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Volume 3 The Road to Rise Operation Wind

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    "Today's first update. Thanks also to Evil Light Devil Children's Shoes for the five monthly tickets. Friends who support with monthly tickets, The Shanghai Peace Conference continues. Both sides are engaged in a war of words and have no intention of giving in. Both sides  They are prepared to seize the opportunity to prepare for war, and are not affected by the domestic revolutionary movement at all. In their view, as long as they achieve military success, the domestic revolutionary struggle will cease.  The suggestion was just a smokescreen. Before the Allies could formally respond, the Allies believed that the United States had a large population and huge war potential, and that it was necessary to completely defeat Britain and France before large-scale reinforcements of the U.S. military could force Britain and France to surrender or accept harsh conditions, so the Allies decided to carry out the "Tornado".  "Planned. On July 1, 2017, on the Lyon front, allied troops except Germany gathered together, and the army of ten thousand troops marched from Geneva, Switzerland, along the Rhone River, to the Rhone River estuary on the Mediterranean coast.  Marseille. The Allied Forces launched a fierce attack on the French and American forces along the 10-kilometer-long battle line. The Allied Forces only had 10,000 troops and a huge disparity in strength. They could only focus on defending key areas along the river.  Attacks were carried out all over the front kilometers, making it impossible for the Allied Headquarters to determine where the Allied Army's main attack direction was, and asked the High Command to immediately increase its troops. The Allied High Command had always believed that the German Army on the Western Front would be the main direction of attack.  Troops continued to reinforce the Verdun Theater. At this time, the German attack momentum was very weak. It was determined that the Allies concentrated their forces and main attack direction on the rear of France, that is, the Lyon Theater on the southern line, so they moved some of their troops to the south in the Verdun area.  Withdraw. Consolidate the reinforcements in the rear and reinforce the Lyon theater. The Allies' plan was to launch a fierce attack on the southern front, forcing the Allies to make a wrong judgment. In fact, the Allies had abundant troops.  The main attack was on the eastern and southern fronts, but it was just to confuse the Allied forces. On July 6, the German troops on the eastern front continued to attack on a small scale, giving the illusion of a containment attack on the southern front.  The Allied forces continued to conduct probing attacks from a long front. On July 7, 800,000 troops from Greece, Bulgaria, Syria, and Jordan separated from Marseille at the mouth of the Rhone River.  . And the Allied troops guarding the two places were too far away from the Lyon battle zone, and only 40,000 troops were deployed in Marseille to assist in the defense.  In Orange. However, the Allies underestimated the Allied forces too much, and they also underestimated the U.S. Navy. They only invested 300,000 people in the direction of Orange, but they invested the least troops.  The reason for this situation is that the Greek, Bulgarian and other military forces are excessively afraid of the Allied forces and can only attack the weakest side of the Allied forces with the greatest strength to ensure the success of the "Tornado" plan.  .  Marseille, guarded by only 40,000 people, relied too much on the firepower of US naval guns.  As a result, when calling for artillery support from the U.S. fleet, the U.S. military was slow and slow. Not to mention, the accuracy of the artillery coordinates provided by the Allied Powers was beyond praise.  As a result, the U.S. naval gun fire deviated far away from the target.  Support operations are greatly reduced.  Facing the overwhelming invasion of half a million Allied troops, the U.S. Navy considered the safety of its own fleet.  After less than an hour of cooperation, the US fleet was ordered to leave Marseille Bay.  Drive to the Mediterranean for shelter.  A Chinese military observer recorded this in his diary.  "The sudden retreat of the U.S. Navy put the 40,000 French troops guarding the fortresses along the Marseilles into panic. The Americans left in a hurry. They even forgot to bring their chewing gum. They were obviously afraid that the Allied cannons would sink their warships!  The French army was quickly outnumbered. French women with fire sticks even ran to the front line! However, the French army was outnumbered less than half an hour after the US Navy fled.  It was the madness of a large number of French refugees who blew up the bridge over the Rhone River in the city. The French army company that stayed behind to blow up the bridge was swallowed up by a sea of ??people. The bridge was not blown up in the end. The Greek army that rushed over first began to clean up.  