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"Colonel Rick, send someone to re-investigate the enemy's artillery deployment. We must find out the enemy's artillery shells. Why can we hit here?"

Udino is also a veteran on the battlefield, and the choice of the headquarters is also thoughtful. It is impossible to put the headquarters under the enemy's muzzle to die.

Whether it was an accident or other reasons, now they are moving again.Otherwise, during the meeting, as soon as the enemy shells fell, the command system of the French army would be scrapped.

Colonel Rick replied affirmatively: "General, there is no need to re-investigate, I have personally checked the previous investigation results, and the enemy cannot make large-scale adjustments in a short period of time.

Judging from the sound and the power of the shells, this is not an army field artillery.

It is not far from the Rhine River here, and it should be that the enemy regards the navy as a mobile fort. "

The flow of water in the Rhine is not small, and small warships are already navigable.The navies of Belgium and the German Federation happen to be pocket versions.

There was nothing they could do against the French navy, so they could only hide in the port and shiver.Now that the war requires it, it is logical to transfer some of them into the Rhine.

Even if the big warship can't get in, you can remove the artillery and use it as a fortress gun.It's all at the critical moment of life and death, and no one cares whether it's a waste to sell everything.

The range and power of naval artillery are not comparable to that of army field artillery.Airship high-altitude reconnaissance, there is no way to distinguish so carefully, and it is normal to make mistakes in range estimation.

Admiral Udino cursed: "Damn it, power the rear and let them bring the heavy artillery over quickly!

Don't stand up one by one, pack up your things immediately, and move the headquarters back one kilometer, not three kilometers. "

There was no way, the French army advanced too fast again, and the heavy artillery could not keep up with the speed and was left behind.

With only a few field artillery carried by the forward troops, it is not at the same level as the firepower of the anti-French coalition forces.

In a panic, Admiral Oudinot withdrew his headquarters for three kilometers, and after making sure he was free from the enemy's artillery threat, he continued with the unfinished military meeting just now.

In any case, the battle was to be fought.Even if the enemy's naval guns had been ignored before, the French army would still attack.

Now we need to race against time. According to the intelligence from the spies, on average, one Austrian infantry division arrives at the front line every day.

At this speed, it won't be long before the balance of forces between the two sides will be reversed.

In the evening, the lights in the headquarters of the French Army were brightly lit. Admiral Oudinot suppressed his grief and said: "Major General Anduin Wrynn died heroically. Now I appoint Colonel Fuxi to take over his job and temporarily act as the Ninth Division." The post of teacher.

Continue to the military meeting in the afternoon.Now that the situation on the battlefield has changed, we must consider the enemy's superiority in firepower, and the original combat plan is no longer appropriate. "

Change the battle plan?

This is a joke, except for Admiral Udino himself, no one else knows what the so-called battle plan is.

In fact, Admiral Udino himself may not have a battle plan.The battlefield is ever-changing, and it is irresponsible to formulate a battle plan without knowing anything.

Generally speaking, everyone's battle plan is formulated while fighting.What was made in advance was a strategic plan, not a tactical plan.

It is a pity that the command system of the French army is not that advanced.The so-called strategic plan is usually made by the commander's head.

"Admiral, there is no need to be so troublesome. The artillery can't suppress the enemy's firepower, and we can also dispatch airship troops.

As long as the enemy's artillery position is exposed, I will go to bomb it to see who can consume who. "

The proposal was made by a middle-aged officer, a staunch supporter of the airship faction in the French army, the result of the Franz butterfly effect.

Since Austrian airships galloped in the Ottoman Empire, air supremacy has been released in advance, but this idea is not perfect.

At present, what everyone advocates is: use airship bombing to destroy the enemy's positions and fortresses, and create advantages for the ground troops to attack.

Udino nodded: "It's a good suggestion. After the special ammunition for the airship troops arrives, send them out to show the enemy some flair."

War is the biggest catalyst for the advancement of military technology. In the past ten years since airships have been used in the military, the European continent has experienced several wars.

Today, airship troops have become an important part of the armies of various countries.Some countries are even planning to spin off the airship force and form a separate military branch.

Since the airship force is so important, ammunition specially used for airship bombing naturally came into being.

……

On November 1890, 11, following the order of Admiral Oudinot, the French army launched a full-scale attack on the Anti-French Alliance under the threat of artillery fire.

The charge sounded, and the heroic French army mounted their bayonets and charged to the coalition positions ahead.

500 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters... Suddenly at 150 meters, fire snakes spewed out.

