After the outbreak of the world war, the Kingdom of Bulgaria mobilized 450,000 troops to participate in the war, these troops were very scattered, some of them were stationed in the Kingdom of Serbia as an occupation army, and some of them fought with Falkingham in the Kingdom of Romania.

Of course, this is also related to the combat effectiveness of the Northern Rhodesia Division and the First Cavalry Division, the equipment of the British Expeditionary Force is luxurious enough, and the Northern Rhodesia Division and the First Cavalry Division are even more so, in addition to the ordinary infantry squad equipped with light machine guns, the squad leader and deputy squad leader are equipped with automatic rifles.

In addition to tanks, the Northern Rhodesia Division and the First Cavalry Division were each equipped with more than 600 trucks.

After Feng Fu was transferred to the First Armored Division, the former chief of staff Nidbourg took over as the commander of the Northern Rhodesia Division, and now the chief of staff of the Northern Rhodesia Division is called Huang Shan, who is still a white man and a Chinese.

At the same time that the Northern Rhodesian Division and the 1st Cavalry Division were invading Bulgaria, two colonial servant divisions drawn from Port Elizabeth, as well as six newly formed African divisions from Southern Africa, entered the Kingdom of Bulgaria with the task of fighting with the Northern Rhodesian Division and the 1st Cavalry Division.

These troops are all under the command of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Roque hopes that after the new Russian government withdraws from the war, a new eastern front can be formed in the Kingdom of Bulgaria, although the pressure created by the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on the Central Powers is far less than that of Russia, but for the current Entente Powers, the attack of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force can only play a little bit of a restraining role for the Central Powers, Roque is also satisfied.

To Roque's disappointment, Ludendorff obviously did not care about the attack of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and even at the first moment of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force's attack, the Kingdom of Bulgaria asked Berlin for assistance, and Ludendorff did not draw any troops from the Western Front.

Reinforcements to Bulgaria were the Falkingham Corps, which was entrenched in the Kingdom of Romania.

In the end, it will be a decisive battle on the Western Front.

As the pressure from the Germans mounted, the Allied Command, which had been proposed by both Roque and Petain, was once again on the agenda, and this time the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces was still not agreed, but the establishment of a Allied Command was imminent.

Foch was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Allied Forces, this appointment did not cause controversy, there was no more suitable person than Foch, Roque and Petain were not suitable, Pershing was not qualified, Kitchener was qualified, but the British War Office could not concurrently serve as the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces, Foch was an appointment acceptable to all.

After the establishment of the coalition command, at the first joint meeting, Pershing came up with a large-scale offensive plan.

"We can't sit back and wait for the German army to attack, a resolute offensive can contain the German army, Germany is also on the verge of collapse, we only need to push, Germany will fall into the precipice, the fortress of Liège is the best breakthrough, and the German army will be dealt the heaviest blow at the strongest defensive node of the German army-" Pershing is also nicknamed "General Iron Hammer", and Roque now finally knows why Pershing is "Iron Hammer".

Pershing's attack plan involved all the forces on the Western Front, with the American forces and the Southern African Expeditionary Force responsible for the main assault on the fortress of Liège, and the British Expeditionary Force and the French troops also to attack the Germans in order to contain the German mobile forces.

The advantages of storming the fortress of Liège were obvious, as long as the Merz River was crossed, there was a flat river ahead, and the generals of the Southern African Expeditionary Force tried it, but the difficulty was too high and they were forced to give up.

"It is better not to attack in the short term, relying on fortifications to inflict mass destruction on the German army, so why do we have to leave the fortifications?" Petain vetoed it directly, and he and Roque had agreed that neither the British Expeditionary Force nor the French troops would organize a campaign-level offensive until the Entente had absolute superiority in their forces.

With 100,000 British troops and 120,000 American troops arriving in France every month, and about 60,000 French troops leaving the training camps, France's war potential was about to be exhausted.

After the outbreak of the World War, when the French army underwent its first general mobilization, French people between the ages of 18 and 28 were conscripted.

Now the upper limit of this standard has been relaxed to 45 years old, and although the lower limit has not changed, in fact, French people at the age of fifteen or sixteen have enlisted in the army.

The upper age limit of the U.S. military is also 45 years old, but the United States has not yet implemented a compulsory military service system, and it is still a volunteer military service system.

The UK has implemented compulsory military service, and the upper age limit is also 45 years old, but there can be exemptions in special circumstances, such as students who have not yet graduated can not join the army, which is for the future of the United Kingdom.

The French government has now gambled on the future of France, and if it loses this war, then France will lose everything.

"What if the French think the same way?" Pershing was very unhappy, and this was Pershing's first proposal in this war.

