Chapter 909: The European Continent

When Austria-Hungary went to war against Serbia, the Europeans seemed to smell the smell of war, but because of the expeditions of Britain, France, and Russia in the East, this smell quickly dissipated. The repeated defeats of the Anglo-French forces in Southeast Asia, and the great rout of Russia in the Far East, where hundreds of thousands of people were annihilated, drew the astonished eyes of all Europeans to the East, as if the dragon of the East was about to kill before their eyes.

All Europeans looked at war-torn Asia, and no one ever thought that war would happen to them. However, everything was so sudden, as soon as the main fleets of Britain and France left, Germany and Austria hurriedly declared war on Russia, fortunately they just sat down and did not really fire. But as soon as everyone's hearts were put down, Russia, which had been hit hard in the east, suddenly turned its guns and started to fight with Germany and Austria in full swing. When the whole of East Asia was busy making dumplings for the Spring Festival, Mao Xiong once again exposed his external strength and middle strength, many defense lines were broken through by the German army, and the war had entered Russia.

Some of the tacit understandings reached between Bismarck and the British and French leaders were broken, and Britain and France could not tolerate Germany to eliminate their worries, and everyone knew that war was coming. Almost overnight, all of Europe, with the exception of Denmark, Norway and other countries in the far north, was heavily armed. The conscription system has drawn all young people into the war, and nationalism has also made everyone's blood boil, and everyone sees each other as enemies, believing that everything is the fault of the other side. Bismarck also wanted to delay Britain and France for a while through diplomatic mediation, but it was too late. On the 13th day of the first month of the 12th year of Zhongzheng, 300,000 British expeditionary forces crossed the English Channel into France, and the German-French border officially began.

Ever since Napoleon III, Emperor of the Second French Empire, took the initiative to prevent German reunification, France's strategic approach has had a huge problem. After the establishment of the Second German Empire, in order to eliminate the future military threat to France, it annexed Alsace, a major industrial city of France, and part of Lorraine, including the fortress city of Metz, thus greatly weakening France militarily and economically. France's response was somewhat unsightly, with a series of fortresses centred around four cities along the 150-mile-long Franco-German border. The southeast begins in the Alps, Switzerland's impregnable barrier, with strong concrete fortresses stretching out from Berfort, Erbinar, Toure and Verdun. A wide gap was designed between Erbinar and Tur to serve as a huge trap to welcome the enemy in, which was then annihilated by crossfire fired from a well-covered concrete box bunker. About twenty miles north of Verdun are Luxembourg, Belgium and the rugged Ardennes Forest.

The firepower of the German army was naturally not comparable to that of the Manchurian army, and the fortress was an insurmountable obstacle. But the French are not clever at all, but very lacking in heart. These forts served not only as a barrier against the Germans, but also as a barrier for the French to rise. Strategically, the French army put itself in a defensive position and gave up the intention of taking the initiative to attack. France's idea was to use the defensive line to consume the German army, and then use the British and Russian defense to counterattack, and France, which once dominated Europa, actually confessed in his heart. The Chinese built the Great Wall to deal with the guerrillas, and the French built fortresses, which can only comfort themselves, not to mention that the effect of the Great Wall is not good, and the French fortress is even more ripped off.

Sure enough, the French army took the initiative to attack and after a small comparison on the Franco-German border, the French army declared defeat and all the turtles retreated into the strong fortress. The Germans launched a series of very beautiful counteroffensives, first with the strength of ten divisions, with the Austro-Hungarian army to hold back the exhausted Russian army, and then quickly concentrated more than 70 divisions and launched an attack on France with all their might. The main force of the German army rotated southwest from the Verdun area, passing through Belgium, a neutral country in Europe, trying to enter France from the Belgian border, and after crossing the Belgian plain and sweeping the French coast, it surrounded Paris from the north, west and south, and then outflanked the main force from behind the French army in the east.

The Germans attacked suddenly, and the troops were so strong that the British, French and Belgian armies were defeated and completely unable to parry, and retreated all the way to the Marne River in northern France. The Germans pursued the victory and followed all the way to the Marne, preparing to completely annihilate the main force of the Anglo-French army, and the mighty Battle of Marne broke out. The two sides invested more than 2 million troops, fought for more than 10 days, and each lost more than 200,000 troops before it came to an end. The German offensive was thwarted by the British and French forces, but the main force still had residual strength, and the British and French forces only temporarily stabilized the defensive line, but at this critical moment, there were major problems on the Eastern Front.

On the eighth day of the third month of the twelfth year of Zhongzheng, the Battle of the Marne River had just ended, and the Russian army on the Eastern Front was suddenly supplemented by more than 600,000 fresh troops and began a large-scale counteroffensive. It is very normal for the Russians, who have a standing army of 6 million, to have more troops on the front, but the 600,000 troops who rushed to reinforce this time are very different. Not only are they well-equipped and well-trained, but their tactical tactics are very alternative, far from being comparable to the average elite of the Russian army. When the Austro-Hungarian army encountered such a hard stubble, it instantly fell into a stubble. The German army, which had always been strong, had no good fruit to eat in front of them, and was defeated and retreated, and was almost divided and surrounded by others.

