The advance of the Balkan Corps in Croatia was not very fast, but it was no longer as slow as before, and the advance of the Ninth Army in the center was extremely fast, and the strong fighting style of the Japanese army frightened the Austro-Crarian army, and the Japanese burned and plundered along the way, not only slaughtering prisoners after capturing Austro-Hungarian positions, but also massacring local residents, which frightened the Austro-Hungarian army and civilians.

At the same time, the Fifth and Sixth Corps were not slow to advance, but unlike the Ninth Corps, this was the Chinese Wehrmacht, which only attacked Austro-Hungarian military installations and attacked the Austro-Hungarian army along the way, without harming the local population.

After the Chinese army entered the territory of the Kingdom of Hungary, it occupied the Hungarian Plain in a very short period of time like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, and the nobles of the Kingdom of Hungary were frightened and fled and migrated to the west, and the Hungarian Plain itself was not dangerous to defend, and after being hit by the Chinese army, the Austro-Hungarian army retreated all the way to the west.

On 16 July, the Ninth Army captured Budapest, the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, and the Fifth and Sixth Army Corps swept through all of Hungary south of the western Carpathian Mountains.

In the face of the current situation, many of the domestic officials in Austria-Hungary had other thoughts, and many people had already understood that the Central Powers were going to be finished, and it was a matter of time, and many people began to think about contacting the Entente countries, hoping to bridge the relationship with the Entente before the collapse of Austria-Hungary, especially the relationship between the direct occupier Huaguo.

In the face of the rapid offensive of the Chinese army, Austria-Hungary knew that it was powerless to resist, so it could only send a request for help from the German side. It was hoped that Germany would send troops south to resist the attack of the Chinese army.

After the Austro-Hungarian Empire sent a plea for help, the Germans were already aware of the danger of a full-scale attack by the Chinese army against Austria-Hungary. If Austria-Hungary had been defeated and surrendered by the Chinese army, Germany would have lost all its allies. Can one nation fight the whole world? This is obviously impossible.

After realizing the next crisis, Germany reacted quickly, and the German General Staff immediately ordered 700,000 troops from the 1.5 million troops stationed in the north of the Eastern Front to attack the eastern and northern foothills of the Carpathian Mountains where the Chinese Seventh and Eighth Army Corps were stationed, and at the same time to draw 500,000 troops from Germany to the direction of Austria-Hungary to help the Austro-Hungarian army resist the attack of the Chinese army.

The purpose of launching an offensive in the north was to put pressure on the Chinese army from the north, so as to force the Chinese army to withdraw troops from the westward advance to defend and reduce the pressure on Austria-Hungary.

The Germans, who were moving south from the north of the Eastern Front, did not have an advantage in terms of strength compared to the 7th and 8th Army Corps of the Chinese Army. The attempt to force the Chinese army to withdraw troops from the westward advance army to return to the defense was only unrealizable, and with the combat strength of the Chinese Wehrmacht, it was almost impossible for the 700,000 German troops to defeat the 500,000 Chinese troops without accidents.

At the same time as the German army was deploying troops, Britain, France, and the United States also responded, and the envoys of Britain, France, and the United States received orders from China to see Xiao Zhenlei together on the issue of the Chinese army not moving north, but moving westward, and questioned and protested on this matter.

"Three. Is there anything you have to see you today? ”

"Your Excellency, a few months ago, I remember that when you met with me, you promised to relaunch the offensive against Germany and Austria in three months, and your army did it. But at that time we agreed that your army should attack to the north, not to the west, how do you explain this? ”

Xiao Zhenlei asked rhetorically: "Is there any difference between this?" ”

Zhu Erdian said: "Of course there is a difference! Your Excellency the President. If your army attacks north, it will have more troops at its disposal. Only a small number of troops are needed to contain Austria-Hungary, but your country now has two corps to garrison the northern front. And to advance westward with most of the troops, a great deal of combat power was wasted, so that the blow to the German-Austrian army was greatly reduced."

Xiao Zhenlei shook his head: "Three ministers, our view is just the opposite of yours, we think that the blow of marching west to Germany and Austria is greater, and now our army is going all out to quickly attack Austria-Hungary, on the one hand, it can attract the attention of the German army, on the other hand, it can defeat Austria-Hungary as quickly as possible, if Austria-Hungary can be defeated, then it is equivalent to cutting off the last arm of Germany, Germany is now fighting the whole world with the strength of one country, this is undoubtedly unwise, this time our military operation will achieve a great victory politically!" Three ministers, what do you think? ”

