The king's division was invincible, the army commander drove straight in, and the enemy army fled everywhere he went, and the people ate pot pulp to welcome the king's division.

This is indeed a fascinating picture, and I don't know how many hot-blooded men will be fascinated by it and are willing to throw their heads and spill their blood for it. It's just that ideas are one thing, reality is another, and determination and ability can never be confused.

Such a simple truth, Colonel de Grandmaison, seemed to be completely incomprehensible.

If the army is planted, the enemy will collapse without a fight?

It's okay to figure out how pigs can climb trees, and really try to get pigs to climb up trees...... Probably someone like Colonel de Grandmaison.

"Colonel, please do not forget that the main forces of the enemy did not suffer, they simply abandoned the damaged first line of defense and retreated to the intact second line. Our army not only has to face the same strong fortification group as before, but also has to face the dilemma of the supply line being stretched and the pressure on the logistics system increasing. Conversely, the enemy forces are closer to their supply lines, and the well-developed rail network makes it easy for them to maneuver—"

"I beg your pardon for interrupting whether you overestimated the enemy's forces in this statement?"

“......”

"It is precisely in the army officers and men, regardless of casualties, that the fearless offensive spirit is fully displayed, and together with you and your troops, the Iserlohn Battery, which the enemy is proud of, has become a proof of the invincibility of the Royal Army. The impregnable fort has been overcome, the main general has been killed, and the enemy has been completely thrown into chaos!

“......”

"Although our army is in difficulty, the enemy army is even more difficult than ours, and although our officers and men do not eat well or sleep well, their morale is still high and their fighting spirit is full! The enemy army has been reduced to the point of having to arrest the peasants and mountain people to make up the numbers, and such cowardly people, even if they have advanced weapons in hand, are just a group of well-fed and well-slept pigs waiting to be slaughtered! As long as the army of the king division arrives, there is no need to even start a real battle, as long as the gun is fired three times into the sky, the rats will flee without a fight!! Even if certain difficulties in supply were foreseeable, the soldiers of the royal army were able to overcome them. What's more, as long as the banner of the royal army is displayed, the people in the occupied areas will definitely welcome them and then fully assist our army, and all problems will be solved!!"

Colonel de Grandmaison, who seemed to be in high spirits, was no longer interested in dwelling on "trivial matters," and began to speak at length on his own, the content of which was nothing more than the old cliché of "the supremacy of spirit." With pompous movements and vocabulary, the meeting once again turned into his solo show, and the audience returned to mesmerization, and everyone was immersed in an infinite reverie for a better future. No one noticed the question Roland asked, what he would say next, and even when the delicate figure that had been in focus a minute ago disappeared.

Walking in the golden corridors of the Palais Bourbon, bursts of cheers and applause pierced through several major doors and shook Roland's eardrums, and every time the voice that had nothing to do with reason sounded, the hangover drunkenness and pain hit Roland's brain.

- No, I can't.

The voice of detachment from recognizing reality echoed in my heart, but my mind gradually cleared up.

Forced by a dire financial situation, driven by irrational feelings, and fueled by careerists, Charlemagne has irreversibly embarked on the road to war again. The whole country has reached a consensus on this, no one can go against the tide, if you insist on blocking this tide alone, you will only end up in disrepute and have no place to die.

Roland didn't want to explore what role Li Lin played behind all this, nor did he want to know how long Li Lin had been planning to achieve the current situation. It is useless to think about this now, what is important is how to deal with the next developments, to put it bluntly, how to remedy the situation after the debacle.

Charlemagne, who did not have any strategic planning and was not well prepared, was bound to lose badly in this battle, which is a matter of no suspense. The first line of defense alone had already made Charlemagne's blood flow, and in front of the barbed wire fence and in the trenches, there were pits and valleys of corpses in red pants. Even if Charlemagne were to put all the people who could walk and carry guns into those meat grinders, I am afraid that he would not be able to reach the Rhine! What's more, a considerable part of the Siegfried defense line is made up of orcs and human auxiliaries, and as a result, they have all been beaten into a sea of corpses and blood, and if the elite armored forces of the defense army, which have not shown much so far, concentrate on the flank and break through a little bit when the battle line is stalemate, I am afraid that the entire front will collapse, and if foreign forces cannot be introduced in time to intervene, so that Alfheim can reach a fait accompli to occupy the entire territory of Charlemagne......