The intertwined machine gun fire caused heavy casualties to the French army as soon as it appeared. Many people fell down before they could react.

The mechanical command system played a role at this time.The horn of the charge continued, and the soldiers could only bite the bullet and charge upwards.

Everyone is familiar with machine guns, but the French army is familiar with the cumbersome Gatling, not the light and flexible Maxim.

The wrong perception made the top French army underestimate the lethality of the machine gun.

Seeing the words "heavy casualties", Admiral Oudinot sneered, "These guys are simply a disgrace to France.

I wouldn't mind court martialing them all if possible.What is not good to learn, to learn from timid Italians, do you really think I am a fool?

Pass on the order, give me a full attack at all costs.Let the supervising team go to the front line to watch, all the guys who cheat the corpse will have nothing to eat tonight. "

There is no way, the Italians are already famous.As the French army recruited a large number of Italians into the army, the widely circulated battlefield survival manual also spread among the French army.

The purely French troops are fine, but in some troops mixed with Italians, many people have already contracted the bad habit of fear of death.

In the previous battles, Admiral Oudinot had seen with his own eyes that when an army charged in the daytime, countless officers and soldiers fell heroically under the enemy's guns, and he was moved to tears for this.

However, it was these heroes who died heroically, and when the commander ordered the troops to withdraw, they all faked their corpses and resurrected one after another.

Since then, Admiral Udino has gained a new understanding of the words "heavy casualties".

"Yes!"

The voice of the orderly came.

No one knows what kind of disaster this order will bring to the French army on the front line. At this time, everyone is still thinking about tearing the defense line of the coalition forces.

……

It was not only the army that was in trouble, but the French airship unit that had just appeared over the Austrian army also encountered their greatest enemy in their lives at this time.

A bomb was dropped on the airship, and Howardson suddenly exclaimed: "Tom, what kind of bird is that in front of you, why does it look so weird?"

Tom, who was manipulating the machine gun, was not much better than him at this time, and he also looked forward blankly.

After flying in the sky for a long time, they can be regarded as well-informed, and they can't say everything. Anyway, they have seen most of the birds in Europe.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and the outline of the plane can already be seen clearly. A young man suddenly reacted: "It seems to be the plane mentioned in the newspaper."

At this time, the bullets were already whistling.No matter how late you are, you also know that this is the enemy coming.

Tom, who was the machine gunner, instantly regained his spirits.After waiting for so long, it was finally his turn to show off.

However, an embarrassing scene appeared.Compared with the big airship, the enemy's plane was so flexible that he couldn't aim at it at all.

There is no way, the French airship is equipped with a big killer like Gatling.The power is enough, the others are tragic.

Facing Tom, who ran up to them and got on the plane with a machine gun, he didn't know what to do.

This headache didn't bother him for long, and it ended with the crash of the airship.

After realizing something was wrong, panic spread among the French airship troops, but unfortunately it was too late to run away at this time.

Like a meteor shower, French airships kept falling downwards.The French and Austrian officers and soldiers who witnessed this scene knew that an era was over.

A new king ascends the throne, and the old one falls.The French airship troops used their lives to draw a bloody end to the era of airships.

172章 战争转折

The ending of the airship troop took place in full view, with hundreds of thousands of people witnessing it with their own eyes, so the news naturally spread quickly.

In fact, there is no need to pass it on. Admiral Udino's headquarters is not far from the front line. The battle on the ground is covered by obstacles and cannot be seen from the headquarters, but the air battle in the sky can be witnessed.

I personally witnessed the end of the airship unit, and Admiral Udino lost his energy.

In order to build this airship unit, the French military spent a lot of money. Nearly one tenth of the army's annual military expenditure was spent on it.

Now it's just a meteor shower in front of tens of thousands of people, and it's a gorgeous curtain call. Admiral Udino doesn't know how to explain to the country at all.

Of course, not all the airship units of the French army were lost here, but the results of the air battle have proved to the world that the sky no longer belongs to airships.

"General, it's time for dinner."

The guard's voice sounded, bringing Udino back to reality from his confusion.

"No, I'm not hungry now."

"The order will be passed on to hold a military meeting tonight. In addition to leaving the necessary personnel on duty, all officers above the colonel in the headquarters must participate."

The airship force is finished, but the war continues.From now on, the sky will not belong to France, and Oudinot knows exactly what this means.

Not to mention strategic bombing, even the basic intelligence of the enemy cannot be detected. From now on, the French army will only be bombed.

