that had been obtained and develop their own tank weapon systems.

In addition to France, Britain and Germany coincidentally chose assault guns, a type of combat vehicle that was easy to produce. As for France, thanks to the support of the MPM military-industrial complex, they got tanks with a rotatable turret. In the clash of armored clusters, they will naturally have a certain upper hand.

In addition to this, countries seem to be extremely interested in the use of paratroopers, but Thunder International refuses to make a deal on the matter. In desperation, countries had no choice but to explore the establishment of paratrooper units on their own.

As for the weapons systems of the MPM military-industrial complex, with the increase in troops, another upgrade began.

The armor of the tank has become thicker, the hull has become larger, the high-power engine is used, and the artillery fire still uses a 37 mm caliber cannon with a 30 times the caliber ratio, and the projectile is a steel-core armor-piercing bullet and an anti-personnel grenade.

At the same time, equipped with a side-by-side machine gun and a turret machine gun, this tank, which bears some resemblance to the T34, was officially named the "T1 Gray Wolf Tank". The shells they supplied to other countries could not penetrate the armor of such tanks.

The naval shipbuilding plant of the MPM military-industrial complex in Cherbourg has begun to build "improvised aircraft carriers" in batches to supply the countries of the Entente.

As for Germany, due to the loss of "improvised aircraft carriers", it had no choice but to exchange part of the artillery processing technology of the Krupp company for the production license of "improvised aircraft carriers", and the number of ships produced at one time was as high as 25.

Thunder International's mercenary organization, with the same divisional establishment, has reached five whole brigades. Among them, two tank assault brigades, one heavy infantry brigade, one paratrooper brigade, and one support brigade including heavy artillery regiments are equipped with "T1 Gray Wolf tanks".

In addition to this, there are the Iron Wing Flying Teams, which are superior in the air, and the large airships, which are ready to be called upon, almost doubling in number.

The airway has gradually taken shape due to the increase in the number of airships. At this time, countries were developing this use of take-off boats, but it was clear that the air routes were not intended by the belligerents to make them easy for other countries to use.

As a result, attacks on airships have increased in various places, and the only one that is unlikely to be attacked in the theater is still the "H" airship of the MPM military-industrial group. Because no one knows to whom the goods on it are being shipped.

Oh, and almost forgot to mention the development of the fledgling aircraft industry during the First World War.

Following the Tomcat heavy air superiority fighter, MPM Military Industrial Group has replaced it with a 200-horsepower engine, added a 20mm cannon to the two 12.7mm machine guns, and added four additional hardpoints.

Make it a Tomcat A heavy air superiority fighter or a Tomcat B heavy air superiority fighter with two 20mm cannons.

However, the Iron Wing Flying Team, which has just used the MPM Military Industrial Group, has produced the world's first "Saber A" fighter with a laminated medium wing, a retractable landing gear, wing fuel tanks, and two 12.7 mm machine guns and two 20 mm cannons.

With 230 horsepower, it is the most powerful engine in the world, which not only inherits the characteristics of the "Tomcat" heavy air superiority fighter in terms of speed and maneuverability, but also protects its leading edge in front of other aircraft in the world. Moreover, the ultra-long range enables it to escort the long-range attack of the Ben Mine attack aircraft throughout the whole process.

The "Benlei-type attack aircraft" has not undergone major changes, but the engine has been replaced, and the hardpoint and bomb weight have been increased. At present, whether it is the "Sea Mine type" used by the navy that can be mounted with torpedoes or bombs, or the "Mine type" attack aircraft used by the army to launch rockets and drop bombs, it has completely monopolized the entire market of attack aircraft in the European theater of World War I.

At the same time that the MPM military industry group has made a lot of money back, a large number of legitimate industries have opened up in the United States, which has also brought rare vitality to the American economy. The status of Chinese Americans has been greatly promoted in the United States, especially in New York City. There was even a small number of American businessmen who had considered whether they should establish some special connection between their industry and the "Chung Wah Association," and I heard that that would be much less troublesome.

As for the war, it did not stop because of the expansion of the production of the MPM military-industrial complex, but on the contrary, due to the increase in the number of weapons and equipment they produced, the battles on the battlefield were even more bloody.

