In the early morning of October 16, the troops of the 3rd Army, which were specially stationed on the outskirts of the barracks, took advantage of the darkness of the night to quietly move towards the target.

Erwin Witzleben was under great pressure with the 3rd Army, which had 30,000 men, to take command of the recovery of southwestern Germany as quickly as possible, and to join up with Tim von Bodwyn in Saxony as quickly as possible.

There are not many people, but the task is the most important and the most difficult, Max Hoffmann named himself to be on it, which means that he can do it, Erwin Witzler secretly encouraged himself.

Of this force of 30,000 men, the commander of the 31st Armored Brigade of the 311st Panzer Division of the 3rd Army of the National Army was William Guderian, who was ordered to open roads for the large forces and pull out enemy fire points. The armored brigade must fight against the enemy, passing all the way, invincible, all the way south, and the army reaches Frankfurt.

In the early hours of the morning, Guderian received a report from the reconnaissance troops in the front, and a team of several hundred people in front of him put up a stubborn resistance.

The small group of troops was originally leaderless, but they were suddenly flanked by the mechanized corps, and the camp was in chaos for a while, they had never had experience in fighting armored forces, and they could not get the essentials of blocking left and right. As soon as they made contact, the small recalcitrant army was immediately discouraged, and in the face of such a strong enemy, they had to retreat while fighting, hiding in the rubble and broken walls that made it impossible for armored vehicles to destroy. Guderian commanded the armed transports to advance quickly, rampage at full speed, as if they were in a no-man's land. The battle soon became clear, and with the exception of a few of the judges, who were still in danger and returned fire, the rest of the soldiers either fled or surrendered on the spot.

This is a front-line rout army without control and leadership, because it has not been able to get any supplies, it has become a bandit, committed to the mountains and forests, occupies the land and is the king, they burn and loot everywhere, and the local people are miserable. The rout army was originally inadequately armed and equipped, with only more than 100 rifles in the team headquarters of several hundred people, and there was a serious shortage of ammunition, plus there were no submachine guns, machine guns and other weapons to suppress the fire. encountered such a fierce offensive again, and in less than a bag of cigarettes, they immediately dispersed.

This small battle only made the armored troops who had experienced a hundred battles revitalize their slightly stiff bodies. Guderian sent only the 3114th Panzer Battalion, and the rest of the troops were not affected by it, bypassing the combat zone and continuing southward.

The unit led by Guderian with a quick counterattack and quick offensive mainly consisted of 120 armed transport vehicles, 900 armed commandos, each equipped with submachine guns, 22 personnel carriers converted from supply vehicles, and a number of supply vehicles. And carried 200 infantrymen, a total of 1100 people. At the same time, Guderian's 3rd Armored Brigade of the 31st Armored Division of the 3rd Army of the National Army was divided into 4 armored battalions, namely the 3111th Armored Battalion, the 3112th Armored Battalion, the 3113th Armored Battalion, and the 3114th Armored Battalion.

On October 20, 1918, after four days, Guderian led the 311th Panzer Brigade to Heidelberg and turned east. Because of strategic necessity and avoiding the mountainous terrain in the southwest, Guderian led his armored forces to the east along the road to threaten Nuremberg as originally planned.

The rest of the 3rd Army of the National Army led by Erwin Witzleben marched all the way south day and night, many soldiers had blood blisters in their footsteps, and some soldiers fainted due to lack of physical strength, but everyone knew that the military situation was urgent, and the soldiers were fast, although they were tired of running for their lives, no one complained, and Erwin Witzleben was also very hard, but he was proud of these soldiers, he took the initiative not to ride in a car or on a horse, at this moment, he knew, in order to complete this almost impossible marching task, He can't be special alone, only in this way will the soldiers work together to get through the difficulties. The soldiers were very moved, united and helped each other, and finally on the evening of October 22, when the moon had just risen, the large force arrived in Heidelberg and continued south, preparing to attack Stuttgart with lightning speed.

The garrison in Stuttgart was no match for the Nationalists, and before the Nationalists could attack, a white flag was raised in the city, and Erwin Witzleben did not waste time in sending people to investigate, and a large army poured directly into the city.

