On 25 July, the Anglo-French forces continued their attacks, and under the orders of their commander, General Hamilton, the Anglo-French forces launched an all-out attack from north to south on the German-fortified city of Tours.

Although the German army had a large number of mortars, machine guns and grenades, but the British and French forces had an absolute advantage in artillery fire, using the advantage and powerful artillery suppression, the British and French forces launched a large-scale offensive on the all-out front, the German army took care of the other, in the absence of a large number of automatic firearms, the British and French forces with superior forces finally broke through the first line of defense of the German army under the three-day onslaught.

The Germans in the second line of defense and the third line of defense had more complete pillboxes and trenches, and the trenches, anti-artillery holes, and communication trenches were built very strong and durable, and it was difficult for the British and French artillery to destroy these fortifications for a while.

On the third day of the attack on the second line of defense, in the headquarters behind the offensive positions of the British and French forces, the commander Hamilton was furious at several British and French generals: "It's been three days, and the Germans are still firmly held in the second line of defense, you tell me, why is the offensive progressing so slow?" After running out of ammunition and dying so many people, why didn't you get any results? ”

Several British and French generals were scolded bloody, and the French general Petain, who was standing next to him, said: "Commander, I suspect that the Germans have known in advance our offensive plan and the deployment of troops, otherwise the Germans would not have been so completely prepared. There are also bunkers, they have a complete trench fortification. In addition, we attacked from several places, but each time we failed. And we also suffered heavy losses, several times we were counterattacked by the Germans, and there is only one explanation for this, and that is that the Germans already knew about our plans for a long time! ”

The generals standing on either side looked at each other with a look of horror, but then they were all relieved, and although they were angry that the Germans knew about the battle plan, they were relieved that the Germans had known their plan in advance. Then they will not have to bear the responsibility for the defeat of the war, which is a non-war crime.

"Bang!" Hamilton slammed his fist on the table with a loud bang, and he looked at the generals around him and said angrily: "General Petain's words are not unreasonable, if the Germans had not known our battle plan in advance, they would not have been so well prepared, and our army's attack would not have been frustrated everywhere!" Damn, too hateful, immediately report this matter to the counterintelligence departments of the Entente countries. Give me a detailed investigation into the leak, get that damn spy out, and I'll burn him at the stake! ”

The generals sensed Hamilton's anger, and in fact they were extremely angry. No one could possibly endure it, and after several months of deployment, they mobilized 1.5 million troops. Millions of tons of supplies and ammunition were mobilized, but they were devastated by the betrayal of a few ghosts.

Marshal Pétain said: "Commander." Of course, the spies have to be found out, but do we continue to attack or stop attacking now? ”

Hamilton waved his hand. "The attack can't be stopped, but the attack can be reduced, and I think we need a new offensive plan!" ”

Petain nodded: "Of course, I will immediately ask the staff to reformulate a new offensive plan, and this time the new plan will be kept secret at the highest level!" ”

The offensive continued, but the intensity was much smaller, and the Germans did not know what the Anglo-French coalition was intended, so they did not dare to slack off in the slightest, while the Anglo-French coalition continued to attack on the one hand, and on the other hand, secretly formulated a new offensive plan, and now that the troops, materials, and ammunition were all in place, they only needed to reformulate the offensive plan, and there was no need to draw troops and war materials, so it was necessary to save a lot of time.

The new battle plan was formulated in only three days, and the British and French forces immediately launched an attack in accordance with the new battle plan, and this time the British and French protected the new battle plan very closely, and the German spies did not get the relevant information, and this new plan was formulated at the front line, without going through the Allied military top brass and the joint command at all.

After the Anglo-French alliance launched the attack, the German army was really defenseless, the British and French forces used heavy troops to concentrate on attacking a section of the northwest defense line on the periphery of the northern city of Tours, and shelled with heavy artillery, and then attacked with tanks, although the German army tried its best to defend and resist, but after all, it was taken by surprise, under the attack of the British and French heavy troops, the German second line of defense was lost one after another, and the German troops in the second line of defense could not withstand it, and retreated to the third line of defense after receiving the order of the superior to retreat, The Anglo-French forces also lost a large number of troops before they were able to fully occupy the second direction.

As the defending side, the German army is certainly much inferior to the British and French forces in terms of strength and firepower, so it can only defend, if the German army here is stronger in strength and firepower than the British and French forces, the offensive and defensive postures of the two sides will inevitably change. Now the Germans could only defend, relying on a large number of pillboxes, trenches and bunkers built before to resist the attack of the Anglo-French forces.

