September 19, 1910, was a mixed day for the German Empire. Admiral Falkingham happily received the third Panzer Division on the Western Front, and this time, the German Panzer Division was equipped with Leopard I tanks produced and improved by Germany with Chinese technology, and the Berlin General Staff revealed to the Western Front commander that the Reich had obtained an initial production capacity of 80 tanks per month...... This was already enough to compensate for tank losses from the constant fighting at the front.

However, the other bad news was that the empire had a new enemy, and Portugal had apparently made a choice under great diplomatic pressure, and since the United States had declared war on Germany, it also led the Portuguese government to finally choose the obviously powerful Entente bloc, although Portugal's military power was completely insignificant to Germany, but it caused poor diplomatic pressure.

To this end, after obtaining the authorization of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Admiral Moltke Jr. and Admiral Falkingham decided to launch a new offensive, and the target was directly aimed at the British and French defense lines on the Dordogne.

Once the Dordogne defense line is breached, the entire ports of the Atlantic Ocean on the west side of France will be directly threatened by the German army artillery, in this case, Britain's assistance to France through the Atlantic and the Mediterranean will be completely blocked, and the cutting off of France's southeastern territory will directly allow Germany to quickly solve the defense of the French territory on the Mediterranean coast, and eventually enter the Mediterranean, and may even cut off the high-frequency trade between Britain and the colonies...... What an exciting outcome this will be!

When the dawn sun leaps into the eastern sky. Several German artillery pieces deployed on the Kutra front were the first to open fire. Heavy bombardment of French positions in front of Librna. The black smoke from the artillery positions directly obscured the eastern sky, and the shells that fell from the sky destroyed all the surface fortifications of the French positions.

The French and British artillery units, which received the order to counterattack, were naturally not to be left behind, and immediately opened heavy fire on the German positions on the opposite bank that had already been marked, and the two sides faced each other on this position for nearly a month, and almost every soldier who could be put into battle was ordered to dig a tunnel for himself that was sufficient to resist the howitzer bombardment, and the French fought for half a year. With the exception of a handful of small victories in the Nantes direction, it was almost spent in constant retreat.

And this time, the commander of the Dordogne line was the veteran French army general Ferdinand? Admiral Foch, a veteran French soldier, obviously understood better the great crisis behind this battle - France had reached the point where there was no way back, and if the German offensive could not be stopped, the Garonne River behind him would be his burial place, and the French army would have no room to move!

Once the Germans broke through the Dordogne line, it meant the fall of important cities such as Bourdeaux, which were almost undefended behind them. So, he's already betting on all the trump cards he has!

Heavy artillery fire continued on both sides for a full morning. The German army then began to launch a ground offensive from Librna, Cassidy, and St. Andrede, and in all three directions there were German armored forces and a staggering number of land forces, and the two sides fought to the death on 17 important attack points on this 80-kilometer front.

The powerful firepower network composed of machine guns and artillery mercilessly harvested the lives of soldiers on both sides, and the corpses that fell like wood threw away the fresh lives like garbage, and every shell fell down meant the bloodshed of both sides, and the heavy machine gun fire point that dominated the close-range war was the key point of intensive fire exchanges between the two sides.

In order to deal with the heavy machine gun harvest of soldiers, since nearly a year of fighting, both sides have obviously found some necessary methods, it is clear that artillery has far more range and lethality than heavy machine guns, which has also become a new round of games on the battlefield, British, French and German troops are equipped with small-caliber 40mm, 55mm field guns in the front-line attacking troops, used to attack the attacker's firepower point close to the artillery to destroy the opponent's defense capability.

In contrast, the German side, due to the entry into service of the Leopard series tanks, took the lead in obtaining the artillery projection capability of the front line, which also quickly transformed into the German army's propulsion capability on the front line...... Just five hours later, when night fell, Admiral Falkingham had achieved the results to his satisfaction, the Germans had successfully broken through six French perimeter lines, including Librna, and of course, the deep German commander had other plans.

After nightfall, in the upper reaches of the Dordogne, 60 kilometers away from the city of Casstill, in the Ben Saint-Fuwa River Valley, hundreds of German tanks, armored vehicles and fuel supply vehicles belonging to the German Second Panzer Division were slowly moving, and in the late night moonlight, the accompanying sappers quickly erected pontoon bridges in the upper reaches of the shallow river valley, and crossed the river valley in the early morning of the next day and climbed a small high ground to the south of the river.

