390 Breach and containment

After defeating the border defenders, the main force of the Taiping Army only cared about opening up the main communication routes, and had no intention of occupying the entire territory of the United Province Republic, even though the current United Province Republic had lost the ability to fight the enemy in the field.

If the entire territory of the United Provincial Republic were to be occupied, it would inevitably consume a lot of marching time and siege time, and it would also take a certain amount of energy to divide troops to defend and maintain law and order.

The anti-Han allies have always deployed their main forces in Germany to fight against the Taiping army, whether it is the United Province Republic or the Spanish Netherlands, they rely on their own army to defend, relying on their own strength, and they are simply unable to cope with the main attack of the Taiping army of five divisions.

Originally, the main force of the anti-Han Allied Coalition had a large number of reserves, and after the collapse of the defense line of the United Province Republic and the Spanish Netherlands, they quickly supported the past to block the main force of the Taiping army, however, these reserves now set foot on the Italian peninsula, and they also successfully annihilated a small number of Taiping defenders on the Savoy border, occupying Milan, Genoa, and Tuscany.

The three countries that surrendered to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not end well under the liquidation of the anti-Han allies, and the ruling classes of the three countries were all overthrown, and even the qualifications of the three countries as independent regimes were lost, and they became the 'occupation areas' of the anti-Han allies, and the significance of being a country existed in name only!

When the main force of the Taiping Army's Heavenly King's Guards broke through the defense line of the United Province Republic and entered the Spanish Netherlands, the Swedish senior infantry division was flanked by the main force of the anti-Han Allied forces moving south and the elite troops of the anti-Han Allied States that landed, and surrounded and annihilated the Roman area.

On the Italian peninsula, only the main force of less than a division of the Taiping army besieged south of Naples remained, and the Taiping army, which had lost logistical support, was only a matter of time.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which does not have the right to control the sea, can't even rescue and transport these troops!

Nelson's fleet, which stayed in the North Sea, could not sail into the Mediterranean......

However, the war on the Italian Peninsula went very smoothly, and the fall of the Spanish Netherlands Line plunged the entire anti-Han alliance into a panic!

They never expected that the well-built defensive line of the United Province Republic and the Spanish Netherlands would be broken down so quickly under the offensive of the Taiping army!

Nearly 100,000 second-line troops and militia units were completely defeated in more than a month!

On the other hand, the Taiping Army only lost one division of the Heavenly King's Guards......

The Heavenly King's Guards of four divisions worked day and night to completely cut off their rear roads along the Rhine River before the 200,000-strong army on the front line of the anti-Han allies retreated!

A flat encirclement was formally formed, and the 200,000 anti-Han allied troops were in front of two divisions of the Tianwang Guards and one division of the French Old Guards behind the German regional defense line, and behind were four divisions of the Tianwang Guards!

The Heavenly King's Guards in the back were stronger, but the Taiping troops in front had well-fortified fortifications.

As the Taiping army began to compress the encirclement, the Kingdom of France drew part of the army from the Italian peninsula and formed new divisions from the country to attack the defensive line garrisoned by the four Heavenly Kings Guards, trying to make a gap, and at the same time, ordered the 200,000 besieged anti-Han allied troops to launch a general attack on the Heavenly King's Guards in front!

A total attack at all costs!

The anti-Han allies did not harbor the illusion of breaking the encirclement of the four Taiping divisions, because the vast majority of the newly formed troops in France were new recruits, and there was no comparison with the Taiping soldiers who were not afraid of death in a hundred battles, and the generation gap between the two sides did not make up for it at all!

Therefore, it is better to let the 200,000 anti-Han allied troops continue to attack the Taiping army along the established route!

In this way, it was possible to conceal the fact of being surrounded from the soldiers of the anti-Han allied army, deceive the soldiers under his command with the appearance of a general attack, and take advantage of the fact that the Taiping army behind did not narrow the encirclement and break through the Taiping defense line in front!

The main point of breakthrough chosen by the 200,000 anti-Han allies was precisely the line of defense garrisoned by the old French guards......

Persimmon naturally has to pick a soft pinch......

This time, the anti-Han allied forces no longer cared about casualties, and gave full play to the tactics of the sea of pigs, and groups of anti-Han Allied soldiers stepped on the corpses of their own people, charged with dense mini bullets, and then climbed up and jumped into one field fortification after another, fighting selflessly with the Taiping army.

The anti-Han allied forces even recruited rare brave men to form death squads, strapped to explosives bags to act as humanoid bombs, mixed with ordinary soldiers, and rushed into the fortifications to open gaps!

In such a tragic offensive, in less than a month, the anti-Han allied army wiped out the old French guards with an average battle loss ratio of 1 to 6, and severely damaged the two main battle divisions of the Heavenly King's Guards!

The 10,000 soldiers of the French Old Guards plus the two main battle divisions of the Heavenly King's Guards lost a total of more than 20,000 casualties, in exchange for 120,000 casualties of the anti-Han allies!

The remaining less than 10,000 Heavenly King's Guards had to retreat back to the line from Frankfurt to Nuremberg to re-establish the defensive line.

There were less than 80,000 anti-Han allied troops left, and they rarely achieved the combat goal that they had not achieved before, breaking through the Taiping position......

However, this was due to the fact that the main forces of the Taiping army moved to their rear to garrison.

Moreover, the dead were all the elite of the anti-Han Allied States, and it was difficult to replenish them in a short period of time after death, and 80,000 people were no longer enough to pose a mortal threat to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The only benefit of the anti-Han allies was that they received a grand welcome in the liberated Taiping occupied areas, received strong support from the locals, and a large number of German youths joined the anti-Han allies because of the Tueu plan!

It's a pity that due to the thorough implementation of the Tu Ou plan, the anti-Han Allied coalition did not receive many male young people, but instead received a large number of women's applications for enlistment......

They are all women who want to avenge their husbands and sons!

After the anti-Han allies broke through the frontal Taiping defense line, they suddenly found that the area they had liberated was completely useless, with factories blown up, farmland burned, grain looted, and not many men left......

As a result, the anti-Han coalition forces were still faced with the dilemma of being cut off from logistics, and they had no choice but to continue to advance and continue to launch attacks against the Taiping army that had retreated to the front line of Frankfurt and Nuremberg, regardless of casualties.

After seeing the tragic situation of the locals, the soldiers of the anti-Han allied army were very determined to resist the Taiping army, which was the main reason why they were able to continue fighting.

However, this time, the resistance of the remnants of the Taiping army was very stubborn, and soon the anti-Han allied soldiers knew the reason, because their back road had been blocked by the four Taiping Heavenly King Guards......