Chapter 767: The Battle of the Border of Belgium
The powerful attack power of the airship made the Belgian King Albert directly stunned, and even all the military high-level officials were also stunned, and the officers and soldiers who returned from the Liège Fortress before invariably mentioned the role of the airship, but they didn't see it with their own eyes, no one would believe it, the airship is also a common thing in Belgium, and even the Belgian royal family has two airships, which are just tools for flying.
The lower part was stunned and didn't know what to do, and the airships above were not idle, and after dealing with the largest battery, the two airships separated and flew to the other two batteries.
Now I don't know what the airship is going to do, if there is a flaw in the airship, that is, it is too slow to continue to fight, after an attack, it may have to be adjusted, to fly over, or even aim, it takes a certain amount of time, the soldiers below, how can they still stay in place, the consequences of the previous battery have already taught them a lesson, not only the battery under the airship, but the other batteries, the gunners have run out.
Just two aerial bombs, destroyed 12 artillery pieces, more than 200 artillery pieces, and it was finished, but the shadow carved in the hearts of the Belgians was profound, and the airship used clear facts to express its ability to attack the premise that Belgium had only one way to go, and that was to surrender.
Even if you fight, can you continue to fight, there is no one left in the entire Brussels gun position, and no one will stay to die in vain, I heard that the airship also has an anti-personnel bomb specifically for infantry. It's even more like purgatory, before there's a solution to the airship. They simply couldn't do anything to send the soldiers to their deaths. It's better to solve it all at once.
Albert was not a willful and courageous king, and was at an absolute disadvantage, and finally, after consulting with the military personnel, he took the initiative to contact the German army.
Enmich knew very well that with the help of the airship, Brussels was not a large-scale fortress, and it was not a matter of time to capture his sea trials, but he did not expect it. The airship only blew up two or three places, and the other party couldn't stand it, which was a surprise, as long as you were careful whether the Belgians were cheating, you could make contact.
The airship stopped bombing and stopped in the air, and for the airship and the plane, the speed is the hard wound of the airship, the stay time. It is the stiffness of the plane, the specific gravity of the plane is heavier than the air, if you want to stop in the air, you must not fly or use some method to fight the gravitational force. Airships are different, their specific gravity is lighter than air, in the absence of wind. Stay in the air for as long as you want. In this way, the control force increases.
The two sides stopped the attack and began the process of contact. Belgium had no strength to cheat, they had already lost half of their country, their capital was in danger, and in this case, if there was any other thought, it was not a matter of death, and after losing most of their army and heavy equipment, they chose to surrender unconditionally.
From the beginning of the declaration of war, to Belgium, only a short period of 2 days, such a fast, no one expected, the German side blocked the news in Belgium, basically cut off most of the telegraph lines in Belgium, the whole world did not know, 2 days, Belgium was defeated, only the northwest, the relationship between the northwest and Germany, plus Germany also needs airship bombardiers, continue to serve in the German army, so they are not forbidden to send telegrams.
There was only one encrypted message, which was sent to the northwest, and the northwest was also surprised, and they did not expect that the airship and the aerial bomb would have such a magical effect of turning decay into a magical effect, with a precise aiming system and excellent power design, so that the extremely accurate aerial bomb completed its debut in the history of World War I, and finally perfectly destroyed Belgium.
Because of the development route of the Northwest, under the guidance of Yang Yuanzhao, coupled with the engine manufacturing level much higher than the whole world, at this time, the engine in Europe is still a few horsepower, more than ten horsepower, the Northwest has already broken through 800 horsepower, this is not a level range, in terms of the standard of the aircraft, it has approached the level of World War II, which is a gap of several decades.
It is precisely because of the rapid development that the airship is rapidly obsolete in the northwest, and tens of thousands of yuan of aircraft can easily shoot down millions of airships, and the northwest does not attach importance to the role of airships, but the airships that support Germany have played such a role in the ground battle, which more or less makes the top level of the army dare to be interested, not only Feng Yuxiang and Cai Yi, but even Jiang Baili of the Northwest Military Academy also asked Yang Yuanzhao about the airship, the main question is, whether the northwest can open the airship production line, Let the army retain a part of the airship, with the huge load capacity and projection capacity of the airship, as long as the safety is guaranteed, as the suppressive firepower of the army's support, it is still possible.
