"I don't know, you wait."
Petain thought about it, and directly gave the order to the front-line artillery first, and comprehensively shelled the front-line positions of the German army, and the front-line troops began to prepare for the attack, and then turned around and said: "It is difficult for us to understand this young general, I can't understand his approach, but this may be related to the infighting in the United States, after all, he commanded hundreds of thousands of troops in his early twenties, which seems to be very problematic." ” Haig frowned, then asked, "Is he trying to prove himself?"
"Maybe, it's good to succeed, but if it fails, then he's finished, I don't understand this, but now we can only cooperate with the Americans, otherwise if we fail, and we don't do anything, then the two of us will be unlucky, he can see it clearly."
"Who made us ask the Americans now, they want to show more to make sure that the money we owe them can be repaid."
Haig sighed, and in more than two years, he had exhausted the British and French.
The artillery fire of the entire Western Front battlefield roared and deafened, and as soon as the artillery bombardment of the whole front began, the Germans did not know what was happening, they began to endure the shelling, and their artillery began to counterattack, and the artillery battle between the two sides began.
In this way, chaos and chaos can not just double the effect, but multiple.
The news of the attack of the Americans was instantly covered by a large amount of information, and the whole line was in a hurry, and the news also reached Berlin, Hindenburg hurriedly said goodbye to His Majesty the Emperor and returned to the front, he gave the front an order to stabilize the front, a normal order, but this gave Wesley a chance.
Stabilizing the line was necessary, but Wesley had already broken through a section and had enough troops and supplies to continue, knowing that at noon, the First Army had broken through three lines of defense in a row, and the Marines had rounded.
Wesley, who received a report from the front, was only thirty kilometers away from the front line, and the ten divisions that followed him were all in place, "ordered the Fourth Army to take over the front line and continue the attack, the First Army was retired, and the Fifth Army turned the Second Army and the Third Army to directly attack the German positions along the way, and to connect the telephone of the general headquarters." ” "Marshal Petain, our army has broken through three lines of defense of the German army in a row, and at present I have concentrated thirty divisions of troops to the south of the German line to attack their rear, and I am making a detour, I hope that the friendly forces can attack, you only need to contain or break through the enemy's first line of defense."
"What so fast," Petain's jaw almost dropped.
"Yes, the purpose of the campaign is to directly and comprehensively recover Belgium and directly advance the battlefield to the German Rhine region, if we can try to find a better area to establish a defensive line, the significance of this European war is very obvious."
"Understood."
Petain put down the phone, and then hurriedly gave the order, the British and French troops after a morning of preparation, colleagues their task is very easy, is to contain the first line of German troops, or break through their positions, relatively speaking, do not require much preparation.
However, the speed of the British and French troops was also not fast, and they launched an attack, which could only serve as a diversion for a while, while the thirty divisions of the American army went directly south to attack the enemy's flank, which was fatal.
When Hindenburg arrived at the front line, it was already three days later, at this time the battle was over, the Rhine River had become a new front for both sides, Hindenburg looked at the busy position dumbfounded, a group of remnants of the defeated army was struggling to deploy positions along the river, while the opposite side was relatively much more calm.
For three days, Wesley let the troops attack alternately, all the way south, so that the entire German defense line collapsed, the German army began to retreat continuously, and the entire Western Front position was very chaotic.
After three days of rapid advance, the American army fought heartily, but the troops were now extremely tired, after all, it was an army that had not experienced war, and Wesley could not let them attack again, and after crossing the Belgian border, the troops deployed positions along the Rhine in Bonn, Germany.
Their northern position is on the border line of the Netherlands, and the Netherlands, as a neutral country, also wants to make money for the two families, and Wesley really wants to take the troops to clean them up, but the troops are not enough, and the international situation also allows it, but now Hindenburg wants to cry without tears, and after three days of chaos, he can only start to remobilize his troops now, after all, the Entente has entered the territory of Germany.
A strange battle, now many people do not figure out what is going on, a meeting is being held in Washington, far away in the United States, Washington, "Gentlemen, our General Gibson gave us a surprise, he used hundreds of thousands of American soldiers to break the overall situation of the European war, I have to say that he is indeed a genius."
The president said.
This time let Wesley command the expeditionary force, the president did not agree, but he put a lot of pressure, because Wesley does not belong to the Republican Party or the Democratic Party, and the two parties have spared no effort to woo him, but Wesley directly refused on the pretext that he is a soldier, so this time the matter is not to cause Wesley to die, but to let him leave the army, Wesley does not know this.
Pershing was very happy, he is now the acting general, the commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Force, and is organizing the second echelon of troops, and at the same time is responsible for delivering supplies to Wesley, "Mr.
President, I think it's time to promote Major General Gibson, this battle is really beautiful." ” William Benson also said: "Yes, this time he used the navy and marines to land in the rear of the first man, although it is not the first time in the history of war, but it is undoubtedly the most beautiful one, direct front and rear flanking attacks, when the attacking troops are weak, successfully break through the last line of defense." ” The praise of the two bigwigs of the Navy and Army made the politicians very uncomfortable, they wanted to pull Wesley out of the army, but it seemed completely impossible, this young man was really a genius, in every way, look at his brain after the dissection of the truth.
"Very well, I will agree after getting the specific report, but is it necessary to send the second echelon of soldiers to go now, General Gibson did a good job."
The president asked.
"Of course we need to, I think we should send the second echelon out right away, so that we can end the European competition in the coming year, which is very obvious, and at the same time increase the transportation of supplies, so that he has more cards to play."
Pershing said.
William Benson also helped on the side, "Yes, he has too few troops in his hands, otherwise the result will definitely be better this time, although there is still a specific battle report, but it can be seen that his troops are not enough." ” Wesley did not have enough troops, although he was not afraid of how many enemies there were, but when he used his troops, he obviously felt that he was powerless, because of the geographical relationship, once his soldiers were scattered, they could not bubble up, and could only be used intensively.
Now all five armies are on the defensive line, and the frontal defense reaches hundreds of kilometers, while his command has only four Marine brigades to protect it. t1706231537: