The results of the night of discussions at the top of the 2nd Army were placed on the table of the General Staff of the Defence Forces 10 minutes after the meeting, and when the countermeasures drawn up by Admiral Antsire himself were read, the meeting room was filled with joy, and the participants collectively stood up and applauded the dictator, congratulating him on the success of his plan.

When it received reports from the front that there had been a rout and a wave of refugees, the General Staff was in a hurry. Now that the troops had not yet completely broken out of the Ardennes, a large number of motor vehicles lined up on several roads, and if Charlemagne had known of the movements of Army Group B, they would have gathered all their air power in the area and launched a suicide attack on the transport junction and the marching columns. Even if the Air Force will do its best to intercept it, if a fish slips through the net and destroys a few trucks, destroys a certain section of road or a train station that is loading and unloading personnel's equipment, the nightmare traffic jam will be staged again, and the entire schedule will be thrown directly into the garbage heap.

While the General Staff and Army Group B Command were anxiously preparing an order to carry out indiscriminate attacks on the refugee stream, the dictator ordered the refugees to leave it alone and generously let the refugees bring the information to the Sedang fortress.

The reason given by Li Lin was that the Charlemagnes clung to the view that "the Ardennes cannot be breached" and "the Maas River cannot be crossed", and that the unusual move of not attacking the refugees would be interpreted by them as "the enemy deliberately allowing the refugees to flee in order to spread false information". If such a large crowd is attacked by aerial strafing and bombing, it will not be able to completely shut down such a large crowd by aerial strafing and bombing, but will increase the authenticity of the refugees' statements and arouse suspicion on the part of the Sedang side. What's more, a massacre attack on unarmed refugees would have a violent international repercussion, and with the help of well-intentioned people, it would be really troublesome to deal with.

Judging from the minutes of the meeting at the Sedan, the dictator's judgment of Charlemagne's psychological condition was extremely accurate. This group of uniformed bureaucrats still clings to a bunch of outdated ideas even in the face of a lot of evidence, and in the mentality of self-preservation, they only interpret the intelligence in their own favor, and simply ignore those reports that do not fit their own brains. He even denounced the information of the soldiers who had managed to run back from under the guns of the tanks to their own lines that "the enemy had a large number of tanks" as "the illusion of a cowardly deserter". Even though there was a lot of evidence of aerial reconnaissance that there were Wehrmacht armoured units and mechanized marching columns in the Ardennes, the 2nd Army's top brass still believed that this was a feint, that the enemy had no intention of breaking through the impregnable Maas River defenses, and that all this was merely a harassment to divert the attention of Charlemagne's main forces.

If there is still a glimmer of forgiveness for these misjudgments based on ignorance, conservatism, and mental factors, what follows can only be described as "outrageous".

After the Wehrmacht's offensive in the Ardennes was a feint, Admiral Anzige and his men were first busy writing a report to Lüdes' army headquarters. In the report, they first perfected the battlefield situation that they had made up their brains to make it look more realistic. Then there was all sorts of watering on the battle and the results - this was an old tradition in Charlemagne's army, but this time it was a bit too much. According to them, the 5th Hussar Division and the 55th Infantry Division were routed by the opponent's "steel torrent" and "crowd tactics" in an engagement with an enemy force 5 times their size (they originally wanted to write 10 times, but later they probably felt that Alfheim couldn't make up 20 divisions at all, and that an offensive of 20 divisions could not be called a feint at all), and each loyal Charlemagne soldier killed at least 10 enemy soldiers before falling (Wehrmacht General Staff: Charlemagnes are so good, one fights ten?). Then what should we count as a chariot company and an armored grenadier company to defeat a cavalry division that relies on a preset position for defense?), now the 2nd Army is fully inspired by the fearless spirit of the military gods who died in battle, and the morale of the soldiers is high, relying on the Ardennes and the Meuse River defense line, they will be able to deal a head-on blow to the invading ghost animals...... Anyway, the whole article is boasting, saying that there is no problem on his side, and by the way, he will take the opportunity to reap military merits and rewards. There was no mention of reinforcements and defenses, as if "the situation on the whole front was very good" -- this sentence was personally added by the commander of the group army, General An Qire.

