In July 1911, in the European battlefield, after more than half a year of running-in training, the armored units of the British and French forces, which had not yet completed all the training, were forced to be sent to the battlefield in advance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

More than 4 million German troops, more than 2 million Austro-Hungarian troops, more than 1 million Italian troops, under the attack of nearly 8 million troops, the Anglo-French forces basically lost control of the European continent, and now, the Anglo-French forces have been compressed by the German army in several small towns in southwestern France near Spain.

The area of activity of the Anglo-French coalition was less than one-thirtieth the size of the entire territory of France, and what worried Britain and France even more was that Spain, which had always maintained a neutral attitude, had recently begun to grind its fists.

Now the situation in Europe has become more and more obvious, the Allies can be said to have taken advantage of all kinds of advantages, except for the navy is still unable to compete with Britain and France, on land, Britain and France basically have no room to live.

Now the Anglo-French forces are being pinned down in small towns close to Spain, which can basically be seen as the end of the Anglo-French approach. But the Spanish royal family felt some hidden dangers at this moment.

In fact, the relations between Spain, Britain, France, and the United States and other countries are not very good, and the Spanish-American War in the past few years caused Spain to lose Cuba and Guam, and sold the Philippines to the United States at a bargain price of 20 million US dollars, which led to a sharp decline in Spain's status as a great power.

Why don't the Spaniards hate the Americans? And the Americans are now allies of Britain and France, and although they have not signed a contract, the Americans have proved it by actual actions.

If the mere hostility of the relationship has loosened Spain's neutrality, it would be too much to underestimate Spain.

As Spain is the last pure land on the European continent, will the Allies give up easily? Spain also occupies an extremely important strategic location, the Strait of Gibraltar.

Although Ottoman Turkey successfully took the Suez Canal from the British, in fact, the Suez Canal is now an Austro-British condominium, and the Egyptian side on the west side is the territory of the British, and the east side is owned by the Ottoman Empire, but because the Ottoman Empire controls the eastern part of the canal, it is equivalent to directly abolishing the Suez Canal This shortcut.

Now no one on either side dares to easily pass through this canal, but the Strait of Gibraltar is different, as the gateway to the Mediterranean, the Strait of Gibraltar can be said to be the first protective barrier of the Suez Canal, as long as the Allies occupy here, then Britain and France and other countries want to go to the Asian region, then they can only detour to Africa.

Although Asia has nothing to do with them anymore, and the Chinese will definitely not give them the opportunity to return to Asia, this possibility does exist, and again, the occupation of the Strait of Gibraltar has another meaning.

That is, directly block the entire Mediterranean, then Britain and France and other countries will further lose control of North Africa, if the Allies are cutting off North Africa, then the Entente can basically only surrender, unless the United States directly enters the war, and sends millions of troops to Europe, otherwise, the Entente has no way out at all.

And now the question is, will the Americans choose to go to war? Is the current situation still suitable for Americans to join in?

It is not so much that Spain is looking for revenge on the Americans, but rather for self-preservation, at this time the situation in Europe is already quite clear, and the defeat of the Entente is only a matter of time, rather than waiting for the Allies to invade Spain, it is better for Spain to directly make a gesture, at least to save Spain from the war.

However, although Spain has made a clear statement, it is not in a hurry to join the Central Powers, and the Spanish side has organized more than 900,000 troops to accumulate in the border areas of the northern front to prevent the Anglo-French alliance after the defeat from entering Spain, thus provoking the Allied forces.

On the other hand, Spain began to secretly make contact with the Central Powers, and Britain and France were well aware of what it would mean if Spain joined the Central Powers.

However, in the face of continuous defeat in land wars, this will also be the greatest help to push Spain to the Central Powers, and it is for this reason that Britain and France on the one hand sent people to contact Spain, and on the other hand, they urgently sent two armored divisions that had been trained for half a year to the front.

It is not necessary to completely defeat the German army, but at least to play the momentum of the British and French alliances, and to declare to Spain and the whole world that they are not defeated, and they still have the strength to fight.

And the German army, which was originally overwhelming, seemed to think that it was no longer a problem to take the European continent, so the triumphant German army began to expand sharply as in history.

