Throughout June, without the outbreak of major battles, Ludendorff finally transferred the German troops on the Eastern Front to the Western Front, and the German army on the Western Front reached an unprecedented 215 divisions with a total strength of nearly 4.01 million men.

At the end of June, the French army on the Western Front had 130 divisions with nearly 2.2 million troops, and the British Expeditionary Force had an unprecedented 115 divisions with more than 2 million troops, and even the strength of the American army reached 500,000, and the total strength still exceeded that of the German army.

Of course, the number of troops did not represent combat effectiveness, and there was a serious problem of coordination between the Allied forces, which, if not resolved, would still not be able to compete with the smaller German forces.

At the end of June, Roque proposed the establishment of a coalition command to unify the problem of coordination between the coalition forces, and more effectively form a joint force to end the war as much as possible in 1916.

This proposal was supported by Petain and Pershing, but the question of the choice of commander-in-chief of the coalition forces was never resolved.

The British Empire wanted Roque to be commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and the French government wanted Petain to be commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.

If the U.S. forces retained independent command, it would lose the significance of establishing a coalition command, and Roque's proposal was stillborn.

On July 10, air force reconnaissance showed that the Germans began to accumulate large quantities of military supplies on the front line, and there was also intelligence on the domestic front that the Germans might launch an offensive on an unprecedented scale in the near future.

Roque informed Pétain and Pershing of the situation, asking Petain and Pershing to take it seriously, and the Allies hoped to end the war in 1916, and the Allies thought so.

The battle on the Western Front had not yet broken out, and the battle for Constantinople had already begun.

The Russian Eighth Army stationed on the Garibaldi Peninsula still had part of the Tsar's troops, and the Tsar's troops were finally able to endure the establishment of the Provisional Government, when the Tsar was placed under house arrest on a farm outside St. Petersburg.

After the formation of the new government, the Tsar's family was secretly executed, and the generals loyal to the Tsar in the army were purged, and it was against this background that Alexander fled to Dingyuan Fort.

After the defenders of Dingyuanbao refused to hand over Dingyuanbao to the new government forces, the new government forces did not attack Dingyuanbao, but a force of about 2,000 people was moved to a position less than five kilometers from Dingyuanbao to monitor the Dingyuanbao troops.

Ruiz wanted to send Alexander to Cyprus, but Alexander did not agree, and after spending more than ten days in Dingyuan Castle, Alexander took the initiative to find Ruiz, hoping that Ruiz could secretly send him back to Constantinople.

"There are still troops in Constantinople who are loyal to the royal family, and when the Provisional Government was formed, we still had illusions about the Provisional Government, even if the Provisional Government ended the Romanov dynasty, they would at least not hurt the Tsar's father - the new government broke through our bottom line and secretly executed the emperor's family in the basement, and the generals in the army who were loyal to the Tsar's father were also purged, but I believe that this is not the final result, give me a chance, maybe I can do something, if I die in battle, I will also die on the battlefield, And not cowardly death in a hospital bed. Alexander had already made his decision, and for the first time in ten days, he appeared in front of Ruiz and Welson, dressed neatly, and shaved off his beard.

For Russians, beard is almost a kind of belief, and Alexander shaved his beard in much the same way as he shaved his beard.

"I have to remind you that if you go to Cyprus, then at least your life can be saved, and if you go to Constantinople, you will die." Ruiz wants to go into obligation, listen not to listen in Alexandria.

"I've figured it out, if I die in battle, I won't blame anyone, you will always be my best friends, even if I'm in hell, I will pray for you." Alexander had a calm expression, and he was still wearing his chef's uniform with the flag of the Russian Empire.

"Well, tonight, you go with the supply ship, and when the supply ship arrives in Constantinople, let the supply ship drop you down - sorry Alexander, I can't send someone with you, this time it's all up to you." Ruiz would not let his men take risks, and Alexander would be merciful even if he died in battle.

When Alexander came aboard, he took only a Luger pistol made in southern Africa.

This would not cause trouble for Fort Far, the Luger pistol was sold very well in Europe, and even if the defenders of Constantinople had captured it, they would not have been able to prove that Fort had helped Alexander.

The situation in Constantinople is indeed very bad.

Although the Chinese Expeditionary Force had not yet declared war on the defenders of Constantinople, it had cut off the supply to Constantinople, and Russia was now in chaos, and the defenders of Constantinople could not be cared for, the farmsteads around Constantinople had been destroyed during the war, and the Russian army never tried to restore the economy around Constantinople, and as a result, by mid-June, the defenders of Constantinople had eaten all the rats in the city, and hundreds of people fled with weapons every day.

