Chapter 421 Tank War [Second Update]

[Today's second update, the 9,000-word chapter is updated. There are one or two updates tonight, so please pay attention]

Whether it is the Allies or the Allies, when the number of tanks or tanks increased to more than 5,000, the names of armored armies and armored divisions naturally appeared.\\9vk.com First launch\\ Since the belligerent countries have no experience in large-scale armored troops fighting, in terms of organization, they basically refer to the organization method of the First Armored Division of the Royal Imperial Guards of the Chinese Empire, and then the various armored divisions were expanded into armored armies and armored armies. Because the Allies deployed 7,000 tanks, they even had armored armies.

The armored army group that should have appeared during World War II had already appeared in World War I due to the deliberate instigation and secret operation of the Chinese Empire.

On November 3, 1915, the British and French Allied Forces repelled a tentative attack from the German army in Brownge on the Brell River and won the victory of the Brownge battle. This victory made the British and French Allied Forces Command full of confidence. Xia Fei hoped to annihilate the extremely arrogant German army through a defensive counterattack after luring the enemy to attack.

He proposed a bold action code-named "Defensive Counterattack" in the winter, with the purpose of surrounding the German army by detouring to Verton in the northwest of France in the English Channel, but the British Command chose a more traditional positional assault to crush the protruding part in Curregion.

The reason why the tanks produced by the Allies themselves were mainly chosen because the tanks produced by them could not be rational in terms of aerodynamic layout (air circulation) and timely dissipation of heat like the tanks of the Chinese Empire, which made it difficult for soldiers to stay in them for a long time. Therefore, choosing to invest in tank combat in early winter can offset the non-combat reduction problem caused by overheating inside the tank.

In order to take into account the overall situation of the British and French coalition forces, Xiafei had to accept this idea. Major Li Fei, a battlefield observation regiment of the Chinese Empire, located in the Allied Power, said after the battle that the Battle of Qurecian was not the earliest plan of Xiafei, and the French coastal siege and annihilation battle of the English Channel was his original idea. Xiafei then formulated the Battle of Qurecian and insisted on carrying out the battle to the end. At best, it was just that the original intention was not realized, and it was second to obey the concept and will of the Supreme Command of the British and French. Because Xiafei had previously reminded the attention of the Supreme Command of the British and French, that no matter what, postponed and suspended this.

The entire strategy will be very unfavorable, so Xiafei demanded to persist in the battle during the battle. This situation is particularly easy for ordinary people to misunderstand that Xiafei advocated the plan and implemented the Battle of Qurecian. For this battle of Qurecian, Xiafei also put forward his own two suggestions: one is to take advantage of the fact that the German army has not yet established a stable foothold and launch an offensive campaign in advance, and the other is to wait for the German army to attack first. After it is exhausted and consumed and energy exhausted, the British and French forces will counterattack and capture the German rear route. The latter Xiafei is more optimistic.

However, the British and French Allied Forces Command rejected the latter's tactics and believed that it would be too risky to let the German army take the lead in attack. However, although the British and French Allied Forces Command chose the former and tried to take the lead in attacking, it repeatedly hesitated and postponed, and expected the main force of the US military to arrive and wait for its own strength to increase. Of course, the German army's strength increased faster with the secret help of the Chinese Empire, which is a well-known fact that the Allies and even all the world's top players.

The Qurecian protrusion extends from the German front like a fist. Its front is about 250 miles long, but its bottom is less than 70 miles. After careful reconnaissance, many established troops were found in the protrusion. Xia Fei planned to encircle and annihilate the entire German heavy army group in the protrusion through a clamp attack coordinated by the north and south wings. Moreover, the success of this battle will shorten the front line of the British and French coalition forces, greatly increasing the mobility of the British and French coalition forces. Not only can it regain the western front of the Somme River, but it can also drive the German army out of France in one fell swoop and even win the war.

