Berlin General Staff, Hindenburg and Ludendorff were busy with a group of staff officers.
Ever since Shire occupied Saarbrücken, everything had been thrown into chaos.
Romania retreated, Italy withdrew troops, and the Hindenburg Line had to retreat in combat, otherwise Shire's mechanized units could simply turn a corner and defeat them from the rear.
"We must remove it!" Hindenburg roared at Saarbrücken on the map, "It's like a tumor, it will kill us sooner or later."
Shire's troops deployed in Saarbrücken were not many, only one armored division and mechanized division; two motorized divisions had already withdrawn to protect the supply lines.
But it was precisely these two divisions that made Hindenburg extremely apprehensive.
Because he was unsure from which direction Shire would attack:
To the south, they could circle to the rear of the line and surround the large area east of the Rhine River.
