In October 1927, when the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the Nobel ****** of that year to King Joachim of Ireland, Natsuki, who had received various design awards and honorary medals, happily announced that he would go to Oslo, Norway to receive the prize (according to the Nobel Prize, the Physics and Chemistry Prizes were awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Physiology or Medicine Prize was awarded by the Royal Carolin Institutet of Sciences, the Literature Prize was awarded by the Swedish Academy of Letters, and the ****** was elected by the Norwegian Parliament). Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, just over a month had passed since the formal signing of the Limerick Naval Treaty, and it had only taken 46 days from the initiation of this international treaty to its signing. Many people attribute this treaty to the king of Ireland, who took the lead in proposing the treaty, which ended the frenzied shipbuilding race, but in fact it was just a move to adapt to the situation -- the economic depression caused by the financial crisis swept the world, and the great powers that were originally gritting their teeth and insisting on large-scale shipbuilding had already planned to reduce their military spending, and this had the effect of echoing the situation.

The essence of the "Treaty on the Limitation of Naval Armaments" signed in Limerick is basically the same as the Washington Treaty of the old time and space: the total tonnage of the capital ships in service is limited to a fixed proportion, and the new generation of capital ships that have completed the design and even started construction will be abandoned, and the capital ships can only be renewed by replacing ships after five years, and the new warships must not break through the technical limits of 50,000 tons of standard displacement and 16 inches of main gun caliber. After fierce bargaining, the tonnage of the capital ships of the eight naval states of Germany, the United States, Britain, Japan, Austria, Italy, Ireland, and Turkey was finally determined to be 10:10:8:6:4:4:2:2, while Germany, the United States, and Japan each had to deal with a number of old battleships to achieve this ratio -- Germany sold the Nassau-class dreadnoughts to the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Ireland at low prices, while the United States and Japan retired the oldest battleships from active service, some of them were converted into training ships, and some were sold directly to shipbreaking companies as scrap metal. In addition to Japan's domestic dissatisfaction with the proportion set by the treaty, almost all countries breathed a sigh of relief at the end of the era of shipbuilding frenzy, and the halt to the decline in the stock markets of various countries should also have a positive impact on the signing of the treaty.

Natsuki's international prestige reached unprecedented heights as a result of the conclusion of the Naval Treaty and the Nobel ******, but this did not bring true peace to this era. What is embarrassing is that just half a month after receiving the Nobel ******, the King of Ireland approved a military directive to send troops abroad, and more than 20,000 well-equipped Irish soldiers crossed the sea to France by boat to help the French government "suppress the riots".

The origins of this upheaval can be traced back to the signing of the Lyon Armistice in 1915, when the French government ceded 90,000 square kilometers of territory and nearly half of its colonies and paid 18.5 billion francs in reparations to Germany, Austria and Italy in exchange for the survival of France. Burdened with heavy war reparations, France's industrial economy developed slowly for more than a decade after the war, the majority of the people lived on the poverty line of lack of materials, and the former status of a great power was completely lost, and the French people were deeply dissatisfied with the current situation of land loss, bullying and the weakness and incompetence of the ruling authorities, which provided the soil for the revolutionary trend to take root and multiply, which was divided into democratic revolutionaries and Bolsheviks. The former hoped to change the tragic fate of France through a relatively mild Blue Revolution, while the latter, influenced by the establishment of Soviet power in Russia, tried to completely reform the country with the Red Revolution.

With the rise of Soviet Russia and the progress of popular consciousness, the Bolshevik faction grew throughout France, and was guided and supported by the Comintern. The "Little Moltke Line", which towered over Eastern Europe, was destined to be only a defensive front of military significance, which could not stop the spread of Marx's revolutionary ideas or the clandestine delivery of weapons and equipment by the Russians to France. The financial crisis worsened the living conditions of the French working population, and in the same year, the French government finally paid off the war reparations to Germany. According to the corresponding terms of the armistice treaty, the German army should withdraw from northern France, including Paris, and the Atlantic coast as soon as France pays the reparations, but the change in the strategic situation caused the German military to be deeply concerned about withdrawing from the French occupation zone, so it tried to delay, and the weak protests of the French government triggered a long-standing revolutionary anger - demonstrations, strikes swept the country, and transportation was paralyzed, and then in Bassalonette, in the Alps, the revolutionaries launched an uprising and proclaimed Soviet power. The country echoed everywhere. In a short period of time, more than a dozen Soviet regimes emerged in the three regions of the Alps, and from the very beginning the Red Revolutionaries were committed to overthrowing the rotten French regime by force. The rebels occupied the towns, blocked the roads, established defensive lines, and with the help of Russian advisers, they repelled the French troops who came to encircle and suppress them.