During the operation, countless French refugees were shot and killed, and the mouth of the Rh?ne River was stained red with blood. Marseille was occupied by the Allies, and their routine robbery operations were still in progress. The important thing was that all southern France was exposed to the Alliance.  "Under the iron hooves of the army!" In the third hour after the fall of Marseille, the right army captured Orange, an important town on the lower reaches of the Rhone River.  Although the battle was short, it was extremely brutal.  All 60,000 Allied troops guarding the area were killed because they received death orders from the Allied High Command.  Be sure to stick around and wait for help.  However, the Allies' 300,000-strong army, with tanks and artillery clearing the way, how could a mere 60,000-strong Entente Army stop them???'s?  The capture of the two lower Rh?ne cities of Marseille and Orange shocked the Allies. If they could not be driven back in time, the entire southern France would be sacked by 800,000 Allied troops.  At the same time, it is very easy to bypass and attack Lyon's logistics supply line from there, which will force Lyon's Magic Alliance into a besieged situation without supplies.     to this end.  The Allies hurriedly mobilized 10,000 divisions and marched southward.  Block the Allied ** teams in the direction of Orange and Marseille.     at this time.  There were less than a million troops left in the direction of Lyon.  After successfully taking away 500,000 troops from the Allied Powers, the Southern Front Dingwuyue Command continued with the next attack plan.  On July 1st, the Allies mobilized Tianwan's army to launch a general attack in Valence, in the middle reaches of the Rhone River in the Lyon theater.  Valence was the southern gate of the Lyon theater, and the Allies had to send heavy troops to defend it.  So the Allied Powers Command mobilized 300,000 people to reinforce the Valence Line, so that the Allies could no longer break through.  Once this is broken through, the 500,000 troops reinforced by the Allies in Orange and Marseille will be surrounded, which cannot be allowed at this time.  At this time, the Allied Powers in Lyon only had more than 600,000 troops, while the Allied Powers on the opposite side still had nearly 10,000 troops. The Allied Powers were only defensive.  Three hundred thousand troops were taken away again.  The Allies' plan was realized step by step.  On the first day of July, the Allies launched a full-scale offensive in the northern suburbs of Lyon. On the first day, they invested 700,000 troops, powerful aircraft, four tanks, and recessed cannons.  The Allies invested thirty divisions in defense, and the war suddenly became intense.  There was a fierce air battle in the air, while on the ground there was a back-and-forth battle between tanks and infantry. The artillery fire from both sides refused to give way to each other, and each wave became more fierce. In order to achieve strategic goals, even their own people were bombed, causing serious injuries to both sides.  However, the Allies still had a reserve force of more than 100,000 people.  In order to allow the reserves of the Allied Powers to enter the battlefield.  The Allied Powers once again invested 300,000 troops on the next day. The offensive was extremely fierce. The Allied Forces lost the first and second lines of defense successively, and the third line of defense was also useless.  For this reason, the Allied Powers Command had to order the deployment of the general reserve force and put the remaining hundreds of thousands of coalition troops into the battlefield, barely holding on to the third line of defense.  However, this is only the third step of the Allied Southern Front Command's strategy.  The rich military strength of the Allied Powers meant that after all the Allied Powers invested, there were still ten thousand people left.  On the first day of July, the Lyon war zone and Valence in the lower reaches of the Rhone River were all turned into a pot of porridge.  There is a stalemate.  The Allied ** teams in the direction of Orange and Marseille were also blocked in Nima and Rozelle.  That night, the Allies left behind the final reserve force of the Old Wan Army.  The well-equipped Italian army was quietly transferred to Geneva, Switzerland.  In order to complete the strategic detour mission, the Swiss Allies had no choice but to trample on the Geneva flag.  Of course, the Allies had no intention of attacking Switzerland yet, they were just passing through Geneva through the road.  Geneva, Switzerland, has a large number of national Red Cross organizations.  Hosted countless refugees.  In order to provide refugees with access to Switzerland, Switzerland did not blow up the bridges over Lake Geneva and the Rhone River.  result.  That night, the Italian army suddenly seized the bridge, and the Swiss protest was ineffective. They could only watch as 300,000 Italian troops passed Lake Geneva and reached the Rhone River.  The Allied personnel in Geneva knew that after the Italian army crossed the Rhone River via Geneva, they suddenly panicked and hurriedly reported to the Allied headquarters.  