Chapter 227: The First World War Breaks Out

The Sarajevo police immediately cordoned off the scene, waiting for an elite investigator sent by the Austro-Hungarian government.

Archduke Ferdinand was shot in the brain and died, and the guards had already found Ferdinand dead on the way to the hospital, but they rushed to the hospital anyway, and the gun threatened the doctors to resuscitate Ferdinand, and the doctors were forced to push Ferdinand into the operating room, and he came out three minutes later, and there was nothing they could do in the face of the man who had already died.

News of Ferdinand's assassination caused a hurricane when news of Crown Prince Ferdinand's assassination reached Austria-Hungary, and the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I roared to avenge Ferdinand.

What Franz Joseph I hated most was assassination in the dark, not to mention that he himself had been assassinated, and his favorite wife, Queen Elizabeth, had also been assassinated to death, and now he had managed to find an heir, but he was also assassinated, which made him very angry.

Ferdinand was not the son of Franz Joseph I, but the eldest son of his third brother, who had been shot by the revolutionaries and left no children, and his son, Prince Rudolf, who died in 1889 with his lover. The important thing is not Ferdinand the person who is on his body, but the title that Ferdinand wears - Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, this is about the face of Austria-Hungary, not to mention dying in Sarajevo, isn't this a slap in the face, there is a place they occupy, this kind of thing can happen.

The military exercises were completed before they could begin, and the troops who were going to participate in the exercises surrounded Sarajevo and carried out a frenzied search of the place in cooperation with the gendarmes and police, arresting members of the Madiah and the Bosnian YMCA, and killing all those who resisted.

The identity of the young man on the balcony was also found by the Austro-Hungarian police, and it turned out to be a man named Gavrio Princip, a member of the Bosnian YMCA and the Mafia who participated in the assassination. The Austro-Hungarian government believed that it was Princip who killed the crown prince, and both his identity and the qiē left on the rooftop proved that it was a long-planned murder, and demanded an explanation from the Serbian government.

Crown Prince Ferdinand's visit to Sarajevo originally attracted the attention of Western countries, and when Ferdinand's accident occurred, various countries also received the news one after another, and Ferdinand's assassination instantly became the focus of the world's attention.

"Order Serbia to hand over the entire Mafiah and its members of the Bosnian YMCA, and all those involved in the assassination must die! If you don't call it out, then go to war! Franz Joseph I had the intention of attacking Serbia, and Ferdinand's death, though painful, was undoubtedly the best excuse for war.

In Germany, Wilhelm II looked at the news of Ferdinand's death and the telegram from Franz Joseph about the invasion of Serbia, and he felt that it was Ferdinand's own death, and that Serbia would not be foolish enough to open the door and let the Austro-Hungarian Empire enter its own country to investigate.

"Closely monitor the situation in the Balkans, issue a statement condemning these terrorists and send people to mourn Crown Prince Ferdinand. I can't believe that we met a while ago, and now the crown prince has gone to see God and sent a telegram in my personal name to comfort Joseph. ”

Wilhelm II supported Austria-Hungary in launching a war against Serbia, one to test the Entente, and the other to provoke a war as quickly as possible to attack the Entente while Tsarist Russia was still in civil strife and could not take care of it.

With the planes ordered by Yingfa and other countries in China, as well as the research of submarines, tanks and other weapons by several countries, Germany will not continue to maintain the lead in weapons, and Wilhelm II does not want to give the Entente any more time.

At 10 Chinatown in Britain, Asquith looked at the telegram of Ferdinand's assassination and said angrily: "Fellows who have not achieved enough and have more than enough to lose, Serbia is going to be ruined by these people, and even provoke a war between us and the Allies, how is the situation so bad now, Austria-Hungary must be prevented from starting a war!" ”

Asquith is now big, Serbia is also a member of the Entente, once Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, then these Entente countries cannot stay out of it at all, and it is impossible for Austria-Hungary to swallow up the Balkan Peninsula.

He believed that Britain still needed time, and that they were not ready for a full-scale war with the Allies, and that according to intelligence, the German army had been equipped with a large number of planes and tanks, and even new warships and submarines had appeared, and the Germans were much more prepared than them.

Coupled with the current situation of Tsarist Russia, where Germany and Austria-Hungary can still contain and threaten, it is purely a drag oil bottle. The U.S. government is cunning and cunning, and it is unwilling to join the Entente even if it is killed, but secretly says that in the event of a war between the Entente and the Allies, they will fully support the former and current master Britain in addition to the military.

Now this situation will not join the Entente as long as it is not a fool, and the allies who are very close to China are using the resources of Huaxia in full swing, and Tsarist Russia, one of the three giants of the Entente, has been crippled by China, and the strength of the Entente has been much inferior.

Italy's prime minister at this time was Giovanni Giuletti, a leftist who advocated social reforms to improve the lives of ordinary people, and was always sidelined by radical right-wing militants.

