When the war between the Czech principalities and Russia began, the Germans were continuing to quietly gather forces in the direction of Verdun, and as the signs of the formation gradually became apparent and exposed, the Anglo-French forces finally figured out the true intentions of the German army. At this time, Xia Fei panicked and quickly ordered to increase troops to Verdun. But by 21 February, only two French divisions had arrived at Verdun.

And on this day, the Germans began to attack Verdun. The German artillery regiment bombarded the fortress of Verdun with heavy artillery fire, and then launched a charge, and the prelude to the Battle of Verdun began. The 1,000 cannons of the German army bombarded like thunder, and the charges rose higher and higher. The commander of the fortress of Verdun, Pétain, commanded the defenders and the reinforcements to resist desperately, but because the reinforcements only arrived with two divisions, plus his own two divisions, there were only four divisions in total, and the Germans advanced 6 kilometers on the first day, but finally stabilized their position.

The battle was hard for the French army, the German army had 27 divisions and 1,000 artillery pieces, while the French army only had 110,000 men and 270 cannons, but it managed to withstand the German attack. When French reinforcements arrived, a tug-of-war began. The Germans had lost their fighters before they took Verdun in one fell swoop the day before, and both sides were increasing their troops to Verdun and set up a decisive battle formation.

By April, the French had reached a level of strength with the Germans, as reinforcements arrived. The Germans were in a hurry, and the crown prince personally recruited and used poison gas bombs for the first time, but the French still stopped the German offensive in front of the fortress again and again. In July, the Germans launched their last offensive climax, but they were still held back by the French, and by the autumn the French army began a counteroffensive.

Ernst had no time to care about the affairs of the Western Front, and hundreds of thousands of Russian troops were frantically storming the borders of the Czech principality, but their madness was destined to be ineffective.

With 5,000 large-caliber guns, more than 3,000 fighters, bombers, tens of thousands of light and heavy machine guns, and 130,000 elite Royal Army, the borders of the Czech principality are undoubtedly abyss-level copies for the Russian Empire, and the player "Russia" at this time has no nurse behind him, no tanks in front, and even he himself is in a state of residual blood.

After more than a month of continuous attacks, the Russian army only dropped tens of thousands of corpses on the battlefield, and the border of the Czech principality was firmly anchored there like a mountain. In the previous life, the Beiyang government had begun to send hundreds of thousands of Chinese laborers, but this time the Beiyang government was on the side of the allies.

Fresh blood can't be filled, and old blood can only fight to the death, under the mutual reduction of national strength, not to mention France and Russia, even colonies, Britain all over the world began to breathe. They wanted to stop the progress of the war for a while, but the Battle of Verdun involved too many things to stop.

At this time, the Russian Empire could not stop, because it could not threaten Germany without attacking the Czech principality, and the war situation in Europe was repeated back and forth, and no one could retreat or rest, because once the rest would inevitably result in destruction, not only of itself but of the entire Central Powers (Entente).

Should the East take a big breath at this time? If the independent elements of other colonies in the East can relax a little, it is not easy for the Beiyang government at all, especially Yuan Shikai, who has just ascended the throne, at this time he is even anxious.

Cai Yi's Southern Protector Army has successively captured many provinces, and at the same time, the upheaval of Yuan throughout the country is also very fierce, and even Yuan Shikai's descendant army has also begun to become unstable. In their hearts, Yuan Shikai is a hero, and stealing the country and being the emperor himself is obviously not what a hero should do, he has disappointed too many people.

The emperor is not impossible, but it takes time to accumulate, after all, this is not the period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms, this is not the end of the Yuan Dynasty, although this land has also suffered too much, but Yuan Shikai has not yet won the hearts of the people, how can he sit on the throne of the emperor in such a situation?

The emperor was in danger, and his support for his allies was somewhat reduced, hundreds of thousands of laborers were the only thing he could do, and even these support were swallowed up by Ernst, which was why the trenches of the Czech principality were dug so quickly and the positions were so solid.

Most of the 180,000 Chinese laborers are young people, and they can be trained to serve as reservists, and in short, there are not only 130,000 elite army troops but also more than 200,000 reservists on the borders of the Czech principality.

Orient:

When Feng Guozhang and several military bigwigs jointly sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai to force him to abdicate and cancel the imperial system, Yuan Shikai finally couldn't support it and chose to compromise, and the hereditary president was put on the agenda, but this time there was not much opposition, but most people knew that Yuan Shikai's descendants wanted to inherit the president, and the possibility was very small.

The fact that there is an emperor has caused Yuan Shikai's position to be unstable, how can he talk about his children and grandchildren at this time? It's already very good to be able to guarantee a warlord on one side, and the president is wishful thinking.

In April, when Germany and France were fighting fiercely, Yuan Shikai had no choice but to appoint Duan Qirui as secretary of state and reorganize the cabinet when most of the provinces declared independence.

In the same month, several regions in Sichuan chose independence, and at the same time, Duan Qirui began to force Yuan Shikai to hand over power, and the political situation in Yanjing began to be complex and changeable.

