Lehedon was recalled to Vienna, and a whim of the "crown prince" caused the entire upper echelons of the empire to worry about it. During the training of the "Grand Duke of Istria", he commanded this fleet to carry out an hour-long artillery bombardment of the Italian port of Ancona.

The operation resulted in more than 860 casualties among Italian civilians, and now all English- and French-speaking countries are unanimously condemning the freshly baked "executioner". Lechelton was very depressed, he just wanted to scare the Italians, how could he provoke a large group of British devils to stand at the height of justice and shout the so-called "song of justice" wildly.

"Massacre of civilians?" What a joke, everyone is an evil imperialist, who does not have the blood of the vanquished on their hands? No one is nobler than the other.

Of course, the old emperor Franz was never guilty of the death of a thousand Italians, he was just afraid of his nephew's "adventurous actions", what are you kidding? Crown Prince Rudolph died, Crown Prince Ferdinand was assassinated, and the entire empire could no longer afford to die a crown prince.

At the St. Buren Palace, Lechelton met the old emperor.

To his surprise, the 83-year-old Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary was flushed with red faces, in good spirits, and his complexion was even better than at the beginning of the war. It seems that the victory on the battlefield made the old emperor, who had never won a battle in more than 60 years of reign, become extremely excited.

Lechelton had a very interesting conversation with the old emperor.

"Looks like you can keep this empire going." The old emperor's eyes were full of appreciation.

"Sooner or later, rising national sentiment will tear this empire apart." Lehydon was unceremonious, and this was the biggest drawback of this multi-ethnic empire.

"You are wrong, this country has never been maintained by loyalty to the Empire, the elites of the various nationalities are loyal only to the Habsburg royal family." The old emperor shook his head and said slowly, "The Habsburgs used their power in exchange for the support of these nobles of various nationalities, and the influence of the royal family on the empire was actually only symbolic. ”

"But sooner or later, these nobles will be replaced." Helton Lee said that the feudal aristocracy has fallen behind the times and will be eliminated sooner or later.

"Then support the upstarts." The old emperor said, "The new will always replace the old, giving all ethnic groups enough equal power, so that the nouveau riche of each ethnic group can have enough right to speak." I'm old, and I don't have enough prestige to suppress the old magnates, but you can. ”

"Why?" Lehydon asked.

"Because the army is loyal enough to you, and you have unparalleled prestige among the people, this kind of thing is beyond national feelings. The empire existed because the people wanted an emperor who would bring them glory. The old emperor continued, "Any change needs strong support, and if I don't make a change, when I die, the empire will be over." ”

"Do you want to start now?" In fact, he had thought about it for a long time, and that the control of the Reichstag and government by the Magyars and Germans, and the suppression of power over other peoples, was the main cause of the unrest.

"Perhaps......," the old emperor pondered for a moment, "perhaps the best time of change is the time of war, when the people are able to accept strict military control or changes in the structure of government. ”

"Well, well, I can try to make some changes in the Occupy first." "A relatively independent kingdom of Romania, Galicia and southern Ukraine may be what we need right now." ”

The course of the war in 1915 was frustrating to the Allies, and in the first few months the Russians seemed to have made considerable progress on the Eastern Front, but throughout the month of May everything changed. The Russians had been retreating for the months that followed, having lost nearly 2 million troops and equipment and had lost their ability to attack.

If it weren't for Russia's poor transportation and cold winter climate, it is estimated that the only thing Nicholas II could have done now would have been to negotiate a slightly decent agreement with the Germans and Austrians to withdraw from the war.

The battlefield on the Western Front was still deadlocked, and Helton wondered what the fools in the German General Staff were thinking in their heads, giving up their mobility and field capabilities, but fighting in the trenches with the British and French armies. Plowed most of Germany's precious military resources into the endless trench warfare of France.

According to Helton's thinking, the Schlieffen plan itself was a huge mistake, and the Germans should have retreated a long time ago, luring the Anglo-French forces out of the damned trenches and fortresses, and then looking for an opportunity to annihilate them. Perhaps Schlieffen had only considered a separate battle with France in mind when drawing up his plans, but the rigid German General Staff was still stubbornly holding on to it.

If the French did not dare to attack, then the Germans should do exactly what they wanted, and it would be enough to put only two army groups on the front line for defense.

Since it is impossible to achieve a breakthrough on land, it is better to retreat.

When you can't destroy the enemy, your will to war will slowly wear out.

After the fiasco at the Battle of Dover Sandbank, the German navy seemed to have been frightened and even hid in the harbor all the time, not daring to attack at all, and became a real "storage fleet".

Fortunately, Vice Admiral Spee, who was supposed to be buried at sea, had returned home, and the vice admiral was ordered to enter the neutral Argentine port, and then all the warships were detained, but the officers and men of the Far East Fleet, who had experienced several naval battles, returned home unharmed.

Count Spee, who had won the only naval battle for the German Navy, was duly rewarded and promoted to admiral by Germany, replacing the inactive Admiral Ingnorl as commander of the German High Seas Fleet.

This could be an opportunity.

Lechelton felt compelled to sit down with the new German naval commander, who had a strong sense of initiative.

Of course, when you arrive in Germany, you should first visit the eldest brother emperor.

Lechelton's military prowess and great accolades made Wilhelm II both envious and jealous, and as a Prussian emperor, there was a belligerent element in his blood. Helton was critical of German trench warfare on the Western Front because it violated the first principles of Prussian strategists throughout the ages: quick victory and flexibility.

He encouraged the Kaiser to remove his chief of the General Staff, but the Emperor was still hesitant, and Crown Prince Wilhelm was very much in favor of his uncle's point of view, but unfortunately his words did not count.

Lehedon invited the German Emperor to visit Trieste, where he had time, to see his new battleship, and he estimated that the German Emperor's personality would not be left behind the Austrians. Perhaps, under the stimulus and persecution of the German emperor, the Germans might be able to build a few more super-battleships before 1917.

In addition, he felt the need to remind the German Emperor to pay attention to suppressing the social democratic ideology that was rampant in the country, and this thing was the murderer who really ruined Germany.

The German Emperor found it difficult, and Holwitz was reluctant to do it.

"Those men were spies sent by the British, whose purpose was to incite a rebellion at home and to make Germany lose the whole war. They were enemies and traitors to the whole German nation, and let the gendarmes arrest them, get confessions, and publish them in the newspapers. Lechelton said.

"Oh my God, how could I have known such a wicked friend as you!" The German Emperor's appreciation made Helton Li deeply angry, damn it, this guy is really not a good thing, he wants to do bad things and flaunt his high!

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