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Yang Qiu persuaded the government of Wolf that Russia chose to continue the war.

The news reached the Entente boiling, and a steady stream of Chinese expeditionary forces began their long trek along the railway line. The good fortune of the Eastern Front seemed to have been carried to the Western Front, the wind and rain that had been raging for days finally dissipated, the bright sun dispelled the cold, the ground began to dry up, the near-paralyzed logistics and supplies were finally restored, and groups of soldiers entered the sortie trenches with steel guns in hand to wait for orders. The temporary peace on the Eastern Front meant that the Germans could no longer get supplies, at least in the short term, and the Allied Army, which had a clear numerical advantage, had a theoretical advantage, so both Nivelle and Mangran were convinced that the line of defense in front of them was window paper, so they decisively ended the temptation and ordered a full-scale attack.

At the same time, the British army attacking also attacked Arras according to the plan, and the British army under the personal command of Haig also used artillery to open the way, with more than 2,800 light guns and 1,000 heavy guns roaring and roaring, explosions and fires continued in patches, and bullets rained down layer upon layer. British and French pilots risked their lives to provide the artillerymen with reconnaissance coordinates, and under their guidance, the barbed wire fence on the Arras Line was blown up, buildings were blown off, and mushroom clouds tens of meters high carried by heavy shells were everywhere.

Under the tactical cover of the barrage, the British 3rd Army and the Canadian Corps, led by 60 tanks, launched a fierce attack on Laas, and compared with the demoralized French army, the British army, which was not a traditional army power, showed great tenacity, breaking through the first line of defense in only three days. However, their good fortune faded when Ludendorff committed three elite divisions, and the Vimy Mountains behind the first line of defense became the grave of the British army in the face of a network of fire built by Maxim's heavy machine guns and artillery. At the end of the seven-day offensive, the British finally advanced the front 6 kilometers at the cost of 100,000 casualties, captured 330 artillery pieces, killed 57,000 Germans and captured 20,000.

If the war had ended only here, it would have been a barely drawn, but Mangran, who was in charge of Soissons himself, apparently did not learn his lesson, and contemptuously believed that the results of the Arras were caused by the poor combat effectiveness of the British army, and that the French army, which had three armies, would never make such a mistake, so he immediately gave the order for a full-scale attack after talking to Niweller on the phone. April 19th. The day after the new Russian government decided to continue the war, the French artillery cluster, which had increased to 6,000 guns, began to throw shells at the target frantically, with 11 million shells stretching at a speed of 100 meters every three minutes. The 300,000 infantry of the French 5th and 6th armies rushed to the enemy with the confidence built up in the Battle of Verdun.

However, Mang Ran forgot that the opponent in front of him was no longer the brute Fakinham, but the tactician Ludendorff, who had successfully established his prestige on the Eastern Front. In the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of the French army. Ludendorff immediately ordered the first-line troops to retreat, leaving only the machine gun to hide in the strong bunker and struggled to support, when the French saw that the opponent's firepower weakened and decreased and thought that it could easily break through, the heavy machine gun hidden deep suddenly released a powerful force! The rain of bullets mingled into a terrible metal storm, so much so that the unprepared French infantry in the front row was swept to the rear, and the rear row even continued to charge. The organizational chaos finally led to a huge tragedy, and when the French charge was crushed, the German army's 22 reserve elite divisions began to take turns into the battlefield, crushing wave after wave of French flood peaks!

In just five days from the beginning of the general offensive on the 19th to the 23rd, 100,000 French veterans who had experienced the bloody battle of the Verdun meat grinder were all lost in front of the Siegfried Line! The terrible casualty figures finally discouraged the already exhausted French army. Many of the troops, driven to the front by officers, preferred to hide in the trenches rather than charge, and this sight made Nivelle angry and stubbornly frenzied to continue the attack, regardless of the casualties.

Since the main attack point could not open the situation, Mangran put his hope on the French Third and Fourth Armies on both flanks. Under strict orders and blockades, the two armies, unable to know the casualties of the main breakthrough point, also sang songs and lined up in a neat skirmish line and rushed towards the enemy. As a result, the Third Army was torn apart by a dense network of fire composed of Makqin and 128 A7V tanks after only two kilometers of rushing, and paid the price of 30,000 deaths in two days! The Fourth Army was also frantically attacked, the German First Army organized all artillery fire and 170 tanks to join the interception, although the Fourth Army barely occupied a position less than three kilometers south of Moronvilliers, but paid a terrible 25,000 casualties for it, and finally stopped the breakthrough and canceled all offensive plans.

"Fuck! What kind of war is this? It's a massacre at all! "Inside the headquarters of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Reims. The hot-tempered Ke Shao slapped the battle report on the table: "Ten days, 150,000 French troops died in ten days!" Oh my God, these are 150,000 elite veterans who participated in Verdun! 150,000 dead, at least 300,000 injured, and if this continues, France will be disabled! ”

His roar made the atmosphere in the headquarters solemn, although it was the French army that died, after all, everyone was an ally, and if the French army collapsed, the expeditionary force would also be uncomfortable, so everyone was in a solemn mood after this casualty figure appeared. "Chief of Staff! Give the order, Lao Tzu's 201st Division does not dare to say that it is more powerful than the French army, but at least it will not be as columbly as them! ”

"Yes! The Germans must have been extremely uncomfortable these days, and our fresh army will definitely be able to open up the situation. ”

"I'll take the lead and make sure to complete the task of breaking through the defense!"

