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[The clapper is wrong, the chapter of the attack on Pearl Harbor should be after this chapter, oo]

By the beginning of December 1916, the world peace talks led by the Chinese Empire were unable to reach a compromise between the Allies and the Allies after three months of open and covert fighting, and the peace talks were facing bankruptcy

Although both the Entente and the Allies wanted to end the war, the distribution of interests was extremely uneven, and in the unilateral conference led by the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire did not want the two military blocs to reconcile at all, so on the surface it called for all parties to make concessions and end the war as soon as possible, but secretly supported the Allies to continue the war

The Allied Powers have been completely dependent on the military equipment and material supplies of the Chinese Empire since the beginning of 1916, and more than 90% of the total reserves of the treasury of the Allied countries have been mortgaged to the Chinese Empire, and the loans owed to the Chinese Empire of 1.5 billion dragon dollars have not been repaid, and if it were not for the support of the Chinese Empire, the Allied Powers would have collapsed long ago. Preparations for war against the Entente continued and harsh conditions were imposed on the Entente on the issue of negotiations

Although the entry of the United States into the war exerted tremendous military pressure on the Allied Powers, the Allies still occupied most of the territory of the Entente Powers throughout the battlefield, and the Allies demanded that the borders of the Line of Actual Control be used as the national borders, and the annexation of annexed Serbia into Austria-Hungary was obviously unacceptable to the Entente

In particular, France, the Entente country, was occupied by Germany a large territory, if agreed, it would mean that Germany's territory extended to the Ingully Channel, and Belgium and Luxembourg would be annexed by Germany, which was undoubtedly a huge threat to France and Britain, so they resolutely disagreed

If the Entente demanded that the Allies withdraw from the occupied territories of the Entente, they could restore the two sides to their pre-war status quo by ignoring the losses caused by the Allies to the Allies

However, Tsarist Russia's position was very unresolute, Tsar Nicholas II was anxious to regain power, and relied on the mediation of the Chinese Empire in everything, and under the mediation of the Chinese Empire, Tsarist Russia and Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Bulgaria began negotiations to start a dialogue on Tsarist Russia's unconditional withdrawal from the world war

The Allies also hoped to withdraw Russia from the world war as soon as possible, so that the Allies could concentrate the three million troops on the Eastern Front and send them to the Western Front, and the impact on the war situation would be huge, therefore, under the mediation of the Chinese Empire, Nicholas II agreed to take the existing Line of Actual Control as the national boundary and give 800,000 square kilometers of land of Tsarist Russia to Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Turkish Empire, with only one demand, that is, to end the war on both sides

The news of Russia's compromise spread quickly, and the blow to the Entente was huge, and the Entente quickly made a compromise and decided to sacrifice Serbia, Belgium, and Luxembourg to Austria-Hungary, and Belgium and Luxembourg to Germany, but demanded the return of French territory

At the same time, the Chinese Empire also hoped that the Allies would launch a large-scale campaign on the Western Front and pull millions of troops from the United States to the European battlefield, so that it would be much easier for the Chinese Empire to land on the United States mainland. Perhaps it is possible to win or lose a war and completely defeat the Entente

In this way, the attitude of the Allies became more and more tough, and the Allies knew that the negotiations were hopeless, so they had to step up their war preparations, and at the same time, the Allies demanded that the United States transport its own 2 million troops to the French front as soon as possible

However, the Entente did not give up their efforts, and they repeatedly sent notes to Russia, demanding that Russia not withdraw from the world war, but the Tsar, in order to regain power as soon as possible, could not care so much and rejected the demands of the Entente

The Entente knew that the Tsar had made up his mind to withdraw from the world war, so they began to contact Lenin and other Soviet parties, preparing to support Lenin's seizure of power, but demanding that Lenin continue to maintain a state of war against the Central Powers

Lenin hesitated, and at this time he still had illusions in the bourgeois Duma parliament, so he rejected the conditions put forward by the Entente, and the Entente saw that the Entente could not prevent Russia from withdrawing from the world war, so in retaliation for Russia, they exposed the secret arms deal between the tsar and the Duma parliament and the Chinese Empire

