The Russo-Japanese War temporarily frustrated the Russian Tsar's expansionist ambitions in the Far East, and he turned his attention to the West, and the situation in the entire Balkan Peninsula suddenly began to tense again. Archduke Ferdinand, who had already taken power on the Austro-Hungarian side, took advantage of the chaos in the Balkans and the civil strife in the Ottoman Empire to make a startling move by annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been under its rule since 1878 but was still nominally two provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

At the same time, the Grand Duke of Bulgaria Ferdinand declared his independence from the Ottoman Empire and established himself as the Bulgarian Tsar.

As the Ottoman Empire declined, more and more countries began to seize the Ottoman legacy's legacy in the Balkans—Thrace, Macedonia, and Albania—as well as the islands in the Aegean Sea.

The French, taking advantage of the weakest of the Ottomans, announced the annexation of Tunisia and Morocco, triggering a political crisis that almost led to a war. Kaiser Wilhelm II claimed that the Second Reich had great interests in Morocco and wanted to send a fleet to Morocco to expel the French.

In the end, with the mediation of the British, the matter was resolved peacefully, and the Germans received some compensation in Central Africa.

The red-eyed Italians could not sit still and brazenly sent troops to Cyrenaica, and their fleets landed in Tripoli and Tobruk, seizing the last Ottomans in North Africa. The Turks had no choice but to organize some partisan detachments to resist the Italian occupation.

In 1911, civil unrest broke out again in Turkey, and the Third Army, controlled by the "Turkish Al-Shabaab", left the Balkans and returned to the capital, quelling the coup d'état in the capital. The Ottoman Empire was in the hands of the Turkish Al-Shabaab triumvirate, who eventually signed treaties with the Italians, agreeing to cede Cyrenaica, the Ionian Islands, and Rhodes to Italy, but the Ottoman Empire retained nominal "suzerainty".

The Bulgarians, who had just escaped from the rule of the Turks, could not sit still, and seeing the decline of the former suzerain, Tsar Ferdinand, who also wanted to grab meat, declared war on the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria, with a population of only 4 million, stabbed the "sick man of Europe" with 60 million people.

Do you feel a little familiar after watching this scene? This happened just once in the Far East.

Seeing the Bulgarians in action, the small countries in the Balkans that had just become independent from the Turks also wanted to share the bowl of broth. Serbia, Romania, and Greece declared war on the Ottoman Empire. Under the attack of the Balkan coalition forces, the superior Turkish army was defeated and retreated, and Macedonia, Albania and Thrace were occupied by the Balkan coalition forces one after another. The Turks had no choice but to sue for peace, but the Bulgarian Tsar refused to give up, claiming to recover Constantinople, the former direct domain of the Orthodox Patriarch, which in the eyes of the Orthodox Christians was like the Vatican where the Catholic Pope was located.

In the end, the Turks relied on a strong defensive line to barely resist the attack of the Balkan coalition forces, and the two sides finally made peace. The Ottomans were able to hold on to the last bit of European territory, and the First Balkan War ended. The Bulgarians, because they were the first to start, took the greatest advantage, and the whole of Thrace and half of Macedonia were included in its pocket.

The Serbians and Greeks looked at each other: Brother, take up so much, divide me?

But the Bulgarians would not let go, and were willing to spit out the flesh in their mouths.

As a result, the Balkan brothers, who were still fighting together a year ago, broke out again, and Greece, Serbia and Romania joined forces to surround and beat the Bulgarians who took advantage, beating and scolding: tell you to eat, tell you to eat, see if you can't die!

In 1913, the Second Balkan War broke out.

As a result, the Bolgars could only cry and beg for mercy, not only vomiting out all the territory they had just taken from the Ottomans, but also causing the Romanians to cut another piece of flesh from their bodies.

The Bulgarians vomited blood in anger, licked their wounds and looked at the evil neighbors around them with wolf-like eyes, and now the feud was great.

Did the wars of the Balkans have anything to do with the wars in Europe?

It didn't matter a dime, it was just that the British were making excuses for the outbreak of war.

In 1911, the British began to build ten capital ships in one go, and they were already preparing for war, but the Germans were unaware and were still unhurriedly building new capital ships at a rate of four per year. Tirpitz and Kaiser Wilhelm did not intend to fight the British in their strategy, but they did not know that the British had already sharpened their knives.

The comparison of the capital ships of the British and German navies widened the gap.

If Wilhelm II and Tirpitz had realized this, the Second German Empire, with twice as much industrial output and three times the steel output of the British, would never have lost to the British in the race to build capital ships.

Unfortunately, they were unaware.

Lechelton looked at this with some pessimism, the British had decided to start a "preventive war" to strangle and then dismember the German nation before it could rise completely. The Treaty of Versailles was a plan that had been drawn up before the war began, dismembering the Second Reich and Austria-Hungary and completely killing the hopes of the Germans for their rise. If all the mining and oil-producing areas were stripped out of the German lands, the resource-poor German state would be reduced to a second-rate state on the continent, on a par with France, holding each other in check, but with no hope of challenging the British Empire.

In fact, there is no winner in this war, and the real winner is the American country that shouts "glorious isolation" all day long, but has its eyes on the whole of Europe and the world.

"Who knows the final result...... "The coffee on the table was cold, Li Haiden leaned his back on the soft high-backed chair, stretched, he had done what he could do, but it didn't matter the overall situation, and he couldn't help but feel an inexplicable loneliness, "Maybe this is the tragic fate that the Germans are destined to ......"

Looking out the window, you can see the sprawling Isterian shipyard in the bay below, where 10 surface ships of all sizes are now being built at the same time, and 5 submarines are being built or outfitted in the enclosed workshop. Farther away, in the anchorage of the military port, the masts of some battleships could be faintly seen. All of this regained his confidence, and he drank the cold coffee on the table in one gulp, and turned his gaze to the half-written reply on the table.

"On the issue of the formation of the Dalmatian garrison division......"

A week earlier, his adjutant, Colonel Miller, had been promoted to commander of the Dalmatian garrison, and Helton had taken command of the division in his own hands in the name of the coastal garrison. Brigadier General Miller was going to supplement the Frame Division into a full infantry division, and Lee Hayden was going to write him a long letter detailing the equipment required for the standard Triple Three Infantry Division in later generations.

Lechelton was to equip each infantry squad with a light machine gun, and each infantry company to add a fire support platoon armed with three 60-mm mortars and three heavy machine guns.

He did not believe that a small, armed and well-trained army would lose to the Russian peasants, who were not even equipped with rifles.

This is the war of the industrial age, and it is no longer the era of cavalry and pikemen in the Middle Ages, and the gap in equipment cannot be bridged by the superiority of numbers.

Thinking of this, Lehedon regained some self-confidence.

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