Xia Fei's plan was supported by Sir Henry Willy Norman (who won the rank of marshal in 1902) and General Johnson, the chief of staff of the Army Headquarters, but was also opposed by General Peter, the commander of the 9th Army, and General George, the Armored Forces. The opposition was justified. In the spring of 1915, the British and French coalition forces suffered huge losses on the Eastern Front. Moreover, as the main force, the Mark 2 and 3 tanks have been proved to be no opponent of the German a7v-1 and a7v-2, while the new generation of the British and French coalition forces, the Renault ft-17 tanks.

Ke, with low monthly output, and is obviously at a disadvantage in terms of quantity compared to the Germans who purchased ready-made chariots directly from the Chinese Empire. George believed that the attack on Currecian would cause great losses to the Allied Tank Corps, and his plan to adapt the Allied Armored Army would also go bankrupt. The Allied Command finally decided to adopt Xia Fei's plan and issued the combat order No. 6 on October 15, deciding that the British and French coalition forces jointly launched a clamp-shaped offensive to destroy the main German forces in Currecian's protrusion. The combat code is "Shield".

The "Shield" operation was planned to be launched on November 4, but due to the major blow of the Allies by the German naval battle, the winter suit was delayed to be sent to the front line. Millions of British and French forces refused to fight in the cold winter, forcing the command of the British and French forces to postpone the combat plan again and again.

At a meeting discussing the "Shield" plan in the middle of the month, General Peter, the commander of the 9th Army, brought a stack of aerial photos, which showed that the German army had built a large number of fortifications on the offensive route of the British and French coalition forces. Peter believed that the best time for the attack had been lost, the German army had recovered its vitality, and the "Shield" plan should be abandoned. The Supreme Command of the Allied Powers showed hesitation again, but with the insistence of British Field Marshal Sir Henry Willy Norman, British Chief of Staff Johnson and French Marshal Xiafei, and the confidence in the victory achieved by the German army suddenly adopted the "Blitzkrieg" plan proposed by Cui Mingbosch, the Imperial Army University, a few months ago, in the third Battle of the Somme, the "Shield" operation was finally determined to be launched on December 5.

The Allies finally determined the deployment of troops. The 9th Army of General Peter, who belonged to the Central Army Group, was in the south of the Qurecion Prominence. The army had a total of 21 French divisions and 3 British divisions, 335,000 people, including 6 tank divisions, a total of 1,790 tanks and 424 artillery pieces. In the middle of the Prominence, there are 26,000 troops of the Allies' Central Army Group. They will play an auxiliary role in this offensive, and their main task is to maintain the connection between the British, French and American troops in the east and west of the Prominence.

In the south of the protruding part is the Southern Army Group of Xiafei, including General Leiden's 4th Armored Army and Thomson Cluster. The 4th Armored Army is under the jurisdiction of the 52nd Infantry Army, the 48th Armored Army and the 2nd Armored Army, a total of 224,000 people, 1925 tanks and 704 artillery pieces. The Thomson Cluster on the right wing has 10 divisions, 126,000 people, 1344 tanks and 125 artillery pieces.

In addition, about 20 divisions were deployed on the flanks of the above assault groups. The aviation corps of the 4th and 6th Air Forces were responsible for supporting the army.&*.

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The fastest update of com＊＊ In this way, the total offensive force of the British and French coalition forces reached more than 1.9 million, about 10,000 artillery and mortars, 6,000 tanks (the other 1,000 in the reserve team), and 3,050 various combat aircraft. The British and French coalition forces also invested a large number of weapons of mass destruction for this attack, including white phosphorus bombs, poison gas bombs, etc. imitated in the Chinese Empire. Once they were forced to force, this weapon of mass destruction would be placed on the battlefield without restrictions.

On the German side, when the generals of the British Command were quarreling over the "Shield" plan, the German army was also planning the next step. General Falkenhein, the commander of the Betina Front, advocated a preemptive attack to disrupt the offensive preparations of the British and French coalition forces and regain the strategic initiative lost in the Battle of Verdun. William II himself also preferred this plan, while Paul von Hindenburg, Keynes and others believed that the German army should first maintain a defensive state, consume the offensive energy of the British and French coalition forces with strong defense, destroy its armored forces, and then launch a counterattack.

