The quagmire of the French battlefield was rapidly draining the mobility that the German Army relied on most, and on the Eastern Front of the European War, a decisive battle around the Gelbaqian Mountains finally began...... In February 1911, with the support of Kaiser Wilhelm, the German army on the Eastern Front under Hindenburg was greatly strengthened, and Kaiser Wilhelm and General Moltke apparently embarked on another big gamble.

On the Western Front presided over by General Falkingham, due to the stalemate on the Bordeaux front, the French Army, with the support of nearly 200,000 U.S. Army and British Army, finally formed a huge and long blocking line on the periphery of this seaside city.

Thanks to Bordeaux's excellent transportation, cement, barbed wire and various military materials from the British Empire and the United States were continuously unloaded to the port, and in the end, the products of these industrial civilizations drew a line of life and death for the infantry on both sides...... The Entente was so exhausted by resistance that they were unable to counterattack, and the rifles and barbed wire made it a staggering price for every trench captured by the Germans!

In this situation, Admiral Falkingham was clearly aware of the cost of breaking through the Bordeaux Line, which was obviously unwilling to be accepted by the commander of the Western Front, and the only three and a half panzer divisions he could hold on the most powerful weapon on the Western Front were unable to deploy because of the spreading rivers and hills of the Bordeaux area.

The German Panzer Corps, which had only a theoretical advance speed of 20 km/h, was now also beginning to face the threat of a large number of British-made anti-tank guns, although the British Empire did not turn the situation around at all in the first phase of the imitation tank. But the powerful industrial production capacity quickly took shape on the anti-tank gun. A year after the Franco-German war. A large number of 55mm, 40x diameter army guns have been deployed to the most dangerous Bordeaux front.

The difficult question of whether to go east or west was before Admiral Falkingham, one of his best subordinates, Lieutenant General Ludendorff, who was clearly an ardent fan of armoured warfare, and who insisted that the armoured forces must be separated from the Bordeaux front, to attack westward, where the French were unable to fully defend, and then turn back to deal with the French government in Bordeaux.

This is a high-stakes initiative. The biggest problem, of course, was the logistical supply of the huge armoured forces, and just as Admiral Falkingham was about to take a big gamble on a new Western Front, intense pressure from Berlin forced him to cancel this ambitious idea...... Kaiser Wilhelm II, seeing the Russian offensive posture on the Eastern Front, ordered that troops must be drawn from the French battlefield and the mainland to form a new fist!

The target, of course, is the Russians who are now amassing more than a million troops in East Prussia!

"The Germans are ready to launch a counterattack against Russia!" Qin Kai, who was observing the first 30-ton medium tank of the Warrior series newly launched by Northern Heavy Industry in the military camp on the outskirts of Beijing, heard the staff officer come to report the news, and muttered in surprise, Kaiser Wilhelm II is indeed an excellent spoiler, especially at a critical moment!

The key to the European war for hundreds of years was inseparable from an important country, the British Empire, a European power across the sea. Always maintain this great counterweight to the entire European continent, every war that determines the future of Europe. In the end, it will be up to Britain to determine the final course, and this was the case in the First World War, and Germany or France will be completely destroyed...... This may not seem easy, but it is the most likely strategy to achieve right now.

However, after encountering the most tough confrontation, the German emperor obviously could not adapt to this strategic judgment, and finally made a judgment that would affect the situation of the war, and was ready to abandon France, the most important target, and instead attack another target that was obviously impossible to destroy - Russia, and the German emperor relied on the self-confident military strength of the German army, although as a European army power, Russia is known as a fighting nation, but it is very obvious that at least for the time being, Russia has not become a real opponent of Germany.

"The key to the war in Europe lies with France, and whether France can hold out to the end is the money and weapons provided by the British!" Qin Kai relayed his judgment to Ma Ze, the chief of the army staff who came to visit him, on the same day...... The European war has entered a critical stage, and China must determine its future national policy at this critical juncture.

"Chairman, the General Staff has made the latest rehearsal of the European War, and we believe that Germany has the military strength to defeat Russia, but it is difficult to have the possibility of fighting deep into Russian territory, and this season, even Poland, the southernmost part of Russia, is still not suitable for a long army to run long...... The German Leopard tanks also did not have the mobility to fight deeply! ”

Railway...... Qin Kai naturally understood the key point that Ma Ze said, Russia has gone through 20 years of economic recovery, although it has greatly suppressed Russia's development in Asia, but in fact, the interests of the Russian Far East in this era have not touched Russia's core interests at all, and the industrial capacity of this huge old empire is obviously lacking compared to today's China, but the advantage is that almost all the industrial power of the Russians is concentrated in Europe!

In addition, it interrupted the tentacles of the Russians to the Far East, but after more than ten years of recovery, the construction of the Russian railways that began with Alexander II has crossed the domestic railway network across the vast Russian territory, and after Siberia suffered a big loss in logistics supply, the coverage of Russia's domestic double-track railway network is now greatly ahead of the past.

What's worse is that the Russians used a completely different narrow-pitch railway from Germany, which means that Germany's previous combat method of seizing the railway network of Luxembourg and Belgium is obviously impossible to replicate on the Eastern Front......

