The current United States is not the United States in another time and space that can dump the pot if it wants and pit whoever it wants.

In another time and space, the United States successfully turned over through World War I, replaced Britain as the world's only superpower through World War II, and then reached its peak through the Cold War, which created the selfish and self-serving America later.

The current United States, in the concept of Europeans, is still the rogue country composed of thieves, robbers, and broken settlements, and is still synonymous with "nouveau riche", and many restaurants in Paris still have signs on the doors that do not welcome Americans to dine in order to take care of the mood of customers, so the United States does not have much say on the issue of "naming rights", and even if the Americans strongly protest, the Times still ignores the Americans.

While the Americans were strongly protesting, the German offensive was continuing.

Ludendorff was desperate, and the entire Western Front was within the range of the German attack, and the salient of the defensive line near Arras was the focus of the German attack, and Ludendorff committed fifteen divisions for the attack on Vimy Ridge.

Before this attack was launched, it was the Canadian Corps that was responsible for defending Vimy Ridge.

A week after the offensive was launched, the Canadian Corps voluntarily withdrew from its positions, and the troops defending Vimy Ridge were replaced by the more combat-ready Anzacs.

In just one week, The Canadian Corps paid a heavy price of nearly 65,000 casualties, and the reorganized Third Division and the reorganized Fifth Division were basically disabled and lost their combat capability; 4 of the 22 companies of the reorganized 1st Division that participated in the battle were completely wiped out, and more than half of the 11 companies suffered casualties; almost all of the surviving officers and men were wounded; during the battle, nearly 100 officers and men had an emotional breakdown, and some soldiers took the initiative to walk out of the trenches and toward the German positions without warning, and these people were often shot and killed by German precision marksmen shortly after they came out of the trenches.

Roque adjusted the defensive line in time, and the troops would not fight on the front line for more than a week, and then retreat to the second line and rest for at least a week before returning to the front line.

The pressure on the field hospital is increasing, and the British urgently converted two cruise ships into hospital ships and docked at the port of Flanders, but it is still unable to treat all the wounded, the lightly wounded can only receive simple treatment, and they still have to fight on the front line, and the seriously wounded are also directly abandoned.

The new students of the Faculty of Medicine of Johannesburg and the University of Nyasaland came directly to France to fight in the war, and they had to grow rapidly in actual combat, and they may have just been exposed to wound suturing in the morning, and in the afternoon they would have to go to the field hospital to help, working with their teachers and brothers.

Since the beginning of the German offensive, the atmosphere in the expeditionary force headquarters has been very depressing, and Roque will pay attention to the casualties of the expeditionary force at first, and then he will feel numb to the daily battle report, compared with the British expeditionary force, the French troops and American troops have suffered more casualties, and Petain and Pershing are also gritting their teeth and insisting.

Cambrai, not far from Arras, was the line of defense for which the 2nd Cavalry Division was responsible.

From the beginning of the campaign, the Second Cavalry Division insisted on fighting on the front line, and the Second Cavalry Division was also one of the few units that had not been rotated after the outbreak of the campaign, which fully proved the combat effectiveness of the Second Cavalry Division.

The German offensive was also selective, Ludendorff was not stupid, he would not throw all his chips out of the stud, in the face of such a strong force as the 2nd Cavalry Division, the Germans, after launching one or two exploratory attacks and finding that there was almost no chance of victory, would immediately change their objectives and focus their attacks on the more likely areas of breakthrough.

This was the case with the 2nd Cavalry Division, which, after the outbreak of the battle, with only about two divisions of troops, launched two tentative attacks on the defensive line of the 2nd Cavalry Division, and then the Germans changed the focus of their attacks to Vimy Ridge, which was more likely to break through.

This led to a very miraculous situation, the brave and good 2nd Cavalry Division has had nothing to do since the start of the battle, and the tormented Vimy Ridge will be ravaged by the fire of war every day, which makes the commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division, Don Juan, very unhappy.

"Isn't it good that the Germans don't attack our positions? What is wrong with you? "Chief of Staff Bullard prayed that the Germans would never attack the positions for which the 2nd Cavalry Division was responsible, so that the good lads of the 2nd Cavalry Division would not have to fight to the death with the Germans.

Honors and medals are not so fun, each one is bought with blood and life.

"You have a point, but I'm just uncomfortable, I'm here to beat the Germans, not to go on vacation." Don Juan has ideals, and this is the consciousness that a qualified soldier should have.

The consciousness of dying on the battlefield!

"Come on, go ask the soldiers in the trenches, they won't think so." Brad did not want to see his men sacrificed, and many generals in southern Africa were as eager for war as Don Juan, which he thought was dangerous, but did not know how to correct it.