The decision was mainly because the officers inside the German army were very much admired by the Imperial Army at this time. They not only admired the powerful equipment of the Imperial Army, but also admired the tactical ideas of the Imperial Army. The blitzkrieg tactics proposed by the Imperial Army to the German Army gave the German army a great advantage in the Third Somme Battle. If the German army had not prepared logistics and eventually lost the chain, the British and French coalition forces would have probably been driven out of the sea by the German army.

Based on this worship of victory as the background, most of the German officers began to study the Art of War of the Chinese Empire and study the tactical courses of the Imperial Army University. In particular, the Chinese Emperor used defensive counterattacks many times in the Sino-Russian War, and they all achieved great victory in the battle. Therefore, the German army decided to follow the Chinese Emperor once this time and play a defensive counterattack.

At this time, based on the front-line reconnaissance and spy intelligence, both the British and French coalition forces would launch a large-scale attack on the German army of the Qurecian's protruding unit. At a meeting on November 12, William II was finally convinced to adopt Paul von Hindenburg's plan. So the German army began to move into active defensive preparations in Qurecian.

On the frontier positions, the Germans carefully designed their defenses and built several lines of defense, with a defense depth of more than 100 miles. The entire defense system consists of a large number of trenches, barbed wire, anti-chariot fire points, anti-tank trenches and minefields that cooperate closely. In the most likely direction of the attack of the British and French coalition forces, a large number of troops and firepower were gathered.

In the end, in the north of the protruding part of the Currecian, facing the Central Army Group of the British and French Allied Forces was Crown William's Central Front, including the 70th, 13th, 48th, 60th, 65th and 2nd Tank Army, with a total force of 711,000 men, 11,000 cannons and mortars, and 2,785 tanks.

Since the German army believed that the powerful British and French coalition Central Army Group would take on the main attack of this agreement, the German army was also the strongest in this direction, and Marshal Paul von Hindenburg was also personally in charge of the command.

In the south of the Qureshion protrusion, facing the Southern Army Group of Allied Powers was Falkenhein's Betina Front, which was under its jurisdiction, the 6th and 7th Guards Army, the 40th, 38th and 69th Army, the 1st Tank Army and the 35th Infantry Army, with a total force of 625,000, 8,718 cannons and mortars, and 1,704 tanks.

Behind the Central Front and Betina Front is the Rhine Grassland Front. Its mission is to provide reinforcements to the two fronts when the situation is tight. Once the Currecian line is broken by the British and French coalition forces, it will become the last line of defense, and when the German army turns to counterattack, it will provide fresh troops. The Front is in charge of the 4th, 5th Army, 27th, 47th, 53rd Army, 5th Tank Army, 3rd Guards, 3rd Guards, 4th Tank Army, 1st and 3rd Mechanized Army. The total force is 573,000 men, 8,510 cannons and mortars, and 1,639 tanks.

The days when the British and French forces were considered to have launched an attack were safely spent. The front line seemed very calm for three months. In November, Rudendolf wrote a letter to William II that the German army should take the lead in launching an offensive because the preparations made by the German army were prepared for the British and French forces in winter. If it was spring and summer next year, the German fortifications would lose their effect.

So the German Command ordered the capture of a British and French Allied Forces. Then on the night of December 4, a soldier from the 168th Infantry Division of the British and French Allied Forces was captured in the night of December 4th of the German Guards in the south of the protrusion. He confessed that the British and French Allied Forces was about to start the attack the next day. In the early morning of December 5th, a sergeant Pitt from the 6th Infantry Division of the British and French Allied Forces was captured in the 13th Infantry Division of the British and French Allied Forces in the north of the protrusion. He also confessed that the British and French Allied Forces would launch an attack a few hours later.

In order to disrupt the attack of the British and French coalition forces, Paul von Hindenburg issued an order to implement artillery fire anti-preparation orders to the British and French coalition forces positions at 2:20 am on the 5th, and the prelude to the Battle of Qurecian began.

