The Third Reich: The Return of the King

"We made a serious mistake!"

In the border area of Gaul and Hans, Marshal Foch, when he saw Lieutenant General Henry, who had retreated from the front, severely criticized the latter!

"You shouldn't give up the Rhine region, you shouldn't let the Germans enter here so easily!"

Others may not understand the significance of the Rhine region, but Marshal Foch knew it very well.

Coupled with the poor performance of Lieutenant General Henry in the previous military operations, he was even more dissatisfied with the guy in front of him!

"Marshal, do we need to send troops now to drive the Germans away?"

Seeing the frosty expression on Marshal Foch's face, a French major general pretended to be bold and said.

This sentence was originally intended to curry favor with Marshal Foch, and he even said it at the risk of offending his immediate superior, Lieutenant General Henry.

However, to his disappointment, Marshal Foch did not have half a bit of joy at his flattery, but reprimanded him at the first time!

"Foolish, what are you going to do now in the Rhine region? Do you want the international community to think that we have invaded Hans again? Do you think that this incident is not shameful enough to want to lose the face of our Gallic country again?"

Marshal Foch was furious, and everyone trembled, and they didn't dare to take a breath with their heads down.

Marshal Foch didn't bother to pay any more attention to these people, he had already withdrawn his troops from Hans at this time, and if they dared to send troops back to Hans when Eagle Sauce and Sun Never Set were extremely wary of them, then the things that these two countries had threatened before might become a reality!

Since the French army failed to seize the golden opportunity before, then when the opportunity has disappeared, they cannot continue to entangle, and they should let go when it is time to let go, otherwise they will only embarrass themselves!

"Although the war is over, all we have obtained is fifteen years of peace, and this is not a complete peace!"

Standing on a high place, looking in the direction of Hans in the distance, Marshal Foch uttered that famous sentence!

However, the difference from the historical sentence is that because of the butterfly effect brought about by the appearance of Mainz, the time of Marshal Foch's sentence was shortened from 20 years to 15 years.

Marshal Foch really believed that the peace between Hans and Gaul could not last long, that war would come, and that at that time, Gaul's situation would probably be very dangerous!

Thinking of this, Marshal Foch felt that he had to do something, he was a Gaul, he loved his country dearly, and since he had foreseen the danger of the future, he had to warn the rulers to pay attention to it and guard against it!

So, Marshal Foch began to investigate along the border between Hans and Gaul with a large group of staff officers.

At the end of the expedition, in October 1920, the marshal returned to the city of Eiffel Tower, the capital of Gaul, and submitted a report written by him to the government.

"Marshal, the future is really so sad"

After receiving this report from Marshal Foch, the government cabinet attached great importance to it, and the prime minister summoned him as soon as he read Marshal Foch's report.

"At least I think so!"

Marshal Foch said very frankly that he was indeed very pessimistic about the future, because he really couldn't find any reason not to be pessimistic!

"However, now that we are the victorious country, the Hans are the defeated country, and we still have the Treaty of Versailles to bind the Hans, no matter how you look at it, we have the advantage, why do you think we should take defensive measures now?"

Prime Minister Clemenceau couldn't understand a little, in his opinion, even if this operation to enter the Ruhr failed, it was not a particularly big thing, the casualties suffered by the French army in this operation were not large, the French troops killed on the front line added up to less than 30,000 people, this degree of loss, compared with the First World War, is not enough to see at all, during the First World War, but in every slightly larger battle, the French army's losses at that time were not greater than this?

Moreover, most of the battlefields of the First World War were in the Gauls' own country, but this time the battlefield was in the territory of the enemy, and the comparison between the two was obviously that the latter was more advantageous, and they went abroad to fight, which shows that they were in an advantageous position and had the initiative in the war!

In this case, Marshal Foch was still so pessimistic that the Gallic prime minister could not understand.

"Your Excellency, I am not pessimistic about the current situation, I am pessimistic about the future situation, you should be clear about what the purpose of our march into the Ruhr is, without destroying Hans's industrial system, the huge population gap between our two countries will put us at a complete disadvantage in the next war, Hans's industrial strength and population size are better than ours, if against Hans, I really don't see any hope of victory!"

Marshal Foch felt very tired, this kind of thing actually did not need to be explained by him at all, as the prime minister of the cabinet, Clemenceau himself should be very clear, but now it seems that he himself does not fully understand this in his heart, which makes Marshal Foch feel very disappointed!

"Hehe, I think you have filtered, marshal, we Gauls are not alone, we still have allies like the sun never sets and Eagle sauce by our side!"

"But the sun never sets and Hawk-chan have betrayed us in this operation!"

Marshal Foch has completely lost trust in these two allies, and it is too unreliable to rely on these two allies to protect the national security of Gaul!

"Yes, they did, but it was only out of their own national interests, the sun never set and didn't want us to dominate Europe, and Eagle Sauce was worried that we were crowding out their international trade market, so they joined forces to stop us!"

When Marshal Foch heard Clemenceau's words, he couldn't help but look at the other party twice, the other party's analysis just now was quite thorough, which showed that the other party had a very deep understanding of the national pattern, but why would people with such an understanding still have an optimistic attitude towards the future?

"The reason is very simple, the reason why the sun does not set against us is for the purpose of safeguarding their own interests, and the same is true for Eagle Sauce, although they oppose our march into Hans, it does not mean that they are really on Hans's side to support Hans, all they need is a balance, and once this balance is broken in the future, then they will take action immediately!"

"Now we are stronger than Hans, so in your sense that they are supporting Hans and suppressing us.

But in the future, when Hans is stronger than us, do you think they will help us or help Hans?"

When Clemenceau finished speaking, he was very proud in his heart, and he felt that he had seen through the careful thinking of various countries!

Now that they have seen through the minds of various countries, they can use the attitudes of various countries to their own advantage.

Marshal Foch thought for a while, he had to admit that there was some truth in what the prime minister said, but he was a soldier, and he really couldn't hand over the security of his country to other countries to protect, and soldiers should use their guns to protect their own country, so he still insisted on his opinion!

"Even so, I think the Maginot Line still needs to be built!"

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