This small town has no important military value. Its only military value is a small bridge on the Loire River and a point on the defense line of the Loire River by the British and French Coalition forces.
If the heavy troops like the Germans were replaced, they would not choose this breakthrough point because the traffic here is not very convenient. Even if the town of Suli is captured and the bridge is successfully occupied, the traffic volume is very limited. Coupled with the surrounding traffic restrictions, there is no way for the troops to quickly cross the river to show their strength. The British and French Coalition forces can blow up this only bridge before the enemy arrives
But for the Chinese Communist Youth League, it is just right here! Because the Chinese regiment is a light force, it doesn’t need much convenient transportation and has super fighting capacity. An infantry division can be worth an army regiment of the British and French allied forces. An infantry division crossing the Loire River from here can directly threaten Orleans and Montague in the rear, and the traffic between them will be cut off. Since then, United Orleans has become an isolated city surrounded by the Chinese regiment and the Germans.
When Hu Congfu, the commander of the 11th Division, led a regiment of troops to Xuli Town, the British and French troops stationed on the south bank of the Loire River blew up the bridge over the river and withdrew to the north bank, so that Hu Congfu and his brothers who came from afar had to look at the residual piers on the river and sigh at the river.
Hu Congfu was scolded by Zhang Yiping a few days ago, and he felt wronged and had nowhere to vent. When he saw a military operation coming in person, he would have a good fight, but he didn’t expect to hit cotton with one fist, which made him feel even more angry and vented his chest.
Hu Congfu raised his rifle and aimed at the other side of the river, but the Loire River is 200 meters wide, and the distance between the defenders and the river is at least 400 meters. Although Hu Congfu is a senior gunman, he feels very good about shooting, but he is not sure to hit the target 400 meters away, and there is not even a figure on the opposite side. Everyone in Britain and France knows that China is a good marksman, so he buried his head in a ditch and let Hu Congfu fight.
Hu Congfu finally put away his rifle. There was a fire in his heart, but he couldn’t shoot at the sky at random, because Zhang Yiping said that a gunman would see blood unless he trained to go out and shoot, or he would be sorry for your gun!
For a gunman, Zhang Yiping dialect is the golden rule, and what’s more important is that Zhang Yiping’s words are right on the spot, and they have never been violated in their life since they were pregnant.
Hu Congfu shouted at the surging river, "I’m so angry …"
Running from behind, one of the two riders shouted, "Who is angry with Premier Hu? No! It’s not Premier Hu Xiong’s chief of staff. What word did you say’ total’ was less? "
It was Qu Weisheng, the commander of the 15th division, and Xiong Zhihui, the chief of staff of the division. When Qu Weisheng took up the war as a staff officer, Hu Congfu always bickered and quarreled, and he never stopped stumbling.
Xiong Zhihui replied, "Isn’t the word’ total’ less just a word’ generation’?"
"Yes, it’s a substitute for the word" Dai ".Qu Weisheng deliberately teased Hu Congfu that the substitute was very heavy.
Hu Congfu wanted to become a regular teacher of the 11th Division, but being taught a lesson by Zhang Yiping has become the whole legion. This has become a joke of Qu Weisheng, the teachers of these infantry divisions. When they meet, they always ridicule two strange words, blaming Hu Congfu, who has no popularity and offends people more than everyone wants to retaliate against him.
"Agent Hu, what makes you so angry?" Qu Weisheng asked, "Is it another question of acting teachers becoming full members? I said, don’t be angry. Why don’t we just change one? I’ll be the acting teacher of the 11 th division and you’ll be the regular teacher of the 15 th division. "
"You want to be beautiful. Our 11 other disciples are all senior gunmen, and all of them have developed into turtles." Hu Congfu said.
"We won’t change people. Although your turtles are powerful, I can’t bear to part with my brothers. How about changing a serial number and it won’t change at all, so you can become a full-fledged official?" Qu Weisheng said, "Since then, no one has ever called you agent Hu. Because Zhang is the commander of the 11th division, he is not interested in the 15th division."
"You want to have a beautiful niche born 11 division is the first division to you? Over my dead body! Acting as an agent is just a word difference from the prime minister. I like it very much! If we want to return the 11th division, we are willing to be an agent for a generation, "Hu Congfu said.
Qu Weisheng shrugged his shoulders and said naively, "Since you think so, I can help you. It’s a pity! “
Hu Congfu Niu’s eyes turned suddenly and said, "I can switch with you to see if you have anything!" "
"What do you want to do? Do you want to compete with me?" Qu Weisheng said warily, "This turtle * * you are the first commander in chief of a generation of gun kings who are willing to worship the wind."
Of course, this means ridicule, but Hu Congfu doesn’t care that he doesn’t recognize his tortoise. What’s not necessarily because this tortoise is really a good practice?