The German commander, Field Marshal Timlin, knew that relying on the three lines of defense north of Tours would definitely not be able to withstand the attack of the Anglo-French army, and the northern city of Tours would definitely be captured by the Germans, after all, he did not deploy many troops in the northern city, and his key defenses were on the south bank of the Loire River.

At a meeting of German officers, Timlin pointed out that he would try his best to resist the attack of the British and French troops in the northern part of the city of Tours, and try every means to use all the weapons and building terrain that could be used in the northern city, and if it was really impossible to resist the attack of the coalition forces, then withdraw the remnants of the troops to the south bank of the Loire, and then leave all the ships on the south bank, and rely on the river bank fortifications to block the British and French forces north of the Loire.

Timlin's idea was very good, after all, rivers and mountains were natural defensive barriers, and without ships and bridges, it would be foolish for the Anglo-French army to cross the Loire, unless they could fill it up with corpses, but in fact humans did not have such great sacrifice courage.

On July 29, after four days of fierce attack, the Anglo-French army captured the third line of defense of the German army on the periphery north of the northern city of Tours at the cost of losing 30,000 men, and the German army lost 20,000 men.

Two days later, Hamilton, the commander of the Anglo-French forces, continued to attack the northern city of Tours, but on the first day of the attack, the Anglo-French forces were like hitting an iron plate.

The Germans set up blocking positions at every street intersection, every high-rise building, and many ordinary houses in the northern city of Tours, and the Germans used the terrain and various fortified buildings in the city to deploy the entire city of Tours into a strong and huge fortress.

The British and French soldiers who entered the city were killed by bullets fired from all directions, many British and French soldiers died unexplained, the Germans hid in various buildings, and from time to time they fired cold guns, and some British and French troops had entire platoons and squads surrounded and eliminated by the Germans who appeared from all directions.

On the evening of July 31, in Hamilton's headquarters, Hamilton looked at the map with a gloomy face, the map is the urban map of Tours, the coalition forces are limited to intelligence capabilities and have not yet obtained the German defense map in Tours, but today the British and French troops entered the city, although the sacrifice was great, but still obtained some German defense points, which were marked on the map, but this is only the tip of the iceberg of the German defense points in the north city of Tours.

A major general of the British army reported to Hamilton: "Your Excellency, in today's battle, we have lost 6,000 men!" ”

Hamilton took a few puffs of his large pipe, turned around and said, "Six thousand? Compared to the previous day, more than 20,000 people died in one day, it is not a big deal, but I was surprised that the area of the northern city of Tours is not large, and there are not many streets and houses, why did we lose 6,000 people? Besides, the Germans were not natives, so how did they make us lose 6,000 men in one day? ”

Petain, who was standing next to him, said: "Your Excellency, today's battle reminds me of something! ”

Hamilton looked at Pétain: "What? ”

Petain smoked his pipe and said: "After the Chinese army attacked the Japanese island of Kyushu last year, it sent a report on the analysis of the battle situation to our Allied member states, and the Chinese army said in the analysis report that they had encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese army when they attacked Fukuoka City on Kyushu Island, and the Japanese turned every street and every house in Fukuoka City into a battlefield, and the Chinese army fought with them for every street and every house in Fukuoka City, and if they took a house, how many people would die, how many houses were there in the city, oh, God, I can't imagine the brutality of this kind of fighting, if the Germans had deployed their forces in the same way, we would have to pay hundreds of thousands of people if we wanted to take Tours, and no one could afford this price! ”

Hamilton's brow furrowed deeply, and he asked, "So how long did it take for the Chinese to capture Fukuoka Castle, and how many people died?" ”

"More than 1,000 elites died and more than 4,000 were wounded! An infantry division was almost half-crippled! It took them half a month, and there were nearly 20,000 Japanese troops in Fukuoka Castle at that time."

Hamilton was surprised: "So few casualties? Didn't they say that the casualties were great? ”

Pétain said helplessly: "Because they have never fought with more than a thousand dead!" ”

Hamilton asked, "So how did they take Fukuoka Castle?"

"A large number of bombs were dropped on Fukuoka Castle with bomber groups, and countless Japanese soldiers hiding in them were killed, crushed and burned to death, and the Japanese could not hide and had to surrender!" (To be continued......)