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 American officers, soldiers, and equipment could have achieved such a feat. 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 ostensibly going all out to reinforce it, 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 army's left and right army groups.

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.

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

When Eisenhower received the order to break out, he began to secretly mobilize these unsurrounded troops, and they quietly moved to the periphery of Troyes by marching at night and hiding at night. The elite troops in the encirclement and the Allies used to attack Troyes were also 300,000 people, although the number was not large, but all of them were elite troops, and there were eighteen armored divisions. Almost eighty-eighties of the remaining Allied Panzer Divisions.

The total number of Allied forces used to attack Troyes reached 800,000 men. 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 day Barton was finished. On the morning of November 29. The Allies launched a battle to attack Troyes. After thirty minutes of artillery preparation, the city of Troyes was filled with gunsmoke, and the Allies were charging in the whole regiment and 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 reserve attacking division immediately followed the attack, which was completely man-to-man tactics, and the attacking allies continued to attack on the corpses of their comrades.

The German resistance was also very stubborn, but the number of Allied troops for the attack was too much, like a tidal wave, the Allies also moved artillery to the front line, when direct fire artillery was used, the battle entered the white heat.

Even the German MG42 machine guns were not as fast as the crazy crowds of the Allies, and soon the Allied forces on both sides occupied a small 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 is the only way for the Allies to survive, they are also in charge, hundreds of thousands of people rushed desperately, more than 20,000 German troops only fought for one day and one night before they were completely reimbursed, the Allies finally found eighteen German wounded in the ruins, and the rest of the German troops were all killed, so how many Allied soldiers died?

In order to take the city of Troyes as soon as possible, the Allies invested 850,000 attacking troops at one time, and the number of dead and wounded reached 150,000 and more than 200,000 wounded.

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. (To be continued......)

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