Therefore, Qin Kai obviously completely agreed with the opinion of the staff officer of the Ministry of Military Affairs represented by Ma Ze, so he stood in front of the huge map of Europe and drew a huge circle on the Eastern Front, and the core of the circle was Poland, which has now been annexed by Russia for nearly a hundred years! On the periphery of the circle, there are the regions of Ukraine and Lithuania!

In the post-Napoleonic era, Poland established the Duchy of Warsaw, which was dismembered and fell into foreign rule, and because Poland was adjacent to Germany and Austria-Hungary, relying on geographical advantages, it has now completed the initial accumulation of the industrial revolution. Relying on the advantages of close proximity to Germany, Czechoslovakia, the core industrial areas of Europe. Poland has a significant industrial capacity in Russia.

Russia now borders Germany and Austria-Hungary with Poland. It is clear that an opportunity is emerging to change the face of the whole of Europe, and for Qin Kai, it is clearly more beneficial to China's interests to construct a new European balance of power to divide Europe, among which the huge Slavic satellites now ruled by the Russian Empire will be a series of very important chess pieces!

"The key to the war against Russia. It was not a complete defeat of the Russian army, which was large in numbers...... As long as the Tsar reigned, such a goal was obviously difficult to accomplish, and Germany did not have the ability to cross the vast northern borders and continue to win, and the Germans had to understand this! Qin Kai spoke eloquently, and then pointed to Poland, "The Poles, although they also belong to the West Slavic branch, have been trying to break away from Russia for decades. The Intelligence Department also has close ties with the Polish Socialist Party, and this will be a pawn that we can use! ”

Ma Mou stared at the map for a long time. Only then did he ask thoughtfully: "Chairman, I understand what you mean, and I will immediately telegraph to Feng Guozhang of the advisory group in Berlin, asking him to convey our views to General Moltke and General Falkingham......

Qin Kai interrupted Ma Mou's statement very decisively, and then said very seriously, "The Germans must understand that their strength is not enough to conquer all of Europe, especially the vast wilderness of the north, and defeat France...... The complete destruction of the current French regime, and then the end of the war in a non-occupying way, will be the only possible solution to the European war! ”

Non-occupying ...... After Ma Mou heard this term, he was obviously stunned, he obviously understood what Qin Kai meant, this was to make the European war a copy of another Franco-Prussian war, but the current situation in the European war, he and a group of staff officers and the report from the officer corps in Europe all clearly stated the fact that the European war had fallen into a quagmire!

"Chairman, I'm afraid the Germans don't want to accept such an outcome! The British, the French, and the Russians are probably not willing to accept such an outcome either! Ma Mou asked with a frown.

Hearing Ma Mou's rhetorical question, Qin Kai also smiled, at present, European countries are frantically conscripting troops into the battlefield, so that huge military expenditures can be invested, but in the end they cannot achieve any victory, which is obviously an unacceptable result for governments and political games...... However, "Ma Mou, in the short term, is naturally an impossible result, but ...... If the scale of the war reaches millions, or even tens of millions, no matter how strong the financial resources of the Entente and the Central Powers are, I am afraid that they will have to consider new options...... Whether the Germans could get our support or not, naturally we had to carefully consider our vision of victory! ”

Knowing Germany's disadvantages and the trend of the war situation, he strongly intervened in the situation in Europe, obviously not because he valued Wilhelm II's high ambition and talent, Germany obviously has a huge military capability, mobilization ability and industrial capacity to gain superiority, but to fight against the British + American super plug-in model, even if France is indiscriminate, it will eventually be dragged to death-

On the afternoon of January 25, 1911, German Foreign Minister Schleier suddenly called on Wang Li, the minister in Germany, and the two talked in secret for nearly four hours until nightfall, when Schleier left in a hurry.

By the 27th, General Moltke had obtained a series of information on the battlefield on the Eastern Front through multiple channels, and had made an appointment with Feng Guozhang early in the morning...... Wilhelm II had already secretly von on the Eastern Front? Admiral Hindenburg gave the order to fight, and at this time 20 army divisions, which had completed the secret redeployment, were preparing to join the Eastern Front.

Hitting the troops, this tactical essential, obviously the German side mastered very well, and the military movement also achieved full secrecy, even a large number of Chinese advisers in the front line of the army did not perceive, which means that Feng? Admiral Hindenburg already had in his hands nearly 400,000 German troops on the Eastern Front...... But the order given to him by Wilhelm II, compared to the sudden increase in troops, made Feng Guozhang feel incredibly outrageous!

Wilhelm II looking forward to von? Hindenburg won a decisive victory on the Eastern Front...... In the face of the quagmire of the French battlefield, the decisive victory of the Battle of Sedang in the Franco-Prussian War 40 years ago was already destined to be history, but the German emperor was clearly still intoxicated with the glory of his grandfather! In this regard, Feng Guozhang's expression was calm, but he had to secretly raise his middle finger, the majestic German general in front of him, to be honest, he really couldn't understand it...... Why did the German Empire, a military power, have so much incredibleness in the top command! (To be continued.) )