From a strategic perspective, the bombing of the local targets of the Norman Empire is undoubtedly the correct layout to remove the fire from the bottom of the pot. If this model continues, as short as several months or as long as one year, the strength of the Norman Empire on all fronts will definitely become weaker and weaker until it fails. However, it should be noted that the Normans established their country by force and possess the most famous military tradition on the planet Orence. They have never lacked brave and decisive soldiers, so how could they be beaten up? From the moment Lorraine was positioned as a springboard for strategic bombing attacks, the top military leaders and Lorraine's rulings knew that once the strategic bombing mode was opened, the Lorraine's military and civilians would definitely bear terrifying pressure from the enemy.

For this war that disregarded morality, the Norman Empire made sufficient military preparations. As soon as the war started, it launched an offensive to the federal army from the North, Western and Eastern fronts at the same time. When fighting on multiple fronts, the troops could not be concentrated in one place. This was both a constraint on the Normans and a constraint on the federal army. As the active side, the Norman army had more choices in both strategic and tactical aspects:

On the Northern Line, the Visexes, who had just experienced regime change, were unstable and difficult to become a climate. The biggest threat to the Federation was that they and the Norman Empire Jiacheng Alliance gave the long border derived from the northern foot of the Monamolin Mountains to the shore of the East China Sea to the Normans. The Norman Empire's Tiger and Wolf Division quickly defeated the northern defense line of the federal army with imaginative chessboard jumping tactics, and repeated the script of the previous war leading from the north.

On the Eastern Front, the Normans, based on their early exploration and summary, found ways and routes to travel safely on the violent sea. Their fleet transformed this changing weather into favorable factors, like ghosts, attacked the ports, towns and various strategic targets of the Union, or used fire storms, or landed raids. If the Federal Army counterattacked heavily, they would leave with one blow and escape into the rain clouds. If the Federal Army reacted slowly, they would be merciless and slaughtered in blood.

On the Western Front, the Normans gave up the three-dimensional frontal propulsion model of the previous war, ignored the military fortresses in the Monamolin Mountains, and conducted a battle-level long-range force delivery in an extraordinary manner, directly crossing the tens of thousands of marine troops to the junction of the Federal State of Neuchâtel and the Federal State of Lorraine. On the sand table, this practice is undoubtedly stupid, equivalent to sending sheep into the mouth of a tiger, and in reality, people have never made such a bold attempt. Time quickly proved that the Normans' talent in military art was unparalleled, jumping

The Norman troops who arrived in the federal territory quickly attacked and occupied the only towns in a large area of ​​"barren land", and mobilized huge aviation troops to take advantage of the Federal Air Force's opportunity to reduce the efficiency of air defense interception at night to send a large amount of ammunition and medicine to the landing area. The Norman troops who were involved in this jumping landing battle were strong in combat and tenacious in their will. They built fortifications and deployed fronts almost day and night. In the following time, no matter how strong the Federal troops carried out on them, or they also sent ground troops to attack, they remained as a rock.

When the Federal Army focused the Western Front War Zone on these "uninvited guests", the Norman Empire's aviation forces launched a storm-like air strike on the Federal Army aviation facilities of all sizes in the Federal State of Nazhatal at lightning speed. In a week, they swept through the Federal Army aviation facilities in the Federal State of Nazhatal at the cost of more than a thousand combat aircraft and more than twenty combat ships. Then, regardless of casualties and fatigue, they turned the attack to Lorraine. Once the Normans destroyed Lorraine, an important outpost for aviation operations, it would be difficult for the Federal Army bombers departing from other federal states to attack the local deep targets of the Norman Empire.

In this way, Lorraine's position in this war was raised to the highest level expected before the war.

The battlefield situation suddenly changed, General Fries and his 17th National Defense Division were quickly transferred back to Lorraine. However, on the northern front, they experienced consecutive fierce battles. It was no longer the elite troops equipped with fully equipped and high morale at the beginning of the war, but a tired army retreating to the rear for rest. Back to Lorraine, the biggest advantage for them is that they are familiar with the land, familiar with the environment here, and able to gain the upper hand in the battle with the enemy, that's all.

After gaining a foothold in the vast and sparsely populated border areas, the Norman army consolidated the landing area and used another new tactic: offensive safari combat, that is, launching guerrilla warfare on enemy territory. Their ground forces moved quickly in the jungle in battalions, sometimes attacked the Federal Defense Line at night, and sometimes raided the Federal Village and Towns. With the limited military force invested, the Normans could move as far as hundreds of miles away from the landing area, destroying bridges, blowing up railways, blocking canals, and using various means to create more and more trouble for the Federation.