After the Allied Lyon Theater Command learned of the incident, they immediately understood the Allies' strategic intentions.  The previous attack on the north bank of the Rhone River, which was as long as 5 kilometers, distracted the attention of the Entente Army, and then through the fierce offensive in the lower reaches of the Rhone River, the Lyon garrison was transferred far away.  The fierce attack by the Allied forces in the northern suburbs of Lyon was nothing more than to contain the last reserves of the Allied Powers. The ultimate goal was to cover the Italian army passing through Geneva and complete the maneuver behind Lyon.  At this moment, the Allies had no troops to mobilize. For this reason, the Lyon headquarters had to make the saddest decision to abandon Lyon, abandon the Rhone River defense line, and retreat across the board. Otherwise, the entire army would be annihilated.  However, even retreat will come at a huge price.  Because the Allied forces poisoned the Allied forces on the front line.  This made it impossible for a large part of the Allied forces to move down at once. Retreating took time, and the Allied headquarters had to order some of the troops to resist tenaciously and give the remaining troops time to retreat.  at the same time.  In order to prevent funding the enemy, the Allies took away all the materials they could and destroyed all the rest.  The Han Chinese and indigenous slaves bought from Asia were all driven to the front lines.  Replace the Allied Forces as cannon fodder and block bullets.  On the last day of July, the Italian army moved south along the south bank of the Rhone River. Three days later, it captured Punk, an important town in the east of Lyon. The Allied Battle of LyonIt¡¯s time for the final retreat.  In July, the Allied Powers left behind a hundred thousand old, weak and disabled soldiers and slaves to hold their positions, and the remaining troops quickly retreated.  The Allies naturally expected that the Allies would retreat, but when they saw that there were still four to five million people holding on in front of the battle line, they believed that the main force of the Allies was still there, so they did not use the total reserve force of 100,000.  However, by the next day, the defenders in the direction of the Allies were clearly outnumbered by the Allied forces, and hundreds of thousands of Allied forces quickly broke through the third line of defense.  When he saw that the Allied positions were filled with old, weak, sick and disabled workers and workers speaking messy Martian language, the Allied commander became angry.  The accompanying foreign reporters recorded this, "The Allied commander cursed the Allied Powers as beasts and cowards, and even directly criticized the Allied Powers for being inhumane, completely forgetting that the Allied Powers were once inhumane countries." The Allied Powers pursued all the way.  The 400,000 troops of the Allied Powers who retreated from Lyon initially carried heavy equipment. Later, when they saw that they were about to be overtaken by the enemy, they had to abandon their heavy equipment and run away lightly.  At the end of July, the entire Lyon-Rh?ne defense line was lost.  The Allied forces, which originally numbered less than 10,000 people, fled to the Monto Gang, but only 400,000 people remained.  The British, French and American League retreated to Wenli Point and were strictly ordered to defend.  Because further behind is Xing Bordeaux in France, which has reached the point where it can no longer be withdrawn.  Fortunately, at this time, the pursuing Allied forces suddenly stopped advancing and built fortifications outside the Monto Gang. It seemed that they were going to confront the Allies for some time.  The Allies hurriedly replenished their troops and equipment and got a breather.  However, there was a reason why the Allied forces on the Southern Front suddenly stopped attacking, because Germany launched a general attack on the Western Front and required the Allied forces on the Southern Front to return to attack behind Verdun and cooperate with the German army to eliminate the total strength of 10,000 people in one fell swoop.  The main force of the Allied Powers.  It was learned at the Allied High Command that the Rhone River defense line had been lost.  After the news of the failure of the Battle of Lyon, the Allies realized that the Verdun area was in danger.  So the Allies hurriedly mobilized their troops to go south.  Intent to save the defeat, but at this time.  The German and Austro-Hungarian Allied Forces launched a general offensive against the German-Austrian Allied Forces.  A full-scale attack on a front that stretches for nearly kilometers from A Gongmoge to Abercourt.  Only the British, French and American forces with tens of thousands of troops had to defend with all their strength and were unable to reinforce the Lyon theater.  On the ominous day of July last year, the ninth Battle of Verdun, also the largest decisive battle of Verdun between the Allies and the Entente, began.  