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Four years on, Europe is still full of gunsmoke, fierce fighting everywhere, the German army is slowly and stubbornly retreating, fighting with machine-gun bunkers and skilled rearguards to delay the Entente** and protect its supply lines.

It was a dying struggle on the Western Front, with the Allied armies striding forward from both directions, France and Belgium, regaining lost ground and pinning down the exhausted war giant like two pincers.

Even the most talented military strategist, General Rudolph, was out of his mind, and he had a premonition that the German army was about to collapse. On 2 September, he sued Hindenburg for an armistice.

Max &226, who was ordered to negotiate peace, assumed the post of German Prime Minister in early October, and on October 4 Germany and Austria submitted a request for an armistice to President Wilson on the basis of the "Fourteen Points".

This was quickly echoed by the Entente, and the two sides began to bargain for an armistice. While the diplomats were scheming in the secret huts, the soldiers on both sides were still fighting in the smoke of gunpowder.

On October 25, 191, the soldiers of the naval base in the port of Kiel, Germany, received such an order to go to fight the British, or glorify

Perhaps lacking the sacrificial spirit of the kamikaze, or perhaps being baptized in the spirit of the Soviets, the always obedient German sailors resisted the order and took to the streets in protest. Like the Russian Soviets, a sailors' uprising broke out in the port of Kiel, and the atmosphere quickly spread throughout the major cities of Germany, and it was uncontrollable.

A thousand miles of embankment was destroyed in an anthill. The sudden outbreak of the Kiel sailors' uprising became the straw that broke the camel's back. Under internal and external troubles, the German government announced its surrender, and they no longer had the capital to negotiate.

On November 11, 191, on a rare sunny day, the German delegation signed the surrender agreement in a train carriage in the Compiègne Forest.

The day before, Kaiser Wilhelm II had fled to the Netherlands for refuge, and the German Empire had fallen apart into the era of the Weimar Republic, which had been humiliated by the Germans.

The French triumphantly stepped out of the carriage and proudly announced to the world that the war was over, that the French had won the victory, that they had washed away the humiliation of the Franco-Prussian War, that they had once again become the hegemon of the European continent, and that they had been crushed by the Germans for decades. It's a pity that they don't know that twenty years later, the same scene will be played here, but the protagonists are the now dejected Germans.

The flames of war slowly extinguished. Soldiers crawled out of the trenches and foxholes along the Swiss to the sea, celebrating victory or defeat in their own way - praying, saluting, or simply begging for cigarettes from their former enemies.

At this point, the long war has finally come to an end, and the catastrophe of human history has finally come to an end. If Archduke Ferdinand saw this scene, I don't know how he would feel, would he regret running to provoke the Serbs? Oh, his Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed before the Germans surrendered

Will the hot-blooded young man of Serbia regret firing that shot? It seems that Serbia has also suffered from the war, and all that remains is a tumultuous ruin, and the Soviets, royalists, bourgeoisie, anarchists, and some ghosts, ghosts, snakes, and gods have begun the next round of the Romance of the N State.

By mid-December 191, the Entente had reached the Rhine and occupied the bridgehead on the other side - the British army was around Cologne, the American army occupied Koblenz, and the French army occupied Mainz. All German submarines had surrendered, been imprisoned, or scuttled. Eleven battleships, 5 battlecruisers, light cruisers, and 49 destroyers of the German High Seas Fleet were helplessly moored under the cannons of the British Grand Fleet in Scapa Bay, which were later scuttled by German sailors. The stubbornness of the Germans was futile; The threat of a further advance on the German mainland was enough to force them to submit.

The High Seas Fleet, painstakingly built over decades, became the fruit of the victors' share, and thousands of artillery pieces and machine guns were handed over to the Entente.

The Anglo-American-French forces were busy taking over enemy assets and suppressing the Soviets, and as victors, they could show off their might in enemy countries. If Bismarck had been alive, he would never have been able to say, "If a British force had entered Germany, it would have been caught."

The Germans lost, fortunately, all the battles were fought abroad, and Germany itself was not like France, and the industrial regions of northern and northeastern France were in ruins because of the war. The hateful French had already figured out how to punish the Germans for destroying their homeland.

Some people were happy and some were worried, although Germany was defeated, they were unwilling.

A German Army hospital. A voice shouted hysterically: "Germany defeated? Those damned traitors, who actually surrendered to the army and didn't lose, blame those damn Soviets, they really should all be pulled and shot"

The young Austrian corporal struggled to get up from his hospital bed and smashed the newspaper to shreds. Only the Iron Cross on his chest, with a faint smell of gunsmoke, could calm him down. Although the gas bomb wounded the brave herald, it still did not destroy his faith.

