Rise of Australia

Chapter 388 Bloody Battle on the Marne River
When the French Sixth Army couldn't stand it and asked the French General Command for help, there was a serious problem in France's logistics.

The Urk River position is very important, and the French General Command also urgently mobilized an elite division of troops, took a train to Paris, and prepared to go to support the Sixth Army.

But the problem is that there is still a distance of more than 60 kilometers from Paris to the front line. If you rely on walking, it will take at least two days to reach the front line.

But war waits for no one. If the Sixth Army really had to wait two days before seeing reinforcements, the war would have already been lost.

In order to urgently transport this division to the front, the French General Staff thought of a creative proposal, which was to requisition all the taxis in Paris and use them to transport troops.

In fact, the French army also has military trucks, but most of these trucks are responsible for logistics transportation, that is, the transportation of weapons, equipment and resources.

If these trucks are urgently called, it will take a certain amount of time to collect a large number of trucks, and the arrival will affect the material supply and logistical supplies of all frontline troops.

And requisitioning a Paris taxi is clearly a better option.Anyway, they are all vehicles, so it is no problem to transport troops.

What's more, the requisition of taxis in Paris affects the traffic in Paris at most.For the victory of the French War, it is only natural for the citizens of Paris to make some contributions.

Thanks to the development of French industry and economy, as the capital of France, Paris has thousands of taxis.

After the French General Command issued the order to requisition all taxis, in just half an hour, more than 600 taxis of various types went to the designated location, and General Gallieni, who saw this feat, couldn't help but burst into tears , said excitedly and loudly: "Look, what an extraordinary thing this is!"

The taxi drivers in Paris were so excited to be able to contribute to the defense of their country in this way, they chose to put down all the passengers immediately, and proudly explained: "Sorry sir, I am going to war."

And most of those passengers would understandably say: "It's okay, it's for France."

In just one night, thousands of taxis ran back and forth twice, transporting nearly 6000 soldiers from an infantry division to the front line 60 kilometers away.

This also allowed the Sixth Army led by Monuri to receive reinforcements when it was about to collapse, temporarily stabilizing its position.

Compared with Xiafei's excessive attention to the battlefield, the attitude of the German chief of staff, Mao Qi, is completely opposite.

After assigning tasks to the various armies, Xiao Maoqi did not intervene, but sat firmly in the staff headquarters.

What's more terrible is, what is the situation on the front line, especially how is the progress of the First Army?Did you execute the order smoothly?Little Moqi didn't know anything.

Although Mao Qi sent his intelligence chief, Lieutenant Colonel Hans, as a plenipotentiary representative, to the various armies to understand the implementation of the order.

But the problem is, how can a small lieutenant colonel command the high-ranking commander-in-chief of the group army without Xiao Maoqi?

Lieutenant Colonel Hans' ability is indeed not low. Not only did he see the problems that the First Army is currently showing, but he also urged the commander of the First Army, Crook, to carry out the order of Little Moltke, to detour to the north bank of the Marne River, and to cooperate with the Second Army. Cooperate with action.

But Crook did not realize the seriousness of the matter, and believed that the possible French attack was just an auxiliary operation, the purpose was only to cover the retreat of the troops and cross the Seine.

By the time the First Army found Joffre's order from a prisoner of war, the Battle of the Marne had already begun, and it was too late for Crook to regret it.

It is worth mentioning that at the beginning of the war, the First Army was controlled by Pilov.

But since the war entered a fierce state, Pilov no longer controlled the First Army, but let the First Army act on its own.

But because of Xiao Maoqi's attitude of inaction, the First Army, which was supposed to return to the management of the German High Command, became a real autonomous action, which led to Crook's blind arrogance and the situation of the First Army. danger.

In order to deal with the danger he faced, Crook ordered the Third Army and Ninth Army in the southern section to rush to the Volker River to participate in the battle. Only two cavalry divisions were left in the southern section to resist the British army.

Crook's blind decision directly put the right wing of the Second Army behind the First Army in greater danger.

Originally, these two armies were responsible for covering the right wing of the second army. After they withdrew, they wanted the right wing of the army to be exposed directly, and they also completely opened the distance between the first army and the second army.

Faced with such a stupid operation by the Germans, the morale of the French army greatly increased, and the charge became more courageous.

Battle of the Urque, a tributary of the Marne.

"For France, attack!"