Wilhelm II first drew 1 million troops from the Western Front and 1.5 million troops from the country, directly through the territory of Austria-Hungary, and formed a combined army with 2.5 million troops of Austria-Hungary, a total of 5 million troops, to launch an offensive towards Ukraine and other countries in the east.

On the other hand, Germany once again drew 500,000 troops from the front, plus 1.5 million troops at home, and these armies were divided into two parts, one of which was to attack Belgium and the other to attack the Netherlands.

Having largely defeated Britain and France, Germany began to extend its fangs into the rest of Europe, and as soon as the German side swelled, Britain and France found an opportunity to counterattack.

The German navy was not very good, and the British concentrated their forces and transported two complete armored divisions, totaling more than 50,000 troops, to the southwest of France in just two days.

With the cooperation of millions of British and French troops, a sharp knife composed of two armored divisions quickly broke through the German defenses.

In fact, the Germans have no defense at all, they are on the offensive, and just yesterday, they were still firing a large number of shells and gas bombs at the positions of Britain and France, who would have thought that Britain and France would suddenly launch a counterattack?

Because a large number of troops have been transferred, and a lot of armored units have also been transferred, the two armored divisions of the British and French forces are already a not weak military force on the battlefield, and as soon as the two British armored divisions with a full set of Chinese equipment and a motorized degree of 100 percent have just landed on the battlefield, they have beaten the attacking German army a little confused.

The armored troops quickly advanced, inserted, divided, and surrounded, and the infantry behind them took advantage of the German confusion to quickly launch an attack, what shells, high-explosive shells, grenades, poison gas bombs, bullets, etc., but whenever there was a chance, all threw on the enemy's head.

The German army, which was caught off guard, was quickly defeated, and after more than 6,000 people were killed, the Germans began to retreat, and those who could not escape began to surrender.

And how could the Anglo-French coalition army, which had the essence of the blitzkrieg, make the German army react? Seeing that the Germans were no match for the armored forces at all, and the German armored forces had also been transferred a lot, there was no need for the two armored divisions to gather together.

Therefore, the British army on the front line dispersed the two armored divisions, but they were not too scattered, but they just let the armored divisions fight as divisions, and the armored units of the two divisions advanced in a fan shape towards the outside.

He didn't just want to win a battle on the battlefield, he wanted to be able to fight back against Germany all the way to Germany if he could, and although he knew it wasn't realistic, at least he was working towards it now.

After seeing the role of the armored forces, Fu Xi immediately sent a telegram to London, hoping to send the other two armored divisions that had not yet completed their training to the battlefield, and in order to be able to persuade the rear to agree to his application, this time Fu Xi gave a reason, if he had four armored divisions in his hands, he was sure to get back at least a third of the French territory.

At this time, the German army has just withdrawn a large number of German troops, is in the stage of emptiness of troops, although the armored forces have not yet completed the training, but the basic training they have also completed, the rest is only running-in training, in the case of insufficient number of enemy armored troops, their armored troops can go to the battlefield to carry out running-in training, which will make the armored forces faster, and at the same time can help the British and French forces very well, to solve the current embarrassing situation.

In the end, the British side agreed to Fu Xi's application and transferred two of the remaining three armored divisions to the front line, if it weren't for the fact that the other armored division had just been equipped for less than half a month, and the soldiers were not very familiar with the equipment, Fu Xi estimated that all the troops would be transferred to the front line in one go.

The Chinese transfer equipment very frequently, basically a little more than two months will hand over a batch, a batch is the equipment of an armored division, and because the Suez Canal is unusable, British ships transporting equipment can only detour to Africa. Fortunately, the naval strength of the Allies was not strong, and Britain did not need to send too many escort ships to complete the mission.

But the British always feel as if the Chinese are deliberately delaying time, that feeling as if they know that the equipment is in their hands, but the Chinese always find all kinds of reasons to delay the delivery, during which the British even negotiated with the Chinese several times, hoping to pay the Chinese a sum of money in exchange for the Chinese side to speed up the transfer of equipment, but this suggestion was rejected by the Chinese, on the grounds that now the workers have been working 24 hours a day, even if they give money, They also have no way to expand productivity.

And the purchase of China's active equipment was naturally rejected by the Chinese unceremoniously.