When Lenin and other Soviet parties learned that the Tsar was preparing for the restoration, and that the bourgeois Duma was in fact still the Tsar's lackey, they immediately became nervous and became nervous that Russia, which had been calm after the May Revolution, once again set off a storm because of the Tsar's attempt to restore it

On December 3, 1916, Lenin announced Tsar Nicholas II's secret arms deal with the Chinese Empire and accused the Tsar of preparing for restoration, thus setting off the November Revolution in Russia, which is called according to the time of the Russian Julian calendar

As a lackey of Tsar Nicholas II, Rasputin was accused of helping the Tsar make secret deals with the Chinese Empire, buying all the hard-earned money of the Russian people for arms, so he was pushed to Red Square by angry Russian revolutionaries and executed

At the same time, the workers' revolutionaries led by Lenin and the Duma were in serious opposition, and Lenin accused the Duma of continuing to act as the Tsar's lackey and demanded the re-election of the ruling Duma party

Due to the bad influence of Stolypin's privatization reform on Russian society, the October Party and the Progressive Party, which once supported the liberal liberal economy, obviously lost ground under the wave of the May Revolution, while the liberal leftist party, the Cadet Party, became the only liberal party with a certain political appeal because it led the constitutional democratic movement before the revolution. The forces quickly split into the Social Democratic Party, which supported the populist Mensheviks, and the Bolshevik Social Revolutionaries, which supported the democratic dictatorship, also split into the mainstream and the left, and the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks agreed to continue the war until victory

A small number of leftist Socialist-Revolutionaries agreed with the Bolsheviks to sign an armistice and a treaty as soon as possible, and the Cadets feared that Russia's anti-war tendencies would be uncontrollable and would jeopardize Russia's diplomatic relations with the growing Entente bloc, so they advocated slowing down the process of democracy, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the two major parties, the Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Social Democratic Party, and the two parties generally demanded that the Provisional Government begin elections for the Constituent Assembly as soon as possible and abolish the Stolypin land reform. The Bolsheviks, represented by Lenin, were very vocal in withdrawing from the First World War, and the Bolsheviks encouraged the soldiers at the front to return to their homeland against the war, and actively carried out propaganda for constitutional democracy among the people

On December 4, 1916, the Tsarist Praetorian Guard led by Kolchak and Petrov withdrew from the front line, and the 300,000-strong army was equipped with a large number of advanced weapons from the Chinese Empire, with 800 combat vehicles, 5,800 artillery, 3,000 light and heavy machine guns, and 2,400 mine guns

After the news came that the Tsarist Janissaries led by Kolchak and Petrov were about to advance to St. Petersburg and prepare to support the restoration of Tsar Nicholas II, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin again planned an anti-imperialist war demonstration to prevent the restoration of the Tsar

At this time, upon hearing the news that the Tsarist Restoration Army was approaching St. Petersburg, the ruling Russian Duma immediately ordered the suppression of the Bolshevik Party headed by Lenin, making war inevitable

On December 6, Lenin secretly came to the Smolny Palace, the general headquarters of the St. Petersburg uprising, and personally led the armed uprising, and from the night of December 6, more than 200,000 revolutionary soldiers and insurrectionary workers occupied various strategic points in St. Petersburg at 1 a.m. on the 7th, the rebel troops occupied the General Post Office, captured the Baltic Railway Station and the Nikolaevsky Railway Station at 2 o'clock, then turned off the lighting circuits of the government buildings, and the telephone office cut off most of the telephones of the Provisional Government and the headquarters at about 6 o'clock, Red Guards, soldiers and sailors had already occupied the palace bridge, and with the exception of the area of the Palace Square and Isaakievska Square, almost everything else was in the hands of the insurgents

At 10 o'clock when the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government, Kerensky, fled in a car from the Imperial Chinese Embassy, the Revolutionary Military Council circulated a "Letter to the Citizens of Russia" drafted by Lenin, announcing that the Provisional Government had been overthrown and that power had been transferred to the Soviets

