On the evening of November 11th, 1918, on a train from the Gaul capital, Iron Tower City, to the front line, General Foch received the latest telegram from the front line.
General Foch was furious when he saw the telegram.
"Help me find the representative of the Second Empire!”
General Foch said to the guard beside him in a deep voice. His tone was cold and full of killing intent.
The guards did not know what had happened, but they faithfully carried out the general's orders.
After all, the person in front of him was not only the general of Gaul, but also the Marshal of Gaul, the commander-in-chief of the six million troops of the Western Front. He was the hero who had slowly recovered the lost territory in the counterattack on the Western Front, chased the Hans out of the territory, and led them to victory.
At this time, General Foch's prestige was not only high in Gaul, but even in the world, he was one of the top celebrities.
A moment later, the nervous representative of the Second Empire was brought to General Foch by the guards.
The representative of the Second Empire felt a little strange. The negotiations for the surrender of the Second Empire to the allied countries had been completed, and the surrender agreement had been signed. At this time, he did not know why the Gaul suddenly called him over. Could it be that they wanted to humiliate him in front of him?
Hans and Gaul had a feud with each other. Since the time of Charlemagne, Gaul had been ravaging Central Europe. At that time, the Hans did not have a unified country. They were scattered and weak. They were not a match for Gaul at all, so they were beaten up and suffered heavy casualties. This continued until the Napoleonic Empire. During this period, the Hans had been pressed to the ground by the Gaul repeatedly. It could not be any worse. Therefore, they hated this group of invincible Gauls in Europe.
However, when Hans began to grow and Gaul began to decline under the attack of the Anti-French Alliance, this situation began to reverse.
In 1870, the arrogant Napoleon III launched a war against Hans. As a result, he was defeated by Hans, who was well-armed and ready for battle. Emperor William I of Germany fought his way to the capital of Gaul and then was crowned emperor in the Gaul Palace. He established the Second Empire and even seized two pieces of land in Gaul that were rich in iron ore and coal mines.
As the defeated party, Gaul not only had to pay the Second Empire an astronomical sum of five billion Francs as reparations, but also reluctantly gave up two coal and iron ore bases that were extremely important to Gaul. From then on, the Second Empire's industry developed by leaps and bounds and successfully set off the second industrial revolution. Not only did it completely surpass Gaul, but it even surpassed the old industrial powerhouse, the Empire of the Sun Never Sets.
On the other hand, Gaul, which had lost these two places, lost its first opportunity in the second industrial revolution and completely fell behind others. It could only watch helplessly as its former underlings surpassed it bit by bit and looked down on it.
This huge contrast filled the entire Gaul with hatred for its eastern neighbor. Countless Gauls vowed to take revenge on the Second Empire.
Fifty years later, when the Second Empire lost the World War, the entire Gaul was in jubilation!
The representative of the Second Empire had just come out of Iron Tower City, so he more or less knew about this. However, he did not expect that a grand Gaul Marshal would actually show off in front of an ordinary negotiation representative like him. This was really a little embarrassing.
However, when the representative of the Second Empire was brought to General Foch, he was not greeted by General Foch's mockery and sarcasm, but by anger.
"Mr. Representative, I think the Second Empire should give me an explanation for this matter!”
General Foch said angrily to the representative of the Second Empire.
"Sir, what do you mean?”
The representative of the Second Empire was a little confused. He did not know what tricks the Gauls were playing. Could it be that they had gone back on their word and did not agree to the previous surrender agreement? Were they looking for an excuse to charge into the hinterland of the Second Empire and completely dismember it?
Thinking of this, the representative immediately became vigilant.
Although the Second Empire had surrendered in defeat, it still had a huge army of nearly five million people. If the Gauls wanted to take advantage of it and annex or destroy the entire empire, then these five million troops would definitely fight to the last moment to protect their country!
"Hmph, what do you mean? Take a look for yourself!"
Marshal Foch did not notice the expression of the representative of the Second Empire. He coldly slapped the telegram in his hand on the other party, lit a cigar, and looked down at the other party while smoking.
The representative of the Second Reich tried his best to suppress the anger in his heart and opened the telegram.
He was stunned at first glance, and then a hint of joy appeared in his eyes. He seemed to realize that he was now in Gaul's territory, so he immediately suppressed the joy in his heart and put on a serious face.
Marshal Foch saw all of this, so he snorted coldly.
Obviously, he could see that the people of the Second Reich were not convinced by this defeat, so he was subconsciously happy after seeing this telegram.
The content of the telegram that infuriated the grand Gaul Marshal was actually very simple. It was only a few words: This afternoon, our army was attacked by the German army in the Bastogne area. The 18th Division of the 9th Army was caught off guard. In the battle, 1126 people were killed and 2457 were injured!
Of course, this was not what made him the most angry. What made him the most angry was the last sentence of the telegram: The Bastogne region was still in Hans 'hands!
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