German Field Marshal Wadsey, who was shocked by the change, personally led three divisions temporarily drawn from the Western Front to rush to reinforcements, but he also suffered a big loss as soon as he got started. This group of Russian troops has a very strange fighting style, is extremely good at interspersing sneak attacks, and has a strong ability to march and survive in the field. As long as there was the slightest air attack on the German line, these guys would sneak through, marching one or two hundred kilometers on foot day and night, just like playing. Attacking their defense line is a nightmare, tunnel battles, bunker defense, a hill can put a gossip array out, rat holes all over the mountain, the German army is about to be mentally ill by them. Even in relatively conventional positional warfare, these men were able to play tricks, all kinds of weird minefields, bizarre underground communication trenches, and gasoline drums stuffed with * and nails, all of which brought * annoyance to the German army.

After all the hardships, Wadsey finally caught two live mouths, and after asking where these people came from, Wadsey almost fainted. These mysterious guys with extremely strong combat effectiveness are neither the tsar's guards nor the Russian special forces, they are the Russian troops who have withdrawn from the defense line of the Ural Mountains. They had no special training, but from officers to soldiers, they were abused by the Manchurian army a few times. I have never eaten pork and have seen pigs run, and they have learned the things of the Manchurian Army like cats. The Asian style of play has been moved to Europe, but it is enough for these hillbillies who have never seen the world to drink a pot.

In the face of the aggressive offensive of the Russian army, the German army had to continue to draw troops from the Western Front, and the temporary reinforcement of five divisions became the dispatch of fifteen divisions, and the Western Front also had to fall into a dilemma. The Germans couldn't help it, but they knew who the culprit was, and that was their close comrade-in-arms, Goxinga. The main forces of the Russian army in the Far East suddenly appeared in Europe, and the Manchurian Army is all fools? If it weren't for the Manchurian Army's release of water, these people would have died in Asia long ago. Sure enough, before the Germans questioned Changchun Xingshi, Britain and France issued a proclamation that the Washington peace talks had achieved initial results, and that Manchuria and Russia had unilaterally made peace. Russia ceded all its territory in Asia, including the Ural Mountains, in exchange for peace on the Eastern Front, and there was a complete truce between Manchurian and Russian countries, and the Manchurian Army had peacefully defended the Ural Mountains.

"The situation on the Western Front is very good, and Britain and France are about to be forced to die, and you suddenly release water on the Eastern Front to make peace, and it is clear that you are selling your teammates! Guoxing, you kid is so unkind! Bismarck personally wrote and sent a very unceremonious diplomatic note to Changchun, strongly condemning Goxing's betrayal of his teammates.

"The limit of our troop advance is Central Asia and the Ural Mountains, and they are willing to take the initiative to hand over this place, what else can I fight! Let's talk about selling teammates, it doesn't involve Russia! If you sell it, you will sell Lao Tzu first. When Lao Tzu had millions of troops and fought the Russian army in northern Xinjiang, what did you Germans do? When we started together, there would be no bad things today! "Changchun quickly replied to the Germans, and did not accept the condemnation of Germany at all, it was you German Hans who shook us on the Russian issue at the beginning, and you were embarrassed to talk about us.

"No peace, no peace! We are now being attacked from both sides, and our lives are very difficult! We're finished, and Britain and France will definitely go to settle accounts with you! "Germany really doesn't take care of the Russian issue, it was they who first used Goxinga as a gun, so they could only soften their breath and hope that Changchun would help.

"Big brother, we didn't expect it either! I was thinking of taking advantage of it and helping you weaken Russia, but who knew you were so dish! Didn't Austria-Hungary also have a million soldiers? The Russians only went back 600,000, why can't you bear it, this is too nonsense! "Russia's Goxinga has taken advantage of enough, and he doesn't want to say anything big, and he needs to die in such a big depth! If you can see a good one, you can accept it, and it is a serious thing to manage the new territory well. As for the responsibility, Goxinga simply threw it to Joseph, you Austria-Hungary are too wasteful! The 600,000 remnants of the defeated army will not be even.

"South Africa, Australia, and Canada are all coming to Europe to help, you can help settle them!" The Germans can only hate themselves, they don't know how to find teammates, Austria-Hungary is a waste, Goxinga is half a world away and a chicken thief, who can they blame! I can only ask Guo Xing'a for help.

"I will settle Australia and Canada, South Africa is too far away, it is really out of reach, but we can help you solve the main fleet of Britain and France!" Guoxinga is sincerely cheering for Europe, and Russia has withstood it, so he naturally has to abolish the British and French fleets, so that the two sides can be evenly matched.