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After the Allied Powers summit, the Allied member states clearly realized that the challenge was more serious, and in order to win the war, they had to tighten their belts and invest all their resources in the army, and it became the top priority for each country to build more warships and more guns and ammunition.

Both the Entente and the Central Powers focused their attention on important strategic nodes around the world.

In order to cut off the strategic link between the Chinese Empire and the German Empire during the outbreak of war.

The Entente group set its sights on the world's railways and the Suez Canal.

The world railway is a joint venture between China and Germany, has been opened to traffic, the world's first power Chinese Empire and the world's third power German Empire linked, through the railway contact, the annual trade volume between China and Germany exceeded 500 million yuan, the German Empire has become a transit station in Europe, a large number of Chinese Empire goods through the hands of German Empire merchants, sent to all parts of Europe, which makes China and Germany earn a lot of gold and silver, economic development is faster, so that the Entente countries are deeply jealous.

Therefore, the Entente decided to cut off the world's railways as soon as possible when the war broke out, and cut off the economic, trade, and military assistance between China and Germany.

To this end, the three major European countries of the Entente bloc, Britain, France, and Russia, drew up an operational plan for a joint attack on the world railways in wartime, codenamed Tornado.

Operation Tornado aimed at attacking the Middle East and Balkan sections of the World Railway and cutting off the connection between China and Germany.

The armies of Britain, France, and Russia were required to launch large-scale ground offensives in the Balkans, Transcaucasia, the Middle East, and West Asia during wartime.

Among them, the Tsarist Russian Army was the main force and undertook the offensive in three directions, namely Romania in the Balkans from the Ukrainian direction, Georgia from the Transcaucasus, and Baghdad in the Ottoman Empire.

Then there was the alliance of Britain, France and Russia, attacking the Middle East of the Ottoman Empire, cooperating with the Russian army on the northern front, and together with the railway communication line between Baghdad and Constantinople.

At the same time, in the direction of West Asia, the combined forces of Britain and Russia will launch a campaign in the Aiukhan region of West Asia, sabotage the world railway in Aiukhan, prevent the Chinese Imperial Army from sending troops from the western Xinjiang, and reinforce Europe.

The military of Britain, France and Russia conducted a special war game for this purpose, which successfully destroyed the world railway, cut off the connection between the Chinese Empire and the German Empire, divided the Central Powers into two, and laid the foundation for the complete dismemberment of the Central Powers and the complete defeat of the Central Powers in the next stage.

This kind of war game deduction is somewhat out of reality.

In order to sabotage the world's railways, the Entente group mobilized more than one million troops, but the war games only allowed the Western Xinjiang Military Region of the Chinese Empire to dispatch two towns, with less than 40,000 troops, so the Entente won with a 25 times superiority in troops.

However, once the war breaks out in an all-round way, the Chinese Empire will carry out a general mobilization of the whole country, with no more than 40,000 troops, one western theater will dispatch a million troops, and the entire ten major theaters of the Chinese Empire will be able to mobilize 10 million troops.

None of the Entente countries joined the war games, and they were completely on paper and unilaterally.

Similarly, the German Empire also formulated a strategic policy of attacking the French Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire, and Stephen formulated a set of battle plans, giving full play to the speed advantage of the German army, interspersing the Nordic countries with a large detour tactic, and then encircling France, destroying the resistance of the French Empire as quickly as possible, and then blocking the landing of the British army with the navy, freeing up his hands to deploy troops into the Western Front battlefield, fighting with the Tsarist Russian army, and finally achieving victory.

The Stephen plan is the lightning tactic adopted by Hitler in history, although the German Ministry of Defense adopted this plan, but it did not attract enough attention, because the blitzkrieg still has huge limitations in this era.

For example, how to make the army move quickly, although Stephen explained that it is possible to learn from the Chinese Empire's dragoon regiment structure, that is, a fast mobile unit.

However, when Bismarck asked again how to solve the problem of firepower in rapid maneuvering, that is, how to quickly defeat the enemy army when it encounters it? If it encounters the enemy's strong fortress block, how to quickly break through the fortress, if it drags on for time, then the blitzkrieg will not only not be effective, but will drag the German army down and fall into great strategic danger.

