Chapter 574: Air Passage
In addition to these countries, there are also two members of the current South American allies, Argentina and Colombia, have also gotten what they want, at this time the war in South America has actually subsided, Colombia's Anglo-Russian coalition forces retreated to the north, and the Colombians lost too much to continue the attack, to put it bluntly, they are now waiting, waiting for the outcome of this war, even the Chilean naval fleet is hiding in Kingston and no longer going to sea.
Argentina will naturally have to do this with their Falklands and the small islands in the south, and the Allies will also help them annex Chile by sending troops and aid, and as for Colombia, in addition to the Russian colonizers they hope to expel the Russian colonists, they will also give them Suriname and French Guiana, the two remaining British and French colonies in South America, so that the entire Central Powers can be said to be happy.
This treaty to divide the world was made public in a very high-profile form with great fanfare, and this completely drove the Entente bloc to a dead end, whether it was Britain, Russia, France, or even Italy, it can be said that they were enraged, and we have not lost yet, and you have begun to divide our land, don't you have such arrogance?
Moreover, this treaty also made the British completely lose any illusion in William, because they could not have offered a higher price than Yang Feng anyway.
As for the Allies, morale is skyrocketing, if the victory was just an illusory name before, but now after clarifying what they can get, the victory is as heavy as a ripe ear of grain, not to mention that the German-Austrian capitalists have red eyes, and even small countries such as Greece and Montenegro have begun to desperately squeeze the only little war potential in their country and send the last force to the battlefield.
Of course, the ensuing war must have been the most brutal, and the enraged British, French, Russian, American, and Italian armies launched a large-scale attack at the same time, especially on the outskirts of Berlin, where the heavy artillery erected by the British began to bombard Berlin immediately after the treaty was announced. And it doesn't matter if it's a military target or a civilian target, anyway, as long as the shell hits Berlin, even a 240 shell fell outside Fort Charlotte.
However, the British shells did not intimidate the heroic Berlin people, and under the support of the faith of a great German empire that had never been heard of before, Berlin men, women and children were armed, even the children were grenade, ready to drown the invaders in the sea of all-people war. And the people of the German cities around Berlin also took action, and all kinds of volunteers from all over Germany continued to march to Berlin to defend the capital, singing the German song to meet the enemy. Although this is not the German anthem but the Austro-Hungarian anthem, it is clear that this song has more appeal.
However, the current situation is not only in Germany, the Emperor Joseph is also very difficult, some time ago the Entente in order to rush to block the road to Central Europe before the arrival of the Chinese, so except for the railway line, the former has been realized, so that the more than one million Italians who play soy sauce behind will find a place to use. These guys, who were not enough on the real battlefield, drove into the Austro-Hungarian territory, which could be said to have almost no defenses, and soon all but the southern port of Pula was still under Austro-Hungarian control. Croatia, Bosnia and other places almost all fell into the hands of the Italians, and even two army groups even arrogantly entered Hungary and went directly to Budapest.
Archduke Ferdinand, who had withdrawn from Belgrade, led the remnants of the Austro-Hungarian and Greek forces to block the Hungarian plain. But because of the disparity in numbers, after all, it is still impossible to resist the Italians who are as excited as chicken blood, and the war is currently burning to Budapest, once Italy hits Budapest. Then the main logistical supply lines of the Austro-Hungarian Army, which were resisting the Russian army in the Carpathian mountains, were cut off.
"There are two ways to save Austria-Hungary! There was a problem with a sea route in Albania landing at the port of Pula, which was still controlled by the Austro-Hungarian navy, and then heading north to cut off the logistical supply lines of the Allied armies in the Balkans, forcing the Italians to retreat. If we fight too well, it will be easy to cut this line, and then the Balkan theater will not be able to play.
Another route is to go north from Bulgaria to avoid the Allied defense line in Serbia, and to enter Hungary in Romania westward through GuòTransylvania, to assist them in holding Budapest, no more, only one army is enough, the little attack power of the Italians is a joke to us, and there are the remnants of the Austro-Greek coalition led by Archduke Ferdinand, it is not difficult to hold here, but it is a long way and there are no railways in many places, not even decent roads, It is difficult for us to guarantee that we will arrive before the fall of Budapest. Li Yuncong pointed to the map and said.
