Seeing that all the people around me are gone, it's boring to go back, when I used to be an ant clan, I wanted to travel to Europe, but I came back for so long, except for the military camp and the battlefield, I haven't come out to play, now it's better to have a good time! Victor hesitated. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

So Victor bought something and went around Reims City alone. Take a slow walk along the banks of the Aisne River, which flows down quietly, except for the occasional corpse that rises and falls in the river, silently telling of the trauma of war. Victor took a bottle of champagne and wandered alone.

On March 13, 1814, Napoleon achieved the final victory of his life at Reims. Marshal Marmont of France commented: "Reims is the last smile of Napoleon's fate". Now, Reims is the last smile of the fate of the German army. Because Reims was guarded between the Aisne and Marne rivers, it became the gateway to Paris, 142 kilometers away, so it became a battleground for soldiers during the Franco-German war.

In the center of Reims, a huge square stone arch was erected, built in the 3rd century (180-230), hundreds of years before Jesus, who guarded the city along with three other square gates. It was established to celebrate the great exploits of Augustus the Great and retains many of the three-dimensional carvings of the Roman era.

"It is a pity that Augustus's Roman Empire has fallen to dust, and although there are countless countries behind it that claim to be the successors of Rome, none of them can reunite Europe and restore the glory of Rome." Standing under the Arc de Triomphe, Victor couldn't help but feel emotionally touched by these time-honored stones.

Victor felt as if the Roman Empire's army, led by Augustus, marched through this triumphal arch and held a victory procession.

The Roman Empire was the only country that ruled most of Europe. But the later states, although claiming to be his successors, did not receive the valuable historical experience he gave to their descendants—only by ruling the Mediterranean could they dominate Europe; North Africa and the Middle East have historically been closely linked to the fate of Europe, and they are politically part of Europe.

It is a pity that the Spanish Empire, the Napoleonic Empire, and the German Empire, which later dominated Europe, did not fully realize this, and they either set their sights on the distant overseas colonies, or they set their sights on the small land of the European continent.

Europe covers an area of 10.16 million square kilometers, and Eastern Europe occupies about 5 million square kilometers.

Northern Europe refers to the Jutland Peninsula and Scandinavia. These include Iceland, the Faroe Islands (Denmark), Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. It covers an area of more than 1.32 million square kilometers.

Southern Europe refers to the Balkan Peninsula, the Apennine Peninsula, the Iberian Peninsula and nearby islands south of the Alps, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea facing the Atlantic Ocean to the south and east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Including Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, Italy, Vatican City, San Marino, Malta, Spain, Portugal and Andorra. It covers an area of more than 1.66 million square kilometers.

Western Europe narrowly refers to the Atlantic region of western Europe and its nearby islands, including the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and Monaco. Western Europe covers an area of more than 930,000 square kilometers.

Central Europe refers to the central region of Europe south of the Baltic Sea and north of the Alps. Including Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein. Central Europe covers an area of more than 1.01 million square kilometers.

Therefore, excluding Eastern Europe, which had been occupied by Russia, and Northern Europe, which was of little value at the time, the remaining area of the whole of Europe was only about 3.6 million square kilometers. In these 3.6 million square kilometers, no country dominates, and the countries with a local area of 30-700,000 square kilometers include France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the original Austro-Hungarian Empire, and an island country of Britain (240,000 square kilometers), plus Russia in Eastern Europe, which is equivalent to the situation of the seven heroes competing for hegemony in the Warring States Period of China.

France, Germany, and Italy are like the three kingdoms of Wei, Zhao and Han, which split from Charlemagne's empire in the 9th century. France, similar to Wei, took the lead in carrying out the capitalist revolution and established the Napoleonic Empire, but France used troops aimlessly everywhere and offended all the surrounding countries, even though there were gods like Napoleon, who won most battles, but in the end the defeat of the Battle of Leipzig and Waterloo led to the fall of the Napoleonic dynasty and the weakening of France. This is similar to the situation when the Wei State expanded its territory everywhere, and the Wei Wushu had great martial arts and fame, and the defeat of the Battle of Guiling and the Battle of Maling led to the collapse of the Wei State from then on.

Germany is similar to Zhao, when King Friedrich fought France, Austria and Russia, the seven-year war, the army was exhausted, and finally because of the succession of Tsar Peter III of Germany, he abandoned the alliance with France and Austria and survived the catastrophe, and Zhao was besieged by the three Qingzhi, Wei and Han to besiege the Zhao capital Jinyang for three years, and the city was about to be broken, and finally Wei and Han betrayed the alliance and destroyed the Zhi clan, and the Zhao State was established from then on. They all attached great importance to the army, Prussia was known as the country of the army, and Zhao was a cavalry archer. They had many famous generals and very elite soldiers, but they lost the war. Germany had famous generals such as Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and Mackensen in World War I, and Guderian, Manstein, Moder, and Rommel in World War II; Zhao Guo has Lian Po, Zhao Hao, Li Mu, Pang Yuan and other famous generals. They were all in the land of four wars, and they were all alone against the enemy, left and right, and were defeated.

Why did they fail? Because none of them played to the strengths of the army and protected the weaknesses of the country. The fact that the German army had realized on the Eastern Front and the Western Front in World War I showed that the movement war was more conducive to the German army's combat effectiveness, while trench warfare, siege warfare, and war of attrition would expose Germany's weakness in manpower and material resources. Therefore, during World War II, the German army blitzkrieg in January and France in March gave full play to the advantages of mobile warfare, and finally Germany attacked the Soviet Union, divided its troops into three routes, exposing the weakness of insufficient troops, trapped in Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad under the three fortified cities, did not give full play to the advantages of mobile warfare, and could not attack for a long time, and was stirred into a war of attrition by the Soviet Union, and finally the German army fought hard for four years and fled in defeat. After Zhao Guozhi rode from Hufu, he recruited herdsmen from all parts of the grassland to join, and the cavalry was strong and came and went like the wind. As a result, the Battle of Changping, first confrontation for three years, lack of food and grass, and finally the change of generals, Zhao Kuo actually led the army to attack forward in the mountains and valleys, fell into the pocket formation of the Qin army, failed to break through, and 400,000 Zhao troops surrendered and were killed. In this three-year war, the power of Zhao Guohufu's cavalry and archery was not shown at all, whether it was during the three years of confrontation, or when Zhao Kuo attacked the Qin army, he did not choose to lead the mobile troops to attack the rear of the Qin army, which is really suffocating. If Zhao Kuo led the cavalry to attack the rear of the Qin army, using the advantage of the cavalry of the Zhao State coming and going like the wind, how could he be completely surrounded and annihilated?