Perhaps there is no need to correct that a country cannot be held hostage by war, nor can it be afraid of war.

The weather is the eternal enemy, Cambrai has been raining since a week ago, the rain is so heavy that the trenches have begun to accumulate water, in some parts of the trenches, there are two feet of water in the five-foot trenches, the soldiers are soaked in water every day, many soldiers are plagued by diseases, and the non-combat attrition is increasing.

In the entire British Expeditionary Force, the medical resources of the Second Cavalry Division were relatively good, almost every company was equipped with professional field doctors, and the division headquarters also had professional field hospitals, and the level of doctors was no less than that of field hospitals in Paris and Dunkirk.

Even so, the field hospital of the 2nd Cavalry Division was already crowded with wounded, most of the wounded were from the Canadian Corps and the Anzac, and the doctors of the 2nd Cavalry Division could not see death without help, and the generals of the Canadian Corps and the Anzac Corps took the initiative to come to Don Juan and Bullard, hoping that the field hospital of the 2nd Cavalry Division could treat the wounded soldiers from the Canadian Corps and the Anzac.

'I think maybe we can launch a counter-attack and share some of the pressure from the Anzacs.' Don Juan also didn't want his soldiers to soak in the trenches, and although Roque and Petain believed that defense was the best offense, there were still many generals who believed in "attack first".

Especially after the British Expeditionary Force and the French troops had more and more tank units.

At the outbreak of the World War, many people in the French army believed in the "supremacy of attack", and Chauffeur, Nivelle, and Mankin were among the victims of this mentality, and it was precisely because of the "attack first" that the French army suffered so much loss in the early days after the outbreak of the world war.

Now the "attack first" has a new content, especially for units like the Second Cavalry Division, before the German attack this time, the Second Cavalry Division carried out many exercises between infantry and artillery coordination and infantry and tank coordination, just to prepare for the future counteroffensive.

With more and more tanks coming in from southern Africa, the 2nd Cavalry Division now has an armored regiment with 168 tanks, which are now scattered along the defensive line to assist in the defense, which is completely contrary to the way Roque has been emphasizing the use of tank forces.

Roque has always emphasized the concentrated use of tank units for large-scale group attacks, in order to maximize the role of tanks, rather than as a fixed gun emplacement, or machine gun positions to assist in defense.

"Don't be impulsive, the command didn't give a combat order, do what we have to do." Brad was adamantly against it, and it was not appropriate to launch a counterattack now, and the continuous rain created a huge obstacle for the tank troops, and Brad believed that the staff officers of the command must have noticed this.

"Division commander, chief of staff, we have lost Vimy Ridge-" A staff officer hurriedly reported that the Germans had finally captured Vimy Ridge, which was bad news.

In Arras, 30 kilometres away, John Monash was also reported.

"Order George to take the position back—" John Monash's voice was calm, like a precursor to a storm.

"George's troops are suffering heavy casualties, and we need more reinforcements-" Brad Nancy is now the chief of staff of the Anzac, as the first commander to come to Europe, Brad Nancy knows the Anzac generals well, if George still has reserves in his hands, then George will not lose his position.

"I don't care what George does, he has to take the position back, I don't have more reinforcements for him, I need reinforcements everywhere-" John Monash is more cold-blooded than Roque, and he, the commander-in-chief, is now also a clever woman who has no rice to cook.

"We can send a telegram to the headquarters that the 1st Panzer Division is on standby at Yamao, and if Marshal Locke sends the 1st Panzer Division over, we can recapture our positions and hold Vimy Ridge." Brad Nancy experienced the worst of things in the Garibaldi Peninsula, when Brad Nancy resented Roque for not helping him more, and now Brad Nancy can finally understand Roque.

It's not that you don't give it, you really can't give it.

John Monash did not speak, and acquiesced in sending a telegram to the headquarters asking for assistance, this is not the time to make a fuss, and stabilizing the line is what a good general should do.

The First Armored Division is the last hole card in Roque's hand, and Roque will not send the First Panzer Division unless it is absolutely necessary.

However, the request of the Anzac cannot be ignored, Roque sent the 12th and 15th divisions of the Southern African Expeditionary Force, these two units are slightly weaker than the first armored division, but the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, especially the 15th division, which came to France from southern Africa soon after the war, and is also a meritorious unit with many meritorious achievements.

Adrian, the commander of the 15th Division, was a native of English origin from the Cape, although he was of some German descent, but he was trustworthy, and after the outbreak of the war, Adrian, like King George V, gave up his German surname, which is common in Britain.

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