As the core of the "Tornado Plan," the decisive battle of Verdun was planned in advance by the Allied High Command in order to completely annihilate the main force of the Allied Powers, defeat the Allied Powers in one fell swoop, and force the French Allied Powers to surrender.  In the early morning of the morning, the German-led coalition artillery suddenly launched a saturation attack on the Allied positions.  The shelling lasted from early morning until dawn.  The 10,000-ton shell was tilted into the Allied positions, causing a sea of ????fire on the Versailles front line.  At the same time, the Allied artillery also began to counterattack.  Concentrated 10,000 artillery pieces and Allied artillery fired at each other, with both sides completely ignoring evasion.  Directly engage in bombardment.  After daybreak, the Allied artillery gradually became silent, while the Allied artillery had less than four artillery pieces left. The Allies gained the advantage in artillery firepower.  Then, as the first ray of sunlight burst from the east, an Allied plane took off.  At the same time, 6,000 aircraft from the Allied Powers also took off to meet the enemy. The two sides launched the largest air battle in human history over Verden.  The air battle at Verdun lasted sixteen hours.  When both sides' aircraft ran out of bullets and gasoline, they returned to resupply, and then immediately took off for combat.  Because the respective field airfields were in the theater, the aircraft quickly entered the battle.  Moreover, during the air battle, both sides constantly mobilized fighter planes from the rear to participate in the battle. Both sides knew that this was a key battle.  So they all tried their best to feed themselves.  Throughout the entire air battle, although the Allies were numerically weak, quantity was not the decisive factor in such a large-scale battle.  The decisive factor lies in overall coordination and command.  At this point, the knock-off aircraft produced by both parties show their weakness.  Because various countries have not installed China's advanced short-range communication systems in order to save costs, the Shansai version of the fighter jets can only rely on their eyes and defensive posture for command and judgment.  This kind of battle cannot be seen in a small-scale firefight involving more than a dozen fighter planes.  But when tens of thousands of fighter jets are fighting, the gap is very obvious.  Black Hawk fighter jets equipped with advanced communication equipment can directly notify other fighters of their own side to form a team to fight without having to focus on gestures. Especially when the battle is fierce, the opponent cannot always pay attention to the leader.  You have to concentrate on fighting.  For this reason, the disadvantages of self-made copycat fighter jets in large fleets are very obvious.  On the contrary, the German side of the mountain fortress??Fighters accounted for only a minority, while the Allied Powers accounted for more than half. As a result, in the air battle, the Allies not only had a quantitative advantage, but also a qualitative advantage in large-scale battles, dealing a heavy blow to the Allied Air Force.  Because the fierce fighting lasted until night, the two sides had to stop fighting in the end.  After a day's air battle.  The Allied Powers lost their fighter planes and had to build a military base, while the Allied Powers lost their combat aircraft and military equipment.  While the air battle was going on, the land battle between the two sides also entered a fever pitch.  The Allies dispatched four tanks and an armored vehicle, followed by a large number of infantry, and attacked the Allied positions.  Facing the Chinese foreign trade Lynx main battle tank, in an era without anti-tank guns, the anti-armored vehicle rifles of the Allied Forces could not cause damage to this type of tank.  On the contrary, the Lynx main battle tank's millimeter smoothbore cannon brought huge direct firepower to the Allied defenders in front of the position.  Positional warfare has no effect at all on tanks.  So the Allies had no choice but to destroy all their main battle tanks in the Verdun area.  And Zhangli armored fighting vehicles entered the battle.  The two sides engaged in the same largest-scale tank and armored vehicle battle, which entered a fever pitch from the beginning, with tanks from both sides rushing into each other's formation.  A melee ensued.  The Allies had 3 more main battle tanks than the Entente. This gap was very fatal until the end of the first day of the war.  The Allied Powers' tank force was almost exhausted, while the Allies had nearly 2 tanks and 1 combat vehicle left.  Although the losses were greater than those of the Allied Powers, the Allies still had strategic control.  After French commander Joffre personally watched the first day of the battle, he held an emergency meeting that night to discuss countermeasures, because he knew that after dawn tomorrow, the remaining German tanks would break through the coalition's defense line.
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