Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Lin Yi was still very relieved about letting Li Fu argue with the two major groups.

After all, this is what Li Fu eats, and he still trusts Li Fu's ability.

Speaking of which, Li Fu is quite interesting. The main reason why he did not belong to the Luo Chen faction was because Daxia was weak at that time, and as the immediate boss of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he had no problematic status in the court.

Therefore, Luo Chen did not reach out to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This led to the fact that when Lin Yi took over the Luo Chen faction and put a tight curse on them, he did not touch the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

However, Lin Yi knows one thing very well, that is, in today's world, Daxia needs to frequently negotiate with Western countries and use diplomatic means to fight for Daxia's interests, so the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must operate efficiently. .

Therefore, Lin Yi wanted to completely capture the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

As for Li Fu, he doesn't have much ambition and is relatively pure. His ideal is to use his sharp tongue to fight for Daxia's interests.

Since Lin Yi came to power, he has been victorious in foreign wars. As the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he has been able to stand upright when facing the Western powers in the past.

So he admired Lin Yi quite a lot.

Now seeing that Lin Yi was interested in taking control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Li Fu did not have any objections and even took the initiative to post it.

Lin Yi naturally wouldn't refuse Li Fu for being so accommodating and approaching him.

This time, Lin Yi directly told Li Fu that his mission was to continue fighting with the two major groups. No matter what the other party says, don't agree to it easily.

Once they were under pressure and began to change their attitude and no longer asked the empire to join them now, but instead hoped that the empire would provide support, Li Fu directly agreed to them.

As long as it can be dragged to Europe for a fight, it will be a victory for the empire.

At the same time, Lin Yi told Li Fu that it is estimated that it will still be several years before the war starts in Europe, so during this period, Li Fu may be under great pressure.

After Li Fu heard this, he assured Lin Yi that he would be able to complete the task. Today's Western countries do not dare to offend the empire at this juncture.

Because they all know that offending the empire at this time will push the empire towards its opponent. Therefore, Li Fu felt that fighting with Western countries this time would be annoying at best, but it would not be said to be dangerous.

After sending Li Fu away, Lin Yi returned to his palace.

This time he did not entertain his children at home, but locked himself in the study.

In the study, Fang Xiao has prepared a large amount of information about Europe.

Since he had been focusing on East Asia in the past few years, Fang Xiao only had a rough idea of ​​the situation in Europe.

Now he feels that the empire's next move will be around Europe. So he needs to check the intelligence from Europe over the years.

To be honest, Lin Yi only knew about the familiar major events in Europe before World War I. He was not very clear about other things.

That's why he asked Fang Xiao to prepare some information about Europe. He needed to know what it was like in Europe now, so that the empire could make a correct response.

Through the information in hand, Lin Yi knew that Bismarck, who promoted the alliance between Hans and Daxia, had passed away and that his successor was Helmut Johannes Ludwig von Moltke, also known as Little Moltke. .

It is said that he has formulated a combat plan against the Allies and is secretly implementing it.

Lin Yi knew about this plan, but he also knew that this plan went bankrupt during the Battle of the Marne River, causing the Hans Empire to fall into the quagmire of war.

This plan was adapted from the Schlieffen Plan.

In the original Schlieffen plan, due to the defeat of the Gallic Empire in the Franco-Prussian War, a defense line was built to the east of the empire, starting from the Alps, along the border between the two countries.

This line of defense was centered on four cities, including Belfort, Urbinal, Tours, and Verdun. Strong fortress groups were built in these four cities.

The entire defense line is more than [-] kilometers long, with four cities as the core and an almost perfect defense line built around the four cities.

A gap was deliberately left between Urbinar and Tur in order to lure the Hans Empire to attack here, and then use the geographical advantage to annihilate the effective forces of the Hans Empire.

In order to deal with this situation, Schlieffen formulated a pincer offensive plan, dividing the Hans Empire's army into two armies, one to resist the Gallic Empire's offensive from the front, and the other army to divert from Verdun to the southwest. , kill directly from Belgium.

The advantage of this is that the Hans Empire only needs to use a small number of sacrifices to involve the enemy troops, and then the elites of the Hans Empire can burn the war to Gaul and recreate the scene of the Franco-Prussian War.

In order to achieve this goal, Schlieffen selectively abandoned the Eastern Front. Only a small number of Hans' troops were left on the eastern front, and they cooperated with the Austro-Hungarian Empire to resist the attack of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

It needs to be mentioned here that the Rakshasa Kingdom has joined the Allied Powers under the instigation of Daxia.

Originally, according to Schlieffen's plan, this strategy of abandoning the Eastern Front and focusing on the Western Front was feasible.

Because Schlieffen knew very well that the current main forces of the Allied Powers were only John, Gaul and the Rakshasa Kingdom.

However, the Rakshasa Kingdom is full of internal conflicts and does not have much potential for war. Even if it loses on the eastern front, the threat to the Hans Empire will be very limited given the strength of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

At the same time, because the Hans Empire resisted John and Gaul, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire could invest a large amount of troops on the Eastern Front.

Schlieffen felt that even if the two old empires tried to pull each other apart, they would not be able to defeat two against one, and they would not be able to defeat a Rakshasa state.

To put it another way, even if they can't defeat them, they can still hold on to the current front. As long as the Hans Empire can defeat Gaul and John on the western front, there will be enough time to return to fight on the eastern front.

In this way, wouldn’t their allies win?

That's why Schlieffen formulated such a crazy plan, concentrating 79 divisions on the Western Front, while only 10 divisions were reserved on the Eastern Front.

The distribution of troops on the east and west fronts almost reached an astonishing 1:8.

As for the Western Front, in order to better implement the principle of bringing the war to Gaul, Schlieffen also divided the entire Western Front into two armies.

In the left army group, which was the army group that needed to resist the Gallic attack head-on, Schlieffen assigned 11 divisions, and the rest were all assigned to the right wing.