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Volume One: All for Germany! Two hundred and fifty. Take care, my friend (890 monthly tickets plus more updates)

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    Berlin, September 1918.

    The situation of the war is getting worse and worse.  The Battle of Saint-Mihiel had just ended.

    In this battle, seven divisions of the 1st and 4th Corps of the 1st Army of the American Expeditionary Force commanded by Pershing carried out the main assault from the south of the salient, and 3 divisions of the 5th Corps carried out auxiliary assaults from the west. The French 3rd  Three divisions of the 2 Colonial Army were deployed at the top of the protrusion to encircle and annihilate the German army group in the protrusion.  Another five divisions of the US military serve as combat reserves.  The US-French coalition invested a total of 500,000 troops, 3,000 artillery pieces, 267 tanks and 1,500 aircraft.

    The German army on the front consists of 7 attrited divisions of the Von Galwitz Army, 560 artillery pieces, 200 aircraft, and 5 reserve divisions.  After the German high command learned that the US military was about to attack, it ordered the defenders to retreat on September 8, but the retreat did not end until the eve of the US military attack.  At 5:00 on September 12, after four hours of artillery preparations, the US infantry to the south of the salient took the lead in launching an attack with the support of tanks.  At 8 o'clock, the US military in the west also began to attack.  The Germans could only put up weak resistance as most of their artillery had retreated.  At noon, the main force of the German army evacuated the salient.  On the 13th, the left and right wings of the US military met in the village of Vinni¨¨re to eliminate the remaining German troops in the salient.  On the 14th and 15th, the US military continued its offensive west of the Moselle River, making little progress.  On the 16th, the U.S. and French troops arrived at the established German positions and stopped attacking.  After this attack, the Allied forces' front line was shortened by 24 kilometers, but the campaign goal of encircling and annihilating the German army group was not achieved.

    During the battle, the German army suffered 5,000 casualties and the US military suffered nearly 7,000 casualties.

    Even under such unfavorable circumstances, the German army still showed extremely fierce combat effectiveness:

    There were 500,000 American and French allied forces, but they were not able to eat 50,000 German troops!

    However, no matter how tenacious the German officers and soldiers were, their national strength could not support them to continue the war.

    From August to September 1918, in just one month, the German army lost 150,000 men, more than 2,000 artillery pieces, and more than 13,000 machine guns.  The military defeat made Germany's domestic political and economic crisis unprecedentedly acute.

    At this time, the Allies were preparing to deal a final fatal blow to Germany: they decided to launch the Meuse-Argonne Offensive!

    The Allies' aim was to break up the Hindenburg Line, which stretched from the coast northeast of Ypres to the Swiss border.  The offensive, scheduled to be launched on September 26, was intended to seize or cut off the railway lines on which the Germans relied to mobilize troops and supplies.  Without its transportation system, an already weakened army would be further weakened.

    The railway that carried German troops and supplies to the front line extended northwest from Metz to the major junctions of Mezi¨¨res, Onoit, Maubeuge, Mons, Ghent and Bruges, where there were many branch lines leading to different defense sectors.  .  Foch's plan was to seize a fifty-mile strip of land including the railway junctions of Mezi¨¨res and Aunoy, cutting off the German retreat and thereby exposing them to repeated assaults.  This maneuver was intended to carry out a pincer attack: French and British forces advancing from the west towards Onouy would link up with the larger French and American forces advancing towards Mezi¨¨res from the Meuse-Argonne in the south.

    An Entente victory at the Meuse-Argonne would allow them to seize the railway system and block all land communication between separated enemy forces.  This blow would force the Germans to restore their shattered connections by taking a circuitous and time-consuming route through Liege and the Rhine Valley.

    Ludendorff realized that under the fast-moving onslaught, his troops had little hope of an orderly retreat through the congested passes of Liege.  Therefore, the Germans continued to further strengthen the already heavily fortified Meuse-Argonne area.  Every forest and village was turned into a large obstacle, and several lines of defense were established behind the forward positions.  In the area assigned to Pershing's attack, the railroad line was relatively close to the front line, and a defensive system of trenches ten miles deep had been constructed facing the area.

    The advantage of the German army is that the Meuse-Argonne terrain is naturally suitable for defense.  Just east of the Meuse is the steep rise of the Cote-de-Meuse, an excellent artillery firing position and an almost impenetrable obstacle to the attackers.  The Argonne's cliffs and deeply creviced hills were connected into a fortified area by miles of barbed wire, concrete machine gun bunkers, heavy machine guns and assorted obstacles that weaved back and forth between the defense lines.