On the southern front: the German shelling was completely beyond the expectations of the British and French coalition forces, causing great losses to the Agreement. Although it was delayed by 3 hours than the original plan. The 4th Armored Army of the Southern Army Group of the Allied launched an attack according to the scheduled plan. After losing 36 tanks, the Agreement crossed the German anti-tank minefield and attacked the defense line of the 67th Guard Infantry Division. Faced with the attack of the 3rd Division of the Agreement, the German 67th Guard Infantry Division was unable to resist and was forced to retreat. Falkenhein transferred the front reserves over to block the British and French coalition forces from the second line of defense. Unfortunately, the Agreement opened a gap on the German second line of defense on the 6th and forced the Brena River.

As the Entente attack was much more violent than expected, Falkenhein was forced to cancel the counterattack, which was originally scheduled for December 6, and placed some of the tanks of the 1st Tank Army, which were planned to be used for counterattack, to support infantry to defend, and some of the tanks were arranged on the flank to attack the British and French coalition forces.

On this day, the British and French Air Forces launched more than 11,000 attacks. As the Allies received strong support from the United States, their number of aircraft was huge, completely suppressing the Luftwaffe.

After a day of fierce fighting, both sides suffered great losses.

On the evening of the 6th, Falkenhein asked Keynes for reinforcements. After obtaining the approval of the Supreme Command, the latter immediately transferred 453 tanks of the 2nd and 10th Tank Corps of the 5th Guards Army of the Rhine Prairie Front to the Betina Front. At the same time, Falkenhein received a call from William II himself, asking him to prevent the Entente from breaking through the southern part of the Qurecien protrusion at all costs.

During the battle on the 7th, the British and French coalition forces only advanced several kilometers and failed to achieve the task of breaking through the German defense line. The next day, the British and French coalition forces continued their offensive tenaciously, and Falkenhein was also planning a counterattack. For this reason, he asked the Supreme Command to transfer the 5th Guard Tank Army and the 5th Guard Army of the Rhineland Front to command. His request was quickly approved, but it took several days for these troops to arrive.

In the battle for air supremacy, through a 7-8-day air battle, the Luftwaffe gradually reversed its disadvantages with the genuine original Cat Demon fighter obtained from the Chinese Empire. It was only a matter of time before the entire acquisition of air supremacy was seized.

December 9 was a critical day in the Battle of Qureshion. Falkenhein commanded his troops to continue to resist the advancement of the British and French coalition forces towards Kang Bulong on the front, and launched continuous counterattacks on both wings. Although these counterattacks were failed again and again, they failed to attack their main targets with all their might.

General Hoss, commander of the 4th Armored Army of the Allied Army, saw that he could not break through Kang Bulong from the front, decided to break through from the right wing first. He ordered the 2nd Armored Army to turn to Abveer in the northeast. In the next two days, the attack of the British and French coalition forces was relatively smooth. They attacked the city of Abveer, and the battle of Kuregien was staged.

On the morning of December 12, the battle started, and both sides launched an attack almost at the same time. During the battle, the German M10 tanks had obvious attack advantages, while the Allied Renault tanks could not pose a threat to the German army at the same distance. A large number of Allied tanks were destroyed by German tanks outside the combat distance. However, the number of tanks in the Allied ** was huge, and the offensive against German tanks quickly reached 3 to 1. As a result, the quality advantage of the German tank regiment was offset. In the end, the battle report of the German Guards 5th Tank Army reported that the chariot army had lost the ability to continue attacking and had incorporated the remaining tanks into the infantry unit.

In the tank battle on this day, the German army destroyed more convoy tanks with relatively small losses. The convoy eventually defeated the German tank corps by the advantage of the number of tanks, but they failed to capture Abveur, and the subsequent German reinforcements arrived made their defense stronger.

The battle can be rated as a tactically paying a great price and the German army was forced to retreat. Neither the German Guards' 5th Tank Army or the British and French Alliance's 2nd Armored Army could achieve its goal. The losses of tanks were already a topic of controversy. The German army lost 1,822 vehicles, most of which were absolute losses. Similarly, the losses of the British and French Alliance reached 2,300 vehicles.