Feng? Major General Frank personally climbed to the top of the high ground, and excitedly found the French target he was going to attack - the French town of Ryack, which was holding the shallows of the river valley, and launched an attack on the town of Ryan at 5 o'clock in the morning, which was completely unsuspenseful, and a British Army unit of 500 men was stationed here, with only four 60mm mortars, this kind of firepower was almost useless for the armored troops.

As for the 500 British troops, after the war began, in the face of hundreds of 60mm tank guns and intensive heavy machine gun fire in the dark, the British captain battalion commander immediately chose to run away, such a battle was meaningless, and the news of the occupation of the river valley was immediately sent to the headquarters of Admiral Falkingham.

The German general, who personally implemented the "Schlieffen Plan", obviously succeeded in flanking the tactics again, and this time, he did not hesitate to use the armored forces alone, but behind the Second Panzer Division, as the main force for the decisive battle, there were also four armies of the Third Army led by Lieutenant General Ludendorff himself, with a strong force of nearly 250,000.

This tactic was undoubtedly a great adventure, and Admiral Falkingham, even when a powerful offensive was launched, was forced to weaken the frontal battlefield attack force that did not occupy an absolute advantage in terms of troops, and the French were constantly defeated, but behind France, stood the United States and Great Britain, which had absolute industrial and military capabilities in this era, and he made a tactical gamble...... The French question must be resolved with a decisive victory.

In order to make this tactical arrangement, von? Admiral Falkingham has also drawn almost all the mobile forces at hand, and the French, with the funding of Britain and the United States, have drawn almost all the military forces west of the Dordogne that can participate in the war, and have armed at least 200,000 recruits in the past two months, which has also greatly increased the pressure on the German army on the frontal battlefield.

At this moment, the Berlin General Staff, Admiral Moltke Jr. was also anxiously waiting for news from the front that Germany had won four major victories on the Western Front, including Paris, Le Mans, Poandier, and Clermontfilan, and more than 400,000 French troops were captured, but with the strong intervention of Britain and the United States, the French were able to organize new defensive lines again and again, which made the tactics of the German General Staff quickly forcing France to surrender were actually bankrupt.

Although the victory brought extremely high morale to the German Army on the Western Front, in fact, after half a year of fighting, even the most elite and disciplined German Army has fallen into a new predicament, and the huge task of troop rotation brought about by the operation of the large corps has almost crushed the efficient German General Staff, Admiral Moltke naturally understands the importance of investing new soldiers, and the only thing he can do is to keep asking Wilhelm II to increase the wartime reserves, and constantly put the newly formed corps into the front, but in fact he already feels, The German Empire had been mired in an unprecedented war.

Although the German army on the Eastern Front was far superior to the Russian Imperial Army in front in terms of organization and training, it was subjected to a suppressive attack by the Russian Empire with six army groups in terms of military strength, and after crushing the tentative offensive of the Russian Empire, the Russians turned their eyes to the easier Austria-Hungary and Bulgarian directions, which forced the German army on the Eastern Front to respond.

In addition to demanding that Austria-Hungary immediately increase the number of front-line troops, the German side also had to send reserves to Hungary to prevent this important ally from being crushed by the Russians, but the entire international situation has already made him feel great pressure, especially after Portugal has made the decision to join the Entente, which will inevitably affect the choice of more wall-hardened countries.

Little Admiral Moltke, who had not slept all night, finally waited for the pleasant news that after breaking through the Ben Saint-Fuva Valley, Lieutenant General Ludendorff lived up to the expectations of the Empire, and had occupied the three tactical points closest to the valley overnight, and began to build fortifications, the Third Army was expected to take a day to cross the upper reaches of the Doldonian in its entirety, as long as this fulcrum was consolidated, the entire direction of the French army would be devastatingly flanked in front and rear, but ...... The Anglo-French alliance is obviously not willing to collapse!

Just as Admiral Moltke was carefully studying the situation on the Western Front, the guard officer knocked on the door, "Report to the General, Foreign Secretary Sir Schleier and the Chinese ambassador are outside!" ”

China...... This term immediately attracted Admiral Moltke's attention, and the Far Eastern Fleet's activities in the Indian Ocean were aided by China, especially the war in Cochinchina, which gave the German Empire a great opportunity to open a second theater of war, and directly alleviated the opponent's plans to increase troops from the colonies in the European war. (To be continued......)