Chapter 2027: British assistance

"Before the final judgment came, except for the French, both Britain and Germany were very satisfied with the current situation. The Germans were full of good cards and were naturally confident, while the British misjudged the situation. They believed that the Germans were attacking the target. It’s France, and the United Kingdom can try to preserve its interests in the subsequent peace talks. I don’t know if Crown Prince Ruprecht and the top German officials really thought about letting the British go, but I have to admit that the Crown Prince played a successful game. Against his opponent, he intimidated the French and at the same time paralyzed the British."-Pershing

"The French Republic is now in the most critical period. The Germans, they have concentrated all their troops on the front of our position! Thousands of tanks, armored vehicles and thousands of bombers and tens of thousands of artillery have been aimed at us! This will be the largest offensive in human history. I want to know how the British Empire can help its allies in the face of the crazy German offensive!" Foch said anxiously.

"I have brought to your Excellency the reinforcements of ten divisions, including six Australian and New Zealand divisions, and two armored divisions. As for the air force, we can provide your country with five wing fighters." British representative Charles Said the lieutenant.

"This strength is a drop in the bucket in front of the German troops of at least 1.5 million, and the five wings with a maximum of 600 fighters wanting to block more than 5,000 German planes is completely idiotic. You know, the French Air Force has already been before. The battle was exhausted. We can't expect 600 planes to cover the front line of hundreds of kilometers, right?" Hearing what the British said, Foch's perception of the British fell to the extreme!

"The Royal Air Force has never stopped fighting. Our losses are equally huge. The Germans simply cannot have 5,000 planes. They are nothing but bluffs. As for the armored forces? The ravines and various obstacles on the Western Front can't be like in Turkey. With such fast maneuvering, it is not that we have not faced the German offensive. Just as before, the use of bunkers, trenches, barbed wire and artillery is enough to block them!" Lieutenant General Charles's words did not seem to contain gold in Foch's ears!

"We need more reinforcements. Your country has a huge army of more than 1.6 million troops on the entire western front. With the help you have just provided, it is not more than 150,000 troops, and the number of tanks and self-propelled artillery can be 180. We are good. The defensive strength of the Germans is even much smaller than the offensive strength of the Germans. With all due respect, if only these strengths are used, even if the German offensive is finally contained this time, then France must consider how to end the war. Even if we have to pay a certain amount. The price of money." Foch said anxiously.

"Your words are a bit unrealistic. Before this wave of support, we have assigned 8 British divisions and some independent units to you. The Fifth Group at the southern end of the British defense line is the same as that in the northern section of France. The French army is defending together, and we have actually invested more than 300,000 troops." Lieutenant General Charles said.

The British are right about this. Before, the British army promised to provide some reserve teams to the French. They really gave it. Although it is far from the 200,000 army that Foch thought, it is only about 120,000, but it is not a lot. And this time, with the new arrival of 120,000, the number of extra troops the British gave to the French has reached about 240,000! Probably the strength of a full-fledged army, which is quite interesting in the eyes of the British. After excluding these forces, the British Expeditionary Force's so-called more than 1.6 million troops do not exist, and the air force is probably about 10,000.

　　Who knows if the Germans will immediately target the British after they hit France? Who knows if the Germans on the opposite side of the UK will launch a containment attack when attacking France frontally? Therefore, the British have to defend their positions honestly, and there are more than 1 million Germans facing the British! In the British report, the number of German troops on the opposite side is estimated to be 1.5 million... So according to this report, the number of British troops has now reached the brink of crisis, and it really cannot be less! You know, in the two years since the war, the British army has always been superior in number compared to the opposite German army!

"If the situation on the battlefield is really irretrievable, the British army will launch a frontal offensive to contain it." In the end, seeing the atmosphere of the negotiations getting worse and worse, Lieutenant General Charles could only come up with a more illusory guarantee to appease France. People.

　　 "Don't worry, before the Germans push our line of defense, we will pull all the British to the front!" After hearing Lieutenant General Charles's words, Foch said in his heart.

　　 Someone may have asked, when the French can't support it, why can't the British go directly to the French front to help fight, instead of launching an offensive to contain it? This, it’s easy to understand. First of all, this involves the issue of command authority. Fighting on the French defense line naturally depends on the French, and sometimes the British do not want to listen. Secondly, hundreds of thousands of troops and numbers. If the equipment calculated by 100,000 tons is to be transported on the French defense line hundreds of kilometers away, this is a big problem in itself~www.wuxiaspot.com~After all, many railways extending from the rear to the front are light railways or even wood. Railroads and transportation are very problematic. This is why in history, after the Battle of Verdun, the British chose to launch the Battle of the Somme to contain the Germans instead of going directly to Verdun to support! After all, the distance between the British and German armies may be a few hundred meters, and they have to go to the place where France and Germany are fighting... This distance is a bit far!

However, no matter what, the French still have to fight. The German army concentrated its elite in the area north of Verdun. At this time, the confrontation line between the two sides was very similar to the battle line at the end of 1917 in history. Just look at Verdun. North of the line of defense, the British and French armies were distributed like this.

From the coastal area to the Saint Quentin area are all guarded by the British army, there are a total of 4 complete groups, and from the Saint Quentin area to the Laon area is the mixed defense of the British Expeditionary Army 5th Army and the French First Army. In fact, from this point of view, the line of defense that the British army is responsible for has been longer than in history, and has extended to the south. The area from Laon to Champagne was completely defended by the French army, where the Germans concentrated at least four groups of troops, and on the opposite side were four French groups and the British gave France a total of 240,000 reinforcements!

From Laon to the Champagne area, it is the area closest to Paris on the front line, and Ruprecht has also set the focus of the offensive here. The long-term preparation and the build-up of troops cannot be concealed. The French are very aware of the German Army’s The offensive direction, so they also tried their best to concentrate the most elite troops in this area.

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