On February 4, 1906, the last European power finally entered the war, and after London had been promised by the Entente that it would be able to divide the Austro-Hungarian territories such as Trentino, Tyrol, Trieste, Istria, and Dalmatia after the war, Italy announced its membership in the Entente bloc and declared war on Germany and Austria at the same time.

This news made the entire Entente bloc cheer, in Britain, France and Russia, especially Belgium, which has died, the Serbs seem to be able to enjoy the joy of victory in a short time, Italy will enter the war, followed by China will definitely enter the war, and then the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Spain, and even the Kingdom of Sweden will definitely join the war, even if the Germans can fight again, in the face of this terrifying war machine that is crushing them like a steamroller, I am afraid that there is no choice but to surrender.

British newspapers had even begun to study how to punish the Germans after the war, with optimistic London residents setting off fireworks on the banks of the Thames to celebrate, mainly to celebrate, of course, that they would no longer have to worry about German airships running over their heads and throwing bombs, and some excited girls even cheered with portraits of Emperor Young and Edward VII in tribute to the great emperor.

However, the changes that followed left them all dumbfounded, and the anti-German voices that had been rampant in Chinese newspapers and radio disappeared all at once after Italy announced its entry into the war.

And disappeared without a trace, as if it had never happened, the cargo ship that had been held in the port continued to sail to Kuwait, the Persian Gulf Fleet, which had already entered the Red Sea, turned around and drove back before reaching the Suez Canal, and the American task force, which had been blocked outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, put on a landing position, drove directly in to play football with the Germans, enjoyed the wildness of the little brunette and drove back to Puerto Rico contentedly, and even a brigade that had arrived at the port of peace declared a holiday.

In fact, Yang Feng didn't want to end it so soon, after all, the first ship of cultural relics from Britain and France had just been delivered at this time, and the second batch had not yet been loaded, and he was still thinking about fooling the Netherlands into the war. But the problem is that if the hype continues, Germany and Austria can't stand it. Especially in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Emperor Joseph's army itself was a chaotic composition, the Imperial Wehrmacht, the Hungarian Army, and the local defense forces, to put it bluntly, were just an alliance, and there were still a large number of people who were worried about Du Li, just like there was a legion of Czech volunteers on the side of the Entente on the battlefield in France.

During this time, because of his hype, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had already begun to panic among the armies at the front. A large number of deserters appeared, and there were even mutinies, if Yang Feng continued to toss, the Austro-Hungarian Army would disperse by itself, so after Italy entered the war, he quickly stopped tossing.

The strange changes in Chinese public opinion made those European politicians instantly understand that they were tricked by Yang Feng, although they didn't understand what the emperor wanted to do, who already made people feel a little nervous. But they also know that the previous ones were just big plays he directed behind the scenes. After understanding this, the Italian Prime Minister or the President of the Council of Ministers Xi Littini was so angry that he didn't know how many vicious words to use to greet Yang Feng's ancestors, he really wanted to go to China and pull Yang Feng's neck and ask: Big brother, what are you playing? Don't bring such a playful person.

It can be said that the only one who has been cheated now is Italy, and judging from Yang Feng's reaction speed. This time, his target from the beginning was Italy, and all the performances were to create a false impression for Italy that China was about to join the Entente bloc to join the war, and then force Italy to join the war as soon as possible.

But His Excellency the Prime Minister has no choice but to curse now. Italy has already declared war on Germany and Austria, and this kind of thing must not be followed by the announcement of withdrawal from the war, and then Italy will become a joke. This was unacceptable to the Italians who were determined to restore the glory of the Roman Empire, so they had no choice but to fight hard, but fortunately, Littini was still more confident in this.

At this time, Italy had a total of 870,000 troops, but because of the economic recession in recent years and the drag of the naval competition, the level of equipment was not very good, especially in terms of heavy artillery, the Italian army's equipment was very small, and its performance was backward, and there was a big gap with the top five on the battlefield at present. The only advantage is the sheer number, after all, Italy has a population of 30 million, which is only slightly smaller than France, and although there has been the shame of Ethiopia, it is generally said that the impression of the Italian army in the Garibaldi era has not completely faded in people's minds.

The strength of the navy is still okay, four Dante-class battleships have been built, and this battleship also uses triple turrets, four triple 305 main guns, and the firepower is very fierce, but compared with their main opponent, the Austro-Hungarian Combined Forces class, except for the slight speed, there is no other advantage.

And at this time, the combined force class of the Austro-Hungarian Navy has increased to six, and more importantly, the main fleet of the Italian Navy is in the military port of Taranto, and they also need to open the Strait of Otranto if they want to come back.

