Gathering a million-strong army in a day and launching an offensive is not a task that the commanders and staff of every country dare to challenge. The Germans, who were known for their efficiency, spent three days at the beginning of the war to gather 2 million troops and transport most of them to assembly points near the border.

General Haig and the British Army were immensely proud that their 1,050,000 troops and more than 4,000 artillery pieces had assembled and attacked from the starting point to the Dorchester-Southampton line in just over 20 hours. However, after an attack, the British commanders suddenly found that their headquarters and troops were far less efficient than the Germans, and the reason why they were able to accomplish this seemingly impossible task of assembling and attacking was entirely because of the small size of England. First of all, these 1.05 million soldiers were all deployed in the south of England before, and a large part of them were on standby at Taunton, Southampton and London, the distance from Taunton to the front line was 75 kilometers, even if it took most of the day to walk, and it took only 7-8 hours to take some detours by train; Southampton's 12 infantry divisions and 21 separate infantry regiments had to assemble and go to the front with their cannons, and they were also the first troops to arrive at the starting point of the attack after Haig's order; The distance from London to Southampton, the easternmost point of the front, was exactly 100 kilometres, and troops drawn from London were able to reach the front within the allotted time even on foot by road.

The situation was very different in the historical Normandy landings, the distance between Calais and Normandy was more than 300 kilometers, and the Allies had absolute air supremacy, and a staggering number of Allied planes destroyed most of France's railway lines and roads with continuous bombing and harassment, which made it very difficult for German troops to move in France. For example, the journey of 1,000 kilometers from the Soviet Union to the German-French border took only three days for the two armored divisions drawn from the Soviet battlefield to the German-French border, and a week for hundreds of kilometers from the German-French border to the French coast.

On the 27th, the Germans had devoted most of their air forces to airdrop paratroopers, supplies, and support the front line, so that the British build-up and deliveries were hardly harassed from the outside world.

The role of General Haig's headquarters in this was only to plan the specific position of each unit on the offensive line, and then convey this information to the divisions and regiments involved in the operation, in fact, on this day, the British army's rail transportation was almost chaotic, some units waited for hours after getting on the train, and some troops got off the car and found that they had to walk several kilometers or even more than ten kilometers to the intended location, the artillery was delivered to the position before the attack as planned, but most of the ammunition was still in the rear.

After the cessation of the first British offensive, there was a brief lull between the positions of the two sides. Taking advantage of this interval, General François, the commander-in-chief of the Bonemouth defensive line, and Colonel Guderian, the commander of the armored forces, appeared together on the forward positions to inspect them. Although winters in England are not particularly cold, in the early hours of December, people walking outdoors are still required to wear a thick coat. Looking at the German soldiers in the trenches wearing military coats and wrapped in blankets, the old and new generals were very satisfied with the adequate preparations made by the group army.

"Germany's fighting spirit, America's logistics!" Guderian muttered softly, he didn't know much about what Chen Tian often said at the beginning, after all, at this time, the U.S. Army was just an inaccessible military force, seeing the gap cooking squad sending a large pot of hot soup to the trenches, and these soldiers fighting on the front line were full of happy expressions, he gradually understood the meaning of that sentence.

"General!" "Colonel!"

As François and Guderian walked by, the soldiers next to them stood up and saluted. For the generals, there is nothing more gratifying than seeing their soldiers in high spirits. After a very fierce battle, there was no scene full of wounded soldiers in the field hospital, and even François, who had been fighting for decades, was a little surprised.

When passing by an observation post equipped with periscopes, the officers invariably stopped, in the trench with a depth of more than 2 meters, the soldiers must climb to the simple steps of the trench wall to shoot outward, this mode of trench has a good survivability under the enemy's artillery fire, but the generals who pay attention to the instrument generally climb to the trench wall not far away, so along the way François and others have not observed the situation on the battlefield at close range.

By this time, most of the stars in the sky had already finished their work and gone home, but the battlefield was not completely dark, the Germans were constantly using flares to prevent British surprise attacks, and a few searchlights were also scanning the ground in front of the position back and forth. In this flickering light, one can see the corpses of British soldiers and some rifles stuck diagonally on the ground, and some British medics holding white flags are searching for survivors back and forth. Many of the barbed wire fences were damaged by the British bombardment and attack, some of the wooden stakes used to pull the barbed wire were still erected on the ground alone, some of the barbed wire at the front were still hung with strips of rags and the like, and some British soldiers lying on the barbed wire were already dead.

