"Your Majesty, the Austro-Hungarian Empire has already begun to act, they have begun to replenish the forces in the border area between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, and in a maximum of fifteen days, the Austro-Hungarian Army can launch an attack on Serbia!" Nikolayevich said to the Russian emperor. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"We don't have a choice now, do we?" Nicholas II said with some numbness. "Serbia is our most important ally in the Balkans, we are a people, and if we retreat today, then tomorrow anyone will dare to make a provocation against the Russian Empire, which has lost to Britain and France, and to the Japanese, and the majesty of the empire has been overdrawn, and we can no longer tolerate such provocations."

It was as if Nicholas II was convincing himself that he was making excuses for the actions he was about to take. But at the same time, he was terrified of war. "What is the attitude of the French? It's time for them to take a stand? ”

"The French have said that all the treaties they have signed with us will go according to plan." said the Foreign Secretary.

"That's not enough." Nicholas II said.

French President Raymond. Poingaré will visit St. Petersburg in a week. to discuss cooperation between the two countries. The Foreign Secretary thought for a moment and continued.

So, do the French also think that the time has come to solve the problem? Well, we would like to prepare a grand welcoming ceremony for Your Excellency to witness the friendship between our two countries. We can not announce mobilization for the time being, but some preparations need to be carried out, and we need to concentrate our forces longer than De'o. Nicholas II finally breathed a sigh of relief.

According to the Russian emperor's intentions, although the Russians did not issue a general mobilization order, troops began to move from Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic region, and St. Petersburg along the Russians' not smooth railway lines to Russian Poland, and a torrent of soldiers, horses, and various vehicles marched across the vast land of Eastern Europe. Russia, the behemoth that once made the whole of Europe tremble, has once again awakened, and whether it will go to the other side of victory or fall into the abyss of decline can only wait for the test of time.

The French were more resolute than the Russians on the question of war, and since the Franco-Prussian War, the Franco-German bond was completely concluded, and for the next half century, the French did not think about recovering the occupied territories all the time. This is evident from the actions taken by France after the start of the war. Without saying a word, they concentrated their forces on attacking the Alsace-Lorraine region.

And the current situation does not allow the French to retreat, the Russian political environment determines that they cannot ignore Serbia, and if Russia and Austria intervene, Germany will definitely help Austria-Hungary, because the Germans have already made a statement that if a third party joins the war, then Germany will definitely do it, and this third party is Russia!

If Germany and Austria start to knock Russia together, then Russia will definitely kneel, and if Russia kneels, then France will never have a chance again, so when the bayonet is red, the French must not retreat! There's nowhere to go back! Therefore, even the president of France is dressed in battle, ready to have a good exchange with the Russians.

"We can concentrate 1,500,000 troops in fifteen days, and we can also leave another 300,000 troops for the War Office as a general reserve, and the Germans cannot outnumber ours, and we can maintain a balance with the Germans by our strength alone, and if the British are willing to fulfill their promises, we can defeat the Germans. At the very least, it is also possible to pin down the main German forces on the Eastern Front, and then let the Russians stab them in the back. General Xia Fei assured when he met with the French president.

"Then now the question arises, will the British declare war on Germany as agreed?" The French Prime Minister looked at the Foreign Minister.

"They will, as long as the British don't want to lose their current position!" Without waiting for the foreign secretary to answer, the French president said categorically.

The French moved much faster than the Russians, and while the Franco-Prussian War gave the French the consequences of defeat, it also gave the French army a qualitative leap! In terms of mobilization speed, the French are not much inferior to the Germans, according to the French timetable, they can complete the deployment and assembly of 24 armies in 12 days, more than 1 million people and 400,000 military horses will be transported by rail, and in some busy stations, it will take less than 4 minutes on average to pass a train with 50 carriages!

At the same time, the British, as the French had hoped, were actively preparing for war, although the British Foreign Secretary, Gray, summoned the German ambassador to Berlin and declared: "Britain will do its utmost to guarantee peace among the great powers of Europe." King George V also told Prince Heinrich that he wanted Britain to remain as neutral as possible.

But under the cover of this ambiguous diplomatic vocabulary, the British had begun to mobilize, the Royal Navy had begun to assemble, and Prince Louis was about to be removed because of his German roots. Even the military forces of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are beginning to move. The British were preparing enough ships so that they could throw a large number of troops to the opposite shore at the beginning.

Churchill, who had become the Secretary of the Admiralty, made a request to the Navy: "From now on, we will monitor every Allied warship and merchant ship, so that when war starts, we can sink or block it as soon as possible." ”

Churchill was naturally aware of the two super-dreadnoughts built by Germany for Argentina, and he was also very concerned about the ownership of these two warships. "Tell the Argentines at once that they can take those two battleships away at once, or resell them to us, and it is simply unthinkable to keep such two powerful battleships on German soil."

Once again, the British Imperial Navy had assembled his vast fleet, and if there was ever been a similar operation, it would have been back in the Napoleonic period. A huge fleet is gathered at the exit of the North Sea. A fleet of more than 20 dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts, as well as more than a dozen quasi-dreadnoughts, and dozens of armored cruisers and light cruisers, locked the exit from the North Sea like a long chain. The steel mast resembling a dense forest symbolizes the most formidable existence of the Industrial Revolution. Jericho takes over, and he is in charge of the world's most powerful maritime power.

"The glory of the Royal Navy will surely be in my hands. We look forward to taking this brand new challenger to the ground! Hopefully, the Battle of Cape Trafalgar, which took place in the North Sea, will serve as a mark and glory for our generation of naval officers! In his diary, Jericho wrote.

It seems like a war is going to start today?! Three more to subscribe and ask for rewards~~~! (To be continued.) )