Chapter 1485: Target: Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary has a population of more than 50 million, of which the Germans are the most populous in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, accounting for 24% of the population of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, almost a quarter, that is to say, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, German-speaking Germans, up to more than 13 million, this huge part, is also the most important thing in Germany, because of the relationship between Austria-Hungary and Germany, coupled with the current transformation of the strength of Austria-Hungary and Germany, there are not half people who have other thoughts in their hearts. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's just that, unlike Belgium, Belgium is a defeated country, the entire territory is occupied by Germany, and now it is in place of the Belgians to control their territory, so they can do what they want, forcibly converted, although it failed in the end, and also threw people to China, but Germany still did not give up the process of conversion, after all, it speaks German, has the same roots, as long as the other party does not see hope, the possibility of conversion is very high.

However, for Austria-Hungary, it can't be so radical No matter how you say it, Austria-Hungary is an ally, Germany has not considered taking action against Austria-Hungary for the time being, although from the actual situation of World War I, Austria-Hungary performed very badly, in this world war, as the second only to Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Russia, Austria-Hungary has no sense of existence at all, not only did not help Germany, but greatly dragged its feet.

Although it is said that because of the existence of Yang Yuanzhao, the entire process of the First World War has undergone great changes and deviations, the cause of the First World War is not the Sarajevo incident in which the famous Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo, but Germany, with the support of China, suddenly launched a direct attack on France from the Belgian side, completely setting off a full-scale war, and Austria-Hungary was not dragged into the quagmire of the Balkans, and even Turkey was not completely weakened in the Balkan War, and the Balkans were still in a mess. But it doesn't have much to do with them, and the parts they support are divided and disintegrated, and they just fight together.

Even so, Austria-Hungary still has no performance, the only war with Russia, the absolute advantage in numbers, but was beaten by Russia, in the First World War, was completely defeated by China, Germany, the Russian Army, which did not show anything on the army, but in Austria-Hungary to make up for it, less than 700,000 Russian troops fought 1.8 million Austro-Hungarian troops hugged their heads, and finally lost more than half, fled back in embarrassment, if not at this time, Germany's troops on the Eastern Front responded to it, If the posture of attack is made, this part of the Austro-Hungarian army may be more than lucky.

It's just a war, it doesn't mean all, but the same number of German troops can chase three times the Russian army, which shows the inadequacy of the Austro-Pleiatric army, Germany also wants to help Austria-Hungary, at least let his army improve its strength, to a certain extent, it can be regarded as helping Germany on the Eastern Front, after all, if Austria-Hungary is still like this, Germany has to be distracted by them, more than 1 million troops, all have to be placed on the Eastern Front to prevent the Russian attack, But after really coming into contact with the situation in Austria-Hungary, even Germany did not say anything.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a dual monarchy, with a hereditary monarch as the head of state and real power, a cabinet appointed by the monarch, the government accountable to the monarch, and the parliament exercising legislative power but the monarch having veto power. Other monarchies in the world are mostly single nations, such as Britain, Germany and Japan, and other nations have, but they are very few, but Austria-Hungary is different, he is a multi-ethnic dual monarchy, which can be clearly seen from his ethnic distribution.

Germanic 24%, Hungarian 20%, Czechs 13%, Poles 10%, Ukrainians 8%, these five major ethnic groups have become the mainstream, even Hungary, the Czech Republic, and even exist in the form of principalities, and there are a large number of more than 3% of the ethnic groups, as many as 10, so in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, multi-ethnicity is the most important feature, and this characteristic also directly restricts the military strength of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

For officers, they can master multiple languages, such as German and Latin, but the soldiers at the bottom are different, Italian-speaking soldiers can't understand the orders of German-speaking officers, and Hungarian-speaking soldiers can't understand Latin orders.

The official languages of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are German and Hungarian, German is certainly not good, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself is wary of the infiltration of Germany, although Austria-Hungary is an alliance with Germany, and Germany has the dominant power, but when Germany comes out to annex the Austro-Hungarian mentality, it will definitely cause a backlash, and Germany knows this, so there is no way to start, just suggest it, to see if it can organize an army in the language family.

