Chapter 812: 3. Even if heaven falls (1)

Flower month 2nd. ∈↗ vertex novel,
Nearly 80% of the world’s people are bathed in peaceful sunlight, and everyone is full of optimistic and beautiful longing for the future.
Is there any reason to doubt the present world of peace? The negotiations between Charlemagne and Albion are proceeding smoothly, the Castilian front line is calming down, and the news in the north is also a boring statement repeating "no war on the front line" day after day. Charlemagne's large cruise ship "Starlight" sailed out of Burdigala in the name of "second overseas Chinese evacuation ship" and sailed towards Plymouth. There are 35 foreigners among the 148 passengers, including Mrs. Serres Chargé d’affaires in Charlemagne. Charlemagne knew all about this voyage, which was officially rendered as a "symbol of goodwill between the two countries." In addition, the Navy also announced that it would be on holiday. At least 3,000 officers and sailors took to the streets of Rudes, with bulging pockets in their waists. Purse, have fun in the prosperous capital. The merchants who learned the news early are preparing to make a fortune, and the carriage that has been bought almost caused traffic paralysis. Even the fleet is anchored in the harbour. Only a few training ships conduct ocean navigation training, and the destination is also a distant southern colony.
Under such an atmosphere, who would have the leisure to question the peace in front of him?
Only a very few people know that the false peace in front of them is just to cover up the smoke bombs that the combat troops have already launched.
The crew of the "Xinghui" all dispensed guns. Once the war started, they would control the foreign passengers on the ship and let the cruise ship return to the country. The so-called naval officers preparing to go to Rudes are internship officers and non-commissioned officers of the Naval Academy. The mobile unit disguised as a training ship is keeping silent and secretly heading north. Except for the captains of the ships, even the deputy captains did not know that this was an important military operation. After looking at the cold protection equipment loaded on the ships, the general officers and soldiers just thought that they would go to the North Sea for years of hardship to carry out voyage training.
As early as the 3rd of Bud month, the commander of the Naval Command Jean-Armand de Maier. Blazer issued Tourville the "Ocean Order No. 1" (that is, the "Basic Naval Order" Abbreviation of "Number One". Declared that "The Kingdom is in a situation where it has to fight against the Principality of Albion, Castile, and Ross for self-defense and self-defense. In view of this, it is necessary to complete all preparations before the early part of the flower month." No. 1 was also released at the same time.
Charlemagne and Albion’s final negotiation period is 1 month, so for the choice of the "x day" of the specific date of the war, Tourville made the following considerations: First, because Drake was training a new composition in the southern colony Fleet. The fleet stationed at Skapa Bay was handed over to Admiral Charles Admiral Charles Madden, the acting fleet commander who always berthed the fleet in the harbor on weekends, so all ships will be in the harbor on Sunday morning, and only half Officers and soldiers staying on the ship will not enter combat readiness.
Secondly, the route for launching the sneak attack must pass through the extremely northern seas with bad sea conditions, and the window period for fleet formation navigation is only early summer. In addition, the La Manche Strait between the two countries has a harsh year-round climate and belongs to a special sea area with no wind and three feet of waves. As long as the first raid is successful, more than half of the large fleet is taken away, and the land battles are smooth, then as long as the summer is over, the harsh sea conditions in autumn and winter are enough to make any landing counterattack combat plan into a bubble. Charlemagne can digest the battle results while consolidating the coastal defense and strengthening the force of the fleet, forcing Albian to withdraw from the mainland and admitting the fait accompli that Charlemagne dominated the mainland. Then, as long as the northern front is settled, you will be successful. Finally, Tourville repeatedly reminded that military operations must cooperate with diplomatic operations. "You can't advance in one second", make sure that the entire attack is "righteous" and "justified".
On the morning of the 23rd of the bud month, the answer was finally revealed. In the captain's room of the flagship "Beyond", Commander Tourville and Lieutenant General Gabbert announced the operations to the commanders, staff and captains of the various forces. Plan: The maneuver force will approach the Scarpa Bay via the choppy, rarely-shipped ultra-north route, and release two waves of attack teams 80 nautical miles north of the target. Air strikes were carried out on the main force of the Wangjia fleet in the harbor and onshore facilities. If necessary, supplementary attacks should also be made against the shipyard, foundry factory, and gunpowder warehouse. At this point, the misty "training" has finally revealed the truth.
