The night breeze blows, and the clothes dance; In the spacious room, Qingying's calm and peaceful voice sounded.

"Although the current mobile fighting on the French battlefield is far from over, the overall situation is gradually coming to the fore. In the next one to two months, the battle situation on the Western Front will inevitably present a situation of mutual confrontation because the troops on the right flank of our army are facing the sea. In response to our army's intention to further outflank, the French have already made an effective response; And they are fighting on the inside line, and the speed of maneuver of their forces is almost impossible to be far surpassed by us. As a result, it is difficult for our outflanking strategy to succeed. Qingying said unhurriedly.

William sighed, noncommittal; His gaze wandered, giving Qingying a look to continue.

"It is worth noting that the French are no longer as offensive and charge-only as they were at the beginning of the war. They learned to dig trenches on the battlefield, and this was an extremely negative sign for our breakthrough. In fact, the reason why General Moltke's plan for a breakthrough in the middle did not achieve the expected goal was largely due to this reason. The French trenches not only delayed our offensive, but also inflicted heavy casualties on our troops, so that the Duke of Württemberg's offensive was halted after only three days. Therefore, our army also encountered far superior obstacles in the frontal breakthrough. Qingying said in a voice.

"In your opinion, what should I do in Germany in the future?" William asked inquiringly.

"Although our army met increasingly stubborn resistance from the French on the Western Front, it reaped a great victory on the Eastern Front. We were 2-1 down. In less than 20 days, it achieved an unprecedented victory of 1 to 10 with 1 to 10 losses, captured more than 800 artillery pieces, and almost completely annihilated the Russian Northwest Army Group, which is enough to prove how clumsy the combat effectiveness of the Russian army is. ”

Qingying pointed to the huge map of Europe where the German East Prussian border had been restored to its original state, and said with confidence: "If we can transfer all the main forces to the eastern front to meet the enemy and cooperate with the Austro-Hungarian army to launch an all-out attack, the Russians will not be able to block it with strength." In less than a year, we will be able to storm Moscow and St. Petersburg and achieve a complete victory in the war against Russia. The history of Napoleon's defeat of Russia 100 years ago does not relate to our Germany, because Russia today is no longer monolithic: the Russian Revolution that broke out in 1905. It completely confirmed my seemingly infinite scenery of Nikolai Shu. In fact, it is sitting on the crater of a volcano that can erupt at any time. Once they have been hit too hard, the revolutionaries will let the empire collapse on its own from the inside out; And even if Nikolai Shumil were able to maintain power, he would have been forced by the turbulent revolution in the country to negotiate peace with us as a vanquished. ”

Speaking of this, Qingying's mind couldn't help but pass over Comrade Ulyanov's resolute face. In the previous ten years. Qingying had been secretly facilitating the Bolshevik Party he led: not only did they receive a private grant of 100,000 marks a year. It is also possible to secretly obtain smuggled weapons under the cover of German merchant ships. And this will undoubtedly greatly enhance the ability of these revolutionaries to rebel. Although Qingying did not have any ill feelings towards the last Tsar, Nicholas II, because of Sanya; But in the case of each being his master, he can only be ruthless. I stabbed my cousin and brother-in-law in both ribs.

"Move all the main forces to the Eastern Front and launch an attack?" Hearing Qingying's words, William was shocked; He originally expected to hear from Qing Ying's mouth that he could annihilate a large number of French troops, but he didn't expect this guy to avoid the important and take it lightly, and he couldn't wait to make a black hand on his cousin Nicky. William's brows furrowed slightly, and his words were full of displeasure: "In this way, wouldn't our army only take a defensive position on the Western Front and give up the initiative to the British and French?" So far, our army has lost only 230,000 men on the Western Front, while the French have lost at least 600,000 men, and we have an almost overwhelming advantage in numbers. In addition to this, the Empire also had absolute superiority in heavy artillery, aviation, armored forces, and infantry weapons. As long as we can launch a strong attack on the Western Front, the French will also have no strength to stop it. ”

For William's concept, Qingying had expected it before he returned. Due to its own role, the current situation on the Western Front in Germany is indeed much better than in history: the German army not only advanced to a position only 15 kilometers from Paris, but also occupied large areas of northern and eastern France, and even the fortresses of Verdun, Nancy and Belfort, which the French had painstakingly managed for many years, all fell into the hands of the Germans. But in terms of technical weapons, the German army did not have the greater superiority than Wilhelm imagined.

