On August 6, after several days of preparation, the British and French forces began to launch another attack on the German-occupied city of Tours, and under the guidance of Jiang Bin, the British and French troops marched along every street and alley from north to south with platoons as combat units, and cleaned and searched all the houses and other buildings that passed along the way.

As the Anglo-French army gradually advanced southward, the battle soon began, and the German troops hiding in the houses and other buildings in the city began to fire at the British and French soldiers, and the Germans knew that under the offensive tactics of the Anglo-French forces gradually advancing, they could not hide for long, and could not encircle and annihilate the British and French troops.

As a result, the Germans and the Anglo-French forces began to fight desperately for each house, often in order to occupy a house, the Allied soldiers had to die several soldiers, while the Germans on the defensive side naturally had the advantage, they had been here for a long time, and they were more familiar with the terrain and building structure here, but the British and French soldiers were the opposite. In addition, the Germans have driven out all the French residents here, and the British and French soldiers have no help from the French residents, and the advantage here is gone, and the Germans have occupied this place for at least more than two years, which can be regarded as half of the masters, and has a certain advantage in terms of geographical advantages.

Gunfire rang out throughout the northern city of Tours, with the occasional sound of machine-gun fire, as well as rifles and pistols. After entering the city, the artillery superiority of the British and French forces was no longer effective, and they could only form some artillery support detachments to provide artillery support to the attacking troops and help the attacking troops clear some of the German forts.

A day after the offensive, the Anglo-French forces made some progress. From north to south, the British and French troops seized an area two hundred meters north of a street running east-west. In the process of seizing the two-hundred-meter area, the British and French troops lost more than three thousand people. General Hamilton, commander of the Anglo-French forces, personally called Jiang Bin and invited him to have dinner together, and the next day he sent a telegram to London, England, to apply for a commendation, and the British royal family was concerned about this, and King George VI decided to award Jiang Bin a medal as a commendation.

After two days of attacking with this tactic, the Germans realized that they would not take any more action. Sooner or later, the northern city area would be captured by the British and French forces, so the German army began to think of ways to deal with the offensive tactics of the British and French forces that were gradually advancing and targeted to eliminate them.

Soon, the Germans thought of a way to deal with it, that is, to counterattack the city occupied by the British and French troops at night, and the dim light at night was generally not conducive to the attack, but the Germans were more familiar with this place than the British and French troops, and the British and French troops were not adapted to night battles.

On the night of August 7, for the first time, the Germans organized their forces to launch a counterattack. They made full use of their advantages, with high individual combat literacy and good melee equipment, especially the soldiers were equipped with grenades, and some officers and soldiers were equipped with box guns. They also have mortars, which are very helpful in close combat.

The British and French soldiers, who had been attacking for a day during the day, were very tired, and many of them went to bed early. It was not at all expected that the Germans would launch a night attack at night, under the surprise attack of the German army. The British and French troops were soon all in disarray, and they did not dare to light the lamps in the darkness of the night. Fearing that the light would reveal their position, and in the darkness it was difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, so many British and French soldiers and officers died at their own hands.

On the contrary, the Germans carried out organized and disciplined night attacks, their attacks were orderly, and the probability of accidentally injuring their own people was almost negligible.

After the British and French armies fell into chaos, the soldiers could not cover and cooperate with each other in time, the command role of the officers over the soldiers was greatly weakened, and it was difficult for the orders of the high-level generals to be conveyed to the low-level soldiers, so the British and French soldiers could only fight on their own, which was to give the German army a chance.

After losing a large part of the soldiers, the British and French generals realized that something was wrong and immediately ordered the British and French troops in the city to be evacuated by the German raid, but it was too late at this time, and the British and French troops in the chaos could not receive the order at all.

After fighting in the middle of the night, the Germans recaptured the blocks they had lost during the day, and also captured hundreds of British and French soldiers, captured a lot of weapons and ammunition, especially grenades and machine guns and bullets, which were good things for the Germans, although the Germans did not lack them at this time, but if they increased the number of machine guns, it would be equivalent to increasing the output of firepower.

Hamilton, the commander of the Anglo-French forces, was furious at this, and he ordered the generals below to find a way to give the Germans a good look, and to make a new plan to capture more of the city of Tours in response to the German night attack.

The British and French troops were very angry about this, and continued to launch a larger offensive the next day, and the Germans lost a large number of blocks during the day, but the next night, the Germans launched another night attack to recapture the blocks lost during the day.

