During the battle, the French army was killed and wounded by the air raids of the Tang Army's attack aircraft units, and lost more than 100 combat vehicles, which really made the French feel a little painful. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Davout, as the commander of the French army at the front, immediately reported to the French Ministry of Defense: "...... If we want to contend with or even defeat the Tang army, we must be mentally prepared to bear heavy losses. The Tang Army's superiority in military science and technology is difficult for us to match. But fortunately and unfortunately, France and the other European allies are strong enough that we have a way to defeat the Don army. The Germans have seen this and are ready to put it into practice. The Don Army had only a few hundred thousand troops in Belgium, and the supply of equipment and ammunition was limited. As long as we can launch an uninterrupted attack on the Tang army with ten times the strength of the Tang army, the Tang army will definitely be defeated in the end. This also means that we have to suffer ten times the losses of the Don army, but after all, it is better to have a way to win than to have no hope at all, right? ”

The European Military Commission has an overall war strategy, and its core axis is to eliminate the Tang troops in continental Europe and North Africa, and use the navy as a barrier to protect the security of Europe, so that the Tang people can no longer intervene.

From the outset, the Europeans had a hunch that a victory of this magnitude would inevitably come at a great cost. But many European leaders and politicians believe that the price is worth it, and that Europe can now get rid of the constraints of the Tang Dynasty and embark on the road of independence and self-determination, without having to look at the eyes of the Tang people.

Of course, many people are also opposed to the war with the Tang Dynasty, they believe that even if Europe wins in the end, it is unlikely that it will actually gain any benefits, and that the Tang Dynasty will still be a powerful Tang if it loses Europe, because the core interests of the Tang Dynasty are in East Asia and North America. But the war has begun, and the soldiers can't slack off on the battlefield because of their own opinions at this time, so everyone is racking their brains about how to deal with the Tang army.

Davout's report was heeded by the French Ministry of Defense, and the French government began to follow Germany's lead and issue a nationwide ****** in preparation for a larger offensive.

The degree of mobilization of France and Germany shocked Datang, after all, it was not the World War II period, France and Germany ran a little faster because Datang installed a new engine on the carriage of the times. The Napoleonic Wars were largely non-existent in the plane, and Europe was able to develop peacefully for almost two decades. Economic development and medical advances have led to a significant increase in the populations of both countries, with a combined population of more than 40 million in both countries, and Germany is a little more than France, because Germany annexed Austria.

A lowland campaign, in which neither the French nor the Germans went well, was defeated by the Don army, and the exchange ratio was very ugly.? Through this campaign, the Europeans also lost the illusion that the Don Army might not be as strong as they imagined - the Tang Army was still the most powerful army on the planet. In order to win, more soldiers must be armed and more military weapons must be manufactured.

Before the war, the French army had a standing army of about 400,000 men, while the German army was a little more than 550,000. In the Lowland Campaign, the Tang Army had only 140,000 troops, and more than 200,000 troops against the French and German armies, which ate nearly 100,000 French and German troops in less than a month, and caused a lot of civilian casualties and economic property losses. On the other hand, the losses of the Don army itself were almost negligible.

Such a campaign did not frighten the Europeans, on the contrary, they felt that they had not worked hard enough. The core of the solution to this problem is the national mobilization, which was announced a little earlier in Germany and a little later in France, but the difference is not too big.

The German side directly announced the formation of a huge army of 2 million people, and France was not ambiguous, calling out the slogan of 1.5 million French troops. Germany has some advantages in this regard, imitating the reserve system of the Tang Dynasty, Germany also has a relatively complete reserve and militia system, which can be relatively quickly converted into actual combat effectiveness in wartime. However, it will take time for Germany to build such a large-scale army, especially since Germany does not have enough military equipment to equip an army of 2 million people. Therefore, Germany had to go all out to a wartime state, and all the factories used to produce civilian products were there, and as long as they were able, they were used to produce weapons and equipment. All resources are limited in favor of the military industry, and the state has also invested a large amount of money in the research and development of weapons, hoping to narrow the gap with the Tang Army's weapons science and technology as much as possible.

Both the German and French armies drew their standing armies from active duty and once again formed the Lowland Corps, which were displayed on the east and west flanks of the Netherlands and Belgium, but did not rush to attack here. The deployment of German troops has also been affected by the war and has become more intelligent. The Germans scattered their troops in smaller sizes, in more places, and at the same time deployed a lot of camouflage. As a result, the air power of the Don Army would encounter more difficulties when bombing the German army, and the results achieved would be smaller.

The Germans did not rush to war, knowing that even if they launched another wave of 200,000 offensives, the Tang army would still be able to defeat them, but they would consume themselves in vain. German Field Marshal Blucher had chosen to retire voluntarily before the war, and he refused to fight against the Don Army, and although Marens tried to keep him, he still could not make the most famous old German marshal change his mind. The front commander of the German army consisted of a Junker-born Fan? Field Marshal Kleist, who had also been a Prussian soldier and later became a German soldier.

Kleist was also a bit of a real talent, and he controlled any road to Belgium by land, so that no supplies could be delivered to Belgium. At the same time, he did not send troops to engage the Tang army, which was to adopt such a stalemate. He knew very well that with the more than 200,000 German troops he had just replenished, he would not be able to win, so he only needed to create tension and oppress the Tang army.

Once the German army completed its expansion and the new recruits formed a new army, then the German army could launch an offensive ten times larger than the Tang army, attacking from multiple directions, so that the Tang army could not take care of it at all, and could not cope with it. Even though the current warfare has greatly improved in terms of sophistication and sophistication, the side with the largest number of people still has an undoubted advantage.

Both the German and French armies were modern armies, and it was difficult to defeat a small number of troops before leading to the surrender of a large number of troops. The biggest problem of the Tang Army is that there is no stable rear in Western Europe, and there are too many enemies, it is difficult to beat France down with one punch like Germany in World War II, maybe the Tang Army can push all the way to Paris, but Belgium and the Netherlands must be lost, and that doesn't make much sense. Now the French government is still very determined to resist. (To be continued.) )