Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

During the First Battle of the Marne, the Empire of John, the Empire of Gaul and the Empire of Hans gathered almost two million troops here.

This is the first large-scale battle in modern human history. Basically, the eyes of the whole world are focused here, and everyone is waiting for a result.

If the John Empire and the Gallic Empire were defeated here, it would mean that the war was likely to end.

After all, it is only more than two hundred kilometers away from Paris, the capital of the Gallic Empire. Once the Hans Empire breaks through here, it will be impossible for the Gallic Empire to stop the Hans Empire.

Similarly, if the Hans Empire is defeated, it will declare the failure of the Schlieffen Plan. The Hans Empire or the entire Allies must be prepared for a long-term war.

The commanders of both sides were Marshal Joseph Joffre on the Allied side, and Marshal Hindenburg on the Hans Empire side.

This is considered the first battle between the two sides.

The first was the Hans Empire's attack. Hindenburg was an admirer of artillery theory. The artillery of his entire army group was placed on the front line and continuously launched fierce artillery bombardments against the Allied positions across the Marne River.

Not to be outdone, the Allies also counterattacked with the most ferocious artillery.

The artillery battle between the two sides lasted for three days, and the shell casings fired were piled up into a hill on the side. But the two sides still didn't stop.

Seeing that the artillery on his side is not dominant, he also feels that the longer the time drags on, the less beneficial it will be to his side.

So starting from September 9th, Hindenburg ordered the troops of the Hans Empire to take the initiative to cross the defense line and launch an attack on the Allied positions opposite.

At the same time, the artillery in the rear was ordered to start extending to hinder the enemy's reinforcement of the frontline positions.

For the first time in mankind, the most primitive infantry and artillery appeared together.

But on this day, it seemed that Lady Luck did not take care of Hindenburg, and the front-line attack was very unsatisfactory. The soldiers of the Allied Powers knew that they could not afford to lose this battle.

Therefore, Marshal Xiafei also issued a death order to the troops on the front line. Whether they were Gauls or people from the John Empire, as long as they dared to take a step back, they would be shot directly regardless of the reason.

This is the right given to him by the two empires.

In order to boost his morale, Joffre even sent his grandson, the infatuated Ollie Douglas Joffre, to the front line as the commander of the infantry brigade.

And he told Ollie that his orders were also valid for his grandson.

Ollie knew the difficulty his grandfather was in now, and the Blast Furnace Empire really couldn't afford to lose in this battle. So Oli agreed to Marshal Xiafei's order, led his [-]th Infantry Brigade to the front line, and began to defend the position.

When other people saw how ruthless Xiafei was, they threw their only grandson to the front line.

They all knew that Marshal Xiafei was serious this time. They should not retreat at will, they can only grit their teeth and stay on the front line.

Relying on Xiafei's mandatory orders, the Gallic Empire and the John Empire actually held the frontline battlefield, and they did not retreat even one step for three days.

The casualty rate of soldiers on the front line has exceeded 60%, which is completely regarded as a miracle for the armies of Western countries.

During these three days, Hindenburg could only watch the Allied defense line in front of him crumbling, but it did not fall.

We waited until the early morning of the third day, which was the early morning of September 9th.

Marshal Xiafei saw that the soldiers of the Hans Empire who were attacking in front were losing all their energy. He decisively ordered the reinforcements from behind to enter the front line and launch a counterattack against the Hans Empire.

Faced with such an attack, no matter how powerful Hindenburg was, he could not gather his troops and organize defense on the spot. Then the British and French sides and the Hans Empire fell into a tacit peace of mind.

Although this battle lasted only three days, even including the Hans Empire's invasion of Belgium, it only lasted seven days in total.

But the casualties were not small.

According to post-war statistics, during these seven days, the Allies suffered 7 casualties and the Hans Empire suffered 26.3 losses.

Also on this day, Belgium announced the end of resistance.

Through this seven-day battle, both sides suffered heavy losses, and there was no follow-up force to fight a large-scale battle. And both sides have their own gains and losses.

Through this battle, the Allied Powers shattered the Hans Empire's plan to break into the Gallic Empire from Belgium, and shattered their idea of ​​a quick victory.

The Hans Empire also got the breakthrough it wanted, and no longer had to keep an eye on Maginot's line.

After talking about the pros and cons, let’s talk about the issue of double-shot.

First of all, on the side of the Hans Empire, Maoqi was far away from the battlefield. He had no idea about the battle situation on the front line and improper command. The army groups lacked coordination, which led to the bankruptcy of the quick victory plan.

Among them, according to the original Schlieffen Plan, the Hans Empire should deploy 79 divisions on the Western Front, and 68 divisions should be deployed on the right wing of the Western Front, that is, on the Belgian side.

But Xiao Maoqi was optimistic and wrongly predicted the potential of the Gallic Empire's war formation. Of course, some of this is due to the Shiraksha Empire.

If the Rakshasa Empire hadn't taken the lead in attacking and disrupted Xiao Maoqi's plan, asking him to mobilize the Eighth Army from the west to defend the east, and then let the Eighth Army run on both the east and west fronts, the outcome of this battle might not have been like this.

Another point is that Moltke modified the troop ratio between the left and right wings of the Western Front. According to the Schlieffen Plan, among the divisions on the Western Front, 68 divisions should be placed on the right wing, and only 11 divisions should be deployed on the left wing.

But Moltke felt that since it was a surprise attack, it did not require too many troops. Instead, it was on the left wing. The Gallic Empire had been increasing troops from the beginning, which caused excessive pressure on the left wing, so it transferred troops from the right wing.

This resulted in that when the right wing launched an attack, only 50 divisions were actually available.

These fifty divisions not only needed to wipe out the remaining forces in Belgium but also needed to break through the Marne River defense line built by Marshal Joffre, which left Hindenburg with a serious shortage of troops.

After this battle, Little Maoqi will pay the price for what he has done.

On the Allied side, there were also serious mistakes.

First of all, the senior leaders of the Allied Powers, especially the Gallic Empire, were misled by wrong intelligence and transferred all their main forces to the vicinity of Sedan.

As a result, his defensive power in the northeast was empty. If Belgium had not resisted desperately and bought the Gallic Emperor some time, I am afraid that Paris would have changed hands by now.

The second point is that there is no obvious priority on the Allied side, and it is a multinational joint force, which makes their command system seem chaotic.

If Belgium had not been conquered, both the John Empire and the Gallic Empire would not have been able to lose this battle, thus allowing the John Empire to hand over command at the beginning of the Battle of the Marne.

Then the outcome of this battle will also be rewritten.

However, this battle is not without a winner, and the biggest winner is Joseph Joffre.