Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 832

"Everyone!" After everyone was almost quiet, Petain finally spoke: "I agree with my partner, General Weygand, that the situation we are in is already very dangerous. Our great France can no longer accept It was a heavy blow, so I think it is the best way to start peace talks with the Chinese at this time."

As soon as Pétain exited, the audience fell silent. No one knew why this old man who had the toughest attitude in World War II and killed people like hemp would say such words at this time and under this situation.Seeing this scene, the Prime Minister Renault who was sitting on the side couldn't bear it any longer. He immediately stood up and said loudly: "Everyone, don't discuss this matter for the time being. Our main task at present is how to stabilize the entire Middle East." front"

"How stable? I have no guns, no people, and no planes. What do you want me to do to stabilize the front? When will the funds be in place?" Before Renault could finish speaking, Wei Gang jumped out again, "Those damned The Spaniards, only thinking about escaping by themselves. Well said in Tehran, fight back against China together and stabilize the defense line. The result? How is the result? We are still fighting, but they ran away, leaving us and ran away. More The hateful thing is that these Spaniards, on the surface, promised to support us with enough squadrons, but the result? When we actually arrived on the battlefield, we did not see a single plane of them. Where are these planes? Where are they?" Speaking of Spain , Wei Gang became more and more excited, his face collapsed tightly, twitching up and down like parchment, and the wrinkles on his face gradually opened, as if they were about to crack in an instant.And his voice was hoarse, like a bellows with a big hole in it making a harsh whistle.In short, he believed that the cowardly Spaniards had hindered the French victory.In short, the veteran has been unable to keep his mouth shut after he opened the chatterbox.In short, any slight mistake made by the Spanish army has become the target of his dissatisfaction.

The French High Command did little for a week except quarrel and curse.However, they can't do anything. The remaining troops in Iran have lost control. They can only watch the tanks of the Dragon Army rampage between various strongholds in western Iran, and at the same time attack various key points and supply points in Iraq. Dash over.

On the Iraqi border, troops scheduled to strike back did not have time to muster.Most of them were firmly nailed to death in the barracks or near the road by the bombers of the Chinese Air Force.A small number of troops can only go into battle sporadically, but they are powerless to stop the advance of Chinese tanks, and the French troops ordered to hold on to their strongholds are having a hard time.After a few days of probing, Long Jun already had some experience in dealing with these hedgehog defenses.They used aircraft air strikes and long-range artillery to suppress them, and first knocked off the exposed spines of these hedgehogs.The infantry then infiltrates in combat groups.Under this combined air-ground attack, the hedgehogs were stripped of their spikes and lost their combat power.Wei Gang's hedgehog tactics were completely bankrupt.

As the front of the Dragon Army advances, more and more civilians on the Iraqi border are fleeing their homes. They take their belongings and use all the means of transportation they can find, from bicycles and ox carts to cars and trucks, desperately Escape to the safer rear.Crowded crowds merged into raging rivers on all roads, with many scattered French soldiers mixed in between.The already incomplete Iraqi traffic was paralyzed.Under such circumstances, it was difficult for the French army to mobilize troops, and even the actions of the Dragon Army were also greatly affected.

Facing this huge wave of people, Chen Jitang standing on the armored vehicle was filled with emotion, because tens of 10 people blocked several roads leading to Sulaymaniyah, and his tank was directly blocked Outside, there is no way to get in.In his opinion, this crowd is far stronger than the so-called "Weygand Line" in hindering his troops. Therefore, he had to send a battalion of soldiers urgently. The role of these soldiers is not to drive away the crowd, but to He was in charge of directing traffic and became a volunteer traffic policeman, and those Iraqis really obeyed the guidance of the Chinese soldiers.In this way, after about four hours of tossing, the armored troops led by Chen Jitang continued to attack, which made the surname Chen feel very depressed.

However, what is even more depressing is the French Prime Minister Renault. As the Chinese army advances one kilometer after another in the Middle East, the panic in France is also increasing day by day.One by one, the civil servants in the cabinet began to tear off their disguises and turned to the opposite side of France, and Marshal Pétain's attitude became clearer day by day. On December 12, Petain said: "If we lose this battle, there is no other way but to negotiate with the other party and surrender."

