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Robert Neville firmly believed that his plan could open up the situation for Allies , and he eventually succeeded in convincing the governments of allies to help his large-scale offensive. However, the result was very different from what he predicted, and the Allied offensive stopped shortly after the start. What's worse is that the horrific death numbers of
made the mutiny begin to spread among the Allied forces with a prairie fire.
Today we will introduce to you the Neville offensive in World War I.
The general offensive launched by the French army on the Western Front in April 1917 is also called the "Second Battle of Ayna", while its offensive launched on the secondary battlefield during the same period is called the "Third Battle of Shambany" - these two major offensives have a common name: the Neville Offensive. "Neville" is the surname of the French Commander-in-Chief Robert Neville, the first author of the offensive. In the eyes of this new commander-in-chief, the Virgin Butterfly Road, located between Suisson and Craona, spans several forest-covered peaks, is a shortcut to victory. As long as you attack along this road, you can quickly break through the enemy.
"within 48 hours" won the comprehensive victory that the Allies have been longing for since 1914. Since December 1916, Neville has been constantly motivating his allies to launch this offensive. In the face of his fair share of 3 inches of ruin, many political leaders of the Allied Powers were indeed moved. However, the generals of France and Britain did not seem to buy his account very much.
Although Neville's plan did not have any substantial innovations, it chose a much larger scale than previous actions to launch an overall offensive. The French army's line of fire is located between Suisson and Reims, with a total length of about 64 kilometers. On this line of fire by Neville is the French reserve, a unit composed of four armies, with a total of 1.2 million soldiers and 7,000 cannons. In addition to the Seventh Army led by Marx von Bourne, the First Army led by Fritz von Broro. Although the French army had a great advantage in terms of numbers, the German army was also full of confidence: the German defense line here was not only sufficient firepower, but also intertwined in Neville's offensive line. More importantly, the German army had intercepted the French army's action plan, and everything was in their control.
On April 16, the French offensive, which had a lot of trouble, officially kicked off after the 10-day preparatory shelling. Oliver Mazer led the Fifth Army and Charles Mankin's Sixth Army to advance along the Virgin, but in the end he exchanged for a very high price for a very small position. Bourne's troops not only caused 40,000 casualties to the French army on the first day, but also made 150 brand new French tanks reimbursement. The next day, on the secondary battlefield east of Lance, Franck Ice Antoine commanded the Fourth Army to launch an attack on Bro's army, but it still ended in a dismal way.
Faced with such an obvious defeat, Neville insisted on attacking alone. On April 20, countless soldiers had died in vain on the battlefield, but the so-called "breakthrough" he promised to his allies of the Allies did not even have a shadow. The offense is becoming less and less meaningful, and the scale of the battle is getting smaller and smaller, but Neville still refuses to look back. On May 9, the French offensive officially ended, but the surviving soldiers looked back and found sadly that they had just pushed a short distance on the Virgin Mary's Way, and the captured positions were pitifully few. But for this insignificant spoil, they paid the price of 187,000 comrades. On the 15th, Neville was ousted and the position of French commander-in-chief was replaced by Philippe Peitan. At the same time, Ferdinand Fuzhao began to serve as the chief of staff of the French army, the strategic prospects of the entire Allied camp have since changed decisively.
Neville's strategic mistake completely collapsed the tortured French army.The soldiers were usually quite dissatisfied with the living conditions that were short of food and clothing and the regulations that were not allowed to leave the team. This tragic failure ignited the anger that they had endured for a long time. As a result, mutinies quickly began to break out in this army with a huge morale. The unrest lasted from the last week of April until mid-June, with many combat units implicated. Finally, a small number of rebels were sentenced to death, while the vast majority of soldiers involved in the mutiny accepted the suggestion of returning to the barracks - the overall combat effectiveness of the French army was not restored until the fall of that year. However, because France blocked the news of the mutiny very closely, the Germans did not know that this was happening until the mutiny ended, so they were unable to take advantage of the French army's unrest.
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