The stars are shining, the moon is clear, and the majestic and solemn Berlin Imperial Palace is quietly immersed in the vast night, and patrolling guards constantly pass by with guns. As Germany continued to win victories on various battlefields, the guards in the palace became tighter: a large number of guard guards guarded the palace tightly, lest the forces of the hostile countries would choose to assassinate the German core to change the situation after defeat.

"From the early morning of November 23, Field Marshal Hindenburg launched a full-scale attack on Russia. Our 6 main armies, assisted by 6 armies of the Austrians and 3 armies of the Romanians, had already driven long into Russian territory from the entire eastern front. In the spacious and exquisite office room, William, who already looked a little old, smiled and said to the young man in front of him with a comfortable face, "Those wedges you have planted in Russia should also be moved now." After this winter, I hope to see a Romanov dynasty and the Bolshevik demons tearing each other apart. ”

Qingying smiled slightly and said, "Please rest assured that Caesar's arrangements in Russia are always in progress. Comrade Ulyanov, the leader of the Bolshevik Party, who had been in exile for a long time, had been sent to Finland by our men, and the false identity needed for his return to Russia, as well as the cooperation of the Russian border guards, had been completely completed and bought. In order to save the suffering compatriots who were oppressed by the Tsar, he will definitely go all out to promote the revolution after returning to China, and the weapons needed for the revolution are also available with us! The elite of the Russian army has already lost all its losses in previous battles, and arms production and material supplies have fallen to an unprecedented low: it will not be long. There will be a much larger upheaval in Russia than before. And we will take advantage of this opportunity. A complete end to the fighting on the Eastern Front. ”

Hearing Qingying's assurance, William had a look of satisfaction on his face. Looking at the map of Europe hanging on the wall, which had changed drastically, William seemed to think of something, and there was a little more emotion in his words: "Seven years ago, you told me that the Romanov dynasty had been hollowed out of its interior by moths, and that a single Japan would make them almost uncontrollable; If Germany can take the East as its main target, it will surely win a great victory. Thus completely breaking the cage that has been formed in Europe and surrounds us. Now it seems that you are right. With less than a hand, we knocked to the ground the steamroller that had once made all of Europe tremble; If we had gone all out to the east in the early stages of the war, we might have been celebrating our victory at the Brandenburg Gate. ”

"If Russia had been targeted from the beginning, that could have happened. However, the benefits we received after the war could never have been as rich as they have been today. Because the French have a bitter hatred for us, and the British have an unprecedented hatred for our rise; Only by letting them feel the unstoppable edge of our Germany, and never having the courage and desire to be our enemy again, can Germany truly complete the historic transformation from Central Europe to the world. ”

Qingying took a copper kettle from the warm fireplace and slowly poured the rich warm coffee into the cup in front of William. He spoke softly, "Hence the blow that Germany had struck at France at the beginning of the war. It is also a necessary step to achieve ultimate victory. We have captured 150,000 French prisoners, killed more than 400,000 French officers and soldiers, ruled over nearly 3 million French people and 100,000 square kilometers of territory. ”

Speaking of this, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Qingying's mouth, and he said hesitantly, "What's more, if it weren't for the tragic blow we inflicted on France in the early stage of the war, how could the British and French armies now have a strong determination for revenge to launch a suicidal attack on our army's heavily defended positions?" The current speed of bloodletting on the two old British and French bandits is much stronger than our attack on the Eastern Front alone. ”

William took a sip of the mellow in the cup, and the feeling in his heart was as pleasant and gentle as this cup of coffee.

In the early morning of November 18, the Allied forces, with the British as the main force, launched a large-scale attack on the German defensive positions near the North Seine. However, this offensive, which was highly anticipated by the British and French military, suffered shocking heavy losses on the first day of the battle, with more than 50,000 British soldiers falling under the machine guns and guns of the German defenders! More than a dozen kilometers of battle line were littered with corpses, and spreeving blood stained large swathes of the land scarlet: when the sun set, the battlefield was full of birds and vultures that fluttered and pecked at the dead frantically. The British field hospital was completely filled with groups of retreating wounded soldiers within two hours of the attack; Many more of the wounded could only survive in the field trenches without any medicine or treatment. As far as the officers could see, their trenches were full of shocking bloodstains, and occasional heart-rending screams echoed in the air, making people feel frightened and chilled.

