The moment that will decide the fate of Schlieffen's plan has finally arrived!

Doubts about the results of the military victory from the General Staff in Berlin, as well as the report of the French army brought by Lieutenant General Ludendorff, who was in the center of the siege of the French Fourth Army, made von ? Admiral Falkingham was aware of the French counterattack, but the situation at this moment had long been overshadowed by the overwhelming war reports.

The First Army under the command of Lucreo is pushing the ass of the French Fifth Army, looking like a hungry tiger pounced, and the senior general of the army swore to Falkingham that the French Fifth Army has begun to collapse, and all it needs is the powerful Lucreo Army to go up and kick the opponent's fart? Such information is undoubtedly full of temptation for the command of the Western Front.

It's just that when the Lucree Corps quickly captured two crucial bridges over the Marne, this made the front command even more confident in annihilating the French Fifth Army! Of course, after Lieutenant General Ludendorff of the Second Army broke through to the outskirts of Paris, he sent back a series of intelligence, which made Admiral Falkingham see the crisis!

Although the French Fourth Army showed signs of collapse, the battle to break through the French defenses head-on, even the most optimistic officers at the front, did not consider it to be near-finished, and the same situation was reported to the command by Lieutenant General Birro, who was attacking along the Marne on the left flank, and the French and British reinforcements were not at all exhausted.

So, when Luklu's corps strode forward and began to break away from the central Ludendorff corps, Admiral Falkingham made a cautious move and pushed forward the six reserve divisions of the campaign to visit the right flank of the Second Army. That is, the position where Lukru's 1st Army made an earlier sortie. Meantime. He moved the campaign headquarters forward to Krey as well, and issued a readiness order to the German 1st Panzer Division, which had arrived just two days earlier.

In this era, no one really appreciated the power of the armored assault, and even with the tactical advice of the Chinese advisory group, Admiral Falkingham clearly preferred to use this secret weapon as the most critical moment rather than as a substitute for the mighty German Marine Corps.

In the early morning of the 6th, the French Fourth Army was in the hills of Xi'an along the Marne in the eastern suburbs of Paris. In the past two days, the Fifth Army on the Western Front had almost lost the ability to defend, and even forgot to carry out the command's order to blow up the Marne bridges, and after escaping all the way east across the Marne, he was still desperately fleeing to the city of Créteil, hoping that several French reserves there would help to stop the German offensive.

In the center, the French defense line was heavily bombarded by a large number of German airships, and a huge gap of 2 kilometers wide had appeared. The German Second Army was pouring in from this gap and was attacking the French lines on both flanks. Trying to tear this huge wound apart - once the Germans succeeded in this tactic, there was no doubt that the entire defense system of Paris would fall apart, and the whole defense capability would be completely lost.

Therefore, the French army had to launch a resolute counterattack to thwart the orderly and ferocious attack of the Germans, but the fourth army, which had low morale, apparently completely failed the expectations of Marshal Xia Fei, and launched a counterattack that day, throwing four divisions into the attack that squeezed the German breakthrough from three directions, and before sunset, in addition to throwing down more than 3,000 corpses, only regained a position of less than 200 meters on the west flank.

When the news reached the command, the silent French marshal waved his hand for the staff officer to leave, and then sat in the command room and pondered for two hours, until the white-haired commander of the Paris garrison, Gallieni, arrived to report to him on the situation of the German First Army on the left flank......

"The reconnaissance team sent found some important information, the German First Army left 2 divisions of troops on our west flank to control their retreat, the more than 200,000 troops of the German Army, having bypassed Paris, are pursuing our Fifth Army, I think, this is definitely a huge mistake made by the Germans, they sent the flanks to the door!"

"Gallieni, I also noticed the exposed flanks of the Germans, but in order to cut off the connection between the two flanks of the German army, it is necessary to cut into the blank spot between the French First Army and the Second Army, and quickly establish a solid defensive line, when the time comes, this army will encounter the most ferocious counterattack of the Germans, if we cannot stop the German army, our outstretched fist will also encounter the German left flank attacking from behind, and at that time, the defense line of Paris will completely collapse!" Marshal Xia Fei thoughtfully expressed his worries, the key to determining the war is not only the tactics, but also the people who carry out the tactics!

"Sixth Army!" Both old men almost chose the same executor at the first moment!

In the early morning of the 7th, a German reconnaissance plane found the forward of the Lucre Corps, which was encircling and annihilating a remnant of the French Fifth Army on the east side of the Marne.

