After touring the streets of Berlin, the Germans put a newly mobilized army group under the command of Kuster.

He was asked to report to the War Headquarters or to the General Staff, and Kaiser Wilhelm II would go with him, where several generals would discuss tactics against France.

Kuster's pace was always fast, without any hesitation or delay, and in a few hours he ran to the war headquarters outside the city. A few minutes later, Kaiser Wilhelm also arrived at the scene.

There were not many generals in the headquarters, only Falkingham, Hindenburg, Ludendorff and a number of people he did not know, and when Kuster asked, he realized that the commander-in-chief of the army group and the officers who were far away from Berlin could not return to Berlin, so they could not attend the meeting, but could only carry out the plan decided after the meeting.

The emperor coughed a few times, and everyone understood that a map with the German-French border was hung horizontally on the board, and there were several arrows that looked like graffiti, which should be the direction of attack.

"General Kuster, do you think such an attack is okay?"

Kaiser Wilhelm tapped his hand on the map and asked with some smugness. Then he stepped back to the right so that Kuster could see the map. The rest of the people also stepped out of the way and watched him.

Kuster stepped forward, pointing to each arrow's direction and slicing around the terrain. After seeing that he was about the same, he pressed his left hand to his chin and began to think about it seriously.

The German offensive and its success were now less than 4 kilometers from Paris, and the outline of the city of Paris could be seen in the German trenches. Elsewhere it was more successful, as the Allies threw their main forces around Paris, leaving the rest of the front empty.

To the north, Germany crossed the Aisne River and made its way to the sea, into the Normandy region.

At the same time, some forces crossed the Seine south of Paris, but failed because of their proximity to Île-de-France.

The defenders of Paris took advantage of the crisscrossing rivers and trenches to build trenches and alternate positions behind the various canals.

The main forces of the attack shifted from the right flank to the left, the army in the Lorraine-Alsace area.

After breaking through Verdun's defense, the void in Paris's defense was already leaking. They marched to Champagne and then bypassed the Marne from the south, directly east of Paris.

But as a result of the Northern Front, the French dug a lot of trenches, where they could not move an inch, and every day they could only let artillery bombard the opposite side.

This is the case at the moment, but there is still one variable to worry about – the Alps to the south.

Austria-Hungary was in control of the important pass of the Isonzo River, and after the end of the Eastern Front, a large number of troops were liberated, so all the Austrian troops were sent to the Alps except for a few who went to the Balkans to support Bulgaria.

It seems that the Italian offensive was huge, and in total they had more than a million men to participate in the campaign.

However, it is precisely because of this that in the narrow Alpine area, the Italian command stack is very serious, and if a battle is fought in one place, Austria-Hungary may send one or two divisions under the same army, while Italy will send several divisions, and none of them are of one army, which makes Italy fight extremely chaotic, and the various units cannot recognize where the friendly troops are and where the enemy is.

It can only be said that they did not have enough experience in fighting wars, and they brought a lot of trouble in the early days of the war, and Italy, which had just entered the war, paid a great price.

However, as the number of battles increased, the gap between Italy and Austria-Hungary in casualties became smaller and smaller, but still much worse.

In short, with the Austro-Hungarian blockade and the preparation of the German garrison north of the Alps, the Italian threat to the Western European theater became less and less threatening.

After a brief moment of thought, Kuster walked up to the crowd and gradually elicit his own insights by asking questions:

"Generals, what is our intention to seize Paris?"

"A political victory, of course, to speed up the surrender of France."

None of the generals present answered, only Kaiser Wilhelm stood up and said:

"We only need to take Paris, and the defenders inside, and we can sit down at the negotiating table with the French."

"Mr. William, I think differently than you."

Kuster's words disappointed William, but he was quick to let him speak.

"The war on the Eastern Front has just ended, and we can learn a lot from it. Did we take Petersburg before the treaty was signed? We only have to take Kyiv, Moscow and other important Russian towns, so that the Russians themselves can run to sign. ”

Kuster said as he walked back and forth with his arms outstretched. He also swung constantly to add power to his debates.

"But at that time, Russia had already lost more than half of its land, and there was no need to fight it."

Fa Kinhan asked with some doubts, but just halfway through his words, his eyes suddenly widened, and the words on his lips froze:

"You mean, we can use this trick against France?"

"Pretty much, and it's much easier to fight France than Russia. For example, Russia's strategic depth is like a bottomless quagmire, from which it will be entangled and unable to extricate itself as soon as it enters; France is like a rooster, you just have to poke him in the abdomen, and the excess blood loss is enough to bring him to the ground.

In short, regardless of three, seven, twenty-one, just hit the French in the abdomen. ”

Upon hearing Kuster's remarks, Falkingham quickly got up from his chair and walked straight to the front of the map to observe. After a long time, he said as if he were talking to himself:

"The main force of Britain and France, nearly a million people, all gathered in this one point in Paris... The newly assembled British forces crossed the English Channel with the intention of attacking our rear, but were sunk in the sea; To the south, it is also said that they encountered very few enemy troops, and that they occupied Franche-Comté with little resistance..."

Falkingham thought silently, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, straightened up and glanced at Kuster, and suddenly felt the possibility of success in his heart.