This point was rejected again, the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself now, occupies the two dominant systems, Austria and Hungary, one side is dominated by German, the German-speaking nation only accounts for about 30%, and the other side is dominated by Hungary, but the Hungarian ethnic group only occupies 36%, this contrast makes other language families see hope, and constantly want to be on top, and Austria and Hungary are also thinking about separation all the time, for the stability of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, this idea must be dispelled, and the army of the real single language family is established, Isn't it for independence and separation?

As for Austria-Hungary, the German advice is to stick to its own line of defense, not to easily provoke the Russians, and the role of the Allies is also from the combat mission to the auxiliary, which is in line with the appetite of Austria-Hungary, after losing to Russia, Austria-Hungary also recognized its own shortcomings, and with the support of Germany and China, it is rectifying on a small scale, Switching to a non-combat mission sounds a little unacceptable, but it can get enough benefits, and it is not unacceptable.

However, for the domestic side, the Austro-Hungarian Empire's approach is not very popular, one side has to kill the Quartet, not only on land, pressing Britain, France, Russia and the United States to fight, almost showing the invincibility of the land to the fullest, on the other hand, Austria-Hungary several times the military advantage even Russia can not beat, and people who still have some ideas about Austria-Hungary began to have other ideas, maybe the Hungarians, Poles, Czechs have to think about one or two, they speak German, and they are part of the Germanic people, so they don't have so many ideas, He began to enter Germany through various channels.

For this, the Austro-Hungarian royal Habsburg family is helpless, its own equal relationship, because the relationship of the war is like this, this is a non-war crime, at this moment, and then entangle this, it is a little meaningless, what they can do is to acquiesce, yes, neither support, nor oppose, willing to leave Austria-Hungary, basically it is already a centrifugal departure from Germany, staying, it is also an unstable factor, but even the Habsburgs did not expect that the number would be so large.

Although Germany occupies a large part of Belgium and France, these places are independent countries, even if the population is moved, the territory is also under German control, but in addition to taking advantage of the more important places on the border between Germany and them, for the time being, Germany has not included these places in the scope of German direct jurisdiction, but the territory occupied by Russia can be included in the scope of direct jurisdiction.

The reason is very simple, France and Belgium represent the main direction of the Entente, and the current heavy forces of the Entente are held in that direction, although Germany still has the advantage, but what will happen in the future, it is really hard to say, to put their own nationals in such a dangerous place, it is not what they should do, but on the Russian side, there is no problem, the newly occupied more than one million square kilometers of land, although therefore, the border line between Russia and Russia, has increased several times, but for Germany, This is not a problem at all, the title of European steamroller has been shattered by real battles, as long as you put an army of about a million, the entire Eastern Front will be safe, and there will be no war at all.

It sounds very illusory, but in fact, in the war, the difference between countries is like this, just like Austria-Hungary almost acquiesced, let Germany immigrate from Austria-Hungary, this is the gap in strength, everyone knows, population is an important pillar of a country, Germany is precisely because of the relationship in terms of population, this is to reach out to Austria-Hungary, if Austria-Hungary remains strong, maybe it will cut off Germany's hand, but unfortunately, the current Austria-Hungary, strong outside, can only watch, Perhaps for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the large population was originally a problem, and it would have been better without these Germanic people.

However, what the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not expect was that it was not only the Germanic people who walked, people went to high places, and the water flowed to low places, under the deliberate propaganda of Germany, not only German-speaking Germanic people, first of all, some Germanic people were shaken and chose to join Germany, even some other races were no exception, after all, German was still the official language of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the bottom may still be the language of its own people, but at a slightly higher level, especially highly educated people, they have more German. The Germanic people are only 12 million, and even if they are finished, there are not many, but if this part of the ethnic group is added, the number is quite large, and it may even affect the Austro-Hungarian Empire at one time. (To be continued.) )