Chapter 1139: It's a breeze

The German attack is like a wave, one wave has just subsided, and the other wave will rise again, after the fourth front is occupied, just after a little rest, it will attack towards the fifth line of defense, as the opponent, what is on the opposite position, it can be said that it is clear at a glance, Andian is also very clear, only the four lines of defense in front are hard bones, and the fifth and sixth lines of defense in the back are just a spectacle, and they can't have much protection for the army at all, if you don't take advantage of this opportunity, In one fell swoop, the opponent is put on the defensive line, and once the opponent has a firm foothold, it is a different scene.

An Dean arranged a lot of attack routines, but this time after rushing to the enemy's position, he found that the resistance was very slight, and the army of this wave of attacks successfully captured the fifth line of defense, and found some wounded soldiers on the defense line.

Among these wounded soldiers, almost none were able to act on their own, and even the deepest injuries were already in danger of life.

Although it is said that there is no total annihilation and capture of the other party's army, but the thousands of wounded soldiers still make An De'an attach great importance to it, and almost all of those who can be saved have been rescued, and almost no one is spared.

After getting the battle report from the front, Andean didn't know what was going on, the other side had retreated, he took advantage of the situation to capture the fifth and sixth lines of defense, and began to build defenses.

The 19th Division was the best among the German troops, but Anderan did not expect that the American troops on the opposite side would be so vulnerable, and his plan was to prepare for an attack at night, take the position before dawn, destroy and clean it up. Put this prominently to the end, and then retreat.

Battle of Bordeaux. It is destined to be a long, non-stop attrition campaign. As the commander, Andean knows this very well, and can only rely on fragmentary advantages, gradually accumulating, and eventually becoming the advantage of the campaign. A little bit of something, just eat it, Britain and France are not vegetarians, without Germany's perfect positional system, into the British and French trenches, once by the British and French strategic artillery. Concentrated bombardment, his 19th Infantry Division, no matter how meritorious the troops, could not withstand such a powerful attack, after all, people are flesh and blood, how can they be compared with shells composed of steel and explosives, when the time comes, the results of annihilating the 6th Division will be gone, and the 19th Division will be matched. That's more than worth the loss.

The benefits that deserve are not pulled at all, whether it is capture, loot. Or something else, due to the long time, plus the gimmick that the upper echelons need to annihilate the US military. Some important documents, military flags. maps, and even the wounded. They were all pulled down, and they said unceremoniously that everything that should have been taken away was gone.

In this process, Bordeaux's Anglo-French forces seemed to be quite cooperative, and there was no counterattack artillery fire at all, the real reason was very simple, the US Sixth Division hurriedly withdrew from the defensive line, he did not follow the military order, a full division, more than 15,000 people, not only did not have any results, but was mostly annihilated within 3 hours, which made him feel ashamed. To sum up the reasons, on the one hand, because the German army was too strong, the attack power of a division exceeded the maximum range of the sixth division, and on the other hand, it was not that the British and French troops were unfriendly, not only was the handover not clear, but when they were attacked, there was not even a little reinforcement, so the remnants of the sixth division, no one was notified, and they left the battlefield in Bordeaux directly and found a place to rest.

Near Bordeaux, in a small area, gathered more than 200 divisions, almost more than 3 million troops, the coalition command can be said to be a good opportunity, at the beginning, Swift also called the nearby troops, asked about the situation here, at that time the gunfire was fierce, did not ask more, and then the matter became busy, simply put this matter behind.

No one knew that the U.S. army had already retreated, or only when he was defending in the defensive line, the misunderstanding between the two sides made the position quite quiet, and the 19th Division could safely collect military postures and trophies.

The Germans knew that this place could not stay for a long time, and the action was quite fast, and it took less than 3 hours to clean up the battlefield, and then leave, perhaps because this battlefield had been quiet for too long, and the friendly troops around it also saw the problem, and when they came up to see, there was nothing empty, and the air was still filled with the smell of gunsmoke, and they immediately called the headquarters.

A full-fledged division of the U.S. army with a total number of 15,000 people, in less than 3 hours of fighting, people disappeared, positions were lost, and now they can't find any people, is it all annihilated, this makes the U.S. military a little unacceptable, Li Desen directly found the commanders of Britain and France, and asked for an explanation.

