Brauchitsch flew back to Moscow without stopping. You must know that Moscow also has anti-aircraft guns. It would be a tragedy if the airship was shot down.

Under the cover of darkness, the airship flew quietly across the Volga River.

It was the first time for almost all the soldiers to ride on an airship. The Ming Dynasty's cargo airship was packed like a sardine can. The portholes were the most popular, with three or four heads crowded behind each porthole.

Through the thick porthole glass, you can see a little flash of light after the explosion below. Below is the Tverskaya battlefield, where the fiercest fighting outside Moscow was.

The flowing Volga River is a natural barrier, and the Russian army took full advantage of this advantage. A solid battlefield was built based on the river bank. If it was daytime.

The soldiers could see dense craters on the ground and ant-like corpses.

It sounds a little helpless, but they should actually land directly in Tver and join the battlefield. But now, they have to be transported directly to Moscow by the Ming airship, and then walk back to Tver on their own two legs.

What they didn't know was that both sides of the Volga River had become a hell-like place.

"It's almost done!" In the dim light of dawn, Grouchi held up the telescope.

Through the telescope, a layer of light green smoke floated over the Russian military position on the opposite bank. The wind was very light today, and the smoke seemed to be stagnant.

There are no signs of human activity, which is understandable. This is a battlefield, and those who dare to wander around have all turned into corpses.

"I just said that releasing chlorine gas bombs was a bad idea. There is no wind at all now. When will the poisonous gas dissipate? We don't have much time. Li Xiu has already sent someone to remind us of the ceasefire.

The excuse of not receiving orders from His Majesty the Emperor cannot last for a few days. I believe that the messenger has already left Magdeburg, and your Majesty the Emperor's messenger has probably also left Paris.

Maybe you received the order a few days later than me, that's the only difference."

Inside the joint headquarters, Schlieffen talked like a girl.

"What should we do without chlorine bombs? We attacked twice, with no less than 5,000 casualties, but still failed to break through the Russian defense line. If we can't break through the defense line, how are we going to enter Moscow?" Grouchy was patient, and the stalemate situation almost made him paralyzed.

mad.

He knew that Schlieffen was just a way to vent his emotions.

The war has reached this point, and as one of the joint commanders, the psychological pressure has reached an unbearable level. If you don't vent, you will go crazy. Grouchy himself is not much better than Schlieffen.

Schlieffen fell silent again. Most Prussian officers had this kind of behavior. Many of them could not say a few words all day long.

On the contrary, French officers are much more likable. Most people know how to tease girls. Even in such tense moments, French soldiers are not lacking in humor.

There was the roar of the airship in the sky, but unfortunately it was still dark and I couldn't see where the airship was.

If it were a Ming fleet, searchlights would already be shining into the sky at this time. The huge airship would have no chance of escaping from the searchlights.

As long as it is locked by a high-power searchlight, the anti-aircraft gun will fire a series of tracer bullets.

Tracer bullets will emit bright lights in the dark to indicate their trajectory, and then more anti-aircraft guns will fly towards the airship.

The huge airship had no chance of evading the rain of cannonballs, and in the end it could only turn into a huge fireball and fall.

Unfortunately, these have nothing to do with the Prussian army or the French army.

Not to mention searchlights, Paris, known as the center of Europe, still lights candles and oil lamps at night.

"Why are there so many airships flying towards Moscow? This is the second batch today!" There were airships flying over his head continuously, and Schlieffen felt something was wrong.

"You put it this way, it seems that our supply airship did not come one day. My quartermaster has reported to me that if there are no new supplies, according to the current consumption, the ammunition can only last three days."

Grouchy also felt something. After all, the airship was not within their control. Because... the airships were all rented from the Ming Dynasty.

Even the pilots on the airship are from Ming Dynasty.

Even commanders like them could not order these airship pilots of the Ming Dynasty. Although they were deeply criticized in their hearts, it was a pity that they could not change anything.

Who made Prussia and France unable to even build airships?

Damn it, Russia and Britain can build airships. But they keep it strictly secret and are not even willing to sell it to France and Prussia.

This time when we go to Moscow, we must dismantle all the Russian airship production lines. We must also capture all the engineers and workers.

We must let them build airships for France and Prussia!

"Our supply airship has also not arrived for a day. Could it be the Ming people who want to cut off our supplies?" Schlieffen asked warily.

If the 250,000-strong army runs out of supplies, they will be in big trouble.

"Probably not, even if the airship's supplies are cut off. We can still replenish supplies by land, but it's a little slow. Don't worry, we just need to break through the Tver line of defense and cross the Volga River.

We will be able to advance into Moscow, there will be no large-scale fighting, and supplies will no longer be a problem."

Grouchy raised the telescope again, and the sky slowly began to lighten.

There was a slight breeze on the ground, and the chlorine gas in the opposite position began to dissipate at an extremely slow speed.

