The entire land battlefield became calm in the summer and autumn, the Austro-Hungarian side was unwilling to fight hard with the Russian army, and the Germans attacked on the Eastern Front alone and had a slight lack of troops, and because three army groups were transferred from the Western Front to strengthen the Eastern Front, the German army on the French front line was unable to launch a large-scale offensive.

At present, the two sides are at a stalemate on the main battlefield, and only the Austro-Hungarian army is still engaged in small battles in North Africa.

West Austro-Hungarian tank training camp in the city of Zuvara, Hiporitania.

Under the scorching sun, a pale yellow sand dust rose behind the sand dunes in the distance, and gradually, the roar of the motor was heard in my ears. The sand grew larger and larger, rolling towards the Zuwara tank training ground, and in the dust more than a dozen tanks loomed in the dust.

"Very good, we ran nearly 65 kilometers in two hours, which is enough distance for the army to walk for a day and a half." Melzin took out his pocket watch, looked at the time, and said to Colonel Hooker, who was standing beside him with a telescope and observing the direction of the sand.

Colonel Hookel put down the binoculars in his hand and turned his head to look at Colonel Melzin with a smile on his face: "This is all under your command to achieve what we have achieved now, if it was two months ago, I wouldn't have known how to keep these young men in the battle queue." With that, he squinted his eyes again at the convoy of tanks rumbling in the distance. I wonder how many tanks will come back this time? ”

"It's already very good, we're now running 100 kilometres with a 60 per cent good rate, which is a big surprise to me. You must know that in Galicia, after advancing 60 kilometers, one of my armored battalions had less than 5 vehicles left, only 6 vehicles were destroyed by the enemy or broken by themselves, and the rest were due to mechanical problems. Colonel Melzin said that the new tank has greatly improved in terms of mechanical performance, and although there are still shortcomings, it is enough to cope with the requirements of a battle.

At present, the 7th Croatian Panzer Division and the 21st Panzer Division of the Imperial Army, which have just been reorganized into Panzer Divisions, are stationed at the Zuvara Armored Training Base, with a total of nearly 500 tanks, which account for nearly one-third of the total number of tanks equipped by the Imperial Army.

The first objective of the North African campaign was to take Tunisia first, and then possibly to continue westward or eastward.

Merzin has now been promoted to Chief of Staff of the Croatian 7th Panzer Division, and in the Reich, these officers from the 1st and 2nd Panzer Brigades have risen fairly quickly due to their early entry into the armored corps.

Due to the scarcity of talent, Merzin is currently also the training director of the Zuwara Armored Training Base, and he has single-handedly set the training arrangements for both armored divisions, many of which are based on his experience in the 1st Armored Brigade. Like naval warships, the basic elements of combat of tanks and armored vehicles are maneuverability, protection and firepower. Whenever possible, Heldon always puts maneuverability first.

If you can't beat it, you can still run, no matter when, survival comes first.

Of course, it is best to achieve a perfect balance of firepower, maneuverability, and protection, which is obviously not possible with the current state of technology.

For tanks that have just appeared on the battlefield, countries around the world are currently in the groping stage. The British clearly took a detour, and the French were almost on the right path, but the trenches crisscrossing northern France did not allow the Renault PT-17, which excelled, to play its due role.

So they regressed and went back to infantry tanks.

The fact that the Austro-Hungarian armored forces were used as a separate assault force from the very beginning, rather than accompanying infantry operations, is based on the experience of later generations. So the Empire's armored forces were to concentrate the use of tanks as much as possible from the beginning, rather than dispersing them into infantry ranks.

For this reason, the Austro-Hungarian Panzer commanders understood better than the rest of the world how to maintain the formation of the tank group, how to launch the group offensive, and how to coordinate and coordinate the attack.

That's all.

The daily maintenance and attrition of an armored force is no less than that of a detachment, and if it were not for the support of Lee Haydon, it is estimated that its large-scale use would not begin until the militaries of all countries realized its value. In this respect, Austria-Hungary was only a few steps ahead of others.

But it is this that creates a huge gap on the battlefield.

In order to cooperate with the German Navy's battle plan, at the request of Lechelton, Ludendorff agreed to transfer the German 12th Army under the command of Admiral Galvetz into North Africa to fight alongside the Austro-Hungarian army. In mid-August, the German-Austrian forces took action and captured Tunisia in one fell swoop. France currently had only a small number of colonial troops in North Africa, which was simply unable to withstand the German-Austrian attack.

With the fall of Tunisia, the Anglo-French forces in North Africa deteriorated, and Britain had to send large numbers of colonial troops from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and India to North Africa to ensure the security of Egypt. In order to relieve the pressure on the French side in Algiers, the British troops in Egypt launched an offensive on Cyrenaica, and at the end of August Tobruk was captured, and the German-Austrian offensive was stopped.

Admiral Negovan commanded the Austro-Hungarian fleet and on 27 August carried out a night bombardment of the heavily fortified British fort of Gibraltar, which had little success but shocked London.

The new Admiralty, Belfort, requested the transfer of four battleships from Jellico's Grand Fleet to strengthen Gibraltar's defenses, but the home fleet refused without hesitation. Jericho, who was already worried about his lack of strength, would not allow any more troops to be drawn from him, and in his opinion, the home fleet could not suffer any defeat at sea, and if it did, then the British would be over.

Jericho would not allow a battle when he was weaker than his opponents, and he had always maintained superiority over the German fleet.

And there were signs that the German fleet would have a big move in the near future, and at this moment he was not allowed to weaken his own forces. In the end, Balfour compromised and sent only four old ex-dreadnoughts to the Gibraltar side, knowing that if Jericho lost, Britain would have lost almost the entire war.

The scale and course of the war had long since exceeded the original expectations and control of the belligerents, and even the British were exhausted and exhausted by the war.

The real interests are the Americans who watch the fire from the other side, and the wealth saved by the British Empire and the French in the past hundred years has basically been looted by American bankers and arms dealers.

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