Chapter 558 of the New History of the First Sino-Japanese Dynasty Lessons and Lessons
"Although I am a little unwilling, but this round has come to an end, and I can't finish the battle, but at this moment, your offensive spearhead has been broken, and there is no 8 months to 1 year, and the armored troops and elites you lost can't be replenished!" Peng Yi said with a hint of unwillingness on his face. Although the 4 armored divisions and 10 tired elite divisions were poorly supplied, they were still fatal in the face of the soft flanks of the French army, so in order to be safe, the main French forces slowed down the pace of the offensive and began to turn around and concentrate on eating this lone German army, while the main German forces took the opportunity to begin to shrink the front to complete the battle reorganization. At the critical moment, Schlieffen played a hand to lose the car to protect the handsome!
Although hundreds of thousands of German troops were retained, in the face of the main force of the French army, which was in full supply and the offensive was in full swing, the German army could only retreat and correct it layer by layer. It is nothing to lose the occupied land, it is nothing to lose the opportunity to capture Paris, the land is gone, and it can be occupied again, although the Schlieffen plan failed, but the main German army still exists. In Schlieffen's heart...... The greatest losses were with 4 armored divisions and 10 elite infantry divisions.
Although Britain and France paid a great price for this, Schlieffen knew very well that these elite troops that could be used as a sharp blade to cut through the opponent's defense line were the accumulation of more than ten years in Germany, and in the future war of attrition, the resources and manpower of the Germans could not be compared with Britain and France with vast colonies and sea transportation lines, and it would be even more difficult for these disabled elite troops to recover, and these elite troops could not penetrate the British and French defense lines, and now the elite troops, especially the armored troops, were seriously damaged, and the Western Front seemed to have become a stalemate. What awaited Germany was an endless war of attrition ..........
The British, French and German armies fought for two months on a front of hundreds of kilometers on the Western Front, but the result was that the Germans occupied Belgium, while Britain and France relied on the defensive line to defeat the German army, and neither side could help the other for a while. And on the Eastern Front. The Russians took advantage of the fact that the main German forces were gathering on the Western Front to defeat the Austro-Hungarian ** team in a row and took advantage of the situation to enter East Prussia!
The Russian army under the command of Peng Yi does not look like it has come to occupy the other side's land at all. As if they came to loot and sabotage, the Germans carried out a fortified clearing of the Russians along the way, hiding everything they could hide, but when the Russians came in, they completely pursued the three-light policy of killing and burning all and robbing all the light! Population, food and all kinds of machinery were all objects of plunder. Take everything that can be taken, destroy everything that can't be taken, the Russians are not advancing fast. But everywhere he went, there were no grains left like farmland gnawed by swarms of locusts!
"It's a perfect decision. This is a fundamental drain on the empire's war potential. Looking at the two Russian army groups that were gradually advancing in Germany, Schlieffen gritted his teeth and said! The solution for now is to mobilize the forces of the Western Front and throw them into the Eastern Front. Let's get the Russians out first, but the British and French lines, which were already impenetrable, were even more impossible after the troops were withdrawn. So we can only hold each other. The Russians are indeed not resistant to fighting. Although Peng Yi did not make much mistake in command. Although Peng Yi had already begun to retreat after learning that the main force of the German army was advancing eastward, the Russian ** team was really unbearable, and it could not be compared with Britain and France in terms of soldier quality and equipment, and at most it was slightly stronger than the Austrian and Italian armies. After accumulating losses of 20 percent, the Russian Army finally stabilized its position on the Baltic front. Began to learn the general digging trenches and fortifications of the Western Front! …。
"If we had lost two armoured divisions on the Western Front instead of four, I could have easily smashed the Russian line into a sieve." Looking at the hastily built defense line across the entire Eastern Front, Schlieffen pouted and said with some reluctance, but now. It was too late to say anything, and the battle on the Western Front was a serious setback to Schlieffen's sharpest saber. And these expensive tanks and other heavy weapons are not so easy to compensate for in wartime! …。
"Maybe we should have put the main force on the eastern front at the beginning, and then we should turn west after the Russians have been defeated." Schlieffen muttered to himself as he looked at the intricate fronts on the Eastern Front. Relatively speaking, the Eastern Front was easier to break through than the Western Front, and the Russians did not build a reinforced concrete defense line across the entire front, on the one hand, the Russians did not have enough strength to complete this longer and larger defense line than the Western Front, and on the other hand, the actual geographical situation made it impossible for the Russians to defend on the Bode Plain. It can be said that the east and west are the favorite terrain of the Germans, and the plain area is the perfect battlefield for large army battles. There are plenty of gaps to weave through, and if you have a highly mobile armoured force, you can easily penetrate the Russians' weak defenses and go around their rear to divide and encircle the ..........
Under the impregnable protection of the Western Front, the head broke and the blood flowed...... Schlieffen, who had tasted the sweetness on the Eastern Front, suddenly realized that he had made a fatal mistake, that is, he despised his old enemy France and feared Russia as a European steamroller. Russia was never a powerful industrial country before World War I, relying on nothing more than a huge population base and vast land, as well as the harsh Russian winter. But now, in the face of a modern army armed by industrialization, the tiger skin of the Russians has been gradually stripped away to reveal its weak nature!
And in the next stage of the campaign, Schlieffen set the direction of the main attack on the Eastern Front. Fight to feed the war. Although the Russians still destroyed everything they could destroy when they retreated, the German troops could still harvest some food, and the Germans didn't look down on the Russians' little industry, but for things like food, the Germans could not refuse, and just when Germany was advancing all the way on the Eastern Front, the Anglo-French forces launched a series of attacks on the Western Front! And the armored forces of Britain and France, which have not appeared for a long time, are also the first to appear! …。
The Western Front was a collision with no fancy, the Germans had a geographical advantage, and Britain and France had enough resources and manpower to fill the German defenses, unless the main forces returned to the Western Front. Otherwise, the Western Front will become precarious. Although Schlieffen won a great victory in the East, he was never able to force the Russians to surrender, and if he turned the main force back, he would return to the situation at the beginning of the two sides. The final result of Germany is to be consumed by the opponent!
"The significance of this deduction has been achieved, and it is just a waste of time to delay it any longer. Although this exercise is not complete, and the naval forces of both sides have not been used to exert their strength, and at the same time, other major power factors have not been considered, but I think we have understood our mistake and now it is time to solve the problem. I propose to end this exercise. On the fifth day after the start of the exercise, Schlieffen put down the military watch in his hand and said.
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