India now does not have a population of 1.4 billion, and it is a little more than 300 million when it is full.

More than 300 million people starved to death and 20 million died at once, which shows the damage caused by hunger and the virus to India.

Roque is not surprised at all, India is too strange, don't care about anything, as long as it is involved with India, you can't use common sense to speculate, now India is still clamoring for independence from Britain, after Gandhi returned to India, he called for "non-violent non-cooperation" and launched the "Exit India Movement", which is the rhythm of splitting India into countless small countries, Roque really doesn't understand why Gandhi thinks so, if Gandhi is a Dalit, forget it, the problem is that Gandhi received modern higher education in Britain, It's the standard elite in India, and even the elite thinks so -

What else can Roque think, sit and watch!

What makes Roque feel even more amazing is that it is clear that India has become a mess, but the Indian troops fighting in Europe do not seem to have been affected, and those Indians in Europe should still eat and drink, probably because of the recent training, the consumption of alcohol is higher than usual.

Roque has Winston's secret order in his hands, and if there is a problem with the Indian forces, then Roque will do whatever it takes to ensure the stability of the Indian forces.

Now it seems that it doesn't cost much, just send more wine.

On the current Western Front, alcohol can be said to be as much as it wants, and the Allied high-level leaders already need to rely on alcohol to maintain the morale of the troops, and now Roque has about 50,000 tons of various white wine and red wine in his hands, enough for the British expeditionary force in France to divide 20 kilograms per person.

Drink it, let it go, drink it as you like!

Just as the movements of the German army could not hide from Britain and France, the movements of the British expeditionary force could not hide from Ludendorff.

Since the total annihilation of the German army on the Marne, Ludendorff was no longer able to launch an offensive, and the German army fell into total passivity.

The failure of Michael's plan hit Ludendorff hard, and now Ludendorff would sit alone at every turn, without eating, talking, or giving orders for battle, and the American troops in Belgium had been attacking the last two fortresses, and the German troops in some of the defensive areas were already out of control.

There are serious problems within the German army, Ludendorff's current mental state is actually no longer suitable for the post of chief of the General Staff, but there is no more suitable candidate than Ludendorff in Germany, Wilhelm II wants Hindenburg to succeed Ludendorff as the chief of the German General Staff, but Hindenburg wants to be the prime minister, believing that the current problems of the German army are not at all solved by the chief of the General Staff, and must be actively changed from a higher level, so that Germany can end the war in a relatively decent way.

True, after the failure of the Michael plan, even the most stubborn Germans had to admit that Germany had no chance of winning.

In mid-May, the German government made a final effort to negotiate with the Allies on the basis of the present front.

This proposal was rejected by the Entente, whose conditions remained unchanged, and they had always demanded that Germany surrender unconditionally and be slaughtered by the Allied powers, which was unacceptable to the Germans.

The time came on June 1, and the time for a full-scale counteroffensive by the British and French forces had arrived.

In the morning, on a 110-mile-long front, with Arras as the center, Roque mobilized all 14,000 artillery pieces to fire on German positions.

Large-caliber artillery is the main force of firepower, the large-caliber artillery of the expeditionary force is attached to the second line of defense, the most dense section, every ten yards there is a heavy artillery of more than 120 mm caliber to participate in the shelling, with mortars and field artillery in the first line also play a great role, the first line of defense of the German army was completely destroyed within half an hour, and the infantry units immediately set off to the first line of defense of the German army under the cover of the armored forces, and the artillery units at this time did not stop firing, The barrage began to extend to the second line of defense of the German army, and as Roque said, this time the expeditionary force attacked without restrictions, and fought as far as it could.

The most outstanding performance is still the ace combination of the 1st Armored Division and the 2nd Cavalry Division, and the armored troops commanded by Chen Xie, who cooperated with the attack of the Muscat Pirate Regiment.

Now Hank and Chen Xie are very familiar with each other, and Hank has finally returned to his armored command vehicle and commanded the troops to attack with Chen Xie.

"Gentlemen, we have to be a little slower, and when the flamethrowers drive the Germans out of the rat hole, can the tanks fire on the second line of defense of the German army first? It seems that it is better to use armored vehicles-" Chen Xie left the small cockpit of the tank, very curious about the armored command vehicle.

The expeditionary force is equipped with an armored command vehicle that can be equipped with a large-caliber machine gun or a grenade launcher.

In actual combat, it has been proven that large-caliber machine guns are far less useful than grenade launchers, so now more and more armored vehicles are dismantling large-caliber machine guns and replacing them with more powerful grenade launchers.

Compared with tank guns, the launch speed of the grenade launcher is faster, and the power is actually not much smaller, and the current tank has not used armor-piercing shells, and the speed of the grenade launcher is enough to make up for the disadvantage caused by the lack of caliber.