When the accurate loss figures of both sides were determined, the results of the battle were clear. The German Guards 5th Tank Army could not achieve the purpose of capturing favorable terrain or defeating the 2nd Armored Army of the Allied. Both sides' troops were weakened in the battle. Art decided to use the Guards 5th Tank Army to fight the Entente against Entente, which had a great impact on the battle situation, because this was the main offensive direction of Entente.

In fact, the sudden attack of the powerful German reserves and the 9th Allied Army in the north of the Quregien protrusion were forced to stop the attack due to the German operation of Mewel, and the Supreme Command of the Allied Army decided to stop the entire assault. The German army launched an offensive against the 6th Allied Army in the Somme River south of Foliville, which required the Allied Army to transfer the reserves that were originally used to win the final victory south of the Quregien protrusion to the place. The Supreme Command of the British Defense Forces also decided to transfer part of the troops to the Mediterranean theater to deal with the landing of the British, French and American coalition forces on December 10 in Sicily.

Regardless of the tactical results, the outcome of the battle turned into a psychological and substantial victory for the German army. The British and French coalition originally expected the German army to move into defense and did not have more anti-tank artillery and anti-tank rifles. But on the contrary, the German army still had more than 2,000 tanks, which clearly showed that the German army was far from defeated and this seriously affected the strategic decisions of the Allies.

This also shows that the Allies are weak in the quality of officers and soldiers. The German army is more confident in launching a large-scale offensive to drive the British and French forces out of the sea, and the strategic initiative falls into the hands of the German army.

On the northern line, German artillery bombardment also delayed the attack of the British and French forces by 2 and a half hours than planned. After dozens of minutes of artillery preparation and air bombing, the 9th Group of the Allied Powers began the attack as planned.

In order to divert the German attention from the main attack direction of the British and French coalition forces, Crodo first carried out a feint attack with three infantry divisions on the left wing, but was stopped by the German army.

In the main attack direction, the British and French coalition concentrated the forces of four armored divisions and three infantry divisions. After fierce battles, they broke through the first line of defense of the German 13th Army and advanced 5 kilometers forward with difficulty. However, on both wings, the German army stubbornly defended the position.

While fierce battles were being fought on the ground, the air forces of both sides were also fighting fiercely. On this day, the Allies dispatched 9,000 aircraft and the Luftwaffe Air Force dispatched more than 8,000 aircraft.

The two sides fought until the evening of the 5th. The agreement only broke forward for less than 10 kilometers, but lost at least 700 tanks.

The next day, Prince William began to launch a counterattack, and Crodo also put the reserves on the battlefield, so a large-scale tank battle began. After fierce fighting, six German chariot divisions were severely damaged, losing about 700 tanks, but the Agreement also lost 800 tanks.

The British and French coalition forces took advantage of the victory and marched to the second German defense line, but were stopped by the German 17th Guard Infantry Army and the German 17th Warrior Army who rushed to reinforce.

In the early morning of December 7, the Envoy** launched another attack in an attempt to seize the transportation hub of Chenglikiyer. The battle was extremely fierce. The British and French coalition forces attacked the city several times, but were driven out by the tenacious German army. After fierce battles, the Luftwaffe seized air supremacy in the northern part of Quregien, which has since given great deterrence to the British and French coalition ground forces.

The battle was until December 8. Although the British and French coalition forces caused great losses to the German army, the German army relied on its powerful equipment and personnel quality to hold its position.

In the city of Shenglikiy, the British and French forces occupied most of Shenglikiy after paying a heavy price, but the German army still controlled some important strongholds in the city, and the use of the British and French forces could not continue to advance.

On December 9, Crodo launched his last attack on the German position with 1,300 tanks, but he still found nothing. At this time, the attack energy of the 9th Army of the Allied Power had been exhausted, and Crodo was forced to switch to defense on the 10th.

The British and French coalition forces began to retreat on December 17, and by the 23rd, the two sides basically resumed their pre-war situation.

