Often, when victory is approaching, it is the most dangerous time.

Is that right?

Right!

But not always true, in some cases, this sentence is true, such as when speculating, this sentence is very true, but in a world war, this sentence is the standard "rational guest".

It's right to keep your sanity at all times, and it's annoying to play a rational guest and pour cold water on people.

In this situation, how can Germany turn the tables?

This is not a battle that can be decided, but a situation involving more than 30 countries, 1.5 billion people, and over a period of four years through hundreds of battles, at the cost of 65 million people fighting, more than 10 million killed, and 20 million wounded.

Now the Lieutenant jumped out and said that the Entente had reached the most dangerous time-

Clemenceau and Foch, Petain, Pershing, and the relegated Chauffeur, Nivel, Frenzi, and Haig can fool you without Roque coming out.

The person who interrupted Roque was the Chief of the General Staff of the Kingdom of Italy, Cadorna.

Considering the predicament of the Kingdom of Italy at the Isonzo River, this seems to make sense, and for the Kingdom of Italy it is indeed at the most dangerous time.

Although the Austro-Hungarian Empire could collapse at any time, the new Russian government withdrew from the war and released nearly 400,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners, all of whom have now returned to the troops, and Conrad, who has arrived in the Isonzo River theater, will launch a new offensive at any time.

In view of the previous performance of Austria-Hungary, Conrad turned to Ludendorff for help, hoping that Ludendorff could send troops to help Austria-Hungary and defeat the Kingdom of Italy in the shortest possible time and remove the threat from the Kingdom of Italy.

Ludendorff, bogged down in the quagmire of the Western Front, could not care about Conrad and was incapable of helping Conrad.

Conrad turned to Kaiser Wilhelm II for help, Wilhelm II, who no longer had military power in his hands, could not send troops to Austria-Hungary, but there were still many generals in Germany who were idle at home, so Wilhelm II sent a few generals who were not good enough on the Western Front and are now at home to help Austria-Hungary.

It did not perform well enough on the Western Front, because the Germans had to face the Anglo-French forces on the Western Front.

Ludendorff also performed exceptionally well against the Russian Empire on the Eastern Front, but he also ran into a wall on the Western Front against the Anglo-French forces, does this mean that Ludendorff was not good enough?

No, as a soldier, Ludendorff is already very good, even if Roque is in Ludendorff's position, he may not perform better than Ludendorff, the so-called "excellent" is all set off by his peers, for the German generals, compared with the "peers" of the Anglo-French army, the "peers" of the Kingdom of Italy are all younger brothers.

So after the arrival of the German generals on the Isonzo River, it was really the most dangerous time for the Kingdom of Italy.

Although Ludendorff did not draw German troops from the Western Front, he still drew some troops from the Baltic Sea periphery, as well as Alsace and Lorraine, to form the 14th Army, and then appointed Otto von Billow as commander to cooperate with the Austro-Hungarian forces in the Italian attack.

As the chief of the general staff of the Kingdom of Italy, Cadorna also asked for assistance from the Anglo-French forces, but the Anglo-French forces were also unable to take care of the Kingdom of Italy, and Winston only gave the Kingdom of Italy some artillery, and did not know how useful those guns were.

"Luigi, thank you for the reminder and hope you have a nice night." Those who wanted to see the hot scene were disappointed, and Clemenceau was enthusiastic about Cardolna as if he hadn't heard Cadorna's words.

Mature people will not slap their faces at every turn, even if they don't like someone anymore, they will not easily express their attitude, even if Ludendorff is in front of him, Clemenceau will still maintain the so-called gentlemanly demeanor, and if there is anything to say behind closed doors.

"George, the Kingdom of Italy needs your help, and the current situation is dangerous for the Kingdom of Italy-" Caderna was anxious, he had asked Roque for help many times before, but Roque ignored him, so he had the gaffe just now.

"Luigi, don't worry, let's find a time tomorrow to have a good chat." Clemenceau smiled, but did not say a word of concrete promise.

European countries have a long history, once France, Italy, and Germany were all part of the French Empire, and later the French Empire was divided into three parts: Western, Central, and Eastern, the Kingdom of West Francia gradually evolved into France, the Kingdom of East Francia was divided again into Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and the Kingdom of Middle Francia evolved into Italy.

So this would explain why Britain was so jealous of France and Germany, after all, the French Empire was once powerful in history, and even now it is divided, and the British dare not ignore the Germanic people.

The Germans, along with the Celts and Slavs, were called by Rome as the three great barbarian tribes of Europe.

"George, we don't have time—" Cadore was anxious, and the Austro-Hungarian army had gathered about 33 divisions on the Isonzo River, and the 12th Battle of the Isonzo River was on the verge of breaking out.

