The dark clouds of war enveloped the whole of Europe, and the Entente and the Central Powers fought fiercely in Europe, affecting the whole of Europe, except for Switzerland, the Netherlands and other small countries that did not threaten, and the remaining major European forces were all invested in this war, and the number of troops mobilized exceeded 10 million.

Now, the war began to spread, far beyond the ocean, the United States, also joined the war, a population of hundreds of millions of the world's largest industrial output value of the world, joined the occupation, the whole war, there are signs of expansion, counting Asia Lan Fang and has joined the Allied sequence China, Europe and Asia, plus North America, almost the world's most elite place, are involved in the war.

At the beginning, the United States did not enter a state of war, so the swaggering troop transport, after being taught a lesson by the German and Chinese submarines, began to concentrate forces, and a huge fleet escorted more than 800,000 troops to Britain from the Atlantic. Even Britain learned a lesson and did not let the United States escort a single escort, and the home fleet and the fast fleet took out 10 capital ships and nearly 100 large and small ships to meet the US troops. The rest of the home fleet patrolled the North Sea day and night to prevent the Germans from coming out, and even if it was a decisive battle, the German warships would not be allowed to attack the American army.

In the German Admiralty, Tirpitz frowned, at this time, I am afraid that it is Germany's best chance, there are 25 British capital ships left, and they have 18, the difference is the most recently, the new 6 American warships, all remained, according to the data held by Germany, compared to the King class, there is a certain gap. Such ships are just adding numbers to the battle line. Even other auxiliary ships are not fully equipped, from the tonnage above. Germany still has a slight advantage.

The High Seas Fleet was built to allow the German Navy to rise. Breaking through the cage of the British and making contributions to Germany, the navy will always be an attacking arm and will always stay, which is not a good choice. But in the end, Tirpitz still didn't make a move, on the one hand, he knew that when the American fleet went to Britain, it was already three days since the American army sent troops, and the Atlantic Ocean was extremely vast. In three days, the fast fleet traveled almost one-third, and at most it took less than seven days to mobilize forces to intercept them, and even to find the location of the US warships. The most critical one, 18 to 25, is equal in strength, but not safe. At least there is no more than 50% chance of winning, which is very dangerous for Germany.

The existence of the High Seas Fleet is to put Britain in a dilemma. Unable to change hands, Scheer's task force came under pressure. It will be much lighter, Scheer's initiatives in Asia. It's definitely good, at least, there is no Entente power in the whole of Southeast Asia.

Under the hesitation, Tirpitz did not let the fleet set off in the end, of course, his idea was to protect the fleet, but on the other hand, he really did not look at the 800,000 American army, the fierce fighting in Europe continued, even now, after the capture of Paris, the large-scale battle was not carried out, the small-scale battle has not stopped, a company, a battalion, above the battle situation, is just a number, fill it in and fill it in, this is just a small-scale war, a large-scale war, a division, or even an army, It is also a number, in the history of later generations, the fierce battle of the Marne, there were hundreds of thousands of losses in one day.

The 800,000 troops of the United States are not low in absolute numbers, but the combat effectiveness is geometric, it is not that Tirpitz underestimates them, the army can only develop and become strong in the midst of continuous wars, and the United States, after the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, how many are there, and the US army, which has been absent from the battle array for a long time, has very limited combat effectiveness, and there are only many empty people.

Outflanking the blitzkrieg in Paris, between the Central Powers and the Entente, there was no stalemate stage, the war of movement and annihilation was fought, the German Army was strong, and the absolute attack power was much higher than that of the Anglo-French coalition army, so often the Anglo-French coalition army had to be 2 times faster to be able to resist the German attack, the Americans had been absent for a long time, and the performance of the people in the world was not very strong, that is, when more than 300,000 people, for the current full mobilization, and with the help of the northwest, with millions of people in the northwest as the basis of labor, Another 2 million people have been liberated in the country, and it is impossible for all of these people to be filled with the army, and now the total number of German troops has exceeded 3.8 million, which is the total number of Britain and France, and there are 800,000 more American troops, and there is nothing.

Germany did not move, almost watching the huge fleet of American troops enter Britain, a large number of American ships and soldiers came to Britain, almost the entire British Isles, turned into a large military camp, for this reason, Britain specially set aside a county in the northern city to settle the American army, just like that, it has been troublesome for a long time.

