After the outbreak of the war between the Chinese Empire and Russia, it immediately attracted the attention of all countries in the world, and many countries were affected by this war, not to mention Britain and France, which were also Allied countries, and even the Allied countries, which were opposed to the Entente, also moved frequently because of this war.

Even before Britain and France began to expand their military forces to deal with the scorching Chinese Empire, several countries of the Allied Powers took the lead in reorganizing their arms for war, just to wait for the Entente and the Chinese Empire to lose both sides, so that they could jump out to find a bargain and grab the cake. To this end, Germany absolutely expanded its army by 700,000 troops, built 8 King-class super dreadnought battleships, and Italy began another round of military expansion.

Originally, it was only the financial situation of Italy, that is, the king of Italy, Vittorio? Emanuele III wanted to expand some of Italy's military power, and when the time came, he grabbed a few more pieces of cake, and the Italian treasury did not have the money to fulfill his wish, but coincidentally, a while ago Vittorio? Emanuele III visited Germany and borrowed a low-interest loan of 300 million German marks from Germany, which was originally intended to develop Italy's navy, land and air forces to cope with the pressure of the Entente, and Germany gave Italy this huge low-interest loan, but also to make Italy's armament stronger, especially hoping that the Italian navy would be stronger.

After all, although the number of countries of the Allied countries has increased to 4, but the overall strength, compared with Britain, France and Russia, there is still a big gap, before the Sino-Russian border conflict, the smell of gunpowder between the Entente and the Allied countries is not small, so Germany, as the boss of the Allied countries, hopes that its little brother will become stronger. Don't let the boss be at the forefront of everything, and when you want to fight, the younger brother has to be more powerful. You have to rush up at the critical moment.

Now that the Chinese Empire and Russia were in great war, the pressure of the Allies on the Central Powers disappeared at once, and although Italy was also expanding its military power, the purpose was different.

With the money of the Italian king Vittorio? Emanuele III, after consulting with several confidants, decided on a new round of Italian military expansion.

The first was the Italian Navy, which originally had 4 Dante-class dreadnought battleships and 3 Count Cavour-class dreadnought. This time King Vittorio? Emanuele III was ready to build Italy's own super-dreadnought battleship, so that the Navy immediately began to design the drawings, according to Vittorio? The plan of Emanuele III. Italy's own super-dreadnought battleships, if several are built at the same time, the cost of each should be around 25 million German marks, and he is ready to wait for the Italian Navy to design the drawings. Build 6 super dreadnought battleships in one go.

Don't look at Italy, which didn't have so much money for the construction of warships before. However, the design and manufacturing level of Italian warships has always been in the forefront of the world, and the warships made in Italy are no worse than the performance of the same type of warships in Britain and Germany.

King Vittorio in Italy? Soon after Emanuele III set the plan to build a super dreadnought, the Italian Admiralty came up with a design proposal and got the Vittorio ? Recognition by Emanuele III.

This super dreadnought battleship is called the Doria class, which is an improved version of the Cavour-class dreadnought, mainly with a shortened bowhouse. The main turret in the amidships has been lowered by one deck to improve hull stability. The displacement and caliber of the main guns were increased, bringing it to the standard of a super-dreadnought battleship with a standard displacement of 23880 tons and a full load displacement of 28800 tons, The ship is 186.5 meters long, 28.1 meters wide, 10.1 meters draft, can reach a maximum speed of 23 knots, is equipped with 5 twin 50 times caliber 320 mm main guns, 12 135 mm secondary guns, 18 47 mm anti-aircraft guns, 5 500 mm torpedo tubes, horizontal armor belts 180 mm to 250 mm, deck armor 47 mm, main turret armor 290 mm, conning tower armor 290 mm, crew 1120 people.

In addition to the addition of super-dreadnought battleships, the Italian Navy would need to be supplemented with other types of warships to accompany the battleships, which would require about two-thirds of the low-interest German loans to be invested in the navy.

Also Vittorio? Emanuele III also used the remaining low-interest loans to expand the number of the Italian Army from 550,000 to 800,000, and also invested a research and development fund in the Italian Air Force to develop more advanced fighters.

The other two countries of the Central Powers, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, were also rejoicing at the outbreak of the war between the Chinese Empire and Russia, and the two countries followed closely behind their allies Germany and Italy, and began to expand their military forces to varying degrees according to the scope that their respective countries could bear.

Austria-Hungary did not increase the number of dreadnoughts in its navy this time and currently had 2 Dante-class dreadnoughts custom-built from Italy and 4 Austrian-class dreadnoughts built by Austria-Hungary itself. Austria-Hungary, taking into account its own financial situation, only added a number of other types of warships to the navy that were equipped with dreadnought battleships.

However, for the army, Austria-Hungary made a plan to expand the original number of 1.1 million standing army to 1.4 million, increasing the strength of the Austro-Hungarian army by 300,000.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire and Russia had fought 11 Russo-Turkish wars, and a large amount of land was occupied by Russia, which made the Ottoman Turkish Empire full of unforgettable hatred for Russia, and now the Chinese Empire suddenly launched a war against Russia, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire really wanted to put on a big red flower for the Chinese Empire and praise the actions of the Chinese Empire.

The Ottoman Turkish Empire was more purposeful, hoping that when the Chinese Empire and Russia were defeated, they would be able to defeat the feud Russia and regain a large amount of land occupied by Russia.

The current regime in the Ottoman Empire was controlled by the Young Turks Party, a reformist group of ethnic Turks. In order to develop the navy of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the Young Turks established the Ottoman Naval Fund, which was established to collect public donations for the purchase of ships. The current Ottoman Imperial Navy's possession of two Italian-built Dante-class dreadnought battleships was purchased with the money from this fund.