"No, no, no, it's better for the tank to go ahead, the weak armor on the armored vehicle can't even withstand the direct fire of a heavy machine gun, what's the use of running fast." Hank knew the weakness of armored vehicles, and the armored vehicles of the expeditionary force were actually designed to be mainly used for maintaining order in low-intensity theaters, and were not used for frontal battlefield assaults at all.

However, in the absence of effective countermeasures in the German army, armored vehicles can also play a huge role on the Western Front, especially in maneuvering and dealing with German infantry units, armored vehicles are actually better than tanks.

"Sir, the 2nd Elizabeth Infantry Regiment has opened the breach, and the command orders us to make the gap as wide as possible." Hank's staff officer received the latest orders from the headquarters, and Hank was stunned for a moment.

The Elizabeth 2nd Infantry Regiment and the Muscat Pirate Regiment belong to the same 2nd Cavalry Division, the two units are equal in number and combat effectiveness, both from the Arabian Peninsula, so the two forces often compete with each other intentionally or unintentionally, and now the Elizabeth 2nd Infantry Regiment has broken through the German positions, but the Muscat Pirate Regiment is still standing still, which makes Hank angry.

"Attack, attack, attack with all your might!" Hank absolutely did not allow the Muscat Pirate Regiment to lag behind the Elizabethan 2nd Infantry Regiment.

"Attack, attack, attack with all your might!" In Opi, seven kilometers away from Vimi Ridge, Zhou Li, the commander of Elizabeth's 2nd Infantry Regiment, was also giving the same battle orders as Hank.

The reason why the German defense line was broken so quickly was related to the fact that a shell was lucky enough to hit the arsenal on the second line of defense of the German army, the smoke from the violent explosion of the arsenal was as high as a hundred meters, and a huge mushroom cloud appeared directly, and the sound of the explosion was clearly heard several kilometers away, after the violent explosion, the remaining German troops staggered out of the trenches, their ears and eyes were bleeding, and nearly 1,000 people were permanently and seriously damaged in hearing.

Compared to the soldiers who were directly killed by the shockwave, they were lucky enough to be hearing impaired.

About five minutes later, the tank units of the expeditionary force rushed to the German positions, except for a few infantry killed by the remaining mines, the expeditionary force suffered almost no losses, and the Elizabeth 2nd Infantry Regiment was not responsible for receiving prisoners, and crossed the second line of German defense and attacked directly into the German hinterland, from here to the territory of Germany was almost a flat horse.

It can be clearly felt that the elite units of the German army were indeed completely surrounded and annihilated on the banks of the Marne.

The current German army is almost composed of the old, weak, sick and disabled, and some units are almost on the verge of collapse, lacking neither a strong will to fight nor sufficient tactical ability.

There are also troops who are still loyal to the Kaiser who insist on fighting, but the combat effectiveness they show makes people doubt that at the time of the Battle of the Somme, the German army already had a fairly strong positional defense capability, and now it seems that the German army's positional defense capability is not advancing but retreating, and its performance is obviously inferior to that of the German army during the Battle of the Somme.

Shortly after crossing Opi, Elizabeth's 2nd Infantry Regiment encountered an oncoming German force.

The German unit did not seem to know that Opi had been lost, and interrogation after the battle revealed that the task of this unit was to support Opi, and that they were marching towards Opi when they encountered the 2nd Elizabethan Infantry Regiment, and did not expect to encounter the 2nd Elizabethan Infantry Regiment after Opi.

The unsuspecting German troops were attacked by the tank troops, the German troops carried anti-tank guns and anti-tank rifles, but they were ridden by the tank before they had time to use it, and the tank completely threw off the infantry units that accompanied the attack, and drove directly to the panicked German troops at full speed, I don't know how many German soldiers were crushed into the mud, after the battle, about 1200 German soldiers, after only ten minutes of fighting, there were less than 400 prisoners left.

After the battle, almost all the captives were emotionally broken, some shouted, some were stunned, some hugged their heads and cried, and today's scene may remain in their memories forever and will never be forgotten.

After handing over the prisoners to the follow-up troops, the Elizabethan 2nd Infantry Regiment did not stop and continued to advance along the road, and at four o'clock in the afternoon, the Elizabethan 2nd Infantry Regiment hit Douai in one go, and the unit defending Douai was the 1st Grenadier Regiment, which was subordinate to the German Fifth Army, and the commander of the 5th Army was Crown Prince Wilhelm, and the 1st Grenadier Regiment was also the guard unit of Prince Wilhelm.

Grenadier is a type of military that appeared in the 18th century, the earliest refers to the infantry in the army who specialize in carrying grenades, because the grenade at that time was relatively large in volume and weight, and it was mentioned that it was almost the same as a small cannonball, so it was necessary to select soldiers with excellent arm strength in the infantry to be eligible to use, and these soldiers who used grenades were called grenadiers.

Now the title of "grenadier" is mostly used as an honorary title for the heroic combat performance of soldiers, and only elite units can use this name.