As mentioned earlier, Charlemagne's defeat is actually a Greek tragedy consisting of five acts. After the curtain call of the first act of the fan's confidence, the second act, "The First Suspicion", and the third act, "Self-deception", begin to play out at the same time.

To be fair, the literature often refers to the weakly fortified Ardennes region as the Achilles' heel on Charlemagne's line – a misnomer. In fact, the Ardennes area was not part of any of Charlemagne's defense plans at all, and the main battlefields envisaged by Charlemagne's top management were Agen Toratonon and Lorraine Tower, and there were two major moats from Sedan to Namuer, the "impassable" Ardennes Plateau and the "impossible to cross" Meuse River as barriers, and there was no need for fortification at all. Even if the ghosts really don't have their brains and insist on taking the Ardennes by surprise from the rugged and narrow road, when they reach the Meuse River through the Ardennes region after a lot of hardships, they will be waiting for Charlemagne's elite troops who have already been reinforced and waiting for them.

The staff officers of Charlemagne's Army, who were intellectually intelligent, estimated from experience that it would take at least two weeks from the time the Wehrmacht launched an offensive to the final crossing of the Meuse. It would take at least five or even nine days to get from the border to the banks of the Meuse, and then at least a week at the bridgehead on the other side of the river, until the heavy artillery had been assembled and enough ammunition for a battle had been stockpiled before the crossing began.

Not to mention why the Wehrmacht acted according to the script set by Charlemagne's deer, this estimate of the 18th-century army maneuver pattern alone is enough to make the Wehrmacht laugh to death. Charlemagne's staff seemed to have forgotten that his opponents had long since achieved full mechanization and that the enemy had absolute air superiority. It seems that the adversary must abandon the convenient motor vehicles to march on foot, and the air power must remain silent throughout the whole process, and must not fire at targets on the ground. After seeing the "high opinions" of their peers and opponents, the General Staff of the Defense Forces could not believe that the group of guys on the opposite side had just experienced a small-scale mechanized raid, and the heads of the group of red deer would not move in the era of line infantry?

The spit of the defense army is destined not to be heard by those shameless red deer, and even if they do, the granite heads who can't even listen to the bitter persuasion of the holy maiden will not pay attention to the enemy's evaluation. Since the start of the war with Yarfheim, there has been a clear "temperature difference" between the General Staff of the Royal Army and the front line, and if you regard the front line facing the endless stream of new weapons and the hell of blood and fire as boiling water, then you will only look at the numbers and results, pick and choose the part you like, think you know the battlefield, and be full of "Aren't they all as successful as we say?" and "The kingdom has always been maintained by this method" The elite staff officers and high-ranking people with such stupid ideas are a cup that has just been taken out of the freezer. There is simply no intersection between the two.

Then, this temperature difference in the perception of the battlefield also expanded to the Ardennes battlefield, which became one of the important reasons for the defeat.

Psychological research shows that people are more likely to believe "what they want to receive" than "choose objective and correct information" in the face of various types of intelligence information. This psychological trait is particularly pronounced in countries and organizations that exhibit a variety of terminal symptoms, and eventually even develop into a reality of imagination. For example, at the end of World War II, Japan, which had always been known for its brain-open, pondered the possibility of mediating a war with the United States through the Soviet Union. Some people may be a little unable to turn around, the Japanese have been fighting with the Russians for decades since the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, how come they are about to lose the war, and suddenly think of finding Maozi, who is an ally of Mi Ying's ghost animal, to mediate? In addition to the anxious mentality of rushing to the doctor when sick, another reason is that they take their delusions as reality (typical Japanese style). Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki made an astonishingly high remark at the cabinet meeting when discussing the plan for the mediation of the Soviet Union - "Stalin's physique is very similar to Saigo Takamori, both are big-bellied, and they must be good people who value love and righteousness, and will help Japan!" - this old man is a retired admiral and the then prime minister of Japan. The patriarch of the three dynasties of Showa, even this one can talk nonsense seriously, and by the way, he also sent a good man card to Comrade Steel, you can imagine what the mental state of the Japanese was like at that time.

Returning to Charlemagne's side, the more the war did not go well, and the more the Holy Maiden made great achievements, the more distorted the mentality of those elite staff officers became. The defeat was not because he was too incompetent and the battle plan he came up with was completely out of touch with reality, but because the front line did not listen to the command and was unwilling to die generously, but also because the enemy refused to cooperate with the script he had set. If the front-line soldiers are all fearless of death, lined up in a neat queue in the face of the rain of bullets and bullets, and launched a charge with three shouts, and the rebels on the opposite side obediently throw away their armor and pee in front of the dignified formation, how can they be the opponents of Charlemagne's warriors? None of the notices appeared at the regular meetings of the Army's General Staff and the base camp, and all the meetings were filled with the same form and the arguments that Wang Jun had been in good fortune for a long time, and that he had won all battles, just like the joyful atmosphere of a meeting of mentally ill people.

The morbid atmosphere that pervades the entire hierarchy is not confined to Lüders, the entire rear is plagued by nightmares, and any unsatisfactory information, whether true or false, will be automatically ignored or even blamed.

"I repeat, don't interfere with my normal work with such nonsense!Major, do you want to go to court-martialed for lying about military intelligence?!"

"But...... Your Excellency, General. ”

Major Amet de Clermont suppressed his trembling, and in the face of the vicious eyes of the commander of the army group and the saliva that was about to spray in his face, the major felt that it was a miracle that he was still conscious. He now desperately prayed that the miracle would continue, at least until he was done with the report, and the Major prayed as he cursed his bad luck for the thousandth time, trying to puff up his chest and continue with his report.

"So far, in addition to the aerial reconnaissance organized by our army, the 3rd Army, during an air patrol organized yesterday morning, also discovered a 10-kilometer-long rebel convoy heading in the direction of the Ardennes. The 5th Hussar Division, which had previously claimed to have discovered enemy armored units and requested a strong reconnaissance, had not yet contacted the army group headquarters, and the three groups of messengers sent out had not yet returned. The petty officer believes that it is now necessary to organize a large-scale joint search on the ground and in the air to sort out the situation in the Ardennes area, and at least to find the 5th Light Cavalry Division. ”