Zhang Xiaozhun, who stayed at the headquarters, was also stunned by this series of casualty figures, so that his hand holding the report was trembling slightly, but he couldn't make up his mind whether to attack or not, and picked up the phone to contact Yue Peng of Soisson under the expectant gaze of everyone, but after hesitating for a moment, he slowly put it down: "Wait until the commander and General Cai come back, all troops will continue to be on guard and must not leave the station!" ”

When Zhang Xiaozhun put down the phone and asked to order the troops to continue waiting, Mang Ran, who was full of iron, also slowly put down the phone. Everyone in the French front command was waiting, watching him, to go on the offensive? Still is. The answer came out in a moment, and Mang Ran barely stood up straight and walked to the sand table: "Order the Tenth Army to reinforce the Fifth Army and continue to attack Mount Shemandaidamer!" ”

"What!"

"God!"

"Nope! It's going to kill the soldiers. ”

As soon as Mang Ran said the latest order, several soldiers couldn't help jumping out anymore. But the former shook his head mercilessly: "This is the order of Commander-in-Chief Nivelle!" Either offense. Either shoot those cowardly soldiers! ”

"The original plan must be ended!"

Just when everyone was dissatisfied with Mangran's use of Nivelle and military orders to force them, a voice finally couldn't help but burst out from behind. Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see that Yue Peng, who had not spoken a word since the attack, seemed to be an invisible person, shook off Cai Yi, who was trying to pull him, and walked in front of Mang Ran with a cold face. Although he was half a head shorter than Mangran, he still looked into his eyes without showing weakness, and said coldly: "You should stop attacking Siegfried immediately!" The British were already trapped south of the Vimy Mountains, unable to advance, and the Third Army on both flanks was bleeding in front of St. Quentin. The Fourth Army was also blocked in Moronvellier and could not continue to advance, and judging from the situation, we could not get the original objective of this battle! What can happen even after the main cluster breaks through? What about after crossing Mount Shemandah? Without the containment of the two wings, after crossing the defensive line, it will also face the encirclement and interception of superior forces, and become a lone army! A lone army! ”

Yue Peng said as his fingers moved quickly on the sand table. After the interpreter finished translating all his words in a cold sweat, Mang Ran, who didn't look at the blood-red eyes, continued to say to the French officers around him: "A stalemate has been formed! The only way to break it was for the British to pretend to be invincible, and then draw some troops from the Third Army to pretend to support. At the same time, open the line of defense of the Sixth Army and pretend to retreat to Rova in stride! Now that the German army has 25 divisions on the front line, as long as we can find a way to make the German 7th Army mistakenly think that there is a big gap in the junction of our Sixth Army and the Third Army, we can do what they like and let it attack, and the 10th Army and our expeditionary force will quickly penetrate westward to block the front of Rois, as long as we can induce them to come out of the trenches and lengthen the offensive formation, we can easily cut off and eat this German army, so as to greatly weaken the garrison of the Siegfried Line. ”

"Impossible!" Before Yue Peng's translation was finished, Mang Ran had already jumped up, after all, he was a senior officer, and he saw through at a glance that Yue Peng's trick was trying to use Paris, which was 40 miles away from Rois, as a bait, and said angrily: "This is impossible!" You're using Paris. Adventure with our capital again! General Nivelle would never do this, and every Frenchman would not accept such an adventure! It was necessary to continue the offensive and deplete the Germans with superior forces, as Verdun did to exhaust them day and night, as long as we could break through the enemy's strongest defenses. The weak side will retreat without a fight, advance to Ilsun, then the front will be completely pushed to the border between our country and Belgium, and the war will be over! ”

"Verdon is a fart! Of course, it was an urban war, but now it's all wilderness, a field war on the outskirts! Yue Peng was so angry that he scolded again and again in his heart, but he also suddenly figured out a question. Why is it wrong to know that Nihweller is planning to choose the best breakthrough? But there is still no sound within the French army? Now I know that their thinking is completely imprisoned! It's not that the French army is not elite, let alone that they can't fight, but that they are accustomed to breaking through the battlefield on the Western Front, taking a roundabout, confronting each other in trenches, and then breaking through this meat grinder-style style of fighting, and they will not think about anything beyond this scope, let alone implement it! Although the cost of choosing the strongest to break through is terrible, as long as you can break through the past, it is a victory, and dying in many soldiers is also a victory!

Sadly, when victory is filled with the lives of soldiers, it can only be said how incompetent the commanders of this army are! After the two quarreled fiercely to no avail, Yue Peng even directly refused to carry out Mangran's order to transfer the expeditionary force to Reims to fill the meat grinder of the Siegfried Line! was so angry that he pulled out his pistol: "You are disobeying orders, I have the right to execute you!" ”

"If you're not afraid of a riot of 400,000 soldiers, give it a try! Also, I suggest that you report the number of dead and wounded right away, and then see who else wants to fight such a bad fight. Since he completely made a fuss, Yue Peng also simply dropped a cruel word, and walked out without looking at Mangran, whose face was blue and red for a while. But when I walked to the door, I still sighed deeply in my heart.

It wasn't until he got in the car and sat down that Cai Ye, who had quit smoking for a long time, handed over a cigarette, and after the two lit it together, Yue Peng opened his mouth to him and showed a bitter smile: "I'm unwilling!" ”

"I'm not reconciled! But we have to wait a little longer, the opportunity has not yet appeared, and it is a backwater to rush through it now! Cai Yi looked at Yue Peng's eyes, the latter nodded and smashed his fist on the steel plate of the car again, will this damn opportunity still appear?! …… (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )