In the European theater, the Russian army has suffered heavy losses since it was defeated by the German army, and the Russian army had to move to the strategic defense stage before the troops were assembled and the equipment was not yet in place, which was relatively calm on the Eastern Front for nearly half a year. ∑ Top Novel, x.

The German High Command believes that since the Russian army has now switched to strategic defense, the German army will concentrate on defeating Britain and France first, and then turn back to deal with Tsarist Russia after the war on the Western Front is resolved.

The pressure of Tsarist Russia is indeed comparable to that of Germany, the pressure it is under is even greater than the pressure of Germany, its own steel production can not be compared with Germany, and the mechanical manufacturing capacity is too far from Germany, although Germany is also fighting on two fronts, but Germany has no problems for the time being because of its strong production capacity, but Tsarist Russia is not good, its production capacity is far less than Germany, but it also has to fight on two fronts at the same time, so after being defeated by the German army, it had to turn into a defensive state.

The Germans fought a gas war with the British and French forces on the Western Front for several months, and both sides found that the other side now had a sufficient understanding of the poison gas and was fully prepared in terms of soldier protection, and it was difficult to realize the tactical intention of using poison gas bombs to break through the enemy, so the gas bombs began to gradually lose the market in the two camps.

In May, the German army launched a large-scale offensive against the British and French forces again on the Western Front, and the two sides fought fiercely for more than half a month, and the British and French forces could not be compared with the German army in terms of soldiers' combat effectiveness, fighting will and strength, so after half a month of fighting, the British and French forces were forced to retreat to the southwest defense line again.

Look at the situation. The Anglo-French forces in the southwestern part of France would soon be forced to retreat to the seashore, and the Germans would rush in. I'm afraid the Anglo-French forces will have to be forced to drown in the sea.

At the same time, the German Sixth and Seventh Armies on the left flank of the Western Front routed the French Eighth Army and the remnants of the First Army in Lyon. After the capture of Lyon, the remnants of the French army retreated massively to the south, because by this time the south of France was largely undefended.

The retreat of the French army was so diligent and swift, and the German attack was so rapid, that this was a sign that the French were about to perish, which was the opinion of many people of insight in the world, because at this point, the French army had lost three-tenths of its strength, and more than half of its land had been lost. Where is there still strength against the Germans, unless the British can contribute more troops, France is doomed.

After all, on the Western Front, the German army had achieved absolute superiority, and the British and French high-level officials decided to keep the remaining living forces and wait for the future counterattack after urgent discussions, and the two countries sent a large number of ships to transport all the remaining Anglo-French troops in southwest France to Britain with more than 400,000 people, leaving the French ** team in southern France to continue fighting. If it really doesn't work, retreat to North Africa via Spain.

The calculations of the British and French forces were very loud, but unfortunately the German side soon learned of these news, and the German army also strengthened the attack on the British and French forces in the southwest, and the British and French forces had no choice but to withdraw while fighting. In the process of fighting and withdrawing here, the losses of troops were quite severe, and the Germans also sent submarines to cruise through the English Channel in the waters southwest of France.

By June. After losing more than 100,000 troops, the Anglo-French army in the southwestern part of France finally boarded the ship bound for Britain, and at this time, the original Anglo-French army of more than 400,000 men was left with less than 300,000. On the way to England, the ships were also frantically pursued by German submarines. After losing more than a dozen troop carriers, the British and French naval ships drove out the German submarines, and the Germans lost many submarines as a result, and southwestern France also fell into German hands.

There were still about 200,000 French troops left in the south of France, and these people were pressed by the Sixth Army and the Seventh Army on the left flank of the German Western Front, and they advanced south step by step and had to continue to retreat south, and the French government that had originally moved to Toulouse had to transfer its position again, and this time the French government authorities had to leave France by boat and go to Britain to form a government-in-exile to continue to command the army to fight against Germany.

