The 12th and 15th Divisions were tasked with retaking Vimy Ridge, and this was the third time since Roque took over as commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force that Vimy Ridge had changed hands, and the fierceness of the battle was evident.

The 2nd Regiment of the 1st Armored Division was responsible for cooperating with the 12th and 15th Divisions, and Roque still couldn't take his lives to pile up after all, and having tank troops to cooperate in the operation should greatly reduce the casualties of the 12th and 15th Divisions.

Before the troops launched the attack, as usual, the air force bombed the artillery to wash the ground, and the German army was already equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns, but the air force of the expeditionary force was also improving, and in the case of the air force units being prepared, the anti-aircraft machine guns could not play much of a role, and the struggle for air supremacy ultimately had to rely on aircraft.

In the first half of the year, the 12th and 15th Divisions also carried out infantry and tank coordination training many times, and the troops were no strangers to the cooperation with the tanks, and the artillery bombardment of the British Expeditionary Force lasted for a short time, only about 40 minutes, and the artillery fire began to extend to the rear of Vimy Ridge, and the tank units that had been waiting for a long time immediately set off to launch an attack on Vimy Ridge accompanied by infantry.

At the observation post behind the position, John Monash and Brad Nancy, who were observing with binoculars, were in a bitter mood, if the Anzac could also have tank troops, then Vimy Ridge would not be taken by the Germans, and the casualties of the Anzac would be much lower.

Of course, what made John Monash and Brad Nancy even more heartbroken was the skillful coordination of the infantry and tank units of the attacking 15th Division, a method of combat that the Anzac had never been exposed to.

In the footage of John Monash and Brad Nancy, the tank troops are not advancing fast, stopping and following the landing point of the shells, and from time to time they have to stop to attack and shoot at the German machine gun positions and artillery positions, after the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge, the position of Vimy Ridge was transformed, and now the pillboxes on Vimy Ridge are facing the German direction, which brings very big trouble to the German defense, and the German army has not had time to transform the position, and the 15th Division has launched an attack, Therefore, the machine gun positions and direct-fire artillery positions faced by the tank units are all temporary positions made of sandbags, and the tanks are really effortless to deal with this kind of temporary positions.

Here, the tank troops encountered the first real obstacle, the mountains of Vimy Ridge were still relatively steep, and the ability of the current tanks to climb over the obstacles was not enough, many tanks could not continue to advance, and the next battle was to be completed by the infantry of the 15th Division.

Fortunately, the 15th Division did not completely rely on external forces to have today's outstanding combat exploits, and as a meritorious unit, the 15th Division's own combat effectiveness is also very outstanding.

After breaking away from the protection of the tank troops, the officers and men of the 15th Division did not panic, they had already planned the current situation before they set off, and the officers and men carried more grenades and weapons more suitable for hand-to-hand combat, and after two consecutive rounds of grenades, the officers and men of the 15th Division poured up to Vimi Ridge like a tide.

The overall situation has been decided, and the war in an asymmetrical form is so cruel, the winner wins everything, and the loser loses everything.

"Congratulations, General Adrian-" John Monash's mood was indescribable, the position that the Anzac still did not hold after the bloody battle was easily recaptured by the 15th Division, the 12th Division did not even have a chance to move, and as far as John Monash observed, the casualties of the 15th Division definitely did not exceed a thousand.

Prior to that, the Anzac had already paid the price of 16,000 men at Vimy Ridge.

"You're welcome General Monash, leave the next task to us, the Anzac need to rest well-" Adrian is not proud, if it is the 12th Division that is attacking, then the 12th Division will perform so well.

"Take care and goodbye." John Monash has the grace and regret to breathe a sigh of relief that he is finally leaving the damn front line, and John Monash can now understand Max Lloyd's feelings.

At this time, the battle on Vimy Ridge continued, and the officers and soldiers of the 15th Division who broke into the German position were met with stubborn resistance from the Germans, but the 15th Division was not an Anzac that was not good at trench warfare, and the automatic rifles equipped with the squad level played a huge role, although the weight of the automatic rifle was a bit heavy, but the advantage of close-range firepower was unparalleled, and with a self-defense pistol in each person's hand, the German army was defeated and retreated, and it was impossible to organize effective resistance.

The first line of German defense was quickly breached, and it was originally the second line of defense of the Canadian Corps, which had been completely destroyed by German artillery fire.

The engineering unit finally opened the passage for the tank troops, the tanks roared and rushed up to Vimi Ridge, the battle finally ended, the surviving German troops had no choice but to surrender, and some people pulled the grenades they carried with them in despair, purely from the will to fight, the Germans were really tenacious.

