Serbia defeated the main force of the Austro-Hungarian [***] team in Liseddarshan, and Vienna urgently asked Berlin for help. The Russian Tsar sent 50,000 Russian [***] troops into Serbia, and the war had completely escalated, from a battle between Austria-Hungary and Serbia to a melee between two groups.

Several years before the outbreak of the war, Sir Schlieffen, the chief of the German General Staff, had drawn up the Schlieffen plan, which was mainly characterized by a quick victory: first use Germany's developed railway network, concentrate superior forces to defeat France in six weeks, and then transfer troops to the eastern front to attack Russia. Correspondingly, France also formulated Plan XVII, which used two army groups to regain in one fell swoop the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, which had been ceded to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War. However, the development of the war obviously exceeded the expectations of the French [***] people, making Project 17 a big joke.

At the beginning of the war, Germany made great progress by virtue of its absolute superiority in the quality of its soldiers and its strong industrial strength.

On August 2, 1914, the Germans sent troops to Luxembourg, which declared neutrality, and seized Luxembourg's railway network. On 3 August, the Germans declared war on Belgium. By 9 August, the Germans had successfully captured all of Belgium and expelled the French troops from Belgium back to France. The Belgian king was the uncle of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, but his nephew did not give his uncle any face, and he did not spare any affection when he sent troops.

On 21 August, the Germans attacked northern France in five directions, and the French army was forced to retreat, and 12 days later, the German army had reached the outskirts of Paris, and it seemed that it was about to rewrite a scene in the Franco-Prussian War. The French political axe had no choice but to relocate to Bordeaux in the south and continue to resist.

The war had just begun a month earlier, and the Germans were already under the city of Paris!

However, the German offensive also ended there, and the Germans made a fatal mistake by exposing their weak flank to the outskirts of Paris, and at the same time to cross the front line of the French Sixth Army. The Germans were invincible everywhere they went, and they despised the French too much, from the French commander-in-chief, Marshal Chauffy to the ordinary French soldiers, in the eyes of the arrogant Germans and the German Emperor Wilhelm II.

In fact, the Germans were not unaware of the weakness of their flanks, nor of the fact that their weak flanks were about to break through the front line of the French Sixth Army, but they knew that their troops were already very tired and in dire need of rest and supplies. The German General Staff even knew very well that its forward troops were moving too fast, and had long since left their heavy weapons and baggage far behind. The weak flanks were not only insufficient in troops, but also lacked the powerful firepower that the Germans were proud of, and the soldiers were so tired that they could not even speak.

But the enemy is the French, the bombastic Gallic roosters, what is there to fear about the French who are fleeing from the wind? They definitely don't have the guts to blow the horn of a counterattack!

The Germans made a big mistake, they did not expect that among the French there was also an old fellow named Gallieri, who was the commander of the Paris garrison and had long seen the weakness of the Germans. The German Krupp cannons also woke up the citizens of Paris, and the French, who were in danger of extinction, burst out with the courage of the Napoleonic era, and the citizens of Paris organized all vehicles to transport troops and supplies to the front, and all the taxi drivers throughout Paris braved the rain of bullets to deliver ammunition and supplies to the front line.

When the Germans reached 30 kilometers outside of Paris, where the spire of the Eiffel Tower could already be seen, the French launched a counterattack.

The German and Anglo-French allied forces fought brutally on the Marne River, and the two sides used 1.5 million troops unprecedented in European history.

Five days later, the Germans retreated, the Anglo-French forces miraculously held Paris, and the war entered a brutal and boring tug-of-war.

From this day on, the only purpose of the two groups fighting was to let the other side shed another drop of blood to see who could not hold on and fall first.

At this time, politicians on both sides began to woo allies everywhere, wrote all kinds of empty checks, tried to increase their own strength, and used coercion, inducement, and intimidation to all means.

At this time, the greatest strength and weakness of the British was exposed. Britain, with its vast colonies, is the only country in the world where its navy can fight all over the world, and its colonies on all continents constitute a global supply line. The British Empire fleet could sail to every corner of the world at any time to crush enemies who tried to oppose the Empire and extinguish the flames of the uprising, without fear of not being resupplied along the way.

