 All had been unceremoniously repulsed by the vastly superior Allied forces.Meanwhile, the 9th and 1st Armies began preparing converging attacks using the east-west Ruhr River as a boundary line.The 9th Army's XVI Corps, which had taken up position north of the Ruhr area after crossing the Rhine, would be assisted in its southward drive by two divisions of the XIX Corps, the rest of which would continue to press eastward along with the XIII Corps.