Battleships were extremely precious, and they didn't need to risk these treasures built with all their might, and the Austrians' super-torpedoes were easy to deal with. Britain and France had already set a good example by saying that they had a lot of superiority in the Strait of Otranto, and the Italians did not want to lose their only four battleships. Although theoretically the Austro-Hungarian navy was a threat to Italy in the Adriatic Sea, it was a good threat to solve, and the blockade of its eastern coast with mines and a large number of small torpedo boats was enough to protect major ports such as Venice. As for the naval blockade, there is no need to think about it, Italy is not the only one by the sea, and the battlefleet can hide in the military port of Taranto and go out to cooperate with the British and French fleets to continue to block the Austrian navy in the need to preserve its strength.

Then attack with all your strength on land, break through the Austro-Hungarian army defense line with the strength of the army, and take down the main ports of Trieste, Pula, and Rijeka, and the Austro-Hungarian navy without a port is not at their disposal. With this in mind, the Italian Army sprang into action and launched an attack on Austria-Hungary under the leadership of the commander-in-chief, General Cardona.

At this time, the Austro-Hungarian Army had only one Sixth Army on the Italian-Austrian border, which had just been expanded from the original border garrison, half of which were newly mobilized recruits, but the level of equipment was much stronger than that of the Italians.

But when the battle really began, General Cardona, the commander-in-chief of the Italian army, found that his superiority in strength was of little use, for the simple reason that most of the Italian-Austrian border was blocked by the Alps, and it was tantamount to suicide to storm those narrow and rugged mountain passes and the perfect defense system that the Austrians had built long ago.

The only direction of attack available to them was to the east, along the foot of the Alps to the sea, a narrow passage of only a dozen kilometers, but even this passage was only a few kilometers wide, because the rest of the part was a swamp, and the entrance to these few kilometers wide was blocked by the Isonzo River, and the 100,000 men of the Austro-Hungarian Sixth Army dug trenches and erected barbed wire on the east bank of the Isonzo River.

This is a battlefield that can be said to magnify the terrain advantage of the defending side to the limit, and there is no better place to defend than here, and the Italians have no choice but to take their lives to fill the Isonzo River.

In this way, the bloody and laughable Battle of the Isonzo River kicked off in the artillery sound of the attack of the Italian Second Army, and more than 200,000 troops under the cover of artillery fire took advantage of the dry period of the Isonzo River, one by one, holding Carcano rifles and carrying heavy backpacks, under the glorious light of the ancient Roman Empire, bravely wading through the waist-deep river to the east bank.

Then the machine guns on the east bank rang out, and the fools rushed into the farmland like a dinosaur, and the fragile corn stalks fell in piles, and the flowing blood instantly stained the river red, and a river of blood rushed into the sea in the frightened screams of the fools.

Behind them, the generals, dressed in crisp uniforms and snow-white gloves, on their majestic and firm horses, were holding aloft their silver sabers, and with their majestic and firm voices, urging the soldiers beside them over and over again, one after another, filling the blood-colored river, on which the living and the dead were entangled, like a flock of frogs thrown into a soup pot.

Behind the dense barbed wire on the opposite side, the fire points of the Austro-Hungarian army were constantly spraying flames, and the dense machine gun rifle bullets flew towards the river with the roar of death, just like the scythe of death recklessly harvesting the lives of the stunned people, and the PAO bullets of various calibers in the sky fell one by one like meteors, and countless stumps and broken arms flew into the sky and turned into blood rain in the fire of the explosion.

Especially those super-large caliber mortar PAO produced by Skoda, the mortar PAO with a range of only two kilometers has a caliber of more than 200 millimeters, and the largest even reaches 260 millimeters, and the PAO bomb weighs 100 kilograms, which is fired directly from the trench to the outside, after the explosion of dozens of kilograms of charge, no living person can be found within a range of tens of meters around, and the terrifying power makes the stunned people who have not yet been launched on the west bank dumbfounded.

"Warriors of Italy, do not be afraid, never flinch, with your bravery, with your will, to smash the enemy, to smash the open gate to Vienna!" The commander of the Second Army, General Capello, rode on a white horse and brandished his saber and shouted.

As soon as he finished shouting, he was dumbfounded, and in the face of this hell of corpses and blood, the peace-loving Italian warriors gave up, and countless Italian soldiers were collapsing like a flood that burst the embankment, instantly drowning the officers who were supervising the battle in the rear. (To be continued......)