Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 983

Before the outbreak of the World War, France built a solid fortress on the border between France and Germany. Germany chose to bypass Belgium to attack France. The defense line built by France did not play any role.

The same is true for the Russian Empire. After the Kingdom of Romania entered the war, the Russian Empire had to divide its troops to defend the Romanian border, so as to prevent the Allies from defeating the Romanian troops and entering the territory of the Russian Empire through Romania.

Like the turbulent Britain, France and Russia, Germany fell into a new round of turmoil. After General Alexeyev served as the chief of staff of the Russian Empire, he launched a new offensive in Galicia. Half of them, seeing their doom is imminent.

Falkenhayn had to send German troops into the Austro-Hungarian Empire to assist the Austro-Hungarian Empire in fighting and stabilize the Austro-Hungarian Empire's defense line.

However, Falkenhayn had a serious disagreement with Hindenburg and Ludendorff, the German commanders on the Eastern Front. Hindenburg excused that there were no troops on the Eastern Front. Falkenhayn could only transfer the four divisions originally used to reinforce Verdun to Verdun. Austro-Hungarian Empire.

This caused dissatisfaction among the commanders on the Western Front. Crown Prince William believed that Falkenhayn's support for the Western Front was not strong enough. After Romania joined the war, the German Prime Minister Bettmann Holweg, who had always disliked Falkenhayn, suddenly discovered A chance to relieve Falkenhayn of his duties.

Hindenburg took the opportunity to force the palace and asked Kaiser Wilhelm II to remove Falkenhayn as chief of the general staff, otherwise Hindenburg would resign and leave the army.

The current Hindenburg is a German hero. After the outbreak of World War II, Hindenburg and Ludendorff combined their swords and occupied a territory equivalent to two German territories on the Eastern Front.

William II did not dare to take the risk of losing Hindenburg, and Falkenhayn became a victim and was dismissed by William II.

Wilhelm II immediately appointed Hindenburg as the commander-in-chief of the German army and Ludendorff as the chief of the general staff.

This is the third chief of the German army's general staff after the outbreak of World War II.

After Ludendorff became the chief of the general staff, the first order issued was given to Falkenhayn, and Falkenhayn was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the newly established Ninth Army to be responsible for the attack on Romania.

This was an insulting appointment for Falkenhayn. Ludendorff cobbled together some troops for Falkenhayn from the training camp and the Eastern Front, and temporarily formed the Ninth Army.

The World War entered its third year, Germany was in turmoil, the Russian Empire was struggling, France had not yet found a way to win, and the sixth Battle of Isonzo lasted only five days before ending, and the previous five Isonzo As in the battle, the Kingdom of Italy was unable to break through the Isonzo River, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was unable to fight back. Apart from the addition of tens of thousands of wounded on both sides, there was no progress.

Romania was originally pinned with great hopes, but the Romanian generals were arrogant and arrogant. Falkenhayn ordered the German general Mackensen to command the Bulgarian army to cross the Danube and attack Tetukai on the Danube River. Excitedly said: "This is our Verdun."

As a result, after the battle began, 80.00% of the defenders surrendered, and the remaining 20.00% fled. The rhetoric of the defenders before the battle became a joke. Such a person does not even deserve a name.

Mackensen's troops then entered the province of Dobroga on the Black Sea coast. Instead of helping the Romanian army resist the Bulgarians, the locals helped Mackensen's troops drive out the Romanians.

Dobroja is a province occupied by Romania during the Second Balkan War, and its inhabitants are mostly Bulgarians.

The enthusiastic Romanian generals before the war finally experienced the cruelty of the world war. The frontline troops panicked and collapsed all the way, and some troops even surrendered to the Russian imperial troops stationed in Dobroga Province.

After joining the Allied Powers, the Russian Empire is an ally of Romania. Does it need to surrender to the ally?

Alexeyev ordered the generals of the garrison in Dobroga province to organize the Romanians to fight. The Russian commander replied: To make the Romanians disciplined is like making monkeys dance Minuet difficulty.

At the same time as Romania got bad, the Kingdom of Greece was also involved in the world war. During the Battle of the Dardanelles, Greece had a chance to get better conditions to participate in the war. Now everything has been missed. Greece missed Constantinople. , Missing Cyprus, while Bulgaria was attacking Romania, it was also attacking Greece.

The performance of the Greek army is as bad as the Italian Romanian army. There is an army of Greek troops who surrendered to the Bulgarian army without firing a shot. They happily took the train to the prisoner of war camp in Silesia, where they survived the world war safely. .

While the Balkans were in a mess, Nivelle and Mangin were planning a new offensive, Roque was waiting for the arrival of tank troops, and both Verdun and the Somme were in a stalemate.

On July 25, the tank unit finally arrived in France.

