In the prisoner-of-war camp, Patton wrote in his diary: "During this battle, the 3rd Army advanced farther, faster than any army in the history of the United States, perhaps in the world, and invested more troops in a shorter time.: 3w. Only such outstanding American officials, soldiers and equipment could achieve such a record. Although they launched the wrong attack at the wrong place and at the wrong time, I am still proud of such a failure."

Patton also has a habit of recording the casualties and losses of both sides after each major battle. This time, he recorded the casualties between the 3rd Army of the US from January 29 in his diary:

Patton's offensive corps were finished, and the Allies, which were still defending in the Ardennes area, had no chance to escape. Even the two million Allies landed in France were afraid that they would be doomed.

Eisenhower was stupid, and he knew about the Air Force's investigation report. A few days ago, Roosevelt and Churchill sent him a secret message, asking him to cut off his arm and survive.

Eisenhower knew the consequences of the Ardennes encirclement and annihilation battle launched by Li Mo. Eisenhower was also making every effort to reinforce, but Eisenhower secretly mobilized the main US military and some British troops to the south of France. Their target was the junction of the German left-wing army group and the right-wing army group - Troyes.

The German left-wing army group was the German army located in the Arden forest, and the right-wing army group was the German army located in northern Italy. These two German troops surrounded the Allies in front of the Maginot Line like pliers.

However, the German army did not completely encircle the 2.8 million Allied troops, only about 1.8 million were surrounded. In addition to the 550,000 marching into Belgium, there were more than 500,000 Allied troops outside the encirclement, and they were stationed in major ports and Paris.

When Eisenhower received the order to break through, he began to secretly mobilize these unencircled troops. They used the method of marching at night and hiding at night to quietly move to the periphery of Troyes. The elite troops of the Allied forces used to attack Troyes were 300,000. Although the number was not large, they were all elite troops, and there were eighteen armored divisions. Almost 80% of the remaining armored divisions of the Allied forces.

The total force of the Allied forces used to attack Troyes reached 800,000. Troyes' German guards had only two German divisions, with only 26,000 people, which was already a very strong defensive force. Some cities did not have such troops.

On the morning of November 29, the Allies launched the battle to attack Troyes. After thirty minutes of artillery preparation, the smoke of gunpowder in the city of Troyes was filled with smoke. The Allies came from above and charged the entire regiment. In addition, the Allies used wave charges. Simply put, an attacking division followed by three or four preparatory attack divisions. The crippled division immediately replaced the attack. The preparatory attack division immediately continued to launch an attack. It was completely a complete man and tactic. The attacking Allies stepped on the corpses of their companions and continued to attack.

The German army's resistance was also very tenacious, but the number of people used by the Allies to attack was too large. It was like a tide. The Allies also used cannons to the front line. When direct-fired cannons were used, the battle became increasingly fierce as soon as it opened.

Even if the German mg42 machine gun fired at a fast rate, it was not as fast as the Allies' crazy crowds. Soon, the Allies attacked on both sides occupied the city area of ​​Troyes, and the street fighting became even more cruel. The Allies had to support the lives of at least three or four soldiers in order to kill one German.

This was the only way for the Allied troops to live, and they were reluctant to leave. Hundreds of thousands of people rushed desperately. More than 20,000 German troops fought bloody battles for only one day and one night and were completely reimbursed. The Allied troops finally found eighteen German wounded soldiers in the ruins, and the rest of the German troops were all killed in battle. So how many people did the Allied troops die?

In order to capture Troyes as soon as possible, the Allied forces invested 850,000 attacking troops at one time. The casualties alone reached 150,000 and injured more than 200,000. This cost was extremely heavy, but the Allied forces' escape door was also opened.

Li Mozhen mobilized troops to encircle and annihilate the Allies in the Ardennes area, and the Germans of the right-wing army group were also deployed in an encirclement of hundreds of kilometers. They could not be mobilized in a short period of time, and they could not even pursue them, because the number of fleeing Allies was too large, with a total of nearly two million.

As soon as the Allies escaped from the encirclement ran towards Normandy, where was the large port they built. The Allies who escaped from the sky discarded all the equipment they could discarded and blew up all bridges to block the armored division forces pursued by the German army. They finally arrived in the Normandy area on January 5.

At this time, the sea of ​​ships in the Normandy area was already shipped, including warships, passenger ships, and even fishing boats and yachts. As long as it was a ship, the British started to use it.

By the time Li Mo led the large army to Normandy, the Allies had completely completely destroyed the man-made docks in Normandy, but the entire Normandy area was full of various abandoned weapons, ammunition and vehicles. Many of them were intact, and the Allies did not even have time to destroy them.

The second French battle ended here. Li Mo commanded the German army to successfully annihilate some of the Allied forces landing in France, about 1.15 million, and the Allied forces escaped. More than 1.7 million, shot down more than 9,000 Allied aircraft and more than 2,000 tanks, more than 1,000 tanks, more than 1,000 vehicles of various types were seized, and countless weapons and ammunition were seized.

The German army also suffered a lot of losses, killing more than 300,000 people, losing more than 5,000 aircraft, more than 700 tanks and more than 10,000 vehicles.

In short, the Second Battle of France was an extremely brilliant victory. Although it did not wipe out all the Allied forces, the Allied forces still did not dare to think about opening up the second battlefield in a short period of time.

The seized tanks can be used, but the aircraft's losses are too large and it takes some time to recover.

The situation on the Soviet battlefield worsened, and these troops would be quickly transferred to the Soviet front, but if they continue to fight like this endlessly, the German army is destined to be unable to afford it. Where should Germany go? Li Mo already had a general idea in his mind. When he returned to Berlin to report his duties, he would talk to Hitler and see what the head of state's opinion was.

This strategic retreat of the Allied forces was not a prepared retreat because they did not occupy certain terrain suitable for retreat; however, as a full-line collapsed retreat, it was successful. Although the resistance was repeatedly interrupted, it slowed down the German advance. In addition, the Allied forces' persistence at several strategic points made the battle in these areas beneficial to them. They restrained more German troops in these areas than expected, and as a result, these troops could not be used elsewhere. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

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