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Chapter 1421 The decisive battle on the Marne River (second update, please subscribe)
In order to send as many troops as possible to the Marne River and stop the attacking German and British coalition forces, all cars in Paris, not only buses, taxis and even private cars, were requisitioned. In the middle of the day, the road through the Marne River was crowded with cars transporting troops.

In just two days, more than 30 troops were sent to the Marne River.

At the end of April [-], the fate of France will be decided here!

Sometimes, when is the fateful moment?
It is this moment, for soldiers, this moment is likely to achieve their personal glory and shame.

Whether it is glory or shame, it is only a matter of a moment.

As for the expeditionary force from the Ming Empire, when they came to the Marne River, they knew very well that this place would be their place of glory.

As soon as they arrived at the Marne River, the 15 expeditionary army began to build fortifications. When they were digging fortifications and cutting down trees, the nearby French would always look curiously at these short yellow people, always Give them a friendly smile.

Can you not be friendly, people come all the way to fight for them.

While cutting trees in the woods, a figure in the distance suddenly made Zhuang Fan stunned.

"Benzhuang, what's wrong with you!"

"That, that..."

Honjo Shigeru pointed to the distance and said.

"Bai... really, really white..."

"What's the truth?"

Oda Matsu looked in the direction he was looking, his eyes widened instantly, just like Honjo, he was also stunned.

"It's really white!"

It is indeed very white. I saw two French girls walking by the forest with a basket in the distance. Their blond hair glistened in the sun, and their skin was so white...as white as paper.

Whether it is in the African colonies or in the mainland of the empire, white is considered beautiful. Although this is about women, for an East African mixed race like Benzhuang, his complexion is darker than ordinary Japanese people, and slightly darker than coffee. It has faded a lot, and because of this, when he sees the white girl by the forest, he will be a little lost.

Perhaps the girls felt their staring eyes. The girls turned their heads to look at the forest, and saw hundreds of guys in khaki military uniforms in the forest looking at them. The girls were shy and showed their faces. smile.

"Haha, they are laughing at me!"

"Yes to me,"

"for me……"

For a while, the excited shouts in the woods merged into one group, and some people whistled boldly at them. When they were in Africa in the past, at most they only dared to whistle for the same coffee as them.

Listening to the whistle in the forest, the girls smiled coquettishly and quickened their pace, and then left. Even so, looking at the girls going away and their slender figures, Honjo Shige said solemnly.

"I made a decision!"

"what?"

"Go back and marry a French girl!"

"What? Are you dreaming? Will white people marry you? If they want to marry, they will marry a smart person like Chief Wang!"

"You do not understand!"

Rolling his eyes at Oda, Honjo said carelessly.

"For French girls, I'm also from Daming, haha, besides, I'm here to help them fight. After defeating the Germans and the British on the battlefield, we will be heroes in their eyes! You didn't read the novel Was it written on it? When His Majesty the Emperor led an expeditionary force to France, after they defeated the Prussians, there were French girls kissing them everywhere on the streets of Paris. When they returned home, there were tens of thousands of French girls Married to an imperial soldier..."

Listening to Honjo mentioning the past of the expeditionary army back then, Oda Matsu couldn't help yearning for a while, and muttered to himself.

"It's so white..."

"what?"

"I mean, we must fight the enemy bravely!"

Sometimes, people's dreams are very simple. For young people, they imagine personal glory and the glory of victory. Of course, they also imagine love.I imagined that a story like the love story of the expeditionary army in the novel could happen here.

But after fantasizing, they still have to face reality, the reality is that the enemy in front of them is twice as many as them.

"The trench must be deepened to 1.5 meters! Remember, it is two meters! Only a two-meter-deep trench can withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery. The enemy we have to face is twice as strong as us. If we want to stop them, we must Hold them back with the strongest trenches and field fortifications..."

Wang Youyu, who stood above the trench wall, was there, like other officers, constantly urging the soldiers to dig the trenches. After they arrived at the preset position, the soldiers were like gophers. On the front line, a defensive position with a depth of more than one kilometer was built, and in front of their position, there were a large number of obstacles composed of barbed wire and landmines.

While the soldiers were building the trenches, Zhou Ze, the commander of the expeditionary force, came to the front line, and he checked the trenches on purpose.

"The trench is 1.5 meters deep, plus the 2.1-centimeter-high parapet, the actual depth is 20 meters. There are anti-gun bunkers on the trench surface. Each bunker can accommodate a squad. There are double-layered wooden beams with a diameter of more than 1 cm on the top of the bunker. The wooden beams are covered with a [-]-meter-thick layer of earth, and there are drainage channels at the bottom. If the pumps are delivered on time, even if it rains heavily in summer, there will be no water accumulation in the trenches..."

They are all the standard fortification system of the Imperial Army. A one-meter-thick artillery hole can withstand the shelling of a 100mm field artillery. If it is larger, it will definitely not work, but most of the time, field troops will not have it. How many heavy guns over 100 mm.

In terms of the construction of the fortification system, the empire ranks among the top among all countries in the world. As early as when the world was still in the era of line formation, the empire began to study field fortifications, and then turned it into a science.

Nodding slightly, Zhou Ze said to himself.

"Pity……"

"what?"

"We have too few heavy artillery. Both defense and offense require a lot of heavy artillery, at least heavy mortars, but we are in the colony, and there are no heavy artillery at all, not even many heavy mortars... "

Because the war broke out very suddenly, the army from Africa did not replenish many heavy weapons at all, and many heavy weapons belonged to the French.But for the broken copper and iron in France, they don't look down on them at all.

Shaking his head helplessly, Zhou Ze glanced at the nearby soldiers. Many of them used Webster 100 rifles, which were the best shotguns, and proved to be the best sniper rifles in southern Africa. I don't know how many British people died under its guns.

But no matter how good a rifle is, it cannot replace a cannon!
cannon……

"Has the heavy artillery promised by the French arrived?"

When the chief of staff shook his head, Zhou Ze frowned, and then he said to himself.

"Then there is no way, we have to find a way..."

While talking to himself, Zhou Ze asked again.

"Has aerial reconnaissance determined where the Germans are from us?"

"Sir, it's about a day's journey."

"one day……"

Nodding his head, Zhou Ze pondered.

"Then let's get ready!"

(End of this chapter)