At 56 p.m. on December 7, more than 20,000 revolutionary soldiers, Red Guards, and nine military vehicles surrounded the Winter Palace, and the Revolutionary Military Council issued an ultimatum to the Provisional Government, ordering it to surrender at 6:20 p.m. on December 7

After 8 o'clock, the Revolutionary Military Council issued an ultimatum to the Provisional Government for unconditional surrender, which was rejected

At 21:45 on the evening of November 25, December 7, the cruiser "Aurora" opened the prelude to the November Revolution in Russia with the sound of its bombardment of the Winter Palace, thus making it a glorious symbol of the November Revolution "Aurora" cruiser means "dawn" or "dawn", in Roman mythology, "Aurora" is the goddess of the morning, she woke up and sent all the officers and men on the Dawn ship to carry out the order of the Revolutionary Military Council, and the "Aurora" The cruiser drove to the Lieutenant Schmitt Bridge on the Nikolaev bridge

Lenin, in the name of the Revolutionary Military Council, drafted the "Message to the Citizens of Russia" and broadcast it to the whole nation on the "Aurora" at 21:45 p.m. on the evening of the same day, the cruiser "Aurora" shelled the Winter Palace, the seat of the Provisional Government, announcing the beginning of the "October Revolution".

At 9:45 p.m., the cruiser Auror, anchored on the Neva River, opened fire, giving the signal for a general attack, and the Red Guards and revolutionary soldiers crossed the barricades with the thunderous sound of "Ula" and rushed to the Winter Palace, where in the stairwells and stairs of the Winter Palace, the revolutionary soldiers and the Red Guards engaged in a fierce white-knuckle battle with the non-commissioned officers and students, and by 1:50 a.m. on December 8, all the members of the Provisional Government were captured except for Kerensky, and the armed uprising in St. Petersburg was victorious, The bourgeois Provisional Government was overthrown

Amid the rumbling of artillery from the storming of the Winter Palace, the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets opened at the Smolny Palace, which first adopted the "Workers, Soldiers and Peasants" drafted by Lenin, declaring that all political power in all localities should be transferred to the Soviets of Peasants' and Soldiers' DeputiesOn December 8, the Congress adopted the "Peace Decree" and the "Land Decree" and "Peace Decree" drafted by Lenin, exposing the predatory imperialist war, reflecting the urgent desire of the broad masses of laborers and people for peace, and recommending that all belligerents immediately enter into negotiations, The Decree on the Land provided for the immediate abolition of landlord land ownership, the nationalization of all land and the use of the working peasants, and finally, the Congress elected the world's first Soviet government of workers, peasants and soldiers, the Committee for the Accession of the People, Lenin was elected chairman of the Committee for the Accession of the People, and the various functions of the proletarian state were carried out Stalin's election as the member of the National Council for National Affairs, and Trotsky was elected as the member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs. It proclaimed the establishment of the world's first state of dictatorship of the proletariat

After the establishment of the Soviet government, the state apparatus of the 1st was destroyed, the government departments, the 1st courts, and the 1st police were abolished, the 1st army was demobilized, the various ministries of the Admission Committee, the Admission Court, the Workers' and Peasants' Inspectorate, and the Workers' and Peasants' Police were established, and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was formed, abolishing the hierarchical system of the 1st of the Imperial Russian period, proclaiming the equal rights of all nationalities in the country, the equality of men and women, abolishing all privileges of the Church, the Soviet power took over the banks, railways, factories, and later, nationalized large industries, and implemented a monopoly on foreign trade, An eight-hour working day was implemented, and the land of the landlords, the royal family, and the monasteries was confiscated by the workers and supervised by the workers, and distributed to the peasants for cultivation

At the same time, at the beginning of Lenin's abolition of all foreign debts owed by the Tsar and the bourgeois Provisional Government, which saved the Soviet population from exploitation by foreign capital, and in order to consolidate the revolutionary power, the All-Russian Committee for the Suppression of Counter-Rebellion ("Cheka") was established under the chairmanship of Dzerzhinsky to resolutely suppress the sabotage activities of the counter-revolutionaries

