Arras, the debut of the M26 Pershing heavy tank, the swan song of the heavy tank, was driven off the stage by the 88-mm anti-aircraft gun before he could fully show his formidable power, and the change of fate was too fast.

Rudolph had reason to rejoice, the moment the first M26 Pershing heavy tank tank was destroyed, he knew that victory would always belong to the 32nd Panzer Division. And there is also an unexpected bonus, as a tank warfare specialist, isn't it just to flatten the muzzle of an anti-aircraft gun? This is a dual-purpose artillery! Thank God, thanks to Churchill, thanks to the M26 Pershing heavy tank, henceforth I will have the longest anti-tank arm, and in return, I will treat the British tanks well.

The British retreated, there is no point in this battle to continue, without the protection of tanks, just relying on the group charge of the infantry, that is about the same as everyone lining up to commit suicide, since the invention of the heavy machine gun, no idiot commander will ask the soldiers to do this, the first 100 meters of the position will be the line of death that can never be rushed, the heavy machine gun will be the scythe of death that harvests the soul, it has no meaning for itself. The reason why it is said to be about equal to that is because 10 years later, a glorious army on the battlefield of Korea * Xian subverted this law, the British did not have the courage to do it, and God's preference for infantry was also conditional.

In the Battle of Arras, the British army won first and then lost, and all the follow-up plans looked a little ridiculous, and the morale of the army not only did not improve, but proved the invincibility of the German army, and it seemed that even God favored the Germans.

Then the Allies did nothing in the Western European battlefield, except for surrender or collapse, it is hard to believe that this army beat the Germans all over the ground more than 20 years ago.

The Germans pursued the British, but were stopped by the French 3rd Light Panzer Division. This led the French heavy armoured divisions to believe that the Germans were no longer fearful. In the evening. Not only the French but also the British thought that their original plan and idea were correct. On October 23, 1940, the French 3rd Light Panzer Division launched its own offensive in an attempt to rob the British of the credit. The Luftwaffe and German reinforcements defeated their offensive.

The operation was more than originally hoped – the intensity of the attack led the 32nd Panzer Division to believe that they were being attacked by 10 infantry divisions. The attack also made the German commander Limer nervous for a while.

Li Mo had ordered the 300,000 troops in the Ardennes Forest to begin a counterattack, while the 300,000 reserve troops also joined the attack on the Allied forces on the outskirts of the Ardennes Forest. It is difficult for these 300,000 allies to escape, and Li Mo is now basically using the tactics of cutting scalpers with knives and cutting scalpers one at a time in order to sacrifice the lives of German soldiers less this year.

Time has proved that this tactic is feasible, that is, the war will be slightly longer, but Germany has lost more than 2 million soldiers and more than 3 million disabled since the beginning of the war. This is 5 million young people, Germany has a population of only 70 million, and the number of young adults aged 18-35 is at most 15 million, and now Germany has a shortage of soldiers, and has begun to recruit men between 35 and 45 years old to join the army, and even children aged 14-17.

War is also fought with human resources, and it is the most important of all resources, there are people and talents, and destroying the enemy's living forces is also the most effective way of warfare in war.

The appearance of the M26 Pershing tank surprised Li Mo. I can't imagine that the Yankees have developed a heavy tank so quickly, and they are basically at the same level as their own Leopard, and the battlefield war cannot be dragged on. The longer it dragged on, the worse Germany would lose, and at this time Li Mo already had an idea of how to accept the war, of course, the best way was the same as later generations, the situation of the European Union of Nations was the best, provided that the European Union dominated by Germany, not the European Union dominated by the United States.

The British actually had only 24 M26 Pershing 1 tanks and 16 M26 Pershing 2 tanks armed with 90 mm cannons, as well as several light armored vehicles to support them.

In the end, more than 40 British tanks and 20 French tanks were lost in the battle. And Germany lost only 42 vehicles. Rudolph wrote in his diary that 189 men were killed, 216 wounded, and 132 missing or captured in his division.

The British lost (killed or wounded) about 1,000 men in the attack, and the French casualty figure is not known. However, according to some French soldiers who participated in the campaign, it can be assumed that the number of French casualties was extremely low.

Although most people mistakenly believe that the 88-mm anti-aircraft gun was used as an anti-tank gun for the first time in the Battle of Arras. But that's not the case. As early as a few years ago in the Spanish Civil War, the German Volunteer Condor Regiment had used 88mm anti-aircraft guns against armored units and other ground targets, as did Rommel.

The Battle of Arras led the German army under the command of Limer to advance to the Agawa River on October 24, 1940. The Allied forces in the Ardennes Forest were completely cut off from all retreats, and their only way out was to rush to the Maginot Line, of course, Eisenhower was also storming the Maginot Line at this time, and now it is unrealistic to want these hundreds of thousands of Allied troops to surrender.

Army Group E, the German right flank in northern Italy, received orders on October 24, 1940, to begin the attack, while the Allied forces encircled in Belgium and the Netherlands began to surrender en masse, and the offensive strength of Army Groups A and B on the left flank increased to one million.

The two armies were like two big pincers, rushing towards central France, and the main force of more than two million Allied troops was worried, because outside the Maginot Line, where the main forces of the Allied forces were basically concentrated at this time, Eisenhower did not deploy many troops in central France.

Even if Eisenhower had hundreds of thousands of reserve troops in central France, they would have to meet the attack of nearly two million elite troops of the German army, and the end would be absolutely tragic, and 50% of the Allied airfields were in the central part of France, and once these airfields were lost, the Allied forces would be considered to have a wing cut off.

After October 24th, the German army of two armies attacked central France in an all-round way, because the Allied forces here were weak and made rapid progress, the Yici French campaign Germany was fought from the Ardennes Forest to Dunkirk, and now Limer was the first to cut off the Allied retreat, the Allied forces had the Maginot Line and the Siegfried Line in front of them, and there were two million troops in the bottom, and it was already difficult to escape.

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At Buckingham Palace in London, England, Queen Elizabeth is teaching her two little princes.

"Riha, what's Daddy's name?"

"Li Mo? Krupp ...... Dad is not well-behaved, and he always doesn't come to see me. ”

"Riha, you can't blame Dad, he's busy, he's commanding thousands of troops and horses to fight right now! Dad is the greatest marshal in this world. ”

"Then I will be the greatest marshal like my father in the future...... Oh oh oh ......" (To be continued)

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