Faced with this question, Stephen was speechless, because in the blitzkrieg plan he conceived, the fortress of Liège would be encountered as a huge obstacle, and the Germans had deduced many times, but it was impossible to break through quickly. Once the defenders of the Sun Fortress held back the main German army, then the British and French troops were given time to breathe and consolidate the defensive line with all their might, so that the German lightning tactics failed.

As a result, Stephen's plan was used as a backup reference plan, and the Germans had to seek other combat options.

Let's say that after the Entente war games were rehearsed, the military of Britain, France, and Russia naturally had to conduct on-the-spot investigations and then make further plans and arrangements.

British, French, and Russian agents entered the areas along the world's railways, secretly conducted surveys and military reconnaissance, and then reported the information to the military of their respective countries.

Among them, the Tsarist Empire was active frequently in the Balkans, and with the help of the South Slavs here, it was a good cover for the identity of Tsarist Russian spies.

Romania was a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, but it had the right to be independent. This has been the right of Romania since the end of the Ninth Russo-Turkish War.

The international environment at that time was that the Chinese Empire was not completely hostile to the Tsarist Empire, and the British Empire and the French Empire sacrificed the Ottoman Empire at that time in exchange for the cooperation of the Tsarist Empire.

Now that the Chinese Empire has successfully drawn the Ottoman Empire into the camp of the Central Powers, it is natural that the former Russian-Turkish Peace Treaty of Paris will be readjusted, and it will firmly support the Ottoman Empire and claim back the rights and interests lost in those years.

It was precisely because of the support of the Chinese Empire and the German Empire that the temper of the Ottoman Empire grew.

Since the world railways passed through Romania, both the Chinese and German empires attached great importance to the safety of the world railways within Romania, so the Ottoman Empire saw an opportunity to continuously strengthen its control over the suzerainty of Romania.

You know, there are a large number of Slavs in Romania, who are pro-Russian, and in addition, ethnic Romanians, with only a few ethnic Turks.

In the past, it was the Turks who ruled Romania, and with the independence of Romania, the Turks had lost their rights, and the Kuza leaders, represented by the Romanians, had always wanted to liquidate the various tragedies and hatreds created by the direct Ottoman rule.

In fact, Romanians do not like either the Turks nor the Slavs, and the problem is that the Turks are currently the most hateful, so during the First World War in history, Romania joined the Entente against the Ottoman Empire.

Now the Ottoman Empire, with the support of the Chinese Empire and the German Empire, secretly intended to rule Romania from the new and reintegrate Romania into the territory of the Ottoman Empire, which caused strong resentment among the Romanians.

Severinburg, an important border town between Romania and Serbia, through which the Danube River passes, and the world railway built by China and Germany also passes through here, is an important strategic node.

Because it had to cross the Translancy Mountains, when the German Empire first built the World Railway, in order to catch up with the progress of the project (the Chinese Empire built it two years ahead of schedule), the Germans abandoned the construction of the Translancy Tunnel project, and erected a number of railway bridges over the Danube River to cross the territory between Romania and Serbia.

Although the difficulty of the project was reduced, the world's railways were opened ahead of schedule, but there was also a hidden danger that the railways shuttled back and forth between Romania and Serbia, especially after entering Serbia, where there were many Slavs.

At the time of the construction of the railway, the Romanian and Serbian governments, under pressure from the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire, forcibly demolished the residential areas of the Slavs, and behind the Slavs was the Tsarist Empire.

The Romanian and Serbian governments both received money from the German Empire, so they sent the military and police to suppress them, causing them to flee their homes, or be killed as a rebellion, or imprisoned.

Some Slavs approached the consulates of the Russian Empire in Romania and Serbia and asked for help, and the Russian Empire had always coveted the Balkan territories and fought hundreds of years of war with the Ottoman Empire for this purpose, but if there was any excuse, they would intervene.

The Ottoman Empire had the support of China and Germany, and the Tsarist Russian Empire did not have the support of Britain, France and the United States.

Tsar Nicholas II admitted that he was no match for China and Germany at sea, but on land, the Tsarist army, known as the gendarme of Europe, had never served anyone, not even the Imperial German Army.

