The Third Reich: The Return of the King

"The reason is very simple, the army of the Gauls had already been disbanded in large numbers to celebrate the victory, and when we were in Tower City, we saw a large number of French soldiers returning from the front line, most of these people were not from Tower City, and Tower City was just a transit point for them to return home, and they would probably have returned to their homeland long ago!"

Major General Mainz's reasoning sounded very simple, so it was not very convincing, and although others did not doubt the accuracy of his information, they did not believe that this little thing could have too much impact on the number of troops invested by the French army.

"Generals, the situation in Gaul is completely different from ours!".

Mainz sighed, judging from the reaction of everyone in the staff, he knew that everyone had made an empirical mistake!

The situation faced by the German army and the French army was completely different, the German army was the vanquished, and the French army was the victor.

The reason why the Germans gathered here was entirely because they were waiting for the post-war treaties of the Entente to deal with them, and most of these armies were to be disbanded, but before that, they still had a lot of formalities to go through, after all, even for the sake of maintaining social order, it was impossible to casually let so many soldiers return home.

The French were the same, they were the victors, and they did not have to think about the unknown orders that awaited them after the defeat.

It is very normal for French soldiers to get vacations after victory, go home for vacation, or even disband the army outright, after all, the Second Reich has fallen, the German army has long since surrendered, and Gaul does not need so many troops piled up on the front line.

After hearing Major Mainz's explanation, although some people still did not believe it, most people began to believe his reasoning.

"Are you saying that the French army does not have enough troops at the front, so it can only use so many men in a short time?"

Field Marshal Hindenburg asked.

"Well, the Entente still has a lot of troops on the Western Front at this time, in addition to the French army, there are also British and American troops, as long as the war does not break out, the French army does not need so many people, even if the three countries each send 500,000 troops, it is enough to ensure the stability of the current defense line. "

"Okay, in that case, then let's make a battle plan according to the size of the enemy force of 500,000 people!"

With a wave of his hand, Field Marshal Hindenburg directly stopped the meaningless arguments of the staff officers and moved on to the next stage.

Major Mainz did not have much opportunity to speak because of his relatively low rank, and in fact, he did not need to speak.

Under the leadership of Field Marshal Hindenburg, the German army quickly made a judgment, and the German General Staff believed that the French army and the army of the Belle Division would march from the area of the Billy Division to Hans, where the terrain was flat and suitable for the advance of the French army, if it was to attack in the west, the mountainous terrain was not conducive to the French attack, and the value of the Rhine region, especially the Ruhr industrial area, was obviously much higher than that of the southwest, so this judgment was unanimously agreed by everyone.

So, around the direction of the possible attack of the French army, the German army was fully prepared, just waiting for the French army to collide headlong!

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Mainz speculated well, the size of the French army is indeed not large, but in addition to the reasons he said before, there is another reason he did not expect, that is: the French generals believe that the German army after the defeat is demoralized, and without the support of the rear, the combat effectiveness will inevitably fall to the bottom, and the French army came with a great victory at this time, the soldiers are full of food, and the morale is high

In their opinion, to fight a lost dog like the German army, it should be easy to capture and be sure!

As a result, when the war broke out, the result was completely different from what they thought!

Although the German army was defeated, they did not indulge in it, but because of the various encounters in the past few months, they had endless anger in their hearts, and at this time, the French army collided head-on, which immediately detonated the anger of the German army, and the German army's full anger was all greeted in the face of the French army!

On February 26, the French army began to attack Aachen, on February 27 the French army began to retreat, and on March 1, the German army not only drove away the invaders, but also counterattacked the city of Liege in the northeast of the Billy Division!

At this moment, the Entente countries were all panicked!

Everyone originally did not support Gaul to attack the Weimar Republic, because they felt that Gaul could not be allowed to swallow the fruits of victory alone, but the German army gathered so many troops in the Rhine region and did not disband for a long time, which also made the people of the Entente very unhappy, so the wishful thinking of the United States and Britain was to let Gaul, a stunned young man, go to fight with the remnants of the German army

As a result, the Gauls were so useless that they were defeated so quickly, and their attack not only did not take any advantage, but they were also beaten and lost their armor, lost their cities and lost their land, and when the Germans crossed the border and entered the country of the Belgian division, many newspapers in the Entente countries began to exclaim: The terrible German army is back!

Not only that, due to the impact of the war, there was a large-scale panic in the country, a large number of residents began to flee with their families, and a large number of people from the Belgian Division ran to the neighboring country of Gaul, which also brought a lot of panic to Gaul, and many Gauls were reminded of the fact that two years ago, the German army had entered Gaul and caused a lot of damage in the northeastern region of Gaul, resulting in the displacement of millions of people! !

Now, the threat of war is coming again, and those residents of the Northeast, who have just returned to their homes and have not had time to rejoice, immediately gathered up after hearing the news and began to flee again.

At the beginning of March, a large number of people from the border areas poured into the city of Tower, bringing back the news of the defeat of the French army on the front line, as a result, everyone in the city changed color, and millions of residents of the city began to panic!

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The Gallic president was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, he regretted it, if he had known that this was the outcome, he should not have supported the military's proposal in the first place, and he should not have touched this brow at all.

"Your Excellency, I think it is necessary to ask Britain and the United States to send troops for now!"

Prime Minister Kremunlock said anxiously, the front line of the battle reports snowflakes in waves, but there is no good news, the news from all over the country is also very unreliable, there are constantly reports of the discovery of the whereabouts of the German army, the whole tower city panic, in this way, the situation may not end!

"Will they send troops? I think they want to see our jokes!"

It's better to see jokes than to continue to be embarrassed!

The prime minister couldn't help but sneer in his heart, and he began to regret it, he shouldn't have been so impulsive and listened to Marshal Foch's words!

However, this defeat made Krementius re-understand the strength of the German army, and also felt the threat of the German army, and the idea of military restrictions on Germany after the war became unprecedentedly strong!