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Chapter 1432 The Failure of Earl Schlieffen (Part [-], please subscribe)

The howling sound of shrapnel, like the scream of death, echoed in the gunpowder smoke, and the whole earth was shrouded in gunpowder smoke. In the suffocating gunpowder smoke, there were desperate screams everywhere.

The desperate and miserable screams will stop abruptly in the next round of explosions. In the end, there seems to be only the sound of continuous explosions left between the sky and the earth.

Death shrouded the earth, shrouded everything in the world!
From the afternoon of May 5rd, the god of death shrouded the land of France. The airship troops launched silent attacks on the marching German and British coalition forces several times. The saturated carpet bombing dealt a blow to the marching army without any defense. is almost destructive.

And for the German troops in it, what did they feel?

is death!
death!

It's a death march!
Erich von Ludendorff, who had rolled into the field during the bombardment, saw the regimental commander convulsing on the ground, the splinters had broken his arteries, blood was spraying from his throat like mist, his Covering his neck with his hands, the leader twitched all over, and died in a short while.

The scene in front of him completely overturned Ludendorff's imagination of the war. He was appreciated by Schlieffen when he joined the general staff and participated in the revision of Schlieffen's plan. It was he who even proposed to destroy Belgium's neutrality and flank France. , and defeated its battle plan in one fell swoop.

In Ludendorff's view, if you want to win a war, you must do whatever it takes.

After the outbreak of the war, he was sent down to "gild". In Ludendorff's view, this is a war destined to be won, and everyone will get their own military merits from this war.

But now?
"Boom! Boom!"

The explosion broke Ludendorff's thoughts. He saw a group of running soldiers suddenly engulfed by balls of flames and gunpowder smoke, and then they disappeared just like that...

An ammunition truck parked on the road was detonated by a bomb. In the violent explosion, the flames soared into the sky. In the burning flames, there were continuous explosions like firecrackers. The ignited bullet warheads flew around... …

bombing!

After the intensive bombing ended, the airships lowered to the bottom again, and then they strafed towards the ground in the air less than a kilometer from the ground, and the rain of bullets from the sky knocked down pieces of German soldiers to the ground Well, for those who survived the bombing by chance, after the large-caliber bullet hits the human body, it can even tear those unlucky guys in two.

But in just a short while, the earth has completely become a veritable slaughterhouse. The airships in the sky are dropping small bombs one after another. Compared with heavy aerial bombs, these small bombs weigh only 1 to [-] kilograms, not only have a large killing radius , can produce a large number of fragments, and because of the large number, it is enough to form a covering bombing effect.

In the saturation bombing, hundreds of thousands of small bombs, like hundreds of thousands of shells falling one after another, blasted the exposed German army to pieces.

One hour!
The bombing lasted for an entire hour!
After the bombing was over, there were corpses everywhere, and the wounded struggling and crying among the piles of corpses could be seen everywhere.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Ludendorff felt a sense of despair for the first time.

……

How many people died?
How many people died in the bombing?
Ludendorff didn't know, and he didn't even care about it at all. For him, it didn't matter.

When there are no wounded soldiers to drag the wounded soldiers out to help treat those wounded.There was only one thought left in Ludendorff's mind - what to do now?
Looking at the airship far away, Ludendorff kept talking to himself.

"What to do now, what to do now?"

The stumps and broken arms that can be seen everywhere seem to remind Ludendorff that they cannot reach the scheduled location as scheduled under the bombing of the French.

"If we don't arrive on schedule, then there is a good chance we will fail..."

When this idea came to Ludendorff's mind, in a forest only tens of kilometers away from the border, on a train, Count Schlieffen immediately screamed when he received a telegram from the front line road.

"How could this be?"

Then, as if he had figured it out again, he muttered to himself.

"Well, it should be like this..."

The reason why Earl Schlieffen had such a reaction could not be simpler, because as early as during the "Battle of Brazil", the army led by Prince Gaston of Brazil lost more than 25% of the army in the bombing. The wandering army was completely destroyed before even reaching the front line.

It was also from that time that air defense must be considered in the army's combat plan.In the combat plan formulated by Earl Schlieffen, Germany needs to invest more than 180 combat airships for field air defense, and each division of the German army has a balloon gun company.

At least, according to previous exercises, with such a powerful air defense force, they can ignore air threats.

But, now... everything has changed because of the appearance of the plane.

"Count, planes, Ming's planes have turned our airships into targets. As long as our airships are in the air, they will be destroyed. Therefore, the troops do not have any air cover during the march. It is also difficult to deploy..."

This is the technical gap!

Earl Schlieffen sighed helplessly, and now he seems to have realized that his plan has failed.

How did it fail?
Definitely not a tactical failure, even until now Count Schlieffen thought his plan was perfect.

What caused the failure of the operation?
It is technically backward!
"If we had tens of thousands of trucks and planes, maybe the outcome of this battle would be very different."

Why did Earl Schlieffen let out such a long sigh?
It is because Germany does not have enough trucks to allow the army to march fast, and the speed of the army meets the needs of tactics, so his plan can only rely on trains and soldiers' legs, and most of the time, they can only rely on their legs.

As for airplanes... the appearance of airplanes also changed too many things.

Although he was very annoyed, Earl Schlieffen knew that now was not the time to regret. Since the war had already broken out, the only thing left was to carry the war to the end until victory.

"Fifth Army..."

After thinking about it, Earl Schlieffen, who realized that he had lost his chance, said.

"Order the Fifth Army to retreat! Retreat to the front line of Verdun, we still have a chance to regroup. The British are sending their troops, and we still have a chance..."

When he said this, Earl Schlieffen didn't even notice that he was repeatedly emphasizing the British, as if he wanted to use this to convince himself.

In fact, deep down in his heart, he knew very well that once he lost the opportunity in the war, there would be many uncertainties in the future.

In war, the chance of victory may be fleeting. Once this opportunity is missed, when will the next chance be?

No one can tell the reason, but the most important thing at this time is to preserve strength instead of making unnecessary sacrifices!
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(End of this chapter)