Italy's brilliant defeat caught the Anglo-French command by surprise and even caused extreme panic on the entire Western Front, but they reacted quickly, and soon dispatched 15 divisions from the Franco-Italian border to reinforce the Lombardy region, stabilizing the battle in the direction of Milan. But on the southern front, the Italian army was crushed, and the situation was out of control.

According to Skiner and Xiafei's estimates, the Allies would have to send at least 1.2 million men to the Apennine if they wanted to stabilize Italy and avoid its fall, but they simply could not afford to cobble together such an army.

The original intention of Britain and France to win over the Italians was to let the Italian army contain the Austro-Hungarian Army and create conditions for the Russian counterattack on the Eastern Front. But now it is almost winter, and due to the rapid collapse of the Russian army on the Eastern Front, there is no winter that is absolutely slowed down, and now let alone the offensive, even self-preservation has become a problem.

Contrary to the wishful thinking of the British, the British and French were now to draw up their forces to defend Italy.

Skiner and Xiafei made the decision to abandon the Italians.

Now the German-Austrian army was engaged in a running race on the front line of the Apennine Peninsula, and the Austro-Hungarian 3rd and 7th armies and the German 12th army crossed the Apennines together and quickly advanced towards Rome.

Victor Emmanuel III sent a telegram to Lechelton asking him to save Italy for the sake of his relatives, and he replied that he had no intention of taking Italian territory and demanded that Italy withdraw from the war.

So, on October 22, less than two months after the start of the Italian campaign, the king ordered the Italian army to surrender.

The whole Italian campaign lasted less than two months, and the world was shocked by the speed with which the Italian army collapsed, and the reasons for this result were manifold: the Italians, who had only been independent for fifty years, were not cohesive enough to waver in the war, and the Italians had little interest in the war.

The promise of the British alone plunged the whole of Italy into disaster, but of course it was fortunate to be saved in the end. The hastily mobilized Italian army also had little combat effectiveness and lacked equipment. Before May, the Italians had seen the sweetness of the Russian march in Galicia, but after it declared war on Austria-Hungary, the rapid collapse of the Russian army and the strength of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the fight against the Russians terrified all of Italy.

In August, before Admiral Cardona reluctantly launched an attack, the Italians were shouting to withdraw from the war, which shook the morale of the army, and the entire Italian army lacked the desire to fight, and the dissolution of the existing government and the division of the government was another important reason for the collapse of the Italian army.

Of course, the fear of war was also one of the causes of the collapse.

But one way or another, the war for the Italians was over.

Although the Anglo-French forces in Lombardy were still resisting, it was to no avail.

According to the armistice agreement between Germany and Austria and Italy, the territory of Lombardy and Veneto, including Milan, was occupied by Germany and Austria, and the Italian army was to be disarmed under the supervision of Germany and Austria, and only 100,000 men were allowed to be retained for internal security.

Under the terms of the armistice, the main forces of the Italian naval fleet and submarines were to be seized as part of the war reparations, and the Austro-Hungarian fleet under Admiral Negovan and the German Mediterranean fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Maouf blockaded the port of Taranto, and under their supervision, the Italian fleet was temporarily disarmed and mothballed in the harbor pending German and Austrian reception.

The rapid collapse of Italy caught Britain and France by surprise and hastily ended the doomed Battle of Gallipoli, but their landing force could not be withdrawn home, and the main fleet of the Austro-Hungarian Navy was stationed in the port of Taranto, cutting off the connection between the eastern and western Mediterraneans.

The British Royal Navy, in order to cope with the increasing number of German naval battle cruisers on its sea transportation lines, transferred all the new warships back home, and the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet and the French Fleet, which were only eight old battleships, were no match for the Austro-Hungarian Navy at present.

The French had made it clear that their fleet needed to stay at home to defend the coast and would not enter the eastern Mediterranean, and the British had no choice but to withdraw their troops to Egypt.

After the Italian campaign, the Austro-Hungarian 3rd and 6th armies were quickly withdrawn back to the Balkans. At the instigation of the British, the Arabs under Ottoman rule rose up one after another, and the British army took advantage of the situation to launch an attack in Mesopotamia, capturing Baghdad at the end of August, and the Ottoman Empire was in danger.

Admiral Sandra, the Ottoman Empire's top military adviser and de facto commander of the army, appealed that the Ottoman Empire was running out of weapons and ammunition, and that the Turks would not be able to survive if the Allies did not open up supply lines in the Balkans for blood transfusions.

Falkenhain was busy with the war on the Western Front, and the French launched another suicidal large-scale attack in Ishel, so the Germans sent Admiral Mackensen to the Balkan line, this time bringing only the German 11th Army.

In addition to the 5th Army, the 15th Army was formed by local troops under the command of General Kovis in charge of the Austro-Hungarian Army on the Serbian front, with a total of 400,000 troops and 450,000 Serbian and Montenegro troops fighting artillery across the Danube for more than a year. Across the Danube, Serbia is scorched earth, Belgrade is rubble, and there is hardly a single intact building.

Due to the huge losses in the Battle of Sermya, Serbian Prime Minister Basichi Chitunguò went on a conscription spree and merged with the reduction and upgrading of local forces, which kept the field force at the level of 350,000 men. But in Serbia's countryside and cities, healthy men between the ages of 16 and 60 are largely extinct.

The pain of being able to maintain the country's economy from collapsing and ensure the supply ahead can be imagined in such a situation. While he was struggling to survive, he also hated the "Black Shadow" organization that caused trouble in his heart.

By September 1915, although the southwestern front maintained a state of confrontation, the Serbian and Montenegro side was already like "a dry bone wrapped in armor", and it seemed that it could collapse at any time with a slight push. However, Lechelton still wanted the Germans to take the lead, so he did not give the order to launch a full-scale attack on Serbia.

On July 16, 1915, seeing that the war situation on the Eastern Front was decided, with revenge and the psychology of taking the opportunity to make a lot of money, Bulgaria officially joined the Central Powers and entered the war. The reason why this traditionally pro-Russian Slavic state did not hesitate to participate in the war between the Central Powers against the Entente was only because of the great hatred that arose from the defeat of Serbia and Greece in the Second Balkan War.

Now Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Bolgars, who took advantage of the opportunity to rub oil, are finally going to make a move against Serbia.

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