Frederick's series of military victories against Lorraine did not win the respect of Marshal Bazin. In fact, Bazin considered Frederick to be a reckless man who rejoiced in his successes, because only a monarch who was carried away by victory would go alone into the rear of Metz. According to Bazin's experience, the plot goes something like this: the German officer corps continued to contribute rational advice, but after winning a few battles, Frederick began to swell, so he abandoned the conservative officer corps and led a strong army through the French hinterland alone.

That's right, that's it, except for cowardice, isn't it this virtue that the army of crown princes in the past dynasties is not the same?

Marshal Bazin thought he had analyzed Frederick very clearly.

Therefore, Bazin's breakout plan will also take advantage of this weakness of Frederick. In order to carry out strategic deception, he sacrificed Sebas's division to create the illusion of a breakthrough to the north, a play that was extremely realistic, as the north was the base of the Chalon's legion.

According to Marshal Bazin's observations, the main forces of the Prussian army are rapidly carrying out a major movement, indicating that the first step of deception has been successful. Next, when the foolish and loyal Sebas fought bloody battles in an ambush on all sides, Marshal Bazin will lead the main force of the legion south to surround Frederick's troops, he will boldly surround Frederick, ruthlessly defeat Frederick, and then step on the corpse of the German knights, calmly retreat to Paris.

Under the cover of night, Bazin's 80,000 troops were fully deployed, forming several spectacular fronts one kilometer wide. People are silent, horses are silent, the night is as thick as fog, and killing intent is spreading.

A regiment of 80,000 men sneaked up on a mixed army of 30,000 not only had an overwhelming numerical advantage, but also took the lead in the first place, and even did not need to worry about being outflanked in the rear in the short term, because the enemy's movement direction was fundamentally opposite. It was a perfect night raid that had a good chance of slaying the German commander in the middle of the chaos.

Marshal Bazin attributed all this to his thorough analysis, careful planning, and decisiveness. Little did he know that in the German High Command there was an even more sophisticated man who tacitly cooperated with him in the murder of Frederick as an enemy of the enemy.

So Bazin had no guilt about Sebas, he knew that this battle would go down in history, and Sebas's sacrifice would be remembered in French history. The history books will reverently record this night, and it was only because Sebas's division attracted ten times more enemies that Field Marshal Bazin was able to defeat the elite of the German Knights by a factor of three.

The marshal felt no guilt, and even looked forward to it.

Soon, the marshal on horseback saw Frederick's camp with the help of a telescope. The highlands were smoky, the bonfires were sparser than the villages, and the flames were as dim as kerosene lamps that were about to burn out.

"The enemy is three kilometers away. Marshal Bazin tilted his head and instructed his adjutant and signaled to the messenger: "Order Major General Arthur to approve the advance of the armored division at full power and cooperate with the infantry division to occupy the enemy's camp! In addition, urge the artillery companies of all divisional headquarters to immediately send reconnaissance cavalry to survey and map the coordinates of that high ground, and when the order for an all-out attack is issued, the artillery of all divisions must have the conditions to open fire!"

"Yes!" the adjutant turned his horse's head and led the way to run. Although the armored division had only 4,000 men, it maintained a hundred intact steam tanks, and the level of knowledge was higher than the other, and it was the most delicate team in the corps, under the command of a major general. The herald had to go in person. Taking into account the marshal's urging of artillery mapping work, the adjutant estimated that the general attack would be launched within half an hour.

Marshal Bazin was full of confidence and gave a clear command to the communications platoon: "Order all divisions, the three divisions of the first flank, to undertake the task of frontal attack, with the support of artillery, and cooperate with the steam tanks to advance to the high ground." The two divisions of the second flank protected the eastern flank of the main attacking force, and the two divisions of the third flank protected the western flank of the main attacking force. The wings went into combat positions and a general attack was announced in half an hour!"

Because there was no "corps" level establishment, France usually organized three divisions into a "wing" to conduct large-scale army group operations. However, this kind of establishment only exists in wartime, not a long-term mechanism, so the hasty run-in between divisions and headquarters is a major drawback of the inefficient bureaucratic system.

"Yes!" the communications platoon sped away.

Marshal Bazin once again raised his binoculars and looked out at the lifeless camp in the distance. The marshal couldn't help but fantasize about its appearance in a sea of fire, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Frederick, you may die in France. He muttered excitedly. He felt that the way of using soldiers had bloomed in him to the extreme.

In the middle of the night, sixty kilometers south of Metz, the sound of earth-shaking artillery suddenly sounded, blowing up the camp of the German left flank battle group, the earth like a fountain, and the turf like a torrential rain.

Bazin had extremely strong artillery reserves in his hands. A fully equipped infantry division has 48 artillery pieces and a wing can have hundreds of artillery pieces. Bazin had three wings, a total of 300 infantry guns, plus an artillery regiment directly under the group army, a total of 360 large and small artillery pieces fired at the same time, fancy bombardment of Frederick's station, shaking the sky and shaking the mountains, covering the area like a crustal fire, and the fire could be seen from hundreds of kilometers away.

The German officer corps was still on its way to encircle Sebas. They looked at the south, where the earth was shaking, and they were all dumbfounded when they looked at the fireworks under the night sky.

With a little common sense, the officer corps will realize that the scale of this kind of artillery fire with 10,000 guns in unison has reached the level of a group army battle, and it must be an unprecedented epic battle, because the 300 artillery pieces are fully deployed and fired at the same time, and the artillery position is at least several kilometers long, and this posture is completely Armageddon!

Then the question arises, how could the decisive battle be born in the south? Didn't the main force of the Metz defenders break through to the north?

With so many artillery pieces bombarding the battle group on the left flank in turn, the ground under the horse's hooves was trembling, could Frederick's left flank withstand the baptism of artillery fire? What is worrying is that this wave is a surprise attack at night -- if President Frederick, Admiral Farina, and Colonel Filia on the left flank are all sleeping under the covers, will they all go to heaven to meet each other?

The president died, the crime of the ministers—— the officer corps looked solemn one by one, and his heart was already full of urine.

And this is not the most tragic and infuriating, the most tragic thing is that the enemy is so bold that he dares to completely deploy the artillery unit in the wilderness - is not he afraid of being swept away by the cavalry with such a self-indulgent tactic?

As soon as the officers remembered this, they realized with despair that, by a divergent strategic move, their own cavalry division had moved to the front line of the Vosges forest, a full sixty kilometers away from the artillery position of Marshal Bazin.

- There's no greater distance in the world than when I'm north of Metz and you're south of Metz, with a Metz fortress in between.

- There is no greater distance in the world than to see your chrysanthemums at a glance, and I can't even reach them.

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