At home, the Bolsheviks had just seized power and were not yet stable, and the Russian people were all watching the foreign policy of the Bolsheviks

Since the Soviet Union abolished all the foreign debt clauses signed by the tsar abroad, this caused the world's powers, including the Chinese Empire, to lose 4.5 billion US dollars, of which France lost the most, since the Franco-Russian alliance, France has accumulated 8.8 billion US dollars in loans to Russia, with interest of 12.2 billion US dollars, of which 9.6 billion US dollars were returned, and 2.6 billion US dollars were still missing from the Entente countries, the United States and Britain have also borrowed 1.5 billion US dollars from Russia in the past five years, because of the war relations, Russia is simply unable to repay the Chinese Empire because of the export of materials to Russia, This includes $400 million on Russian credit

However, Russia had already shipped 800 tons of gold and 40,000 tons of silver to the Chinese Empire, so even if the Soviet Union defaulted on its debts, the Chinese Empire did not care, but 400 million US dollars was not a small amount, and the Chinese Empire, in line with the principle that more money was not afraid of hot hands, strongly protested against the policy of the Soviet Union and demanded the return of this arrears, otherwise necessary measures would be taken

But for the Entente, Russia's withdrawal from the world war has caused irreparable huge losses to the Entente, and now the Soviet Union has shamelessly abolished all foreign debts, which is absolutely impossible for the Entente to 4.1 billion US dollars, and at the same time, what frightens the Entente countries is that they did not expect that Lenin really established proletarian power, which is undoubtedly equivalent to sounding the alarm bell for all capitalist countries in the world

As a grave digging for capitalism, the proletarian power must be strangled, and this is the unanimous attitude reached by all countries to put aside the contradictions and political disagreements between countries

On December 26, 1916, more than 30,000 Czech corps, mainly composed of Czechs and Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war from the former Imperial Russia, mutinied and controlled the Trans-Siberian Railway from Lake Baikal to the Ural MountainsOn December 28, the government of the Mensheviks and the Socialist-Revolutionaries was overthrown by the coup d'état of the former Imperial Russian Admiral Kolchak, who proclaimed himself "the supreme commander of all Russia"

As a result, the Tsarist Russian army led by Kolchak went to war with the Soviet army led by Lenin, and the Russian Civil War broke out because the Soviet army's flag was red, so the Tsarist army called it the Red Army or the Red Bandits, and the Tsarist Russian flag was white, so the Tsarist Russian army was called the White Army by the Red Army, and the Red and White armies were in full swing on the entire Russian land

It was not so much a civil war in Tsarist Russia as an international war against aggression, because in addition to the participation of the White Army in Tsarist Russia, more than 20 countries including the Chinese Empire, the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands declared war on the Soviet Union

The reason why the Chinese Empire participated in the war was mainly to take advantage of the fire to rob, because the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao knew that the whole of Siberia was a huge treasure trove of resources, which could meet the needs of the economic development of the Chinese Empire in the next few hundred years. The Northern Xinjiang Military Region dispatched 200,000 troops to the Soviet Union on the grounds that the Soviet Union had treacherously failed to repay its debts, and prepared to seize the Western Siberian region

At the same time, the Chinese Empire also signed a treaty with Kolchak, the commander of the White Russian Army, and the Chinese Empire will support Kolchak to become the commander of the Russian Empire in return, Kolchak ceded Western Siberia to the Chinese Empire on behalf of the Russian Empire, as a condition for the Chinese Empire to send troops Of course, Kolchak was also forced to wait until he unified the Russian Empire, and then regretted it, but what he never expected was that his imperial life was not long, So much so that after his death, he was spit on by the entire Slav as a traitor for hundreds of years

The Soviet regime was in danger of being exterminated, but Lenin's appeal was undoubtedly very strong, just as the people of the Chinese Empire believed in Wang Chenhao as a god, and Slavo also regarded Lenin as a savior, and under the domination of Lenin's spiritual power, embarked on the difficult road of anti-aggression war

On the Eastern Front, on December 30, 1916, Kolchak mobilized 400,000 White Guards in Western Siberia, crossed the Ural Mountains, and invaded the Volga River Valley. It is also to let the White Russian army be cannon fodder in front and reduce the casualties and losses of the Chinese emperor

Due to the backward equipment of the Soviet army and the difficulty of supply, the Red Army led by Frunze of the Soviet Army could not resist the offensive of the White Army, and lost more than a dozen important cities one after another, until the commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army, Chabayev, that is, Xia Boyang, desperately dragged the main force of the White Russian Army in the First Battle of Ufa, and severely damaged the Third Army of the former Praetorian Guard led by Kolchak, so that he was able to stabilize the eastern front and block the offensive of the White Russian army

On the Western Front, the British fleet invaded the Baltic Sea, and the White Army of Yudenich launched an attack on St. Petersburg, Petrograd in mid-January, and the Battle of Petrograd broke out, and the two sides invested millions of troops in this water city to start a fierce battle, Britain, France, the United States, Italy and other countries were pinned down by the alliance ** team, and only 50,000 marines were dispatched, but Yudenich was provided with 300,000 military equipment, most of which were American equipment, and the United States was hemorrhagic for this, hoping that the White Army could win, In this way, the United States' investment will be recovered exponentially, but if it fails, the United States will be miserable to enter the country, because the cost of the 300,000 yuan of military equipment alone will exceed 90 million US dollars

However, from the very beginning, the offensive of the White Army was not impressive, mainly because the British Navy's warships could not get close to Petrograd, because Petrograd had a large number of mines and anti-landing facilities arranged by the Soviet Army near Petrograd, mainly because when the German army approached Petrograd in 1915, the Tsar arranged mines, shallow water heavy gunboats, coastal forts and other fortifications nearby at any cost to defeat the German army. The Western Front was then locked in a stalemate

The Anglo-French combined fleet entered the Black Sea, the French marines landed in Odessa, and the British troops occupied Baku and the Caucasus Denikin began to advance north after receiving 200,000 weapons and equipment from the Entente and 200 British advisers

Near this was the Red Army's First Army Budyonny, which also lost Tsaritsyn, the Donbass region and Kiev in 3 months in a row because of its backward equipment and insufficient supplies, and the White Army advanced to Moscow to attack the Soviet Union, facing the key to life and death

At the same time, Lenin was making every effort to reorganize the 1 million former Tsarist Russian troops in Moscow and reorganize them into the six fronts of the Soviet Army, hoping that the 2 million former Tsarist Russian troops on the front line would be able to withstand the attack of the White Russian army, exchange space for time, and give the 100 Red Army to complete training and carry out a major counteroffensive to win time

At the same time, in order to appease the great powers, Lenin urgently canceled the original refusal to recognize the "foreign debts owed by the Tsarist government to various countries", promising that the terms of the Tsarist era would still be valid, but the Entente demanded that Lenin continue to participate in the world war, which Lenin did not agree, and the Entente demanded that the proletarian power be strangled, so the two sides could not reach an agreement and continue the war

However, Lenin sent Stalin to the Chinese Empire to lobby for the suspension of support for the White Russian Army, and at the same time promised Kolchak the benefits promised to the Chinese Empire, and the Soviet Union promised and promised to recognize the 400 million dragon dollars owed by the Tsarist government to the Chinese Empire, which would be returned in full after the war

At this time, the Chinese Empire's war operations against the United States had begun, and when the Soviet Union put forward these conditions, the Chinese Empire agreed to this, and Stalin signed a Sino-Soviet peace treaty with the Chinese Empire on behalf of the Soviet Union

