(a)

"The Battle of the Fortress of Liège! This is the headline of the local sports newspaper that Chen Zhuo saw as soon as he arrived in Liège, Belgium.

The title itself is a historical allusion, the defense of the fortress of Liège was a famous battle in the First Shijie War, and this battle was to resist the "invasion" of the Germans, so the allusion is borrowed from this allusion, which has a deep meaning.

The city of Liège is located at the confluence of the Maas and Urte rivers, bordering the Dutch border to the north and the famous Ardennes Forest to the south. Like Waterloo near Brussels, the Ardennes Forest is also a famous battlefield in Europe. In Europe's ranking of "battlegrounds", the Ardennes Forest ranks third, ahead of the English Channel and the Alps.

From the map, Belgium and Luxembourg are similar, they are both small countries sandwiched between the two great powers of France and Germany, and their positioning is a "neutral country", from this geopolitical point of view, Belgium's geostrategic position is like Afghanistan at the junction of China, Russia and India, like the Korean Peninsula at the junction of China, Japan and Russia, and from the perspective of international politics, Belgium is more like a "buffer zone" under the mutual wrestling between France and Germany.

"Hehe, the ultimate victor in the defense of the Liege Fortress is also a German, and the reporter who wrote this report is not good at history, or ......" Chen Zhuo looked at the headline and smiled.

Or, in the national history of Belgium, there are different ways of describing and commenting on the "Battle of Liège", and it is normal for the same event to have different views from different angles.

(b)

"It's an away game for us to take the initiative, so the choice is ours." After the adaptation training at the home of Liège, Chen Zhuo arranged: "There is a lot of trouble in the back line in the league, so we can take the initiative to choose two methods in this game, one is to make a rotation, and the other is to practice the reserve lineup in the rear for the league......"

No one objected, last time almost all the substitutes and reserve players were finally successfully promoted, everyone has a basic trust in Chen Zhuo's ability, he said to rotate and practice, then according to what he said, there will be no problem.

The Football Association's ban has been noticed, Guerrero has been banned until the end of the season, and Mathieson is also banned for 4 games in all competitions in Hamburg, and the Hamburg team has negotiated the punishment for excessive punishment, but it is estimated that there is no possibility of changing the sentence.

During Mathieson's suspension, if Rozenar accumulates yellow cards, suspension or injury, in addition to the two central defenders of Demer and Schulz, Boateng can also be pushed to the central defender position and Rincón can play right wing-back.

In the centre-back position, there is also Chen Zhuo, as well as the reserve team's Bister can be competent, relatively speaking, there is no urgent need for the left-back position.

"In this game, Ogo mentioned the midfield position, Spanel and Elia played on the left wing, Elia, you try to withdraw to the left-back position, and when you defend, you ...... behind Spanel," Chen Zhuo arranged.

Elia was dizzy and asked suspiciously, "Huh? I...... Full-backs? ”

Chen Zhuo explained: "You think of Elia like this, Janssen is already injured, Ogo is still a yellow card away, in addition to myself, we need to find another player who fits our tactical system at left-back, preferably an attacking full-back, with Spannel's defensive full-back, so that this player can dribble from the back and launch a long-distance run directly into the opponent's half......"

Everyone nodded frequently, and in this way, it seemed that Elia was more appropriate.

(c)

There are also a few problems up front, with Guerreiro just returning and suspended, Petrich and Pitt out of action for at least this week, and if Elia moves to left-back, the forward combination will be selected and rotated between Berg, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Tuna Itorun and Arslan.

There are several players over the age of 30 in the Hamburg team, Chen Zhuo has suggested that in addition to goalkeeper Rost, 34-year-old Vanney, 33-year-old Yarolim and 33-year-old Rozenard, as well as 37-year-old Ze Roberto, these four players should arrange less than 3 players per game, and it is best to rotate two players with each other, so that Hamburg will not have too much physical shortcoming.

Labadia took the suggestion and Ruud van Nistelrooy and Ogo played for the game, Ze Roberto came on the bench, and Jarolim and Rozenar did not travel to Belgium with the team to concentrate on preparing for the weekend's league game away to Bochum.

The two strikers on the pitch today are Ruud van Nistelrooy and Berg, who is now accustomed to playing the role of a "gun mount", and the cooperation with several strikers in training matches is still relatively tacit.

With full consideration and consideration in many aspects, the Hamburg team played away to Standard Liege with a 4-5-1 lineup, with Elia, Demer, Schulz and Boateng at the back four, Chen Zhuo and Ze Roberto at the back, Spannel and Tescher at the left and right wing-backs, and Berg in the midfield position, with Vanney as the single arrow.

