In mid-July, the fighting intensified, and the French and American forces attacked the Germans in the encirclement with the highest intensity.

In Luartl, about 13 kilometers from Soissons, the 1st Division of the US Army finally attacked the defense line of the 1st Marine Division of the German Army, and the two ace units belonging to the US and German armies began to collide head-on.

From half past nine in the morning, the American army broke through three German lines in a row.

Although the German 1st Marine Division was losing ground one after another, the US 1st Division suffered heavy casualties, and the 1st Division had to retire until noon, while the US 2nd Division continued to rise.

The battle was so fierce that one soldier wrote: machine guns roared everywhere, rifle bullets flew everywhere, grenade explosions lined up, everyone lost control, the basic structure of the troops no longer existed, as long as they met their companions, they just had to keep up with the attack, regardless of whether it was Company A or Company B...... The soldiers could not maintain their formation, and the battle lines were irregular, intermittent and haphazardly entangled...... There were Makqin heavy machine guns everywhere, and he could only be knocked out by crawling from the flanks, and brave soldiers in tawny uniforms would rush up and rush into the machine gun strongholds with their rifles with good bayonets, and then the stronghold erupted in shooting, screaming, and wailing...... Either way, there will always be silence in the end.

While the 1st Marine Division of the German Army was carrying the frantic attacks of the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the American Army, a large number of German troops were retreating, and they were heading to Amifontein from all directions from Soissons, from Sakris, from Laver, and surrendered to the Foreign Legion wherever they were.

There were too many prisoners to accommodate the makeshift camp, and the Foreign Legion had to build a makeshift fence.

In the process of building the fence, there were actually German soldiers to help.

More German soldiers remained in the fence in an orderly manner, applauding and cheering at every German soldier who laid down his arms.

The Germans had laid down a mountain of weapons, machine gun magazines were still hanging on them, rifles had not been bolted, guns were stacked less than 100 meters from the fence where the prisoners were held, and the Foreign Legion soldiers in charge of guarding the prisoners carried their guns on their backs, and they were even smiling and chatting with the French-speaking prisoners across the fence, and sharing cigarettes in their hands, without the slightest defense.

But there were no captives snatching guns, and the POWs didn't even want to look at the guns they had spent the last four years with, they hated war from the bottom of their hearts, they didn't want to go back to those inhuman days, and they didn't even want to think about memories.

In just three days, the Foreign Legion contained nearly 100,000 German prisoners of war, which made Patton and Mantin, who were leading their men in bloody battles, envious and jealous.

Man Jing and Qin Zhiyuan have old grudges, and now they inevitably have to say some strange things, and it is even rumored that Man Jing once told his staff that Qin Zhiyuan had a secret agreement with the German army.

Although this is true, Manking was also reprimanded from Paris, not only from the War Department, but also from the Chancellery and the Presidential Palace.

Fortunately, everyone knows that Manjing is a big mouth, and he has done a lot of unreliable things, but no one adds to it.

However, everyone could see that the attitude of the German army towards the Foreign Legion was completely different from that of the French and American forces, which made people inevitably think about it.

On the 20th, Bastian led a division of the Fifth Army to Amifontein and began to receive prisoners of war, and the turmoil gradually subsided.

But by the 20th, the Foreign Legion had accepted the surrender of more than 150,000 German troops, and in this "head-grabbing" operation to encircle and annihilate the German army, the Foreign Legion had almost no casualties, and successfully grabbed the greatest credit.

Well, compared to the casualties of the Foreign Legion on the day of the campaign, this credit is beyond words.

Qin Zhiyuan openly said that if any of your troops can fight from 16,000 men to only 377 and still be able to continue fighting, the Foreign Legion will give up all the exploits gained in this battle.

Naturally, the credit cannot be sold, so no one challenged that record, you know, in the figures reported after the Battle of Champagne and Champagne, the 11th Division of the Foreign Legion had a total of 45 combat companies, 15 companies were all wiped out, 27 companies had less than ten soldiers and officers, and six companies were only wounded soldiers lying in hospitals......

Incredibly, as the battle progressed, the Germans also announced the results of the Champagne Chalons defense. In the course of the entire campaign, the Germans paid the price of nearly 100,000 casualties, including 27,000 killed and 14,000 seriously wounded and amputated, and when the Germans cleaned up the battlefield after the war, they found that on the south bank of the Marne, the 11th Division of the Foreign Legion had left about 7,000 corpses, among which not a single living person was found.

In other words, in the Battle of Champagne and Chalon, no one from the 11th Division of the Foreign Legion was captured.

It's nothing short of a miracle.

In all the wars after the outbreak of the world war, the whole army was annihilated, whether it was the German army, the French army, or the British army, there were precedents, but most of them were not the whole army fighting to the end, but because the situation was unfavorable and they took the initiative to surrender, although the whole army was wiped out in the war report, but in fact there were still people living in the prisoner of war camp.