After the outbreak of war between the Chinese Empire and Russia, the Ottoman Naval Fund has had a lot of funds, so the Ottoman Turkish Empire customized 2 Dante-class dreadnought battleships to Italy, originally Italy had more advanced dreadnought battleships for the Ottoman Turkish Empire to choose, but the funds raised by the Ottoman Naval Fund have not yet reached the point where the Ottoman Turkish Empire can choose warships at will, so the Ottoman Turkish Empire considered the cost of construction. Or the cheaper Dante-class dreadnought battleships were chosen.

Moreover, the Dante-class dreadnought battleships had a full load displacement of 21,000 tons, a maximum speed of 21 knots, and were equipped with 10 guns of 45 times the caliber of 305 mm. 8 120-mm secondary guns, 8 47-mm anti-aircraft guns, 5 500-mm torpedo tubes, except for slightly thinner armor. The overall performance is still good.

The original standing army of the Ottoman Empire reached 950,000. Before the large-scale expansion of the armies of various countries, the army of the Ottoman Turkish Empire was in eighth place in the ranking of land forces in the world according to the calculation of troops. Nowadays, many countries have begun to expand the strength of their armies, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire has not been idle, announcing that it will expand the number of its army to 1.3 million, and is also preparing to import some heavy equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles from Germany for the Ottoman Turkish Army.

Frequent action by the 4 countries of the Allied Powers. Let the Entente Britain and France look frightened, Britain and France understand in their hearts. At this time, the Allies began to reorganize their arms and fight in order to wait to pick up the bargain, but the two countries, Britain and France, knew that there were allies who were eyeing the side and were intent on picking up bargains, and they had no way to ignore Russia.

Britain and France are also very depressed, you said that our allies of the Entente are now being attacked by the Chinese Empire, and as a result, the two countries of which we are allies have not yet begun to take any action against this war, but your allies are fast enough, and they are building warships and expanding their land forces, and those who don't know think that they are countries in the Allied Countries, which have been attacked by the Chinese Empire!

Regardless of whether the two countries joined the war between the Chinese Empire and Russia, the two countries also began a large-scale expansion of their military forces, with a posture of preparing for a big war, and the two countries of Britain and France, which were relatively financially sufficient, had a relatively large expansion of their troops this time.

The British Navy is currently building 8 Orion-class super dreadnought battleships in British shipyards, and this time Britain has taken out the drawings of the next class of dreadnought battleships, this class of dreadnought battleships still belongs to the category of super dreadnought battleships, which is an improved version of the Orion-class super dreadnought battleships, and has made some modifications in the protection design, strengthened the strength of the hull, and formed a continuous protective area in the upper armor between the bow turret and the stern turret, and also strengthened the secondary gun protective armor, and other aspects, There is not much difference between the 2 super dreadnought battleships.

The standard displacement is 23,300 tons, the full load displacement is 25,700 tons, the length of the ship is 179 meters, the width of the ship is 27 meters, the maximum draft is 8.3 meters, the design maximum speed is 21 knots, 5 twin batteries equipped with 45 times the caliber of 343 mm, 16 102 mm secondary guns, 14 47 mm anti-aircraft guns, 3 533 mm torpedo tubes, horizontal armor belts from 200 mm to 305 mm, deck armor 76 mm, main turret armor 280 mm, conning tower armor 280 mm, crew 752 people.

This super dreadnought battleship was named the King George V class, and the British, who were not short of money, placed an order for 8 King George V-class super dreadnought battleships at the same time for domestic shipyards, which definitely meant that the Germans were preparing to build 8 super dreadnought battleships.

In addition, the British added a large number of other types of warships, including large fast armored cruisers, submarines, fast protection cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats, to domestic shipyards.

The strength of the 2.1 million British standing army was somewhat less after the large-scale expansion of the army by the Chinese Empire and the Allies, so the British decided to expand the army of 1.2 million.

As for the air force, the British did not carry out a large-scale expansion, mainly because the fighters now manufactured by the British are not inferior in performance compared with the fighters of the Chinese Empire, and the British are ready to wait for the design of the fighters being developed to be completed, and then carry out a large-scale expansion of the air force, and the fighters being developed by the British are not weaker in performance than the improved Yellow Sparrow fighters and the improved Blue Eagle bombers that the Chinese Empire is now equipped with in terms of performance.

The French are not far behind in this round of military competition, and have carried out a large-scale expansion of their navy and army, only the air force, because France is also developing high-performance fighters, like other countries, is not now being manufactured on a large scale.

The French Navy has 10 dreadnoughts, eight Provence-class dreadnoughts, and six Provence-class dreadnoughts, and six Provence-class dreadnought battleships are under construction in French shipyards. After a big move by various countries, the French also decided to build their own super dreadnought battleship, and they quickly devised a plan.

The Provence-class dreadnought battleship was enlarged to make it have a standard displacement of 24,500 tons, a full load displacement of 26,400 tons, a designed maximum speed of 21 knots, and 10 twin 50 times caliber 343 mm main guns, which was named the Frion super-dreadnought-class battleship. The French, who were financially well-off, gave orders to domestic shipyards for 6 Fryon super-dreadnought battleships at once, and the French were also ready to build a large number of other types of warships.

The French Army originally had 2.3 million, only after the Chinese Empire, Russia, and Germany, and was still ahead of the British, but this time Britain was furious to expand the army by 1.2 million, so that the number of the British Army reached 3.3 million, although France was also ready to expand the army by 500,000 at once, but after Britain and France completed the expansion, they could only give up the fourth position in the number of land forces in the world to their ally Britain. (To be continued......)