The preoccupied Roland walked to the main gate, the guards hurriedly opened the gate for him, and after a hurried salute, Roland walked through the gate, rows of columns and wide avenues appeared in front of him, and when he was looking for the carriage, a gust of wind blew through his side face.

It was a breeze that rolled up when the guards closed the gate, and it was a natural phenomenon that was very common, and every day I don't know how many people opened and closed the door, and I don't know how many people were blown by that gust of wind. Roland didn't take it seriously, and was about to hurry up and leave, but just as he was about to raise his feet and take a step, several words were connected by a lightning bolt that pierced Roland.

Flanks, quick raids, defenseless, hidden, mobile warfare......

"Oh my God! I'm stupid!!"

All the dots were connected by an invisible line and drew a terrifying picture, and Roland, who had peeped into its hazy face, could not help but cry out on the spot, and then jumped into the carriage and fled under the gaze of many stunned eyes.

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"Mobile encirclement?"

Minerva and Valrhona looked confused, the word was a little beyond the military doctrine they had learned, and they couldn't react for a moment.

"Li Lin's campaign planning is like a revolving door. ”

Roland took out three pencils, two blue and one red. He placed the pencils one by one on the large-scale map, the red two in a line along the Ardennes-Thionville-Metz-Agen Toratone, and the blue pencil side by side with the red pencil below.

"When we attacked, it was like walking into a giant virtual revolving door, and we entered from the left. ”

The red and blue pencils, side by side, begin to rotate counterclockwise, slowly drawing a fan across the Vosges Mountains towards the Rhine.

"When we push the door in, the door on the other side rotates quickly. ”

With Thionville-Metz as the axis, the red pencil above swept north of Charlemagne from west to east at a much faster speed, and the huge fan was like a sharp scythe of death, swooping down on the blue pencil, the unsuspecting Charlemagne's army. Under the watchful eyes of Minerva and Valrhona, full of surprise and fear, two red pencils clamped the blue pencils firmly to the place of the Vosges Mountains.

"When the Defence Forces retreated, they carried out sabotage work on the fortifications, and mines were laid on those that did not have time to destroy them. Once faced with the armored cluster attacking from behind, the few troops stationed there could not resist it at all. The main force, which was entangled with the enemy on the Rhine, lost its logistical supply and contact with the rear, and had no time to build fortifications to face the back, so it could only be eliminated under the flanking enemy forces on both sides. It's like a stone caught between a hammer and an anvil, smashed into powder by the fierce hammer blow of the Wehrmacht!"

What Roland didn't know was that this was actually a mechanized version of the famous "Battle of Cannae" in Western military history, in 216 BC, the Carthaginian army under the leadership of the commander Hannibal invaded Italy, and implemented mobile encirclement tactics against the Roman army with inferior forces under the city of Cannae, annihilating the Roman army. It has left an amazing mark in the history of the art of war command, and the essence of the "Yellow Plan" of the Wehrmacht is precisely the imitation and improvement of the "Battle of Cannae".

Just as Hannibal attracted the Romans with a weak center, sent cavalry to outflank the two wings, and successfully encircled the Roman army, but with a huge number of troops but could not give full play to the numerical advantage, he could only sit back and watch himself be annihilated little by little. The Wehrmacht deliberately opened the Siegfried Line to show weakness, attracting Charlemagne to throw all the main forces into the Rhine front, and then dispatched mechanized troops from the Ardennes to quickly maneuver to outflank the flanks, and finally encircle the target in the Vosges Mountains, which are impossible to attack and defend, and completely annihilate them.

Having lost all his armed forces, Charlemagne has also completely cut off the capital to contain Alfheim. Rather than bothering over a burdensome that is not useful, the nations should negotiate with Alfheim to see if they can reap the benefits...... That's about it. ”

Valrhona sneered and deduced the next development, Roland nodded heavily, Minerva's face was pale, and her hands holding the map table trembled.