Before the outbreak of the World War, France built a strong fortress on the Franco-German border, and Germany chose to attack France by detouring through Belgium, but the French defense line did not work.

The same was true of the Russian Empire, after the Kingdom of Romania entered the war, the Russian Empire had to divide its forces to defend the Romanian border, so as to prevent the Allies from defeating the Romanian forces and then attacking the territory of the Russian Empire through Romania.

Like the turbulent Britain, France, and Russia, Germany was plunged into a new round of turmoil, and General Alekseev, after assuming the post of Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Empire, launched a new offensive in Galicia, and Austria-Hungary was defeated, losing more than half of its troops, and was on the verge of destruction.

Falkingham had to send German troops into Austria-Hungary to assist Austria-Hungary in the war and stabilize the Austro-Hungarian defensive line.

However, Falkingham had a serious disagreement with the German commanders of the Eastern Front, Hindenburg and Ludendorff, and Hindenburg could only transfer the four divisions originally used to reinforce Verdun to Austria-Hungary under the pretext that there were no troops to be deployed on the Eastern Front.

This again caused dissatisfaction among the commanders of the Western Front, and Crown Prince Wilhelm believed that Falkingham's support for the Western Front was insufficient, and after Romania entered the war, German Chancellor Batemann Holwig, who had always disliked Falkingham, suddenly saw an opportunity to dismiss Falkingham.

Hindenburg took the opportunity to force the palace and demanded that Kaiser Wilhelm II remove Falkingham from the post of chief of the General Staff, otherwise Hindenburg would resign and leave the army.

Now Hindenburg is a hero of Germany, after the outbreak of the world war, Hindenburg and Ludendorff combined their swords and occupied the equivalent of two large German territories on the Eastern Front.

Wilhelm II did not dare to risk losing Hindenburg, and Falkingham became a victim and was tragically dismissed by Wilhelm II.

Wilhelm II then appointed Hindenburg as commander-in-chief of the German army, and Ludendorff as chief of the general staff.

This was the third chief of the General Staff of the German army after the outbreak of the World War.

After Ludendorff became chief of the General Staff, the first order was given to Falkingham, appointing Falkingham as commander-in-chief of the newly formed Ninth Army, responsible for the attack on Romania.

This was an insulting appointment for Falkingham, who cobbled together some troops from the training camp and the Eastern Front to form the Ninth Army on the fly.

The world war entered its third year, Germany was in civil strife, the Russian Empire was struggling, France had not yet found a way to win, the sixth Battle of Isonzo lasted only five days and ended, and like the previous five battles of Isonzo, the Kingdom of Italy could not break through the Isonzo River, and Austria-Hungary was unable to fight back, and both sides made no progress except for the addition of tens of thousands of wounded.

Romania had great hopes, but the Romanian generals were arrogant and arrogant, and Falkingham ordered the German general Mackensen to command the Bulgarian army to cross the Danube and attack the defense of the Kingdom of Romania on the Danube, and the general of the Romanian Kingdom defenders excitedly said: "This is our Verdun."

As a result, after the battle began, 80 percent of the defenders surrendered, the remaining 20 percent fled, and the rhetoric of the defending generals before the battle became a joke.

Mackensen's troops then entered the province of Dobroga on the Black Sea coast, and instead of helping the Romanian army against the Bulgarians, the locals helped Mackensen's forces drive out the Romanians.

The province of Dobroga was a province occupied by Romania during the Second Balkan War, and its inhabitants were mostly Bulgarians.

The Romanian generals, who had been in high spirits before the war, finally learned the cruelty of the world war, and the front-line troops were defeated in panic, some even surrendering to the Russian Imperial forces stationed in Dobroja Province.

After joining the Entente, the Russian Empire was an ally of Romania, and it was necessary to surrender to the allies?

Alekseev ordered the general of the garrison in Dobroga province to organize the Romanians into battle, and the Russian commander replied: It is as difficult to make the Romanians disciplined as it is to make a monkey dance the Minuai minuet.

At the same time that Romania became bad, the Kingdom of Greece was also drawn into the world war, during the Battle of the Dardanelles, Greece had the opportunity to get better conditions to enter the war, but now everything has been missed, Greece missed Constantinople, missed Cyprus, and Bulgaria attacked Romania at the same time as it attacked Greece.

The Greek army behaved just as badly as the Italian-Romanian army, and there was a group of Greek troops who surrendered to the Bulgarian army without firing a shot, and they happily boarded a train to the prisoner of war camp in Silesia, where they survived the world war safely.

While the Balkans were in the middle of nowhere, Nivelle and Manin were planning a new offensive, Roque was waiting for the arrival of tank troops, and Verdun and the Somme were at a stalemate.

On July 25, the tank unit finally arrived in France.