On the second day, when the Chinese armored forces were only 50 kilometers away from Sulaymaniyah, the old man made a move. He handed Renault a formal written opinion requesting a truce.At the same time, at the regular meeting, Petain accused him of not being prepared for war, and declared that he was surprised by the unpreparedness of the French army he saw every day. He claimed: "It was a mistake for us to declare war on Germany in World War II, just as it is now. We should have adopted a more moderate approach in exchange for peace, instead of facing the fate of defeat!"

For everyone, this is a signal: the old man has begun to challenge the position of the current French prime minister. It can even be said that Renault's support among the military and the military has dropped to the lowest point, and he has become a loner.

At 1916:1 pm on January 6, 6, 15 kilometers from Sulaymaniyah.The sun that had been shining all day finally slowly set, and the entire Sulaymaniyah was about to be plunged into darkness.At this time, a large number of chariots were parked at a farm named St. Galt 130 miles away from Marfa Port.Among them are tanks that look very large, as well as small and exquisite armored vehicles. All the vehicles are neatly lined up in a long marching column.

The heavy tank is in the front, the light cruiser tank is in the middle, and there are dozens of infantry transport vehicles behind. All the military vehicles are uniformly painted in khaki. This color makes everyone feel very uncomfortable. The soldiers of the French army They don't like the desert painting of their tanks. They think this painting is very ugly, and it feels a bit like a khaki kangaroo.However, their allies, the Australians, are said to be very fond of the colour.Because the color reminds them of Australia's favorite kangaroo.

This army is the French ace mobile armor sent from Turkey.

At this time, the commander of this unit, Colonel Albit Bede, commander of the mobile unit, was full of ambition. He brought his adjutants and staff officers to the middle of the queue, greeted his subordinates enthusiastically, and kept He patted the chests of those young soldiers, and then greeted them in a gentle tone.In short, now this guy does not seem to be a commander, but a kind old man.After a while, when Bede reached the end of the queue, he nodded slightly to the adjutant next to him, and the adjutant immediately drove an armored car for him.Bede boarded the car in two steps in three steps, stood on it, waved his hands, and shouted to the crowd in a victorious gesture: "Boys, France is watching you! Go forward!"

In an instant, the engines of hundreds of vehicles made rumbling noises, and bursts of pungent smoke gushed out from the exhaust pipes of these vehicles. Suddenly, an unusually unpleasant smell filled the air. The French troops who were next to the vehicles also jumped onto their own armored vehicles and tanks.They either sat in the cramped Bren machine gun car or stood on the back of a tank with holes in it.Everyone's expressions were very solemn at this time, because they knew that the enemy they faced was an army with extremely powerful combat effectiveness.Although they were told that the Chinese were not armed with heavy weapons that could compete with them, a strange apprehension still haunted these people.After all, the glorious history created by the Chinese armored forces in India, Iran and Afghanistan is still fresh in everyone's memory.

In this way, the troops started to set off. Their destination was Marfa Port in the northwest of Sulaymaniyah. The goal was to eliminate the Chinese troops there, including the so-called Dragon Army armored forces.At the same time, the armored troops of the Dragon Army also began to advance from Marfa Port to the inland at high speed, and their goal was the transfer point of the French army, Sulaymaniyah.

Driving in the front of the Dragon Army Armored Forces is a bear tank group, and walking in front of this group is a tank with the tactical number 1331. The owner of the tank is the Dragon Army Armored Forces Assault Sergeant, Du Yuming .

During the Second World War, Du Yuming had always been famous for his boldness and rebelliousness in his troops, and he always appeared in the most dangerous places in battle.But in normal times, he is also the person who likes to challenge his boss the most, so for him, honor and punishment are always with him.So he stayed in the 49th Corps of the Southwest Military Region for 8 years.At this time, a new round of reorganization of the Dragon Army began.When he heard the news that the army might be equipped with new heavy tanks, he signed up to join this armored force without saying a word, but when the army was screening personnel, the commander who had a grudge against Du Yuming deliberately stuffed it in another In a special tank unit, the reason is very simple, because they heard that if they want to enter the training camp, after the training camp is over, everyone will return to the original unit.Of course, if he went to the newly formed unit, he wouldn't come back, and those people wanted this troublemaker to leave early, so they immediately transferred him to the chariot battalion.

(End of this chapter)