A French officer with a command knife drew his saber, pointed it in the direction of the enemy, and shouted loudly for the soldiers to attack.

A minute ago, the French artillery had just bombarded the enemy's position. As soon as the sound of the artillery went out, the commander of the army couldn't wait to launch an offensive.

Unlike those officers who are greedy for life and fear of death, after shouting to charge, the French officers rushed up first, followed by groups of French soldiers.

Obviously, the officer's heroic actions also affected all his men. This scene was staged everywhere in the French Sixth Army, and it also made the French army's charge extremely violent.

It's a pity that the airships in this area have long been shot down, and the planes have left the battlefield due to exhaustion of fuel.

Otherwise, you can see from the perspective of God that the densely packed French soldiers are rushing towards the German positions like a tide.

Although many black spots stayed down during the charge, more black spots rushed up.

On the other side of the French army is the German First Army in full battle.

The good news is that most of the German First Army are elite soldiers, and their combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the opposite French army.

But the bad news is that the soldiers of the First Army were already exhausted after a long march.

Coupled with the increasing distance between the First Army and the Second Army and the German General Command, some of the logistics supplies of the First Army have been insufficient.

Exhaustion, lack of logistics, and double debuffs made a strong army like the German army exhausted, and its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

Da da da!Clap clap!
The seemingly orderly firing from both sides was actually just a lot of gunfire overlapping.

Some French soldiers ended their short career as soldiers before they even had time to fire a shot.

Yes, so far since the war started, French casualties have already reached six figures.

Coupled with the implementation of the domestic mobilization order, this also led to a large number of conscripts on the French front, that is, new recruits who have not been trained.

But there is no way, countries including Germany cannot guarantee that their millions of troops are all elite veterans.

In order to prevent the army from reducing its combat effectiveness due to too many recruits, it is necessary to either increase more rigorous training for the recruits, or to keep some elite troops as much as possible.

Of course, there is another quicker and crueler method, which is to let these new recruits practice on the battlefield, and after experiencing life and death a few times, they will smoothly become veterans who have experienced many battles.

This is basically the case in Germany and France at the moment. After a few weeks of training, conscripts can step into the battlefield with their own weapons and equipment and enjoy their short but long soldier career.

The charge of the French army was repelled wave after wave, but this still could not stop the French army one step.

In just over an hour, the Sixth Army had moved forward to a distance of nearly 200 meters, and the German position on the opposite side was already visible to the naked eye.

Of course, in order to achieve such results, the Sixth Army has so far lost an entire division, and the number of casualties is still increasing.

Although the German army was exhausted visible to the naked eye, the Maxim heavy machine gun, a powerful weapon, played an irreplaceable role in offensive and defensive warfare.

Most of the casualties of the French army were caused by the Maxim machine gun, and only a small part came from the enemy's artillery bombardment and rifles.

As for the German army, the weapon that France can cause the most casualties to the German army is artillery. This is not only because German soldiers are located in the built positions, which are safer in offensive and defensive warfare.

It is also because many French soldiers were killed before the first shot was fired, and the recruits were forced to leave the battlefield as soon as they entered the battlefield.

The suppression of the firepower of the Maxim heavy machine gun quickly repelled the French soldiers who were about to approach the German positions.

No matter how brave the French soldiers are, in front of such a powerful weapon, they can only send food one after another.

General Gallieni watched his subordinates fall under the enemy's machine guns one after another, furious, and quickly ordered the orderly next to him: "Let all the artillery fire at the enemy's machine gun positions immediately, don't worry about the artillery, first Let’s talk about killing the enemy’s machine gun positions.”

At the beginning of the war, the main target of French artillery was German artillery.However, judging from the current situation, the damage caused by German artillery is less than one-third of that of the German machine gun positions. It is conceivable which position will be destroyed first.

Under the suppression of the artillery, the German machine guns did not dare to show their heads easily.After all, France is equipped with a large number of French ladies who are famous for their rate of fire. As long as the German machine gun positions are exposed, they will face the bombing of at least a dozen artillery pieces.

Even if the accuracy of these shells is not very good, and the number is large, there are still relatively lucky positions that have been baptized by artillery fire.

After the German machine guns shrank, the frontal pressure on the French army was greatly reduced.

Seeing the reduced firepower of the Germans, the French commanders' eyes lit up one after another, and they issued orders hoarsely: "Charge!"

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