To a large extent, the core of modern warfare is logistical warfare and support warfare, which includes logistical support for one's own army and also includes trying to organize the opponent to obtain logistical support.

Statistically and economically, neither Charlemagne nor Alfheim could afford the long-term attrition of war. The more prepared Yalfheim may be able to hold out a little longer, but in the end any war that lasts more than 3 years will cause irreparable damage to its economic system. And Charlemagne...... It must not last that long.

Having worked in the logistics system and having some connections in the intelligence system, Parsifal had a relatively clearer understanding of Charlemagne's situation than the average front-line commander.

With the severance of overseas trade routes and the gradual loss of overseas occupied areas, the supply of various resources has been irretrievably reduced. Today, Charlemagne's economy is in a state of deterioration, and the economy is becoming worse and worse due to the action of four unfavorable factors.

One is the growing demand;

second, the decline in production;

third, insufficient transportation capacity;

fourth, the labor force is decreasing;

By the end of the month, Charlemagne's industrial and agricultural output was almost less than half of the pre-war level. The Wehrmacht's air force, which has been bombing Charlemagne's industrial system and transportation hubs around the clock, is now beginning to bear fruit. The huge factories were vulnerable to napalm, and the trains full of people and supplies could not hide from the air. Even if a lot of equipment and primary raw materials are produced, it is difficult to send them due to air raids. In order to compensate for the losses caused by the air raids, Charlemagne had to continue to expand the production quota, tap the small labor force left, and let the old and weak women and children who barely completed their primary training produce more inferior equipment of reduced quality.

An even more lethal element than air strikes is showing its power, and that is the rapid depletion of Charlemagne's strategic reserves.

Charlemagne and his opponents both know that Charlemagne's military-industrial system can continue to operate in the face of bombing, and even rise against the trend, is entirely achieved by the massive consumption of valuable strategic raw material reserves, and with the passage of time, the reserves of raw metal materials, chemical raw materials, agricultural products, and so on will only become smaller and smaller, not the opposite. According to a careful study by the Ministry of Economics and Stacy in Alfheim, Charlemagne's remaining strategic raw materials will probably only be sufficient until the end of the fiscal year if effective replenishment channels are not available.

To some extent, it was the pessimistic prediction that the country's reserves and production system would be drastically reduced or even shut down by the end of the year, coupled with the harsh reality that gold reserves had bottomed out and there would not be enough funds for international trade even if there was an armistice, that prompted Charlemagne to launch an active attack on Alfheim despite the delicate atmosphere of the international geopolitical environment, refusing all negotiations. Trying to alleviate its own crisis by seizing Yalfheim's territory, industrial system, and strategic reserves in one fell swoop.

Charlemagne seemed to be confident in this, and it seemed that any difficulty could be overcome as long as everyone worked together. But no one, including Parsifal, would think that wishful thinking, reckless gambling would succeed.

As long as Alfheim holds the line of defense at the back, Charlemagne, who continues to lose blood, will eventually fall, and the more desperate he is, the faster he will die. Determination means nothing in the face of a huge capacity gap.

However, the top brass of the defense forces issued such an order that was similar to that of an enemy.

Food storage must not be destroyed?

No forced displacement of human inhabitants?

Isn't this sending the enemy urgently needed human resources and food supplies? What the hell did you think about it? Did you take the wrong medicine? Or were you collectively seduced by the enemy's female spies, contracted an indisputable disease, and were devoured by the virus to your brain cells?!

The junior officers and soldiers slapped the table and scolded, if it weren't for the excellent obedience, the senior officers would still be able to hold back, but I was afraid that the guys who had already surged up would take the lead in setting off a mutiny.

When he saw this order, Parsifal couldn't react for a while, but he quickly calmed down and revisited the two orders.

The military doctrine of the defense forces revolves around general warfare, and there is no "humanitarianism" or "human touch" in general warfare. The core idea is to use all means and methods to finally force the other side to submit to its will. To put it bluntly, it is unscrupulous, beating until you kneel down and lick your shoes and call your father.

What moral, humanitarian, international law, rules of war, that is something that is only binding on the weak. As long as your fists are hard enough, your sticks are big enough, and you can take a bag of laundry detergent and say that you are engaged in weapons of mass destruction, and you will go to your house and drop bombs, not to mention killing your whole family; if you ask someone to make a five-cent special effects movie, you will say that you have attacked civilians with chemical weapons, and you will blow up a bunch of missiles, and you will say that you are "safeguarding international order and justice"; what kind of international condemnation, what kind of fraud has been caught, and there is a kind of standing in front of the uncle's muzzle and talking about it?

Alfheim is not so rogue, but it is also not associated with "humanity" and "warmth", missile strikes, large-scale air strikes, and the use of weapons of mass destruction against cities with large numbers of civilians - none of the Defence Forces has questioned this on the grounds of "humanitarianism".

In keeping with the Defence Force's usual efficiency-oriented approach, this retreat should have been an unusually bloody and brutal scorched-earth tactic. Blow up all the facilities that sustain human existence, transfer the aborigines who are able to work, and leave the old, weak, sick and disabled in place to die, or simply kill them and throw them into wells and rivers. Then they set fire to farmland and laid mines...... In short, all the urbanization along the way is scorched earth, so that the enemy army is like marching in the desert. Increases the difficulty of your opponent's supplies and crushes them with plague and famine.

But now, these two orders have changed the style of the retreat, and the scorched earth tactics that were originally like purgatory have become humane humanitarian retreats? In any case, the change in the style of painting is too abrupt.

Most importantly, the order to retreat has the dictator's signature on it.

Even if the heads of people all over the world are in water, it is impossible for that one person to make a mistake, even if the world changes and the world is destroyed, he will never make such a low-level mistake.

Since it is impossible to make a mistake, it can only be intentional.

Many middle- and high-ranking military officers, including Parsifal, believed that this was a certain strategy of the dictator, but only Parsifal was the only one who had a clue and deduced the whole strategy.

It is true that leaving supplies for the local human population has a high probability of going into Charlemagne's army.

It's just that what will the aborigines do with such a large amount of supplies, and how will Charlemagne get them?

Perhaps some villagers will welcome the liberators of the same clan from the bottom of their hearts, and stage a touching scene of eating pot pulp to welcome the king, but this is only part of the story. More people...... No, maybe it's just a group of business-minded and selfish people who choose to sell supplies for profit. Led by these people, more and more people will follow suit, believing that those supplies are their own, and it is natural to sell their property for money. At that time, how will Charlemagne's army, which is short of money and food, deal with itself?

More importantly, Charlemagne's army penetrated deep into enemy-occupied areas and had logistical supply difficulties that did not change. How much of the rations of the 400,000-strong army plus the military horses could reach the front-line soldiers after a long march and non-stop air raids? At what cost did Charlemagne's economic situation allow them to purchase supplies left over from the Wehrmacht from the inhabitants? How many troops and residents could be fed with a week's rations for 150,000 people? If not, what methods would Charlemagne's army use to ensure their own food supply?

At the end of the day, will the residents of Agen, who are at home preparing the golden fleur-de-lis banner and the portraits of Prince Charlemagne, the Princesses and the Holy Maiden, be able to embrace their liberator with open arms?

From beginning to end, this was a targeted psychological warfare, intelligence warfare, and public opinion warfare, and by the time Charlemagne sensed the trap, they had already fallen into it. No matter how they argue, no one will believe them.

"Ahh......h

With a long sigh, Parsifal took the afterglow back from the cabin and sighed as if he were old:

"I really want to retire early......"