The intensity of the war was further increased by the large number of tanks and armored vehicles, and the third phase of the Battle of the Somme, which began in July, began in October 1916, when Britain, France, and Germany began a fierce battle on the Somme defense line.

France used tanks and armored vehicles produced by the pure-blooded MPM military-industrial group, while the United Kingdom chose to continue to use the improved "Grand Nomad tank" and MPM military-industrial group armored vehicles and assault guns. As for the Germans, the use of Krupp in exchange for the production of assault guns under a license for production, with its own development and production of wheeled armored vehicles.

In this battle, the British and French concentrated the newly established armored forces and a tank division, as well as a fairly large number of armored vehicles to form an assault group. The Germans formed four armored assault brigades to fight according to the model of the armored assault brigade.

At the beginning of the battle, both sides probably felt the importance of air superiority. Therefore, the air battle turned out to be quite fierce at the very beginning.

It is true that the British and French forces have a considerable number of two-plane crews of two heavy air supremacy fighters, "Tomcat A" and "Tomcat B," in the air. But they did not have a very strong advantage in the competition with the Germans.

Because, the other party and the plane they use are almost identical, if not the livery, and the practices of the two sides are surprisingly similar.

It's just that the German flying team used was from the Netherlands and was developed by the American businessman Charles Brown. The company controlled by Kim produced two heavy air superiority fighters, "Knight A" and "Knight B". They were also equipped with troops and twin crews, and they were also equipped with "hunting squads" made up of the best pilots in the German Air Force.

In the early contest of air power, the two sides almost ended in a draw. Relatively speaking, the air power of the Germans occupied a little advantage that was not enough to determine the outcome of the battle.

As the defensive side, the Germans' armored forces were already inferior to the British and French forces. In the first few days of the war, the German air squadron was suddenly reduced in size, and air superiority fell to the British and French air squadrons, which were fully equipped with MPM military-industrial group fighters. They launched a fierce attack on ground targets, as a result of which the assault guns of the four armored brigades lost 1/3 of the battle.

But the defensive line named after the Chief of the General Staff, which the Germans were beginning to build, held out and was not broken through by a massive offensive by the Anglo-French forces.

The reason is that they completely use the "fast front" produced by the MPM military-industrial complex to arrange a strong defense system. In particular, the twin-mounted 12.7 mm machine gun, which was relatively favored by the Germans, played a considerable role in defensive operations.

In addition, the German flying team also attacked the supply base behind the French front, leaving the French soldiers fighting in the front without supplies for a time, and incurring heavy losses in the German counteroffensive. There was a riot among the soldiers, who could not even eat, although they were finally suppressed by harsh means.

On November 18, 1916, the third phase of the Somme ended, and as the first campaign launched after taking the position of commander-in-chief, Robert Murphy incurred such a loss of men and equipment. General Nevelle is directly out.

The British lost 420,000 killed, wounded, captured and missing in this campaign. Similar casualties in France were about 400,000, while the Germans totaled more than 700,000.

At the same time that the two sides were killing in the direction of the Somme, there were also medium-sized battles in the once-calm direction of Verdun. The main force of the ground offensive was composed of the 1st French Assault Cavalry Division, which was fully self-propelled, while the air was completely covered by the Iron Wing Flying Team of Thunder International.

Due to the fierce fighting in the Somme direction, German air power on the Verdun front was extremely weak. In the first encounter, the Germans lost most of the "Fokker Dr.1". Its thin fuselage is no match for the "Sabre A" fighter.

The loss of air cover made the German ground unobstructed by the continuous strikes of the "Benlei" attack aircraft.

As a result, the 5th Army led by the German Crown Prince suffered greatly losses in defending against the French attack on Verdun. In desperation, the Germans repatriated part of the hunting team from the direction of the Somme, intending to regain their previous disadvantages in this battle.

Among those who were transferred back was the "Red Baron" Richthofen, whose plane was painted red. This led to the most dangerous and exciting final showdown between Tang Yunyang, the "Eagle of Satan", and Richthofen, the "Red Baron".

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