Chapter 2043 The Final Adjustment
Naturally, it is impossible for the French to hide the Germans' eyes and ears. Even though the Allies have tried their best to hide their strategic intentions, hundreds of thousands of troops, hundreds of thousands of horses, and a large number of vehicles and equipment are still left on the ground. After leaving indelible traces, in the daytime of the next day, the Luftwaffe could easily discover the trajectory of the French army's movement. The sudden increase in radio communications in the sky also directly exposed the French army's intentions.
"The French are going to fight." In the frontline headquarters, General Crook summed up the current situation in a very short sentence.
"I never thought that the war against the French would end with a large-scale field battle. We fought trench warfare on the Western Front for two years, and the field battle was just at the beginning of the war." Admiral House sighed: "The British The Germans and the French have adopted a dense defensive posture. If they concentrate at least two armies on a front of no more than 60 kilometers, it may be difficult for us to break through. The troops are too dense, they are simply human Hitting people. Even if you use the air force to bomb it, it is very laborious, after all, the air force bombs are far inferior to thousands of artillery pieces in terms of penetration."
Obviously, Admiral House also realized that when the German army advances to a certain position, it will lose the most important firepower to assist thousands of artillery that cannot be moved. Although the German army has restrained its attack speed, a large number of artillery and The delivery of ammunition is still very difficult.
"The strength of the French is limited, and their transportation capabilities are even more limited." Crown Prince Ruprecht said something that seemed to have little to do with the previous battle. "According to our intelligence, the French have concentrated at least 700,000 troops, and counting the troops lost on the defensive positions before, the French have concentrated at least 900,000 troops. Well, now the problem is coming, they How did you concentrate so many troops here?"
"The troops in the distance can't be transferred. It's too late. I'm afraid they don't even have enough wagons to transport." Caliput put down the document in his hand and said: "You mean, the French sent all the troops on the nearby front to Pumped out?"
"That's the only way! The French put together a fist, but at the same time exposed their weakness! We can now easily break through from the flank and go straight into the depth of the French!" Ruprecht said.
"Give us another three days. After our frontal army is fully deployed, we can launch an attack at the same time as the flanking fast army." Admiral Schmidt said.
"No, the flanking corps we left in advance launched an attack in the early morning of the day after tomorrow! We can't wait for the French to finish their preparations! They have too many frontal troops. Once the preparations are completed, we will be under tremendous pressure on the frontal front. Therefore, we must take the initiative to break the situation! said Crown Prince Ruprecht.
If it is said that Crown Prince Ruprecht relied on advantages in technical equipment and tactical systems to crush his opponents in most of the battles before, then this time, Crown Prince really used intuition and judgment in a decisive battle Won the favor of the goddess of victory!
This time Ruprecht found the timing very well! To put it simply, the time for his attack belongs to the time when the Frenchman has almost completed charging, but he has not finally completed it! The chance is only one day! If one day later, the first wave of offensive by the British and French coalition forces of more than 500,000 troops will hit the frontal German army hard. At this time, the German army will bear tremendous pressure, and the French army will complete the final deployment on the flanks! In the case of huge frontal pressure, it is also difficult to break through from the side, not to mention that the materials and equipment originally used for side breakthrough may have to be transferred to the front! after all. The French chose when the German army was most vulnerable!
But now it's different! The frontal formation of the French army was not fully developed.
And there are huge gaps in the flanking troops! In addition, the French army that was originally on the defense line was withdrawn in large numbers! Many French troops are still on the march, so well, now the question is, what will happen if the German elite armored units launch a surprise attack at this time?
Although the stability of tanks in this era is still not bad, the mobility is also very bad, and the so-called armored divisions and fast divisions are not equipped with many vehicles, but, no matter what, the flank assault group assembled by the elite of the Bavarian Army can still Achieve more than 15 kilometers in one hour! Does it feel slow? Not bad bro! You must know that the overall marching speed of the European first-level army troops with fully armed divisions on the road is 15 to 25 kilometers a day! To be honest, it is not easy to exceed 20 kilometers!
Therefore, for the Bavarian Army, it doesn't even take a day for them, as long as they open the crude defense line of the French army, they can bypass the rear of the French army in just a few hours! But this time, the Germans concentrated the strength of 5 divisions! These are the five most elite full-staffed Bavarian armored divisions and fast divisions! The strength reached 120,000! Maybe the number is not too much, but the fighting power is too strong! And now, when there is no pressure on the front, the German army has sufficient supplies and equipment to support this flank penetration operation! Including more than 1000 various aircraft!
"It would be best if you can directly penetrate into the depths of the French army. Even if you encounter resistance, you must try to destroy the deployment of the French army as much as possible. The longer you delay, the better for us." On Schmidt Before commanding the fast army to launch an attack, Crown Prince Ruprecht also sent a special telegram, asking him to buy 3 days for the front while ensuring himself as much as possible. Because after this period of time, a large number of German artillery will be redeployed in place, and at this time the German army is truly sure of victory, and it is easy to attack and defend.
In the last two days, the Germans made final preparations for this battle group code-named Gustav. At least 300 various engineering vehicles and more than 5,000 engineers and logistics units served as the battle group. Up to 5 divisions paved a higher level road extending from the German position to the starting position of the battle. At the same time, in order to ensure the supply of offensive materials, the German Army Headquarters also allocated about 1,500 additional 1.5-ton to 3.5-ton trucks to the campaign assault group. In order to ensure the subsequent continuous strike capability, Ruprecht added 3 additional infantry divisions to the combat reserve of the assault group, which can provide support to the frontline troops when necessary.
In terms of the Air Force, Admiral Harrell also stated that there will be no British bombers within the commando's field of vision. At the same time, the admiral also promised to provide at least 1,200 sorties of air support every day! And when the Gustav Battle Assault Group entered the starting area and was about to launch an attack, the number one enemy of the battle group, the four French divisions at the front of the flanks, were still marching, and they knew nothing about their situation!
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