Emperor Yang did not want to lead the Austro-Hungarian army on the Carpathian line to collapse because of the fall of Budapest, so that the Russians would enter Hungary, and these gray cattle would pour into Central Europe and the Balkans in millions and millions together, which would cause him very serious trouble in the future, but he did not want to open the blocking line of the American and British forces in the Balkans, and then kill Austria-Hungary and Germany to end the war, so it was very difficult to determine the plan.
"Don't bother! We can just fly over! Yang Feng said with a smile.
"Fly over?" Li Yuncong was directly stunned.
"Yes, our 100 large airships in Dihua flew to Europe, from Dihua to Bulgaria is only 5,000 kilometers, normally it takes only two or three days, you can land in Persia to rest on the way, or even not land, we can also draw another 100, these can be used as the second batch of reinforcements, each airship can carry 500 fully armed soldiers, a hundred airships can carry 5,000 people, from Bulgaria to Budapest is only a little more than three hours of airship flight, a day can send a division over, Three days passed by an army, very simple work. Emperor Yang said.
Is that okay too?
A group of generals are about to burst out of their eyes, and it is impossible for these guys to have the concept of strategic airlift in their minds.
"Of course, the only thing we need to consider is the fighters of the Entente, but at present, the skies of Europe still seem to be in the hands of Germany and Austria, and the first batch of fighters we have sent to the front line in Europe has already arrived, and they are fully capable of escorting airship transports, and as for the supply of materials in the future, it can also be solved by air. At present, with the load capacity of six tons per airship, if we gather 200 airships, we can transport more than 1,000 tons of materials at a time, even if it is impossible to take off every day considering weather factors, these are enough. Yang Feng said that he does not have a large transport plane now, and the number of the latest three-engine transport aircraft is too small to fly to Europe without enough airports, so he can only use airships.
In this way, he could not only show his enthusiasm for rescuing Austria-Hungary, but also not have to worry about other things that needed to be worried, and he could also use airships to airlift some soldiers to Germany when Germany was in real danger.
After receiving the order of His Majesty the Emperor, the airship unit originally in Dihua immediately began to prepare for a voyage to Europe, and the Central Asian battlefield had now come to an end, and the two remaining armies of the Russian Eighteenth Army, under the siege of the Eleventh Army and the Seventh Army of the Chinese Army, which had attacked from the Alashankou, were completely annihilated a week after the fall of Bishkek. The Russian Sixteenth Army, which was heading north from Uzbekistan, immediately went on the defensive after receiving this news, and the Kashgar direction also launched an attack on Andijan by the Chinese Tenth Army, and the three armies gathered in Central Asia, followed by the Ninth Army rushing from Lanzhou to reinforce it, and it was only a matter of time before the whole of Central Asia was captured.
A hundred airships took off with enough fuel and flew in the direction of Persia, and the Russian fighters in Central Asia had all been exhausted, and they could only watch them fly over their heads, although they needed to make some detours because of the high mountains, but after a day and a night of flight, this huge air fleet still relied on the huge landmark of the Caspian Sea to land in Tehran, Persia. Just after they landed, the kingdom of Persia, which had not participated in the war because it had not yet straightened out its domestic opinions, joined the Allied bloc to formally declare war on the Entente and began to prepare for an attack on the Caucasus, although it had been determined that it would be given to the Ottoman Empire, but Hamid II's army was making slow progress there, and if the Persians went to his aid, he could agree to transfer Armenia to Persia.
After a day of refueling and rest in Tehran, the airship fleet took off again, because along the way the Persians and Ottomans used pyrotechnics to set coordinates on the ground to guide, this time in just a dozen hours, just as the Bulgarians watched the descent fall in Sofia.
By this time, the Entente had not yet understood what Emperor Yang was doing with such a bunch of airships, and according to normal usage, these things must have been used for bombing, which could startle the American-British coalition forces in Serbia for a while, but soon when the group of heavily armed Chinese soldiers boarded the airships, these guys immediately understood the true purpose of these things.
Over the next three days, a hundred airships were escorted by Eagle fighters of the European Task Force of the Chinese Army Air Force and German-made Otto fighters of the Austro-Hungarian Air Force, transporting an entire corps of Chinese soldiers to Budapest. By this time the Italians had reached Székesbeth Castle on the northern shore of Lake Balaton, and the forward was less than fifty kilometers from Budapest. (To be continued......)