In the two battles of the Isonzo River in 1916, the Kingdom of Italy lost a total of 280,000 men.

Cadorna was not a qualified commander, he was a beast in human skin, and in the face of the unprecedented losses suffered by the Kingdom of Italy, Cadorna strictly enforced the "Eleventh Killing" order, and for every ten troops that did not satisfy Cadorna, Cadorna had to shoot one out of every ten people.

No one expected that it was already the 20th century, and there was still such a thing as the "Eleventh Killing Order", which made people have to suspect that Colorna was a time-traveler from the Middle Ages.

For the Kingdom of Italy, time is indeed running out.

Three days later, on the 24th, the German-Austrian forces launched the 12th Battle of the Isonzo River.

The attacking German-Austrian army had a total of 33 divisions, and the defending Kingdom of Italy had 41 divisions, and the difference in strength between the two sides was not large.

The German-Austrian forces advanced 10 miles on the first day of the offensive, and the Kingdom of Italy collapsed on all fronts.

Cadorna tried to reorganize the defensive line, but the forces of the Kingdom of Italy had lost their unified command, and the King of Italy finally could not stand Cadorna's incompetence and dismissed Cadorna, but he was still unable to save the Kingdom of Italy.

A week later, Beato commanded the German-Austrian army to cross the Tagliamento River and continue its advance into the Italian belly.

The Italian government collapsed, the new government was leaderless, and the front-line troops collapsed.

Soon the German-Austrian army had reached the Piave River, by which time the troops under the command of Billow had advanced 80 miles.

In just one month, the Kingdom of Italy lost 320,000 men, of whom 265,000 were captured by the German-Austrian army, and the Italian king Victor Emmanuel III was forced to turn to the Anglo-French army again for help.

This time the Anglo-French army could not sit idly by, after all, although the Kingdom of Italy did not perform well, but it could not be ignored, once the Kingdom of Italy failed, then the German-Austrian army would receive a large number of supplies from the Kingdom of Italy, thus prolonging the war, which was unacceptable to everyone.

The most likely to help the Kingdom of Italy at this time was the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.

The rapid progress of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force after the invasion of the Kingdom of Bulgaria once caused panic in the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and the Falkingham Army in the Kingdom of Romania rushed to the aid to stabilize the defense line of the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

Compared to the Western Front, the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force was too weak to defeat the Falkingham Corps, and the battle was scorched.

After comprehensive weighing, Roque transferred the northern Rhodesian division from Bulgaria to the Kingdom of Italy for reinforcements, and Foch also sent two divisions to the Kingdom of Italy.

On December 26, the Northern Rhodesian Division landed in Venice, a famous water city in northern Italy, to assist the troops of the Kingdom of Italy in consolidating the defense of the Piave River.

At this time, it was the end of the year, and it was time for the year-end summary, the report card of the Anglo-French army was still not bright enough, but this was not Roque and Petain's problem, the impact of the new Russian government's withdrawal from the war was too great, in 1916, the Anglo-French army lost an average of 50,000 people per month, and the world war has been going on until now, the number of casualties of the Anglo-French army has exceeded 4 million, of which half and half of the British expeditionary force and the French army.

After becoming commander-in-chief of the French army, Petain once asked the French government for 1.02 million recruits.

In the end, Petain did not get the reinforcements he wanted, and in 1916 the French recruited only about 850,000 recruits, of whom only about 700,000 could be sent to the front.

The situation of the British Expeditionary Force was even better, after all, Britain had a huge amount of human resources to mobilize, and Britain had lost almost two million men since the outbreak of the World War, which was the heaviest loss in Britain's history.

Compared with the Anglo-French army, the German army suffered more casualties, averaging 60,000 per month, and the forces released by the new Russian government's withdrawal from the war had been exhausted in 1916, and now the Western Front was left with a group of veterans struggling in despair and hardship, who were also tired of the war, but not to the point of complete collapse.

The situation of the Allies was much better than that of the people in Germany, and in the second half of 1916 an average of 400,000 tons of artillery shells were sent to Europe through southern Africa, which accounted for only one-third of all supplies provided by southern Africa.

After the outbreak of the World War, Britain's munitions production capacity increased by 3,000% compared to the pre-war period, and after Winston became Prime Minister, this figure increased fourfold, and a significant part of the increase came from southern Africa.

As time went on, Southern Africa became more and more important to the British, not only in terms of military supplies, but also in terms of civilian products, Southern Africa was also outstanding, before the outbreak of the world war, there were less than 20 enterprises in Southern Africa with an annual output of more than 1 million pounds, now the number is 300, the Federal Government of Southern Africa stopped taxing farmers last year, and industrial and commercial taxes have fully covered the expenditure of the Federal Government of Southern Africa.

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