Chapter 1309 Arden's Counterattack (1)
"First of the First Division, the time for Ardenne's counterattack has been determined, early in the morning of May 20." General Keitel, Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command, said:
"The commando, SS, various troops of the National Defense Forces, as well as the airborne troops, etc. have been prepared. The operation is very secretive, and the Allies are not alert for the time being."
Hitler was playing with his beloved dog Burundi. Hearing this, someone took Burundi away, slowly got up, and sat back behind his desk.
On the table is the newspaper of the Allies, which publishes certain agreements of the meeting of the London giants.
Among them is about dividing the Third Reich into three occupied areas, which are the Central Xia occupied areas, the British and American occupied areas and the Soviet occupied areas.
The enemy clearly showed their strategic ideas, which was a manifestation of extreme conceit, and Hitler was quite disdainful of this.
Keitel glanced at the newspaper on the table and added:
"Perhaps because the giant meeting had already drawn up the occupied areas and split the waves, and the Bolsheviks got what they wanted, so the pressure on the Eastern Front was relieved during this period. Marshal Moder will build multiple lines of defense based on the terrain to block the enemy from outside the empire's land!"
A smile finally appeared on Hitler's face.
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"Haha...... It's God's blessing. In this way, we can concentrate our efforts to launch the Ardennes counterattack and teach the arrogant and conceited American and British coalition forces a lesson!
It’s a dream to dismember my Third Reich!”
The troops have been deployed and now the arrow is on the string and have to be fired. Chief of Staff Keitel also believes that the time is good and may be able to deal a major blow to the Allies and strive for an agreed truce.
"How was the Clausevie word plan implemented?" Hitler asked again.
"The establishment of the People's Guards and the transfer of precious materials from various places are in full swing. Explosives are built underground in important buildings. As long as the enemy dares to enter the empire's land, the SS promises not to leave them a complete piece of bricks and tiles."
The SS leader Himmler showed a fierce light in his eyes.
After hearing this, Xiaomouzi was quite satisfied, and everything was preparing according to his plan.
His eyes couldn't help but look to the south, looking at the location of the Arden Mountains, with expectations in his eyes.
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The giant meeting has ended, and the next step is to implement the meeting agreement.
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The kind father and the President have both left London and returned to their respective countries. General Molotov, General Marshall, General King and others have stayed and will attend the plenary meeting of the Allies held on the 20th.
No one left the entire Zhongxia delegation, and Wang Xueqin and Xie Chengrui handled the domestic affairs, so Jiangdong was not in a hurry.
Zhongxia will serve as the presidency of the upcoming plenary meeting of the Allies and will officially begin to fulfill the duties of the presidency of the United Nations.
Jiangdong will elaborate on the diplomatic strategy of Zhongxia and the future world blueprint at this meeting to ensure the hearts of various countries and regions.
During the days from the 15th to the 20th, Jiangdong gave everyone a short holiday to relieve the pressure.
The 10 consecutive days of giant meetings have made everyone very tired. In order to be able to perform better at the Allied Plenary Session, holidays are very necessary.
A few days before the meeting, representatives from many countries requested to visit Jiangdong in private.
Yugoslavia received extensive support and assistance from Zhongxia, and others also wanted to follow suit and find a stable and solid backer for their region.
However, Jiangdong himself also had to rest, and all requests for private visits were rejected.
Time will soon come May 20, and vibrations in the front and rear will begin.
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Munich, the German General Command on the Western Front.
Although it has passed zero, the entire headquarters is still brightly lit and silhouetted.
The atmosphere of the war enveloped every corner of the command center, and the staff members rushed forward.
Commander-in-chief Marshal Longdestedt, Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Shipder, Commander of the 7th Army General Dorman and others gathered in front of the huge battle sand table, looking at the position of the attacking troops above, feeling a little nervous.
Although the vast majority of the Defense Forces officers were not optimistic about the Ardennes counterattack plan formulated by the head of state himself, they have reached the point where they are now. Officers at all levels put aside all negative emotions and decided to do their best.
These officers who had received good military education and had been practicing on the battlefield for four or five years once again gathered their minds and prepared to make the glory of 1940 happen again.