"A brave attack! A stupid attack! ”

At this moment, the German generals deeply felt the conceptual lag of the British Army, in front of the trench positions with enough machine guns, the numerical advantage would be wiped out with machine gun bullets, but the British generals still let thousands of soldiers charge, and the lives of countless British, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders were easily harvested like straw. In the aftermath of this war, the black messengers of these countries are bound to be the busiest people.

On the "Frontier Governor" off the coast of Bonnemouth, Tatsu Tian received a staggering figure from his staff officers, 5-60,000! Considering that the total losses of the British on the battlefield in France were less than 20,000 men, and in just over an hour, Britain and its allies lost more troops than in all the colonial wars in decades, and the British Army was more like a spendthrift nouveau riche at this time, with tens of thousands of soldiers filling the muzzles of German guns. You must know that the Russians lost only 100,000 men in the Battle of Insterburg Pass, which lasted for nearly a day, and 120,000 in the Battle of Compinan in one day and one night.

Slaughter and being slaughtered, the military theme of the First World War is once again represented here.

"We are now on guard against the British jumping over the wall, letting the soldiers take advantage of the gap between battles to strengthen the fortifications, and distributing gas masks to each soldier! Order the attack planes and bombers at the airfields of Cherbourg to take off, and they will be ready to arrive at the battlefield at daybreak, and their targets are the departure positions of the British army and the logistics transport lines! Chen Tian worked hard to think of all the preparations that could be made, the next two days of battle were decisive, and any human mistakes could not be forgiven.

After giving the order, Chen Tian took out the silver cigarette case that Prince Heydrich had given him from his pocket, and then took out a cigarette with a stiff motion, which Chen Tian had not touched since he had smoked together the last time he discussed things with Rainey. After groping for a long time, Chen Tian found that he didn't have a lighter on him, and finally a guard next to him solved this problem for him. After the outbreak of the war, cigarettes suddenly became a hot commodity in short supply, up to Kaiser Wilhelm II, down to the soldiers in the trenches, the demand for cigarettes increased a lot, when tired and anxious, Chen Tian has always used coffee to solve the problem, but he has drunk too much coffee in the past 24 hours.

In the curling white smoke, Chen Tian once again had that vague uneasiness in his heart, he felt that he could not fully believe or disbelieve Scorpio's unique intuition, after all, many things have fulfilled this intuition.

"Help me get the Chief of the General Staff over!"

Chen Tian smoked cigarette after cigarette, and so far he would only smoke in that novice-level smoking style. Since the landing campaign, apart from issuing orders, Chen Tian has not taken the initiative to find his chief of staff. Although most of the army and navy generals are inclined to support Chentian at this time, these old generals are the only ones who can be trusted for the time being.

"Your Highness, do you want to give any orders?"

Hoffman soon arrived, and was visibly surprised to see Chentian smoking.

"No, I just want to know if there are any unusual situations in the country during this time?" After quietly understanding the side, Chen Tian found that the shadow figure sent by the Kaiser did not nationalize the entire Bat Legion, because if it was done that way, it would be too wide-ranging, and it would inevitably be revealed, after all, most of the spies swore allegiance to Chentian, so the information of the Bat Legion was basically available at this stage.

"Anomalies? ...... do you mean?" said this, Hoffman looked around vigilantly, there were only a few personal guards in this lounge, but he still tried to keep his voice as low as possible.

"Berlin!"

"Berlin? Not yet! But there is information that ......," Hoffman said, bringing his mouth closer to Chentian, "after getting His Majesty's approval, the doctor from the East has already begun to treat Prince, and we are not very sure of the effect!" ”

Chen Tian nodded, Rennie was still in the palace as a special liaison officer at this time, but in order not to arouse the emperor's suspicion, he usually did not take the initiative to contact outsiders, but was specifically responsible for the contact between the emperor and Chen Tian, as long as he had not sent back the report, then the situation in the palace would not be too bad. However, if that doctor is really a real Chinese medicine doctor, then it is difficult to say whether Prince will be cured, after all, China's medical skills are vast and profound, Chinese medicine and acupuncture can often play an unexpected role, and before the Japanese invasion and other catastrophes, the valuable medical knowledge and experience accumulated by Chinese medicine practitioners for thousands of years should still be very sound.

"Report it to me as soon as the wind blows! The stakes are high, and don't overlook some seemingly mundane details! "In such an issue related to the fate of individuals, families and countries, it is natural for Chen Tian to show such tension.