Zhang Yiping once told him that no matter whether the tortoise or the king can solve the problem, it is a good tortoise. Wang Hu Congfu is never afraid of others’ ridicule, because he is defeated by others.
"I can beat you even more than having a baby, except for lip service!" Hu Congfu said contemptuously
"Will you have children?" Xiong Zhihui asked in surprise.
"No, but Xiaoshengsheng won’t take ten thousand steps back. If we can all have children, he can’t give birth to me with his small body!" Hu Congfu said
"At the end of the day, the most important thing is that when the commander-in-chief comes, he will come to me and make a fuss … Hum!" Hu Congfu held out his right little finger and gestured, "Even the little finger is not as big as this booger …"
"How about I compare it with you?" Qu Wei gave birth to a horse and turned his back on the tiger. He walked over and put an arm around Qu Wei’s shoulder. Qu Wei hurriedly hid and said, "The commander-in-chief of the horse is coming, so let your troops look like this mess?" Is it all the way? "
Hu Congfu ran too fast by himself, and at this time, his 11 normal university troops were pulling a long line. Qu Weisheng came to wake him up.
"What commander-in-chief is coming again? Come on, it’s just a small town. His old man can call with a gun. Then what are we doing here?"
"In addition to the 11 th Division and the 15 th Division, there are nearly 100,000 military commanders of the three divisions of the old frame Liu Dapao Artillery Division. How can you not come?" Qu Weisheng said
"Maybe there are more than three divisions," Xiong Zhihui said. "Although this is a small town, it is the best entry point for the Battle of Orleans. It takes seven inches to hit the snake. This may be seven inches in Orleans! The people in the General Staff of the Legion always have a stroke of genius, and every time it makes people amazing, I am afraid this time is no exception. "
"I don’t care what your stinking pens are. I’m going to pack up my troops!" Hu Congfu turned and ran away.
Zhang Yiping came to the front line of Suli town in the evening. As soon as he arrived in Malaysia, he called three teachers and ordered the artillery divisions and artillery regiments belonging to each division to take turns to show shelling overnight, but did not ask the infantry to show their attack.
Hu Congfu would have been impatient. If it had not been Zhang Yiping, Qu Weiqing or Jiang Fangzhen, he would have growled. But even Zhang Yiping shouted loudly, "Why not attack? There are only one or two infantry divisions on the opposite side of the shore. If I can cross the river, I can kill them. "
"You will also say,’ I want you to be able to cross the river’. Now the question is how do you cross the river? Swim over? Being strafed by enemy machine guns halfway, making the brothers’ blood red all over the Loire River? " Zhang Yiping sneered, "Or take a deep breath in your arms and touch a big stone from the bottom of the river?"
"It’s a good idea to touch the bottom of the river!" Hu Congfu actually thinks this is a good idea. "That commander-in-chief really wakes up a few wrong people. Our 11th Division is the most famous turtle * *, which means that you can hold your breath and hold a stone in your arms, and you can definitely touch it from the bottom of the river." Hu Congfu said.
Zhang Yiping said shamefully, "Don’t you understand my irony? How long is your brain? "
"I’m serious. I think it’s a try! The Englishman and the French on the other side will never think that we will come from the bottom of the water and will be able to catch them off guard and make the tortoise famous from now on! "
"You know nothing!" Zhang Yiping see him more say more strong finish seriously just scold a way "do you know what is the river speed? How deep and wide is the water? Is there an undercurrent at the bottom of the river? Will people be washed away by the current? How long does it take to cross the river bottom? How long can your soldier hold his breath? How do you carry your weapons and ammunition? These are all scientific data, and you can’t be careless. You can’t talk nonsense here without experiments and investigations. "
"Without the experiment, I’ll do the experiment. Without the investigation, I’ll investigate. You said that the method is always more difficult. I believe that if I want to do something, I will be able to do it …"
Chapter 362 The Battle of Orleans (45)
Whether Pershing, the commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Force, or Fuxi, the commander-in-chief of the Lyon Coalition Forces, and Plummer, the commander-in-chief of the French Army and the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, are all paying attention to the progress of Sully Town!
What they are most concerned about is not the gains and losses of Xuli Town, but whether the attack mode of the Chinese Communist Youth League has really changed.
European troops have been fighting in trenches and wars of attrition. Chinese regiments rarely use frontal battles with high damage rate, showing flexible and diverse military strategies, which are often surprisingly successful and have remarkable effects. Unlike British, French and German regiments, which lose a few divisions or even dozens of divisions in each battle, Chinese regiments have a low casualty rate, but the number of enemy troops they destroy is several times, ten times or even dozens of times higher than their casualties.
In the first stage of the battle, the Chinese regiment almost wiped out the Second Army of the American Expedition because of a successful detour tactic.
