"Although I am a little unwilling, but this round has come to an end, and I can't finish the battle, but at this moment, your offensive spearhead has been broken, and there is no 8 months to 1 year, and the armored troops and elites you lost can't be replenished!" Peng Yi said with a hint of unwillingness on his face. Although the 4 armored divisions and 10 tired elite divisions were poorly supplied, they were still fatal in the face of the soft flanks of the French army, so in order to be safe, the main French forces slowed down the pace of the offensive and began to turn around and concentrate on eating this lone German army, while the main German forces took the opportunity to begin to shrink the front to complete the battle reorganization. At the critical moment, Schlieffen played a hand to lose the car to protect the handsome!

Although hundreds of thousands of German troops were retained, in the face of the main force of the French army, which was in full supply and the offensive was in full swing, the German army could only retreat and correct it layer by layer. The loss of the occupied land is nothing, the loss of the opportunity to capture Paris is nothing, the land is gone, and it can be occupied again, although Schlieffen's plan failed, but the main German army still exists. In Schlieffen's mind, the greatest losses were with 4 armored divisions and 10 elite infantry divisions.

Although Britain and France paid a great price for this, Schlieffen knew very well that these elite troops that could be used as a sharp blade to cut through the opponent's defense line were the accumulation of more than ten years in Germany, and in the future war of attrition, the resources and manpower of the Germans could not be compared with Britain and France with vast colonies and sea transportation lines, and it would be even more difficult for these disabled elite troops to recover, and these elite troops could not penetrate the British and French defense lines, and now the elite troops, especially the armored troops, were seriously damaged, and the Western Front seemed to have become a stalemate. What awaited Germany was an inexhaustible war of attrition.

The British, French and German armies fought for two months on a front of hundreds of kilometers on the Western Front, but the result was that the Germans occupied Belgium, while Britain and France relied on the defensive line to defeat the German army, and neither side could help the other for a while. And on the Eastern Front. The Russians, however, took advantage of the fact that the main German forces were gathering on the Western Front to defeat the Austro-Hungarian army in succession and enter East Prussia!

The Russian army under the command of Peng Yi did not seem to have come to occupy the other party's land at all, but as if they had come to loot and sabotage, and the Germans carried out a strong wall to clear the Russians along the way, hiding everything that could be hidden, but when the Russians came in, they completely pursued the three-light policy of killing and burning all and robbing all the light! Population, food and all kinds of machinery were all objects of plunder. Take everything that can be taken, destroy everything that can't be taken, the Russians are not advancing fast. But everywhere he went, there were no grains left like farmland gnawed by swarms of locusts!

"It's a perfect decision. This is a fundamental drain on the empire's war potential. Looking at the two Russian army groups that were gradually advancing in Germany, Schlieffen gritted his teeth and said! The plan for now is to mobilize the forces of the Western Front and put them into the Eastern Front, and then drive the Russians out of the city first, but the British and French lines, which are already impenetrable, will be even more impossible after the troops are withdrawn. So we can only hold each other. The Russians are indeed not resistant to fighting. Although Peng Yi did not make much mistake in command. Although Peng Yi had already begun to retreat after learning that the main force of the German army was advancing eastward, the Russian army was really unbearable, and it could not be compared with Britain and France in terms of soldier quality and equipment, and at most it was slightly stronger than the Austrian and Italian armies. After accumulating losses of 20 percent, the Russian Army finally stabilized its position on the Baltic front. Begin to learn the general trenches and fortifications of the Western Front!

"If we had lost two armoured divisions on the Western Front instead of four, I could have easily smashed the Russian line into a sieve." Looking at the hastily built defense line across the entire Eastern Front, Schlieffen pouted and said with some reluctance, but now. It was too late to say anything, and the battle on the Western Front was a serious setback to Schlieffen's sharpest saber. And these expensive tanks and other heavy weapons are not so easy to compensate for in wartime!

"Maybe we should have put the main force on the eastern front at the beginning, and then we should turn west after the Russians have been defeated." Schlieffen muttered to himself as he looked at the intricate fronts on the Eastern Front. Relatively speaking, the Eastern Front was easier to break through than the Western Front, and the Russians did not build a reinforced concrete defense line across the entire front, on the one hand, the Russians did not have enough strength to complete this longer and larger defense line than the Western Front, and on the other hand, the actual geographical situation made it impossible for the Russians to defend on the Bode Plain. It can be said that the east and west are the favorite terrain of the Germans, and the plain area is the perfect battlefield for large army battles. There are plenty of gaps to weave through, and if you have a highly mobile armored force, you can easily penetrate the Russians' weak lines and go around their rear to divide and encircle your opponents.

Bleeding from the bloody head under the impregnable protection of the Western Front, Schlieffen suddenly realized that he had made a fatal mistake, which was the contempt for his old enemy France and the fear of Russia as the steamroller of Europe. Russia was never a powerful industrial country before World War I, relying on nothing more than a huge population base and vast land, as well as the harsh Russian winter. But now, in the face of a modern army armed by industrialization, the tiger skin of the Russians has been gradually stripped away to reveal its weak nature!

And in the next stage of the campaign, Schlieffen set the direction of the main attack on the Eastern Front. Feeding the war with war, although the Russians still destroyed everything that could be destroyed when they retreated, the German troops could still harvest some food, and the Germans couldn't look down on the Russians' industry, but for food, which could be satisfying, the Germans could not refuse, and just when Germany was marching all the way on the Eastern Front, the Anglo-French forces launched a series of attacks on the Western Front! And the armored forces of Britain and France, which have not appeared for a long time, also appeared first!

The Western Front was a collision with no tricks, the Germans had a geographical advantage, Britain and France had enough resources and manpower to fill in the German defenses, and unless the main forces returned to the Western Front, the Western Front would become precarious. Although Schlieffen won a great victory in the East, he was never able to force the Russians to surrender, and if he turned the main force back, he would return to the situation at the beginning of the two sides. The final result of Germany is to be consumed by the opponent!

"The significance of this deduction has been achieved, and it is just a waste of time to delay it any longer. Although this exercise is incomplete, the sea forces of the two sides have not been strengthened, and other major power factors have not been taken into account, but I think we have understood our mistake and now it is time to solve the problem. I propose to end this exercise. On the fifth day after the start of the exercise, Schlieffen put down the military watch in his hand and said.

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