The next day, each air formation commander and flight captain took turns to board the Beyan to receive training. The uncomfortable commander-in-chief used thrilling words such as "unprecedented great air battle", "life glory", "life and death", and demanded the attack teams to "sincerely unite. Work together, donate generously to repay the emperor" Yunyun . As for the unsuccessful raid, whether there is an emergency response plan, and whether the main force of the fleet "sees the role of serving the kingdom and pulling the brothers." At this important juncture where you can only encourage and not be discouraged, the commander-in-chief, who is also unsure of herself, will certainly not say the answer.
Charlemagne's small moves did not completely conceal Albion, but the Royal Fleet produced a serious misjudgment of Charlieman's intent to attack. On the 27th of Bud, Admiral Fremantle, Naval Operations Secretary, stated in the war warning: From the perspective of the personnel and equipment of the Charlieman ground force, and the composition of the Marine Corps, the enemy’s intention may be to the overseas colonies and cards. In the south of Styria, the army and navy coordinated operations were launched. There is no mention of the possibility of attacking Scarpa Bay. When analyzing the location of the Charlemagne ship, Walsingham’s intelligence department also concluded that
the main force of the enemy fleet is in the local port
, but it is not known that Tourville’s mobile forces are sailing northward with a murderous spirit.
Compared to Charlemagne's covert operations, Albion's paralysis was careless, and Alfheim's pre-war performance was stable and tight.
Li Lin is very clear that the "Yellow Plan" is a product of the "Schliefen Plan" that was born out of the German Army before World War I. The core idea of ​​both is to seek to use the powerful corps to quickly break through the enemy's defense and cut off the enemy's traffic. Later, he surrounded the heavy army of enemy forces and tried to annihilate the main force of the enemy forces in the decisive battle. At this point, the Chief Officer of Alfheim and the Chief of the General Staff of the German Imperial Army coincided. Restricted by national strength and objective geographic environment, they all pin their hopes on the mobility of the Corps.
But as a latecomer, Li Lin also knew where the Lord Earl’s mistake was.
First of all, at the strategic level, Schlieffen was completely confused. Unlike the old Mauchi who led the Prussian army to win the Franco-Prussian War, the new generation of soldiers represented by Schlieffen received a good professional education and are truly modern professional soldiers. But excellent professional qualities also prevent them from looking at themselves and even war with a broader perspective. Old Mao Qi’s philosophical thinking ability does not exist in them, nor can he understand Clausewitz’s statement that
war is the continuation of politics
. He has no interest in political issues other than war and does not include them in strategic considerations.
After all, this is a group of war freaks who have undergone strict military education and are born for war. The seeds of old Mao Qi's misalignment of the relationship between the military and the civil government eventually bear fruit on his successor.
It is based on this superficial understanding of war that Schliffin formulated his great war plan. Or a military paper is more vivid. The basis is arithmetic, maps, and railway timetables, not the countermeasures that the international environment and opponents may use-this is the typical blind spot of the staff. They are purely technical expert soldiers and products of the Industrial Revolution. They regard war as a large-scale violent duel based on simple calculations, not a violent means serving politics.
Based on this mentality, Schlieffen can rule out all political considerations in order to execute his operations perfectly. He hastily decided to allow troops to enter France through neutral Belgium and the Netherlands, but he did not consider the consequences of trampling on a neutral country in this way, especially the reaction of the British.
The strategy has been a mess. Tactics are also full of loopholes.
As a technical expert, Schlieffen worked out every detail of the plan. Almost even the hour of the meal and where to go to find the parts covered in butter paper were set when the train broke down. However, it does not leave any room for the troops. Clausewitz has already pointed out the uncertainties in the war. Old Mao Qi also always focused on the deployment of the troops before the war, and the subsequent actions were based on the situation. Depending on the development. The operation plan made by Schliefen according to the railway timetable is huge and complicated. If there is an error in the execution, it will inevitably lead to a chain reaction. Eventually, the entire plan fell short. The measures he took to remedy this defect were actually to formulate more detailed and complex instructions to restrict the actions of millions of troops. The intention is to exclude all interference from uncertainties. But he can neither grasp the enemy's response at that time, nor can he predict the possible reaction of his army to the enemy's actions. In the end, those instructions can only be reduced to unrealistic dogmas.
