"Uncle, this is not the truth."

"Oh, nothing, it did happen, despite the exaggeration." Lechelton glanced at the army brochure handed over by the young and handsome lieutenant general in front of him, and put it aside. The Army brochure had been compiled at his behest, and he certainly knew its contents.

"But that's not true." The 24-year-old Grand Duke Karl, the second-in-line heir to the throne behind him, the nephew of Lehedon, and the commander of the Croatian 3rd Army, blushed and said stubbornly. It's a book full of lies, filled with exaggerated descriptions of Russian atrocities, and a large selection of carefully selected photographs. The Tsar's army was described as a gang of lawless bandits, who killed people and set fires, robbed and raped, and did all kinds of evil. Wherever they passed, villages were burned, and they would take the belongings and women they could see, and kill all the men, even the old and the children......

This is indeed not true, and most of the Russian ranks are still strictly disciplined and generally do not harass civilians. But there were also a small number of Russian troops, especially the Cossacks, who committed murder and robbery. During war, it is difficult to restrain and ensure that all soldiers can abide by military discipline.

Karl ...... The first thing you need to think about now is how to improve the fighting power of your troops, not what Christ teaches. Lechelton felt compelled to sit down with his simple nephew and have a good talk, or he might have ruined something big because of the so-called impatience, "The peasants of the army from Bohemia, Galicia, Hungary and Bosmia, and Slovenia did not know who to fight for, and they were passive and avoided the battle, and they always broke down first when the battle was most critical. These forces, mainly Czechs, Poles, Romanians and Ukrainians, have become the greatest obstacle to our victory, with their very low combat effectiveness. ”

"Didn't you order them to be reorganized according to their ethnic composition in order to solve the problem of command?"

"Yes, the problem of command is not the main one, the fundamental problem is the lack of desire to fight on the part of these people." LeHaydon snuffed out the cigar in his ashtray and raised his head to stare at Carl, "Hatred is the best way to trigger the desire to fight and fight." ”

"So you're inciting these feelings in the army, not hesitating to make up lies?"

"It's not a lie, oh, of course, there's an exaggeration in it." Helton picked up the pamphlet again and flipped through it twice, "Not only in the army, but also among the people. ”

"Why?"

"If our citizens don't know what we're fighting for, the empire will soon collapse." "We are forced to fight to defend the people of the empire from being robbed, oppressed and plundered by those robbers, and this is a sacred and just war against aggression." Do you understand what I'm saying, Carl? ”

"I don't understand, I think you're even like Satan."

"If you don't understand, you have to resolutely carry it out, this is an order! Otherwise, I will dismiss you and even transfer you out of the army. Lechelton threatened, and then with a smile on his face, "The demon in the eyes of the enemy is God to the people of the empire, I have a point, Karl, there can be no morality and mercy for the enemy." ”

As winter began, Heldon rejected any plan of attack proposed by Condra, and the entire empire's army began to be reorganized according to its national composition. Although this move was opposed by the Magyar nobles and the German aristocracy, it was carried out in the face of the current prestige of the crown prince.

Croatia and Bohemia were allowed to form separate armies, which weakened the dominance of the Germans and Magyars, but it brought the people together, and Lehedon even promised Bohemia and Croatia political status on an equal footing with Austria and Hungary after the war.

What will happen if a dual empire becomes a pluralistic empire?

Who knows.

Diplomatically, the Allies were clearly at a disadvantage, and no one, except for the enraged Ottoman Empire, had not yet dared to openly oppose the Entente, led by Britain and France. Sixteen British allies declared war on Germany and Austria, including the Japanese, and the vast majority of them were within reach of the Germans and Austria-Hungary, of course.

Greece, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania had a slight impact on the outcome of the war.

The Italians at both ends of the rat were waiting for a bargain, and seemed to be in a greater tendency to defect to the British, who made territorial claims to Austria-Hungary in Tyrol, including Trieste, which was clearly unacceptable to the Empire.

The Greeks have already decided to side with the British, who are at a feud with the Turks.

Bulgaria had almost decided to fight on the side of the Allies, and purely out of hatred, Serbia and Greece had seized large swathes of their territory in the Second Balkan War, and this time they wanted revenge.

Moreover, Germany and Austria-Hungary had promised to return Thrace to them after the war.

The Romanians are rocking, they want to get Transylvania. Lehedn's establishment was a promise of the annexation of the Transylvanian region with Romania, but Romania had to be annexed to Austria-Hungary, and of course, they could gain the same status as the Hungarians.

But the death of King Carol in October 1914 from the Hohenzollern family was a blow to the pro-German forces in Romania, who were now getting closer to joining the Entente.

And Lechelton didn't expect the Romanians to play a role, as long as they didn't make trouble.

Although the 82-year-old old Emperor Franz can still be active, after all, he is old, and now most of the military affairs need to be handled by Li Haidon.

The biggest headache for him is the shortage of domestic labor.

After the outbreak of the war, the empire conscripted a total of about 2.5 million troops, and as the war progressed and continued to be consumed, more and more young and strong labor force was sent to the battlefield, and the factories and villages were now facing great difficulties. If this problem is not solved, sooner or later the empire will collapse due to lack of supplies.

The empire was unable to import enough food from overseas like Britain and France, and concentrated much of its limited manpower on industrial production. Although mechanization is being vigorously promoted, the vast rural areas still need at least 500,000 laborers to fill them.

Austria, a mountainous country, was originally unable to produce enough food, relying entirely on the production of the Hungarian plains, but the decline of the young labor force inevitably led to a decrease in grain production.

If a famine is triggered, then there is no need to fight, and the empire will collapse on its own.

The German Revolution of 1918 led to the collapse of a powerful empire, and the spreading social trend was a terrifying enemy.

Why didn't the revolution happen in Britain?

The conservatism of the British is one aspect, but the Germans do not seem to be worse than the British.

What's the problem?

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