However, when the world war broke out, superiority became a dead end, and the extreme fragility of the island nation identified by Major General Mahan's idea of sea power was exposed. Military strategists all over the world understood that if the British Empire was cut off from its colonies, especially India, Britain's military and financial resources would be greatly affected. If India's nationalists take this opportunity to unite with the Germans to launch an uprising, then India, the most dazzling jewel in the Queen's crown, will become a time bomb to subvert the 300-year hegemony of the British Empire!

The British undoubtedly saw this, and the detachment of German cruisers in Qingdao became a thorn in the side of the British. So, the British thought of the two great powers of the Far East, China and Yuben. The politicians of Downing Street hoped that China would help Britain to pull out the nail of the German army in Tsingtao and completely destroy the German fleet that could threaten Bombay and Calcutta at any time.

However, soon the British lost interest in China, and Chai Dongliang declared neutrality in Yanjing in a high-profile manner and would not participate in the war. At the same time, the Russians, in order to obtain supplies from China, also declared their support for China's neutrality. The tsar announced that the diplomatic relations between China and Russia would be upgraded from the rank of minister to the rank of ambassador, and at the same time announced that he would send a high-level delegation headed by royal officials to visit China in the spring of the following year.

The Tsar had no other choice at this time, and at present, only Chinese could provide all the strategic materials needed by Russia, from weapons and ammunition, medicines and uniforms, to rubber wheels for war horses and artillery carts, and military dry rations??? As long as the Russians can come up with money, the Chinese can come up with supplies. Moreover, the quality and quantity of the military supplies produced in China are guaranteed as well as the delivery date, and what makes the Russians even more unable to refuse is that the military supplies produced in China are simply tailor-made according to the Russian standard standards.

Now Mongolia and Mukden have almost become the logistics base camp of the Russian army, and a large number of Chinese businessmen, such as Yan Weifan, the chief treasurer of the Jin merchant "Dadetong", live in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and soak together with Russian officials every day.

Except for a few bad money, Russia, which is infinitely close to zero in other war preparations, if it offends China at this time, the soldiers can only carry hoes and play with the German army armed to the teeth!

Then it would not be a war, but a one-sided slaughter!

The loans the Russians received from France were turned into columns of military supplies that were transported along the Trans-Siberian Railway to the front, and the Russians, who had just laid down their hoes and joined the soldiers, happily threw away the wooden sticks with bayonets in their hands and replaced them with brand-new Mosinagan rifles.

The British were so frustrated by the attitude of China and Russia that they turned to their allies for help, hoping that China would not interfere in their military operations at Tsingtao.

The British asked for help, which made Terauchi Masayi, who had just served as prime minister, very excited, and the landlord also asked for tenants, which is really feng shui in turn!

On August 26, 1914, Masatake announced the formation of a wartime base camp and urgently dispatched 60,000 troops from three divisions to attack Qingdao.

It is said that the father of the cavalry, Akiyama Yoshiko, the super genius of the navy, Akiyama Shinyuki, and the Akashi Genjiro who topped ten divisions by one person, the three most famous geniuses of the book all appeared, and even the emperor's Imperial Forest Army Guards Division was transferred out, and he can be said to have given the British Empire enough face.

It's just that if these three people live in the same room, outsiders are afraid that they will be smoked to death if they enter, and these three people never take a bath!

The German governor Waldeck was also not a vegetarian, and on the one hand drove tens of thousands of Chinese to build temporary batteries, dig trenches, transport supplies, and actively prepare for war; On the one hand, the reservists in China were urgently summoned to Qingdao to participate in the war, and the German [***] troops stationed along the Yanjing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Shanghai, Jinan, and Jiaoji railways were transferred to Qingdao. By the time the war broke out, the total strength of the German army in Qingdao had reached more than 45,000.

However, both Ben and Germany are closely watching Yanjing's movements. He said that he suffered a great loss at Dagu, the land force that landed on the shore was completely annihilated, the navy also suffered heavy losses, the only seaplane aircraft carrier was sunk, and even the battleship was sunk. No matter how arrogant Terauchi Masatsuki is, he doesn't dare not care about the reaction of the Chinese side, not to mention, the brothers Akiyama Yoshiko and Akiyama Shinyuki are all top talents in this book, and Akashi Genjiro is the king of espionage in the Far East!

The Germans were worried that the Chinese would take the opportunity to recover Qingdao, although Qingdao had 45,000 German troops, but the real elite was less than 3,000, and the rest were local garrisons. Your Excellency the German Governor-General, I have also heard of the power of the Chinese Air Force, and the battleships of Xiao Yuben can be sunk, but the cruisers in Qingdao cannot be sunk?