When the Entente offensive was stopped on December 10, the German army decided to launch an attack on the 12th, and the name of German Marshal Helmut von Moltch, who captured the French Emperor Napoleon III and won the Battle of Seth.

In the early morning of the 12th, the German army carried out more than two hours of artillery bombardment at the convoy position of the Quregien protrusion, and then Moltke personally came to the battlefield to command a large counterattack. The British and French coalition forces carried out tenacious resistance, causing major casualties to the German army.

On the 15th, General William commanded the 70th, 13th and 48th armies of the German Central Front also joined the attack. At this time, the Luftwaffe also completely controlled the air supremacy, and the Austro-Hungarian Air Wing of the Hungarian Empire also fought side by side with the Luftwaffe over Qurecien.

On the ground, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire made a misjudgment, thinking that the German Army would be completely defeated by the 7,000 chariot corps of the Allied Powers. In order to support the German Army, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire sent an Atlantic Fleet to cover a caravan composed of 20 large transport ships. At the risk of being discovered by the French coastal fleet, he secretly provided the German Army with 300 m10 unshrinkable chariots in the Port of Lecrotova, northwestern France controlled by Germany.

The German tanks lost in the region were quickly supplemented, and the official version of the m10 tank had strong attack power and maneuverability, which quickly gained the advantage of ground warfare.

Crodo's tank army was unable to stop the attack of the German newly built Eighth War Vehicle Army equipped with 300 state-of-the-art M10 tanks, and he realized it was only a matter of time before he lost Curregion.

On December 16, Crodo asked the Allied Command to abandon Kuregion and then retreated to the "Breydge" defense line, but was rejected by the Allied Command.

On December 25, Russia's domestic political situation on the Eastern Front was seriously unstable, and the Soviet headed by Lenin was planning to overthrow the Tsarist rule. Tsarist Russia on the Eastern Front stopped attacking, making the German army no longer restrained. Therefore, the agreement on the Western Front had to consider the situation of being attacked by the German army on the entire line.

At the same time, the British and French forces of the Quregion's protruding unit were also in danger of being surrounded by the German army. After Crodo's request to retreat again, the Supreme Command of the Allied Power finally agreed to abandon Quregion and transfer the 2nd Armored Army to cut off the rear to stabilize the situation.

On December 31, the Agreement withdrew from the Brena River's "Bred Day" defense line. On the way to retreat, the Agreement withdrew from the Brena River implemented a cruel scorched earth policy.

On January 5, 1916, the German army conquered Qurecian and continued to pursue the retreating British and French coalition forces. They captured Muwana on the 10th and entered Vasmon on the 15th. Because of the strategic clearance tactics of the agreement, the German offensive was basically over on the 16th, and the front line gradually stabilized.

During the entire Battle of Quregien, the German army wiped out 600,000 enemies, 5,044 tanks, 12,402 artillery pieces, and 3,029 aircraft, and advanced 150 kilometers westward to level the defense line of Quregien, but failed to complete the plan to encircle and annihilate the Central Army Group of the British and French Allied Forces. At the same time, the German army suffered huge losses, with 42 casualties, 3,586 tanks, 3,892 artillery pieces, and 2,104 aircraft.

On the southern front, when the British and French forces broke off contact with the German army on December 23, William II asked the German army to launch a counterattack immediately, but Paul von Hindenburg believed that after a continuous and arduous battle, the German army should make necessary supplements and repairs before launching the offensive, so that the German army finally determined the date of the attack on January 3, 1916. The code name of this battle was named after the German Prime Minister Bismarck in the French-Prussian War. The attack was undertaken by the Betina Front and the Rhineland Front, with a total force of 900,000 men and more than 2,800 tanks.

At 5 a.m. on January 3, nearly 10,000 German cannons fired together, and a large number of shells were dumped onto the British and French allied forces' positions. The artillery lasted for more than two hours, turning the accord-level position into scorched earth.

