9 July, Prüm, 4 p.m.

"After dinner, there will be a new batch of spare parts to be replenished, you take someone to inspect it, confirm the quantity and then sign it. Don't care how the guys in the logistics department chirp, this is not a drill, and if something happens, everyone's heads can't be saved. ”

"Yes, sir!"

"Check the identification device again, the maintenance team will work hard, and paint the roof of the car with an air defense identification mark, I don't want to be bombed by my own people. ”

"Yes, sir!"

"Did you get all the 'OBM' in the morning? This time the task was heavy, and we had to cross 170 kilometers of rugged mountain roads in 60 hours to reach the Maas River. Both officers and soldiers should be prepared to go 3 days without sleep. ”

"It's all sent down, along with the Anti-Exhaustion Guide. I have also told the various medical teams to organize treatment immediately if anyone is found to have an uncomfortable reaction to taking medicine. ”

"Good. ”

After a hasty salute, Nona waved the medic and logistics officers to step back, and she strolled among the neatly lined chariots in the company of several company commanders. Looking up at the horrific war machines, the colors of nervousness and excitement swept over her eyes.

A miraculous battle in the history of warfare that can be recorded in history textbooks and admired by future generations – what an honor it is for a soldier to be part of a battle of such great significance. And being able to serve as a spearhead in such a world-changing battle with one blow made the 101st Heavy Armored Battalion, which had been lowered from Nona, to the delight.

The only thing that made them unhappy was that the wait was too long.

For a whole month, Army Group B was on standby, starting with the Flower Moon. Day after day, the drill was to march quickly, clear obstacles, build bridges and pave roads, and land on the beach. The high-intensity training enabled the group army group to gain a certain degree of experience in how to quickly pass through the rugged and narrow roads, and in the course of the exercise, they made concerted efforts to discover and solve various problems, thus laying a solid foundation for the rapid passage of the Ardennes area in the future.

After the high-intensity training, the morale of the group army group was even higher, and it became more urgent to enter the battle as soon as possible.

This is true not only of the soldiers, but even more so of the officers - the officers who are worried that the soldiers' will to fight will be eroded by the good life of food, beautiful scenery, and a warm bath once a day are more desperate than the soldiers are more eager for the battle to start as soon as possible.

But it is not the front-line officers who decide when the battle will begin, not even the General Staff has the right to decide. The timing of the revolving door is made up of several crucial factors.

the extent to which Charlemagne's army penetrated on the Rhine front;

the combat readiness of Army Group B of the Defence Forces;

the presence of Charlemagne's army in the Ardennes to Sedang and the knowledge of the Defence Force therein;

Whether the development of the international situation has created a situation of total isolation of Charlemagne

when Charlemagne's domestic economic crisis erupted;

Weather in the Ardennes;

The first three are purely military elements and are generally in their final stages, while the fourth has been completed with Charlemagne's own unremitting efforts, and the countries that Charlemagne has struck hard are now angry. The realist interest creatures will not yet make up their minds to help Alfheim, but they will at least watch Charlemagne on the sidelines for a considerable period of time. It may not be a long time, but it's enough for Alfheim to set the stage before the nations react, and the fifth item has officially exploded in full force the other day, and Charlemagne's economy is like a car that hits the gas pedal and rushes into a cliff, constantly collapsing at a rate that changes everyone's color.

There is no doubt that it was Alfheim who made the final cut to Charlemagne's economy.

From the time Charlemagne's administration made up its mind to issue massive amounts of gold yuan to meet government and military spending, the explosion of inflation was already doomed, and no one could deviate from the laws of economics to prevent this catastrophe. It's like a snowball pushed down from the top of a mountain, growing in volume and mass as it rolls, accumulating potential energy, and by the time it finally reaches the bottom of the mountain, the snowball has become an avalanche disaster.

Of course, this requires a process, with price fluctuations, the issuance of gold yuan, the expansion of bureaucratic monopoly capital, the decline of private capital, official precious metals and foreign exchange reserves...... And so on, from quantitative change to qualitative change, it needs to accumulate fermentation, and if it is a natural development, it will take at least three years before the economic crisis completely erupts.

Alfheim managed to detonate Charlemagne's economy in just a few weeks.

Why is this happening?

The answer is actually very simple, it is Alfheim who controls the circulation of materials.