Well, defeat and shame sowed the seeds of demons in the hearts of every proud German. In response to that sentence, Bao Shame is a man, and his comeback is unknown

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When the news reached the United States, the whole family boiled

The word victory replaced sulfonamide or the Spanish flu as the new favorite of newspapers, and the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Post, the Chicago Forum, and all other newspapers were overwhelmingly reported victory.

The victory of the Americans has won the victory of the president, and officials of various departments have said that the Americans have saved the freedom and democracy of the ancestors of Europe, and the evil and brutal Germans have been defeated and the Americans have become saviors

Cheers, cheers to the fullest, the people's morale that has been suppressed for two years can finally be stretched, and the people who are frightened and worried by the Spanish flu are so excited that they go to the streets to celebrate and kiss. For most people, they celebrate that their loved ones can finally return to the United States and no longer have to worry about it all day.

The capitalists in the United States also laughed, they were happy, because all the loans were settled and would not be wasted. Americans' smiles are bright, real, and meaningful.

Turned over serfs sang that the Americans who owed money are now uncles. Before World War I, the United States owed $4 billion to Europe, and four years later, 19 European countries owed the United States $10 billion, making the United States the world's largest creditor.

The strong dollar gradually replaced the already heavily denominated pound sterling as the currency for world trade settlements, and the world's financial center shifted from London to New York, as the United States already controlled 40 percent of the world's gold reserves.

Wall Street's bankers have won, and they feel like they're going to be the masters of the universe. The big capitalists have been coveting the idea that more and more American goods will enter the markets of countries around the world, especially the colonial markets of the European powers. Now that the Europeans owe Lao Tzu money, do they dare not obediently open the door of the market and let the abundant American capital come to your rescue. The Williams consortium also has plans to invest in Europe, and its portfolio of Robles Securities has become increasingly involved in international sovereign investments.

During the war, the United States completely turned Latin America into its own backyard, and even Canada, which was close at hand, came under increasing control from the United States. This is mainly reflected in the economic aspect, after the United Kingdom has become the world's largest capital exporter, the United States will naturally not let go of Canada, and even New Zealand. The Canadian government and businessmen are increasingly turning to Wall Street to raise funds, and their family's queen, Britain, is already poor

The British suffered huge losses in just four years, millions of casualties, the loss of ships of more than 00000 tons, and 0 merchant ships were sent to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean by German submarines.

The sea trade was dealt a fatal blow, so much so that the foundations that had maintained the hegemony of the British Empire for a hundred years were greatly damaged, and the growing desire for equality and autonomy among the colonies of the empire on which the sun never set undoubtedly increased the cost of maintaining a large colonial system.

During the war, the British sold 10 percent of their overseas assets, although it was possible to compensate for some of the losses by dividing up the overseas colonies of the defeated countries after the war. But for the nearly 10 billion pounds spent on the entire war in four years, or about $50 billion, no amount of colonies can make up for it.

For the British, the war was simply worth the cost. And what made them even more painful was that in order to maintain the balance of power on the European continent after the war, the British could not desperately ask the Germans for a large amount of reparations like the French, so they could only knock out their teeth and swallow them.

Compared to the more twisted and balanced English, the French were badly wounded and suffered more losses. The French army was the main force on the Western Front, with the most casualties, and the war was fought on French soil, which was even worse for France, which was already weaker in industry than Germany, Britain and the United States. Fighting a life-and-death battle with robbers in their own home, even if they were victorious, the French felt very uncomfortable when they looked at the devastated home.

More than 5 million French men were killed and wounded, leaving behind countless widows and orphans, and a generation of young adults was almost wiped out, which was more than just a loss of "fertility" for France, which had a population of only 40 million before the war.

It is not for nothing that Paris has had countless women since the beginning of France. The brutal First World War once again proved that it was not the French who were inherently romantic, but that they had a sense of suffering.

The poor French owe the Americans four or five billion dollars in foreign debt, which can only be paid back by women.

It was a weary victory, a victory worth the loss, and if they could, the two brothers in distress, England and France, would probably prefer not to have it.

More than $300 billion in damage, 20 million people died.

The cruelty of the war is self-evident, and it is a harm to both sides, and Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Italy and other countries have also paid a terrible price.

"Hey, it's finally over. It's a bit early for me," Situ Nan muttered in his heart. The William Consortium made a windfall during the war, and Situ Nan's assets also multiplied several times, for which he did not feel guilty.

As long as human beings are selfish and greedy, there will be strife, and wars will follow. From the sky to the land to the sea, this is a big industrial war, and its victory or defeat has been decided in the assembly line.

Human beings naturally understand the cruelty of war, but they often think more about how to build a larger industry and win the next war.

It took a lot of thought to write this chapter, but it always feels unsatisfactory when I write it back and forth. While writing, I sighed that I hoped for world peace, although sometimes I would go to the battlefield by myself

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