When it was approaching 1:00 a.m., everyone looked at the commander-in-chief Marshal Longdestedt.
Veteran Longdestedt has already had his hair on his face. In recent years, commanding troops to fight has consumed too much energy, so that the speed of aging has greatly accelerated.
But at this time his performance was better than most people in the command center, calm and composed, neither fast nor slow.
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After the scheduled combat time, he took a deep breath and said to the commander:
"Order all participating troops, order each unit to act!"
"call!!!"
Countless people exhaled a long breath of turbid air at the same time, and their nervous mood became more obvious.
Hitler was accustomed to going to bed late and getting up late, so at this time he stood in front of the combat map with Goebbels, Keitel, Himmler, Goering and others, nervously waiting for news from the frontline troops.
In the early morning of May 20, artillery fire tore open the Arden forest, tore the silence of the summer night, and broke the dreams of countless people.
On the front line that was more than 300 kilometers long, artillery fire was shocking the sky. The American and British soldiers who were resting were beaten to pieces by the sudden artillery bombardment and fled in a panic.
The German artillery adjusted the fuse of the shell very sensitively. Many bombs had not yet landed on the ground and exploded violently when they first touched the treetops.
The trunks and branches turned into countless sharp fragments in an instant, roaring at the US soldiers fleeing on the ground.
Many soldiers were pierced by flying branches and debris, and their crying was drowned by the rumbling explosion.
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The villages and towns in the Arden forest were directly engulfed by artillery fire, and civilians and soldiers were killed and injured.
The German troops were divided into three groups, each with its own goal, and they began to approach the US positions under the cover of artillery fire.
The 106th and 28th Infantry Divisions, which belonged to the First Army of the US Army, were completely stunned shortly after the war started. The command center had no idea about the situation of the various front-line troops.
The First Army was the main force of the Normandy landing. After landing, it fought for two consecutive months, with severe crew reductions and the soldiers were very tired.
Eisenhower deliberately sent them to defend the Arden Forest in order to let the troops rest and prepare to join the battle to liberate Berlin.
The commanders told Dabian that the war was about to end, and the German Wehrmacht could not be the opponent of the 3 million Allied forces. They were already on the verge of collapse, so rest with confidence.
Even if the Germans wanted to fight back in desperate situations, they would not be able to choose the counterattack position on the defense line of the First Army.
Because the front of the First Army is dense Ardennes forest, it is not conducive to the development of the Corps.
The Germans did not have enough tanks and planes, and the blitzkrieg had long gone.
The Allies were filled with conceited emotions, and everyone believed that as long as the army entered the Third Reich, the war would be over and they could return to their hometowns.
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Under the influence of such conceit, the First Army did not seriously build the fortifications under its feet, and the soldiers were basically on holiday.
The German army's artillery preparations were very fierce this time, and the unprepared First Army soldiers suffered heavy casualties and had no military line of defense.
The news quickly reached the Supreme Command of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Paris via radio.
Eisenhower had just fallen asleep and was awakened by the staff before he had entered a deep sleep.
In order to better boost morale and commend Eisenhower for his contributions in commanding the expeditionary forces, after the meeting of the London giants, the President of the United States and the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to award Eisenhower the rank of five-star general.
This is a huge honor and also represents the commanding heights of the general's career.
Eisenhower was naturally very happy. On the evening of the 19th, he celebrated with General Smith, Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command of the Expeditionary Force, General Bradley, Commander of the First Army, and others, so he rested relatively late.
When he hurried to the combat command hall, Bradley, Smith and others had already arrived.
The staff officers reported the situation to the three commanders, but the report was not detailed, and many places were ambiguous and even knew nothing.
The communications on the front line are very poor, and many troops are in a state of inaccessibility, which makes the Supreme Command unable to determine the specific scope of the attack and cannot make arrangements calmly.
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Neither Eisenhower nor the representatives of the four giants waiting to attend the meeting of the Allied Powers in London, they realized that Hitler and the Germans on the Western Front would have to create a second Dunkirk.
The harshness of the battle is beyond imagination.
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