In fact, the Chinese Empire only stopped the direct dispatch of troops, but continued to support the White Russian army in the war, a large number of weapons and equipment and military materials to support the White Russian Army, no matter who wins and who loses on both sides, the Chinese Empire will undoubtedly justifiably get the whole of Siberia, but in principle, the Chinese Empire hopes that the White Russian Army will win, if it were not for the war against the United States, which involved most of the energy of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire would never give up directly sending troops to destroy the Soviet Union

At the time when the November Revolution broke out in Russia and the proletarian Soviet power was established, Germany and the Allied powers Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire signed armistice agreements with Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union successively, and quickly transferred the 3 million troops on the Eastern Front to the Western Front

Within three months of confirming the Soviet Union's withdrawal from the world war, the U.S. government quickly mobilized 30,000 U.S. ships of all kinds and transported 1.5 million U.S. troops and related weapons, equipment, and supplies to France to prepare for the upcoming Armageddon between the Allies and the Entente

The United States has sent almost two-thirds of its troops, weaponry, and strategic materiel that it has stockpiled over the past year to France, with the aim of withstanding this major attack by the Allies and protecting France and Italy

This action of the United States has caused a huge consumption of various war reserve resources in the United States, and has created favorable conditions for the Chinese Empire to attack the United States

For this reason, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire also postponed the attack on the United States, waiting for the United States to send these military forces and supplies to Europe before acting, therefore, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire postponed the operational planning schedule for the surprise attack on the United States at Christmas time until March 1917, during which the Chinese Empire continued to work overtime to reserve military weapons and strategic materials

Since the Chinese Empire postponed its action for another three months, the Chinese Empire's cumulative time for preparing for war against the United States had reached seven and a half months, and the reserves of various military equipment and strategic materials had tripled, while the United States had to transport most of its military equipment and strategic materials from its own territory to Europe in order to keep the Entente powers

During the three months that the Chinese Empire postponed its action, negotiations between the Allies and the Allies broke down completely, and the war resumed just after New Year's Day in 1917, the largest major war between the two sides since the outbreak of the world war

The site of the outbreak of this general battle is still located in the Verdun area, known as the Second Battle of Verdun, and it is also the largest and most tragic general battle in the history of the class

The German High Command carried out some defense on the Eastern Front and concentrated all the main forces on the Western Front, because on the battlefield on the Western Front, the Marne and the Somme had been fought four or five times, and the German army always lost in these two directions, which caused the German High Command to be very dissatisfied, so it decided to launch the Second Battle of Verdun in the Verdun area, and decided to concentrate its forces to carry out a surprise attack on the Verdun salient of the French army on the Western Front, in order to contain and consume the main force of the British, French and American coalition forces and force France to surrender

Although the Allies had three million troops on the Western Front, the German army only had more than 80 thousand, and the rest were Austria-Hungary**, the Bulgarian Army and the Ottoman Empire**, most of the troops of the three ** teams could not participate in the German war on the Western Front

However, the Austro-Hungarian Emperor finally exerted its strength, transferred 1.3 million troops to the Spit area, and contained the main Italian force up to 2.1 million, forcing Italy to be unable to draw troops to support France, while the Turkish Emperor ** and the Bulgarian Emperor ** formed a coalition of 400,000 troops to take the German railway and transport them to the Western Front

In order to confuse the Entente team, the German High Command transferred the Turkish and Conservative forces to the Somme line, which caused a miscalculation on the Allied side, thinking that the Allies would launch a large-scale campaign on the Somme line, so the Allied countries quickly transferred the main force to the Somme line to strengthen the defense here Because in the Verdun direction, the German army has been on the defensive, so the Entente did not expect Germany to launch an offensive on the Verdun line

The main direction of the German attack was in Verdun, and the troops under the offensive task were the 5th Army Group under the command of the German Crown Prince Wilhelm, with a total of 63 divisions in 17 armies, more than 21,200 artillery pieces, 3,270 aircraft, and 3,400 combat vehicles, accounting for about 12 of the total strength of the German army on the Western Front

