"Before the final trial, except for the French, both Britain and Germany were very satisfied with the current situation. The Germans were full of good cards, and the British misjudged the situation. They believed that the Germans were mainly targeted by France, and Britain could try their best to protect their interests in the subsequent peace talks. I don't know if the Crown Prince Ruprecht and the German senior executives really wanted to let the British go, but I have to admit that the Crown Prince successfully played tricks on his opponent, he intimidated the French, and also paralyzed the British." - Pan Xing

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

"I have brought you ten reinforcements from the divisions, including 6 Australian and New Zealand divisions, and 2 armored divisions. As for the air force, we can provide your country with five wings of fighter jets." said Lieutenant General Charles, a British representative.

"This force is a drop in the bucket in front of the German troops with at least 1.5 million. It is a complete dream to block more than 600 fighter jets from five wings. You know, Air France has already been exhausted in the previous battles. We can't expect 600 aircraft to cover the front line of nearly hundreds of kilometers, right?" Hearing the British, Foch's impression of the British fell to the extreme!

"Royal Air Force has never stopped fighting, and our losses are equally huge. The Germans could not have 5,000 aircraft at all. They were just bluffing. As for the armored forces? The gullies and various obstacles on the western front were scattered, and they could not maneuver as quickly as they were in Turkey. We have not faced the German offensives. Just as before, using bunkers, trenches, barbed wire and artillery was enough to block them!" Lieutenant General Charles's words seemed to have no value in Foch's ears!

"We need more reinforcements. Your country has a huge army of more than 1.6 million on the entire Western Front. The help you just provided is no more than 150,000 troops, tanks and self-propelled artillery, which is good if we can have 180 tanks and self-propelled artillery. Our defensive forces are even much less than the German offensive forces. IMHO, if only these forces are there, even if the German offensive is finally curbed this time, then France must consider how to end the war. Even if we have to pay a certain price," Foch said anxiously.

"Your Excellency's words are somewhat unrealistic. Before this wave of support, we have assigned 8 British military divisions and some independent units to you. The Fifth Group at the southernmost end of the British defense line is defending with the French army in the northern section of France. In fact, we have invested more than 300,000 troops." Lieutenant General Charles said.

The British said this correctly. Before, the British army promised to provide some reserves to the French, but they really gave it. Although it was far from Foch's 200,000 army, only about 120,000, it was not bad. This time, with the new 120,000, the number of additional teams given to the French reached about 240,000! The British were probably full of troops, which was very interesting in the eyes of the British. After excluding these troops, the so-called troops of more than 1.6 million in the British Expeditionary Force did not exist, including the Air Force, which was about 1.45 to 1.5 million.

Who knows whether the Germans will immediately target the British after they hit France this time? Who knows whether the Germans on the opposite side of the UK will launch a restraining attack when attacking France head-on? Therefore, the British must honestly defend their positions, and there are more than 1 million German troops opposite the British! In the British report, the number of German troops opposite 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 is really impossible to lose! You know, in the two years since the war started, the British army has always been an advantage in number compared with the German troops opposite!

"If the situation on the battlefield really reaches an irrescue level, the British army will launch a frontal offensive to restrain it." In the end, seeing the atmosphere of negotiations getting worse and worse, Lieutenant General Charles could only come up with a relatively illusory guarantee to appease the French.

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

Maybe someone asked, when the French could not hold on, why could the British go directly to the French front to help fight, rather than launching an offensive to restrain them? This is easy to understand. First of all, this involves a question of command. Fighting on the French defense line naturally requires listening to the French, and sometimes the British are unwilling to listen. Secondly, if hundreds of thousands of troops and hundreds of thousands of tons of equipment are wanted to transport on the French defense line hundreds of kilometers away, this is a big problem in itself...

After all, many railways extending from the rear to the front line are light railways or even wooden railways, and the transportation problem is very big. This is why, in history, after the Battle of Verdun was launched, the British chose to launch the Battle of the Somme to restrain the German army rather than go directly to Verdun to support him! After all, the distance between the British and German armies may be only 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 had to fight. The German army concentrated its elite troops north of Verdun. At this time, the confrontation line between the two sides was very similar to the front line at the end of 1917 in history. Just looking at the north of Verdun’s defense line, the distribution of the British and French armies was like this.

From the coastal areas to the Saint-Canton area, they are all guarded by the British army, with a total of 4 complete groups. From the Saint-Canton area to the Laon area, there are mixed defenses of the British Expeditionary Force Fifth Army and the French First Army. In fact, from this point of view, the defense line responsible for the British army has been longer than in history and has extended to the south. From the Laon to the Champagne area, the French army was completely defended by the French army. Here, the Germans concentrated at least 4 groups of troops, and the opposite were four French armies and a total of 240,000 reinforcements to France by the British!

From Laon to Champagne, the area closest to Paris was the front line, and Ruprecht also focused the focus of the attack here. Long-term preparation and military gathering could not be hidden. The French were very clear about the direction of the German army's offensive, so they also tried their best to concentrate the most elite troops in this area.
Chapter completed!