The French finally moved! The French Army, under the command of Chauffeur and Petain, pressed almost all the coffins, and the French invested all their armor power before the Germans! Whether it's the Reynolds light tank, the powerful but slow-moving Dragon tank destroyer, and even the hastily improved truck guns have been pulled to the front line. In the eyes of the French, the British and American forces had already made a mess of the rear of the Germans, and the Germans had to push back the British and French forces even if they supported, while the two French armies faced nothing more than the exhausted Kruger Army and several broken armored divisions of Mackensen.

The wave of the French Army's drag is absolutely ferocious, maybe this attack is a return to the glory of the French Army's armored forces, maybe it won't last long, but for the equally exhausted German Army, such an attack is quite deadly! On the first day, the German artillery could also have a dialogue between the artillery and the opponent, relying on accurate positioning and skillful skills to destroy several artillery positions of the French, but on the second day, the German army artillery could only send out sporadic counterattacks because of the tragic exchange and the shortage of ammunition, and on the third day, the French army's artillery had an absolute advantage!

Heavy artillery of various calibers roared day and night, knocking on the entire defense line of the Kruger Corps, and the fierce shelling sounded the prelude to the Entente's counterattack like a trumpet, and the war had reached the most critical moment. Little Moltke did not hesitate to hit the long-hidden armored reserve after the last! Under the command of Hindenburg, the main forces of almost 5 armored divisions began to advance to the front, and they waited for the day. waited until the opponent was attacking with all his strength to make a move, in order to completely break the backbone of the Entente in this main showdown! Germany is not afraid of a frontal collision with the other side, but only about the violent attrition brought by entering the trench confrontation!

But this time, the armored iron fist of the Germans had a feeling of being overwhelmed, as if it had hit a ball of cotton in a circle, and instead of talking about the cotton being crushed, it was scratched by the hidden blade in it! Given by the towed terrain and the high mobility of wheeled armored vehicles, the attack of the German armored forces did not go well! The British and American armies did not care about the gains and losses of one city or one place. Whenever a hit-and-run strategy was adopted, the Germans' attack power was constantly depleted. They are dragging their feet and waiting for a frontal victory for France!

"The Anglo-American forces went on a mobile defense, and the focus of their strikes was on our tanks. First of all, their chariots will be ambushed on the way they must go, and it has to be said that these chariots that may be obtained with Huaxia are indeed a very good assassin, as long as they dig a shallow pit. Then cover the car with some camouflage. Even if we get close to a distance of a few hundred meters, we can't recognize these vehicles, and even worse if there are some cottages or woods around, and sometimes we can't spot them after a few minutes of fire! ”

"IT IS TRUE THAT IN THE FACE OF THE 50MM GUNS OF OUR BOBCAT TANKS, THE OPPOSING TANK'S TANK CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS FRAGILE, AS LONG AS IT HITS, IT WILL DEFINITELY NOT BE SPARED, BUT OUR TANKS ARE NO LESS VULNERABLE TO THE OPPONENT'S ARTILLERY. THEIR 57MM GUNS, WHICH CAN EASILY PENETRATE OUR ARMOR, USE A SHELL CONTAINING A LARGE AMOUNT OF TUNGSTEN ALLOY. Such shells had never been seen before, Britain and France did not have enough resources to manufacture such shells in large quantities, although Spain had enough tungsten ore, but under pressure from the Allies, Spain's exports to France were still very restrained. This kind of shell can only come from China, and he is one of the few countries in the world that can not consider the pressure of both sides of the war! ”

"The opponent fought very bravely, under the constraints of the terrain, we could not push flat, they relied on good terrain and preset positions to maneuver around us, although we tried to move forward, but the speed was never up to expectations, I am worried that before we meet up with General Kruger, General Kruger will be eaten by the opponent!" Hindenburg wrote in the report.

Thankfully, Hindenburg's fears did not come true! This is not to say how correct the strategy formulated by Germany was before, let alone that Hindenburg's inference was wrong, but at the most critical moment, Kruger and Mackensen abandoned their original retreat plan, no longer pursued a direct convergence with Hindenburg, but a stable retreat, and moved closer to the isolated German army defense circle! In this way, they can replenish their losses more quickly, and the ammunition supply situation will improve quickly. Since far water can't quench your thirst, let's quickly find some water to drink, no matter how little water is, it can save your life!

At the critical moment, Kruger's troops began to retreat back in cover for each other, and they did not choose the nearest and fastest route to join Hindenburg, because these places were already full of British and American ambushes and minefields, and they first went to meet up with an isolated support point closest to them, and after receiving supplies, they moved towards the next support point, slowly but steadily. The French army did their best in this engagement, they tore apart the opponent's defense line again and again, smashed the German tanks into burning smithereens again and again, and drove the German infantry out of their rudimentary makeshift bunkers again and again, but they were never able to crush their opponents!

