Back on the battlefield, although there were small incidents in Germany, the severity of which spilled over into the army, paralyzing operations in many areas. The Hindenburg couple must restructure their army in the next few days, otherwise they will not be able to fight the rest of the battle.

Kuster only sent a congratulatory telegram and set about directing the rescue of Le Mans.

A few days ago, he sowed discord among German officers, which would inevitably cause some discontent in the army, but now that Falkingham has fallen, and the relationship between Xinglu and him is relatively better, he does not need to worry about anything, let Nelson be angry.

Kuster mobilized three reserve divisions and threw them into the front near the Loire.

Their role was to distract the French conjecture and make them think that the Germans were about to make a comeback and break through the Loire.

In fact, their goal was 108,000 miles from the Loire, and what they longed for was not a plain, but Paris.

The previous attack on the Loire could indeed prepare for a later attack and an attempt to march from the mountain Gaul around the Alps into the Apennines. However, the risks are too high to be suitable.

Now that the coup d'état is over, there is no great possibility of marching on the Loire, and now it is time to focus on attacking Paris in order to boost morale and take France in one fell swoop.

However, this is only the superficial reason, and the deeper meaning remains to be studied.

In short, the German forces under the direct command of Kuster turned their guns and placed their main forces twenty kilometers outside Le Mans.

If you carefully look at the map, you will find that Le Mans has a tendency to be surrounded in the strategic map.

The Germans on both sides flanked from the north and south, and penetrated deep into the rear of Le Mans, squeezing it out of the map.

If Kuster doesn't want to attack Le Mans, he can also attack the area behind Le Mans, and the best way to break the siege is not to fight hard from the front, but to directly counter-encircle.

But they knew it, and it was impossible for the French not to know it, not to mention the fact that the French army had innumerable defeatist passive officers, and these passive officers were naturally cautious enough to keep nothing missing in the defensive line.

It was very difficult for Germany to carry out a flanking attack between the north and the south, because the army commanders on both sides were not one person at all, and there was no unified movement, unless these two men were good partners like Xinglu and Xinglu, it was almost impossible for them to cooperate at all, and they were all fighting their own battles.

Believing that he did not have that kind of connection, Custer planned to borrow the hands of others and get the army from the north to support his attack.

coincided with the Hindenburg coup d'état, and before Kuster gave advice to the Kaiser, it could be regarded as a favor, and now it should not be a big deal to change his favors.

Indeed, Hindenburg agreed to his request and allowed the army group to attack Le Mans.

It is worth mentioning that Hindenburg only told the commander to attack south, but did not tell him why he was doing so, let alone Kuster, further south.

Unbeknownst to them, the Second Army began to attack Le Mans, and their commanders, apparently noticing the possibility of outflanking Le Mans, reported it to Hindenburg.

This happened to be the result of Kuster's move. Hindenburg handed him the letter in its original form, in fact, telling him: I have done it for you, and you yourself like it.

Couster gathered heavy forces at the salient and placed small forces on the front to delay the French in front. Both sides are ready to attack.

The offensive began with another letter from Hindenburg, which informed him that the Second Army to the north had begun to break through and was making considerable progress.

So Kuster increased his artillery intensity, carried out a ten-minute artillery scrubbing, and then let small groups of infantry form an assault team to occupy the ruins.

Then the troops were divided into several parts, marching towards the railways and countryside around Le Mans, occupying important local strongholds.

The message came again, four hours later, and the French army was at a loss by this sudden attack, and had not yet reacted.

But his enemies won't give them time. Most of the strongholds had already been captured, and Custer ordered them to begin to connect, marching in the direction of friendly forces and encircling the French troops they encountered along the way.

The operation went well, the French army was divided and cannibalized little by little, and the scale of each loss was not large, and the maximum was only a battalion; But what was really terrifying was the sheer number of losses, with dozens of French troops of various sizes surrounded and annihilated almost every five minutes.

It was also because of Kuster's encroachment tactics that the Germans were always able to annihilate one enemy after another in a short distance with the least casualties.

However, after nearly ten hours of fighting, the progress was far less than that of the Second Army in the north, and they had already advanced five kilometers, and in another twelve kilometers they would be able to encircle Le Mans; Kuster, on the other hand, only hit three kilometers and was clearly not serious.

The four German divisions trapped in the plain of Le Mans were at first unconvinced when they learned by telegram that friendly forces were coming to their rescue, but when they heard the continuous sound of gunfire coming from a few kilometers away, the sound of fighting getting closer and closer, and saw the flares clearly visible in the sky, they believed it.

Twelve hours later, they received a briefing from their commander, Custer, asking them to attack south and cooperate with their allies on a wider detour.

"Pay attention to the attack, not the breakout!" Kuster stressed several times in Telegram that this meant that they could not just pick one point to hit, but fight all of them together.

Sixteen hours after the first shot, the four divisions finally returned to their organization after nearly a month of encirclement, and everyone in the troops was happy, but now there was something more important, and they were exhausted and had to participate in the battle again.

Fortunately, it wasn't all bad, because the French army at Le Mans was only 900 meters away from being surrounded, which was not even a kilometer, and as long as you took one step back, there was really no victory to speak of.

But the French were powerless to resist, and the German offensive was not only huge and manpowered, but also quite wide. The Germans committed two armies, while the French were half of an armies split in half.

From the very beginning they were doomed to failure, and their only effect was to delay time and make the Motherland lose more gloriously with death and corpses.

Although the French army hurriedly sent troops to the north and south, intending to hold the ground and make a last-ditch effort.

However, the direction of the German attack was only slightly to the right, and the French army was once again dangerously defeated.

A considerable part of the French army was dragged to the west and could not move, leaving the east with few troops, and those reserves had already been thrown into the battle, and they had no support left unless the men from the west were willing to run back in the rain of shells.

At this point, the French finally realized that they could not hold on at all, and tried their best to pull the army back.

But the German troops in the north and south scattered missiles all over the sky on their path, and they couldn't get through at all.

In the seventeenth hour, with the complete rout of the French army in the east, the last road for the defenders of Le Mans to retreat into the country was completely blocked.

The only door was closed, and they could only try to get out through the window.