Chapter 1928: The Mind of the French One

"Sir, at this point, it doesn't make sense for us to care about how many enemies we can destroy in one battle, or how much lost ground we can recover. The Western Front is different from the Eastern Front. On the Eastern Front you can break through, penetrate, and encircle. But on the Western Front .Except for very few fortresses, the military significance of the huge parts is actually very limited. The entire Western Front is a millstone, countless lives and national power are thrown into it, and then reduced to ashes.”

"Prince Ruprecht sees the problem very clearly. He doesn't expect to hit Paris in one assault. Because it is very difficult. And it is unnecessary. His idea is to wear us down through repeated consumption. However, this This kind of damage is even greater than taking Paris directly! Can you imagine a France where the treasury is completely empty and the people have been wiped out for a generation? Maybe after this war, we don’t even have many young people of the right age. We have already Overdrawing the future." Xiafei said.

"Then what do you think of the strategy proposed by the government? First achieve a campaign victory, and then we will negotiate with the advantages on the battlefield?" Clemenceau asked.

"This idea is simply naive. You only need to understand one thing to know that this strategy is a fart! Let's not talk about how we won a battle. Even if we did, we asked for negotiations, but the Germans didn't accept it. What can you do? "Xiafei sneered.

"You should know that it is Crown Prince Ruprecht who is now commanding the entire Western Front! He holds the most elite forces in Germany! He has enough redundancy to bear certain failures! Even with our best record, Our exchange ratio has never been lower than 1.3 to 1, both offensively and defensively! What does this mean? We always lose against the Germans! The Germans fail once, twice, three times, it doesn't matter. They can still fight The fourth time. But even if we win, once, twice! But how can we win the third time! The so-called victory is nothing but a Pinocchio victory! We have come twice for such a victory, France It's dead!"

"As for those speculations from a political point of view, if Ruprecht fails, then he will bear huge political pressure. He may be removed from office? Such a thing is simply a dream! Ruprecht is a crown prince, He is the future heir to the Kingdom. The Bavarian Army is only loyal to him and not the Kaiser. If Ruprecht is replaced, then the German General Staff will not be able to command the Bavarian Army. Consider the current political situation in Germany. Therefore, Under such circumstances, the German high-level will have a very high tolerance for the prince! A little loss at the battle level can't shake the prince's status at all!"

"Well, going back to the original question, I don't think that Petain and the others can achieve a so-called victory in the face of the superior German army. Simply defending a certain point or maintaining the front line is not a victory. For the Germans Said to consume us with a better battle loss ratio is a victory. The Germans waited for us to collapse ourselves!" Joffre said.

"What if the United States is added? The U.S. government has already shown us that it is willing to mediate in the war between France and Germany." Clemenceau said anxiously like a drowning man grasping at the last straw.

"The Americans are not trustworthy, they are just vultures who are just reaping the profits. And think about it, the United States will unite with the Germans to deal with the Japanese after the war. How could Roosevelt offend the Germans at this time?" Joffre asked rhetorically . "In the US-Germany relationship, the Germans have always had a bit more leverage than the Americans."

"You mean, we want to accept the conditions of the Germans?" Clemenceau looked at his colleague with a complicated expression, the general who had fought against Asia Minor and the Bavarian Army on the Western Front.

"I am a soldier,

Not a politician, I can only analyze issues from my professional perspective. I don't know what the political options will be. But I know. The situation on the battlefield no longer depends on us, but on our opponents. Our life and death depend on each other's thoughts! "At this time, Xiafei finally told the truth. He had lost hope for a long time. Now Xiafei really would rather believe that the Germans are willing to let him go, and he will never believe what the British said. If you work hard, you will succeed." Can turn things around!

"Can we trust the words of the German crown prince? Can the relationship between France and Germany really improve? Are Alsace and Lorraine really going to leave their motherland forever?" Clemenceau said very unwillingly.

"During the time of Emperor Napoleon, Belgium and the Netherlands were also ours. In this war, we chose Britain. However, Britain could not allow us to regain the territory we had lost. Instead, it dragged France to the brink of collapse. Look at the battlefield, the British How much died, how much we died, the British have a population of more than 40 million, and we have only less than 40 million, but our casualties are more than twice that of the British! This is not fair! We use our own blood to maintain British hegemony!" Joffre said angrily.

There are already conflicts between Britain and France, but now, under tremendous pressure, various unstable states have emerged in France, and this situation has even spread to the top. Very dissatisfied, the army made up of the population and territory of the British is actually less than 60% of the French. This makes the French unacceptable! As for the British navy?

Come on, the French have now reached the point where they need to consider whether they want to move their capital. Who would think about the benefits of the British Navy? The French now only think about the army and their own affairs! Now, even Joffre, who participated in the Balkan War, believes that it is a very wrong thing for the French army to fight in the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor Peninsula. These two sub-battlefields have greatly consumed France's combat power!

Xiafei's attitude is already very obvious. Although he didn't say it explicitly, Xiafei has already expressed dissatisfaction and even hostility towards the British. In attitude, some tend to consider the suggestions of the Germans. As an old fritter who has mixed into the top ranks of the army, Xia Fei described in detail the comparison of military power and national power between the two sides in the report he wrote, and then let the judges draw their own conclusions—if the German army really If you concentrate on fighting the French army, then it will definitely not be too long before France can play GG!

In fact, not only Xia Fei had this view, many people in the top ranks of the French army had already agreed with this view if they put aside political factors. The possibility of the French wanting to win the battlefield is almost zero!

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