"Your Highness, our progress is not bad, but their new line of defense has caused us a lot of casualties, and the casualties of the infantry attack are 10% more than usual! I don't know which French bastard came up with it. ”

Prince William in the war room was in a good mood, especially now that the offensive on the front line was not smooth. But on the whole, the first line of defense of the French army has been broken, although the breakthrough is still a little narrower.

Hearing the chief of staff's complaints after seeing the casualty figures, he smiled slightly, knowing that his military intelligence department did not know much about the new fronts of the French army. The fact that Mr. Chief of Staff, who was in charge of the front-line intelligence department of the German army, did not know who these fronts that inflicted huge casualties on the Germans came from, and this could not but make his habit of mocking people come about.

"Well, my chief of staff, don't you really know that those things don't come from French bastards. As far as I know, those things came from the hands of an American bastard who arrived here from the far east! ”

General Steiner was taken aback, and it was impossible for the reconnaissance units of the German front to know about this situation. Even because the French army lived almost entirely in these bunkers connected by underground passages, it was almost impossible to capture a prisoner in the middle of a war.

"Is that really the case, that Satanic Eagle came up with these?"

Prince William didn't seem to mind what his chief of staff mentioned, the guy who had held him hostage and blackmailed him. However, judging from the information of the Imperial Ministry of Intelligence, sooner or later the Germans will have these things. As for now, the remaining question is how to prevent the French from continuing to have these things.

"Yes, yes, my Chief of Staff, that bastard came up with it!"

Prince William's train of thought seemed to be interrupted by a series of exclamations from General Steiner, which made him a little impatient.

"So, this time we're going to deal a heavy blow to that bastard, only then can we keep the war going and finally get what we want!"

General Steiner finally realized that his focus was wrong, and he stopped thinking about it and returned his attention to the battle situation in front of him.

"Look, we're slow, and what kind of battle we're fighting! Our soldiers had to get underground, where we were faced with the light machine guns of the French soldiers! ”

Prince William's hazel eyebrows squeezed together, and although the battle situation in front of him had made some limited progress with almost uninterrupted support from heavy artillery and air, what kind of battle was the front-line infantry facing.

"Rat War, the infantry on the front line call this the Rat War!"

Steiner replied, based on the reports of the junior officers at the front. After all, it is unrealistic to use artillery to completely destroy these underground concrete-reinforced passages, and even if all German shells were fired, it would not be possible.

As a result, the soldiers had to burrow into the dark and dangerous underground, where French soldiers fired bullets from the darkness, flamethrower flames, and hand-thrown grenades. The pivot of the first line of resistance was Fort Douaumont behind them, from where groups of French soldiers who had replenished the consumption of the front line came to the front along a completely underground passage.

Often, the German soldiers captured a group of pillboxes and just moved forward for the next move, but soon after the French infantry moved behind, which caused the German infantry to suffer a lot.

"Therefore, our combat goal this time must be achieved!"

Prince William shook his head to stop General Steiner from continuing with the dismal news, and then he came to his own conclusions. At the same time, General Steiner also drew conclusions from the reports of the front-line infantrymen.

"Yes, we must achieve the goal of this battle, only in this way can we end this terrible nightmare as soon as possible."

True, the main force of the German army, the infantry of ten divisions, was to launch a continuous assault with a narrow assault surface in two waves in the direction of Nancy City in accordance with the battle plan. The purpose of the decisive breakthrough in the Verdun region has become to eliminate Mike. Prince. The production base of the Merlin Military-Industrial Group was the main goal of the campaign.

Thus, from the weakly defended line of the French army, the most "unexpected" attack of the French army was launched. This would not only inflict a surprise attack on the French army, but also completely destroy the growing military industry of Nancy, which would be one of the means to fundamentally weaken the French army.

In addition, the advantage of attacking Nancy was that the German army could flank the French in the Verdun area, and if it could, the goal of the Battle of Verdun could still be achieved.

"Therefore, we are going to make a quick assault on ......"

This was the instruction of the German Verdun Front Command to launch the Nancy offensive. Of the ten divisions, there are three cavalry divisions that can move quickly. When the infantry breaks through the current French line, they will launch a rapid attack. In addition, Prince William mobilized as many as 100 wheeled armored vehicles equipped with machine guns as spearheads for his cavalry units.

This is the countermeasure that the Germans came up with after suffering from the French armored vehicles in the last battle.

The battle began as an order was sent by telegram to the German headquarters, which had already moved covertly to the front line in front of Nancy. And when attacking, the German soldiers were very brave, because the commander said it when he conveyed the order.

"His Royal Highness the Prince has great confidence in you in this attack, and he believes that when he arrives the day after tomorrow, you will be able to break through the enemy's defense line and take Nancy City directly!"

As mentioned earlier, in 1915, Prince William led his Fifth Army in this direction. Unfortunately, at that time, the French army was equipped with a powerful artillery unit here, and a burst of artillery fire made Prince William understand that things were not so easy to handle here.

This time, when the Germans attacked again, the situation was much better than it was then. Due to the change in the focus of defense this year, more large-caliber artillery was moved to Verdun, and more 75-mm guns of the main field artillery were sent to Nancy City to be carefully reconstructed. Regrettably, after the transformation, they became the equipment that Chauffeur intended to use to gain superiority in the direction of the Somme.

Just yesterday, three French infantry divisions in the garrison in Nancy were transferred out of this theater to the fortified area of Verdun. Looking at the bloody battlefield of Verdun, it seems that everyone believes that there will be no decent big war here.

As a result, the French army here was quite lax, and even because of its inconsequentiality, there were only field fortifications, and even the "fast fronts" produced in large quantities in Nancy were not used in large quantities.

This is how the crisis befell the citizens of Nancy, who unfortunately did not know anything about it.