I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

These guys even suddenly attacked the landing pontoon with the British ship's secondary guns that had not been completely destroyed.

Although it didn't hit, it made people break out in a cold sweat.

……

Milwaukee-Madison is more than 80 kilometers long.

Although it is much shorter than the 400-kilometer-long Maginot Line of the French in the future and the bald Yangtze River Defense Line, in this era, this is still an extremely grand military facility.

"Defeat the Chinese with the Great Wall", this is the slogan put forward by Marshal Hugh Wells, commander-in-chief of the British Great Lakes Theater.

But not many people know that the real author of this plan is a young French soldier named Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre.

He is an exchange student from the Military Engineering School in Fontainebleau.

Since the road of literature and art was killed by Master Victor Hugo himself, some slight changes have taken place in Joffre's character.

For example, he no longer believes in romantic poetry and literature, or those illusory things, but takes steel and cement as his beliefs.

"Only Mathematics and Mechanics can't lie, can't betray!"

Xiafei is madly obsessed with engineering knowledge. Relying on his own talent and his experience in serving as an engineer, his engineering level has improved by leaps and bounds.

In an accidental opportunity, he recommended himself to Hugh Wells and proposed the "French Great Wall" plan.

Hugh Wells was persuaded.

Hugh Wells submitted the plan to Congress as it was, except for changing the "Great Wall of France" to the "Great Wall of Great Britain".

He pointed out that a perfect line of defense 300 kilometers long and 10 kilometers deep can be built around Chicago as long as one-tenth of the relief funds are used.

As long as Chicago is kept, the Great Lakes region will be free from worries, and if the Great Lakes region is free from worries, the war in North America will be alive.

After reading the plan, Prime Minister Churchill was very happy and supported this ambitious plan, ready to persuade Congress to approve the budget.

Of course, he also enthusiastically recommended the best friend of the second grandson of his uncle's brother-in-law's family, who happens to be an experienced builder who can undertake this project.

It's just that people are not as good as God.

The sudden super stock market crash disrupted the British financial market, and the budget was eventually cut in half.

Coupled with the small contributions of the best friends of the second grandson of Churchill’s uncle’s brother-in-law’s family, in the end, only 300 kilometers remained of the 80 kilometers of this line of defense, and the depth of 10 kilometers became 3 kilometers.

It may seem that the reduction is not much, but the area is multiplied, and the actual cost is only 8% of the total budget.

The budget was cut in half due to the impact of the stock market crash, but it was only reduced by 50%.

It is not clear where the difference between them goes.

But even so, this thing is still effective.

The money was wasted, but not completely wasted.

At least at this moment, thanks to the convenience of the hardened ground within the defense line, a team composed of cavalry, artillery, infantry, and a small number of cars is desperately heading towards the direction of the grain lake beach.

Chapter 661

Hardened ground is nice and greatly increases marching speed.

But because of layers of subcontracting and deductions of funds, this concrete road is too narrow.

The man and the horse had to huddle together and move forward with difficulty.

The pride of British production, the military version of the Doberman, will accidentally drive off the road from time to time and roll over into the pothole on the side of the road.

The heavy vehicles, inefficient power, fragile and explosive tires, and frequent accidents made the British army not bother to look at these overturned cars, and walked forward without looking back.

Not to mention trying to find a way to fish them out.

For these Dobermans, the grassroots soldiers agreed that this was just another face project for the officers and gentlemen to make money.

It's nothing more than the fact that Ming people have cars, and my Great Britain must also have cars, otherwise it will not show the superiority of the world's first power.

Following the steam infantry, the dragoons of the King's German Legion rode on sturdy horses, wore traditional plush round caps, and carried old-fashioned Martini-Henry rifles.

Riding horses and whips on the road, cavalrymen in traditional German costumes, cars with their feet upturned on both sides of the road, and the wheels are still rolling, classical and modern merged into a somewhat weird picture here.

This British King's German Legion has a long historical heritage, which can be traced back to the peninsula war 60 years ago, and even the older [-]th century.

As the name of the British royal family indicates, the relationship between Germany and Great Britain was very close before the age of imperialism.

Anza itself is a branch of Germany, and the Saxons, one of Germany, are the Saxons who did not cross the sea.

And the Germanic people are a branch of the Vikings, the Vikings who went south.

Theoretically speaking, the concept of Vikings is at the same level as Latins, Celts, and Slavs.

Together with the Iranians, the third brother of the high caste, etc., they form the Aryans.

The Finnish-Hungarian-Ugric people in Europe are not Aryans.

Therefore, English and German blood are still very close, and English is also a relatively evolved German that is closer to the Chinese form.

In addition, the British king has German blood and is the elector of Hanover.

Therefore, in all previous wars, the British royal family hired a large number of German mercenaries from the Principality of Hesse-Kassel.

Most of them are conscripts, criminals, gamblers and bankrupts.

Their military pay is very low, and many troops can only meet the needs of food and clothing.

Just as the big men like to hire Huns, the French like to hire Berbers, and the Arabs like to hire South Asians, no matter how whitewashed they are, there is an objective order within various civilized circles.

Although they are all relatives, in the Western civilized world, the Anza people stand at the top of the pyramid, looking down on all living beings.

The Gauls and Germans were below it, and the Latins a little lower.

And the Slavs, Celts.The Hungarians are at the bottom.

Now that the Germans are preparing to launch an impact on the high throne, the British are naturally worried about placing such a corps with German blood in Europe.

In fact, this is not the first time that the King's German Legion has come to North America.