The French government sent representatives to negotiate with the revolutionary regime, but the latter made demands that the French government could not accept, and Pleenga, who was once again prime minister, first declared a state of emergency in the south of France, then extended the scope to the whole country and mobilized a large number of troops to the southern provinces. Although the insurgents lacked weaponry, the French active forces were not much better. For ten years, the weapons and equipment they used were hardly updated, the density of machine guns and artillery was only slightly higher than at the end of the war, and the training methods of the army were still basically stuck before the war. The officers did not have a sense of innovation, the soldiers were demoralized, the revolutionary ideology was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and secret Soviet organizations appeared in many units. In the Battle of the Rhône-Alps, 40,000 French troops were defeated on all fronts, and a large number of soldiers defected in companies and platoons to join the revolutionary camp.

After the war, the French government almost lost control of the situation in the country.

Out of fear of Marx's revolutionary ideology, European countries supported the old forces in Soviet Russia in various ways in 1919, and the German General Staff was even ready to send three main army corps to intervene across the border, but the German top brass was worried about repeating the mistakes of Napoleonic France, and felt that the occupation of Russia was vain and unprofitable, and would only allow the hostile countries to reap the benefits, so they gave up direct intervention and instead strengthened the Moltke Line, uniting countries to blockade the Soviet Russian regime economically and diplomatically. Today, France, which is adjacent to Germany and faces the Atlantic Ocean, is of great strategic importance to the Allied bloc, and if the largest country in Western Europe were to be controlled by the Soviet power, it would undoubtedly be a disaster comparable to a financial crisis for Germany, so without waiting for the Gallerian government to request, Germany took the initiative to exert pressure on France to accept Allied troops to help it suppress the rebellion.

Pleenga was forced to compromise.

At the invitation of France's friends, the German troops stationed in France quickly moved south, and in just a few weeks, the revolutionary wave in France had spread from the Alps to the entire southern part of France, and the revolutionary organizations were preparing to establish their own Soviet state.

In the face of tens of thousands of revolutionary fighters, the well-trained and well-equipped German army seemed to be easily crushed. After the intervention, German troops quickly occupied the capitals of Aquitaine, Auvergne, and the South-Pyrenees, while Italian troops landed in southern France in response to the German military occupation of Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence-Alpes. In the south - the Pyrenees and the Languedoc-Roussillon, the frontal resistance of the French revolutionary forces was crushed, with more than 20,000 casualties, and the regular forces all retreated to the mountains of the Riviera and the Rhône-Alps, but the fire of revolution had been sown, and in the areas occupied by the German and Italian armies, the revolutionaries continued to harass the foreign intervention forces in the form of guerrilla warfare, and imitated the extensive establishment of revolutionary power in the countryside in Soviet Russia. Huo Ran fell into the vast sea of the people's war.

In the southern part of France, which covers an area of nearly 200,000 square kilometers, the stubborn and flexible resistance of the revolutionaries made the intervention forces from Germany and Italy feel that their troops were insufficient, Germany quickly mobilized 100,000 troops from the mainland, Italy increased its troops by 50,000, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Turkey, Ireland, and Spain all sent troops to France at the request of Germany, while the United States and Britain offered to send troops to participate in the operation but were rejected.

In the dead of winter, the Irish Army, consisting of 11 infantry regiments and four cavalry companies, landed in Bordeaux, France, in the milder temper of France, before the Irish 5th Fighter Wing, which had been incorporated into the German forces in France, had been engaged in intervention in the French Revolution. The arrival of the Irish army was reluctantly welcomed by the official French press, while the ordinary French made their attitude clear with cold eyes and boos.

Before acclimatizing to the French weather, the Irish army was mainly stationed in Aquitaine, which borders Spain on the Atlantic Ocean, and was stationed with Spanish troops in ports, bridges, railway lines and industrial areas. In December, the Irish army entered the south-Pyrenees region, where partisans were active, to take over the German troops who had arrived in advance. In recent years, Irish investment in France has also provided many jobs for the French, and the working conditions are better than those of many local French companies. After taking over the defence, the Irish army patrolled day and night, apprehended suspicious elements, and handed them over to the French government. At the same time, the Irish army continued to be attacked by sentries, patrols and baggage vehicles, and in the first week of its entry into the South-Pyrenees region, one officer, three non-commissioned officers and 15 soldiers were killed, 14 were missing, and 40 others were injured of varying severity, which was relatively small in the first week of its entry into the South-Pyrenees region. In the complex terrain of Provence-Alpes, an Italian unit was besieged at the station, and the Italian troops who went to support were ambushed, and after a series of battles, the Italians suffered more than 200 direct casualties alone, and also gave the other side a lot of weapons and ammunition.

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