Faced with the new tactics of the Norman army, General Fries was originally full of confidence and thought that he could use the advantages of time, place, people and people to eliminate the enemy's safari troops one by one, but he did not want to lose almost every battle in the following time. Regardless of whether there is or not, the 17th National Defense Division and the Lorraine local reserve troops were repeatedly ambushed and attacked by the enemy in the battle, as if the Normans were the ones who had the advantage of the home court. The casualties of the troops continued to increase, morale became increasingly sluggish, and the situation in Lorraine became precarious. Therefore, the federal military urgently sent the 10th and 39th National Defense Divisions to assist Lorraine. General Fries fought

His former qualifications and prestige are perfectly competent for the role of joint commander, but the recent series of failures have caused the military to question his abilities. The famous and outstanding corps-level commanders of the Federal Army are now being held back on other online, mostly in a hurry. At the most jealous moment of this situation, the Federal Army's senior management thought of those retired veterans, not Weiss, a former Lorraine guerrilla hero, or the military is unwilling to select commanders from politics - they are unwilling to admit that military generals are not as good as an official who abandons the army and goes to politics.

On the other hand, the military deeply realized that if Lorraine made any mistakes, the entire battle situation of the Federation would become more and more passive. On the contrary, if Lorraine could hold on, a large part of the Normans would be restrained on the Western Front without putting too much energy on the North and East Fronts. From the perspective of distance, the stability of the Western Front is of extraordinary significance to the protection of the capital Free City and the Eastern Industrial Zone. Moreover, the terrain of Lorraine, Lorraine's resources and the folk customs here are very suitable for restraining the enemy.

Against this background, the military sent a white-haired general to Lorraine, General Ateus who came out for the second time after retirement. In the last war, this veteran who had been retired for four years was ordered to organize the world-famous Battle of Aocheng with various remaining soldiers. Through an unprecedentedly tragic blocking battle, it curbed the unstoppable momentum of the Norman army and became an important turning point in the early stage of the war. In the later period of the war, General Ateus resurrected again. Given his rich experience and lofty reputation, the senior officials still retained him as a consultant to the Supreme Military Commission until the end of the war.

Weiss is not familiar with General Ateus, but he is definitely not unfamiliar with it. The Battle of Aocheng was the first city battle he experienced. Those miserable memories were the driving force for his real transformation in military thinking. At that time, he was a low-level officer of the Federal Army, and Ateus was the commander of the battle. The two met by chance, but no one expected that 11 years later, the two sides would meet again in the war and become military and political partners with huge age differences.

In the last war, "the veteran came out" and Ateus was nineteen. He was still energetic and a little energetic. Now, he is 80 years old and has a good complexion. However, he is still unforgivable, and his words and deeds are already visible to the naked eye. In the first military meeting he convened after he arrived in Lorraine, Weiss attended the preparatory force commander. As well as the strong division commander of R&F, everyone was respectful to the veteran. However, he worked hard for most of the meeting.

I figured out the current situation and issued a series of doubts: The Norman army came from afar, without ground supplies, and was obviously like an army, so why was it so fierce? Lorraine was the strategic base of the Federal Air Force on the Western Front, deploying more than 2,000 fighter jets and dozens of flying ships. Why can't this enemy be erased from the map with firepower? The Norman army launched a scattered attack. The Federal army should cooperate with the military and civilians, grasp the enemy's movements, concentrate its forces to annihilate it, and why did it fall into a passive position in turn?

Some questions were answered patiently by General Fries, who was originally responsible for ground defense and General Blair, who was responsible for air force. The angle of analysis of the problem and the depth of the problem was still objective and in-depth. However, the officers present were still puzzled by themselves, so they had to look at each other and remain silent.

"I remember that in the last war, intelligence work was the enemy's strength and our weakness. Recognizing this shortcoming, the army invested huge amounts of money every year to develop and consolidate the intelligence system, which was said to be awesome. The war started again and we were still passive on all fronts, which really made me regret." General Ateus expressed his disappointment with the federal intelligence system in a tactful manner, but everyone knew that this was a complex system project. Even if it was developed with the strength of the whole country, it would not be possible to achieve what we wanted overnight. Moreover, there were many accumulated problems in the past, and all areas needed manpower, material resources and time to transform and enhance.
Chapter completed!