Not far from Constantinople was the defense zone of the Kingdom of Italy, and the defenders of Constantinople could be protected by the Kingdom of Italy as long as they arrived at the defense zone of the Kingdom of Italy with weapons.

Ruiz and Welson did not know how Alexander got in touch with the forces loyal to the Tsar, and the guns rang out in Constantinople all night, and after dawn, the defenders of Constantinople surrendered to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, and about 15,000 Russian soldiers laid down their arms.

Before the new government, Constantinople had about 60,000 defenders.

Just when the defenders of Constantinople surrendered to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, there were about 80,000 Russian defenders on the Garibaldi Peninsula, and these defenders were also in extreme difficulty, and within half a month after the surrender of the defenders of Constantinople, the defenders of the Garibaldi Peninsula surrendered one after another, and the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force took back all the Garibaldi Peninsula, including Constantinople, without firing a single shot.

The Northern Rhodesian Division, which had just been transferred to Cyprus, immediately left for the Bulgarian border to prepare for a possible Bulgarian attack as soon as the defenders of Constantinople surrendered.

This was the first time that the Northern Rhodesian Division appeared in Europe, and the Bulgarians did not even recognize the flag of the Northern Rhodesian Division.

The flag of the Northern Rhodesian Division is a heavily armed South African mastiff.

"It's strange what kind of army would draw a dog on the flag?" In Ortenica, on the Bulgarian border, several Bulgarian soldiers sit on sandbags by the trench and are chatting.

Ortenica is located on the banks of the Danube, which was the dividing line between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, and after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, both the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Russian Empire were a bit of a mouse-thrower, and there was never a large-scale war, so the soldiers of the Kingdom of Bulgaria guarding the Danube line were relaxed, and they jokingly called this work "vacation" to show their disdain for the Russians.

"The South African mastiff – certainly an army from southern Africa, and for the British Empire, isn't southern Africa a dog—" the well-informed soldier immediately popularized science.

"Isn't the area across the river under the control of the Russian Empire, why did it change to the defense of the army of southern Africa?" Someone immediately asked, this question-

Well, it's worth looking into!

Before the well-informed soldier could speak, his whole head suddenly exploded like a watermelon hit by a bullet, and only then did a sharp gunfire come.

Bang!

The tranquility on the banks of the Danube was shattered.

It took a long time for the soldiers to react.

"Enemy attack—" The heart-rending voice just sounded, and then it stopped abruptly as if someone had been snagged around the neck.

Bang!

Woohoo!

More gunfire rang out, and none of the soldiers escaped, all of them were killed on the edge of the trench, and the nearest corpse to the trench was only about one meter, and it only took one leap to jump into the trench, but this meter was the battle of life and death.

Countless soldiers in iron-gray uniforms then leaped out of the jungle and crossed the Danube in less than five minutes on improvised rafts made of wood.

The defenders of Ortenica tried to resist, but it was a way they had never experienced before, a company of about 150 men tried to support the front line, but while passing through a wood, it was attacked by the northern division of Rhodesia, the officers and machine gunners were immediately eliminated by accurate marksmen, and the infantry was hit by a combination of light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers before they could form a formation, and all 150 troops were killed in ten minutes, They did not even have time to launch even a single effective attack on the northern Rhodesian division in the woods.

At this time, Ortenica was still a small town, and some of the Bulgarian defenders tried to rely on the buildings of Ortenica to resist, but they were baptized by aerial bombs and artillery shells, and the incendiary support aircraft of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force used incendiary bombs, Ortenica turned into a sea of fire, and the defenders in the town panicked, and when they tried to escape, they were pursued by armored vehicles and tanks of the Northern Rhodesia Division.

On 25 June, the Northern Rhodesian Division launched an attack on the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and in just two hours, the Northern Rhodesian Division captured Ortenica, killing about 3,000 defenders of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, surrendering 6,500 men, and losing less than 300 to the Northern Rhodesian Division.

The Northern Rhodesian Division then continued to advance towards Bucharest, and Ortenica was still less than fifty kilometers away from Bucharest, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria urgently mobilized four divisions to barely withstand the attack of the Northern Rhodesian Division.

At the same time as the Northern Rhodesian Division was attacking Ortenica, the 1st Cavalry Division also broke through the Bulgarian defenses on the Black Sea coast, and the troops were directed at the Falkingham Corps, which was entrenched in the Kingdom of Romania.

(End of chapter)