Chapter 470 Sacrifice a Generation
Chapter 470 Sacrifice a Generation
"Long live! Long live!"
Without complaints or dissatisfaction, the sailors cheered collectively when they saw His Majesty William I appear, obeyed orders gladly, and went ashore to become infantry.
William I was the founding emperor. He enjoyed unparalleled prestige in the minds of the Germans, and his ability to control his subordinates had reached its peak.
William I waved to the loyal soldiers, his heart filled with pride. With such loyal soldiers, what worries him?
"boom!"
William I covered his chest with his hands, blood flowing out from between his fingers. His Majesty's face was full of disbelief, and he fell down slowly with great reluctance.
My grand ambition to unify Europe——
The soldiers were furious. Who was it? Who dared to assassinate our beloved Majesty? !
The shooting came from the group of sailors in front, and the person who fired the shot was quickly picked out by the soldiers around him.
"Long live the Emperor! Long live Ireland! Long live the Fenian Society!"
The brave warrior who assassinated the German emperor was fearless and shouted out his beliefs, but was torn to pieces by the angry soldiers.
The German Emperor was assassinated while inspecting the port of Kiel to appease the sailors. This bombshell news quickly surpassed the decisive battle on the Western Front and the turbulent situation in Daxia, and became the headline of major newspapers around the world.
The assassin was spontaneously executed on the spot by the loyal soldiers of King William I, but the clues were not broken. The assassin knew he would die before the assassination and left a suicide note.
His wife, like Jessica's sister, is a red-haired Irishwoman of French descent. Influenced by his wife, he is a loyal fan of the French emperor.
Because the German Vulture Squadron attacked members of the Spanish royal family, Emperor Alfonso of France issued a kill order against the German Emperor. The French fan hidden among the German sailors resolutely responded to the French Emperor's call.
When reporters interviewed Alfonso I, he was very emotional and did not regret the kill order he issued.
"The German army brazenly attacked the airship that my sister and nephew were riding on. This is a shameless act that goes against the spirit of nobility."
"The Germans had previously used napalm to bomb major cities in Britain, setting off a process of mutual bombing of civilians, which is something only criminals would do."
"May the soul of the assassin who was loyal to me ascend to heaven, Amen."
The French Emperor publicly took responsibility for the assassination of the German Emperor and strengthened his own security.
The two sides fought to the death on the battlefield, and millions of young men had died. The feud between Germany and France had long been irreconcilable, so this one thing was not a big deal.
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"Boom! Boom!"
Bombers with bald eagles painted on their wings kept dropping incendiary bombs. The battlefield was filled with thick smoke and the smell of barbecue.
The airship was hanging high in the sky, the Krupp cannon was roaring, and the angry German soldiers rushed towards the enemy positions with MP18 submachine guns. What followed was a life-and-death duel in the trenches.
The Maxim machine gun spewed out tongues of fire, and then the flamethrower bravely approached and sprayed burning gasoline into the bunker, and the machine gun instantly silenced.
A grenade exploded next to the flamethrower, and the flamethrower immediately turned into a bright torch.
Here is the banks of the Marne River, where the German army launched a new campaign - the Champagne-Marne Offensive.
Even after King William I was assassinated, Marshal Moltke was still carrying out the late emperor's will and launching a fierce attack on the Western Front.
Having lost their great leader, King William I, the young men in the German army were extremely angry. They all became fearless fighters and became even more brave on the battlefield.
In addition, the German army had made sufficient preparations for the Western Front offensive. The purchased and self-produced bombers were not used in large numbers, but stored until they had accumulated an astonishing number of 3,000.
The German army instantly gained air superiority, and even if the British and French anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft artillery could shoot down a few bombers, it would not affect the overall situation.
Within a month, the German army won successive victories in the Somme Offensive, the Lys Offensive, and the Aisne Offensive, and now reached the Marne River, only 12 kilometers away from Paris.