Whether it is precious metals, banknotes, or materials, there is only value if there is a demand. Precious metals and foreign exchange can indeed influence the market order to a certain extent, but only gold and silver and foreign exchange as guarantees, but there is no equivalent equivalent amount of living materials, means of production, industrial products, and agricultural products to correspond, currency is still just a piece of paper printed with numbers, and gold and silver are just a bunch of shiny, inedible, and unusable waste.

Ordinary people need food, cloth, and fuel, and if gold, silver, and banknotes cannot be exchanged for these things, it is meaningless. Currency that can be exchanged for daily necessities and can truly play the role of a medium of purchase is real money and trustworthy currency in the eyes of people. This is also the reason why the Alfheimmark has been repeatedly banned in Charlemagne's territory, but its value has always been strong and has been circulating. Because this currency is backed by sufficient precious metal reserves as a guarantee, and there is a large amount of material support.

All of Charlemagne's industrial capacity and means of production were given priority to supply military production, coupled with the encroachment and squeeze of bureaucratic monopoly capital on private production enterprises and the surge of speculation among the whole people, Charlemagne's industry for the production of living materials has in fact collapsed, and now it is only barely maintained by the previous reserves. Wait until the materials of Argent Toratong flow into the rear, and then put them into the black market one after another, after speculating on prices. Under the dual psychological effect of the dream of making a fortune and the fear of damage to their own interests, more materials poured into the black market, and the materials on the market became more scarce.

This is what Alfheim has been waiting for.

Their approach was very simple, they threw a large number of silver coins to buy money from the black market at the same time as they withdrew from the Argent Toraton, and when the supplies were almost snapped up, they announced that they would no longer accept silver coins as a trading currency after the gold yuan, and that the Alfheimmark would be the only currency in circulation.

International trade at this time was either the gold standard currency or the Alfheimmark, and silver coins were depreciating every day, and losses could be avoided by emptying them as soon as possible. What's more, Charlemagne was still on the silver standard at this time, and no matter how much silver depreciated, it was still a precious metal, and it was all backed by a large amount of silver as a credit guarantee, so that the gold yuan did not collapse immediately. But what if even the silver coins depreciate and can't even be used to buy and trade? What are the gold yuan coupons? Toilet paper for going to the toilet?

What's worse is that not only are there a shortage of materials on the market, but it is also difficult to find daily necessities on the black market, because the main supplier on the black market is Alfheim. Charlemagne's businessmen and citizens were powerless to resist in the face of currency issuers, exchange rate fixers, suppliers, and game-makers. They have neither the materials they need to produce the materials they need, nor the strong currency, nor the foreign exchange and gold reserves to hedge, and even the only supply and marketing channel is in the hands of the other party. In the face of this kind of super-monopoly trust, people are not even allowed to protest and question (Li Lin: The ball card, the circumstantial evidence, plus the organizers, the co-organizers, and all the units, are all my people, how can you fight with me?

Do you want to experience the life of eating grass roots and gnawing tree bark? Don't worry, you have a chance.

Okay, don't say that I, Yalfheim, am a first-class international citizen, who would dare to take your false accusation from Charlemagne, a fourth-class international. There are no rules or institutions for arbitration in the world, so I don't think I need to be afraid.

Monopoly is really free to do whatever you want.

As a result, in a very short period of time, people threw out a large number of silver coins, and the gold yuan coupons were completely scrapped. Adults use bundles of soaked gold yuan to make a fire for cooking, because it is more resistant to burning. Children use golden round coupons to build blocks and origami. From officials to the public, they tried every means to exchange for marks, and many people took the ancestral jewelry gold buried deep in the ground to the black market to exchange it for marks, and then went to buy daily necessities. Even if they don't need to buy it for a while, people will save it to preserve their value. More people went to the National Bank and underground banks with certificates of treasury bonds and gold savings to buy gold to exchange for marks. Countless banks and money banks went bankrupt overnight, a large number of beautifully printed gold yuan bills were scattered in the streets like fallen leaves, and with the closure of shops, beggars filling the streets, and the yellow-skinned faces of passers-by, a desolate and uneasy atmosphere swept across the land of Charlemagne.

And Yalfheim not only made the mark the only currency in circulation in Charlemagne's territory, but also successfully sucked in Charlemagne's private gold reserves at a low price, and incidentally broke the last vestiges of Charlemagne's trust in the government, and now this government that does nothing but print money and make enemies everywhere is no longer regarded by the people as "us" and "its own people", and everyone will abandon it completely if there is a heavy enough military defeat.

- Just kick that broken door and the whole broken house will collapse.

Now is the time for this kick in the door.