Iron Cross Fire

The attack began from the south, with the main target being Aquitaine.

Custer not only planned to cut off traffic between Britain and France in the English Channel, but also completely cut off France's transportation routes through the Atlantic with other allies, leaving them with only ports in the Mediterranean.

Cooperating with the progress of Türkiye in the south in North Africa, the internal and external cooperation can completely cut off France's communication with the outside world.

Although this may force France to follow Custer's invention and develop a high-range aircraft for communication.

But that doesn't matter. If the French really develop aircraft, they probably won't have much left in their homeland.

There were also attacks targeting the Le Mans area. A few days ago, Kuster's four divisions were surrounded here, and they kept sending distress telegrams to them, but most of them just "provided all support except help" without any actual actions, which made the outside world quite concerned about this. Criticize.

Now they really have to take action to rescue the tens of thousands of people trapped in the trenches.

The army marched along the Loire River, defeated and annihilated the French army along the road, and strived to join the "Franche-Comté" group army and join it in the next offensive operation.

The other road goes straight to Le Mans, but the main force is mostly on the two wings in the attacking direction. The huge army will slow down the march, and the frontal troops will therefore be ahead of the two wings.

Once a battle occurs and the frontal armies of both sides meet, a group of French troops who will die will definitely think that this is the main force of the German army. Then the two wings can then join the battlefield and outflank the enemy's rear, thereby annihilating the enemy.

He originally prepared 5 divisions to participate in the operation, leaving 3 divisions as reserves for use. However, because they were in the protruding area, the French troops on both wings not only did not retreat, but also intensified their offensive efforts.

The pressure came to the German side. Even if the enemy did not have enough artillery to suppress it, the simple defensive fortifications were not of much use. The French continued to attack for days. They had no time to build complex defense lines and could only follow them. There are some barbed wire fences laid out casually, but there is no solid concrete fortress.

The defense line gradually shrank, the German troops continued to retreat inwards, and the time to deploy fortifications became shorter and shorter, which also made it more and more difficult for them to resist the aggressive French.

These people should not be ordinary French people, but the old guards who were dug up from the cemetery and followed Humpty Dumpty to conquer Europe a century ago. I really don't know what they will think when they realize that they are about to encircle a group army with nearly twenty divisions.

Excited or worried? It's right to be afraid.

Nielsen sent a telegram. The letter was earnest and the only meaning of the long speech was to ask for help. When Kuster saw that he could do this, he probably could only see it in writing.

So Custer ordered the reserves in the protrusion to engage in defensive battles, and at the same time moved the two divisions he carried forward deep into the French army to the east.

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

The French army on the Eastern Front was surrounded, which sounded very exciting news.

However, the French themselves did not know that they were still attacking. The pressure on the German defenders in the salient was increasing, and they were about to be compressed into a point on the map. Kuster allowed them to start artillery fire to slow down the French advance.

The surrounded right-wing French army was unaware of its situation and was still advancing recklessly. Custer had to activate another preparation and attack it directly from the side, finally stopping.

It doesn't matter if he is attacked from the side, but this stop is very fatal.

The Germans, who were following closely behind these French troops, finally arrived and sneak-attacked the French troops from behind.

At first, the French thought reinforcements were coming, and they became more confident - until they saw flames coming from the barrels of those men's guns.

They realized something was wrong, but it was too late. After the German troops on the front and side heard that they were being attacked, they also joined the battle. The French army was attacked from all four directions.

They were the attacking side not long ago, and now they are about to be bombed. The gap is so huge that it is embarrassing.

But because of this, they had no fortifications to rely on. On the vast grassland, warriors can only fight tenaciously with their bodies.

But what was worse was that they never stopped, which made the soldiers extremely tired and suddenly lost their motivation.

They had been able to persevere with their desire to win before, but now defeat was a foregone conclusion and nothing could change it.

The French front shrank sharply and the pressure returned to them.

As long as Custer takes the opportunity to strengthen his attack, these French troops will probably be completely wiped off the map.

But he did not do this. On the contrary, he asked the soldiers to stop the attack and deducted a large number of troops to participate in the plan to attack Le Mans, leaving only a few battalions and their complex fortifications to fill the front.

This was not because Kuster was ill, nor was it because the war on the front line was so urgent. He just changed from a perfect military officer to a fledgling politician.

Nelson was still lamenting the success of his defense on the front foot, but the French army launched another fierce attack on the back foot, leaving him stunned.

At this time, his logistics officer broke in and said to him:

"General, we are running out of artillery shells!"

"What! Aren't there still a lot of useless cannonballs in stock?" Nelson was trembling with shock and immediately turned around to ask.

"Uh... it's not that there are none, but that we can't transport them." The logistics officer glanced at him carefully, and cold sweat broke out on his palms; his eyes wandered, and finally he returned to him, opened his mouth, and thought for a long time before saying:

"The Second Army in Normandy has swallowed up some of our artillery shells."

"Contact him for me!" Nelson said sternly. He jumped up from the chair, but his center of gravity was unstable, and his body swayed back and forth. After finally settling down, he kicked the chair away again, which shows how angry he was.

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

"Well. Then write me a letter to scold them." Nelson responded, and he was angry, but suddenly he thought of something, calmed down, fumbled his chin, frowned, and said as if he had thought of the answer:

"Do you think it was done by an Austrian?" The Austrian he was talking about was undoubtedly Kuster.

"Absolutely not!" The logistics officer shook his head repeatedly, but more and more cold sweat betrayed him. His hands were getting stickier and stickier, but he still argued:

"I asked, they are also short of shells recently."

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

But the next second, his face changed suddenly:

"Intercept the letter and kill the messenger!"

"It's too late, he ran away!"

"God bless him, may he step into the minefield, or be killed by the French. Can the French help me!"

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