On October 24, 1918, Stuttgart was forced to surrender and declare its membership in the Federal State of Germany. The next day, October 25, Bavaria also telegraphed the whole country to declare its accession to the Federal Republic of Germany.

The southwestern part of Germany has been completely recovered, and only the 311th Panzer Brigade led by Guderian is still on its way to Dresden. Erwin Witzleben ordered the 3rd Army to rest in place at Stuart, while Max? Hoffmann had the 2nd Army in the north launch a fierce assault on the Albert government forces on the line from Bremen to Felden, but the battle did not go very well. The Albert government had two divisions stationed in the area, and the plan for rapid combat did not include any artillery support at all, only armed transports as a fortified weapon. The generals defending Bremen had already seen the power of armed transports on the Western Front, and were well aware of their weaknesses. More than a dozen deep pits were dug outside the city to block the advance of armed transports.

On this morning, the commander of the 2nd Army, William Loeb, stood in the cab of the armed transport, surrounded by Nationalist soldiers who had been repulsed after several strong attacks, and he knew that everyone was tired without looking closely, and several attacks were repulsed because of the lack of heavy weapons to support them.

Wilhelm Loeb raised his right hand and pointed behind him and said, "To the south of us, where the 3rd Army of the Nationalist Army has recaptured the southwestern part of Germany, and our 2nd Army is still blocked by its own family, blushing?!" He pointed his finger in front of him and shouted: "Before leaving, I swear to the President that if I cannot recover the northern part of Germany, I will commit suicide and apologize!" This is just the first step and stopped, how can I explain? He took out the pistol pinned to his waist and continued to shout: "Today! Everyone is dead, and this place must be taken! If I can't take it, I'll have to die! Rush with me! With that, William Loeb jumped out of the car and led the assault on the town of Bremen. The garrison of the city had long been prepared, and William Loeb had just taken the lead in the charge when he was bombarded with artillery one after another. Corpses, blood, wood chips and dirt flew all over the sky. None of the soldiers of the 2nd Army fell behind Witzleben. Trench after trench, the soldiers of the 2nd Army tirelessly climbed over these obstacles, approaching step by step. By the time we reached the last trenches close to the town, the shelling had been noticeably reduced. William Loeb also rushed to the front with the soldiers, who was covered in mud by this time. Without thinking about wiping off the mud on his face that was almost dry, he picked up the gun of a fallen soldier, then took a bayonet from the soldier, stuck it under the muzzle, and shouted: "For Germany!" For the president! Come on! ”

William Loeb charged in the trenches, and he was the first to burst out, and a group of disgraced Nationalists pounced on the Bremen garrison at the speed of a dash.

The distance was too close, the space between the two sides was only more than 100 meters, and the defending generals placed heavy machine guns in these passes, and the first wave of the national army's charge was cut clean like straw. But before the garrison could breathe, a second wave of charges followed. The third wave, the fourth wave. The soldiers who operated the machine guns were already beating faster, because the machine guns were already overheated, and if the enemy still attacked like this, this place would have to be lost sooner or later.

Finally, after an unknown number of charges, the Nationalists finally rushed to the defensive line in the interval of machine gun mute fire, and an inevitable hand-to-hand combat began. The garrison waited for work, but the morale of the national army was high, and the two sides were inseparable. At this moment, the sight of the National Army breaking through all sides of Bremen City appeared.

In the afternoon, after nine hours of bloody fighting, the Nationalist army succeeded in capturing Bremen, suffering more than half of the casualties and thousands of prisoners. William Loeb was seriously wounded and transported back to Hanover for rescue.

In the south, as of October 26, 1918, the 311th armored brigade led by Guderian through several days of continuous hard fighting, the original 120 armored vehicles have lost more than half of them due to failure, and the soldiers are also exhausted, and then, to avoid the enemy is to set up the enemy, Guderian, change the offensive strategy, the troops are divided into two armies, ladder alternate advance, people can rest, but armored vehicles can not rest, through the afternoon of the 26th to take the initiative to meet the enemy, only after a short battle to take the Plauen. At this point, the door to Dresden was opened.