Compared with the "water tank" secretly developed by the British army, the tanks produced in southern Africa are cheap and have excellent performance, although they do not seem to have strong firepower compared with the "water tank", but the "light cavalry" only needs two tankers, the maximum speed of the tank can reach 30 kilometers per hour, and the reliability is also better, at least it will not burst the cylinder when it is hot, and in the case of so many benefits, the first order of the Ministry of War is only 250 vehicles.

Winston tried to add more orders, but Congress did not agree, and Congress waited until the tanks showed sufficient combat effectiveness on the front before agreeing to additional orders.

The first batch of tanks purchased by the British government were "gifted" to tankmen in southern Africa, and the tankmen who came to France were drawn from the Northern Rhodesia Division and the 1st Cavalry Division, with only 600 tankmen and more than 6,000 logistics and maintenance personnel, plus the infantry units accompanying the attack, the total strength of the whole army exceeded 20,000.

The number of the tank unit was the 1st Panzer Division.

Tanks in another time and space appeared on the battlefield for the first time, because the number was small and did not play a key role, in the next two decades, because of the improper use of armored forces, armored forces did not become a decisive force on the battlefield, until the outbreak of World War II, several talented generals of the Soviet Union and Germany concentrated the use of armored forces, and the tank really played its due strength.

Roque would not make those proven mistakes, and after the secret delivery of tank units by rail to the Belgian front, Roque distributed 250 tanks in two directions, ready for a breakthrough of the German lines.

The commander of the first armored division is Feng Fu, the commander of the former northern Rhodesia division, before that, only Feng Fu and Zhu Fu, the commander of the first cavalry division in the world, have experience in commanding armored forces, after the establishment of the first armored division, Feng Fu and Zhu Fu both wanted to serve as the commander of this force, and in the end, Feng Fu, who had a better record, won, and Zhu Fu served as the commander of the local forces in southern Africa.

At this time, all the units of the Southern African Expeditionary Force in the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force had come to France, and Roque spent nearly a month adjusting the front line, the British Expeditionary Force now had six army groups, and the Fourth Army suffered heavy casualties in the first phase of the Battle of the Somme, and could not return to the front line within half a year, and Roque could only mobilize five army groups.

Fortunately, 100,000 new recruits arrived at the front every month in Britain, and these recruits became a powerful supplement to the expeditionary force, and Roque was not prepared to form a new army group in a short time, and prepared more troops for a counteroffensive against Germany.

"Combining the strength of our army and the German army in the direction of the Somme, our army will stop all offensives on the Somme line, a new offensive will be launched from the Belgian coast, the goal of the campaign is to conquer all the cities along the Belgian coast, the participating troops are mainly the first armored division, supplemented by the Sixth Army and the Second Army, the Third Army is a strategic reserve, and the First Army and the Fifth Army must also put enough pressure on the German army, and the German army cannot be allowed to send troops to reinforce Belgium, The air force will start bombing the German logistics and transportation lines in Belgium from August 1, and the Royal Navy will also cooperate with us in the fight to completely block the Belgian coast, and I would like to remind you that the Kingdom of the Netherlands has not yet entered the war, so when you attack, do not get too excited to attack the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands - "The real chief of staff of the British Expeditionary Force was in charge of the liaison between the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army in Paris, and the actual chief of the general staff was Paul Brown, who was transferred back to the Expeditionary Force Command after Roque became the commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Force. Coker.

"Do you have any questions?" Paul Cocker has risen one level in the ranks, and is now a general, and at this rate, the marshal is just around the corner.

The generals who participated in the pre-war preparation meeting were all right, the biggest difference between Roque and Frenzihaeg was that Roque would give full play to the role of the General Staff, every campaign had a clear campaign goal, the tasks of each army group were clearly assigned, and the generals knew what they should and should not do.

It is also strange to say, when Frenzi and Haig were the commanders-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, many times when the battle started, the objectives of the campaign were not clear, and the orders given by Frenzi and Haig to the commanders of various army groups were vague, sometimes even only a few words, and the army commanders did not know what they should do.

Roque's campaign plan was more detailed and the tasks were clearly assigned, but he would not give specific combat orders to the subordinate units of the group army beyond his authority, and give the commanders of the group army full autonomy, which made the generals of the expeditionary force very grateful.

"Gentlemen, I remind you once again that the Germans are not invincible, and that we must be confident enough to defeat the Germans, but at the same time we must pay enough attention to the Germans, and this is an adversary worthy of our attention - it is clear to all of you here that the traditional strength of the British Empire is in the sea, and the Army has always been a poor little army, and not only the Germans think so, but also the French, so we will not only defeat the Germans this time, but also show the French, Who is the real wretched wretch! "Roque fully mobilized the enthusiasm of the generals, the sheep led by the lion will be as brave as the lion, and the lion will become as cowardly as the sheep when the lion herd led by the sheep will become as cowardly.

(Good morning, brothers, I wish you all a full day-)