At the end of 1915, the French town of Chantilly was hit by snow and the temperature dropped below zero degrees Celsius, but the bad weather did not make the town seem so cold.

The streets were lined with military and police, and cars were constantly shuttling, which was a common sight during the war years, and could not touch the numb people of the war.

A conference that has been prepared for several months is being held here to resolve the long-standing standoff between the Allies and the Allies on the Western Front since 1915, to actively draw up a war plan for the next year, and to try to break the stalemate on the Western Front since the beginning of the war.

The Entente felt that Germany and Austria had to be dealt with with with a coordinated strategic plan and unified leadership, otherwise the situation of the war could not be changed. In December 1915, the Allies convened a military conference in Chantilly, where military representatives from France, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Russia, and Japan met for the first time to discuss the 1916 Strategic Plan of Action.

The meeting was presided over by General Chauffeur of France, who showed great confidence.

It's not just because Mike. The Princes Company, with the huge summaries of money pooled by all classes of the city of Nancy, including the townspeople, and the tidal wave of orders from the French army, expanded like a storm, resulting in a tremendous increase in the production of weapons.

It was not only the equipment that was in place one after another, so that the assault regiment of Major Miller, who was looking forward to adding a few more stars to his shoulders, was the main force, and the formation of the 1st Assault Cavalry Division of the French Army was formed.

Rather, almost most of his wealth is injected into Mike through clever means. After the Prince Company, General Xia Fei had a psychological change. At the same time, he rejected Tang Yunyang's offer to give him shares, so that he would not think in conscience that he was corrupt.

With the support of both the military and the politicians of Nancy City, it can be regarded as solving a large part of General Xiafei's heart disease. Mr. De Leon has become, in a way, a friend of General Chauffy. Even, General Xia Fei planned to appoint him as the first commander of the 1st Assault Cavalry Division.

See, that's where his faith comes from.

In the face of the representatives of various countries about his ambitious offensive plan, Xia Fei spoke eloquently: "Everyone, strength is the basis of action. I would like to remind you that, after a year of hard work, we have made significant strides forward in the production of technological weapons and in the mobilization of human resources. Our production of heavy artillery and machine guns is already on par with Germany, and will soon surpass it; In terms of troops, the total number of our countries will reach 18 million, while Germany and Austria will reach a maximum of 9 million. So, I think in the next year, our approach should be to go offensive...... Offensive ......"

Either the fire in the fireplace in the house was too hot, or the recent change in the assault force of the French army had made Xia Fei too excited. His face glowed red as he preached his plan for the future attack, and he held a cigar in his hand like a thick baton.

yes, 18 million troops. Not a lot, as long as one out of six of the army needs Mike. If the armored vehicles of the Prince Company are equipped, then even if Xia Fei only invests a small percentage of the company's total resources, it will make him a world-class tycoon.

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Watching Xia Fei's mouth froth the froth, Douglas who was sitting at the conference table. Haig was uncomfortable. He had just succeeded Sir John French as the new commander of the British Expeditionary Force.

Xia Fei's speech seemed to him like a cheap cabaret party. And Xia Fei's unexplained excitement also made him think that Xia Fei was just intoxicated by his own stupid attack plan.

"No matter how hard the performance is, it cannot hide the weakness of the French army. Over the past year, the French offensive has ended in heavy losses every time, and several crises have required the continuous help of the British army. If it were not for the fact that our army was bogged down in positional battles on the Western Front, then there would have been no crushing defeat in the Dardanelles. Hmph, it's all due to the incompetence of the French army! ”

Despite Douglas. Haig laughed at Xia Fei's excitement and Xia Fei's vision for the future, but his face still showed an expression of listening carefully to the speech, but he made gestures from time to time to ask the orderly to bring some tea, after all, it had the effect of calming the mind.

“…… Specifically, Russia and Italy should first launch offensives on the Eastern and Southern Fronts to strategically contain the German and Austrian armies, and then the British and French armies should make large-scale sorties on the Western Front to annihilate the German forces on the Western Front in one fell swoop and change the tide of the war. I wonder what you think?"

After Xia Fei finished reading out his attack plan, he put down the speech in his hand and let out a long sigh of relief. The plan is indeed ambitious.

It enumerated the possible direction of the German attack based on the intelligence, and also provided counteroffensive measures, that is, if the German army launched an attack in the direction of Verdun, then the British army would launch a separate attack in the direction of the Somme, and at the same time, the French army would quickly turn to the direction of the Somme after resolving the initial crisis in the Verdun area, so as to strengthen the follow-up attack of the British army, and try to make great progress in the subsequent attack in the direction of the Somme.

Douglas. Silently staring at the large map hanging on the wall, he looked a little worried.

Taking a sip of his tea, he savored the bitterness of the tea, because he thought that Xia Fei's actions were a goalless drain on the strength of the British Expeditionary Force.

"The Somme?"

A huge arrow representing the British army, pointing directly at the German line in the direction of the Somme. Although facing the German Second Army, and facing the well-established defense system that the German army had built up over two years, this was not something that Haig was worried about.

Haig's methods of warfare tended to be simple and crude, believing that "victory in battle depends on morale and determination."

He could not see the great changes that machine guns and new artillery brought to the war, and with his firm will, he insisted on launching fierce direct attacks despite the large number of casualties.

His concern came from another kind of thinking, and it was not against Xia Fei's offensive strategy. When Xia Fei sat down contentedly and reached out to pick up the red wine in front of him, Haig stood up and spoke. His words would raise another, more serious problem for the generals of the Entente powers.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I admire General Xia Fei's offensive spirit very much, but I don't think this offensive strategy will become. Of course, I am not questioning our preparations for war, nor am I questioning General Xia Fei's thinking about the attack, but I just want to ask all of you ....... ”

At this point, he paused slightly, and his eyes looked around at the military representatives of Russia, Italy, Belgium, Japan, and other countries. It seemed that his sensational speech had already attracted everyone's attention, and Haig nodded in satisfaction before continuing.

Xia Fei studied Douglas with interest. Haig, he wondered, what did Sir Haig, the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, who had only been in office for a few days, want?