Chapter 1074: Showing off his might

Paris, which has a long history, and was once the center of the world's city, at this time, but it seems a little dilapidated, the siege of more than 3 months, although the supply has not been cut off, but the days in Paris are not very comfortable, as early as the winter, it has begun to officers, the people of Paris are asked to go to the streets as little as possible, and every day in the air battles near Paris, and the explosions that can be heard everywhere at night, all tell them that the pace of war is approaching.

The people tried to leave, but unfortunately they were surrounded on all sides, and the only air passage was cut off, so they could only hide at home and wait, and the back of the original large glass windows were wrapped in thick curtains, and even if they didn't, they would be pasted with newspapers, as if they could not see the outside world, which could prove that they were safe.

In an inconspicuous small building in the north of Paris, it looks dilapidated, but in fact it is heavily guarded, the French chief of staff Xia Fei, is on the military map, constantly working hard, all kinds of markers, arrows, the entire military map is stained all over it, and 40 kilometers north of Paris, a huge red circle, just marked by Xia Fei there, this is a very important location, France paid a huge price to determine here.

As the commander-in-chief of the current Battle of Paris, Xia Fei's command was originally in the army building, but unfortunately a special forces attack, the Germans organized more than 300 people, and raided the army building at night. A total of 12 generals, more than 50 officers and more than 1,200 officers and soldiers were killed. The functioning of the War Department was almost paralyzed.

The successful battle situation of almost beheading scared Xia Fei, and it was impossible for Xia Fei to be killed. But he was afraid of the worthlessness of death, and had become a command with a clear goal, not suitable as the command core of France, so he carefully selected such a dilapidated small building close to the city center, but not at all conspicuous.

The seemingly ordinary small building has at least 12 access controls, and France has also selected a part of the army elite to display their strong combat effectiveness and outstanding talents. An escort unit was formed, which became the forerunner of the future French National Guard.

At this time, Xia Fei had just received a report, and after a little glance, he called the British Haig, who was the commander-in-chief of the British in Paris, and he and Xia Fei jointly commanded the middle line of this big war, as the most important airship unit, and also handed them over to command.

Xia Fei is a very cautious person. Some time ago, the propaganda in Paris was instructed by him, with the help of propaganda. The formation of the new Sixth and Ninth Armies greatly increased the number of French troops in Paris, and now the British and French forces in Paris were at their disposal for more than 80 nights. Also included is a large number of airship troops, in Xia Fei's opinion. If you can use the airship force as the lead, annihilate a part

Finally. On this day, Xia Fei once again invited Haig to come to the war room, because it is the capital of France, France is a local war, Haig basically cooperates with the French in many things, and will not coordinate with him until the troops are dispatched. During this time, both Britain and France are preparing for war, everyone knows that the war will not come for a long time, and Xia Fei must have good news when he looks for him this time.

When Haig arrived at the war room, Xia Fei sat there without speaking, he held a small piece of paper in his hand, with a place name written on it, seemingly simple pieces of paper, but condensed at least hundreds of lives, in the past 7 days, he kept sending airship troops to fight with German airships, just the loss of airships was as high as more than 40 ships, according to a ship of 17 people, that is, almost 700 lives.

On the one hand, such a continuous small-scale operation is to gradually adapt to the German combat methods, and on the other hand, in order to find out the nest of the German airship, after the initial fire reconnaissance, everyone knows that the focus of Germany is the north of Paris, and the airship is the supporting force of the army.

The decisive battle of the air force in this era, in a sense, it is possible to win more and less, and the strength of the Anglo-French alliance is absolutely impossible to attack the south, although the airships in Paris currently have an advantage, but as long as the airships in the south use the method of fighting to entangle their main forces, under the powerful attack ability of the airships, the army in the north can immediately attack, Paris, with the army of Paris, can they resist? In this case, how to destroy the opponent's power is the most important.

Both sides are fighting wits and courage, after a period of temptation, under the premise of sacrificing dozens of lives, Xia Fei finally found the nest of the German airship, which is 40 kilometers away from Paris in a straight line, but to get to that place, it is necessary to go at least twice as much as the detour.

