It turned out that before the Germans said they wanted to borrow a route through Belgium, they had already prepared to force their way through. Although the United Kingdom and France had firmly expressed their support for Belgium, Belgium had also declared that it would protect the security of its territory at any cost.
But before Germany's strategic goals and interests, all of this seemed so insignificant.
Moreover, Germany was currently at war with the United Kingdom and France. Since they were already enemy nations, why should Germany care about their diplomatic threats?
The German Government ignored the threats from the United Kingdom and France and Belgium's actions. The moment the twenty-four-hour deadline passed, it immediately declared war on Belgium.
At the same time, more than a hundred thousand troops from the German Army advanced into Belgium in mighty force, launching a direct attack on the troops stationed along the Belgian border.
The speed of the German Army's actions was far beyond what the United Kingdom, France, and Belgium had expected.
Although the Belgian Government had begun an emergency general mobilization after receiving the ultimatum, it was absolutely impossible to mobilize many troops in a single day.
Simply gathering a batch of weapons and equipment from the armories required a certain amount of time, to say nothing of distributing them to tens of thousands of new recruits and sending those recruits to the battlefield.
The reality was that only after the Belgian border was violated did Belgium's conscription departments mobilize fewer than fifty thousand new recruits.
More than half of these recruits had not yet received their weapons and equipment. Some had not even been issued military uniforms that fit them properly.
The German Army was not about to give the Belgian Army a chance. As the saying went, one