As for the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire, almost 20 years have passed since the exchange of fire between the two sides, and such a long period of peace has made the Tsarist army forget how powerful the Chinese Imperial Army is, and with the increase of military and economic aid to Tsarist Russia by Britain, France and the United States, the Tsarist Russian Army has made a qualitative leap and greatly improved its combat effectiveness.

There is a way to be full of warm thoughts, and when the Tsarist Russian army became stronger, it wanted to bully other countries.

However, the Ottoman Empire was a member of the Central Powers, and the Russian Empire did not dare to resort to force easily, because Nicholas II did not dare to go to war directly with the Ottoman Empire, but he could provoke Slavic rebellions in Romania and Serbia.

At the same time, the Sino-German World Railway passed through Romania and Serbia, and in the event of war, the Russian Empire had to mobilize a large army to attack here, but Nicholas II wanted to mobilize a large army to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese Empire and recapture the Far East to the sea. As for the German Empire, at present, the Tsarist Russian Empire actually has no territorial contradictions with the German Empire, and the two emperors are related to each other, so Nicholas II ignored Germany.

Therefore, Nicholas II planned to carry out the Tornado plan in advance, instructing Russian agents to infiltrate the Severinburg area on the border between Romania and Serbia, secretly instigating the local Slavs, arming them, making them riot, sabotage the world's railways, blowing up bridges, caves, railroad tracks, etc.

In Nicholas II's view, as long as the world's railways were destroyed first and could not be opened until the outbreak of war, then the Russian army would not have to carry out Operation Tornado, and would be free to fight the Chinese Empire.

But what Nicholas II never expected was that this riot would detonate the Balkan War.

In April 1890, the long-term military confrontation between the Entente and the Allied Powers had caused the world to be full of mountains and rains, especially in Europe, the four countries of the Allied Powers, Germany, Italy, Austria and Turkey, were connected together, across the Eurasian continent, and cut off the Entente Britain, France, and Russia.

The Balkans, on the other hand, are the condensation of Europe's main contradictions. Because this is a great meeting place of the two camps of nationalities, the Slavs, Macedonians, Romans, and Brettas are a hodgepodge, each with its own religious beliefs, and there is a small dozen in three days and a big dozen in a month.

And the agents of the Russian Empire secretly transported weapons to the Slavs in Serbia and Romania, as a result of which these people quickly launched a rebellion and sabotaged the world's railways.

The world railways are related to the core interests of the Allies, and the Chinese Empire, the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire have always been connected through the world railways, and if 80% of the trade and communication lines are cut off, there will be heavy losses. In particular, the Kingdom of Italy, which joined later, enjoyed the huge economic benefits brought to Italy by the world's railways in a short period of time.

The Allied bloc was immediately furious, and the two small countries of Romania and Serbia were immediately frightened and hurriedly sent troops to suppress it.

Since the issue of the Balkan Peninsula concerns many countries, Britain and France did not know that the Tsarist Empire was secretly instigating in the Balkans, and even if they guessed in the end, they could not blame Tsarist Russia for anything, but they had to support the Tsarist Empire and get things done to achieve their goals.

Since after the last Russo-Turkish war, Serbia and Romania became independent, but they still nominally belonged to the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire had suzerainty over them.

As a result, the Greeks, Bulgarians, Montenegro and other peoples also wanted to get rid of the rule of the Ottoman Empire, and countries such as Romania had independence, even if it was nominally better than being enslaved.

In particular, Greece, after being conquered by the Ottoman Empire, suffered greatly, and at the instigation of Britain and France, it quickly contacted Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro to form a "Balkan League" to oppose the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

Originally, it was only Serbia and Romania to suppress the Slavs in the country, but in the end, because of the instigation of Britain, France and Russia, it quickly evolved into an independent war in the entire Balkan region, the scale of which was quickly uncontrolled, and the military strength of Serbia and Romania was limited, and they could not stop the Balkan alliance army armed by Britain and France.

The Ottoman Empire watched from afar until the Balkan League was formed, and finally got an excuse to send troops, so it mobilized a large army to suppress it.

In terms of weaponry, the Balkan Allied Army is the advanced weaponry of Britain and France, while the Ottoman Imperial Army is all Chinese equipment with advanced performance.

It's a pity that the Ottoman Empire ******** and its combat effectiveness was too weak, and as a result, the Balkan coalition army was defeated again and again. (To be continued.) )