……

The weather gradually dimmed, and the afterglow of the setting sun spread to the earth, reflecting the broken arms and stumps on the ground, a ready-made horror movie set.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the French camp was extremely strange. The call to withdraw troops had sounded, but there were very few returning soldiers.

Such a tragic battle in the past is not unheard of.However, according to the usual practice, this time should be the climax of the resurrection of the fraudulent corpse, but today is an exception, there are very few soldiers who got up from the ground.

Colonel Fuxi, who had just taken over as the commander of the Ninth Division, already had a bad feeling in his heart, and immediately ordered: "Shout to the Austrians on the opposite side, we will send someone to collect the corpse.

By the way, send someone to tell the tantrums, if you don't come back, you don't have to come back.The supervising team made a record for me, and I will train these guys well later. "

Realizing the problem, Fuxi couldn't imagine that those guys were all dead.After all, the previous convictions are very important. After seeing the practice of pretending to be dead, the high-level French army is no longer sensitive to the number of casualties.

You must know that the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Division returning to the camp are only half of the total strength.

During the offensive, half of the troops were wiped out within a day. If this kind of thing really happened, he, the newly appointed division commander, would be exhausted.

Fu Xi only thought it was his subordinates who lost their temper. After all, the Ninth Division had a bad luck recently, and the division commander was killed before the battle even started.

It was agreed to launch an attack under the cover of the airship troops. As a result, everyone saw the French ace troops rushing to the street. The cover did not work, but they were not less bombed.

After all, it was only the French airship that was finished. The airships and naval guns of the coalition forces can still function normally. This kind of psychological gap is still very shocking.

"Yes, Colonel!"

After speaking, the messenger hurried out.

Collecting corpses on the battlefield is also a tradition in Europe. No matter how you fight to the death during the day, when it comes time to collect corpses, no one will stop it.

After all, there are many corpses on the battlefield, and if they are not dealt with as soon as possible, it will easily cause a plague, which is something neither side wants to see.

Sometimes, the corpse collection teams of the two belligerent countries met and would say hello, but each took away the remains of its own dead officers and soldiers and returned.

Today is a typical offensive and defensive battle. Most of the Austrian troops stayed in the trenches. When they encountered machine gun fire for the first time, the French army did not know how to deal with it. They just rushed forward blindly. The result was naturally tragic.

The end result was that the French army was strewn with corpses, and the Austrian army suffered few casualties.

Even if he died in battle, he died on his own ground, and he had already dealt with it.So now, only the French body collection brigade is in action.

Not long after the corpse collection operation started, a young officer ran over: "Colonel, something serious happened."

Colonel Fuxi frowned, and said very displeasedly: "What's the fuss, could it be that the soldiers on the front line mutinied?"

The sound of artillery fire has stopped, and it is certainly impossible for the Austrian army to launch a counterattack, so the biggest thing is the mutiny of the soldiers.

This is nothing new, that is, French-dominated units like the Ninth Division rarely happen.

If it is placed on the Italian division, if they are asked to undertake the main attack task with heavy casualties, there is a [-]% chance of getting angry.

The emotional instability of the Italian soldiers is also an important factor restricting the combat effectiveness of the French army. If it were not for these draggers, the Luxembourg defense line would have been torn apart long ago.

People of insight in the French army have long been aware of this problem.It's a pity that there is no way. France has limited human resources and has to recruit Italian soldiers.

"Colonel, go and see for yourself! I can guarantee that the situation is a hundred times, a thousand times worse than this..."

Apparently, the young officer realized that the news he brought was too shocking to be believed, so he asked Colonel Fuxi to read it himself.

"Humph!"

After expressing his strong dissatisfaction, Colonel Fuxi still walked out of the headquarters.

At this point in time, it already belonged to the corpse collection brigade and religious figures, and safety was still guaranteed.

Coming to the front line in person, looking at the floating corpses all over the ground, and occasionally hearing the wailing of the wounded, Fuxi was stunned.

They were all dead, and even if they were not dead, they were dying now.

With the medical conditions these days, he was injured on the battlefield for several hours without receiving any medical treatment, and the possibility of being able to be rescued was close to zero.

With the number of medical staff in the Ninth Division, they are too busy to bandage the lightly wounded evacuated from the front, and who cares about the guys behind.

After scanning the audience, Fuxi returned to the headquarters in a daze.The problem was indeed a thousand times worse than the mutiny, and the entire Ninth Division was abolished.

After witnessing such a cruel scene, the officers and soldiers who survived lost all their energy.