Two weeks have passed since Moriarty was captured.
The summit meeting of the Allied Powers has been going on for two weeks. Perhaps because of Moriarty's arrest, the British position suddenly weakened. Secretary of the Navy Winslee even missed the meeting consecutively. Later, even Kitchener of the Army disappeared.
Prime Ministers Lloyd and Asquith, as well as the generals of the expeditionary force, were left to support the scene.
Britain was busy fighting within itself, and Lin Youde was planning to land in the Middle East next, and had no intention of dictating the European battlefield, so the initiative in the meeting gradually transferred to the French.
The French think that the idea of using the navy to break through the Dardanelles is very good. It can attack Germany's allies without diverting precious army forces. Therefore, this plan is feasible. The French Navy will conduct breakthrough operations together with the British Navy's Mediterranean Fleet.
As for the goddesses, the navy's goddesses never like to be dispatched by the army, so let them and the British girls fight to the death with the Ottoman goddesses.
On land, the French are preparing to launch a large-scale offensive operation. It seems that even the veteran Galliini cannot suppress the offensive desire of the officers below - it is not a day or two for offensive ideas to dominate the top brass of the French army.
Even the huge casualties in the Battle of the Marne that just passed could not offset its impact.
Foch rushed from Paris to Calais, trying to persuade the French generals to stay on the defensive in the new year and wait for Germany to exhaust its war potential. However, at this time, the top French military officials and French politicians regarded Foch as "
"The son of an Oriental", no one listened to her at all. In fact, even Gallini was prejudiced against Foch - Gallini was Josephine's mentor and didn't really like the domineering Foch.
Therefore, Lin Youde believes that the arrival of Foch actually made Gallianni decide to support his generals and launch an offensive.
The British General Haig also agreed with the French opinions and was preparing to launch an offensive against the Germans in Ypres.
"General Haig." Lin Youde, who had been silent for several days, suddenly spoke on the last day of the meeting, "If I am not mistaken, are you planning to launch an attack at Ypres in February 1909?"
"Yes." The arrogant British general frowned. Obviously he didn't like being interrupted by a yellow man, but Lin Youde's wife had a high reputation among the French. He had to give Lin Youde and the French some face, so he was patient.
Xingzi asked, "Is there any problem?"
"This is not a good idea." Lin Youde stood up, walked to the map, took the stick from Haig's hand, pointed at the map and said, "The battlefield you selected is a low-lying land, and February happens to be the rainy season in Belgium.
, the entire battlefield will be filled with stagnant water and muddy, your troops will be unable to move in the mud, and their speed will be greatly reduced when charging, making them targets for German machine gunners. And the transportation of your cannons and artillery shells will be seriously hindered.
, the evacuation of the wounded will also become extremely difficult. You'd better wait until the rainy season has passed when the ground becomes dry and hard before launching an attack."
"The mud affects the Germans too, it's not a problem!"
"The Germans are in the trenches," Lin Youde retorted forcefully. "Their trenches will be built on higher ground. This is common sense in defense. So the impact of the rainy season on the Germans is that there will be water at the bottom of their trenches.
, that’s all, and your troops will face the condescending attacks of German machine gunners in the mud in the low-lying areas!”
"Our artillery fire will destroy the German defenses!"
"No, you won't." Lin Youde retorted again without hesitation, "You don't even have enough shells."
Historically, Britain's supply of artillery shells only became sufficient after Lloyd George became responsible for the entire munitions production. If there were still professors in Britain in this time and space, it might be different, but now Moriarty is being held captive with a collar.
In Lin Youde's official residence.
Lin Youde's words obviously plunged Haig into extreme anger.
"We will have enough artillery shells, and we will win the battle." Haig said through gritted teeth.
"Then we'll see."
Lin Youde shrugged and turned back to his seat.
"What you did is exactly the same as Foch." Josephine whispered to Lin Youde, "You strengthened the British's determination to launch an attack."
"This is what I expected." Lin Youde responded in a low voice.
"Isabella won't be happy to hear that."
"No," Lin Youde shook his head, "Isabella is different from you. She has completely regarded herself as the princess of the Lin Ji Empire, not the queen of the British Empire."
Josephine glanced at Lin Youde and said nothing - she actually knew that Lin Youde was right.
As a result, the long Calais Conference was over, and the British would launch an offensive in February 1909. The goal was to smooth out the salient of the German front. This would shorten the British position by fifty kilometers, thereby releasing considerable strength.
, in order to devote these forces to the huge offensive that the French army would launch in mid-1909.
In Lin Youde's view, this plan is full of typical World War I thinking. There is no breakthrough, no large-scale maneuvers to drive forward, and some are just the decadent idea of "shortening the position to release troops so that the other position can be shortened in another place."
