At 11:30 a.m. on the 20th, rumbling shelling sounded one after another in the direction of Peron. At a time when the German Army Group A was fighting with the British, French, and American allied forces in front of it, the German Army Group B quickly carried out a temporary general mobilization and launched an all-round and fierce attack from Perón to the positions of the American and French armies directly in front. The fort was so important that the battle was different from that of the Loreto Heights, and the battle between the two sides was fierce. Max? Hoffmann's German Army Group B seemed to want to find a breakthrough again in this joint between the American and French lines, and the intensity of the attack was much more intense. Immediately afterwards, the German Army Group C also suddenly launched its troops at Rafa, and the divisions, brigades, and regiments began to attack the frontal defenders one after another.

Ferdinand? Foch constantly received reports on the battle situation from the front-line commands, and while stabilizing the morale of the troops, he unfolded military maps in the command hall and urgently analyzed the tactical intentions of the German army with his staff officers. In his opinion, the intentions of the German army were already very obvious, Eric? Adrian and Max? Hoffmann's aim was to attract the main forces of the British, French, and American forces to the north, and the main forces of the German Army Group D took advantage of the weakening of the French defenses to break through from the south in one fell swoop, opening a broad road to Paris. Ferdinand? Foch gave his judgment to the front-line troops, and ordered the British army in the north to continue to defend to the death, the American army in the center to maneuver tactically at any time, and the south to covertly engage the enemy, focusing on strengthening the defense in depth.

At 40 o'clock in the afternoon, the German D, which had been silent, began to advance to the French positions along the Marne in battalion and company units.

Four armies along the western route of the German army simultaneously launched a general offensive on the Western Front. This made Ferdinand? Field Marshal Foch's first reaction was confusion and consternation, he really couldn't understand what the purpose of the German army was in doing this. If the German Army Group D had only been on covert and standby, it would inevitably contain most of the combat strength of Britain and France, however, the consequences of such a large-scale attack would directly show that the German army was desperate, and the risks and sequelae were very terrible. Ferdinand? Foch analysis, Erik? Adrian's battle without backup, if it is not done well, all the attacks of the entire German army will face collapse. The analysis of the battlefield situation makes some sense, Ferdinand? Marshal Foch seems to have seen the dawn of victory. He stressed once again that as long as the troops fought steadily and steadily by adding firewood, they would inevitably wear down a large number of German troops, and at that time, if the whole front launched a counterattack, the whole war would be reversed, and Germany would have to take the initiative to return to the negotiating table, and there would be no room for maneuver but to surrender unconditionally and let the Allies dominate it.

The offensive of the German army on all fronts has not stopped, and the various army groups have constantly organized sabotage battles, artillery battles, and attacks in turn with divisions and brigades as units. Marshal Foch stayed up all night, and in the early morning of the 21st, he still stared intently at the map of the situation.

Almost all of the four army groups on the German border were engaged in the battle, and only the Verdun battlefield, more than 200 kilometers from Paris, remained unmoved. Ferdinand? Marshal Foch was very strange, although the German army had suffered a great deal here, it did not mean that it would not hit the southern wall again, and if the German 4th Army bypassed the southern frontal battlefield and attacked Verdun, the consequences would be unimaginable. Therefore, no matter how the American army called for reinforcements, Foch did not want to use the troops stationed in Verdun without permission, and his only purpose now was to endure the German army to start a war of attrition and strangulation.

Ferdinand? Foch was a very assertive marshal, and his dominant idea was to resist the pressure, even if the United States used diplomatic means and even wantonly exaggerated the German offensive, the French army south of the Marne could only stand still.

On the evening of the 21st, a casualty report of the various units was placed in the Ferdinand ? On Marshal Foch's desk, the Allies suffered more than 120,000 casualties in just two days, a shocking figure that sent chills down the old marshal's spine. However, Ferdinand? Foch quickly became calm, and the Allies on the defensive side were still like this, and it is conceivable that the German casualties on the attacking side would be only a lot more. He cocked his proud beard and said to the senior generals who were already in disarray: "Children, one thing you should understand is that war means death, and we and the enemy are the same, let the Germans who do not have a long memory go crazy, the more they attack, the sooner the moment of Germany's demise will come." Ferdinand? Foch not only said it in his words, but also thought so in his heart, he hoped that the German army would exhaust him in this way.

Eric? Adrian, regardless of his personal safety, braved the rumbling artillery fire to personally go to the forward command post to observe the enemy's situation, which was strongly opposed by Defense Minister Brauchitsch and others, but Adrian was stubborn and insisted on refusing to leave. Hoffman knew Adrian's temper, so he had to suggest that Vice President Hindenburg and others lead the guards to follow closely in case of accidents. In fact, whether it was Vice President Hindenburg or Chief of Staff Hoffmann, everyone knew in their hearts that for the future and destiny of the German Federal State, Adrian was desperate at this time.

The Foreign Ministry Miller has no bargaining chips at the negotiating table in Paris, it is difficult, the Entente are aggressive, whether the Federal States of Germany can get rid of the mud of World War I in this battle, if it loses miserably, Germany will inevitably suffer a more cruel punishment than now, if it wins by luck, it can allow Germany to increase its bargaining chips and reduce the punishment, and the matter is as simple as that. Either Germany will collapse from this, or Germany will get out of it.

Is Adrian sure? In fact, he himself can't say it well, if he is completely sure, he does not need to put on a posture of color revolution in politics. Max? Hoffman's plan of action was not very clever except for a surprise attack, which was different from the Eastern Front battlefield and was a meat grinder back then. Adrian didn't put all the difficulties on everyone, he didn't want to affect the fighting spirit of the soldiers. But he himself was clear, the cobweb-like trenches on the western front were deep and wide, the British and French armies were waiting for work, and with the strong support of the American army, the black and oppressive Allied infantry alone had fixed the defensive line like an iron barrel, leaving people with nowhere to start. The troop deployment map provided only allowed Hoffman to find the weakest links in the Allied defense, and in fact, every tactical breakthrough had to be fought for by the soldiers with their lives and blood.

The focus of the defense of the US army was in the middle of the British and French armies, and the Loreto Heights was the top priority. Hoffman's greatest hope was to break through the Entente defense line here, take advantage of the lack of combat experience of the American army, so as to tear a hole in the British position, separate the British and American troops, and force the French army to return to the south. Therefore, a frontal attack was launched by Army A first, but not as brutally as Army B, so that Ferdinand? Foch had the illusion that the Americans were exaggerating the German offensive, which Foch saw as a tactical deception in which the Germans wanted to focus the Allied attention on the northern part of the country in order to launch an offensive on the southern front. Marshal Foch, a veteran who has seen storms and won battles, only needs to find the key problem through the fragmentary battle reports from the front. That is, the points of attack chosen by the German army are all relatively weak points on the Entente defense line, isn't he worried? Actually, he wants to bet!

Ferdinand? Foch took off his gloves and pressed his wrinkled hands against the map, no longer in his eyes where fierce battles had broken out, but the southern front, which he had always felt too quiet. There, there was a black hole-like attraction, and he felt that this was an opportunity, an opportunity to break the entire trend of the war! However, he is not very sure now, he wants to see what the next move of the German army on the northern front is, if the German army continues to increase the offensive on the northern front, it will undoubtedly prove that the German army is weak on the southern front. If an offensive was launched along the southern front, it showed that the Germans wanted to break through the defensive line while the French army was moving troops from the south to the north. Either way, he was sure that this all-front German offensive would become a grave for the Germans to dig themselves.