Since ancient times, it can be said that injecting water into the results of the war in the war report is part of the traditional culture of the army, and there are actually many cases in the history of war that are more excessive than the 2nd Army. For example, from October 12 to October 16, 1944, in the "Taiwan Rush Air Battle", according to the results of the comprehensive announcement of the Japanese headquarters of the Admiralty, the Japanese stormed Taiwan and the US mobile forces in the waters east of Luzon overnight after the 12th, defeated more than half of the strength of the 38th Task Force under the command of Halsey, and sank a total of 11 aircraft carriers and 2 battleships (including the USS Arizona, which was sleeping under the sea of Pearl Harbor...... ), 1 cruiser or destroyer. 8 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 1 cruiser or destroyer, and 13 ships of unknown class were damaged. Others saw no less than 12 ships hit the fire. As soon as the news came out, the entire Japanese archipelago went crazy, and Emperor Showa personally issued an edict to commend the Combined Fleet, and national conventions were held in Tokyo, Osaka, and other places overnight, and then Prime Minister Koiso Kuniaki even took advantage of the situation to shout the slogan "Victory is at hand." What was the actual situation? The 38th Task Force lost only two heavy cruisers, the "Houston" and the "Canberra," and this situation was quickly confirmed by the Japanese Navy itself. For the sake of face, the naval thieves simply continued to deceive the black card of the sky, all the people, and the army red deer, and said that the results of the battle were indeed correct, as for the Halsey fleet floating on the sea...... If you talk about "ghosts and animals know evil magic, and they have conjured up a lot", even if you get through the tricks.

A few more words here: Vice Takeshi Toyoda, commander of the Combined Fleet who commanded the "Taiwan Rush Air Campaign" at that time, left a passage in his post-war memoirs: "I happened to be in Taiwan during the Taiwan Rush Air Battle, but I was not very clear about the war situation...... Although the United States said that Japan's results were ridiculous and ridiculous, this is complete nonsense. However, I am sure that the United States also suffered a lot at that time...... However, after that, the US fleet became active, and the base camp also believed that the US soldiers had suffered no losses in the Taiwan rush air battle, but I did receive quite a few credible information, such as that US battleships could not move freely and that US aircraft carriers were tilted and leaked. As I mentioned earlier, I do not blindly believe the reports of the local troops. At that time, I carefully analyzed all kinds of information, studied the battle situation, and made as accurate a judgment as I could. Although I also know that the actual results will be less than the announcement of the base camp. However, judging from the results, whether it is discounted or mentally calculated, I still do not want to reduce the results of our army in the report. ”

- At this time, I can't really think of any other appropriate evaluation than to say, "I've never seen such a brazen person." Compared with Vice Admiral Toyoda, Charlemagne's Army Red Deer is really not excessive.

What really made the General Staff of the Defense Forces feel unbearable was that An Zire and his subordinates not only filled the war report with water, but also ordered the falsification of the battle record and the falsification of the battle report. For example, in its report on the destruction of the 5th Hussar Division, the intelligence department of the 2nd Army wrote in a frivolous and optimistic tone: "The appearance of enemy heavy tanks near Nessato has forced our cavalry units to retreat, and by the end of the day, our army's delayed mission is being carried out logically...... After a day of fighting, the 5th Hussar Division successfully moved in after destroying 3 enemy tanks equipped with large cannons. ”

God knows how the intelligence of Charlemagne's 2nd Army counted the destruction of the 5th Hussar Division as "turning in after victory" and "playing normally", and only God knows how the 5th Hussar Division, which was not even touched by the tank from beginning to end, destroyed three heavy tanks, and in the end, only God knows how the 88mm tank gun of the Tiger tank, which could only be drawn into medium artillery, was counted as a "large cannon".

Seeing this, the General Staff of the Defense Forces, which was the enemy, was also angry. This is not at all about quality and ability, it is purely a matter of personal moral level. For the sake of his personal future, and in order to ensure his so-called "peaceful and peaceful life," he did not hesitate to falsify reports and refuse reinforcements, in order to show that he could still control everything and did not need to be overly concerned by the central authorities? For a time, the invective against the command structure of Charlemagne's 2nd Army became the theme of the meeting, and all kinds of words and phrases could be described as wonderful, and some of the words could not even be heard in country taverns and brothels.

Scolding and scolding, contempt and contempt, the General Staff still has a trace of gratitude for this kind of pig opponent with both hands with divine assistance. In order to fully express their gratitude, they decided to speed up the process and win the color in one go.