Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 351 Undeclared War
The Chinese New Year is almost here, and the city of Beijing is decorated with lights and festoons, creating a festive atmosphere.But in the Qianqing Palace's imperial meeting, there was a murderous atmosphere!

"So the British and French allied forces must be behind the scenes." Guan Xuqing's face was stern, and he held the two corners of the table with both hands, looking majestic.

"This matter is already very obvious. Our airship formation was only performing reconnaissance missions within the defensive territory of Epina, but the enemy blatantly invaded our control area and shot down four of our airships in one fell swoop. Except for the British and French allied forces Besides, who would dare to do such a thing." Although Xu Shichang's voice was heavy, the expression on his face was very flat.

Guan Xuqing was silent for a long time, and suddenly said to the trusted Minister of Culture, Yang Du: "Let the major domestic media report on this matter overnight, and the spearhead should be directed at the British and French allied forces." He then said to Wu Tingfang: "Tonight we will hold a Meetings with Chinese and foreign journalists to inform journalists from various countries of the matter.”

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Guan Xuqing's eyes flickered, and he said in a deep voice: "This matter is not a bad thing from the negative side, at least it creates an excuse for us to use force to mediate." Attack, the specific time is at your own discretion."

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After talking about this matter, Guan Xuqing breathed a sigh of relief, sat back on his throne, and said to Liu Buchan: "How is the construction of the aircraft carrier going?"

Liu Buchan took a few steps forward and said respectfully: "My Majesty, the progress is very smooth. The British and the Germans fought fiercely in the European battlefield. It seems that they are also competing with each other in this shipbuilding project. The level of shipbuilding is superior to the opponent. Armstrong Shipyard brought all the core technical experts in the UK to China, and invested huge sums of money to establish a Sino-British joint shipyard in Quanzhou, which is responsible for building the firepower and power systems of aircraft carriers. The Germans also Not to show weakness, Voltron Shipyard and Hamburg Shipyard simply transported domestic large-scale special-purpose machinery to Weihai, and established a forging factory for high-quality steel plates there. Now it seems that these shipyards are no longer just for the empire. When the reward comes, it gradually smells like fire."

Everyone who said something couldn't help but smile, and the tense atmosphere just now eased down immediately.

Guan Xuqing nodded in satisfaction: "This is the benefit of global bidding. If the order for the whole ship was given to them at the beginning, then not only would they not be under pressure, but they would find various reasons to bargain with us. If the contract is all It has been signed, if they dare to tear it up casually, or if the parts they manufacture fail to meet our requirements, they will have to pay huge liquidated damages, and those shrewd businessmen will of course have to redouble their efforts."

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At around four o'clock in the morning that night, on the cliff on the left side of the 193 highland in the Marne River Basin, the bitter north wind was blowing hard!

Guo Songling led fifty engineering special forces to climb up the cliff quietly and dig a hole on a vertical plane close to 90 degrees.

Guo Songling looked at his watch anxiously. More than 5 hours had passed, but it was hard to imagine the difficulty of working hard under such harsh conditions.

At this time, an engineer said in a low voice: "Report to the sir, all the holes have been drilled."

Guo Songling was startled suddenly, and said in a dry voice, "Fill the explosives right away!" Only then did he realize that his face had been frozen, and it was difficult for him to even speak.

After 5 minutes, the explosives were filled and placed. "Withdraw!" Guo Songling ordered in a low voice.

These people hammered the wire rope back to the ground and ran all the way to the designated place.Guo Songling reported to Zhang Zuolin by radio: "Everything is ready, request instructions!"

Zhang Zuolin's deep voice soon came from inside: "Explode immediately!"

"Yes!" Guo Songling looked at the cliff, and suddenly pressed the blasting air pressure lever. A few seconds later, there was a loud explosion at the other end of the long rope leading to the cliff. Scatter and fly!

Zhang Zuolin saw the flames lit by the explosion and the tremors of the ground at the Epina headquarters. He slapped his thigh happily, and then ordered Zou Zuohua to immediately launch an artillery attack on the forward positions of the British and French coalition forces.

Boom, boom, boom.

The heavy shelling lasted about half an hour in total.At five o'clock in the morning, the imperial cavalry launched the world's first blitzkrieg.

Under the cover of layers of artillery fire, more than 200 landship-class tanks gathered from all directions, and lined up in a neat queue to advance towards the Marne River Basin.Behind these tanks is a mobile team composed of 3 motorcycles.The fifty airships of the two airship formations took the lead in reaching the front of the enemy's position and carried out carpet bombing.The infantry of the three reorganized divisions of the [-]rd Imperial Cavalry Army advanced towards the Aina River area layer by layer. Their task was to consolidate the area occupied by the armored forces after the armored forces broke through the opponent's defensive positions.

The third division under the command of Zhang Zongchang was responsible for the first assault. First, it had to lay a wedge five kilometers long and three kilometers wide against the defense line of the British and French troops in the area between the Aine River and the Marne River.To the west of Sossons, cross the Asni River, and then advance towards the Kang Sai, aiming at the Aisi River.

Under the command of Liao Zhong, the Second Infantry Division first broke through the defense line of the French border and advanced straight to the small town of Rogent.

The No.20 Infantry Division was under the command of Tang Yulin, and their task was to occupy the Great Morin River Basin, and then cross the Great Morin River and advance directly to Paris.

The No.20 Third Infantry Division, directly under the Imperial Iron Cavalry, followed the third division as the main attack.

In just two hours, Zhang Zongchang's Third Division had made countless gaps in the northern defense line of the British and French troops, and their fronts were directed at Montion and Maux, the important towns in eastern France.

This large-scale blitzkrieg completely confused the British and French allied forces. They had never seen such surprising weapons and equipment and new tactics, so that the progress of the imperial cavalry in various places was very rapid.Except for Liao Zhong's 200nd Infantry Division, which encountered tenacious resistance from the French in the GIA fortification area, most of the troops broke through the multi-line defense system built by Britain and France on the first day of the war.The airship formation also defeated the airship cluster from the hinterland of France within three hours of the war, and firmly controlled the battlefield air supremacy of the Marne River.During the air strike on the Marne Airship Base at [-]:[-] in the morning, a total of more than [-] Chinese airships took turns.Dozens of airships deployed on the two airship bases here were blown up on the ground before they could take off. What's worse, the number of these airships already accounted for more than one-third of the total number of French large airships.

At this time, Paris, the capital of France, was already in chaos.Chinese airships flew over this ancient city in twos and threes, dropping bombs from time to time. Although no serious damage was caused, the whole city was thrown into panic.The French Army High Command was even more chaotic. Everyone was busy shouting and screaming. The constant reminder of the transmitter and scolding mixed with the sound of bomb explosions made the place extremely chaotic.

(End of this chapter)