Compared with the "water tank" secretly developed by the British army, the tanks produced in southern Africa are cheap and have excellent performance. Although it seems that the firepower is not strong compared with the "water tank", the "light cavalry" only needs two tankers , The top speed of the tank can reach 30 kilometers per hour, and the reliability is better. At least it will not explode when the car is hot. With so many benefits, the first order of the Ministry of War is only 250.

Winston tried to add more orders, but Congress disagreed, and Congress would not agree to additional orders until the tanks had shown sufficient combat effectiveness at the front.

The first batch of tanks purchased by the British government was "gifted" to tankers in southern Africa. The tankers who came to France were drawn from the Northern Division of Rhodesia and the First Cavalry Division. There were only 600 tankers. There are more than 6000 personnel, plus the infantry units accompanying the attack, the total strength of the army exceeds 2.

The designation of the tank unit is the [-]st Armored Division.

Tanks of another time and space first appeared on the battlefield because of their small numbers and did not play a critical role, and in the next 20 years, because of the improper use of armored forces, armored forces did not become the main force on the battlefield The decisive force, until the outbreak of World War II, when several genius generals of Sood concentrated the use of armored forces, the tanks really showed their due strength.

Roque would not make those proven mistakes. After the tank troops were secretly transported to the Belgian front by rail, Roque distributed 250 tanks in two directions, ready to be used to break through the German defenses.

The commander of the First Armored Division was Feng Fu, the former commander of the Northern Division of Rhodesia. Before that, only Feng Fu and Zhu Fu, the commander of the First Cavalry Division in the world, had experience in commanding armored troops. After the establishment of the First Armored Division, Feng Fu Both Fu and Zhu Fu wanted to be the commander of this force, and Feng Fu, who had a better record, won in the end, and Zhu Fu served as the commander of the local troops in southern Africa.

At this time, all the Southern African Expeditionary Force troops in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force had come to France. Rock spent nearly a month to adjust the front line. The British Expeditionary Force now has six armies. There were heavy casualties during the stage, and he couldn't return to the front line within half a year. There were only five group armies that Rock could mobilize.

Fortunately, [-] recruits from the UK arrived at the front line every month. These recruits became a powerful supplement to the expeditionary force. Rock did not plan to form a new army in a short period of time, and prepared more troops for the counterattack against Germany.

"Comprehensive comparison of the strength of our army and the German army in the direction of the Somme, our army will stop all offensives on the Somme line, and the new offensive will be launched from the Belgian coast. The goal of the campaign is to capture all the cities along the Belgian coast. The division is the main force, the Sixth Army and the Second Army are supplemented, and the Third Army is used as a strategic reserve. The First Army and the Fifth Army must also put enough pressure on the German Army to prevent the German Army from deploying troops to reinforce Belgium. On the [-]st of January, the German army will bomb the logistics transportation line in Belgium. The Royal Navy will also cooperate with us to completely block the Belgian coast. I want to remind you that the Kingdom of the Netherlands has not yet joined the war, so when you are attacking, don’t get excited Going too far into the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands—” The real chief of staff of the British Expeditionary Force was in Paris in charge of the liaison between the British Expeditionary Force and the French army. The actual chief of staff was Rock who was transferred back to the Expeditionary Force after he became the commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Force Paul Cocker of the command.

"Do you have any questions?" Paul Coker's military rank has been raised again, and he is now an admiral. At this rate, the marshal is just around the corner.

The generals who participated in the pre-war preparation meeting are all fine. The biggest difference between Roque and Franzi Haig is that Roque will give full play to the role of the staff. It is very clear that the generals know what they should do and what they should not do.

It is also strange to say that when Frenzi and Haig served as the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, many times when the battle started, the objectives of the battle were not clear. Sometimes there are even only a few words, and the commanders of the group army don't know what they should do at all.

Rock's campaign plan is more detailed, and the assignment of tasks is very clear, but it will not exceed the authority to issue specific combat orders to the subordinate units of the group army, and give the commanders of the group army sufficient autonomy. This makes the generals of the expeditionary army very grateful.

"Gentlemen, let me remind you once again that the Germans are not invincible. We must have enough confidence to defeat the Germans, but at the same time we must pay enough attention to the Germans. This is an opponent worthy of our attention—— Everyone is very clear that the traditional advantage of the British Empire lies in the sea, and the army has always been a poor little army. Not only the Germans think so, but the French also think so, so this time we not only have to defeat the Germans, but also Let the French see who is the real wretch!" Rock fully mobilized the enthusiasm of the generals, the sheep led by the lion will be as brave as the lion, and the lion will become peaceful if the lion is led by the sheep. Cowardly as a sheep.

(Good morning brothers, I wish you all a day full of energy——)

(End of this chapter)