At the end of June, the French army in southern France fought another major battle with the Germans under the command of Chauffeur, but suffered heavy losses, as Italy sent another army group into French territory, the forces of the Central Powers were strengthened, and in this battle, the German and Italian losses were lighter. By this time, the French army had lost its logistical supplies, not only with fewer and fewer troops, but also without ammunition supplies.

Taking advantage of the opportunity for the Germans to adjust their offensive steps, Chauffeur sent people to consult with the Spanish authorities, hoping that the Spanish authorities would allow the French army to retreat into Spanish territory and go to North Africa.

The Spanish authorities were not fools, knowing that if the French army was allowed to enter the territory, it would inevitably attract an excuse for the German army to attack on a large scale, and if the French army was not allowed to enter, the German army would have no excuse to attack Spain, after all, now Spain had declared neutrality, unless the German army had long been determined to annex Spain, and the Spanish authorities did not dare to take this risk, so they sternly refused the people sent by Xia Fei.

In desperation, Xia Fei could only turn to the navy, the French navy is responsible for the security of the Mediterranean, and after receiving Xia Fei's request for help, he united some British freighters to transport Xia Fei's men and horses to Morocco, so far, the German army fully occupied France, and France was destroyed.

When they learned the news, the French people all over the world couldn't help but cry bitterly, the once powerful French Empire was beaten to the ground, which is a shame that has never been there. The French authorities in the other colonies also clamped their tails after the fall of France, and did not dare to brutally exploit the local inhabitants of the colonies again, lest these people rise up and rebel, and if so, they would probably lose their last foothold.

Some countries that had previously thought of joining the Entente never dared to mention the idea of joining the Entente after seeing France defeated by Germany, and many countries now began to think about joining the Allied Powers, so that they could also reap some benefits after the end of the war.

After the entire territory of France was occupied by German troops. The German war on the Western Front also came to an end for the time being, and Kaiser Wilhelm II was still hoping that the British authorities would sue for peace. I hoped to sit down and negotiate with the British, but the British did not kneel and beg for mercy. Instead, they are still mobilizing troops from Canada, Australia and other places to fight, and the Canadian and Australian troops that have already rushed to Britain and have not had time to be transported to the French battlefield have reached 500,000, plus the 300,000 people being recruited by the British mainland and the 300,000 people who have retreated from the French battlefield, the British Isles still have 1.1 million troops, and there are close to 400,000 British and French troops in North Africa, a full 1.5 million people, Britain and France still have enough capital to counterattack, how can Britain choose to give in now? Wilhelm II's calculations were wrong.

The land war on the Western Front was over for the time being, and Germany wanted to get rid of Britain. The army alone would not work, so Germany handed over the written war to the German Navy's High Seas Fleet. On the army side, the end of the war on the Western Front allowed the Germans to reinforce Austria-Hungary against Serbia on the Western Front, and at the same time, in order to give full play to the role of the younger brother, the Germans sent Italy to the Balkans to deal with Serbia together with Austria-Hungary, and at the same time sent people to lobby Bulgaria and the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

Tempted by Germany, the Ottoman Empire recently announced that it had joined the Central Powers. And sent troops to the west to attack Serbia, and at the same time declared a "holy war", and sent an army group to the north to attack the Caucasus region of Tsarist Russia. The shape of the Confederate State is very good, and the momentum is like the sky.

What is surprising is that the Ottomant Turkish Empire suffered a crushing defeat in its attack on the Caucasus region of Tsarist Russia, and the Russian army was not able to fight at the beginning. Retreating some distance back, the Russians organized a counteroffensive shortly thereafter. The Ninth Army of the Turkish Army was encircled and annihilated, losing more than 70,000 people. As a result, the Turkish army had to switch to a defensive posture.

However, the Allied attack on Serbia was an absolute victory, and before that, Bulgaria also accepted the conditions offered by the Allied Powers and signed military treaties with Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Italy, and the five powers attacked Serbia together. Serbia only resisted the attack of more than 600,000 troops of Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Turkey and Italy with only 200,000 poorly equipped troops, and in less than a month, the Serbian army was routed, part of it moved to the Adriatic coast, and then transferred to Greece, and the entire territory of Serbia was occupied by the Bulgarian army and the German and Austrian army.

