The offensive began first from the south, with the main targets being the Aquitaine region.

Couste not only intended to cut off the British and French communication in the English Channel, but also to completely cut off the French transportation routes between the Atlantic and other allies, leaving them with only ports in the Mediterranean.

In conjunction with Turkey's progress in North Africa to the south, the cooperation between the inside and the outside world can completely cut off France's communication with the outside world.

Although this may have forced France to follow Coust's invention and develop a high-range aircraft for communication.

But that doesn't matter, if the French really want to develop an airplane, it is estimated that there will not be much left of their homeland.

There were also attacks aimed at the Le Mans region. A few days ago, four of Kuster's divisions were surrounded here, and they kept sending them distress telegrams, but most of them were only "giving all support except help" and did not take any real action, which made the outside world quite criticized this.

Now they're really going to take action, to rescue the tens of thousands of people trapped in the trenches.

The army marched along the Loire to crush and annihilate the French forces along the way, and to join up with the "Franche-Comté" army group and engage it in the next offensive.

The other side went straight to Le Mans, but the main forces were mostly on the flanks of the attack, and the large army would slow down the march and the frontal troops would be ahead of the two wings.

In the event of an engagement, the frontal armies of both sides collided, and the French army must have thought that this was the main force of the German army, and then the two flanks could then join the battlefield and outflank the enemy, and then annihilate the enemy.

He originally prepared 5 divisions to participate in the operation, leaving 3 divisions as reserves to use. However, due to the fact that in the salient area, the French troops on both flanks not only did not retreat, but also intensified their offensive.

The pressure came to the German side, and even though the enemy did not have enough artillery to suppress it, the rudimentary fortifications did not do much use, and the French continued to attack day after day, and they did not have time to build a complex defensive line, so they could only casually lay some barbed wire, and there was no strong concrete fortress.

As the lines gradually shrank, the Germans continued to retreat inward, and the time to deploy fortifications became shorter and shorter, which made it more difficult for them to withstand the menacing French.

These people are not ordinary Frenchmen, but old guards who dug up from cemeteries and followed Humpty Fat on the conquest of Europe a century ago. I wonder how they would feel when they realized that they were about to encircle an army group of nearly twenty divisions.

Excited or worried? Fear is right.

Nelson sent a telegram with earnest words and a long speech that meant only to ask for help. When Kuster saw that he could do this, he probably could only see it on paper.

Custer then ordered the reserves of the Bulge to engage in defensive battles, while advancing his two divisions deep into the French to the east.

The result was very smooth, the French army was immersed in the attack, constantly advancing, but they did not know that their rear road was quietly cut off.

The encirclement of the French army on the Eastern Front sounded very exciting.

However, the French themselves did not know that they were still attacking. As the pressure on the German defenders in the salient mounted, and as they looked like they were about to be reduced to a point on the map, Custer allowed them to activate artillery fire and slow down the French advance.

The encircled French army on the right flank, unaware of their situation, still did not know whether to advance alive or dead, and Couster had to start another preparation, attacking it directly from the flank, and finally stopped.

It doesn't matter if you are attacked on the side, but this stop is very deadly.

The Germans, who were following the ass of the French soldiers, finally arrived and attacked the French from behind.

At first, the French thought reinforcements were coming, and their confidence grew even more – until they saw flames coming from the barrels of their guns.

They realized that something was wrong, but it was too late, and the Germans on the front and flank, hearing that they had been attacked, also joined the battle, and the French army was attacked in all four directions.

Not long ago, they were the attackers, and now they are about to be bombed, and the gap is embarrassing.

But because of this, they had no fortifications to rely on. In the vast grasslands, you can only rely on warriors to fight tenaciously with their flesh.

However, what is worse is that they never stopped, which made the soldiers extremely tired and lost motivation all at once.

They were able to hold on with their desire to win, but now that defeat is a foregone conclusion, nothing can change it.

The French front contracted sharply, and the pressure returned to them again.

As long as Kuster took the opportunity to intensify his attack, it was likely that these French forces would be completely wiped off the map.

But instead of doing so, he asked his soldiers to stop the offensive and devote a large number of troops to the plan to attack Le Mans, leaving only a few battalions and their complex fortifications to fill the front.

It's not that Kuster is sick, or how urgent the fighting on the front lines is. He went from nothing more than a perfect officer to a beginner politician.

Nelson was still lamenting the success of the defense on the front foot, and the French army on the back foot launched another onslaught, beating him into a daze.

At this time, his logistics officer broke through the door and said to him:

"General, we don't have enough shells!"

"What! Isn't there still a whole stock of shells useless? Nelson shuddered and immediately turned around and asked.

"Uh...... It's not that there isn't, it's that it can't be delivered. The logistics officer glanced at him cautiously, cold sweat breaking out in his palms; His gaze wandered, and at last he put it back on him, opened his mouth wide, and thought for a long time before he said:

"The Second Army in Normandy annexed part of our shells."

"Contact him!" Nelson snapped. I saw him jump up from the chair all of a sudden, but his center of gravity was unstable, his body swayed back and forth, and he finally froze, and then kicked the chair away, which showed the degree of his anger.

"We tried, but we couldn't get through, so we thought he had swallowed up our supplies......"

"Hmm. Then write me a letter scolding them and send it over. Nelson answered, just as he was angry, but suddenly he thought of something, calmed down at once, groped his chin and frowned, and said as if he had thought of an answer:

"Say, is it a good deed done by some Austrian?" The Austrian he spoke of was undoubtedly Kuster.

"Absolutely not!" The logistics officer shook his head again and again, but more and more cold sweat betrayed him. The hand is getting sticky, but still quibbles:

"I asked, they've been short of shells lately."

Nelson stared at him until he saw his legs tremble and smiled contemptuously, and shook his head casually, quite relaxed.

But in the next second, his face changed suddenly:

"Intercept the letter to me. Kill the messenger for me! ”

"It's too late, he's already gone!"

"God forbid, may he step into a minefield, or be killed by the French. Can the French help me! ”