Facts have proved that railways can indeed be used in offensive operations, but only in defensive operations can they really use their energy, as long as the enemy forces retreat to destroy railways and bridges. The troops can only rely on the infantry's feet and mules for maneuvering. At this time, the mobility of the enemy and our opponents are roughly the same. The legs of the infantry cannot cross the vast enemy territory before the other party reacts. Eventually, they cannot achieve the strategic goal of detouring, and they can only face the enemy after a certain breakthrough.
In the final analysis, Schliefen ignored the human factor. He can freely play lifeless war chess on the map. The speed of military attacks can be deduced according to the railway timetable. The executable plan is ultimately a living person full of uncertainty, and all unforeseen circumstances will be reflected in the real war. He could not predict the reaction of the Belgians and the British, nor could he predict how his army's officers and soldiers would react when they encountered unexpected problems. It is precisely because of neglecting the human factor and ignoring the uncertainty, which led to the double blindness of the Schliffin plan at the strategic and tactical levels. This is the root cause of the failure of Schlieffen's plan.
With the German Empire as a specimen, Li Lin and the elven camp will naturally not make that low-level mistake again.
The military preparations needless to say, on the strategic level, the previous layouts are beginning to play a role, and the situation is a little bit in the direction of favoring the elf camp.
Once the war broke out, at the beginning stage, relying on surprise attacks, Charlemagne may have some advantages, but fighting everywhere will inevitably bring about the problem of scattered combat power. In addition, Albion and the United Duchy of Ross are quite impressive opponents. The former has a strait sky as a barrier. Relying on the "blood transfusion" of overseas colonies and the characteristics of maritime wars, it can always relieve the breath. The latter is sitting on a vast land and a large population, and "using space for time" is their best strategy. Fighting against any of the above-mentioned countries will inevitably lead to a continuous war of attrition, not to mention fighting at the same time. It can be said that Charlemagne could not get rid of its ruined destiny even if the elven camp did not come out to make trouble.
Of course, at the beginning of the war, with many years of accumulation, Charlemagne will inevitably occupy a considerable advantage. It can be seen that there are not many people who will surely usher in victory if they persist. At the critical moment when the nations are in crisis, defeat the fierce Charlemagne and the white horse knight who is turning the tide-who is sheyalfheim?
With Charlie Man, the number one hitter ahead, the tolerance of the two camps of humans and orcs towards the independent elven country will be greatly improved. Take a step back and say that even with the exception of the elves themselves, almost no one welcomes the country-the defeated Charlemagne wants to avenge the shame, and the Ross United Commonwealth regrets the loss of political influence within Charlemagne, even before and Yar Albion, who's like glue, will also be suspicious of the newly rising elf camp. But after such a war, after seeing the powerful military forces of the elf camp, what can they do? Together with military deterrence and diplomatic skills, it is not impossible to create an external environment that is conducive to the camp of elves. After that, you can slowly recuperate and wait for the next opportunity.
Before that, there was no room for error.
"So, has he changed recently?"
With his left hand tapping on the desktop, Li Lin asked the communication interface.
"I am preparing to submit a written report..."
"I want to listen to your thoughts directly."
Li Lin seemed to see through the hesitation in her heart, and the feeling that everything was understood by the other party made the girl shrink. But her owner continued to ask in a tone that penetrated the hearts of others:
"What do you think of his performance in this incident."
"He is an upright person, not suitable for politics."
The spider stood upright and asserted.
There is no room for hesitation at this moment. Monitoring Roland’s actions and evaluating it is one of her main tasks. Answers that are in vain but without evaluation or with sloppiness will immediately be considered incompetent or ambivalent. According to the experience of spiders, people who get both evaluations will have a tragic ending.
"The impact of the incident itself is somewhat unstable, and I have some doubts about the consortium and your Excellency~EbookFREE.me~ However, there is nothing unusual about the spirit and harmony."
"……Is that right."
Li Lin's smile twisted into a bitter smile.
For spiders, this is an extremely rare situation.
She rarely sees Li Lin's expressions other than smiles. On the one hand, this is due to the relationship between the owner and the belongings. On the other hand, Li Lin does rarely show a rich expression.
Is this some kind of omen, or is he aware of it?
"Just keep the status quo, remember to report regularly."
Just when the spider thought, Li Lin had disappeared from the communication interface, and the trembling girl took a deep breath and drove the fear away from her body a little. After a few seconds, she asked aside:
"Is it all right?"
Roland nodded silently in a blind spot that could not be reached from the horizon of the communication device. (To be continued...)