From the outbreak of the war in 1914, the Eastern and Western fronts of the German army were two worlds.

The German troops on the Eastern Front, when facing the gray cattle Tsarist army, they were always able to use several times less than the Tsarist army to easily win in engagements, and repeatedly either annihilated or captured, and suffered few casualties.

The German army on the Western Front has been facing a difficult situation since the outbreak of the war, and the British and French armies are much stronger in training and equipment than the Russian army, which makes it difficult for the German army on the Western Front to achieve any easy victory, and even if a battle is won, it will have to pay heavy casualties.

Although Tsarist Russia lost the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 and 1905 to the emerging power Japan, the international community generally believed that it was a factor of the Japanese geographical advantage, and that the reason why Tsarist Russia was defeated was only because its strength in the Far East was too weak, and if Tsarist Russia could transfer its troops in the European part to the Far East, Japan would not have the possibility of defeating Tsarist Russia at all.

Tsarist Russia has long been known as the "steamroller of Europe" for its ability to raise millions of troops, and no one doubts the strength of Tsarist Russia, and they are not too incompetent in the face of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. The reason why the Tsarist army has always been defeated by the Germans with the majority of the army is indeed because the German army can fight.

It is precisely because of the difference in the results of the German army on the Eastern Front and the Western Front, and even the difference in battlefield casualties, that the German army has actually divided itself into two factions, such as the faction of generals fighting on the Eastern Front and the faction of generals fighting on the Western Front, and they often mock each other.

According to the predetermined plan of the German General Staff Headquarters, the Battle of Verdun could not have been won, and the Battle of Verdun was carried out only to make France bleed a lot. Feng. At the end of the Battle of Verdun, Falkingham voluntarily resigned as Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, and the post of General Staff was to be held by the number one general on the Eastern Front, Paul Brown. Feng. Hindenburg took over.

...... backfired, at least the generals of the "Eastern Front" did not expect that the generals of the "Western Front", who had not been able to achieve any good results, actually agreed to the battle that was destined to lose, and one win was two battles, two battles that rose up on two occasions to destroy more than 1.6 million Allied forces!

The Battle of Verdun began on February 21, 1916, and ended on October 19, 1916, with the Allies committing 1,246,400 troops in 82 French divisions and 212,800 men in 14 British divisions. By the end of the campaign, a total of 1,459,200 troops had been withdrawn from 574,540 troops.

The Battle of the Somme began on June 27, 1916, and ended on October 21, 1916, with the Allies committing 790,400 men in 52 divisions of the British Commonwealth Army and 410,400 men in 27 French divisions. When it was determined that the campaign was no longer successful, only 476,100 of the total 1,200,800 men were successfully withdrawn from the battlefield.

In the two battles, the Allies lost 884,630 troops at Verdun and 724,700 at the Battle of the Somme, for a total of 1,609,330.

The Germans had 76 divisions, 1,900,000 men, at the Battle of Verdun, and 41 divisions, 1,025,000 at the Battle of the Somme.

Of the 1,900,000 soldiers who were deployed at Verdun, 871,019 were able to participate in the battle after the battle; After the Battle of the Somme, 1,025,000 soldiers and 641.009 men remained combat-ready. This means that the Germans suffered 1,028,981 casualties at Verdun and 383,991 on the Somme.

The cost of 1,412,972 casualties in the two battles was a direct result of the German army falling from 25,000 men from a full division to about 15,000 in line with the British and French strengths.

Of course, injuries can be repeated, but death cannot. In fact, the number of German soldiers killed in the two battles was 297,810 and the number of missing was 261,010. Disappearance is in a sense equivalent to death, or the bones are vaporized by the explosion of the shell, or the deserter does not return to the establishment as a deserter, and the deserter is directly shot if he is caught. This means that the Germans lost 558,820 men in order to win the battles of Verdun and the Somme.

For many, the cost of more than 550,000 lives is clearly worth the victory. Not only because the Entente lost more casualties than the Germans, but also because Paris was going to be in the pockets of the Germans!

After all the sacrifices, the victory seemed so precious that no general of the "Western Front" would allow the possibility of being ridiculed for a victory won at a heavy cost.

If it were at the stage when Litch did not change history, waiting for the end of the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme, it would have been the decline of the "Western Front" of the German army, and then the "Eastern Front" would have risen its head. For example, Hindenburg became Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, and Ludendorff became the First Quartermaster General. Then, including Crown Prince Wilhelm, Bavarian Crown Prince ~ Crown Prince of Württemberg, Falkingham、...... And so many marshals or generals should be slowly pushed out to unimportant positions in the army.

Ludendorff should not have held on to Crown Prince William's words, especially to a young major...... This major, who had made outstanding contributions to the war on the Western Front, was as cynical as if he were reprimanding his grandson.

What was supposed to be a good tea party ended in unpleasantness with each other, and Li Qi did not know that it was a continuation of the struggle between the "Western Front" and the "Eastern Front", and he felt as if he had offended Hindenburg and Ludendorff at the same time and felt a little blue.

【Onima ...... Nice branding! I actually offended them both? How will you mess up in the Weimar government in the future!! 】

Litchie never thought that the Second German Reich would be able to win the war, not because the German army was not strong!

One is because the United States and China have already entered the war, the world's largest industrial power and the world's most populous country, they are on the side of the Entente and have declared war with the Allies!

The second is because "that fire" has been let out by Wilhelm II himself, and then the flame called "Bolshevik" will first burn Tsarist Russia to the ground, and then spread to the Second German Reich!

Perhaps this time the Second German Reich would still be "stabbed in the back" and thus defeated.

Perhaps this time the Second German Reich would be defeated by forcing France to surrender and losing to the Allies on the battlefield.

But! Li Qi is more inclined to be the result of "being stabbed in the back", all because the revolution is contagious in Europe.

At the same time, if France really submits, it will not change the outcome of the war, because the German Navy's high seas fleet is finished, and Germany has no navy capable of fighting!

Before the Paris parade, Litchie was informed that after the Paris parade he would need to return to Berlin and report to the War Office that he would become the director of the Air Force.

How did Richie become the director of the Air Force? That's because Wilhelm II's favorite general, that is, Hindenburg, made a strong recommendation, and before the generals of the "Western Front" could react, Wilhelm II nodded in agreement and said a word.

"Oh, that Munich lad? He has indeed been emphasizing the importance of the Air Force, so as the Air Force Commander should make a difference. ”

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Brothers of the party-state, pull your brothers and vote for recommendations, right?

In addition, the casualty data in this article is based on the content of this book, and is not consistent with the historical real casualty data.