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However, the quality of the German pilots and the quality of the aircraft were better than those of the Anglo-American coalition, and the battle loss ratio was almost 2 to 1.

On January 3, 1942, more than one million German troops who had been reinforced joined the offensive corps attack on Patton, with more than one million people, more than 20 highly armored divisions, and more than 10,000 artillery pieces.

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 Anglo-American forces still holding out in the Ardennes had no chance of escaping, and even the two million Anglo-American troops who landed in France were also doomed.

Eisenhower was not stupid, he had known about the Air Force reconnaissance report for a long time, and a few days ago Roosevelt and Churchill had 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 Rommel, 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 Group on the Left Sector and Army Group on the Right Sector.

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 Anglo-American forces in front of the Maginot Line.

However, the German army did not completely encircle the 2.8 million Anglo-American 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 Anglo-American troops outside the encirclement, and they were stationed in major ports and 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 Anglo-American coalition used to attack Troyes were also 300,000, although the number was not large, but all of them were elite troops, and there were 18 armored divisions, almost 80/80 of the remaining armored divisions of the Anglo-American coalition.

The total strength of the Anglo-American coalition 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 November 29, the day of Patton's end, the British and American forces launched an attack on Troyes, and after thirty minutes of artillery preparation, the city of Troyes was filled with gunsmoke.

To put it simply, an attacking division is followed by three or four reserve attacking divisions, and the disabled first division is immediately replaced, and the reserve attacking division immediately continues to attack.

The resistance of the German army was also very tenacious, but the number of people used by the British and American coalition forces for the attack was too much, like a tide, and the British and American forces also moved artillery to the front line, and when the direct fire artillery was used, the battle entered a white heat.

Even if the rate of fire of the German MG42 machine gun was fast, it was not as fast as the crazy crowd of the Anglo-American coalition army, and soon the Anglo-American coalition army on both sides occupied a part of the city of Troyes, and the street fighting was even more brutal, and the Anglo-American coalition army had to support the lives of at least three or four soldiers to kill a German soldier.

This was the only way for the British and American forces to survive, and they did not give up, hundreds of thousands of people rushed desperately, and more than 20,000 German troops only fought bloodily for three days and three nights

The Anglo-American coalition still did not take the city of Rois, that is, when the Anglo-American forces were preparing to completely take the city of Roy the next day, the airborne troops sent by the Führer Rommel arrived, and the only three airborne divisions of Germany successfully arrived in the city of Roy in a whole day of airdrops.

In order to take the city of Troyes as soon as possible, the Anglo-American coalition army invested 850,000 offensive troops at one time, and the number of dead and wounded reached 150,000 and more than 200,000 wounded.

Rommel's troops were also rapidly approaching the city of Rova, and the Anglo-American forces had no chance to break through, with about 1.8 million Anglo-American troops left in the Macedonian encirclement, and about 500,000 Anglo-American troops outside the encirclement.

Seeing that the more than 500,000 Anglo-American troops could not help the main force break through, they immediately gave up the attack, and then rushed to Normandy, where there was a large port they built, and the Anglo-American troops who escaped discarded all the equipment that could be discarded, blew up all the bridges, to block the German pursuing armored division troops, and they finally reached the Normandy area on January 5.

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

The Anglo-American coalition forces left in the encirclement completely became a turtle in the urn, and Rommel immediately commanded more than 3 million troops to launch a division and annihilation operation.

On January 3, 1942, all the British and American forces in the encirclement were completely annihilated, to be precise, surrendered, and the final division of the annihilation war, as long as a few thousand British and American troops were annihilated, the rest all went to the German prisoner of war camps.

Rommel commanded the German army to successfully annihilate a part of the Anglo-American coalition forces that landed in France, about 2.3 million, escaped more than 500,000 Anglo-American troops, shot down more than 9,000 British and American planes, more than 3,000 tanks, captured more than 2,000 tanks, captured more than 100,000 vehicles of various kinds, and countless weapons and ammunition. (To be continued.) )