In May, the south also began to carry out some actions, they also announced a declaration to conquest Yuan Shikai, and Yuan Shikai still used assassination to vent his anger, but the result was not as smooth as he imagined, and even more let the southern region out of control, and the status of the hero fell to the extreme in an instant.

The assassination was not only used by Yuan Shikai, but the Japanese were also unwilling to abandon the Northeast and began to attack the commander of the Foreign Legion and Zhang Zuolin, the actual controller of the Northeast of the Beiyang Government, but unfortunately it was also unsuccessful. Unlike in his previous life, this time Zhang Zuolin did not choose to remain silent, but ordered more than 100,000 troops from the Northeast to oppress the Goryeo Peninsula.

At this time, in fact, Yuan Shikai didn't want to cause more incidents, but in the face of Zhang Zuolin's assassination, how could he, a "hero", choose to sit idly by? Gritting his teeth, Yuan Shikai agreed with Zhang Zuolin's oppression of Japan, but at this time he had already decided that Zhang Zuolin must be removed from his position once the war ended.

Unlike other warlords, Yuan Shikai is still the strongest in the control of the Northeast, after all, the more than 100,000 troops here are his descendants, and even Zhang Zuolin's army has considerable influence. But things are always changeable, and by the end of the battle, these more than 100,000 descendants had already become Zhang Zuolin's private army.

These descendants are not loyal to Yuan Shikai? The real reason is that Yuan Shikai died of illness in worry in June, which led to more than 100,000 descendants all becoming Zhang Zuolin's private army, of course, Yuan Shikai's death has a great impact on the Asian region and the whole world.

To be honest, Britain was not at peace at this time, first of all, the Irish uprising kept the British government very busy, and just when the matter was not resolved, the Battle of Jutland broke out, and Germany and Britain fought a formal naval battle for the first time.

Yuan Shikai's death caused the Allies to lose their eastern allies, because the new president, Li Yuanhong, was not of the pro-German line, and it is consoling that the Foreign Legion had no influence in the northeast, because Zhang Zuolin immediately showed a friendly attitude towards the Foreign Legion and allocated a few territories for the Foreign Legion to move around.

Zhang Zuolin's friendliness is not without reason, he is eager to gain the support of the Czech principality, too many ideas dare not have his biggest request is that the three northeastern provinces can be controlled in his hands. For such a simple request, the Czech Principality naturally will not refuse, after all, the Foreign Legion still needs Zhang Zuolin's support.

At this time, the war between Russia and the Czech principality was at its climax, and it was impossible for the Foreign Legion to return to Siberia, and it was even more unrealistic to go to the Czech principality, and the only place they could stay seemed to be the three northeastern provinces.

Li Yuanhong's influence in this land was even less than that of Yuan Shikai, so although he was given the presidency, many compromises brought the land back to a state of warlordism, as exemplified by the Mongol Zargruntu and the northeastern Zhang Zuolin.

In fact, it was also beneficial to the Czech principality to support Zhang Zuolin and Zargrantu, who resisted Russia and Zhang Zuolin resisted Japan, and they were able to drag down some of the military strength of Russia and Japan and prevent them from having the opportunity to land in Europe.

Ernst did not have much thought about the affairs of the Far East, although the border was as stable as Mount Tai, but the German side was indeed not very good, not to mention the offensive and defensive situation of Verdun, at this time the British and French tried to attack the German defense with offense instead of defense and pushed it back to the Franco-German border.

Known as the Battle of the Somme, it was also the largest battle of the First World War, with more than 1.3 million soldiers on both sides killed. At the same time, it is also a place where tanks are thoroughly valued, and there is no doubt that it has helped to raise the status of tanks in the army.

In order to break through the German defenses, the Anglo-French forces switched to a war of movement, and at the same time were able to reduce the pressure of the German army on the French army in the Verdun direction. At that time, the front was from south to north, crossing the Somme more than 50 kilometers east of Amiens. The Germans had built what they called the "most fortified" defensive line in the area, consisting of three lines of positions and some intermediate positions. The main positions had tunnel fortifications, and in front of the positions there were several layers of barbed wire.

The strongest "defensive line" was defended by the German 2nd Army, with a defensive front width of 58 km, its first line of which consisted of 9 divisions and 4 divisions in reserve. Subsequently, the strength was increased to 67 divisions. The British and French originally planned to use the French army as the main attack, but because the Battle of Verdun used a large number of French troops, the British army was the main attack. The initial number of divisions invested was 39 divisions (gradually increased to 86 divisions during the campaign), of which 25 divisions of the British Army, with the 4th Army as the main force and the 3rd Army as the auxiliary, attacked in the area north of Karno on the north bank of the Somme, 25 kilometers in front; The 6th division of the French 14th Army, across the Somme, attacked on the right side of the British army, 15 kilometers from the front. The British and French artillery and air forces were superior. The tactics of attacking limited targets one by one were adopted in an attempt to achieve a breakthrough by consuming the strength of the German army. In order to coordinate the actions of the two armies, it was stipulated that the line of arrival for each attack could not be crossed on its own.