    Halfway between the Meuse and the Argonne, there is the heavily fortified Montfaucon hill with a panoramic view of the surrounding area.  The twenty-mile front was fortified, and the only feasible method of assault was to storm the salients on both sides of Montfaucon's defenses, enlarge the salients with flanking attacks, and then threaten the defenders' rear to force them to retreat.  The Meuse-Argonne was only one of the defensive areas in the attack on the entire German front. There were also Belgian and British troops attacking in Flanders, and the British troops in the rolling fields of Cambrai-Saint-Quentin.  French troops in China??'s Champani attack.  The combined strength of the Allies was 220 divisions:

    One hundred and two French divisions, sixty British divisions, forty-two American divisions, twelve Belgian divisions, two Italian divisions and two Portuguese divisions.  To deal with the Allied forces, the German army could only muster 197 divisions: 13 divisions on the front line and 84 divisions in reserve.

    Except for the serious shortage of troops, this army is completely different from the once arrogant force in the past few years.  Rumors of starvation from the home front added to the growing war weariness of the troops themselves.

    Nearly 600,000 American troops have entered the Meuse-Argonne combat area. At the same time, the French army guards the outposts, preventing the German army from approaching for reconnaissance.  Supporting the US military were 2,700 French-made cannons, 821 aircraft and 189 French small tanks.

    And the German artillery, aircraft, and tank support are too weak

    The defense task of the most important area, Montfaucon Hill, was once again handed over to the hands of Major General Ernst Brahm!

    Skeleton Commando¡ªAttacks Again!

    This will be the most impossible mission to complete. He has to face countless cannons, countless tanks, countless enemies, and countless aircraft!

    And Wang Weiyi knows very clearly that this will be his last battle in this era!

    The last stage of the Soarer mission - officially begins!

    Before leaving Berlin, Countess Leonie came to the Alexon Manor in person. She embraced Baron Alexon affectionately and tried her best to leave a mark on his face with her mouth.

    Maybe, the countess felt something with her woman¡¯s intuition

    They kissed crazily, and then rolled onto the bed crazily. They no longer had to worry about anything.

    When the passion passed, Wang Weiyi kissed the Countess, whose face was already full of tears, and said softly: "I'm leaving."

    The naked countess hugged him tightly: "Ernst, kiss me again"

    Wang Weiyi k  Ste, if it was a girl, I would call her Elena, I will never forget you."

    "Me too." Wang Weiyi smiled slightly and put on his military uniform: "Leoni, promise me, you will find Hermione when you have the chance. Germany is about to fail, and His Majesty the Emperor will abdicate. I believe that only Hermione can protect her."  You. Ludwig will send you away."

    "Will you come to see me?" asked the countess, weeping.

    "I will!" Wang Weiyi solemnly said: "I promise, no matter how many years pass, no matter what kind of hardships I encounter, one day I will appear in front of you. Don't forget, I still owe you two things  Woolen cloth."

    "I will wait for you to come back and fulfill your promise!"

    He hugged the Countess for the last time and strode out.

    "Your Excellency, Baron, are you leaving?" Butler Videlio was already waiting there.

    "Yes, I'm leaving. Help me take care of the manor. I will come back one day!"

    ¡°I will, Your Excellency Baron, the manor will still be as it was when you come back.¡±

    Wang Weiyi walked out of his manor step by step. When he stepped out, he found that all his friends had arrived:

    Rommel, Manstein, Guderian, Richthofen, Model and Adolf Hitler, who had just rushed back to Berlin from the hospital.

    "You will come back, won't you, General?" Hitler asked with red eyes.

    "I will, I promise you, I will definitely come back!" Wang Weiyi hugged everyone. When he hugged Hitler, he whispered: "Take care, my friend."

    Hitler¡¯s tears flowed down unsatisfactorily

    "We have no way to fight with you. We will be used as a reserve force. Take care, Ernst!" Rommel said word by word:

    "Remember, promise me you will come back!"

    "On the Marne River, I said that I will definitely come back. Now, I still promise you that I will definitely come back!" Wang Weiyi answered his friend loudly, and then he said:

    "Take care, my friend!"

    "Everyone, stand at attention and salute General Ernst!"

    Everybody raised their hands!

    Wang Weiyi alsoSlowly raise your hands and salute

    "Ernst, you shameless guy!" Richthofen couldn't bear it anymore, and his voice became choked: "You don't let me go to the sky, but you have to go to the battlefield! You must  Come back, Ernst!"

    Wang Weiyi smiled, and his eyes turned red at this moment. Friends, I will come back, maybe not tomorrow, not a year or ten years, but sooner or later, I will definitely come back!

    Take care, my friend!

    (Regarding Elina, a brother raised this question. What Spider can be sure of is that in future plots, Elina will not be a puppet, but a flesh-and-blood Elina. The subsequent plots will be more exciting. Maybe it can be like this  I say that every character in this book has his or her own soul, no matter who it is. Spider will write this book well. This is guaranteed. I sincerely thank the friends who gave their opinions. Spider will repost it in the book review section every day.  , and then look at those brothers who put forward their opinions, and bow and thank you) (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)
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