Until 80 years after the end of the war, historians who showed closeness and sympathy for Charlemagne often used words such as "incomprehensible", "incomprehensible", and "unbelievable" when talking about the performance of Charlemagne's army during the Ardennes offensive, while scholars who leaned towards Alfheim unceremoniously bestowed honorary titles such as "incompetent", "stupid", and "worst salary thief" on Charlemagne's army.

Objectively speaking, Charlemagne's defeat is actually a Greek tragedy composed of five acts.

Act I, absolute confidence.

In addition to their excellent intelligence work and coordination of various departments, the greatest credit for the success of Yalfheim's strategic deception was the absolute self-confidence rooted in the Charlemagne mentality.

A series of victories, war dividends, government propaganda, church agitation, and finally the long-standing psychological superiority of humans over elves meant that Charlemagne had little idea of losing to Pointy Ears. Yalfheim's organized retreat on the Rhine front created an optimistic atmosphere that "the sharp-eared ghost animals are indeed a bit tricky, but the ghost animals can only succeed by despicable means for a while, and under the struggle of the royal army and the holy maiden, the ghost animals are still vulnerable, and victory is just around the corner". In this atmosphere, any opposing opinions would be automatically dismissed by Charlemagne, and there would be no need to bother Stasi to do it.

It was in this optimistic atmosphere that Charlemagne began to march on Agen Torathon, while ignoring the potential risks of the Ardennes -- after all, the war was about to be won, so why bother with a "trench that is absolutely impossible to be crossed"? Why don't you hurry up and go to the ghost animal nest to grab money, food, and women, and go to the Ardennes forest to squat in the forest? Are you idle? What, where will the enemy come from? Do you have a problem with your brain or do you have something wrong with your eyes?

It is precisely this blind self-confidence that makes Charlemagne unable to calmly look at the situation he finds himself in, and at the same time to listen to and analyze Roland's possibility that "the Rhine front is the bait, and the Ardennes is the main direction of attack". Even 11 hours after the defense forces launched the attack, when all kinds of sporadic information were transmitted to the headquarters of the group army, they still clung to the idea that "Ardennes cannot be broken through."

"Yes, yes, it can't be! What, he's a veteran? And the testimonies of the inhabitants? Oh, Mother Goddess, what's the matter today, I've met a bunch of frightened cowards! Well, Colonel, since you insist, I allow you to let your men do an armed reconnaissance. I'll give you 3...... No, 5 hours, if after 5 hours...... It's good that you know, I'll wait for your news. ”

As soon as the angry communication ended, the guards guarding the door of the communication room had not had time to catch their breath, when the sound of objects hitting the wall and shattering came, followed by a series of wonderful insults, such as "hinder us all scum!", "reverse him!", "engage in Billy!", "angry couple!", "I'm coming to Hebei Province!" , Listening to a group of soldiers in the clouds, I can't help but lament that I don't want to catch up with the level of the commander of the group army in my life, and you can't understand a word when people are scolding, this is the level, this is the culture. If you don't have culture, you can only be a big soldier.

Before the guards could comprehend their lives further, the door was opened, and the unsightly commander of the 2nd Army, General Charles Leon Clement Nzier, walked out with a foul face, leaving behind the guards with their chests and bellies and a room full of terrified communications magic officers. Lieutenant General Alfonso François Messimi, deputy commander of the army, trotted all the way to follow.

Admiral Anzire's anger did not diminish much because of the venting, and as soon as he walked out of the crowded area, he began to complain angrily.

"Pointy-eared ghost beasts rushed out of the Ardennes forest in ironclad cars? Why didn't they say that the other side had tens of thousands of ironclad cars, loaded with 100,000 troops and crossed the Ardennes Plateau?

Because the world's first combat vehicle was not created by the Navy, the tank is still only a tool used by ships to store water, not a tracked armored vehicle with weapons installed. In general, countries follow the trend and call it Panzer, and Charlemagne is obviously unlikely to follow this trend and use enemy Chinese to devalue himself. In order to belittle the other party, and at the same time make the description as close as possible, Charlemagne chose "Char, Chinese homonym 'kill', pronounced 'Char' in Japanese French, yes, it is a certain lolicon mask man with a lust fetish...... This was originally used to refer to horse-drawn carriages and floats in the Flower Street (digression, the French pronunciation of the French B2 heavy tank in World War II is very ...... The Frenchman who gave this name was either a French traitor or a German spy).

Since the capture of the Wehrmacht's vehicles on the Night of the Long Knives, Charlemagne has also worked these vehicles that have changed the shape of the war, and a series of self-developed projects are some kind of imitation or variant of the Wehrmacht vehicles, and some schemes have even appeared ahead of their time such as liquid-gas independent suspension, torsion bar suspension, and side-by-side staggered load wheels. Unfortunately, due to the shortage of resources, the backward industrial base and the level of technology, these programs are destined to have no chance to move from the drawing board to reality during the war.

Although the road to replica combat vehicles was not smooth, Charlemagne mastered a lot of the combat characteristics of armored troops through a series of uses of combat vehicles in actual combat by the 901 Anti-Tank Chasseur Battalion.

It can be said that the combat effectiveness of armored troops is to a large extent built up by logistics. Without enough spare parts and ammunition, no matter how powerful the chariot is, it is nothing more than metal waste that can be taken out by a group of infantrymen.

It was precisely because of this obvious weakness that Charlemagne's army decided to suspend the development of all ironclad projects and concentrate resources on all those projects that could be quickly put on the battlefield. It has to be said that this is actually a rare wise move by Charlemagne's army, with the current state that Charlemagne's imitation of the Wehrmacht's light combat vehicles is extremely difficult, and he insists on engaging in his own armored vehicle project, and the investment in metallurgical technology alone is a bottomless pit, counting chemical, optical, systems engineering, and power ...... I'm afraid that when the defense forces rushed into Lüdes, there was not even a test vehicle that could climb out of 1 kilometer without lying on its stomach.

It is also because of this that no one in the royal army took Roland's warning to heart.

Who would be able to make an assault group of division-sized ironclad vehicles and up to tens of thousands of vehicles of all kinds pass through the small Ardennes Forest?

Those who would have come up with a surprise attack from the Ardennes must have been insane, and those who saw the armored cars of the Defence Army appear in the Ardennes Forest were either cowardly deserters who exaggerated their words, or they were mentally ill people who were under too much psychological pressure and needed treatment.

In the 5th Hussar Division, which had come to disturb the commander at a time when Admiral Anzire's private salon was on the rise, there was clearly no shortage of cowards and psychos, and even their division commander seemed to have something wrong with his brain.