Fortunately, the Americans are not the world policemen of later generations, and they came to participate in the European war, but also to improve their status, in addition to the initial panic, the Americans also deliberately restrained the army, the eggs are there but not big, after the chaos for more than half a month, barely settled down and smoothed down.

August is about to pass, September is coming, for last year, I can't say, to start the battle, but the battle of Paris was too tragic, Paris fell too fast, and even affected the surrounding army, but because of the battle of Paris passive, the British saw the opportunity early, ran faster, but also lost 20%, the French lost 50%.

This is after last year's more real losses, and this year's losses, many of them are colonial troops, and the losses are not painful, the only headache for the French is how to sign and integrate these troops.

In a few months, the big war was gone, Germany was digesting the harvest of Paris, Britain and France were licking their wounds, and they had no intention of starting a big war, and the Americans had just arrived, and it was inconvenient to send them to the battlefield, at most it was adaptive training, and it would take a while before it could be put into use.

The American troops settled on the British Isles, but the majority of the troops, one of them, left Britain on September 3, after a little rest. A convoy of at least dozens of merchant ships, carrying a division of American troops, set out from London, England, bound for Bordeaux, where they were selected from among all the American troops, and were also the most prestigious and combat-ready units in the American army, and they would participate in the battle rotation within Bordeaux.

Since the siege of Paris, Bordeaux has become the temporary capital of France, not only a large number of high-ranking officials and personnel are concentrated in Bordeaux, but the army is also around it, plus the British reinforcements, I am afraid that there are not millions of troops.

After the Battle of Paris, the German Army also put the Battle of Bordeaux on the agenda, but the continuous operations from last year to this year made the German army quite tired, digesting the gains of the war at the same time, but also started rotation.

After the Battle of Paris, into May, for four consecutive months, the attack has been maintained with a certain intensity, with one division as a unit every day, and the offensive and defensive battles have not stopped, the intensity is not strong, and the whole army has not pressed, but there is no mutual damage. Under this premise, the American army arrived at the front line in Bordeaux.

Although the United States in this world is the world's largest industrial power, the status of Americans is not high, and the reason is that the core of this world is in Europe, that is, because of the two wars in Europe, the United States took advantage of the situation again, which was transferred to the United States.

France and Britain are relatively arrogant, and they have no choice but to ask the United States for help, but it is only the government's action, and the people and army officers below have a general attitude towards the Americans, especially the front-line troops, and there are just people to replace them.

In this way, the division, which is known as the most powerful division in the United States, entered the battle formation without preparation, but fortunately, here is the defensive line, and there are trenches and civil fortifications, even if the Americans do not pay attention to it, but they also enter the position and hide in the trenches.

The handover of the battlefield was during the day, and the movement was great, which also attracted the attention of the German troops opposite, and on the opposite side of the American position, was the German 19th Infantry Division, which was a meritorious unit, which made great contributions in the fortress of the scorching sun, on the Franco-German border, and even in the battle of Paris not long ago, it was also honored and captured the French parliament building.

Their front-line commanders were skilled, and just after the change of guard, they found that the army on the opposite side was different, not as sophisticated as the French and British before, although they entered the position, but still made a lot of mistakes, for example, the soldiers often saluted their superiors, for example, the officers and soldiers were dressed completely different, and when they entered the trenches, they did not walk with their waists bent, but occasionally raised their heads and stretched out of the trenches.

This is also too strange, is it that the elite soldiers of the French are gone, and new recruits are sent up, the previous ones are the experience of blood and fire of the French army, and after the sacrifice again and again, this is summed up, it seems that there is no good handover with these troops. felt that this was an opportunity, but he didn't dare to make a move easily, but asked around where these people came from.

The 19th Division itself was stationed in a different position, and it had just been transferred here, and as a meritorious unit, it had rich combat experience and was extremely aggressive, and if this was an opportunity, maybe it would be able to get some advantage and even break through the position and make a great contribution.

The division commander not only sent people to reconnoiter the overall situation of this position, but on the other hand, he also asked people to investigate through various channels what the troops of this division really came from. (To be continued.) )