69novels Chapter 514
Chapter 514
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: 0.059s Scan: 0.030sAfter the French artillery opened fire, the German army immediately launched an artillery attack, focusing on the French frontal positions first, and beat the soldiers on the French positions into a mess, with corpses everywhere!
Seeing the effect of this bombardment, the artillery commanders intended to make persistent efforts and take advantage of the fear of the Gallic recruits to teach them a lesson.
However, the enemy’s artillery was also threatening their own positions and even their own safety!
Therefore, destroying the French artillery positions immediately became their most urgent task!
The Sixth Army was equipped with a batch of advanced anti-artillery radars at the beginning of the war, so they easily measured the direction and distance of the French artillery.
“The French artillery should be located in the Eiffel Tower. If we open fire on them, it is likely to cause a fire in the city. The Eiffel Tower is actually an ancient city from the Middle Ages. There are a lot of old buildings in the city, which are very easy to burn.���Fire!”
The intelligence analysts analyzed the intelligence and soon got the detailed intelligence needed by the artillery.
However, because the enemy was in the city, the commander hesitated for a while and did not dare to order to open fire easily, fearing that it would hurt innocent people or even cause a fire in the whole city.
There was nothing wrong with the German army attacking the Iron Tower City. It was just the law of the jungle. The Gauls deserved that they could not defend their capital. The German army’s ability to capture the Iron Tower City was the best proof of the German army’s strong combat effectiveness! However
, conquering the Iron Tower City did not mean that they had to destroy the Iron Tower City. On the contrary, the Iron Tower City would be more valuable only if it was preserved as intact as possible. If the city was destroyed in large quantities due to the war, it would not only have a bad impact on Hans’ international reputation, but also affect their own profits. If the
Iron Tower City was blown up, not only would they not be able to take over the factories and various properties in the city, but they would have to send people to clean up the ruins and resettle the victims, which was a heavy burden for the government!
“Continue bombing the enemy’s positions and call the Air Force for targeted bombing!”
When the commander of the artillery reported the difficulties they encountered to Dietrich, Dietrich thought about it and quickly made a decision! The
French artillery positions must be destroyed. Artillery is a huge threat to their own army in battle. If the enemy’s artillery cannot be killed in one go, they will surely cause huge casualties to the German army in the next battle!
So no matter what, we must kill them before these artillery cause heavy losses to our side!
However, because the design angle of the artillery shells is relatively small, and the range of the mortar shells cannot reach them, the enemy artillery hidden in the city can hit the German army, but the German army cannot hit them. If they want to attack them, they must expand the range of the artillery. , which is bound to cause serious damage to the Iron Tower City and kill many civilians.
Although Dietrich didn’t care about the life and death of the Gauls, if he really opened fire on civilians, it would have a very bad impact on Hans’ image, and would also increase the hatred of the Gauls in the Iron Tower City towards Hans, increasing the difficulty of their governance and control here!
Therefore, Dietrich gave up the plan to use the power of his own artillery to destroy the enemy’s artillery positions, but asked Goering’s Air Force for help, hoping that the Air Force could come forward to kill the enemy’s artillery!
After receiving this request, Goering went to Mainz and reported the matter to him!
Mainz took the telegram and thought about it, then nodded.”Of course it’s okay to send troops to bomb, and doing so can also show the Gauls our powerful air force!”
Mainz seemed further away, the first thing that bombed Gaul was more politically significant than practical!
If this thing is done well, it will leave an indelible impression on the hearts of the entire Gauls, and even make the people on the other side of the strait feel cold in their hearts!
So, either don’t do it, or do it to the best of your ability!
“President, what do you mean?”
Goering’s political awareness is not very high, but compared to the domineering attitude after being promoted by the mustache in history, Goering in this time and space is more like a professional soldier, without too many other things, which makes Mainz very satisfied with him.
Originally, he planned to transfer Kesselring from the Army to the Air Force, but now it seems that there is basically no problem in handing over the Air Force to Goering, so he temporarily canceled this plan!
The seven German armies have already seemed a little stretched in this attack on Gaul!
Mainz has transferred all the troops on the Eastern Front to the Western Front without missing a single one. On the Eastern Front, he only maintained some second-line troops, militia, and police forces. The combat effectiveness of these people is very poor. If the Russian Bear really wants to attack Hans, these people alone will not be able to resist the Russian Bear army!
However, Mainz is sure that the Russian Bear will not dare to start a war easily, especially after they saw that the German army surrounded more than one million Allied troops in Benelux and other places like cutting melons and vegetables in one breath, and they must have been trembling with fear at the powerful combat effectiveness of the German army!
At this time, they were afraid to avoid the German army, so how could they dare to take the initiative to provoke Hans?
According to Mainz’s estimation, Starling was probably using all his strength at this time, closing the door and focusing on developing the Russian Bear’s own industry, and working hard to establish their completely independent industrial system, so that their army can obtain a stable supply of weapons and ammunition. In this way, they can Without relying on foreign support, build a completely independent and powerful army!
Mainz’s accurate judgment and bold behavior made Starlin even more confused about his background.
They felt that the reason why Hans dared not to place heavy troops to guard the border area, but to withdraw all the troops, there must be some unspeakable secrets behind it!
Perhaps, Hans had already set up a trap waiting for the Russians to jump in, making them think that the German defense was empty and then take advantage of the opportunity to enter. In this way, they would fall into Hans’s trick, and Hans would get an excuse to declare war on himself!
The more the Russians thought about it, the more they felt that their guess made sense, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why Hans withdrew all the troops in the border area, because this matter Things seem too incredible!
The Russians don’t know that this is an empty city plan deliberately used by Mainz!
Without spending a single soldier, it can have a powerful deterrent effect of a million soldiers. For Hans, this can greatly liberate their army and let them concentrate their forces to fight the Gallic Campaign!
Of course, this is all based on the fact that Hans’s troops are insufficient. If Hans had ten armies at this time, Mainz would not need to use such a trick at all! Therefore
, not only can Kesselring not be transferred to the Air Force, Mainz even wants to expand the size of the army.
It is absolutely impossible to expect seven armies and two million people to attack the sparsely populated Russians. The Gallic Campaign was fought with stumbling blocks, let alone the Russians?
“What I mean is to send out all the aircraft that can be deployed, including dive bombers, strategic bombers and fighters, etc., to create an effect of covering the sky and the sun, severely intimidating the Gauls, psychologically destroying their determination to resist, and by the way, making them completely give up their attempt to rely on the solid city to defend to the end!”
The Eiffel Tower City is a good place. There are not only world-class museums like the Louvre that house countless classic works of the contemporary and Renaissance periods, but also world-famous palaces like the Palace of Versailles.
In addition, there are famous cultural and artistic centers such as the Notre Dame de la Eiffel Tower City and the Eiffel Tower City Opera House, which are well-known in Europe, as well as famous attractions such as the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower and the Champs Elysees.
Even in the core area of the romantic capital, you can quietly sip a cup of coffee in a cafe on the left bank of the Seine, and overlook this city from the commanding heights of the Sacre-Coeur on Montmartre. Cities also have their own unique flavor!
After the German army occupied the Iron Tower City, the mustache couldn’t wait to rush here, taking a large number of officers to take pictures at various popular scenic spots, just like a poor boy from the countryside to a metropolis, everything was lively!
How great would it be if such a beautiful city could be taken over intact?
It would not be beautiful if it was bombed to pieces!