Hindenburg's assessment of Shire was correct.
The reason Shire flew alone to Belgium to take command while abandoning the Saarbrücken direction was not because he had given up on Saarbrücken, but because he was confident in it.
With the battle reaching this stage, Tijani was fully capable of holding his own, and Shire no longer needed to sit in the rear to command.
In William II's eyes, the First Armored Army was an isolated army surrounded on all sides.
The map clearly showed this.
Saarbrücken was in a semi-circle of the German Army encirclement, with only a narrow corridor serving as a supply line.
As long as the German Army attacked into the city and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the French Army, they could soon cut off the French Army's supply line with artillery fire.
Thus, the First Armored Army could only retreat through the minefield with the aid of the Mine Sweeping Tank.
