"The Rhine River and the terrain on both sides are not conducive to large corps operations. Anyone who uses troops here is seeking death. Can troops be used in this area in the north? In fact, the geographical conditions are also very complex!"
"First of all, the border area from Metz to Strasbourg, which is just over 100 kilometers from east to west, has the Vosges Mountains rising from south to north in France!"
"The mountains here are high and densely forested. It is France's most important wood, coal and iron production area. It is worth mentioning that the hometown of Joan of Arc is here!"
"The French corps cannot deploy here. Only a few mountain infantry divisions can barely fight, and those heavy armies equipped with artillery can only assemble on the east and west sides of the Vosges Mountains!"
"This divided the French army into two parts, and the entire battle formed two independent battlefields! This is the weakness of the French, and it is the best opportunity for us to concentrate our forces to defeat them one by one!"
"On the west side of the Vosges Mountains is the main battlefield of Metz. Intelligence shows that the French Emperor is gathering his main troops towards Metz, and on the west side of the Vosges Mountains is the auxiliary battlefield of Strasbourg. At this moment, French Marshal McMahon has already We’re almost there!”
"Chief of General Moltke's strategy is to make full use of the terrain of the Vosges Mountains, divide the French army so that they cannot assist each other, and first concentrate their forces to eat up the McMahon Army and capture Strasbourg!"
"Prince Karl's Third Army and Prince Frederick's Second Army have begun to advance towards Strasbourg! At this time, our First Army has to face the huge pressure of the French Emperor alone!"
"It's good to delay the friendly forces for one more minute, so in the face of the enemy's probing attack, we must not expose our true strength!"
"We must make Napoleon III believe that Prussia's main force is on the Western Front battlefield, and then we must force them to assemble an army towards us. We must create conditions for Prince Karl's victory!"
"At this time, who are we not going to go to? Marshal, just because all the French generals have the same idea as you, we must be the first to show up on the battlefield!"
Xiao Letian's meaning could no longer be understood. At that time, everyone in Europe believed that the role that these two thousand Chinese troops could play in a super battle involving hundreds of thousands of people was actually pepper noodles.
Just adds a little flavor! Neither the enemy nor we think that these two thousand people can play a major role in determining strategy. Letting the Chinese go to the battlefield is actually more of a political statement!
Prussia wants France to take a look. Not only has Prussia declared war on you, but also the Chinese people in the East have declared war on you. You are the unjust party, but they are the just ones!
Even Bismarck believes that sharing some of the credit with the Chinese is for better cooperation in the future. After all, the empire will still rely on the eastern market in the future!
In this context, the Prussian military will never let these guests be trapped in despair, and it is absolutely impossible for them to fight a dangerous battle!
Steinmetz sent the Chinese Legion to the Luxembourg border. In the final analysis, it was to keep them away from the main battlefield. The safer the better, but he did not expect that Xiao Letian actually came to ask for the battle in person. This made the old general feel full of pressure!
"This, this, this... Head of State, you will make it very difficult for me!"
"What's so difficult? Precisely because the French have your judgment, as soon as they see our voice and shadow, they will immediately judge that this is Prussia's main battlefield!"
"Given the King of France's hatred for me, I believe he will try his best to gather troops towards Metz. If we fight harder here, the pressure on Strasbourg will be less!"
"What's more, we Chinese have been studying special operations. For this kind of chaotic and complicated war, a small team like ours is actually more suitable than your large corps!"
"Leave the task to us. The opposite side is just a few cavalry regiments that rely on the fortress to harass us. We can still eat it!"
At this point, Steinmetz had nothing to say, "Okay, I allow you to fight! But please remember that the French Emperor's army is getting closer and closer to the battlefield. Once it encounters the enemy's army of thousands, Don’t Lian Zhan and return immediately!”
"Thank you, thank you very much!" Xiao Letian finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The order was quickly issued to the front line. Wang Chen's judgment gave him enough time. When he heard the order to break into pieces, disperse, infiltrate and kill the enemy at an opportunity, his platoon was fully prepared.
The tents and heavy weapons were placed in the rear. They even placed the important firepower supplementary equipment Gatling machine guns in the rear. All the soldiers only brought three days of individual rations, and the remaining physical strength was divided between bullets and guns. .
"Hahaha...I'm going first! You guys can get behind me!" Wang Chen was the first to reach the target area, and was also the first to fight towards the southern battlefield.
Passing through the major camps on the Prussian border, under the gaze of more than 100,000 Prussian troops, these Chinese soldiers who were broken into pieces quickly turned into strange devils and elves!
All the soldiers put on summer camouflage uniforms. They all looked very eye-catching. The soldiers carrying weapons on their backs were painting their faces with oil paint. You put some paint on my face, and I will paint it on you. Soon, one by one The original appearance is no longer visible.
"Oh God! What are these Chinese doing? Are they acting? Are they imitating elves?"
"I heard it's some kind of disguise that makes you invisible! It's just a joke..."
"But it's true that it's scary! If you see it at night, you might mistake it for a ghost!"
"Elves! Do you think they look like the elves in medieval legends?"
Frank, the translator, blushed when he heard the comments of his compatriots, but the paint on his face covered up the redness. "Shut up! Don't think that the Allied forces can't understand German. Most of their officers understand English and German!"
"Stop your impoliteness!" Frank scolded all the way, and the Prussian soldiers along the way shut up, but the Chinese soldiers didn't care about what these people said at all. The concepts of war are completely different, so what's the difference? !
The discipline of the Prussian army is very strict. When the officers started to scold them, all the soldiers shut their mouths and no one dared to say another word.
But today's scene will be forever engraved in their hearts. A group of Eastern soldiers with faces painted like devils are slender and shorter than Europeans, but more muscular and flexible.
Everything is the same as the description of elves in medieval legends, but these people do not have the natural and noble temperament of elves. What they have is a strong murderous aura, like the gods of death coming out of purgatory.
"Dark Elf! This is the legendary Dark Elf!" Countless Prussian soldiers shouted in horror.
Note: My father is hospitalized, updates will be very unstable these days, sorry!