As early as 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, more than 5 Hessian mercenaries came to the Thirteen-State Colony.

These men inherited the usual German bravery and loyalty, and some Hessian mercenaries also displayed strict discipline and excellent military skill, and participated in almost all the battles.

If it weren't for Louis XVI selling his head to aid the United States, and relying on the so-called heroic militiamen in the thirteen states, I am afraid that North America would have already spoken German.

But now, this legion has once again returned to the place where its ancestors once fought.

It's just that the mood is completely different.

"Damn Brit!"

Felix cursed everything loudly in German, "British soldiers have already used Metford .303 rifles, but we can only use old Martini-Henry rifles! Rifles are very fast, and all we have are these poker sticks!"

His swearing drew echoes.

Objectively speaking, the complaints of the German Legion have no reason.

Because the old-fashioned Martini-Henry rifle in his mouth was actually produced and installed in 1866, only seven years ago.

Logically speaking, a light weapon has only been in service for seven years, so it can barely be regarded as new equipment.

However, there is the variable of Ming Dynasty, which leads to the great powers having to develop new equipment with Ming sauce, which leads to the acceleration of the update iteration of rifles today.

Before 1866, the influence of the Ming Dynasty was still small. The rifles developed at that time did not refer to the design ideas of the German weapon family at all, so they were naturally not competitive.

It was too wasteful to completely eliminate them, and the budget-conscious British sent these guns to the various colonial troops.

The Indian Legion, which was smashed by Mongolian cavalry and Jiangnan armored cavalry in the suburbs of Beijing before, used the Martini-Henry rifle.

The German Legion, which considered itself to be a relative of the British royal family, found itself treated like an Indian soldier, and naturally complained.

The only good thing is that the Germans are at least on horseback, while the cars of the British soldiers have overturned a lot.

At this time, on the left of this column is the wheat field, and on the right is the mountain.

Although they are still seven or eight kilometers away from the shore of the grain lake, these battle-tested German mercenaries can already vaguely smell the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood in the air.

In their hearts, they felt that they were lucky. After all, the air strikes they were worried about never came to them. It seemed that the Chinese aviation had been paying attention to various bases and fortresses.

Faintly, Felix felt a sound in the air.

When he raised his head and looked in the direction of the sound, he saw that there seemed to be something behind the treetops 200 meters away, but it was blocked by the dense tree canopy.

Just as he lost his mind, Felix saw a group of red shadows appearing in his sight.

"airplane!"

This horrible killing tool was spread among the British army along with the Beiping tragedy.

Fear of aircraft was also pervasive in the German Legion.

As soon as Felix's voice came out, he saw in horror that the group of planes began to dive and attack from the flanks of the column.

Black objects fell from the underbelly of those planes, and then a piercing "whoosh" sound came from the air.

"God! It's an incendiary bomb!"

Felix yelled in horror, this terrifying weapon has an appropriate name among the British army: "Red Dragon Breath"!

Airplane dive bombing is much more accurate than airship bombing.

The dense white phosphorus incendiary bombs went straight to the British army on the concrete road.

On those "lucky" cars that hadn't broken down or broken down, the British soldiers who were still feeling God's blessing before almost watched helplessly as the incendiary bombs dragged long fireworks scattered above their heads and scattered stars.

Stars fall on cars, on clothes, on hair, on skin...

Felix saw in horror that a swooping plane dropped the breath of the red dragon and landed 20 meters to his right.

Halkert, the brigade commander of the German Legion, instinctively stretched out his hands to cover his face.

At first, he seemed to really keep those sparks out.

But soon, pale flames began to burn from his arms, and the fire finally engulfed him.

A single spark started to start a prairie fire!

Chapter 662 I know the taste of goat drops

Compared with the British and Indian minions in the suburbs of Beijing, Felix was lucky.

Unlike the dry farmland in autumn and winter in the North China Plain, the farmland in the Great Lakes region is relatively humid and watery.

After seeing the brigade commander change from a German to a black in a moment, curled up in pain, Felix hastily ducked into a gutter.

Not far from him, there was a Doberman that had narrowly escaped the bombing, and rushed towards the ditch recklessly.

But soon, the wheeled car got stuck in the mud, spinning in place and unable to move an inch, becoming a living target.

Painful cries echoed throughout the farmland.

The bomb load of the Xiaolong 5 aircraft is still too low.

The bombing lasted only 15 minutes in total before it was over.

But Felix swears it was the longest 15 minutes of his life.

About 20 cars were burned to the ground. Occasionally, half of a scorched body was hung on the iron sheets that had been scorched and deformed.

Apparently a car soldier who tried to jump out of the car and failed.

The hell-like roads and wheat fields are full of terrified soldiers.

Those tall horses that looked so handsome before, either exuded a fragrant smell of horse meat at this moment, or they were wandering around helplessly, with hot air from their nostrils from time to time.

If Prince Sotna was lucky enough to see this scene, he would definitely think of the empty horses left behind by the Tatar cavalry after the British and French shotgun shelling at the Bali Bridge.

"what sound?"

Felix poked his head out of the wheat, and he seemed to hear a strange sound.

Then, terrified shouts came and went: "It's the Ming army!"

I saw a Ming soldier on a bicycle appearing at the corner of the mountain ahead, followed by the second, and the third...

The hardened roads built in the Milwaukee-Madison defense line made the boys of the 27th Division feel like a fish in water.

The bicycles under their crotches are yellow and blue.

Although some parts have traces of rust that cannot be erased, it can be seen that they have been carefully maintained and brushed with engine oil.