Verdun was the eastern gateway to Paris and the support point of the entire front of the Anglo-French army, and the French high command also attached great importance to the defense of this strategic point, but since the start of the war, the German army had only launched one campaign here, and five or six battles elsewhere, so in terms of probability, the Allied high command had to include Verdun as a secondary consideration

In January 1917, the German crown prince William Jr. personally led 410,000 German troops to launch a frantic attack on the Verdun line, Verdun's defense force was relatively weak compared to other Allied defense lines, but due to poor weather conditions, sleet and fog prevented German planes from taking off, and the advance of the chariots also decreased significantly, resulting in the postponement of the German offensive and providing time for the Entente to urgently mobilize reinforcements

The Entente learned that the German army was preparing to break through from the direction of Verdun, so it urgently transferred reinforcements from other fronts, due to the laziness of the American soldiers, the 3rd Army, the 7th Army and the 18th Army of the US Army, which were originally to be transferred to the Somme front, 12 and a half divisions, 200 fighters, 140 tanks, 2879 artillery pieces, and 1202 mortars, were delayed for more than a week because of bad luck, and the local Allied high-level almost shot the American commander Lieutenant General Pierre. However, when the Entente learned that the main direction of the German attack was in the Verdun area, their faces immediately turned green with fright, because it was difficult for reinforcements from other places to rush to the Verdun front line in a short time, and suddenly found that Pierre's army group could reinforce the Verdun front line in time, so they dropped the charge against Lieutenant General Pierre and ordered him to make meritorious service for his crimes

Pierre immediately led his Fourth Army to the Verdun front, and arrived at the main position an hour before the German general attack, successfully blocking the first wave of the Germans' most hated attack

On the 55-kilometer-wide front from Konsanwa to the Orne River, the German army carried out the main assault, with 130,000 troops on the left flank of the German army, as a feint, the 15th Army on the right flank carried out an auxiliary assault 6 kilometers south of the Orne River, and the 16th Army took diversionary actions on the west bank of the Meuse River In the direction of the main outburst, the German infantry was twice as numerous as the infantry of the United States and France, 3.5 times more artillery, 10 times more tanks, and 12 times more aircraft In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, the German army carried out a series of feints in the West Ruum River and the Marne River in January of the same year, If it weren't for the fact that the Entente had discovered that the main direction of attack of the German army was Verdun, they would definitely think that the Somme River was the main direction of attack, but since they knew the tactics of the German army, then the Entente would no longer take care of the Turkish and American forces, but transferred the main fire to Verdun, because they did not believe that the American soldiers could hold there

On January 5, 1917, the German ** team used more than 20,000 cannons to carry out a nine-hour concentrated bombardment of a front of only more than 40 kilometers, firing 2 million shells, and then used three armies as sharp knife death squads The third, seventh, and eighteenth armies carried out an attack on the United States and France at any cost

The vanguard cleared the trenches with combat vehicles, poison gas bombs, and flamethrowers, and because of their lack of training and combat experience, about one-third of the American soldiers developed phobias when they saw the brutal side of the battlefield

Pierre's Fourth Army had only 140 tanks, and it was still a backward British Snyder tank, and when it encountered the attack of the German army of more than 2,000 advanced M10 tanks, in less than 20 minutes, all 140 tanks of the American army were reimbursed

At this time, the German army took advantage of the superiority of local forces and the frontal penetration of the armored armies, and broke through the three lines of defense defended by the US-French coalition forces in a company

In the second day, the German ** team had advanced nearly 12 kilometers, and the United States and French allied forces suffered one-third casualties, and were forced to retreat, and then the main German forces quickly broke through the defense line to concentrate their forces, preparing to break through the defense line of the Entente ** in one go, and completely break the stalemate on the Verdun front

On 6 January, German air fighters and bombers took off quickly and flew over the US-French forces at 7:15 a.m

At the same time, the Allies quickly transferred 2,400 combat planes from other battlefields to the airfields behind Verdun, which quickly took off to intercept German planes

The Germans never expected that the Entente** had transferred their planes to the Verdun front line in time, so the fighters of the two sides engaged in a desperate dogfight

