Just when the bloody battle was raging on the Eastern Front, in order to relieve the pressure on the allies, the British and French forces on the Western Front also launched an offensive.

At this time, the total number of British troops arriving in France had exceeded one million, organized into six army groups, and the commander-in-chief was Marshal Norman, while the French army only had ten army groups because of heavy casualties in the early stage, with a total strength of less than two million.

Their enemy was the German First to Seventh Armies, which began at Ypres in Belgium and ended at Campre in France, with Prince Leopold as the commander-in-chief, but his army was large, with a total of six corps. From Campree to the south to Crey in the north of Paris and then east along the Marne to Verdun, this huge salient which occupied almost half of northern France consisted of four armies, organized into a central cluster, commanded by Marshal Henck, and the remaining six and seven armies belonging to the left flank cluster, commanded by Marshal Hazelle, and these together amounted to a total of 1.5 million men.

Moltke the Younger had been transferred back to the General Staff by this time, and although he had not been able to capture Paris, he could still be said to have made great achievements, and now he was the deputy of Count Schlieffen, and he was now only an army general, even lower in rank than that of Prince Leopold, and he certainly could not command an army group.

Although the Anglo-French alliance has an advantage in strength, but among them a large number of colonial troops, Yan zhòng pulled down the combat effectiveness, especially among the French army, there are even a lot of black soldiers, obviously these are on the battlefield that is used as cannon fodder, this is also a helpless move of the French, before the war the total population of France was only more than 30 million, the early soldiers alone lost nearly a million, they totaled only a few million young adults, and now almost more than half of them are involved in this war, although the colonial army has poor combat effectiveness, But you can also recharge it.

The goal of the Anglo-French forces in this campaign was simple, to cut off the huge salient entirely. The Germans were driven to Belgium, with the British attacking from west to east, and the French attacking north from the Marne front, each with one part blocking the two German clusters on the left and right.

For this major counteroffensive, the chief of the French general staff, Xia Fei, and the commander-in-chief of the British expeditionary force, Field Marshal Norman, can be said to be full of confidence, because they now have their own new weapons.

Saint-Quentin, France.

Countless shells pierced the sky, huge explosions tore the ground, shrapnel scattered in the firelight harvested lives, and German soldiers huddled in the trenches in the smoke and poisonous fog. Holding his head and enduring the torment of hell.

A shrill whistle sounded.

"Get into the post, Britain is coming!" The shouts of the officers rang out everywhere, and the soldiers who had escaped the shelling came out of their hiding places, shook off the dirt from their bodies or the limbs of their comrades, gathered their weapons, and began to prepare for the attacking enemy.

But at this moment, there was a sudden tremor on the ground, and soon through the smoke in front of him. Dozens of steel monsters appeared in the sight of the Germans.

"Oh my God, what the hell is this?" Major General Sanders, the commander of the German army, who was directing the battle, looked at the steel monster in front of him in dumbfounded.

It was a massive chariot that was nearly four meters high, equally more than three meters wide, and at least eight meters long. The overall shape resembles a rectangular box, with the front shrinking forward at an angle, the bottom rising upward, and a short-barreled turret at the front of the top. There are three machine gun muzzles on each side, and if Emperor Yang sees this thing, he will definitely drop his jaw and exclaim: "A7V!" ”

Truly. The secret weapon of the British was the large tank they called themselves land warships, and by some coincidence, their first tank was almost a copy of the A7V, the first German tank in history, and even slightly larger than the A7V, this huge tank that used a 150-horsepower diesel engine removed from the Great Wall Heavy Industries large bulldozer weighed 40 tons, and the slow turtle speed made Major General Sanders look stupid, and even the British soldiers who accompanied the charge looked helplessly at the chariot beside him.

But even the turtle speed was not something that the German soldiers who did not have any anti-tank weapons could stop them, a total of fifty land warships, slowly but unstoppably advancing towards the German positions.

"Prepare cluster grenades, zha kits, order artillery to aim at enemy combat vehicles and open fire." Major General Sanders quickly came to his senses, although there were no anti-tank weapons, but he was still very clear about how the Germans' own tanks were destroyed, and the entire German position was immediately busy, but fortunately, these German soldiers were much stronger than the gray cattle, and they were soon ready to fight.

At the same time, on a nearby German artillery position, the muzzles of thirty-six 105 mm light cannons were also aimed at the British chariots, and one shell after another quickly exploded around these land warships, but the explosion and shmelage could not stop their advance in the slightest, until a cannonball directly hit a British tank, and the explosion of the cannonball stopped the steel monster, which was obviously not indestructible.

Immediately there was a burst of cheers among the Germans.

But the remaining British tanks continued to advance slowly but firmly, and the British infantry that followed the attack carefully hid behind them, dodging German bullets and mortar shells.

Just as the British tanks were about to rush into the German positions, brave German soldiers finally began to throw grenades at them, but it was clear that this could not stop these steel monsters either, and a German soldier with relatively strong strength simply threw a whole bundle of grenades, which landed right in front of a tank, and then was crushed underneath, and then a loud bang was heard, and the tank also stopped.

"Order to rush out, attack the chariots with zha kits and cluster grenades, and the infantry with bayonets!" Major General Sanders immediately said as soon as he saw that this method worked.

The German troops on the position immediately climbed out of the trenches, under the cover of machine-gun fire, holding bundles of grenades and zha medicine bags and pounced on the British tanks, the machine guns on the British tanks immediately began to strafe, and at the same time the accompanying British infantry also began to shoot, but soon the German soldiers found that these tanks seemed to be blind to some positions in front, or should I say that they could not see at all, some clever people quickly learned to look for shooting dead ends, and even crawled forward to throw explosives bags at the tank, If you continue to do so, you will learn to lay an ambush directly in its path.

Soon, under the desperate attack of the German soldiers, these outrageously slow British tanks were blown up one after another, of course, many of them drove onto the German positions, but the speechless shape and heavy body, and weak power made them look like a lot when they climbed over the trenches, and even some of them directly overturned, although the infantry following behind also rushed to the German positions, but under the bayonets and submachine guns of the Germans, they had to withdraw again.

The first appearance of the British tank, which ended in total annihilation, was of course only a small episode in the war, and millions of British and French soldiers on a long front of hundreds of kilometers were still in vain to storm the German defense line with their own flesh and blood, falling under the bullets and shells of the Germans one after another.

Of course, the short-term offensive failure did not shake the will of those generals in the slightest, and these old soldiers who came from the era of queuing up to be shot believed most were that victory depended on a more tenacious spirit, on more intense artillery fire, and if an attack failed, then they would withdraw and replace it with artillery and bombard it again, and after the infantry was bombarded, they would not be able to bombard again, and then charge, and countless lives would be turned into rotting bones under their stubborn will, and the blood of the three countries would be drained little by little under their stubborn will.

10,000, 20,000, 50,000... The casualty figures in the newspapers are becoming more alarming day by day.

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