After that, the Central Powers began to actively prepare for the war on the Eastern Front, and Germany was in the middle of the liaison, so that the Central Powers could jointly send troops to attack Tsarist Russia, taking advantage of the fact that it was summer, and the weather in the north was neither hot nor cold, and this was the best time to launch an attack on Tsarist Russia.

In early July, the German army gathered 60 divisions on the Eastern Front, Austria-Hungary sent 35 divisions, Italy sent 39 divisions, and Bulgaria sent 8 divisions, a total of 142 divisions, nearly 2 million troops, which can be called terrifying.

In the middle of the year, the two million Allied troops launched a full-scale attack on the Russian army from the Baltic Sea to the Carpathians, with the aim of encircling the main forces of the Russian army in the "Polish pocket" and destroying them. And the Tsarist side also knew that this battle may really be desperate, if you don't work hard, you may really lose your life, so the Tsarist side once again mobilized 11 group armies, a total of 2.6 million people determined to fight with the Allies, after the battle officially began, the Russian army was beaten back because of poor organization, poor combat quality of soldiers, and poor equipment.

Tsar Nicholas II saw that he couldn't do it, for the sake of his own life, he hurriedly asked Britain and France for help, saying that if Britain and France did not make a move at this time, when the Allies killed Tsarist Russia, they would definitely turn back to deal with Britain and France, which would give the Allies a chance to break through.

The British and French authorities also knew this truth, so the two countries urgently consulted and decided to send troops from the south to contain the Allies, first of all, the French naval fleet in the Mediterranean Sea with the Italian Navy engaged in a large-scale naval battle, which lasted more than a month, with the Italian Navy being annihilated most of the part, a small part of the flight to Turkey, and the French Navy also suffered heavy casualties, but fortunately, the naval forces of the Allies in most of the Mediterranean Sea were resolved.

Then the Entente began to organize troops in North Africa, Britain, France, Belgium, North African colonies, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro, the Republic of San Mari and other Entente countries organized 600,000 troops to be transported to Italy by a large number of freighters, escorted by the French naval fleet, landed on the southern coast of Italy and then launched a large-scale attack on Italy. Soon the defeat was lost, in less than two months, Italy fell on all fronts, the Entente army directly attacked the south of Austria-Hungary, after the attack, Austria-Hungary could not draw much troops to resist, can only draw troops from the Eastern Front battlefield to the south, so that the Allied military operations on the Eastern Front against Tsarist Russia appeared a gap, Tsarist Russia immediately seized this opportunity to counterattack, the two sides in the Carpathian mountain range pass repeated battles, both suffered heavy casualties, the highest casualties in a day reached 70,000.

Huaguo, Jingshi.

The situation of the war in Europe was quickly transmitted to China through the radio waves, and the top level of China learned the details of the war in Europe in the past two months in the shortest possible time.

"At present, the battlefield on the Eastern Front in Europe has fallen into a state of anxiety, and there are frequent battles, but no one can help anyone for the time being, and on average, more than tens of thousands of people die every day."

"In the south of Europe, the whole territory of Italy has been occupied by the Entente ** team, and the Italian government authorities have also fallen into the hands of the Entente, under the pressure of the Entente, the Italian government announced that it has joined the Entente, and there are 39 Italian infantry divisions on the Eastern Front, these 39 Italian divisions suddenly defected to catch the Central Powers off guard, the Austro-Hungarian army and the Bulgarian army were unprepared and were defeated and lost. Although the Germans had stabilized their position, the advantage of the Allied forces over Tsarist Russia on the Eastern Front was gone! The Italian army that defected lost more than half of it under the siege of the German army, and the rest had fled back to Italy, the Western Front was temporarily calm, and the German army left some troops in France, and Britain and France did not seem to have any intention of landing in France for the time being, and this is the situation of the war in Europe in recent times! Cai Ye gave a detailed introduction to Xiao Zhenlei and other members of the staff group and sat down. (To be continued......)

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