Chapter 52: Someone is coming! Let's go to Man Shuai's memoirs!
【This has always been the biggest criticism of the Yellow Plan. 】

[It just looks too similar to the Schlieffen Plan during World War I! ]

[The main force also took the northern route, occupied the lowlands, and put pressure on northern France. ]

[It's exactly the same attack route! ]

[This decades-old plan really lacks creativity.]

【Not only did it not catch Hitler's eye at the time. 】

[It was also considered by later military enthusiasts to be a plan lacking in originality.]

[But in fact, the Yellow Plan is similar to the Schlieffen Plan during World War I. ]

【These are two completely different solutions! 】

【Very different! 】

The barrage masters were dissatisfied when they saw this.

"What? The Schlieffen Plan and the Yellow Plan are not only identical, but also indistinguishable from each other."

"Both of them passed through the lowlands, occupied the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, and marched straight to the French capital, Paris. What difference could there be?"

"UP Master, do you understand history?"

"When did these marketing accounts come to popularize science?"

"UP Master, please continue editing. I am listening."

And the sky continues.

[The Schlieffen Plan in World War I was to attack the northern front with the main force, quickly break through, encircle and annihilate the main forces of Britain and France, aim at Paris, force the enemy to surrender, and thus achieve a complete victory in the war.]

【And the Yellow Plan during World War II. 】

[The main goal is to occupy the lowlands, repel the main forces of the British and French coalition forces, and maintain a pressure on them. ]

[Gaining population and industrial supplies from the lowlands will improve national strength, and in the subsequent competition, we will find opportunities to defeat Britain and France. ]

[The Schlieffen Plan was to completely annihilate the enemy's main force and achieve total victory in the war.]

[Completely different from the yellow plan goal! ]

[You said that the German army wanted to destroy France during World War I.]

[During World War II, your appetite was so small that you were temporarily satisfied by eating in the lowlands? 】

[How could the German army be so cowardly? ]

[But this small appetite is not what I said, but what the German army said themselves. ]

[Next, please welcome Manstein! ]

[Someone, come! Read the memoirs of Manshua! ]

[Manstein: "The Army High Command believes that they want to achieve a complete victory in the campaign against France?"]

[“It cannot be said that there is no possibility at all, but it can only be said to be extremely small”]

……

[The Army General Staff believed that they were not capable of completely defeating France, so they launched the Yellow Plan.]

【Hitler thought that it would be better to occupy the densely populated and industrially developed lowland areas. 】

[It can effectively supplement Germany's industrial strength and directly threaten Britain. ]

[Plus, the lowland areas originally belong to the German cultural circle, so it will be easier to digest. ]

[So Hitler also agreed to the Yellow Plan at the beginning]

[In any case, occupy the lowlands first and destroy the millions of British and French troops. ]

Warring States Period.

Bai Qi, an expert in annihilation warfare, saw that the German army was ready to annihilate millions of people at any time.

In addition to being shocked, he also looked at the sky more seriously.

Bai Qi really wanted to know.

How did military strategists of later generations operate?
Bai Qi knew that the war equipment of later generations would be more powerful and larger in scale.

But this greater size and more powerful weapons cuts both ways.

The weapons of the besieged side are more advanced and there are more troops.

But the weapons of the besieged party will not lag behind.

“What solution did Germany finally adopt?”

The sky screen continued to play and answered Bai Qi's question.

【And just as the Yellow Plan was being prepared. 】

[Manstein also formulated his plan, commonly known as the Manstein Plan.] [In the plan, Manstein analyzed the current French defense situation in detail.]

[First, the southern line, because the southern line is the indestructible Maginot Line, we want to attack head-on, especially to quickly break through the southern Maginot Line. ]

【That is almost impossible.】

【And Manstein himself did not want to attack the southern front. 】

[Because even if they could break through the Maginot Line, at most they would cripple France.]

[It is difficult to achieve the goal of annihilating the main forces of the British and French coalition forces in one battle. ]

【And the lowland areas in the north? 】

[During the previous World War I, the German army's offensive direction was the northern line, and a bloody battle took place in this area. ]

[So currently the main defense forces of the British and French coalition forces, including the Low Countries, are on the northern front.]

[Although for the time being, there are only weak Dutch and Belgian armies in the lowlands. ]

[But the British and French coalition forces were already prepared! ]

[As long as Germany attacks the Netherlands and Belgium, the British and French forces will also start immediately, and the two sides will fight for 300 rounds in the lowlands. ]

[We will fight the French army head-on and turn it into a war of attrition in exchange of heads.]

[That is also not what Manstein wants to see.]

[What Manstein wanted to see was the German army quickly breaking through the British and French coalition defense lines and using a huge encirclement net to trap the British and French coalition forces in the Channel area.]

[Annihilate the three million main forces of the British and French coalition forces in one battle! ]

【One war destroyed the country! 】

【Manstein, huge appetite! 】

[This requires the German army's main attack direction to be not the lowland areas in the north as previously planned.]

[It is not the ironclad southern Maginot Line area.]

【It is the area between the north and south lines. 】

【Ardennes Forest! 】

[In the Ardennes Forest area, the German Army Group A was responsible for the attack. ]

[But according to the pre-war deployment, Unit A was only responsible for the feint attack. ]

[Germany's main force, the most elite armored force, is still placed on Army Group B, which is responsible for attacking the lowlands on the northern front.]

【And Manstein proposed to weaken Group B and strengthen Group A, where he was. 】

【Avoid getting into a tug-of-war with the enemy in lowland areas, and aim for the enemy's weak points. 】

【Take Ardennes as the real main attack direction! 】

At this time, the sky dome is also focused and enlarged on the map.

A detailed topographic map of the war zone was also released.

Following the language of the camera, the ancient people outside the sky also suddenly realized and guessed Manstein's thoughts.

……

Han Xin: "I have always felt that the French defenses in this forest between the north and south lines seemed too weak."

"I was wondering if there was indeed an impassable natural barrier over there."

"But now it seems that Manstein of the German army has noticed the Ardennes forest area."

"If this huge defensive gap can be used well, the German army will be able to penetrate directly into the rear of the main force of the British and French coalition forces!"

Han Xin's eyes swept across the top of the map.

In Han Xin's mind, an arrow seemed to appear on the map.

The German arrow rushed out from the Ardennes Forest in a sickle-like arc.

The main force of the Anglo-French coalition forces is within this arc-shaped encirclement!
Swing the sickle!
It's harvest!

……

Bai Qi could no longer sit still at this time.

Bai Qi was a little excited.

Because he seemed to see an extremely large-scale encirclement of more than one million people.

Although the warring parties had nothing to do with Bai Qi himself.

But as a top military strategist, Bai Qi couldn't help but feel excited when he saw such a grand move.

"What a generous move, Manstein! What a generous move you have!"

(End of this chapter)