The Predator began to intervene in the affairs of Soviet Russia, and several high-ranking Russian officials arrested by the Cheka on counter-revolutionary charges were rescued by the special services dispatched by the Predator during the secret execution.

After several high-ranking Soviet Russians were rescued, they immediately found their former subordinates and obtained the protection of the army, and Vladimi's intentions were also made public by them, which further intensified the contradictions within Soviet Russia, almost to the point of cannibalism.

Due to the chaos at the top of the Soviet Union, the command of the army also fell into chaos, and the offensive on Kolchak on the front line was also eased.

However, at this time, the battlefield on the Western Front was more intense, and the British, French, and American armies launched a large-scale offensive in southwestern France.

On August 6, the French army captured Bordeaux and continued to advance eastward, and engaged in large-scale battles with the German defenders along the way, and the American army of 100,000 people then rushed to help, and the German army, which was small in its own strength, was even more unable to reach at this time, 80,000 German troops withdrew to Toulouse, Toulouse itself had 100,000 German troops, and after the retreating German troops withdrew to Toulouse, the German army had 180,000 people.

The 180,000 German troops were more than half the number of the 300,000 French and 100,000 American troops, and the Entente forces were still coming in the rear in order to hold Toulouse, the most important city in France. The Germans had to withdraw 30,000 men to the north to Gallac and Albi to hold the road to the north. so as not to be cut off by the armies of Britain, France and the United States to return north.

On 12 August, French and American forces captured Montauban, an important town northwest of Toulouse, at a cost of 30,000 men. The Germans were somewhat glad that they had transferred 30,000 men to Gallac and Alby, otherwise the French and American armies would only need to transfer one army to capture Gallac and Albi and cut off the northward return of the German army in Toulouse. With these 30,000 German troops, it was impossible for the French and American troops to take Gerak and Albi before German reinforcements arrived.

In fact, the German generals who defended Toulouse thought that the value of holding Toulouse was no longer great, and that it would only be a waste of troops to defend it with 180,000 troops, and that it was better to withdraw their troops and concentrate their forces to garrison dangerous places to block the French and American troops from moving north. But the German general's suggestion was not adopted by the German High Command, the order from Berlin in Germany was to let him continue to lead his troops to hold Toulouse, Berlin gave the reason that Toulouse has little strategic value, but its reputation is too great, once the German army loses Toulouse, it may make many people think that the German army has reached the verge of defeat, Berlin does not want the people to have this idea, so it sent such an order.

Max, the German defender of Toulouse, was heartbroken when he received a telegram from Berlin, and he did not believe that no one in the German high command realized that Toulouse had no need to defend at this time. And Berlin still sent such a telegram, which was tantamount to pushing 180,000 German troops into the fire pit.

Max, as a military man, could not have violated the orders from above, and he had to order the Germans to defend with all their might. He believed that as long as Gallac and Albi were held, the German army in Toulouse still had any hope of survival, so he again transferred 20,000 German troops to Gallac and Albi.

By this time, however, the French and American forces had already begun to operate. After the 20,000 German troops entered Gallac and Albi, the French and American forces jointly sent a force of 20,000 men to ambush the road from Toulouse to Gallac. They severed ground communication between Gallac and Toulouse, and cut all telephone lines. Let Gallac's German army not be able to contact the German army in Toulouse in time, and by the time Max of Toulouse discovered the anomaly, it was too late, 200,000 French troops surrounded Gallac and Albi, Max wanted to send troops north to relieve the siege of Gallac, but at this time the remaining 100,000 French troops and 100,000 American troops had already approached Toulouse, making it difficult for Max to send troops north to lift the siege of Gallac.

After all, the 100,000 French troops and 100,000 American troops did not attack immediately after the northwest perimeter of Toulouse, but began to prepare for the siege of the city, because the French generals and American generals knew that it was obviously unrealistic to eat the 130,000 German troops in Toulouse with 200,000 people, so they could only stare at the German army outside the city, digging offensive fortifications while waiting for the follow-up troops to arrive.