Such an unceremonious attitude made the British and French commanders almost not angry, a division, on the perfect position, did not even resist for 3 hours, was almost disabled, and was embarrassed to ask for an explanation, Bordeaux's millions of troops, the number of people who die every day, will only be more than this, not less than this, how to ask for an explanation.

Li Desen also knew that things were in a hurry, but the Sixth Division was almost completely wiped out, and he couldn't explain it.

At this time, in the joint command, the phone suddenly rang, and it turned out that when Swift ordered the defenders of Bordeaux to find the traces of the remnants of the Sixth Division, the remnants of the Sixth Division could not hide.

The phone called, informing them that the 6th Division had not been annihilated, leaving less than 2,000 men, which set off a wave of waves, and an important advance position was forcibly pulled out by the Germans in a matter of hours, which was a record-breaking.

The most important thing is that they did not obey the military order, and when the military order did not order them to retreat, they retreated, which made Li Desen lose the courage to continue to ask.

Don't talk about military discipline, don't ask for instructions, and lose the position by yourself, and the serious consequences have not yet been seen, but if you disobey the military order, this is definitely a matter of loss, Li Desen's words gradually decreased, and finally stopped talking.

The two coalition generals issued a series of orders, and then several units in the rear began to mobilize and go to the original position of the Sixth Division to make amends.

Although Li Desen no longer shouted and asked the coalition command to give an explanation, but how the Sixth Division was defeated, if this problem is not clarified, the US army will come up in the future, it will be like this, and it is impossible for Li Desen to push the troops into the fire pit, since he has come to Europe, he always has to go to the battlefield, and he always hides in the back.

Swift helped Li Desen analyze the reason, it was very simple, the US military did not form a complete set of training methods for positional warfare, and when people were sent up, it was also the US military that forcibly let them enter the front line to feel the atmosphere of war, and even he did not expect that the US army would be so vulnerable.

Only then did Li Desen know that the current European war has made great progress, and that the tactics that the United States relied on in the past to charge the group and the number of people on both sides have completely become outdated, and the use of more vitality, trench warfare, and the application of mines and automatic firearms are all shortcomings of the US military, and if these places are not supplemented, the US combat strength will not be able to fight a European war at all.

In the most concise language, it also cost hundreds of dollars, and sent it by telegram, and it was easy to find out the reason, and the news was transmitted back to the British headquarters and the War Department of the US military, and there was an uproar, because I had known that the gap between the US military and the European troops was so big, and this was something that no one had expected.

The most important thing is that the other side is the same division, the German army at most is more than 20,000 masters, the American side is only 15,000, but the victor is Germany. When I first received the telegram from Li Desen, I thought it was a concentrated assault by the other side, perhaps this was because the German side was more fully prepared, and the number was a little more, but basically, it was the same batch and level, in this case, there were some reasons for the failure, and if I didn't figure it out, how to continue.

Later, it was found that the other side was also a division, such a gap is really unacceptable, the German army is so strong, much stronger than the Americans, if the German army is a regular army, then the Sixth Infantry Division is a little bit accepted.

Before that, the Americans watched the performance of Britain and France as if they were watching a joke, but they only felt that the level of Britain and France was a little low, and even the American army might be above them, and now I found out that it was not the low level of Britain and France that could withstand the German offensive for so long, and the strength of Britain and France, even if it was inferior to Germany, was above the level, and the gap immediately appeared when comparing the strength of the Americans.

Since then, the Americans have realized their own gap, and they no longer talk about going to the battlefield, and even if they do, they will conduct some exercises in the rear, or in places that are slowly approaching the front line, recognizing the current situation that the whole of Europe occupies, and follow this progress.

This realization made the United States continue to send personnel for a long period of time, and after a long period of elite forces, Germany in a year or two, the pressure on the army has greatly increased, and the Entente has also changed from passive beating to a strategic counteroffensive after more than a year, the counteroffensive distance is not long, but it has a very far-reaching impact on the whole world, with the passage of time, the huge land area and personnel of the Americans are a barrier, protecting the United States from being damaged and not aggravated. (To be continued.) )