"Yes, I'll pay attention!" Hoffman is a very shrewd person, which reminds Chen Tian of old Zach and little Zach, a big man can successfully rise, what kind of small people are behind him is very important.

Chen Tian didn't bother to think about the expression of General Haig, the commander-in-chief of the British army, after learning of his own casualties, the British army would not and could not give up the attack because of the heavy losses. George V and his generals were well aware that the German 8th Army was nothing more than the vanguard of the German offensive, and that there were still no less than a million German officers and soldiers on the French coast preparing to put their leather boots on British soil (the German Army units involved in the attack on the British mainland included the 1st, 5th, 7th, and 8th armies, with a total of 1.43 million soldiers and 6,500 cannons, the 2nd and 6th armies of the army would serve as strategic reserves, and the landing order of the armies was the 8th, 5th, 1st, and 7th armies, The above data is detailed in the fifteenth chapter of the God of War volume "Imperial Eagle", and some lovely readers still think that only the two armies of Chentian and Hindenburg have landed, and the previous chapters did not read it carefully, a little criticism! The strategic depth of the British Isles is really pitiful, and the British army can only win if they annihilate the enemy on the beach, and retreating inland or even the Scottish Highlands is tantamount to chronic suicide.

At 5:30 a.m., British artillery again shelled German positions, while the Germans sent a small number of airships to bombard the British artillery positions.

The second British shelling lasted only half an hour before it was stopped due to ammunition, and this shelling still failed to bring substantial damage to the German trench positions, and the German soldiers suffered casualties in the artillery fire were also in the triple digits. As soon as the British artillery fire stopped, tens of thousands of British infantry poured out of the trenches, and they launched wave after wave of almost tragic charges to the melodious sound of Scottish bagpipes. Everywhere along the battle line, under the light of flares, there were groups of British soldiers with their heads surging together, and there were several kinds of military caps on their heads, English and Canadian soldiers with flat brims, Scottish and Welsh soldiers with skulled hats, and Australian and colonial legions with tropical yar-brimmed hats.

Although they didn't need precise aiming to hit the enemy, the German soldiers didn't take the battle here as easy as hunting, and they could still feel the force of the British army from a distance of hundreds of kilometers.

As the battle progressed, flares streaked through the air, and patches of British soldiers were swept down by artillery fire and bullets, but the follow-up soldiers did not hesitate to fill up, and the British attacking force was like a huge wave surging towards the German breakwater.

Suddenly, the strange and piercing sound came from the air again, the German officers and soldiers were immediately excited, and the British soldiers were terrified, this is the large-caliber shells fired by the German battleships cruising in the sea near Bonemouth, more than 70 305 mm and 343 mm shells in a wave broke through the air like a meteor shower, and the huge impact of the explosion of the half-ton high-explosive shells can easily wipe out the lives within a radius of tens of meters. After a wave of shells, the British offensive line in one place became a large flaw, and the British attack in that area even stalled as a result.

Behind the German positions, the "Stone I" and "Stone II" opened their hatches for shelling, and their 37mm tank guns, although not very powerful, were effective as rapid-fire guns for close support. The German defense line in the 25-kilometer-long section could not be watertight, and when a certain section was unstable, the leak plugging force composed of tanks, armored vehicles, and motorcycles would rush to the scene as quickly as possible, and then drive the British army back to their hometown with a counterattack.

In winter, it dawned late, but on December 28, 1914, dawn came, and the first to react were the carrier-based aircraft on the deck of the German aircraft carrier. With a clear buzz, they slid off the deck one by one, and after rising into the air, the pilots above were the first to welcome the sun in the area.

The British were still making their last efforts when the first "Sea Hawk II" flew over the battlefield north of Bonemouth, and the terrain was flat, and the attacking British infantry was almost unsheltered from German guns. Many German tanks and armored vehicles even swaggered into positions to shoot, and the bodies of countless fallen were piled on top of each other on the flat ground in front of the German positions, and now British soldiers had to step over the bodies of their comrades with every step forward.

On the ground to the east of the battlefield, there are still dozens of cooled armored vehicle wreckage in front of the German position, those are the armored vehicle units that the British army has invested in the two waves of attacks, including two small nomad prototype vehicles, the German army's method of dealing with them is very simple, that is, to concentrate a dozen field artillery battalions and dozens of tanks for targeted bombardment.

After the huge fleet of planes taking off from Cherbourg arrived on the battlefield, the British completely abandoned their second attack. Haig's promise to the king and his ministers finally came to fruition.