"Immediately stop the pursuit of the whole army, assemble the main forces to the west, and join the Fourth Army Corps, which served as the general reserve of the Western Front! Cooperate with the battle with the Second Army besieging Paris! ”

Lieutenant General Lucre, who had marched all night, stood in the middle of a group of staggering German officers, and the rapid maneuver of 30 miles around Paris in a day dragged down the French Fifth Army.

But in fact, Lieutenant General Lukru also realized another bad result, the forward troops of the First Army, which were already completely lightly pursuing, were already at the critical point of being dragged down by continuous rapid marches, and even the officers were already showing extreme fatigue.

"The French have collapsed and are just waiting for us to rush up and give their fart? One kick is enough to lay the foundation for victory! The German general's judgment had been blinded by the low-hanging fruit, and the French Fifth Army, which had completely collapsed, was in no way able to turn its head against his morale and ability without a single trumpet in the face of its steady retreat.

Just thirty minutes later, the 7th and 8th Divisions of the German First Army, which controlled the two bridges over the Seine River on the west side of Paris, were suddenly besieged by the swarming French legions, and the German troops, who had consolidated their positions for three days, immediately launched a fierce counterattack.

Every minute, a staggering number of lives are sacrificed in the flying steel, and each side has only one determination to keep their opponents out of their positions and ensure the success of their next strategy...... Under heavy artillery fire, General Mao Laoli's French 6th Army and the 6th Division of the British French French Army crossed the banks of the Seine, where the two sides were fighting fiercely, and plunged directly into the rear of Lucre's Army.

At 10:11, the German reconnaissance plane that took off from Serge again flew over the headquarters of the Lukru Corps and dropped the crucial news that the Anglo-French forces had attacked the First Army on the flank, which immediately made Lieutenant General Lukru feel great pressure, and the First Army was already caught between the two French corps, and he was still unable to deal a fatal blow to the French Fifth Army, which had fled like a rabbit in front.

At 12 noon, the Anglo-French forces, completely ignoring the remaining troops of the Lucree Corps, had broken through the German line of defense in the western direction of Plet, and a heavy unit of the First Army was attacked on all sides, and the French troops ten times their own poured in, tearing through the fragile defensive line of the defending force.

At 2:30, the 11th and 12th Divisions under the command of the Lucreo Corps turned around and began to build a defensive line, preparing to deal with the imminent appearance of the French army in the rear......

At 3:11 a.m., the Paris Operational Command, Marshal Xia Fei learned from the report just sent back that the 17 divisions of the British and French forces that had successfully surrounded the defense units of the two German divisions and were launching a fierce attack.

At about the same time, Admiral Falkingham sent a new operational order to Ludendorff's Corps and Bíró's Corps, which were violently attacking the French Fourth Army in front of Paris, and the order was very simple and clear, the Anglo-French forces had broken through the weak defensive forces deployed between the First Army and the Second and Third Armies, which created a huge gap in the German offensive line.

This is a huge gap of nearly 40 kilometers around the west side of Paris, and if the French and British who rush out cannot be beaten back, it means that the French will divide and outflank the German army, and in a strategic sense, it will be absolutely deadly...... Of course, at this moment, Admiral Falkingham and Lieutenant General Lukru, who was in crisis, did not have a pessimistic feeling that the German army would definitely be able to defeat more than twice as many Gallic chickens in the field.

Before nightfall, Lieutenant General Lukru had already made battle arrangements, the Third and Ninth Armies turned around to attack the Maolaoli Corps that was chasing after them, and the First Army immediately assembled and prepared to launch a counterattack against the enemy forces attacking from the rear in the early morning of the next day.

The fierce battle situation made Tian Dabing, who stayed at the headquarters of the Western Front, nervously stared at the German staff officers changing the army's logo on the sand table, and the situation changed sharply in one day, and the French, who had been besieged, suddenly seized the opportunity, resulting in a situation where both sides were now caught in a decisive battle, and one of his classmates had earlier followed the First Army as a front-line observer, and was now in the midst of the war, but this moment was obviously not the time to consider the friendship of the robe.

Victory...... It was possible to gather and annihilate the main force of the French army, but defeat meant that the entire front was retreated and the front was re-consolidated, and it also meant the complete failure of the Schlieffen plan that the Germans had planned for many years. (To be continued......)