German general Max was the commander of the 12th Army before the war, and after the outbreak of the war, he was appointed commander of the 3rd Army, originally in the Battle of the Marne in 1914 he was removed because he was worried that his right flank would be outflanked by the British and French forces and ordered to retreat, but this time and space The Battle of the Marne ended with the defeat of the British and French forces, and Max was not removed from his post because of this, but continued to serve as the commander of the 3rd Army, but his troops were scattered throughout the south of France at this time, It is simply impossible to assemble in a short period of time.

And in order to strengthen Toulouse's forces, Max had to gather all the German troops in the French area south of Toulouse and order them to withdraw in the direction of Toulouse.

On 22 August, all German troops in the south withdrew to the vicinity of Toulouse, and the German forces around Toulouse reached 180,000 for a time, and together with the 50,000 troops of Gallac and Albi, the total strength reached 230,000.

On August 24, the Entente follow-up forces arrived, 100,000 British troops and 100,000 French troops, and the total strength of Britain, France and the United States reached 600,000, and in terms of troops, the strength of the British, French and American armies was almost three times that of the German army.

However, by this time Max of Toulouse had learned that 200,000 French and American troops had been attacking Gallac and Albi for a week, and that the 50,000 German troops stationed there had lost 20,000, with more than 40% casualties.

Through telegraph contact, Max learned that the morale of the remaining 30,000 German troops in Gallac and Albi was a little low, but at this time the road from Toulouse to Gallac had been cut off by the Allied army, and he could not go even if he wanted to go to Gallac and Albi in person to boost morale, he could only send a telegram to the German generals of Gallac and Albi, ordering them to hold on, and if they couldn't hold on, they had to send a telegram to contact him and ask him for instructions on what to do next.

On the 27th, the Germans stationed at Galac and Albi lost another 10,000 men, and the German defenders had to send a telegram to Max that the army was running out of ammunition and food, and that if they did not retreat, they would be completely annihilated.

Under these circumstances, Max had to order the remaining 20,000 German troops to retreat, all the way north to Valence, which was in southeastern France and north to Lyon.

In order to prevent Toulouse from being besieged by the British, French and American armies, Max ordered one to hold Miré, which is more than ten kilometers south of Toulouse, and ordered another to hold Monlabe, northeast of Toulouse.

At this time, Toulouse had been attacked by the British, French and American armies for five days, and because of Max's personal supervision, the German army was extremely brave, and the British, French and American armies paid a lot of casualties and only made a little progress.

On August 28, after a week of attack, the British, French, and American armies lost 80,000 troops and 50,000 German casualties on the outskirts of Toulouse.

The city of Toulouse was already full of corpses and smelling corpses, and both sides were in flames, whether it was the attacking Allied soldiers or the defending German soldiers, everyone became numb, and they all fired mechanically, loaded, shot, and loaded.

On August 31, the British, French, and American armies lost a total of 200,000 people, and the extra 120,000 died in these four days, an average of 30,000 per day, and the Germans also lost 100,000 people in total.

Max couldn't hold on, he only had 60,000 men left at his disposal, and the food and ammunition were close to exhaustion, so he had to think about retreating, but fortunately his retreat was still open.

On 1 September, Max retreated southeast with 60,000 remnants and 20,000 wounded, leaving Toulouse, now in ruins, to the British, French, and American forces.

The Entente army did not pursue, but only sent a small force to follow behind, in fact, the Entente army could not chase, this month's war also exhausted the Entente army, all 600,000 of the three armies, Toulouse killed 200,000 people, and tens of thousands of wounded soldiers, the casualty rate exceeded one-third, which was absolutely impossible to happen in the past, but now it has happened, which also fundamentally shows that Britain, France and the United States have made great determination after being strongly sarcastic by Xiao Zhenlei, Even if they suffer heavy casualties, they have to fight a beautiful battle to show the whole country, they don't want to be looked down upon by the Chinese, it seems that Xiao Zhenlei's aggressive method has really played some role.

The Entente were extremely happy at this victory, and not only was the morale of the fronts greatly boosted, but also the whole country was jubilant, and even the French in the lands that had been recaptured by the French army in France felt hope, and the sales of newspapers all over the world increased greatly on that day, even many newspapers in China devoted a great deal of space to reporting the great victory of the British, French, and American armies. (To be continued......)