On August 26, Yuben announced the dispatch of troops, and Yanjing protested.

On 28 August, the Japanese army boarded the ship and set sail, and Yanjing seriously protested.

On 29 August, Germany removed the guns from old warships to strengthen Qingdao's city defenses, and at the same time drove a large number of Chinese workers to build fortifications.

On 2 September, the advance of the Yue army forcibly landed in Longkou, Shandong, occupied the towns along the Huangxian, Yexian, Pingdu, Jimo, and Jiaoji railways, and pressed towards Qingdao. Yanjing continued to protest.

On 3 September, Germany laid mines in the Chinese waters of the Qianhai Shipping Channel, and Yanjing protested.

On 18 September, the main force of the Yue army landed at Yangkou Bay in Laoshan again, repelled the German alert troops, and then invaded Li Village, where it joined the Yue army moving south. Yanjing continued to protest seriously.

On 21 September, 2,000 British troops transferred from Hong Kong also landed at Yangkou and joined the attack on Qingdao, but the Chinese were still protesting.

At this point, both warring sides were relieved, and the Chinese were still the same, tough on the lips but soft on the bones. The British did not take the political axe of the Republic of China seriously, but they themselves thought that China was afraid of the British Empire, so they did not dare to take action. The Germans are too busy to take care of themselves, so they don't care about Yanjing's reaction!

The Chinese Air Force, which had once made his heart tremble, did not show up as promised, and the Chinese Navy retreated to Shanghai, Jiujiang, and Weihaiwei, which is common to China and Britain, except for the occasional small ship such as two destroyers near Qingdao. In fact, there are really many navies of various countries near Qingdao, all of whom have come to watch the battle, and the Chinese [***] ship seems to have come to visit in accordance with the practice of this era. I sent an official military attache to watch the battle to learn! Even if one or two planes occasionally appeared over the battlefield, they quickly fled far away under the expulsion of the planes.

After the Battle of Dagukou, he quickly learned from China's expansion of the air force, and they also converted two old cruisers into seaplane carriers, and also imported ten "Huaxia-type" biplanes from China in the name of British businessmen, which were copied in Osaka. It is easy to imitate the shape of the aircraft, but it is difficult to imitate the engine, and the disassembled engine cannot be installed together at all. In the end, under the pretext of civilian use, he imported 100 V-eight-cylinder gasoline engines from Rolls-Royce, and said that his imitation of the biplane could be regarded as flying into the sky.

However, this is already the second most advanced air force in the world, and the "Huaxia-style" aircraft that I have copied has a maximum altitude of 1,200 meters, a maximum speed of 160 kilometers per hour, and a maximum range of 180 kilometers. Armed with two Lewis machine guns.

I plan to also make their air force unveiled in Qingdao to scare the Germans, and at the same time warn China not to rely on air superiority to do whatever it wants, the current sky is no longer unique to the Chinese!

However, the expelled Chinese space, seeing those slow "export" planes, couldn't help but secretly laugh, if it weren't for the strict order of the upper peak not to have a conflict, these planes would have turned into a fireball and tumbled from the sky and fell!

That's an airplane? It's clearly a "lighter"!

People from all over China took to the streets to protest one after another, demanding that the political axe send troops to retake Qingdao, and at the same time gathered at the gates of the British, Benese, and German legations and consulates in various places to demonstrate.

When Chai Dongliang came to power, people from all over the country rushed to tell each other, especially young students, who were very excited. The Jianghuai army regained Mongolia, recovered Mukden, and fought Dagukou, which made people have extremely high expectations for Chai Dongliang, who regarded him as a tough leader. Unexpectedly, Ben, Germany, and the British fought in Qingdao, and the Chinese political axe did not let out a fart except for protests.

Disappointment with Chai Dongliang began to permeate among the young students, and such words as "Beiyang is not as good as the Qing Dynasty, and Jianghuai is not as good as Beiyang" almost filled Chai Dongliang's ears, and newspapers everywhere unanimously criticized the weakness of the political axe, and Lei Zhenchun, the governor of Guangdong, Feng Guozhang, the governor of Hunan, and others jointly demanded that the political axe declare war.

Zhongnanhai Huairentang is facing tremendous pressure! The new political axe is facing tremendous pressure, and Chai Dongliang himself is also under tremendous pressure!

(To be continued)