From the perspective of formation arrangement, there are long passes from Demer and Chen Zhuo in the back, Elia's long-distance run on the left side, Berg and Tescher's ferry in front, and Vanney's point grabbing is a typical defensive counterattack tactic.

(iv)

At the pre-match press conference, Labadia brought Chen Zhuo to attend, and like last time, Labadia was responsible for Chen Zhuo, who was "unlicensed".

"When I went to Liège yesterday, I saw the headline on the front page of the local sports newspaper, which was "The Battle of Liège Fortress", which just gave me an idea, and just now this reporter asked us about the tactics that Hamburg will use today, and I just used this question to talk about the inspiration that the headline I saw yesterday gave me." Chen Zhuo talked eloquently.

The famous fortress of Liège, once known as "the strongest defensive line in Europe", was built a few kilometers outside the city of Liège on a steep slope on the west bank of the Maas, 100 meters above the riverbank, which served as a natural moat.

There are 12 batteries around 30 kilometers along the river bank, each battery is 6 kilometers from Liege and the distance between batteries is also 6 kilometers, 6 of these 12 batteries are facing the German direction on the east bank, and 6 are protecting the rear of Liege on the west bank, radially surrounding the city of Liège, and forming a circular fire network across the Maas River.

Each fort is made of reinforced concrete cast in one piece, and most of it is built underground, with only the triangular top exposed. All the weapons and personnel of the battery are hidden underground, a total of 400 cannons and a large number of light and heavy machine guns, of which 120 mm fortress guns and 210 mm howitzers are no less than 8 per battery, all turrets are protected by steel armor, can be rotated at a 360-degree angle, and can also be automatically raised.

The fortress of Liège was designed by General Blommont, a famous Belgian fortress engineer in the 19th century, who invented the tactic of building a "fortress ring" or stronghold belt a few miles outside the city to defend the city. Later, Leningrad, Stalingrad and other cities during World War II were designed as city defense fortresses based on General Blomon's Liege Fortress.

The fort of Liege was equipped with searchlights for night firing, which could be raised and lowered like the turret, and rapid-fire guns and machine guns blocked the wilderness around the fort and the nearby dead ends.

Under the fort, there are passages and basements of all kinds, which store a large amount of food, drinking water, ammunition, medical supplies and power facilities. There were also deep protective trenches dug around each fort, and a large number of barbed wire and obstacles were laid on the outside of the trenches.

For this fortress, the Germans were also very nerve-wracking, and finally Ludendorff used two new weapons, one was the "airship", which directly bombed and occupied the city of Liège, and the other was the "Big Berta" giant mortar, which was tens of meters long, weighed hundreds of tons, and had a caliber of 420 mm, and each shell alone weighed 1 ton, which could penetrate hard reinforced concrete buildings, and the power was extremely huge.

In order to transport it to the front, it was first transported by train to the end of the railway line, then a special road was laid, and then it was hauled by 36 healthy horses to the German positions near Liège. At that time, the Germans only had 5 guns of this kind, and Moltke Jr. allocated 4 to Ludendorff at once.

In the end, under the attack of the giant mortar cannon of the Great Belta, all 12 batteries of the fortress of Liège were shattered into powder!

Chen Zhuo talked eloquently about this example, and when it comes to Hamburg's tactics, in fact, it is the "air attack" + "long-range heavy artillery" they played at home in the last game, and when you think about it, it is indeed very similar!

(5)

Actually moved out of history by this Chinese to quote scriptures and say things! This time, Chen Zhuo offended not only the fans, but the citizens of the entire Liege City!

In the history of the Belgian state, the evaluation of the "Battle of Liège Fortress" is that although the German army failed to defeat the German army in the end, the German army suffered huge losses in the Battle of Liège Fortress, and the Belgian defenders, including 6,000 militia guards, attacked more than half of the 25,000 casualties, but caused four times as many German casualties.

Belgian history also commented that the Battle of Liège Fortress won the Allied army time to defend the Marne, and finally made the "First Battle of the Marne" launched by Germany fail, and Belgium, as a neutral country, gave the invaders a "bitter lesson" with this heroic and fearless resistance......

However, the attitude of the Chinese who actually avoided strategic defeat and talked about the tactical victory of the Germans is really annoying!

(f)

This is another kind of anger in disguise, the team that has arranged defensive counterattack tactics is most afraid that the opponent will not come to attack!

Although the situation of leading by a large score forced Standard Liege to attack, the attack as a tactical choice is obviously very different from the mentality of the players after being provoked!