"It doesn't matter, it's so expensive, the world war has been fought for four years, we don't mind fighting another four years, the question is whether the Germans can hold on." Roque is not in a hurry, Britain and France, with their vast colonies, can hold on for another four years, at most, life is difficult.

Germany will definitely not be able to hold out for four years, and now Germany has reached the verge of collapse, not to mention four years, whether it can hold out for four months is a big question, the Entente countries have exhausted their military force, Germany has exhausted its war potential, even if the Entente forces do not attack, Germany is likely to choose to end the war this year.

The Allies in this plane suffered more losses than in the other plane, and at least in the other plane, the Ottoman Empire still existed in the fourth year of the World War, though with little presence.

Another Temporal Entente launched another attack on the Ottoman Empire in Egypt after its failure to launch the Battle of the Dardanelles, which is the origin of Colonel McMahon's letter.

At this time, McMahon had no chance to send that letter, because of the strength of southern Africa, the Ottoman Empire completely collapsed less than a year after entering the war, becoming the biggest laughing stock since the outbreak of the world war.

To date, the Ottoman Empire was the only country to be completely destroyed, and although the Kingdom of Serbia and Romania had lost most of their territories and the government was forced into exile, the army continued to fight.

"We can't wait for the Germans to collapse, and the best way to end this war is to eliminate the Germans." Pershing hopes that U.S. military units will play a more important role.

If, according to Roque and Petain, the Germans relied on strong fortifications to give the Germans the maximum damage, then it would be over, and the Germans in the fortress of Liège would certainly not take the initiative to leave the fortress and launch an attack on the American positions, then what is the point of tens of millions of Americans traveling thousands of miles to Europe?

"John, don't be impulsive, the Germans are far more difficult than you think, you have just arrived in France, and we have been fighting the Germans for four years." After Roque finished speaking, he realized that the statement of four years was incorrect, and in fact, the world war was only three years old in August of this year.

But it doesn't matter, since everyone says so, then there is no need for Roque to correct them one by one.

"But you didn't finish the Germans!" Pershing's words offended a lot of people, and Roque, Petain, and Foch did not look good.

Pershing was also aware of the problem, but Pershing did not remedy it, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

Nor was it embarrassing for too long, the joint meeting was not over, and the artillery bombardment of Vimy Ridge by the German troops in Arras was often a precursor to the outbreak of a large-scale battle.

The scale of the German artillery bombardment was unprecedented, and air reconnaissance confirmed that at least 5,000 German guns were involved in the shelling of Vimy Ridge, and when the Allied air forces tried to bomb the German artillery positions, they were counterattacked by German anti-aircraft machine guns.

The Allied air forces were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses, with 120 bombers shot down on the first day of fighting.

Taking into account the industrial capabilities of Germany, the appearance of anti-aircraft machine guns was also a matter of time, which was about the same as the difficulty of converting field guns into direct-fire guns, and Germany's industrial strength could fully do this.

In fact, the air superiority of the Entente has been able to maintain until now, and Roque is already satisfied.

Even if the role of the air force is decreasing, the British Expeditionary Force still has a strong countermeasure capability, after the Southern African Expeditionary Force formed a more professional artillery unit, the British Expeditionary Force and the French army also began to form artillery units, the Entente now has more than 50,000 artillery pieces, of which the proportion of large-caliber artillery is increasing rapidly.

After 1915, most of the artillery produced by the Entente countries were large-caliber guns with a caliber of more than 120 mm, and the French army's beloved "Miss Seventy-Five" before the outbreak of the world war proved to be outdated in actual combat, and the importance of large-caliber artillery became more and more important, and the Nyasaland Military Industrial Group even developed a 305 mm caliber giant mortar, which was not far behind the German "Big Beretta".

This should be the last fight of the German army, the shelling lasted for a whole week, although the British expeditionary force built a defensive line is known as impregnable, but under the intensive attack of large-caliber artillery, the first and second lines of defense of the Canadian Corps on Vimy Ridge were all destroyed, and in this round of German artillery shelling, the Allied troops lost nearly 200,000 people.

Fortunately, on the side of the British Expeditionary Force, the elite troops were all deployed behind the second line of defense, and all the colonial servants guarding the first line of defense were guarded, and the African division of the Southern African Expeditionary Force was unlucky again, and the 103rd and 104th divisions were forced to withdraw from their positions on the third day of the German artillery bombardment.

Field hospitals were again crammed with wounded soldiers.

(The fish head has been heated into dried fish, I slept until midnight last night and the power went out, and the mat almost became a water mat, so I simply dragged my family to live in a hotel, and I just came back not long after this, sorry for being late-)