Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Obviously, the Rakshasa Empire immediately lost an army group of almost 28 people as soon as the war started. In this way, the Hans Empire had the upper hand on the entire Eastern Front battlefield.

The empire can completely revise its previous plan and give priority to solving the Rakshasa Empire to the east. After completely defeating the Rakshasa Empire, he then turned his guns and went to the Western Front to fight against the Gaul and John Empires.

In this way, the empire can avoid the embarrassing situation of fighting on two fronts.

However, Moltke of the Hans Empire stubbornly believed that the eastern front should be handed over to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire according to the original plan, and then the main troops should be transferred to the western front.

Ludendorff sent an urgent telegram to Moltke to explain his point of view.

But Moltke still refused and asked Ludendorff to assemble his team as soon as possible and rush to the Western Front to participate in the battle plan against Gaul.

In the end, Ludendorff had no choice but to board the train to the Western Front, handing over the entire Eastern Front to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. At this time, the Hans Empire had only 11 divisions left on the entire eastern front.

Ludendorff had no way to refuse Moltke's order. Even though he knew that Moltke's strategy was not the best choice for the current empire, as a soldier, he still felt that obedience should be his duty.

Since Little Maoqi asked him to rush to the Western Front, he could only do it.

Let’s talk about the Western Front.

As mentioned before, Lin Yi sent Xue Deyu to Paris and gave the high-level officials of the Gallic Empire a wrong intelligence, which made the Gallic Empire mistakenly believe that the Hans Empire would focus its attack on Sedan and Lorraine.

Therefore, General Xiafei proposed the No. [-] combat plan, which was to deploy heavy troops in the Sedan Lorraine area to guard against the Hans Empire's attack.

The result of this was that the Blast Furnace Empire only deployed five divisions on the Belgian border. (This is better than the original history.)

In the Lorraine and Sedan areas, Xiafei has concentrated 55 divisions, preparing to rely on its geographical advantages to win the battle first.

Therefore, General Joffre requested in his plan that the troops on the front line should open a gap near Arsano to allow the Hans Empire to attack, and then encircle the two wings to eliminate the Hans Empire troops that broke into the territory.

Then follow this road and directly attack the Hans Empire.

Coincidentally, Arsano is considered the right wing of the Gallic Empire, and the right wing of the Hans Empire is near Belgium. This can be regarded as a sign of sympathy between the commanders of the two armies.

Right wing plans versus right wing plans. (comments from CodeZijun)

Of course, this arrangement of the Gallic Empire was not without effect.

Moltke watched the Gallic Empire massing heavy troops near Arsano. He was also a little worried about his own defense line, so he ordered 18 divisions to be transferred from near the Belgian border to the left wing.

This resulted in that the 68 divisions originally used to attack Belgium were actually only 50 divisions in size. Among them was Ludendorff's Eighth Army.

On September 1910, 9, the third day after Ludendorff arrived at the Western Front, Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, issued an order to begin implementing the Schlieffen Plan modified by Moltke.

In the early morning of September 9, Hans's army crossed the border and began to attack Belgium.

Belgium did not expect that the Hans Empire would openly and undeclared war, and could only be forced to defend. They abandoned part of their territory and retreated to the Liege Fortress, resisting desperately.

However, Belgium, which was ill-prepared, was still able to break through the defenses of the Hans Empire and approach the capital Brussels. Before Hans' empire could capture Brussels, Belgium surrendered.

But they also successfully defended for 7 days. And it was these seven days that completely changed the situation of the war.

King Abel I of Belgium knew that it would be difficult to defend against the Hans Empire's attack with his own strength. Therefore, after he learned about the Hans Empire's attack, he immediately sent a message to the Gallic Empire, claiming that the Hans Empire was attacking the Gallic Empire. They went to war undeclared.

Then Abel I fled to the John Empire before the Hans Empire invaded Brussels, and announced the surrender of Belgium.

The Gallic Empire received a warning from Abel I, and then discovered that they had been fooled by the Hans Empire.

If the Hans Empire were allowed to occupy Belgium, then the Hans Empire's military peak would be only more than two hundred kilometers away from Paris. Moreover, there are no defensive points along this route. As long as the Hans Empire captures Belgium and is close to the border, it will only take a day or two to reach the city of Paris.

But fortunately, Belgium bought them seven days. During these seven days, General Joffre urgently mobilized troops and horses and adjusted the defense line.

First, he drew a large number of reinforcements from the rear to support Belgium, preparing to block the Hans Empire's army on the Marne River. It is under the personal command of General Xiafei.

At the same time, the John Empire knew that the Hans Empire had crossed the Burning Sun Fortress, which completely disrupted their deployment. At the beginning, the John Empire did want to use the battle between the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire to weaken the strength of both parties.

But the current situation is that once the Hans Empire completely captures Belgium and attacks the High Road from Belgium, it is very likely that the Gallic Empire will be directly defeated.

As a result, the John Empire also urgently mobilized troops to the Marne River, under the unified command of General Joseph Joffre.

At this time, the Gallic Empire also knew that the front line at this time needed a complete command system, so they did not care about Jia Fei's previous wrong judgment. Instead, they directly appointed Joseph Jia Fei as field marshal and let him unified command of the front line operations. force.

Joseph Joffre, who was appointed, issued several orders in succession.

Among them, reinforcements from the John Empire and the Gallic Empire must arrive at the Marne River before the 7th and build a complete defense line before the 10th.

Then gave an order to the right-wing army to take the initiative and hold back the Hans Empire's army near Arsano.

The reason why Joseph Joffre waited for the defense line at the Marne River was mainly because it was the only area that was relatively easy to defend.

He was not stupid enough to let his army enter Belgium to fight with the Hans Empire. His current mission is to stop the Hans Empire so that they cannot break into the Gallic Empire, and then seek opportunities to defeat the Hans Empire in one fell swoop.

As for Belgium, who sent them the message, let him use his last bit of power to hold off the Hans Empire for as long as possible, buying time for himself to build a defense line.

As for the Hans Empire, to be honest, they did not expect that a small Belgium would delay them for seven days, causing them to miss the best opportunity to invade the Gallic Empire.

When he learned that the Gallic Empire had sent more troops to Belgium and built a defense line on the Marne River, Hindenburg could only ignore Belgium and directly invade Gaul.

Now that the opponent is already building a defense line, his plan to take advantage of the opponent's unprepared attack on Gaul has been ruined. The rest can only rely on the strength of both sides to fight head-on.

As a result, the course of the war unfolded under circumstances that neither side had expected.

The first Battle of the Marne officially began.