However, at present, three divisions of the * * regiment attacked a point on the Loire River and made a desperate attack gesture. The style of the * * regiment before the war was out of line, which caused the generals of the American, French and British * * teams to pay abnormal attention.
How eager they are for Zhang Yiping, a member of the Chinese Communist Youth League, to suddenly become fatuous and fight trench warfare and war of attrition face to face with them! Because of this, it is possible for them to eliminate the Chinese Communist Youth League.
The Loire River is deep and wide. It is necessary to break through the defense line of the Loire River of the Anglo-French Coalition forces. Even the Chinese regiment will pay a huge casualty price. Zhang Yiping’s style is absolutely not to do so, but it does not rule out that Zhang Yiping won’t be able to attack the Chinese regiment. If so, the Chinese regiment will come to an end.
The best way to wipe them out is to fight a war of attrition with the Chinese Communist Youth League. Now Zhang Yiping is taking the initiative to fight a war of attrition. How can this not be in the arms of the allied generals? It is no wonder that the allied generals stayed up all night and waited for it.
Just at night, the * * group fire roared.
The artillery position behind the town of Suli is simply a surging sea shell, and the flames are flying like waves. The shells are flying like meteors and flames, flying over the beautiful Loire River at night, and the positions of the British and French allied forces burst into flames, causing continuous flames to illuminate the town.
There are also shells falling into the residential buildings on the north shore of the town, which are instantly flattened and blown to pieces. Masonry, rubble and sediment fly around like a downpour.
On the other side, the British and French Coalition forces also fought back in time, but the artillery scale and caliber were far apart from each other.
The artillery division of the Chinese * * regiment captured many 155 mm heavy artillery pieces of the US military, and it was like the sky was cracking.
The help newspaper quickly went to the rear headquarters.
There is a huge map hanging on the wall of the Lyon Coalition headquarters, and there is a huge sand table in the wide hall. The staff officer is holding a long push rod and pointing out the sand table to reflect the changes of the frontline military situation truthfully.
Fuxi, Baker and plummer are sitting next to the sand table. They are frowning, gaunt, bearded and fluffy, and their eyes are fixed on the small town on the Loire River in the sand table.
Although the town of Suli is an indispensable point in the defense line of the Loire River, this time the information reflected by it in other aspects is more important than its military status, because there are signs that the town of the regiment will change its normal state and cross the Loire River.
Fuxi, Baker and Plummer can’t figure out how the Chinese regiment crossed the Loire River without storming. Unless they are really magical or can fly, but that’s impossible.
The change of the fighting style of the Chinese Communist Youth League will affect the military strategy of the Chinese Communist Youth League. Fuxi, Baker and Plummer unanimously decided to ask the frontline commanders in Orleans to report the information of Xuli Town in real time, but in fact they have taken over the combat command of Xuli Town, which is very rare.
The garrison in Suli town asked for the support report to be sent directly to Fuxi. He took a look and handed it out, but he didn’t know who to show it to first.
Although Fuxi is the Commander-in-Chief of the Agreement, France’s Petain is the marshal of the French team, and Plummer is the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, although he is not his immediate commander. This has always been the case in Europe. Nowadays, France is on the decline, and the military strength or national strength is far less than that of Britain, so Britain needs help, especially at this time. How dare Fuxi not mind plummer’s feelings?
Plummer saw that Fuxi had some hesitation. The horse reached out and took it, but he didn’t look at it himself, but handed it to Baker nearby. His moving horse won the favor of Fuxi and Baker.
"Two respected generals, Xuli Town, are being hit by unprecedented artillery fire. The defenders are worried that the * * regiment will start a battle to cross the river overnight. They want to increase their troops. Do you think they should agree to their demands?"
Baker handed plummer his hands after reading the newspaper and said with a frown, "The Chinese regiment always likes to fight at night. They once boasted that night is their day. I think they will definitely launch a river crossing war overnight, which is in line with their fighting habits!"
Fuxi and Baker turned their eyes to Plummer. Plummer pondered and said, "China * * unites three divisions, besides an artillery division, there is also an 11 th division, which is known as the most attacking infantry division of China * * regiment. In front of such troops, we should strengthen the defense there and quickly discuss whether China * * regiment is a storm or a steal."
"The question is where we deploy troops? Or move the reserve team? " Plummer said with a frown
At present, the troops of the * * team and the * * team in the United States have been dwarfed in maintaining a long defense line from northeast to southwest, especially for the defense line in the direction of the * * group.
Moreover, the anti-war in France is becoming more and more serious, and the war-weariness of French officers and men is spreading uncontrollably. Coupled with the agitation and propaganda of radical socialist anti-war organizations, the combat effectiveness of the French team has been greatly reduced, and the source of troops is also approaching exhaustion. On the other hand, although the British expeditionary force is much stronger than the French team, when it comes to the Chinese team, their performance is similar to that of the French team.