But the 11th Division of the Foreign Legion was different, they were really fighting to the death, so that the southern route troops of the German pincer offensive were badly injured and have not recovered yet.

So much so that many German soldiers in Amifontein heard that they were fighting against the Foreign Legion, and they were immediately disheartened and collapsed, and even an entire company and battalion of German troops became deserters overnight.

The majesty is really out of the fight.

Pershing has always sent people to squat at the Renault factory, and for every tank produced, the Americans took one. But when the quartermaster of the 11th Division of the Foreign Legion rushed to the Renault factory to declare that the 11th Division had been reorganized into a mechanized unit and asked to receive tanks, the Americans, who had always been arrogant, did not talk nonsense, and the representative stationed at the Renault factory returned directly to Orleans, and has not been to the Renault factory again.

When the number of German prisoners of war in the Foreign Legion's POW camp at Amifontein increased to 20, Mactavish was still lurking.

On the first day, McTavish didn't pull the trigger, but just simulated a sniping process with his mouth.

There was only one chance, and the rifle in his hand was not calibrated, and McTavish did not want to waste it.

Soon, McTavish found an opportunity for a school gun.

Like Paris, Avina is now a large barracks, and a mix of soldiers of all nationalities.

Although Germany is now a unified empire, there are actually a number of principalities in the country, and these soldiers from various principalities together form the German army.

There would be friction between brothers in the same family, not to mention the German soldiers, who had fallen into anxiety and despair, so the next morning, a chaotic burst of gunfire rang out in the city of Avena, which lasted only two or three minutes, but was enough for McTavish to complete the calibration.

In fact, McTavish completed the calibration with only three shots, and steadily hit a chicken six hundred meters away.

The chicken, of course, had been pre-placed, and the distance was very standard, albeit in different directions, but it was as far away from where McTavish was lurking and where Ludendorff often walked.

This gave McTavish a boost of confidence, and if Ludendorff showed up again now, McTavish was sure enough to hit with a shot.

However, this opportunity was not easy to find, because on the same day, McTavish spotted a convoy driving out of the headquarters in the direction of Avina, and Ludendorff's car was in the convoy.

As the actual helmsman of the German army, Ludendorff also has a lot of affairs, and it is impossible to stay in the command all the time, and there is a lot of work that Ludendorff needs to coordinate personally.

McTavish wasn't in a hurry, Ludendorff wasn't in command, but he would always come back, and McTavish continued to lurk.

It was four days of incubation, and on the evening of the fourth day, McTavish went down to the rock, put down his household garbage for the past few days, and then took away a backpack that had been prepared long ago.

What follows is the long lurk.

In fact, it is difficult for a person's time to endure, especially when there is no one to communicate with, time seems to be stagnant, and the second hand does not move for half a day.

In order not to be too lonely, McTavish talked to himself, told himself stories, from "One Thousand and One Nights" to all kinds of pornographic jokes, he would tell whatever he remembered, when he was happy, McTavish would laugh out loud by himself, and when he was sad, McTavish would also cry sadly.

This is really an emotional person.

During these four days, McTavish did not do nothing, he had been observing the German patrol routes and devising the best escape routes.

McTavish doesn't want to give himself an account here, and there is a bright future waiting for McTavish to create.

McTavish noticed that every day at noon, just before Ludendorff often went out for a walk, there would be about a company of troops searching near his lurking position, which was routine and lasted up to half an hour.

These Germans carried military dogs, the kind of German blackbacks, so McTavish did not dare to throw away the garbage casually, for fear of being caught by those sharp noses.

The few days of lurking have made McTavish fall in love with this kind of military dog that seems to be both spiritual and powerful, and McTavish decided to get one when he returned.

But that won't be until McTavish escapes.

On the fifth day, the opportunity finally came again, and Ludendorff returned.

Ludendorff's expression was even more haggard when he appeared again, and McTavish even noticed that Ludendorff was already a little hunchbacked, which was not a good sign, maybe even if McTavish didn't do it, Ludendorff wouldn't live long, his pressure was too great.

However, it was McTavish's task to kill Ludendorff, so McTavish did not hesitate, and he once again calmed down and put Ludendorff's head in the center of the cross.

In pursuit of a lethal blow, McTavish deliberately aimed at Ludendorff's nose, which is the legendary "facial triangle", an absolute lethal position, and even a single blow can kill a person.

Just when McTavish was aiming, 20 meters below McTavish, three soldiers of the German patrol were still smoking and chatting, I don't know why today, the other German soldiers left, but these three people stayed.

But it doesn't matter, McTavish only has Ludendorff in his eyes now, and nothing else McTavish can't see, hear, or feel.

Bang......

The sound moves the four fields.

(To be continued.) )