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However, Lin Youde also knows that under the current situation, it is almost impossible for the European army to complete large-scale mobile operations. The basis of large-scale mobile operations is an advanced command system. In the last time and space, humans did not have the ability to support this until around World War II.
This is a means of communication for combat, and in this time and space of 1909, only the troops of Horangabo have the same capabilities.
Because of this, the Germans in any time and space have done very well. Their troops almost completed the first large-scale flanking operation in human history, and almost defeated the French.
This achievement was achieved not because of Germany's amazing telecommunications capabilities, but because of the Germans' amazing discipline and outrageously rigorous planning. During the entire battle, most German units were actually in semi-isolation.
state, but they still continued the battle.
French and British soldiers and commanders would never be able to do this.
When Lin Youde returned to the mansion from the venue, the first thing he saw was Moriarty sitting on the second floor terrace reading a book.
So Lin Youde went directly to the terrace through the stairs in the lobby, came to Moriarty's chair, held the back of her chair and said, "I'm in a good mood."
Moriarty glanced at Josephine, ignored Lin Youde, and turned his attention back to the book.
Lin Youde shrugged and began to report to Moriarty the contents of the last day of the meeting.
"Wasting the lives of soldiers is the romance of being a general," Moriarty briefly commented, "But they actually have their own helplessness. The Times has exaggerated the Germans into evil demons and advocated that defeating Germany is the British Empire.
As the world's most powerful country, we have an unshirkable responsibility, and a very recent newspaper claims that the Germans are the descendants of the barbarians who destroyed the great Rome and threatened Western Christian civilization. The British generals are politicians, and they know how to assess the situation. I'm afraid, the French
The situation is similar.”
"That's it." Josephine walked to the other side of Moriarty's chair, stretched out her hand and gently touched her collar. This action made Moriarty shrink his neck instinctively.
Josephine smiled. She didn't know if she was led astray by her unscrupulous husband. In the past two weeks, she was the second person in the entire mansion who liked to tease Moriarty. Her favorite thing to do was to hold Moriarty in her arms.
Di then said, "If I had known I would have given birth to a daughter, my son wouldn't even let me hold him now."
Lin Youde saw his wife getting excited about playing, and he reached out his hand to stroke Moriarty's head.
"You two..." The professor looked very humiliated, "One day..."
"You want to give birth to a son for me?" Lin Youde grabbed the prize very smoothly, and his skills can be said to have reached the next level.
"Who wants to give you a son?"
Lin Youde smiled and patted Moriarty's belly and said, "But, maybe it's already there."
"Well……"
Josephine said: "If you experience any unusual vomiting sensation, tell me as soon as possible."
Moriarty didn't speak, but turned her head and glared at Josephine fiercely, but from her angle, she could only see the bottom of Josephine's bust... This seemed to make her even more unhappy.
At this time, Ba appeared on the terrace - apart from being unable to use his powers, Ba's body was no longer seriously injured, unlike Luo Tianyi, who had to lie in bed to rest.
Ba glanced at Moriarty, then shook her head, but she didn't say much, and went straight to the point: "The fleet that transported the remains of the martyrs of the First Aztec Division will return to Paris before Christmas, and Xun will
Arrived with the battleship as a supplement to combat power, Sophie and Su Fang want to meet Miss Moriarty."
"Where is Isabella?" Lin Youde asked with concern, "Did my telegram change her mind and stay in Langgabo?"
"So far it looks like it is."
Lin Youde breathed a sigh of relief. Isabella was coming over and she didn't know what was going to happen when she met Moriarty.
Moriarty looked very regretful.
"I originally wanted to fight against the former Her Majesty the Queen again. Her humiliating look when she lost was really pleasing to the eye."
"On this point," Lin Youde said, "I agree with you. Isabella is the cutest when she admits failure and gets angry because of her unwillingness."
"Humph," Moriarty seemed very unhappy because he and Lin Youde had reached a consensus.
"By the way, you are also very cute now." Lin Youde said without hesitation, "In a sense, you and Isabella are the same type of characters."
Moriarty closed the book in his hand with a snap, pushed Josephine's hand around her neck away, stood up and walked away angrily.
After Moriarty left, Bao showed a worried expression: "Is it okay to just leave her alone? I think keeping her under strict supervision and interrogating her is a safe approach."
"Have you seen The Romance of the Three Kingdoms?" Lin Youde asked his second wife.
"See, what's wrong..." Ba frowned mid-sentence, as if she guessed what Lin Youde was going to say.
"Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times and finally gained Meng Huo's trust, and what I want to do now is exactly the same thing."
"But," Ba hesitated, and finally said with a blush, "Zhuge Liang didn't fuck Meng Huo..."
Lin Youde almost fell down.
"I didn't do it either," Lin Youde said, "at least not yet." (To be continued.