Immigration is in full swing, because the north is about to enter winter, and many houses have not yet been built, so as time goes by, by September, the immigration has been temporarily stopped, and it is planned to continue to immigrate to the north after the beginning of spring next year, but the immigration to Brazil has not been suspended, and there is still a steady stream of people boarding ships to Brazil. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In August, Germany officially blitzed France, declaring that it had entered a state of battle, the First World War expanded the scale of the war, and under the leadership of three armored divisions, Germany occupied various advantages in a short period of time, but because the concept of blitzkrieg has not yet taken shape, the effect of the blitzkrieg is not very ideal, of course, compared to the current war situation, it is still overwhelming.

In September, the Germans were officially approaching Paris, and all this was due to the rapid penetration of three panzer divisions, which cut off the French retreat with lightning speed, forcing them to leave the trenches and engage the Germans. Therefore, the Germans were able to quickly advance the front to Paris.

In October, the German army suffered a heavy blow, located near Paris, the French army deployed a large number of artillery at the same time, but also secretly trained an armored unit, although the scale, the quality of equipment is not as good as the German army, but relying on the cover of trenches and artillery, it is also comparable to the German army.

By February of the following year, the Germans and France had launched several large-scale battles around Paris, but the French army had always insisted on holding on to Paris, relying on defensive lines and artillery to contend with the German army.

On the other hand, at that time in January, Britain also officially entered the war, and the British landed in France with a division of armored forces, as well as five artillery divisions, twenty infantry divisions, a total of more than 400,000 troops, and began to attack the German army attacking France from the flank.

In desperation, the German side had no choice but to transfer an armored division in the rear that had not yet been fully formed to the front line, and sent another army group into the front line to engage the British army. At the same time, the troops attacking Paris were under tremendous pressure, and it was simply unimaginable that the German army, which had absolute superiority on all fronts, should be delayed in Paris for four months.

Austria-Hungary, on the other hand, was in a state of turmoil in the Balkans, having completely conquered the entire Balkan Peninsula by the end of December, with the exception of those occupied by the Ottoman Empire. In January, Austria-Hungary landed an army of 200,000 men in Italy, joined up with 300,000 Italians, and planned to cross the Alps and then attack France from the south.

Unfortunately, due to the lack of supplies and bad weather conditions, the Austro-Italian army did not appear in France until February.

Although Wang Sirui wanted to send a telegram to the German side, telling them that they could actually besiege Paris without attacking it, and send troops to occupy other parts of France, but in this way the intention was a little too obvious, so in the end he endured it and did not send this telegram.

The usefulness of tanks in the war really frightened everyone, but because of the late start and the suddenness of the war, Britain and France were not fully prepared and could not produce more tanks for a while.

And the Americans are apparently aware of this, and although the United States cannot enter the war due to congressional restrictions, support on other fronts is okay. The Americans obtained the tank drawings and industrial personnel from Britain and France, and then signed a support agreement with Britain and France, under which the United States would provide tanks to Britain and France for a fee, and after the development of the latest tanks, they would also provide them to the two countries for a fee.

The major European powers have already fought, Russia because of the war with the Chinese Empire, not only lost more than 600,000 elite troops, but also lost a large area of land, plus civil strife, although Russia has reached an armistice agreement, but also transferred a lot of troops back from the front, but unfortunately, the armed forces of the rebellious party seem to have been strengthened, plus there are many Russian army mutiny, so the situation is not optimistic for the Tsarist Russian government, even it is difficult to protect itself, how can there be energy to participate in the war?

Who among the great powers is the most bitter? It is none other than Japan, after being suppressed by the Chinese Empire, Japan has lost almost all opportunities for development, without the resource support of the Korean Peninsula, they can only obtain resources from Taiwan farther away, but recently Taiwan is not very peaceful, with the strength of the Chinese Empire, coupled with the opposition forces that have not been eliminated, the situation on the Taiwan side has also begun to be chaotic.

Lack of resources, before the outbreak of the European war, the Japanese could survive with the help of the British, and now that Britain has also entered the war, it can't even guarantee its own resources, how can it care about Japan? Even the warships that were originally ordered by Japan were taken away by the British Royal Army to replenish the strength of the fleet, and they competed with the German Navy in the Atlantic.

The Japanese are very aware of the importance of Taiwan to them, and if they lose Taiwan, then Japan will lose all its colonies, and it will be impossible for Japan to develop in the future.