Although the ground bombing type Zeppelin has a huge bomb load, the power of one is more than that of a heavy artillery battalion; However, the bombing accuracy was not satisfactory. What's more, because the cost of a single airship of this type is more than 100,000 pounds, there are currently less than 40 such guys in the German Army; Excluding the part that is overhauled and maintained in the rear, only about 25 ships can really fly to the front-line battlefield. The number of German Fokker fighters and Gotha bombers in service was also seriously insufficient due to the limitation of production capacity and the number of pilots, and on average, there were only five or six squadrons in each army group; They can only change the situation of certain battles, and have no decisive influence on the outcome of the engagements of large armies. The 75mm cannon that France is equipped with a large number of is a natural anti-tank weapon, and in the confrontation some time ago, nine tanks in the Qingying division have been completely destroyed by the French!

When Qingying sorted out her thoughts and explained these factors to William in detail, William's brows gradually furrowed, and a solemn look appeared between his eyebrows. However, after a while, William still shook his head slowly and said: "But even so, we should not stop the offensive on the Western Front. If the current Imperial Empire halted its offensive, it would undoubtedly allow the French and British to have a respite, and the advantage that our army had gained in the previous battles would be greatly reduced. In addition, the imperial government must also give an account to the people at home through its victories on the Western Front. If you fail to defend in the event of an advantage, it will have an extremely bad impact, both domestically and internationally. ”

Hearing William's last words, a flash of lightning flashed in Qingying's mind. His pupils contracted slightly, and he didn't speak again, but began to think carefully in his mind.

According to his strategy before the outbreak of the war, once the German plan for a quick victory on the Western Front collapsed because it did not annihilate the French army in large numbers, the Germans would transfer the main forces to the Eastern Front and build the most impregnable copper walls on the French battlefield. Judging from historical experience, this was undoubtedly the most effective means of countering the victory of the German Army in a two-front battle.

On the other plane, it took little effort for Germany to defeat Russia. Since Falkenhein, who succeeded Moltke as chief of the General Staff, was a staunch Western Front, he was preoccupied with a decisive victory on the French battlefield: under his leadership, Germany had not sent a major force in the war against Russia before 1917. In the first year of the war, Germany had only one Eighth Army on the Eastern Front, and compared to the thunderous clash between Russia and Austria-Hungary, the German lineup could be said to be extremely shabby. In 1915, although the German army on the Eastern Front had three armies in name, because the German Ninth Army was split from the old foundation of the original Eighth Army, the actual strength of the German army on the Eastern Front was only nine corps, and the strength of the army was less than double that of the Eighth Army in August 1914. By 1916, Falkenhain had launched the Battle of Verdun on the Western Front, concentrating a large number of artillery, ammunition, and soldiers; With the subsequent Battle of the Somme, Germany devoted almost all its efforts to the Western Front.

It can be said that for the first two and a half years after the outbreak of the war, Hindenburg's troops on the Eastern Front were motherless children, and belonged to only a small supporting role in the huge German war machine. However, it was this auxiliary force that repeatedly won more with less on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, defeating the Russian army, which was strong and capable in the middle, and directly determined the victory of the war against Russia. Under the combined onslaught of the two men, Russia lost more than 5.5 million troops and billions of rubles in wealth, soaring prices, high debts, poor livelihoods, and the country's economy was on the verge of collapse, and in the early days of 1917, the February Revolution that overthrew the Romanov dynasty broke out.

If Germany could immediately move its main forces to the Eastern Front, it would not be a year and a half, or even less than a year, for the Allies to detonate the Russian Revolution and win a decisive victory on the Eastern Front. On the Western Front, since Germany occupied large swathes of French territory in the early war, Britain and France could never have stayed behind the trenches honestly, and they would have launched an offensive to regain the lost ground. By that time, the Germans would have been able to inflict heavy casualties on the British and French forces and shed their blood in the process of recovering the insignificant positions of the few kilometres. When the Russians were completely defeated and the German High Seas Fleet, reinforced by Qing Ying, smashed the British naval blockade in one fell swoop, Britain and France would no longer have the strength and significance to continue fighting, and could only choose to sit down at the negotiating table with Germany. (To be continued......)

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