As you sow, so shall you reap. What kind of cause you plant yourself, what kind of effect will be fed back to you in the end.

After nearly twenty years of cultivation, cultivation, harvesting, and brewing, the bitter liquor that he had brewed was now before all Charlemagne—from princes and nobles to commoner beggars—whether they wanted it or not, and whether they expected it or not, they drank it with tears in their eyes.

This is an inevitable result.

When Charlemagne ignited the flames of war, when they imposed the flames of war on others, when Charlemagne's boots set foot on the territory of other countries, when they used bayonets to conquer, kill and plunder, when ordinary people enjoyed the dividends of war, ate stolen food, wore stolen clothes, and shouted Long live war, long live victory, long live death. They have obviously forgotten the old saying - if you come out to mix, you will have to pay it back sooner or later.

From the moment the country embarked on the road of militarism, it was destined to be burned to ashes by the flames of war that he had kindled with his own hands. Whether he was beaten to death by the nations, or died in the swift and precise attack of Alfheim's surgery, this outcome will never waver.

But—

Willing to gamble and lose;

repayment of debts;

Honesty and trustworthiness;

These virtues are never spontaneous acts. History has taught us countless times that when the debtor lacks a strong means to solve the debt problem, defaulting on the debt becomes their inevitable choice. Whether he is an ordinary man, an aristocrat, a king, or a dictator, there can be no doubt that the government is only more likely than the banker and the lawyer, who are known for their cunning, lying, and untrustworthy behavior.

Faced with the inevitable defeat, the Charlemagne authorities would not and would not obediently admit defeat, and after receiving the news that the fortress of Sedang had been broken through and the Wehrmacht armored cluster was heading south, the first thing they thought of was the blockade news.

There is nothing wrong with information control itself, and it would be irresponsible to allow news of the defeat to spread and cause rumors and social unrest. Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, and militarist Japan all tried their best to control information before the official announcement of defeat and surrender, in order to prevent the collapse of social and military order and cause unnecessary chaos.

Charlemagne's control of information certainly had the effect of reassuring people's minds, but their purpose was not to surrender, but to continue the war.

Charlemagne has invested too much money in gambling, and even the fortunes of the country and the rise and fall of the nation have been bet on the table. After receiving the report that the Sedang Fortress had been breached, this group of red-eyed guys was not in a hurry to think of countermeasures, but instinctively chose to refuse to believe it. Even as the snowflakes of reports poured in, the facts kept whipping their faces. Careerists, speculators, politicians, and rampage soldiers are also unwilling to accept the fact that they have failed to bet on everything and lose everything, let alone bear the responsibility for the defeat, so that the little girl who predicted this tragic situation stepped on herself to climb to a higher position.

Power, wealth, fame, life—depriving anything is unacceptable to these big men sitting on the clouds, and now they want to deprive it all to make that little girl, that village girl in the countryside. It's better to kill them.

– This must be stopped.

-- First, we must stop the spread of intelligence.

- After that, it would be nice to find a way to turn the tide of the battle.

- Alfheim is only one step away, as long as you capture the enemy base before the siege is closed.

It took only a few hours for the proponents of Agen's procrastination to come to an agreement, without wasting a minute, not at all like Charlemagne's efficiency. Originally, this kind of issue that would decide the fate of the country could be debated for at least a few months, and the parties kept putting forward proposals, then they were overturned, and then they were proposed, and then they were overturned...... It's not strange that the old man tosses for a few years when he's in a good mood.

Charlemagne's administration has shown rare efficiency and is beginning to implement it, but it was a wrong decision based on misjudgment and the wrong direction, and it will do nothing but make the country die faster.

"On the flip side, it's a good fast-acting drug, isn't it? Lingering on life is a pain for both the country and the people. ”

Sipping on coffee, Li Lin raised the corners of his mouth.

"If Charlemagne had shouted 'I surrender' at this time, we would have a real headache. ”

"As you say. ”

Looking at the Death Scythe swinging at full speed in the terminal interface, Brunhill, who had always been unsmiling in the command headquarters, rarely smiled.

Charlemagne's intelligence was actually three full days behind, and it was a remarkable achievement that the information transmission system was still functioning despite air strikes, traffic jams caused by fleeing crowds, and interference particles. By the time Lüdes had crossed the Ardennes and had crossed the Maas River in three days to capture the fortress of Sedan, Army Group B had already broken through the second node of the march: Verdun, Charlemagne's largest fortress city, comparable to the Sedan fortress, and reached the line of Reviny-Baledique-Saint-Miel. At the current pace of the march, in four to five days at most, the vanguard of Army Group B will reach the Belfort-Basel line, and the entire encirclement will be closed.

With Charlemagne's ability to communicate and command, he could neither obtain information in time, nor allow the troops that had already reached the Rhine line to withdraw. Charlemagne's last scavenging power will be wiped out in this unprecedented siege, and the country that has created countless glories will be completely reduced to the harvest ground of Alfheim.

At this critical moment, if Charlemagne raised his hands and shouted, as Li Lin said, "I surrender!" Yalfheim would really have some trouble.

The Second German Reich in another world did this, and Italy did it during World War II. During World War I, the main battlefields on the Western Front were in Belgium and northern France, and France suffered severe losses in terms of population, wealth, and industrial production. In 1918, when the Germans lost the last bargaining chip in the last big gamble, the Michael Offensive, the French were preparing to roll up their sleeves and go to Germany to burn and loot (there is no doubt that the soldiers on all sides of the war at the end of World War I had little military discipline and morality to speak of, not to mention that the British and French authorities did have the idea of plundering Germany to replenish losses, and the front-line soldiers who rushed into Germany would not be much better than the Soviet Red Army that entered Germany at the end of World War II). The German Revolution was made. The Second Emperor and the biggest militarist, the First Quartermaster General Ludendorff, fled. In order to prevent the reddening of Germany, the Allies had to stop the offensive, negotiate with the Provisional Government, and stabilize the situation in Germany, even allowing the German troops at the front to return to Berlin and other large cities to suppress the revolution. Although later, through the Treaty of Versailles, the Entente almost drained Germany. But Germany's industrial infrastructure was still intact, and the large number of ordinary Germans who were hungry and cold, resentful, and had never tasted the flames of war in their homes – this was the perfect breeding ground for revanchism, fascism, and racism, on which the Third Reich was built. Ferdinand Foci's famous phrase "This is not peace, it is only a truce of twenty years" was not so much prescient as it could have been foreseen by anyone with a modicum of reason and political wisdom.

Then the Charlemagnes surrendered before the Wehrmacht annihilated Charlemagne's army in the encirclement of Agen Tuolatong and occupied Lüdes. What will the world look like?

That would undoubtedly be one of those situations that the Defence Forces would never want to see.