If Ludendorff had been followed, perhaps history would have gone back to its original track, and then ...... It is a pity that there was no then, Field Marshal Hindenburg himself was not a very decisive person, and between Germany and the crown prince, or between the fate of the country and personal honor, the chief of the German General Staff chose the latter, and the wheel of history derailed......

Late at night on May 17, local time, with a belly full of resentment, the two divisions of Liao Lei and He Yingqin, who had originally taken advantage of Jihua to capture Nancy, arrived in Metz. However, to the surprise of the two, the expeditionary force did not build fortifications in the city, and it didn't look like a decisive battle was going to be fought here, and it was really impossible to figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Commander-in-Chief Bai's gourd.

According to the arrangement of the staff officer of the headquarters in charge of reception, the 1st and 5th divisions went to their respective accommodations, but the army commander Liao Lei, the division commander He Yingqin, and the regiment commanders did not follow, and they respectively got on four captured German Daimler cars and went to Bai Chongxi's temporary headquarters.

As soon as He Yingqin got on and drove not far, he suddenly shouted to Liao Lei in surprise: "Alas, military commander, this German car is really good, much better than the American car we bought." ”

was thinking hard about what Bai Chongxi was going to do next, and when Liao Lei heard this, the old god replied: "It's really really good, I said Master He, your psychological quality is also really good, do you know where we are now?" The German army around us is almost three times as large as ours, so if you really have the heart to think about what we have to do to get back home alive. Don't blame me for not telling you, Bai Jiansheng and I are classmates, this person is not ordinarily bold, but very big, the problem is that if he is bold, it means that those of us who are little brothers will bleed. ”

He Yingqin didn't care at all when he heard this, and smiled very easily: "Commander Liao, the sky is falling and there is a big man on top, what are you afraid of?" I think that since Commander Bai dared to pull the strength of our four divisions directly behind the enemy, it means that he had already done everything well, and since this is the case, instead of thinking about the question of life and death, we should think about how to carry out Commander Bai's orders. Don't laugh at me, I have a feeling that this time we are likely to follow Commander Bai to make a name for ourselves. ”

Liao Lei thought about it, and when he heard Zuihou's words, he was directly happy: "It is said that Cantonese people are slippery, I think compared with you Guizhou people, I am afraid that you can't even resist half of it, you He Yingqin is the number one sycophant......"

At ten o'clock in the evening, Bai Chongxi's temporary headquarters, although it was late at night, it was still brightly lit. The staff officers directly under the headquarters are intensively carrying out various combat preparation tools, including the statistics and distribution of weapons and ammunition, including the formulation and issuance of orders for various combat units. The joy of victory has not yet dissipated from these staff officers, and now these young men are all full of revolutionary passion, and each one of them is telling himself in his heart that we are creating a new history for the country and the nation, and that our children and grandchildren will surely remember our contributions today.

Bai Chongxi stood in front of the large map made by the Germans, although his eyes were looking at the map, his mind was no longer on the map. Bai Chongxi is actually not a god, he also has moments of fear and cowardice, but he usually hides them. When fighting against the Beiyang Army at home, Bai Chongxi's self-confidence was vividly displayed, anyway, he could fight as he wanted, which also made his prestige in the army, who was not good at communication and life, quickly overshadowed a veteran like Xu Yuanquan. In private, those who have been commanded by Bai Chongxi call him the god of war.

Now the god of war wants to be the god of gambling, Bai Chongxi's first bet is on the Lorraine region, this one is obviously a successful bet, and he also won the unexpected gain of the German crown prince. According to the traditional thinking of the Chinese, now is the time to accept it when it is good. However, although Bai Chongxi is an authentic Chinese, his thinking is full of Japanese character, and it is not his habit to accept when he sees good, if he knows that he will accept him when he sees good, he will not fight with Lao Jiang for decades.

Bai Chongxi's current idea is to play a big one, how big is it? Strive to end this damn war at once, because Bai Chongxi only found out when he arrived in Europe that with the way these powers played, how many lives were not enough to fill. It's just a bunch of idle aristocrats playing a game of wargames, consuming each other's excess production capacity.

So now, Bai Chongxi intends to tear a hole and change the course of this war.

The number of German troops was between 1.5 million and 2 million, of which about 1.5 million on the Western Front after the Russian Revolution, 700,000 of the most warlike troops were concentrated at the eastern end of the front, and 500,000 in the Verdun area.

Through nearly a year of study and observation in France, Bai Chongxi came to a valuable conclusion, that is, if he played with the Germans by simply playing positional warfare, it would be impossible to defeat the German army. The Germans have good discipline, advanced military equipment, and a tenacious will to fight, which dooms such a battle to turn into a war of attrition, and judging from the data of the warring parties, Zuihou is more than bloodshed, or the coalition forces are more shedding. In the third year of the war, the French and Germans had become less and less confident as they fought, especially in the Battle of the Somme last year.