If we say that relying on the army, under the superior strength of Germany, a large number of land forces detour 70 or 80 kilometers, it is almost an impossible task, but using airships to carry out a surprise attack is the best choice.

Haig looked at the address and didn't say anything, although he didn't know what the French paid to get this address, he knew that it was not easy, and the most important thing now was to mobilize enough forces.

The radio waves followed the cable telegraph network, from the European continent, through the Channel, to the United Kingdom, Britain has long studied this raid, the others are ready, in the entire south of France, and even on the British coast near France, there are a large number of land forces, ready to act at any time, three months of winter, Britain and France have not been idle, they are supported by American arms, from their own country and the colonies, a large number of soldiers have been recruited, after three months of intense training in winter, has been basically formed, In this great war, in addition to the nearly one million troops on the Paris side, 850,000 troops will be prepared on the French side, plus 1.15 million in the United Kingdom, a total of 3 million troops will be mobilized, divided into different directions, and a rapid attack will be launched against Germany, because the entire attack is located along the Marne, so this offensive is called the Marne Offensive.

When the request for more airships came from Paris, the British side hesitated, because although the previous German sneak attack on the British mainland did not come again, but after Britain produced a large number of airships, in addition to a part of the support for the Paris front, the remaining considerable number, about more than 200 ships, was used to guard the mainland.

Now, Xia Fei has discovered the nest of German airships, after calculating the gap of airships, as long as these 150 ships go, on the Paris line, the airships of the British and French forces will occupy an absolute advantage, even if it is a hard fight, you can also spell out the German airships, and the rest may be a small half of the airships, which can help the army and attack important military targets in Germany, the role of the air force plus the army, before Germany attacked France and attacked Belgium has been shown.

Therefore, this time the British were quite generous, risking the risk of being attacked on the mainland, and temporarily transferred 150 airships from the British airships guarding the mainland, and finally left less than 70 airships on the mainland, which is the smallest number of British airships since the birth of airships.

Fortunately, whether it is the British mainland, or in the orders placed by the United States, at most half a month, there will be 102 airships completed, Britain is like this, when a thing is worthless to him, he doesn't want to invest a penny, once he shows his value, when the British have a certain effect, money is no problem at all, just a few months after the outbreak of the war, Germany captured Belgium in just over 3 months, and the number of airships produced and ordered by Britain was as high as 573, According to the calculation of 200,000 pounds per airship, the total cost of these airships has exceeded the cost of capital ships, and even the latest British capital ship will not exceed 3 million pounds each.

The 150 airships that had been prepared for a long time followed the wind and crossed the English Channel, from London, England to Bordeaux, France, but a few hundred kilometers, for the ship, it took a long voyage, but the speed of the airship was 70 kilometers per hour, it only took a few hours to arrive, and in Bordeaux met with 50 ships belonging to the French, without stopping in Bordeaux, they formed a huge team and went to Paris.

In the early spring of the European continent, ushered in a rare good weather, 200 large airships, mighty to Paris, when passing through the south of Paris, even deliberately stopped, the purpose of the German southern airship.

The Germans stationed troops around Paris, 200 airships such a large number, how could they not be discovered underground, and they flew very low, rushing straight over without any cover, even if the Germans did not know what they were doing, some of the airships of the southern guerrillas, it was impossible to just wait here, obviously there was a huge difference in strength, they immediately scattered and left, not giving Britain and France a chance to encircle.

The British and French airships, the purpose is to arrive in Paris, and the previous large army will be reconciled, it is impossible to stay in the south for a long time, a little stay, after not meeting the German airship, they took the initiative to leave, and entered Paris in a mighty way, 200 airships covered the sky, after entering Paris, the number of airships in the whole Paris increased to as many as 780, and almost 40 ships were sunk one after another in the past few days, and the rest is still most of them.

A large number of airships flaunted their might in the sky over Paris, France, at this time, not a single German airship came over, covering almost half of the city of Paris, and finally slowly ended and landed in the airship take-off field that had been prepared in Paris. (To be continued.) )