"Damn, what are those barbaric Serbs doing, trying to provoke a world war? A statement was issued immediately condemning the Assassins...... terrorists, and send people to the memorial service of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince! Giolitti shouted to his assistant.

Giolitti now did not want war with any country, because Italy at that time was not prepared for war at all, and it would be very disadvantageous for Italy to go to war rashly, and he did not advocate war. But Italy, as an ally, had to support Austria-Hungary, despite the territorial disputes between the two countries.

In the White House, Wilson is both worried and excited, but whether Europe has started a full-scale war, as long as it can weaken the two camps, he is very excited, but if the two camps face off so soon, it is not what he wants, because now the strength of the Entente is obviously inferior to that of the Allies, and the result of the fight may surprise them.

Under the careful prediction of the wisdom group of the United States, Germany, which had no resource advantage, would eventually lose, but now Germany has the resource support of Huaxia, and the two camps are not divided.

"The situation in Europe must be stabilized temporarily, and the war must not break out prematurely, otherwise my every one will be in vain!" Wilson hated the damned Serbs in his heart.

The president of the developed country, Poingaré, was furious when he saw the news of Ferdinand's assassination, and the relationship between the developed country and Serbia is extraordinary, and many forces in Serbia are controlled by the country, and the Black Hand Society and the Bosnian Youth Association have the shadow of the country.

Someone went to assassinate the Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary under his nose, and once his shadow was found out by Austria-Hungary, who knows if the madman of Austria-Hungary would attack him.

If it were a time when Tsarist Russia had not yet had civil strife, the developing countries would not have cared about this kind of thing, but now it is different, once the war starts, Germany will inevitably intervene, and no matter how arrogant the developed government is, it knows that Germany at this time is not something that it can resist alone.

The news of the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince soon came to light, and the people around the world were in an uproar, and countries condemned the act, especially the European royal families.

The Allied powers of Germany, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire issued public statements denouncing the Assassins, defining them as terrorists who should be eliminated altogether.

The Austro-Hungarian government also quickly announced the news of the murderer, pointing the finger directly at Serbia and demanding that Serbia let the Austro-Hungarian army enter Serbia to arrest terrorists. The Serbian Government, of course, would not accede, saying that this was a slander and that Serbia had never done anything to undermine the peace between the two countries, but when the Austro-Hungarian Government came up with the ambiguous warning given to them by the Serbian Government, the countries were shocked.

On March 9, the Austro-Crarian army, which had originally planned to exercise, concentrated on the border between Bosnia and Serbia, and on the other side, more than 200,000 Austro-Hungarian troops gathered on the border between the two countries.

The originally silent Yingfa and other Allied governments have called on Austria-Hungary to deal with this matter rationally, urging the Serbian government to hand over those terrorist organizations, and even the United States has urgently sent people to the Balkans to prepare for mediation.

On the evening of 9 March, Austria-Hungary issued an official ultimatum to Serbia, and 24 hours later it had to explain that it would either go to war or open its borders for their troops to go in and arrest terrorists.

On the evening of March 10, Serbia again rejected the unreasonable demands of Austria-Hungary, saying that it was Austria-Hungary's desire to destroy Serbia and that Serbia would not compromise.

Less than an hour after Serbia's refusal, the Austro-Hungarian ambassador to Serbia presented a declaration of war to the king, and Austria-Hungary officially declared war on Serbia.

The Austrian troops hoarded in Serbia launched a fierce attack on the Serbian army, and in just one day, the Austrian army broke through the Serbian defense line and defeated the Serbian army one after another.

On March 12, Italy declared its neutrality, while Russia, which was deeply involved in civil strife, declared neutrality and withdrew from the Entente, signing the Warsaw Pact with Germany and Austria-Hungary, which stipulated that Russia ceded all of Poland and the areas west of it to Germany, the present-day Ukraine to Austria-Hungary, and the Crimean Peninsula to Bulgaria. At the same time, Germany remained neutral during the war with the British and was not allowed to go to war with the three countries. The corresponding three countries supported Tsarist Russia's anti-bandit operations and were not allowed to secretly support the Red Party.

On March 13, Germany officially sent a telegram to Luxembourg and Belgium, asking the two countries to be incorporated into Germany, which was opposed by both countries.

On the same day, the two countries, which discovered that war was inevitable, declared war on Austria-Hungary on the grounds that Austria-Hungary had attacked the British garrison in Serbia for no reason, and Austria-Hungary declared war on both countries.

On 15 March, the Germans invaded Luxembourg and sent troops to Belgium, and the Netherlands declared their neutrality with trepidation.

On the evening of 15 March, Britain declared war on Germany, considering the importance of Belgium to its homeland security, its neutrality and the Treaty of London signed in 1839.

That night, the Allied countries launched a national mobilization for their own security and declared war on Germany.