The tide of the war took a sharp turn in a short period of time, which was last winter, before the German army surrounded Paris, no one thought that Germany did not forcibly attack Paris before the arrival of winter, which made Britain and France move to hold Paris, or treat Paris as a mill of flesh and blood, constantly consuming the German strength, but unfortunately, guessed the beginning, did not guess the end, a big defeat in an air battle, the Germans relied on a weapon, completely wiped out all the efforts of Britain and France throughout the winter, and lost air supremacy, Having lost the power to counter the opposing air force, it can only be beaten passively.

Although Britain still has nearly 350,000 troops in Paris, some of the senior officers and important personnel have begun to retreat, and it is obvious that Britain is not optimistic about the future of Paris.

Xia Fei wanted to say something but couldn't say, Haig in a sense, was to assist him, in the previous airship war, Haig did not have the dominance, he single-handedly planned, nine out of ten victories, but was wiped out by anti-aircraft machine guns, a large number of losses of airships, directly exposed Paris to the Germans' military peaks, itself, wanted to annihilate the Germans' airship troops, but was designed by the Germans, the airship was almost lost, although there are a large number of Maxim modified anti-aircraft machine guns, the firing range has also reached 700 meters, But at this height, there will not be any German airship coming down, that is, it looks beautiful.

Next, the battle of Paris entered the absolute passivity of Britain and France, and under the air superiority, Mark completely gave full play to the benefits of this air superiority, and fixed the routine attack. The airships bombed the fortress first, obliterating the French efforts over the past few months. One by one, the permanent or temporarily reinforced fortifications were removed. The carefully prepared positions are weakened, and then the ground troops will continue to attack under the control of heavy artillery, little by little encroaching on the defenses around Paris, and little by little disintegrating the defensive forces of Paris.

In just 2 weeks, most of the strategic points around the scale were lost, and for such a method of stripping off the cocoon, the French could not use the strength of the empty body, a million troops. They can only watch the opponent slowly gain the advantage, and when the air and heavy fire have cleared the defense, the unprotected infantry can only choose to retreat.

was well prepared for the battle of Paris, but under the anti-aircraft machine gun, he became anticlimactic, one wrong step and one wrong step, Xia Fei could already foresee, he was next. The fate after the end of the war, scapegoats and culprits.

After more than 20 days of resistance, the Germans forcibly uprooted several important nodes outside Paris, the British and French could no longer stand it. Concentrate your forces to break through. It's a pity that this decision was wrong from the start, on a fixed battlefield. The airship did not dare to lower the altitude, in the midst of the pursuit. It is the world of airships, and airships are constantly chasing after every unit. Then a bombing was carried out, and the surrounding German troops were informed that there were German troops on all sides of Paris, and in this case, there were very few people who could escape from Paris.

From the time of the breakout, there were almost 850,000 people, the strength of the entire Paris defenders still existed, in a breakthrough battle, one-third of the troops were lost at the moment of the breakout, and then on the road of escape, gradually towards destruction, no more than 50,000 people could escape from Paris.

A Paris lost almost 1 million people, and the remnants of the defenders of Paris, after the breakthrough of the large army, after the last wave of resistance, under the superior strength of Germany, chose to surrender, and Paris, the capital of France, in the end, fell.

A crucial battle finally came to an end in the beautiful annihilation of the Germans, the millions of troops that had been painstakingly accumulated were lost in Paris, and the 3 million troops that were preparing for the spring offensive, except for a little bit of confrontation with the Germans near Paris, then hid back, not only the loss of personnel, but also the loss of morale, especially for France, the loss of the capital, coupled with the loss of a large number of personnel, the war-weariness gradually rose, and the south became chaotic.

The opposite of France, Germany is like a rainbow, the loss of capturing Paris is almost minimal, the annihilation of the British and French million troops, basically under the absolute superiority of the gains, the German losses are only one-tenth of the British and French, even one percent, and still maintain the integrity of the German army, except for a part of the continued to clean the battlefield in Paris, the rest continue to attack, like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, the pursuit of the French army, the temporary capital of France Bordeaux has a huge threat.

The war began to go deeper, and the German troops stationed in Paris, after taking Paris, first took control of the key points of Paris, the banks, the telegraph buildings, the various command structures, and then the museum, and began to loot this most prosperous international city, the most complete and the most rewarding in history.

