Under Ferdinand's butterfly effect, 1914 passed without danger, and history took a turning point here, and the world war that originally broke out in 1914 was postponed!

Due to the rise of Bulgaria and the partition of Serbia with Austria-Hungary, the powder keg of the Balkans is like being wet with water, and it is dumb!

Serbia has been annexed by Austria-Hungary for more than ten years, and the internal rebels and nationalism have been almost suppressed, and the will of the people to resist is always fragile under the butcher's knife!

Of course, even if the "Sarajevo incident" breaks out now, it will be useless, it is all an internal problem of Austria-Hungary, and the Entente will not be able to stand up for the Serbs at most.

All countries are making the final preparations before the war, the most prominent manifestation is that the number of battleships has increased dramatically like dumplings, and in 1914, all the major European powers have battleships in service, and what Ferdinand did not expect is that even the woolly bear, who has been playing soy sauce, actually served four dreadnoughts.

With the help of Britain and France, at the end of 1914, Russia completed four dreadnoughts, the Gangut, Petropavlovsk, Poltava, and Sevastopol, and then they were incorporated into the Baltic Fleet.

Well, the Russians' dreadnought program began in 1908, was completed at the end of 1914, and entered service at the beginning of 1915, which is probably comparable to the eight-year shipbuilding record set by the Italians before!

Of course, the sequelae of a long time are also very serious, the longer the time is affected by the outside world, as far as Ferdinand knows, the Russians have revised these battleships seven or eight times, and finally learned from the Italians.

I really don't know what the Russians think, they are more like battlecruisers than battleships, and they are more like battleships than battlecruisers.

To put it simply, the Russians wanted both the firepower of a battleship and the speed of a cruiser, and finally came up with a thin-skinned battleship.

Of course, the weakness is very fatal, the speed is not as good as the battle cruiser, and the combat effectiveness is not as good as the dreadnought, the main thing is that it does not resist the beating, and it will be finished if it can't take a few shots.

specification

Displacement: 23360 tons

Length: 181.2m

Width: 26.6 meters

Draft: 8.4m

Main engine: Parsons direct drive steam turbine 2 groups/4 shafts

Main boilers: 25 Yarrow oil-fired water-tube boilers

Power: 42000 hp

Speed: 23 knots

Endurance: 3,500 nautical miles at 10 knots

Armament: 4 305 mm 52 x diameter triple guns (one in the front and one in the back, two in the amidships), 16 120 mm 50 x diameter single guns, 4 47 mm single guns, 4 450 mm underwater torpedo tubes

Armor: broadside 225 mm, deck 50 mm, gun mount 150 mm, turret fore 203 mm, conning tower 254 mm

Crew: 1,126

Seeing the Russian battleships, Ferdinand finally found self-confidence, it was obvious that this was led by the Italian way of thinking, and the tsarist government dared to come four ships at once, and it had to admire their courage.

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Foreign Secretary Metev hurried in and brought Ferdinand news that was both unexpected and reasonable.

"Your Majesty, there has just been an armed conflict on the Franco-German border.

The French claimed that two German patrol soldiers had violated French sovereignty by crossing the border and were detained by the French, and then the brutal German army launched a surprise attack on the French!

The Germans claimed: the French detained two German soldiers for no reason, and only after the negotiations between the two sides were fruitless, did the German army use force to rescue the hostages! ”

Ferdinand sighed slightly, he should still come, as for the reason, it doesn't matter! Anyway, the Entente countries believed the French, the Central Powers believed the Germans, and the onlookers said they were confused!

After pondering for a moment, Ferdinand said cautiously: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that Bulgaria will support the French in their just actions to safeguard national sovereignty!" ”

Ferdinand knew that Bulgaria's statement now was undoubtedly a step closer to the war, but now Bulgaria could no longer drag on, and the preparations that should have been made had almost been done.

If it continues to drag on, the time is not far from the outbreak of the economic crisis in Bulgaria, and the war is undoubtedly the best weapon to consume overcapacity!

At the same time as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement, Bulgaria was also mobilizing for the war, and all the officers and soldiers who were still on leave were notified to return to their units immediately.

The officers and soldiers who had been restored were also called to be on standby at all times, and the reserves in various places were regrouped in the name of military exercises, and it can be said that among the countries of the European continent, Bulgaria was the first to mobilize for war!

However, the dominance of the war is not in the hands of Ferdinand, France and Germany are the center of this conflict, and the two countries are still fighting a war of words, if neither the government in Paris nor Berlin is willing to make concessions, war is inevitable.

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Obviously, this time there is no way back for the French government, nationalism is a double-edged sword, and now the French government has been kidnapped by nationalism.

And the position of the British and Bulgaria in the Entente was the same, both wanted war to break out immediately, and Russia also showed support for France this time, these factors gave the French the confidence to start a war!

The British were frightened by the production capacity of the Germans, and if the arms race continued, the German Navy would soon catch up with the Royal Navy, which was unacceptable to the British government.

Of course, with John Bull's pitfalls, they will not take a direct stand, after all, the pro-German faction in the London government is still strong, and most of the Liberals and the working class are anti-war.

So they made the same choice as in history, John Bull cheered the French on the other hand, and at the same time called on the two sides to calmly mediate the conflict.

The Russians have already coaxed once in the Moroccan crisis, and if they continue to pretend, then they will really coax! Therefore, this time the tsarist government was very resolute and openly stated that it would support any action of the French to preserve the sovereignty of the country.

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"Your Majesty, a huge demonstration has just erupted in London calling for peace, and the British government has publicly declared that it will do everything it can to avoid the outbreak of war on the European continent!" Foreign Minister Mejev said worriedly

There is no way that Britain has done too much drama, even its own people have been deceived, and now there are less than ten people in the world who know that the Entente is about to start a war, and Metev naturally does not know, otherwise he would not be so worried.

After all, without the participation of the British, the Allied countries' sea supremacy could not be guaranteed, and now the German Navy is already the second in the world, and the main force of the French Navy remains in the Mediterranean.

"Don't worry, Britain will not tolerate the Germans to unify Europe, our plan will not change!" Ferdinand said lightly

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There is no doubt that under the superb diplomacy of Niu Niu, even his own people have been deceived, not to mention the Germans!

Wilhelm II was still naïve to think that the British would still sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight this time and would not directly join the war, so the Germans accelerated the pace of the war!

In addition to the statements of the British, there was a more important factor, if the time dragged on until 1917, when the expansion of the French and Russian armies was about to be completed, then the balance of power between the two sides would change.

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Since the outbreak of the Franco-German conflict on February 23, all countries have tacitly mobilized for war, but the Germans reacted slightly faster. Within a week, the Germans had mobilized 800,000 troops, and with the standing army at more than 1.6 million, the Germans thought the time had come to start a war!

On March 2, the German Foreign Office issued an ultimatum to the French government, limiting the French to hand over the perpetrators within 24 hours, and apologize to Germany, as well as pay two billion marks in reparations!

Don't think about it, the French will definitely not accept it, otherwise the people of Paris will start this meaningful activity again!

At this time, the countdown to the war had begun, and the whole world knew that perhaps today or tomorrow, a war in Europe would break out.

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