Then the chariots and infantry began to attack. The surviving British and French soldiers in the artillery were unable to stop the German advance. The German army quickly broke through the first line of defense of the British and French coalition forces. After a day of battle, the German assault groups advanced 10 to 15 kilometers deep into the agreement. In the following days of battle, the agreement was extremely tenacious. Although the German tanks continued to break forward, the infantry were entangled by the agreement and progressed slowly.

By January 5, the German 1st Tank Army captured Scarborough and cut off the retreat of the 255th, 332nd Infantry Division and 19th Armored Division of the Agreement, and the fate that awaits their fate will be annihilated.

However, the British and French forces were besieged to resist to the death, and it was precisely because of their tenacious resistance that they won time for the main force of the alliance to withdraw from Abveer to Brege.

On the 6th and 7th, as the German fighting chariots advanced very quickly and the infantry were busy clearing the surrounded British and French coalition forces, the German Tank War chariots and infantry re-enacted the third Somme Battle and had begun to get out of touch. The Agreement hoped to seize this weakness of the German army and began to retreat in a planned manner to win time to gather troops, and after the German offensive energy was gradually consumed, a counterattack was carried out.

At this time, Falkenhein was very optimistic about the situation. He believed that the agreement had reached the brink of collapse. He ordered the front-line chariot troops to continue attacking, cut off the railway line in Brege, and prevent the British and French coalition forces from escaping.

On January 11, the British and French coalition forces had already assembled and supplemented 12 elite American supplementary divisions, supplementing enough ammunition and fuel, so Xia Fei began a counterattack.

At this time, the German chariot troops were still in pursuit, and the troops were widely scattered, while the infantry and artillery were still in the rear. After many days of fierce fighting, the ammunition and fuel were seriously insufficient. More importantly, the German army did not notice the attack on the British and French coalition forces.

On the evening of the 11th, the 49th Vehicle Brigade and the 17th Vehicle Regiment of the German 1st Vehicle Army were surrounded and annihilated by the British and French coalition forces. Due to the timely arrival of the German 5th Guards Tank Army, the entire army of the 1st Tank Army was avoided.

On the 12th, under the attack of the British and French coalition forces, the German army was forced to retreat. The Sixth War Vehicle Army of the German Six Guards Army was surrounded by the British and French coalition forces on the 14th and suffered a crushing defeat.

The battle ended on January 17, and both sides suffered huge losses. Although the counterattack of the British and French coalition forces severely damaged the German army, Xia Fei had no strength to further expand the results of the war. The German army had limited troops and could not afford to lose money, and was unable to launch a large-scale counterattack.

The Fourth Somme Battle, which was nearly three months ago, ended. Neither the Allies nor the Allies could achieve the purpose of the battle. Instead, the tug-of-war between the two sides caused heavy casualties in the army of both sides and exhausted.

Although the German army won some battles with relatively small casualties, Germany had a small population and its military source was on the verge of exhaustion. The loss of hundreds of thousands of troops was a major blow to Germany. On the contrary, although the Allies lost hundreds of thousands more troops than the German army, fortunately, the population of the Allies was large, especially the large amount of cannon fodder in the United States saved the Allies in a timely manner. In the long-term war of attrition, the Allies were undoubtedly the winner.

However, overall, although the Allies received the participation of the United States in the war and received a large amount of military supplies and supplies, Tsarist Russia, which had the greatest restraint of the allies, was in a turbulent domestic crisis at this time. Lenin from Bolshevism was planning to overthrow the tyranny of Tsarist Russia. Therefore, on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, Tsar Nicholas II had to suspend the offensive and mobilized elite troops back to China, while saving front-line expenses to stabilize the Russian citizens.

In this way, starting from 1916, the Allies had basically no war on the battlefield on the Eastern Front. Tsarist Russia and Germany almost made the same ceasefire, which reduced the pressure on the Allies on the Eastern Front, and could mobilize more troops to rush to the Western Front, which offset the pressure on the US military to join the German and Austrian coalition on the Western Front.

Similarly, in terms of material replenishment, the Chinese Empire focused on exporting arms and strategic materials to the allies, which also offset the huge strategic material replenishment brought by the United States to the Allies, which once again put the European battlefield in a delicate state of balance.
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