In the past, China's suffering fell on the Gauls, and compared with Beijing, France was richer, and the Germans gained more. The battle of Paris lasted too long, but because of the self-confidence of the French, the captured civilians were not too small, and the gains were even more, gold and other precious metals from the French Central Bank have been transported, and most of the silver has been transported, but France has been strong for many years, but there are still a lot of precious metals, securities and currencies in the hands of the people.

The Germans have the experience of Belgium, in this area of the road is familiar, the total amount of harvest is more than 5 billion francs, the most important thing is that Germany has obtained more than 1,500 museums and folk collections in Paris, a total of more than 15 million valuable cultural relics, including more than 2 million pieces belonging to China, these antiques, except for a very small part, the price is extremely high or has great commemorative significance, such as the portrait of the Mona Lisa, which was taken by the German royal family to collect, Except for the loot, the rest was sold to China at a higher or lower price.

For this reason, China sent a large number of appraisers for the identification of these cultural relics, although the highest price, but was assessed at 8.5 million northwest yuan, but can not stand the huge number, more than 15 million pieces of various types of cultural relics, a total of 14 million at once, even if most of them are less than 1000 northwest yuan of low-grade goods, but the number is too large.

This matter, Germany and China are secret, about this matter is strictly confidential, until more than ten years later, the influence of the First World War was completely indifferent, China has become the world's unipolar situation, only in the declassified documents declassified, this batch of French cultural relics, the final price is 3.7 billion northwest dollars, which is almost equivalent to 370 million pounds of funds, for Germany to support great.

You know, after the start of the war, for all countries in the world, including Britain and France, military spending has increased suddenly, and Germany is the same, and even to some extent, compared with Britain and France, it is in a natural weakness, no way, the time for Germany's rise is too short, less colonies and long time of accumulation, even if Germany is now the first industrial power in Europe, and even before 1900, it is still the country with the highest output value in the world, and their accumulation is not as good as that of Britain and France.

In the era of the arms race, Britain can start construction of 8 ships at a time, or even 12 capital ships, but Germany can only follow up with 4 ships a year, or even a little more, and it cannot continue, there was a year, Germany's capital ships were blank, so Germany and Britain were on the dreadnought, just one step away, and during the Battle of Jutland, Britain's warships were in an overwhelming advantage.

On the one hand, Britain has accumulated more than 200 years, has been in the first position in the world for many years, and has a huge number of colonies, and even if it is independent of the Commonwealth countries, it will still support Britain at a critical time in the war, with large countries such as Australia and Canada. It is still possible for each family to support one capital ship.

Another key point is that Britain is the current financial center of the world, without the rise of the world, without the advantage of World War I and World War II, standing at the top of the world, the financial center is the United Kingdom, which has dominated the world for hundreds of years.

If you think about the United States in the future, you will know that just relying on a so-called US joint signature, it has tied up the world economy, and the United States has a natural advantage in financing or printing money.

Germany can't be like Britain, it can only rely on its own accumulation, the reunification time is not long, even if the German economy is booming now, it can't support the war of full liberalization, if it is not for the support of the northwest, even the advantages that can be obtained in the early stage are not there, and now the northwest has solved a rare problem.

Cultural relics, these things that cannot be eaten, but are only used for exhibition and collection, were sold at a high price, and rogue countries like Britain and France, over the years, have almost all over the world, and the benefits from all sides are huge, and these have been obtained by Germany and sold to China to support the purchase of materials from China.

The harvest in Belgium made Germany begin to pay attention to the harvest of the people, many French people have run away, they can only carry their belongings at most, plus Germany in order to get enough benefits from the city of Paris, when attacking, it is impossible to fire large-caliber artillery casually, deliberately avoiding residential areas and museum settlements, just accurately looking for military targets, which will cause the mortality rate of the German army to rise, but the European war, the scale of millions, Germany is not like the northwest, attaches importance to casualties, For tens of thousands of casualties, and spending millions, or even tens of millions, this is definitely not the right choice.

From the experience of Belgium, it can be seen that the people are full of wealth, and this is still the case in a small country like Belgium, and even more so in a country like France, after carefully searching the people of the whole France, they got hundreds of tons of gold and 10,000 tons of silver, which are scattered to various families, and even buried in the ground, which shows the wealth of the French, the Franco-Prussian War of that year, several times the reparations of the Xinchou Treaty, the French only took two or three years to pay the reparations, the reason is that they are too rich with the colonies and the people. (To be continued.) )