Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Just when John Empire was still discussing how to avoid the loss of national confidence as much as possible, and then began to prepare to rely on merchant ships to transform aircraft carriers.

The armies of the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire have begun to gather towards the border of the Rhineland Republic.

The Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire each sent 30 divisions, preparing to attack from the east and west defense lines.

But it is obvious that these consortiums have a very keen sense of smell.

Before the war started, they had already begun to secretly transfer supplies across the country and moved them to Thionville Fortress. When the Hans Empire attacked the Kingdom of Denmark,

These consortiums knew that the war had begun.

So the Rhineland Republic issued an emergency order requiring all citizens to relocate to the Thionville Fortress within three days.

This led to the fact that when the armies of Gaul and the Hans Empire assembled at the border, they did not encounter any resistance. Similarly, they did not see any Rhineland soldiers.

The Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire had already known about the actions of the Rhineland Republic. But they didn't care.

In their view, everything the Rhineland Republic is doing now is in vain.

They were sandwiched between the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire, and there was no place to escape.

Even if we hide in Thionville Fortress, what can we do? It's just a stronger turtle shell.

The general in charge of frontline command is the current head of the Fisher family and the army general of the Hans Empire, Manfrey Ludwig von Fisher. (Does anyone still remember him?)

Manfre knew that in order to be able to break through the Thionville Fortress, the Empire used 12 train guns and two air divisions.

Manfrey did not believe that Thionville Fortress could withstand such powerful firepower.

Soon, on January 1931, 1, the Supreme Command of the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire simultaneously issued orders to the armies of both sides, asking them to attack the Thionville Fortress.

This offensive was named the "New Year's Offensive."

After receiving the order from the high command, Manfrey ordered the entire army to advance into the Rhineland Republic with the Imperial Third Armored Division as the vanguard.

At the same time, the 107st Bulgarian National Division, the th Division of the Hans Imperial Wehrmacht, and the Austrian Highland Infantry Division advanced in a perfect formation.

Then on the northern front, Manfre ordered 10 divisions of the right-wing corps to attack Luxembourg from the Aachen area and attack the Thionville Fortress.

On the southern front, due to geographical problems, Manfrey planned to cooperate with the Gallic Empire to first capture the southern region of the Rhineland Republic.

Here we need to introduce the situation of Thionville Fortress.

As mentioned before, Thionville Fortress was actually built based on the original border between the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire.

The main fortress is in the northern section of the entire defense line, near the Luxembourg area. This resulted in large areas in the southern region.

Further south, near the Alps. The Rhineland Republic built a southern defensive fortress with Mulhouse as its center.

Note that the main city mentioned here is Mulhouse, which does not mean that there is only one city.

The Mulhouse fortress complex includes the city of Mulhouse, Bad Bellingen and Schallstadt. With these three cities as the center points, a three-room defense line was constructed.

At the same time, these three fortresses were bounded by the Hans Empire to the east, the Gallic Empire to the west, and Switzerland to the south. These three fortresses are connected by the Rhine River.

A natural river defense line is formed.

Normally speaking, with the defensive fortress built by these three cities and blocked by the Rhine River, whether the Hans Empire or the Gallic Empire wanted to attack, they would be faced with a huge threat.

But now, they are attacking from two directions at the same time, which puts a lot of pressure on the Rhineland defense.

In the central region of the Rhineland Republic, there is also a defensive fortress, which is the Strasbourg Central Fortress Group.

As the capital of the Rhineland Republic after its founding, Strasbourg has been strengthening its defenses since the first day of its establishment.

It is the earliest section of the entire Thionville Fortress to be built and is also the core area of ​​the entire fortress.

In fact, according to Western naming rules, the real name of this fortress should be called Strasbourg Fortress, not Thionville Fortress.

From here you can see how tightly the area is defended.

However, when it was later built, the Thionville Fortress became the largest fortress group that could accommodate the largest population, so the entire fortress was named Thionville Fortress.

According to the plan of the Imperial High Command, the Thionville Fortress on the northern line will be given full responsibility by the Hans Empire. The city of Mulhouse on the southern line was handed over to the Gallic Empire.

With thirteen divisions on both sides, they can completely surround these two fortresses.

As for the Strasbourg Fortress in the middle, it required the use of 34 divisions of troops, plus 10 train guns.

Again, don't look at the Strasbourg Fortress. It is not like the northern or southern lines. It uses a group of fortresses. Just a single fortress fortress.

But the defense here is no weaker than the other two places.

The entire city's underground was hollowed out and turned into a deadly battlefield.

After Manfre arranged his troops to attack the Thionville Fortress, he led the main force of the Hans Empire towards the Strasbourg Fortress.

When Manfrey led the Hans Empire's army to the outskirts of Strasbourg, he was shocked by the sight in front of him.

With Strasbourg as the center point, these YT people turned the entire area with a radius of ten kilometers into a group of bunkers.

Each of these bunkers is half-buried underneath, with only about half a meter of the top of the fortress exposed.

And the top is made of concrete, with a thickness of one meter according to Manfrey's visual inspection.

Moreover, there are several barbed wire fences blocking each bunker between the bunkers.

Manfre even suspected that the ground was full of mines.

Looking through his telescope, Manfrey discovered that the fortresses were not yet uniform. Some of the forts are obviously larger than those next to them.

Manfrey guessed that those larger fortresses contained some heavy weapons, such as small-caliber artillery.

Seeing such a scene, Manfre's scalp felt numb.

If such a defense were to be attacked by force, how many people would have to die here?

But the high command had issued an order requiring him to launch an attack as soon as possible. Manfre could only grit his teeth and prepare to test it out first.

Therefore, under the order of Manfrey, the 17 divisions of the Western Corps of the Hans Empire concentrated all the artillery of the entire army and launched an artillery bombardment against the defensive positions on the east bank outside Strasbourg.

The Gallic Legion on the other side of the Rhine saw that the Hans Empire had launched an attack on Strasbourg. Not to be outdone, they launched an attack on the positions on the west bank of the Strasbourg Fortress.