Although all the British units managed to advance 2 to 3 kilometers and capture some of the German defensive trenches, such heavy casualties still caused the British commander French to feel a dizzy pain in his head. What was even more unacceptable to him was the outrageously low figure of losses from the Germans. By late that night, the British had found more than 1,000 German corpses in the trenches they occupied, and the number of prisoners was almost a handful: according to the estimates of the front-line troops, the casualties of the opposing side would not exceed 3,000 at most!

After suffering such heavy losses, the British attack was naturally suspended. In the past few days, the British and French army leaders have begun to have serious differences on the issue of joint operations: Xia Fei strongly urged the British military to fulfill the agreement reached before the war and continue to attack the German trench positions, saying that the 50,000 casualties were not worth mentioning in the face of the previous losses of the French army. French, on the other hand, was indignantly accused of killing people with a knife, intending to sacrifice the lives of British soldiers in exchange for the recovery of French territory. In the end, it was under the strong pressure of War Secretary Kitchener that Frenchki reluctantly put away the idea of picking on the child again; In order to appease the British, who were about to make trouble at every turn, Xia Fei could only grit his steel teeth and say: In the future, the French army will take a more active attitude and devote itself to the attack on the German army.

After four days of reorganization, the British army launched another offensive in the North Seine Valley. This time, the French accounted for nearly half of the attacking forces. However, in the face of the German trench line, they were still beaten to the ground in a network of machine guns and heavy artillery, and suffered heavy casualties. The machines used to print death notices in the military in London and Bordeaux were running frantically every day, and the officers in charge of filling out the blank fields and signing and stamping them were so tired that their arms were broken; And the top brass of the military is still indifferent and numb, ruthlessly driving batch after batch of young people into the battlefield. Let them see where the hope lies is the front that is slowly advancing almost every day. For this definition of an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood, the British and French military began to have an incomparably deep understanding.

"The exchange of French land for the blood and lives of the soldiers of the Allies could not be more cost-effective. If we were to fight on our own German territory, it would be difficult for us to make up our minds to give up these lands. In the ticking bell, only Qingying's slightly relaxed voice could be heard ringing again. In fact, the advance of the British and French armies on the battlefield at present is to a large extent due to the strategy of exchanging space for troop sources that the German army has deliberately implemented.

When the Anglo-French forces broke into the trenches at a heavy cost of casualties, the German defenders appeared to be very conscious. Unless the opponent's forces are too weak, they will not take the initiative to launch a counter-assault on the occupied trench positions; The strategy adopted by the Germans was to rely on the tortuous inflection points of the trenches to resist and constantly consume the strength of the opponent's troops in the slow retreat. Occasional surprise attacks were all on the weakest weakness of the coalition forces, which also forced the other side to divide a large number of troops to consolidate the flanks, and was never able to launch the ideal all-out attack.

Compared with the trench battles in history, which were dominated by bloody battles and tug-of-wars, this practice of not caring about the gains and losses of individual positions enabled the German army to avoid a large number of secondary casualties in almost a simple defensive battle. Although the Anglo-French army also had a considerable reduction in the number of personnel consumed to recover the same area of the country, compared with the same period in history, the losses of the German army plummeted, and the overall battle losses achieved a staggering success.

As for the French lands lost in the defensive battle, William also became relieved after being channeled by Qingying. At present, the German army is acquiring tens of thousands of square kilometers of land in the vast expanse of Eastern Europe, and the loss of these trenches on the Western Front is a drop in the bucket in comparison; What's more, Britain and France have paid a lot of blood to recapture these territories, and no matter how you look at it, you won't feel a loss. Even at the fastest advance rate of the coalition forces at present, if they want to completely regain the lost territory, it will be enough to kill the entire British and French citizens several times! When the German army completely settled the situation on the Eastern Front and at sea, how many days could the British and French grasshoppers, who had been bleeding and dying in front of the German army's steel fortress, be able to bounce on the dead trees for a few days?

"Compared to that, we now have new and more urgent tasks to solve." Qingying said. (To be continued......)

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