Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

On the western front, Schlieffen of the left-wing army arranged 11 divisions to resist the attacks of Gaul and the John Empire on the front, while on the right wing, he arranged 68 divisions.

The ratio of troops on the left and right wings also reached 1:8. It can be said that this was a huge gamble by Schlieffen.

He bet that the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire could cope with the wave of the Rakshasa Empire, and he also bet that his left-wing army could block the attack of John and Gaul.

If one of these two aspects cannot be stopped, it will be a disaster for the Hans Empire.

But if the bet wins, then the Hans Empire will become the biggest winner of this war.

Lin Yi remembered that in this plan, Schlieffen planned to capture the Liege Fortress in Belgium in 12 days, and then use 7 days to capture Brussels.

Then try to bring the war to Gaul in about 20 days. After that, the Hans Empire will have a smooth road and prepare to capture Paris in 45 days.

As a result, the entire war will last less than 90 days, which is almost three months, and then it can be declared over.

But as the saying goes, dreams are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

In Schlieffen's plan, if his pincer offensive can be implemented smoothly, he might have already reached Paris. The Rakshasa Kingdom has just completed its war mobilization. In this case, the Hans Empire can take the initiative.

However, Moltke, who had just come to power, felt that the Schlieffen Plan was too risky and was forced to modify the battle plan.

The main reason why Moltke was forced to modify the plan was that Schlieffen's underestimation of the scale of the war was too optimistic about the war.

According to the real situation in history, in order to respond to Hans' challenge, the Gallic Empire had mobilized 80% of the country's adult men to join the army before the war broke out, while Hans' Empire only mobilized 50%.

This resulted in the actual mobilization of troops by both sides exceeding Schlieffen's expectations.

In order to deal with the huge army of Rakshasa Kingdom and the overcrowding on the Western Front, Xiao Maoqi could only transfer 180 of the 40 million soldiers gathered on the Western Front to join the Eastern Front.

After all, the main battlefield on the Eastern Front is East Prussia, which is the home base of the Hans Empire. Little Maoqi cannot bear the responsibility of losing his hometown.

The result of Xiao Maoqi's actions was that his so-called raid plan did not penetrate the Gallic Empire's defense line at all, but instead caused the Hans Empire to fall into the embarrassing situation of a two-front battle.

If Moltke could really implement the original Schlieffen Plan to the end, hand over the entire Eastern Front to his allies, concentrate all his efforts, defeat the enemies on the Western Front first, and then return to attack the Eastern Front, maybe this The outcome of the war will be rewritten.

However, Lin Yi had no intention of wiping Xiao Maoqi's butt.

For Daxia, the worse the European side plays, the better. Only if they fight to exhaustion will Daxia have a chance.

So how can we make the two major groups fight fiercely? It's also very simple, that is, quietly reveal the battle plans of both sides, and then bring both sides to the same starting line.

Obviously, both the Schlieffen Plan and Moltke's plan are flawed, and Lin Yi is not going to make up for this for them, so the only way is to find a way to trick the Allied Powers, reduce the Allied Powers' strength, and let They are back on the same starting line as the Hans Empire.

As for how to bring the Entente, or more accurately, how to put the Gallic Empire and the Hans Empire on the same starting line?

Lin Yi instantly thought of Plan [-] that almost killed France in later generations.

This plan, to put it simply, is that the Gallic Empire trusts the John Empire too much and feels that they will not sit back and watch the Hans Empire annex Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

At the same time, the Gallic Empire overly trusted the enterprising spirit of its soldiers and felt that the quality of the Gallic Empire's army was much higher than that of the Hans Empire. Therefore, the defense line between the Gallic Empire and Belgium was abandoned, and the main force of the army was placed on the border from Belfort to Sedan, ready to conquer Alsace and Lorraine at any time.

As for the defense line on the far left, it was handed over to John Empire.

The final result of this plan was that the Hans Empire easily occupied most of Belgium and the northeastern part of the Gallic Empire, which directly led to the subsequent Battle of the Marne and the Battle of Verdun.

The Gallic Empire lost 21 people in just four weeks.

Lin Yi felt that he needed to come up with this plan in advance, and then the two major groups would have a bloody battle in this low-lying area.

Presumably, after these two battles are over, the Gallic Empire and the John Empire will have to draw armies from various colonies back to their homeland.

Then, Daxia can take the opportunity to take over Southeast Asia.

However, there is a question, that is, how can I make this plan implemented in advance?

Tell Gaul directly that the Hans Empire will not appear in the northeastern part of the Gallic Empire? This is absolutely impossible. After all, the Empire has not yet joined the Allied Powers. Will they believe what I say?

At the same time, the hole dug in this matter is too big. If the empire directly comes forward, it is likely to damage the reputation of the empire, so there cannot be any shadow of the empire in this matter.

At least make it invisible that the Empire is involved.

Therefore, the best way is to use spies to hand over the information that the Hans Empire is unlikely to appear in Belgium to the Gallic military through the hands of spies.

And who to choose? Lin Yi was not familiar with the arrangement of agents in Europe, so he could only call Fang Xiao and ask Fang Xiao if he had any suitable candidates in Europe.

When Fang Xiao heard that Lin Yi needed a top agent to dig a hole for the Allied Powers, he immediately thought of a person. To be precise, it was a woman, a very beautiful woman.

Xuede Yu, female, 23 years old, Hansi name: Hannah Ludwig von Fischer, senior imperial agent, Chinese-German mixed ancestry. His father is Xue Zhongli, a major general in the empire, and his mother is a wealthy businessman in the Hans Empire.

Ever since Fang Xiao was ordered to form an intelligence agency, Xue Deyu was among the first batch to be trained, and because she was of mixed race, the outside world was more biased towards the Hans Empire. So he was sent to Europe in the later stage and became a senior agent.

Most of the information in Lin Yi's hands now was passed back by Xue Deyu.

She is a beautiful and capable woman. At the same time, she is also a famous social butterfly in Europe.

Fang Xiao felt that by giving the task to Xue Deyu, she would definitely have a way to complete it.

Lin Yi heard Fang Xiao's suggestion and looked at Xue Deyu's information. He was still a little surprised. He didn't expect that the empire could have such outstanding agents.

Therefore, he also agreed with Fang Xiao and asked him to send a message to Xue Deyu, asking her to send the message to the Gallic military while ensuring her own safety, so that the Gallic Empire could put its main force in the Sedan area, and then urge both sides to A major battle took place near the Marne.