In this way, the British and French attacked during the day, while the Germans counterattacked at night to recapture the blocks lost during the day, and the two sides fell into a repeated struggle for a certain block.

The battle lasted until August 16, not only the attacking British and French troops suffered heavy losses, but even the German troops on the defending side were also very unbearable, this kind of street fighting for every house and every street and shed the last drop of blood was too cruel, the British and French troops and the German army were fighting for every inch of land, after the British army took it during the day, and the German army recaptured the battle at night, both sides paid the price of fifty or sixty thousand people in the northern city of Tours, this price was too great, the entire northern city of Tours was broken, and was beaten into ruins, And the armies of both sides continue to fight to the death on this ruin.

The British and French forces could not withstand it, this consumption was too great, Hamilton had to ask Jiang Bin again for a solution to the current stalemate, Jiang Bin did not have any good way to do this, if it was the Chinese army, the Chinese army could use strategic bomber groups to carry out large-scale bombing, and then send infantry to clean up, but now Britain and France do not have this condition, because the combat radius of the British and French bomber groups is not enough, and at present, Britain and France have not built air force airfields in the recaptured southwest of France, Therefore, the Allied aircraft group in London could not come to Tours to fight, and the three air divisions supported by China used first-generation fighters, and they did not have such a large combat radius.

Jiang Bin could only advise Hamilton to order the British and French troops to build defenses before dark after capturing the German-occupied neighborhoods, and then send troops to take over the troops fighting during the day.

Unable to think of any other way, Hamilton could only adopt Jiang Bin's suggestion, so the British and French soldiers received a new order to set up defenses and fortifications in the looted neighborhoods before dark, and wait for new troops to come and change their guards.

After adopting this method, it played a certain role in deterring the German counterattack at night, and the effect of the German counterattack at night was not so good, and many times the German counterattack was declared a failure, and several times the German army left many corpses and retreated.

In this way, the battle lasted for nearly a month, and the British and French forces gradually occupied the northern part of Tours using the tactics of gradual advance and targeted killing, and the German commander Field Marshal Timmlin saw that the northern city could no longer be held, so he ordered all the living forces to be withdrawn to the south bank of the Loire River, and planted explosives in many places in the northern city.

Hamilton and Petain were very puzzled by the sudden withdrawal of the German troops, and it stands to reason that there is still a small area of territory in the northern city occupied by the German army, and according to the current resistance level, the German army can still hold out in the northern city for a week, but the German army suddenly withdraws, which cannot but be doubtful.

But the reason for the German withdrawal was soon given: the German commander Timlin knew that the northern city could not be defended, and in this case, it was better to withdraw his limited forces to the south bank of the Loire, so as not to be consumed in the northern city, which was destined to be lost.

Hamilton and Pétain accepted this explanation and thus allowed their troops to occupy the city left behind by the German withdrawal, and now for Hamilton and Pétain, their task was to direct their troops to cross the Loire and break through the German defenses on the south bank of the Loire.

After the on-site investigation, Hamilton and Petain were both cold, there was not even a small sampan on the north bank of the Loire, how did the Allied troops cross the Loire to attack the south bank defended by the Germans? Now the river was like a moat blocking the advance of the Entente armies.

Westerners have a completely different way of thinking than Orientals, if they encounter resistance when doing things or thinking, and this resistance is very large, they will think of other ways to make a detour and bypass the obstacle to solve things, but Westerners will find a way to overcome the obstacle technologically.

Now, for example, Hamilton and Petain were thinking about how to get their troops across the river to attack the German positions opposite, and it was a matter of skill.

Jiang Bin was speechless about this, and he suggested to Hamilton that troops could be sent to cross the river on other sections of the river and attack the German flank, and it was impossible for the Germans to deploy defensive forces on all the river banks.

Hamilton accepted Jiang Bin's suggestion, not because he didn't think of crossing the river from other sections, but because the Westerners' habits and ways of thinking made him not think of doing so. He took immediate action after accepting Jiang Bin's suggestion, but he messed up, he sent too many troops to cross the river, and the movement was too big to alarm the German army, although the German army did not deploy troops to defend some other sections of the river that did not need to deploy troops, but still sent troops to patrol, the patrolling German troops discovered the movement of the British and French troops, and the German commander judged the attempt of the British and French troops, so he immediately mobilized troops to block the coalition troops from crossing the river, and the coalition army's attempt to cross the river was also declared a failure. (To be continued......)