However, the German army was not invincible, and according to Bai Chongxi's line of thought, after three years of positional warfare, the German army's combat habits and organizational discipline were estimated to have been molded. And this is where the greatest chance of defeating the German army lies, as long as the German army can be dragged out of the trenches and then engaged in a bloody battle face to face on the vast plain, it is estimated that the German soldiers will be like people who have been in the dark for a long time suddenly see the light, unable to open their eyes and fall into chaos. And once it entered a state of chaos, then many advantages of the German army immediately came to naught. If Wang Zhenyu was here and knew Bai Chongxi's thoughts, it is estimated that he would grab Bai Chongxi's hand excitedly and said: "Brother, you didn't come here, this TM is the way the People's Liberation Army dealt with the Kuomintang army with full American equipment!" ”

Historically, the Kuomintang army, whose combat level was much higher than that of the PLA, was like this, and before the artillery was untied from the truck, it was wrenched with the overwhelming PLA, and most of the Kuomintang officers were from professional backgrounds, and they were basically dumbfounded by such a battle, and they collapsed on their own without the PLA destroying their command system. This is the dark blue computer met Xie Jun, and the game crashed directly without this move.

In fact, the U.S. military during the Korean War suffered a lot, and it was not until later that the invented method of fighting the worship offensive used mechanical liliang to deal with this kind of disrupted warfare, specifically calculated the maximum distance of the volunteer army's one-time pursuit of 70 li, and used the car to retreat 70 li after the attack began. It is calculated that the consumption time of the one-time combat carrying of the Volunteer Army is one week, then such a retreat lasts at most one week. Then they began to counterattack and inflict heavy casualties on the volunteers, and at this time, the volunteers were sleepy and short of supplies, and they really didn't know what to do except flee for their lives! This is the fundamental reason why after the first year of the Korean War, the Volunteer Army never launched a battle similar to the previous five offensives.

Maybe geniuses are really self-taught, and Bai Chongxi has now caught a way to defeat them from under the powerful exterior of the German army in order to mess around.

But when Bai Chongxi put forward this plan, the division commanders, chiefs of staff, and regiment commanders present were all stunned.

The first to raise an objection was Ye Kaixin: "Commander-in-Chief Bai, if we really disrupt with chaos, will our own army collapse on its own because of this situation?" Moreover, the strength of the German army this time is said to be 500,000, at least more than 400,000, and we have less than 100,000 people here, how can we gnaw it? ”

Other division commanders also expressed their concerns, in fact, it was not only the German army that was fighting according to the drill code, but also the youth army and the expeditionary force itself. If there is any difference with the German army, it is that no one is professional in Germany.

Bai Chongxi waited for everyone to finish speaking, and then said very proudly: "When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins, we have to tell the officers and soldiers below that it is now in Europe, we look so respectful and don't understand the language, there is no place to escape if we want to escape, either kill the enemy or be killed by the enemy, there is no third choice; Besides, who told you that I only have 100,000 people in this group of grandsons, and the five divisions commanded by Chief of Staff Chiang and the 500,000 French troops commanded by Marshal Petain are behind the German ass, what are we afraid of? Don't be afraid of anything. The battlefield is in the Lorraine region, which is full of French, and it is really disrupted, and the Germans are only afraid more than we are. We just want to be the ones who dare to eat crabs, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, the worst result is nothing more than to wipe out all of our 100,000 horses. But once we are victorious, we will reap ten times or even a hundred times the honor and results of the capture of Metz and the capture of the German Crown Prince. ”

The officers were silent, they were all still trying to digest Bai Chongxi's amazing jihua.

And Bai Chongxi suddenly shouted loudly: "Mr. Liang Qichao said that there is no Han nationality or ethnic minorities in China, there is only one nation, the great Chinese nation. We have traveled thousands of miles to Europe with only one purpose, to fight for the rise of the Chinese nation in the forest of the Shijie nation. Who are we? It's a soldier, you guys are touching your eggs now and seeing if it's still there? Go back and let the officers and soldiers under him touch their eggs, and see if they are still there? If it is a man, then do not hesitate, do not be afraid, give death to our enemies, long live the Chinese nation! ”

This paragraph, which was later recorded in the military history of the expeditionary force, immediately activated the blood in the hearts of everyone present, who were only young people in their twenties, wasn't what Commander Bai said exactly what they dreamed of?

"Commander Bai is right, people die and birds don't die for thousands of years, and they fight with the Germans" Liao Lei stood up and shouted while patting the table.

And the officers shouted in reality, and then shouted in unison: "Long live the nation, long live the youth army!" ……”