"It was a chronic suicide, both for us and for the Germans. The time of the inventory of all the huge part of the troops involved in the front-line offensive can only be counted in minutes! I SAW WITH MY OWN EYES THAT A REYNOLDS TANK WAS HIT BY A SHELL FLYING OUT OF NOWHERE AFTER DESTROYING A 47MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN, IT WAS LUCKY THAT IT DID NOT EXPLODE IMMEDIATELY, THE MEMBERS OPENED THE HATCH AND STRUGGLED TO CLIMB OUT, BUT IT WAS QUICKLY HIT INTO A SIEVE BY A MACHINE GUN FIRE POINT NOT FAR AWAY, EVEN THE HEAVILY ARMORED DRAGON TANK DESTROYER COULD NOT BE SPARED, THE GERMANS WITH THE 88 GUN ON BOARD AND THE TANK DESTROYER WITH 75MM GUN BECAME AN OUT-AND-OUT ARMORED KILLER. ”

"These steel behemoths, hidden behind bushes or houses, attacked our attacking forces like ghosts, and in this engagement, no one had any choice but to retreat, and many German tanks were destroyed or abandoned only after the last shell had been fired. Tens of thousands of man-hours of weapons may only last for half an hour on the battlefield, and this hard-fought battle has greatly consumed the combat effectiveness and reserves of both sides. The last armoured group of the French Republic went into battle, and although we repelled our opponents and saved Paris, we could not drive them out of France completely! This is how Petain recalls the scene on the battlefield.

While the French were struggling to advance step by step at a heavy cost, the British and American troops also launched the first head-on confrontation with the Hindenburg troops! Hindenburg, after receiving Moltke's orders, quickly turned around and abandoned the original route, instead went to rescue the other isolated troops and join up with Kruger. Although wheeled armored vehicles are not suitable for a frontal conflict, once the forces of Kruger and Hindenburg converge, it is very likely to push the French army head-on, this result is really terrifying, and the British and Americans have no choice but to engage the armored forces of Hindenburg head-on for the first time in the hilly areas of northeastern France.

"General Kruger's troops have withdrawn from Fort Thierry and are withdrawing in the direction of Compige, where they will join up with the defenders and receive a certain amount of supplies, and then establish a defensive line in the woods of Compige to hold back the French attack. Marckensen's subordinate and another unit withdrew to Krezer. The line was re-established, but it was clear that these two forces would not be able to stop the French attack with all their might, and we would need to break through Amiens and then support General Kruger. Hindenburg thought his subordinates ordered.

"It's not easy to capture this place, the Entente forces have captured this place, and built a relatively coherent defensive line, and they have begun to shrink their forces, a large number of armored troops and artillery have been assembled a lot, including the American army, the Entente decided to fight us in the city of Amiens, whether we can rescue General Kruger on the front line, whether we can continue our offensive depends entirely on this battle, the battle of Amiens is the key to determine the direction of the entire war!" Hindenburg once again stressed that in this battle, the German armored forces would do everything to deliver a fatal blow, and Hindenburg did not believe that their tanks would not be able to defeat the opponent's wheeled armored vehicles! And Moltke did his best to hand over all the heavy artillery that could be found and shipped to Hindenburg!

The British and American armies were not to be outdone, while concentrating almost all wheeled armored vehicles, they also put a large number of 6-inch cannons and 8-inch howitzers, although before the start of the campaign, Britain and the United States set a strategy of rapid assault and rapid cutting, but in order to deal with the possible offensive battle, Britain and the United States still prepared a batch of 6-inch and 8-inch artillery. And this time it really came in handy, after a period of fighting, although the wheeled armored vehicles also suffered great losses, but for this engagement, Britain and France are still more confident, after all, Britain and France belong to the defensive side, and wheeled armored vehicles can also use mobility to outflank the two wings, Germany's armor strength is limited, if you want to take into account both wings under the premise of ensuring the frontal offensive force, it is almost possible.

But to the surprise of Britain and the United States, this time they need to face the Germans again with Thor's hammer! Thanks to the efforts of the German Railways, some of the damaged railways were rebuilt, and some of the larger-than-conventional ones were finally able to be transported along the railways. At the same time, a large number of anti-aircraft guns and infantry arrived, and these heavy artillery pieces could be deployed in place before the engagement!

"I wish the Austrians had better artillery than their infantry." WHEN HE HEARD THE NEWS THAT THE AUTRO-HUNGARIAN 240MM HEAVY HOWITZER WAS IN PLACE, HINDENBURG SAID WITH SOME PRIDE.

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