In the process of cleaning up the battlefield that followed, the officers and men of the 15th Division finally knew what the Anzac had been through.

After the German occupation of Vimy Ridge, they were attacked head-on by the 15th Division before they had time to clear the battlefield, and in the trenches after the bloody battle, there were not only the corpses of German soldiers, but also the corpses of Anzac officers and soldiers who had not had time to be transferred.

In a break room, the officers and men of the 15th Division found 69 Anzac corpses, and the field doctors of the 15th Division examined them and found that a considerable number of them had been stabbed to death with bayonets, and some of them had died by suicide.

In another lounge, the officers and soldiers of the 15th Division found the bodies of the Anzac and the German soldiers at the same time, the bodies of the Anzac Corps had not had time to be transferred, they were randomly piled up in the corner of the rest room, some of the corpses had rotted, and the smell was unbearable, the officers and soldiers of the 15th Division sorted out the bodies of the Anzac officers and soldiers and sent them to the rear, and then gathered the German corpses and poured gasoline on them and burned them, but the rest room after cleaning up still could not be reused, although the bodies were cleaned up, the air was still turbid, The 15th officers and men preferred to sleep in sewage-strewn trenches rather than use the rest room.

A little later, the Times' military correspondent went to Vimy Ridge to interview the officers and men of the 15th Division that had captured Vimy Ridge.

No one wanted to face the cameras, and although the Germans had been expelled from Vimy Ridge, the officers and men of the 15th Division were not too excited, and they were also beginning to get tired of the war.

Now the officers and men of the 15th Division no longer pay attention to the loot, or the interest in the loot is no longer so strong, and some of the belongings of the German officers and soldiers, such as the wallet with the photo, will be put back in the wallet after the 15th officer and soldier have taken the money.

It was only a week before the enemy launched a new assault on Vimy Ridge, and the scale of the attack was much less than before.

Compared to the British Expeditionary Force, the French troops, who had just recovered from the chaos, suffered more heavy losses.

It is clear that not all French units have recovered from the chaos, and during the chaos many officers who did not want to go along with the soldiers were killed, and after Petain became commander-in-chief of the French army, about 5,000 more were shot, and the commanders of the French rank-and-file units suffered heavy losses.

Soldier losses can be called up at any time, officer losses are the most deadly, it is not easy to train a qualified officer, and the collapse of many units begins with the loss of command, which is why the precision marksmen of the Southern African Expeditionary Force are keen to focus on sniping at the junior officers of the German army.

As soon as the German offensive began, many sections of the French defense line were crumbling and problematic, and at this time the most outstanding performance was actually a "butcher" like Mantin, who commanded the First Army under Manking's high pressure.

But this pressure could not last long, and after only ten days, it was Mantin's troops that first began to crumble, and this time it was Petain who turned the tide by ordering the colonial servant troops from Africa to resist resolutely, setting up machine guns behind the defenders, and killing the fleeing officers and soldiers, French and African.

France's colonies in North Africa, the natives are actually mostly Persians, and they were previously the territory of the Ottoman Empire, but France still has vast colonies in Central Africa, and these colonial soldiers still perform very well in battle.

In order to recruit colonial servants, the French government also promised to give the African colonies the status of a dominion similar to southern Africa after the war, but it is not known whether the French will honor it at that time.

If it did, then France would gradually lose control of its colonies.

If not, then the natives of the colonies will be alienated from the French government.

Don't think that the people who make trouble in the African colonies are all Africans, but in fact they are not, those who are most eager for autonomy are the white people who have emigrated to the colonies, to put it bluntly, they are all for profit, and they have nothing to do with democracy and freedom.

After Petain hardened, the French troops finally stabilized the line at great cost.

At this time, the newly established Allied Forces Command began to play a role, Foch as the Chief of the Allied General Staff, the Coalition Army's supplementary forces and logistical materials were rationally deployed, and the U.S. Army units got some tanks and formed the first armored unit, the commander of the tank unit was the future famous Patton, and now Patton is only a colonel staff officer.

The British Expeditionary Force's strong medical resources were also used more effectively, and the field hospital, although nominally used to treat all Allied officers and soldiers, was actually selective, and it was possible that the second lieutenants of the British Expeditionary Force could receive timely and effective treatment, while the French majors had to wait.

Now this is less and less, and with the increasing number of field hospitals, ordinary soldiers are gradually having the opportunity to be effectively treated.

In mid-September, as the German offensive weakened, the Allied forces met again, this time to discuss how to launch a counteroffensive against the Germans, and an important task was to determine the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces, a position that Foch was eventually given to the chief of the General Staff.