"It will be better when the sun comes out!" During the last war, Grouchy had experience in using chlorine gas bombs.

Schlieffen rolled his eyes at Grouchy. The last person who suffered a loss was Prussia.

The sky gradually became brighter, and the sun poked its head above the horizon.

Sunlight naturally has the effect of dispelling all haze. Severe haze will take a longer time. However, it will eventually dissipate in the sunshine.

Two companies of French soldiers, wearing pig-mouth gas masks, boarded the ferry. There was a light machine gun in front of the ferry, and the soldiers held the gun in fear.

Thousands of corpses were piled up on the mudflat on the other side. In the river, there were also floating and sunk corpses floating downstream with the quietly flowing Volga River.

Most of these corpses are the corpses of coalition soldiers. Some are relatively complete, but those who were hit by artillery shells are more unlucky. The corpses were broken into many pieces, and it is very difficult to put them together.

On the bank of the river, densely packed small crabs were lying on the corpses. You could see that their claws were constantly feeding human flesh into their mouths.

The tragic scene made the soldiers dare not look any further.

After all, it is the party crossing the river, so it will have to pay greater casualties.

The soldiers paddled the water carefully, fearing that the sound of paddling would startle the other side. As long as the sound of machine guns sounded, the crew of the boat was considered accountable.

The sun rises as high as a pole, and the soldiers in the boat are no different from the lice on the bald man's head.

For such an eye-catching target, there was no sound of machine gun fire from the other side.

Grouchy held the telescope with one hand and grabbed Schlieffen's arm with the other. His fingers were very strong because of excitement.

Schlieffen kicked Grouchy away and looked at the other side with his binoculars.

The soldiers have landed!

The glass on the eyes of the pig mouth gas mask shines in the sun!

The soldiers who landed did not care about their excitement. They rushed into the Russian position hundreds of meters away from the shore!

As the brigade passed, the engineers immediately dug a hole in the ground and buried the rough wood they brought in. A rope was tied to it, so that the boats on the opposite side could pull the rope and travel in the river at a much faster speed.

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The Russian troops on the ground were all lying in the trenches. Some of them were lying on their backs and you could see white foam spitting out of their mouths, which was very disgusting.

No matter dead or alive, everyone was stabbed with a bayonet.

The position was kept quite intact, with bullets piled next to the machine guns. Next to the corpses of the soldiers were grenades with their caps unscrewed.

If they were not dead yet, they should have been shot in the river, just like those corpses.

"Boom!" An unlucky guy accidentally stepped on a landmine.

"The Russians are really ruthless. They also lay mines on their own positions. Aren't they afraid that their own soldiers will step on them?" Grouchy saw a soldier being blown up more than five meters high, and his body disintegrated in the air.

Then larger pieces of corpses fell down and hit the mine again.

The larger corpses turned into broken corpses, and more people were blown up into the sky.

Before the chlorine gas dissipated completely, gunpowder smoke started to rise.

The thick black smoke went straight up, as if it was going to reach directly into the sky.

"It's broken!" Before Schlieffen could finish his words, the Russian artillery shells fell down.

The shells came so suddenly, and coupled with the explosion just now, the two companies of coalition soldiers were plunged into thick smoke almost instantly.

Schlieffen and Grouchy looked at each other. As veterans, they knew that no one could survive in such conditions.

The artillery shells fell intensively on the Russian army's own position. It was obvious that the Russian army had laid out minefields on their own position as a warning.

If the position is breached, the artillery will not hesitate to cover their own position with artillery fire. They don't care whether there are any living people on the position!

The artillery fire engulfed everyone, but Grouchy and Schlieffen also knew that the Russian troops on the other side had also suffered heavy casualties.

"Organize people to cross the river immediately!"

With such a density of artillery fire, there will definitely be insufficient artillery fire in nearby areas.

The coalition soldiers who had been waiting for a long time immediately began to cross the river. With the rope that had just been pulled, the speed was much faster. The engineers who rushed over immediately began to set up the pontoon bridge.

This time, the coalition launched an attack over an area of ​​several kilometers. The Russian artillery fire could not cover such a large area!

Almost at the same time, the coalition's artillery also pushed to the Volga River.

Ignoring the artillery shells falling from time to time, there was a fierce bombardment against the Russian artillery position.

"Your Majesty, the position has been breached. You'd better go back to Moscow as soon as possible, we are here." Lieutenant General Kalashnikov once again stumbled into Yekaterina's command post.

"No! I will stay here, you will have reinforcements soon." Ekaterina looked at Kalashnikov, whose face was blackened by gunpowder smoke, and said with a smile.

"Reinforcements? There are no more troops in Moscow." As the commander of Moscow's city defense, how could Kalashnikov not know that Moscow's troops have been exhausted?
To be continued...