At this time, the German fighters, both in quantity and quality, were better than the fighters of the Entente, but the Luftwaffe made a huge mistake, that is, to equip the advanced Cat Demon fighter group of the Chinese Empire, in a large-scale melee, because the number of fighters on both sides was too large, it was impossible to give full play to the height and high maneuverability of the Cat Demon fighter If it was single-handed, the German Cat Demon could easily shoot down two or three Allied camels and F1 fighters, but the large group of aircraft was in a melee, because the activity space was too small, Fighter planes on both sides can shoot down enemy planes by often shooting blindly, and even if they enter by themselves, they will hit themselves and enter themselves

As a result, the air battle became an air battle in which both sides suffered huge losses, with 1,214 German planes shot down and 1,299 Allied planes shot down From the comparison of the number of losses on both sides, the German planes suffered heavy losses, and a cat demon fighter was far more valuable than a camel or F1 fighter

However, the German pilots were equipped with the special parachutes for pilots of the Chinese Empire, and only 569 pilots were lost, of which none of the ace pilots were killed, on the other hand, the Allied Air Force lost 1208 and only 91 survived, including the British ace pilot Kane, and all 27 ace pilots of the Entente countries were killed, and the losses were huge because of the outbreak of the world war in the past four years, the losses of pilots on both sides were very large, and an aircraft could be assembled within 15 years. However, a pilot needs to be trained for several months or even a long time, and the shortage of pilots in both the Entente and the Central Powers has led to the fact that the two sides have only dispatched more than 2,000 planes in this large-scale air battle, because there is already a serious shortage of pilots, and there are thousands of idle planes in the rear, and inexperienced pilots dare not take to the air

In this way, although Germany suffered losses in the air war, the Luftwaffe soon dispatched 1,500 fighters in the third year, while the Entente countries suffered heavy losses in pilots, although some were supplemented by aircraft, but only 1,140 fighters were taken to the air in the third place, of which less than 500 fighters were veterans who had fought more than two air battles, and all the others were pilots who had never fought in air battles

In the air battle, the Luftwaffe learned the lessons of air warfare, although it still dispatched 1,500 fighters, but it was divided into fifteen attack echelons, each echelon of 100 fighters, scattered to fight with the Allied air force, although the Allied air force was also aware of the problems in the air battle, but considering that it took advantage of some advantages, plus too many hands, so it did not change its tactics

In this way, in this early air battle, the Entente suffered a heavy blow, and the 1,140 fighters sent out lost 960 aircraft, while the Luftwaffe only lost 475 aircraft this time, defeating the Allied Air Force with a score of 2:1, and in the pilots, the Allied Air Force lost 813 and the German side only lost 131 points

If the Entente can afford to lose so many planes, because their White Spoon planes are cheaper than German planes, but in terms of the loss of pilots, the Allied air force can't stand it, and their White Spoon surviving pilots immediately described the situation of the pilots who parachuted out to escape after the German planes were shot down, which attracted the attention of the Entente Subsequently, the Entente urgently contacted the Chinese Empire and asked for pilot parachute equipment, but it was obviously too late to redeem the defeat over Verdun

After a week of air battles, the Germans finally seized air supremacy in the area, and the pilots of the Allied air force were drastically reduced, and they were basically shot down, so the Allied air force gave up the air supremacy of Verdun and stepped up the training of pilots

From January 15, the Germans expanded the front of the offensive and shifted the direction of the main attack to the west bank of the Meuse River, in an attempt to capture Heights 704 and 695, relieve the threat of French artillery on the west bank, and encircle Verdun from the west while continuing to strengthen the offensive on the east bank

However, with the advanced M10 tanks imported from the Chinese Empire, the German army unstoppably broke through a dozen nearby strongholds and gradually advanced to heights 704 and 695

After the Germans gained air supremacy, the 300 H1N1 bombers purchased from the Chinese Empire came in handy

After bombers carried out a key assault on the positions of the American and French forces on the west bank, the German infantry quickly advanced to heights 704 and 395

To be continued