In the prisoner of war camp, Patton wrote in his diary: "During this campaign, the 3rd Army advanced farther and faster than any army in the history of the United States, and perhaps in the history of the world, and committed more troops in a shorter period of time." Only such outstanding US officers, soldiers, and equipment could achieve such feats. Even though they launched the wrong attack in the wrong place at the wrong time, I am still very proud of it. ”

Patton also had a habit of writing down casualties and losses on both sides after every major battle, and this time was no exception, and he recorded in his diary the casualties of the U.S. 3rd Army up to January 29:

Patton's offensive corps was finished, and the Allied forces still holding out in the Ardennes had no chance of escaping, even the two million Allied troops who landed in France were afraid that they would not be able to escape.

Eisenhower was stupid, and the Air Force knew it when he found out in the reconnaissance report, and a few days ago Roosevelt and Churchill sent a secret telegram asking him to survive with a broken arm.

Eisenhower knew the consequences of the siege and annihilation of the Ardennes launched by Limer, and Eisenhower was also going all out to reinforce on the surface, but Eisenhower secretly transferred the main American army and a part of the British army to the south of France, and their target was Troyes, the combination of the German Left Wing Army Group and the Right Wing Army Group. The German Army Group on the Left was the German Army in the Ardennes Forest, and Army Group on the Right Sector was the German Army in northern Italy. The two German forces were like pincers that surrounded the Allies in front of the Maginot Line.

However, the Germans did not completely encircle the 2.8 million Allied troops, only about 1.8 million were surrounded, and in addition to the 550,000 who marched into Belgium, there were still more than 500,000 Allied troops outside the encirclement, and they were stationed in the major ports and in Paris.

When Eisenhower received the order to break out, he began to secretly mobilize these troops who were not surrounded. Taking advantage of the method of marching at night, hiding at night, they quietly moved to the outskirts of Troyes. The elite troops in the encirclement and the Allies used to attack Troyes were also 300,000 men. Although the number is small, all of them are elite troops. And there were eighteen armored divisions, almost eighty eighties of the remaining armored divisions of the Allied forces.

The total strength of the Allied forces for the attack on Troyes reached 800,000, while the German garrison in Troyes was only two German divisions, with only 26,000 men, which was already a very strong defensive force, and some cities did not have such troops.

On the morning of 29 November, the same day as Patton, the Allies launched an attack on Troyes. After thirty minutes of artillery preparation, the city of Troyes was filled with gunsmoke, and the Allies were charging with the whole regiment and the whole division, and the Allies used wave charges, simply put, an attacking division was followed by three or four reserve attacking divisions, and the disabled division was immediately replaced, and the preparatory attacking division immediately continued to attack, which was completely a man-to-man tactic, and the attacking Allies stepped on the corpses of their comrades to attack continuously. The German resistance was also very stubborn, but the number of Allied troops for the attack was simply too large. Like a tidal wave, the Allies also moved artillery to the front line and used it as direct-fire artillery. As soon as the battle began, it entered a white heat.

Even the rate of fire of the German MG42 machine guns was fast, but it was not as fast as the crazy crowd of the Allies, and soon the Allied forces attacking from both sides occupied a part of the city of Troyes, and the street fighting was even more brutal, and the Allies had to support the lives of at least three or four soldiers to kill a German soldier.

This was the only way for the Allies to survive, and they did not give up, hundreds of thousands of people rushed desperately, and more than 20,000 German troops were completely reimbursed after only one day and one night. The Allies eventually found eighteen German wounded in the ruins, and the rest of the German army was killed. So how many Allied people died?

In order to take the city of Troyes as soon as possible, the Allies invested 850,000 attacking troops at one time. The cost of 150,000 killed and more than 200,000 wounded was extremely heavy, but the Allied forces also opened the door to escape.

Li Mozhen mobilized troops to encircle and annihilate the Allied forces in the Ardennes area, and the German troops of the Right Wing Army Group were also deployed in an encirclement of several hundred kilometers, and they could not be mobilized together in a short period of time, not even in pursuit, because the number of Allied troops fleeing was too large, and the total number was close to two million.

As soon as the Allied forces escaped from the encirclement, they immediately rushed towards Normandy, where there was a large port they had built, and the Allied troops who escaped discarded all the equipment they could discard and blew up all the bridges to stop the German pursuing Panzer Division. They finally reached the Normandy area on 5 January.

And the Normandy area was already a sea of ships at this time, whether there were warships, passenger ships, or even fishing boats and yachts, as long as it was a ship, the British used it.

By the time Li Mo led a large army to Normandy, the Allies had completely blown up the man-made docks in Normandy, but the entire Normandy area was full of all kinds of abandoned weapons, ammunition and vehicles. Many were intact, and the Allies did not even have time for destruction.

At this end of the Second French Campaign, Limer commanded the German army to successfully annihilate a part of the Allied forces that landed in France, about 1.15 million, escaped more than 1.7 million Allied troops, shot down more than 9,000 Allied planes, more than 2,000 tanks, captured more than 1,000 tanks, captured more than 100,000 vehicles of various kinds, and countless weapons and ammunition.

The Germans also suffered a lot of losses, with more than 300,000 killed, more than 5,000 aircraft, more than 700 tanks, and more than 10,000 vehicles.

In short, the Second French Campaign was an incomparably brilliant victory, although it did not completely annihilate all the Allied forces, but the Allies still did not dare to think about opening up a second battlefield in a short period of time.

The captured tanks were available, but the aircraft suffered too much damage and took some time to recover.

The situation on the battlefield in the Soviet Union has deteriorated, and these troops will soon be transferred to the Soviet front, but if they continue to fight endlessly, the German army is destined to be unable to consume, and where should Germany go.

This strategic retreat of the Allies was not a prepared retreat, for they did not occupy certain terrain suitable for retreat; However, as a rout retreat on all fronts, it was successful. Although the resistance was repeatedly interrupted, it slowed down the advance of the German army. In addition, the Allied forces held on to several strategic points, which made the fighting in these areas favorable to them. They pinned down more German troops in these areas than expected, and as a result, they could not be used elsewhere.

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