Zhu Erdian said: "But if your army goes north to defeat the German army in the north, and thus flanks Germany and Austria together with us on the western front from both sides of the eastern front, so that Germany and Austria cannot take care of both sides, isn't this the best way?" And now your army is moving westward from the south, if the German army moves south from the north, with the strength of your army less than two corps, I am afraid that it will not be enough to resist, although there are only 700,000 German troops in the south this time, but there are 1.5 million German troops in the north, and there are nearly a million German troops in Germany itself. ”

Xiao Zhenlei knew very well that the envoys of Britain, France and the United States came to him today only for the sake of the Chinese army, but because the Chinese army attacked west and took a large area of land from Austria-Hungary, which made Britain and France very nervous, the Americans were just fooled by them, and the more land the Chinese army captured in Europe, the more it made Britain and France nervous, in the eyes of Britain and France, Europe is their back garden, and the Chinese army has violated their interests by advancing too much westward, but if the Chinese army does not advance westward, the pressure on Britain, France and the United States on the western front will be greater. This was extremely contradictory to Britain, France, and the United States, who wanted to inflict heavy losses on the German army with the strength of the Chinese army, but did not want the Chinese army to capture too much of Europe.

Xiao Zhenlei said with a smile: "Mr. Three ministers, I only want to ask you one thing, do you want to defeat Germany and Austria?" ”

The envoys of the three countries said at the same time: "Of course I want to! ”

Xiao Zhenlei slapped his palm: "Isn't this the end?" If you want to defeat Germany and Austria, why do you prevent our country from attacking Austria-Hungary? You should understand very well that it is much easier to defeat Austria-Hungary first, and defeating Austria-Hungary is tantamount to eradicating Germany's wings, and after Austria-Hungary is defeated, Germany will be on its own, and you are all smart people who will not fail to understand this. Three gentlemen, don't think that I don't understand what you are thinking, you just see that our army is advancing too much westward, and you think that our army is violating your interests, but I want to remind you, do you still think that you are the boss of the world? Do you still think that you can dominate the order of the whole world? The Allies came out to disrupt your former world order, and now the situation in the whole world has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the world order is going to be reshuffled, don't think that we still have to listen to you, now is not the same time, unless you want to bow down to Germany and Austria, otherwise you have to recognize our great power status! I haven't looked for you yet? You come to question me first, and I ask you, why is the war on the Western Front so rotten, and why is it that the nearly 4 million troops of your three countries cannot defeat the 2 million German troops? Once the war on the Western Front was lost, you still have the face to question our country? I haven't disliked you all for being a bunch of rice buckets who only know how to eat dry rice! Hmph??????".

The envoys of the Three Kingdoms were scolded by Xiao Zhenlei, and one by one they immediately hid their faces in shame and fled, Xiao Zhenlei looked at their backs when they left in embarrassment hahaha laughed.

On the second day, Xiao Zhenlei instructed Jiang Baili to send a note to the military leaders of Britain, France, and the United States, hoping that Britain, France, and the United States would use their national armies to fight the German army to the death.

France's troops are already all in the southwest of France, which is less than one million, while Britain still has about one million at home, and the United States still has about one million at home.

The note sent by Hua Guo forced Britain, France, and the United States into a desperate situation, but at this time, the forces of Britain, France, and the United States in mainland France were already at a disadvantage compared to the German army, and if the German army had rested and the ammunition and materials had been replenished, I was afraid that the armies of Britain, France, and the United States would be attacked by the German army, and the forces of Britain, France, and the United States in France would be defeated by the German army.

If you have to work hard, you have to work hard, the high-level of Britain, France and the United States are aware of this, and if they don't work hard, they will be killed by Germany, so under the unanimous decision of the high-level leaders of Britain, France and the United States, the United States will send 900,000 troops from the remaining 1 million troops in the country to France, and Britain will also transport all the remaining 1 million troops to the French mainland.

For a time, thousands of large troop carriers arrived on the west coast of France every day in the English Channel, and shiploads of British and American troops were sent to France to prepare to participate in the battle against the German army.

By the beginning of August, the number of British, French, and American troops in France had once again reached 4 million, and many British and French troop transports had arrived one after another.

Britain, France and the United States immediately launched a large-scale offensive against the German army after occupying absolute superiority in troops, and Germany saw that Britain, France and the United States were absolutely desperate, so Germany no longer retained its strength, except for leaving 500,000 troops as reserves on the mainland, the rest of the 500,000 troops were all transported to the Western Front to join the attack of the British, French and American forces.

In the west of France, from south to north, the Allied armies lined up to advance eastward, the German army in the defensive line of course could not deploy all the troops, resisting the attack of the British, French and American armies was only a small part, Britain, France and the United States were really desperate, all the artillery and fighters that could be used were all dispatched, the German defense line began to appear loopholes, the British, French and American armies used the loopholes in the German defense line to expand the results, the German defense line collapsed a week later, and most of the German troops had to retreat eastward. (To be continued......)