Therefore, in order to stabilize the situation in Taiwan, the Japanese side also had to expand its army, and then secretly sent three additional divisions to Taiwan to suppress the rebel forces.

At this critical juncture, Tang Shaoyi, Foreign Minister of the Chinese Empire, urgently sent a note to Japanese Ambassador Komura Shoutaro, demanding that Japan return the island of Taiwan within three months and withdraw its troops from the island.

How could the Japanese agree to such conditions? How dare you say yes? Then, on the other hand, Japan continued to secretly increase troops to the island of Taiwan, adding the original two divisions, plus the three divisions that were later reinforced, and this time two more divisions and regiments were added, and the military department had long understood the dynamics of Japan, but it did not stop it.

At the beginning of February, because the migration had not yet begun, and because there was a truce in the north, there was no need to transport a large amount of supplies to the north in a short time, the Fourth Army of the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army of more than 100,000 troops suddenly marched eastward, and carried a large amount of war materials, of which the Fourth Army directly entered Siming Prefecture (Xiamen) in Fujian, the Fifth Army was stationed in Shantou, and the 76th Reserve Army stationed in Jiangxi was stationed in Changle at almost the same time.

The 3 armies, with more than 200,000 troops, stationed at three points, were ready to land on Taiwan, but the 76 th Army did not put much pressure on the Japanese side, after all, it was a reserve, but the four old ace armies of the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army caused the pressure on the Japanese side to increase sharply, and some of the units of these two armies participated in the two Sino-Japanese wars in the early years, and their combat effectiveness was no less than that of the three group armies that went on an expedition against Russia.

If that's all it takes, the Japanese side has learned that in addition to these three armies, there are five armies within the Chinese Empire that are urgently mobilizing, and these troops will go south to Guangzhou by rail, and then move east along the coast, if they are brought together, it will be eight armies, according to the strength of the Chinese Empire, the eight armies are about 700,000 people, if these troops are used to attack Taiwan, then what are the Japanese playing?

And with the pouring out of the Third Fleet of the Imperial Navy stationed in Fuzhou and the Second Fleet of the Imperial Navy stationed in Shanghai, the trend of the Chinese Empire recovering Taiwan by force is already obvious. There are even rumors among the people that the Chinese Empire is collecting ships everywhere, even fishing boats, in order to be able to send more troops to Taiwan at one time and defeat the Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan as much as possible.

After suffering losses in the two Sino-Japanese wars, Japan also reorganized the establishment of its armed forces, and at present there are 20,000 men in one division, which is 2,000 more than the standard division of the Chinese Empire, and there have been improvements in weaponry, but the overall improvement is not large. Eight divisions is 160,000 troops, but compared with the 700,000 enemy troops, the Japanese army is still somewhat weak.

At this time, Japan had only two choices, either to retreat and return Taiwan, or to continue to increase its troops and fight to the death with the Chinese Empire in Taiwan.

However, neither of these two options is what the Japanese want to see, if they want to ensure that Japan is not weaker than the Chinese Empire in terms of military strength, then it is necessary to transfer four-fifths of Japan's domestic troops to Taiwan, this is obviously impossible, and if so many troops are transferred, Japan will fall into chaos in an instant.

Even if there is an urgent military expansion, there is no rush in time, but Japan really does not want to give up Taiwan, and they also want to gamble.

As a result, Komura Shoutaro ostensibly promised to return Taiwan, but hoped that this period could be increased to three years, and within three years Japan would withdraw its troops from Taiwan, but this proposal was rejected by the Chinese Empire, and the deadline was strictly three months.

The two sides kept arguing over this deadline, while Japan started the riot mode, and on the other hand, it continued to secretly transport troops to Taiwan and recruit Taiwanese to join the Japanese army.

However, no matter how much the Japanese delayed this time and how they secretly made preparations, the troops in Fujian and Guangdong were still actively making preparations, and even ordered soldiers to go to the sea to exercise their water skills, and ships of all sizes were gathered here in patches, and as long as an order was given, the troops here would land in Taiwan.

At this time, everyone ignored one thing, that is, the Third Fleet that left Shanghai did not appear in the Taiwan Strait, and the First Fleet stationed in Port Arthur also quietly left the port one night, because Port Arthur was closed, and outsiders could not see the situation in the port at all, so no one knew that the First Fleet had quietly left the port.

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