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Paris, where there is no more singing and dancing, no more fashion and salons, when the crisis of national extinction comes, the French finally wake up. All the French who can fight rush to the front line to fight against the German invaders. Everywhere in Paris, passionate songs are sung, "This is the final struggle——"
The war took place in northern France, which is famous for its many schools, students and professors. Now, under the passionate sentiment of defending the motherland, the intellectuals took up guns and went to the battlefield. The number of primary school teachers who died on the front line of the Marne River alone reached 7000.
What did this mean? The French education system collapsed. After the war, France had lost most of its highly educated elite.
France has lost an entire generation...
But they had no choice. If they didn't fight, the country would perish.
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On the Marne River front, the former commander of the Fifth Army, Frederick III, who was appointed to the throne as the German Emperor, had red eyes.
His father had absolute prestige in Germany. As the crown prince, he never thought of ascending the throne to replace his father. However, the evil French actually assassinated his father. This feud is irreconcilable.
Before this, all the strategic goals of the German army were to eliminate Britain's dominant position and replace it, so all the air forces were used to bomb the British mainland.
Seeing that France was about to be destroyed, the new German emperor gave the order without hesitation, "Bomb Paris!"
Thousands of bombers took off with a buzzing roar, Paris was ablaze, and countless exquisite buildings were reduced to ashes. Things that Shao Quanzhong had not dared to destroy in Paris, the German army was now destroying without hesitation.
On the banks of the Marne River, the resistance of the British and French coalition forces was extremely strong. Soldiers from India were driven into the trenches and were quickly consumed, and the combat effectiveness of the French army was suddenly greatly enhanced.
The two sides were in a stalemate over a distance of only twelve kilometers, and the German army was unable to advance an inch.
In just one week, the fighting on the Marne River cost both sides more than one million lives.
Handsome German young men, French intellectuals who had received many years of education, and even illiterate Indian cannon fodder from Delhi and Mumbai all fell silently in the trenches.
In the flames of war, all living beings are equal. This unjust war caused by the struggle for hegemony among imperialist countries is still devouring the lives of countless innocent people.
"Let the Austro-Hungarians and Italians on both wings contribute! We can't always rely on the German army."
"Your Majesty, they don't have the fighting spirit of the German army. They are lucky to be able to protect the two wings. Now too many casualties have caused the morale of the soldiers of both countries to be unstable. We have also tried our best."
Faced with the response from Schlieffen, the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, Frederick III had no solution but to attack fiercely.
On January 1878, 1, the war had been going on for nearly four years.
France "sacrificed a generation" to stop the invading army on the banks of the Marne River. The German, Austrian and Italian coalition forces stopped 12 kilometers north of Paris. Victory was within sight, but both sides were still fighting desperately.
"Report, one million American troops are docked at Le Havre and are disembarking. The vanguard has reached Rouen."
The arrival of one million fresh troops greatly boosted the morale of the British and French forces.
"The latest fighters and bombers have been delivered to the port of Nantes."
Two days later, dense swarms of British and French planes occupied the sky, and a large-scale air battle began above the Marne River. The sky was filled with white flowers, and planes kept crashing down.
The positions of the German, Italian and Austrian troops were also bombed with napalm bombs.
On the 19th, the tanks of the US vanguard launched a surprise attack on the Italian puppet troops guarding the flank. Suddenly, one million Italian troops collectively rebelled and announced their joining of the Allied Powers.
On the eastern flank, the Austro-Hungarian generals who were instigated by a certain brother rebelled on the battlefield, and 500,000 Austro-Hungarian troops turned their guns on the German army.
Two million exhausted German troops were suddenly surrounded by 5.5 million troops from Britain, France, the United States, Italy and Austria.
On the 20th, the besieged German Emperor Frederick III announced his defeat and surrender.
In Frankfurt, the Rothschild brothers got the news first, opened champagne, and toasted, "Everything is as we wished, the European war will end soon."
(End of this chapter)