I didn't expect that the unintentional move to support Germany actually made the Northwest Army have such an idea, which is really a bit laughable, the aircraft instead of the airship is the general trend, even now, the aircraft in the northwest has surpassed the airship, especially after the completion of the current twin-engine bomber project, the future 4-engine bomber, or even after the completion of the 8-engine bomber project, with the gradual improvement of the power of the Northwest engine, the tonnage of the bomber will inevitably increase rapidly, Airships like this may have a certain effect in a small range and short distance, and once the distance is too long, the enemy is almost a live target after the enemy is also equipped with aircraft.
From Yang Yuanzhao, it has been completed, is being finalized, and the tonnage of take-off has risen to 2.5 tons, which is enough for the support of the army, and the aircraft is far above the airship in terms of speed and safety.
King Albert of Belgium announced his surrender and abdication, and he and his family received preferential treatment from Germany, and he could take part of his property and go to the neutral country of the Netherlands to live temporarily, while the occupied Belgium also entered a state of wartime occupation, and the left-behind government and the German occupation side adjusted all the heavy industry, light industry, and military industry in Belgium to strive for the transfer of materials needed by the German army, which was a slightly longer process.
Belgium surrendered in only 2 days, and the direction of Germany, because of the rapid advance of the German army, did not destroy the railway at all, after Brussels, destroyed part of the railway, with the help of advanced railway machinery, it only took 12 hours to rush through, especially the northwest to provide a temporary bridge, can be connected to the railway without the roadbed in the case of no reply, although the traffic capacity is a little worse, but it is much stronger than broken.
The surrender of Belgium announced the end of the first part of the Schlieffen plan, in which in addition to Belgium's voluntary surrender and the relinquishment of all railway lines for German use, the fastest also took 7 days, and now it saves more than 5 days, and it also accepts the Belgian railway line almost completely.
The railway trains that had been prepared long ago, plus the trains captured from Belgium, the German army had enough transportation capacity, and the rear immediately began to transport a large number of various logistical resources to prepare for the next war against France, which was just an appetizer, and the key was to attack France.
Even if the soldiers on the front line, who were so excited that they wanted to break through the border between Belgium and France, the rear staff put a stop to this idea, and the army was divided into several parts, resting on the spot, and in Belgium, several suitable and convenient transportation hubs, several logistics bases were built to supplement the German army, and a large amount of heavy firepower was successively transported to the front line through the Guò railway line, and this process took more than a day.
The entire Belgian railway line was used by Germany, Germany and Belgium were in a state of war, but the war was short, Germany was also focused on the fortresses, for ordinary Belgian cities, there was no large-scale plunder, and the king was the initiative to surrender, Belgium occupied Germany, the resistance was relatively light, for most Belgians, the German occupation was not much different from before, except for important cities and along the railway, there were a large number of German troops stationed, the remaining citiesGermany only sent some officials to receive it.
After a simple recuperation and a large amount of heavy firepower, the million-strong German army suddenly overwhelmed the border between Belgium and France. At this time, France was still unaware, in the long years after the Franco-Prussian War, France took Germany as an imaginary enemy countless times, prepared numerous battle plans, and now has reached the battle plan numbered 22, after Germany declared war, the whole of France, according to this battle plan, began to prepare, gathered troops towards the German-French border, where is the Ardennes Mountains, it is not easy for Germany to pass through the middle, decades of time, where has been a number of semi-permanent fortresses, relying on these, France even sent the First and Second Armies into Alsace and Lorraine to prepare for a tentative attack on Germany.
From the start of the war, four days, now on November 7, with the communication conditions around 1913, in Germany with lightning speed, attacked Belgium, the capture was successful, Belgium did not make much resistance, has already announced the surrender of the premise, France is still ignorant towards the German-French border to gather troops, not knowing at all that Germany has been in the position of the flank, gathered enough troops to sweep.
On November 7, 1913, with the support of the Belgian railway, most of the German troops came to the German-French border quickly and smoothly through the railway, except for the Meuse River Corps, which occupied the first place in Belgium, temporarily stayed in Belgium to perform the duties of occupation and general reserve, a large number of munitions were also transported to Belgium as a logistical supply, 6 group armies, 850,000 troops like tigers, divided into 3 combat clusters, towards the territory of France, The war between Germany and France officially began. (To be continued......)