Since the outbreak of the Ottoman War in 1914, the world situation has become unimaginable. Whenever people feel that the big picture is settled, there is always an unexpected change waiting for people to be stunned.

For example, the participation of the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, Tokyo Japan and Southwest Japan in the war, such as the attack launched by the poor party Russia on Western Ukraine, the changes again and again are like a divine turn again and again, which makes people grin and at the same time have to sigh at the superb skills of the bigwigs behind the scenes!

Just as the British instructed Italy, Austria-Hungary, and France, the Chinese would not be relentless in dispatching Persia, Afghanistan, Japan, and the Southern Heavenly Kingdom, and the Germans would crush Russia in Northern Europe, and Beijing played the 'Moscow' card and slapped their hardcore ally, Austria-Hungary.

The powerful offensive power of the poor Russian army instantly destroyed the Austro-Hungarian army stationed in Galicia. Then half a month to seize the whole of Galicia. The Austro-Hungarian garrison here totaled less than 30,000 people, including nearly 10,000 Cossack cavalry, and many of the troops surrendered themselves like the poor Russian army on the opposite side, only asking for a safe break from the army.

The poor Russian army also knows that it is too much to ask these people to turn their heads and join their own troops. Many of these people, even the inhabitants of the whole of Western Ukraine [not really divided between things and things, but only the western border region of Ukraine, about 20% of the whole of Ukraine], will flee to Poland, [Eastern] Ukraine and Belarus, and even south to Czechoslovakia-Austria-Hungary. Because this territory of Western Ukraine is a blind spot in their work. Kiev is now shouting for the peaceful reunification of Ukraine again and again, and people-to-people exchanges between eastern and western Ukraine are quite hot, although this demand was sternly rejected by Austria-Hungary. But in the eyes of Moscow. Western Ukraine has already been delineated by Kyiv's recognition and support from China. Therefore, the poor party organizations only do transportation and foothold there. And never take the initiative to expand the influence of the organization.

Now they are, of course, not supported by the local population in Western Ukraine. The whole of Western Ukraine has a population of five million, and Ukrainians make up 60%. Poles make up 25%, Jews 12%, and the rest include Germans, Hungarians, Romanians, Czechs, Slovaks, Armenians, etc. Poles and Jews mostly live in cities and towns, while Ukrainians live in the countryside. So don't look at this is Western Ukraine, Ukrainians are still the most populous, but they don't have a strong voice. The economy is completely dominated by the Jews! Lviv, the largest city in the country, is predominantly Polish, and after Poland gained independence, it was regarded as one of the most important cities in Poland, but the Poles did not dare to formally talk about Austria-Hungary, a traditional power with a long history.

Now the poor Russian army is already storming the Carpathian Pass. Austria-Hungary urgently mobilized its troops north, but whether it was too late is anyone's guess.

The sudden emergence of the poor party Russia shocked the whole world, especially with the offensive of the poor party Russia against Galicia, the Polish poor party under the leadership of Luxembourg and others, in the Carpathian region and the western province of Lesser Poland, have held an armed uprising in cooperation with the poor party Russian army, and now has established an armed force of tens of thousands of people and an independent government.

-- Historically, Russia and Austria have divided Poland three times, and the third phase led to the destruction of Poland. Austria-Hungary occupied all of Lesser Poland, including Krakow, Lublin, and part of the Masovia province. To this day, not an inch of land has been returned to the Polish government.

In the process of the three partitions of Poland, the territory seized by Russia accounted for about 62% of the original Polish territory, with a total of more than 460,000 square kilometers [including Lithuania and Belarus. The area is not limited to the territory of the 21st World Great Wave]; Prussia captured about 20 per cent, or about 141,100 square kilometers, and Austria took about 18 per cent, or about 121,800 square kilometers, including western Ukraine.

Moscow has done a smart job on this. They had anticipated that sooner or later they would clash with Germany, in order to win the support of Poland as much as possible. It was also to show the mentality of China behind them - I had no intention of taking advantage of the opportunity to grow, and the Moscow government generously handed over the Lesser Poland region to Luxembourg.

When Liu Xian got the news. He could already anticipate how much prestige and benefit Moscow's actions would win him in the Poor Party International.

The Germans immediately slowed down their offensive against Belarus, and even in order to contain the poor Russia, some German troops adjusted the direction of the offensive and turned the spearhead of the war on the area around the originally strategically meaningless Belarusian corridor.

Palais Elselle, Paris.

Aristide, the current Prime Minister of the French Cabinet. Briand with French President Raymond. Poincaré received British Prime Minister Asquith, who had just arrived in Paris today.

As soon as the three met, Briand and Poincaré expressed their condolences to Asquith, whose eldest son, Raymond, a colonel officer of the British Royal Airship Force, had been killed in an unexpected aerial encounter over the beautiful Aegean Sea as a volunteer in the Ottoman War.

Asquith seemed to have aged ten years overnight.

Raymond was his eldest son and was the first man he married to his wife, Helen. Merlant gave birth to her first child.

Helen. Merant, the daughter of a physician, met Asquith at the end of the day, and together they went through the hardest stage of their lives, when Asquith was forty years old, while they were on vacation on the Isle of Arran, his wife died suddenly, leaving him alone and his five young children, which was a bolt from the blue.

Asquith married his current wife three years later, but that doesn't negate his relationship with Helen. Merant's feelings. He had high hopes for Raymond, and Raymond's performance never disappointed him. As a result, the turquoise Aegean Sea has since become synonymous with sadness in Asquith's heart.

"The situation is getting out of control, the Chinese have provoked the poor party Russia, I believe that the Chinese have no new cards to play, but we also have no cards in our hands." With the exception of the British Empire and the French Army, we have no power to change the situation. "But the armies of the British Empire and France are the two trump cards of Europe in the face of China. With China still 'out of the way', how could the British Empire and the French Army wade into troubled waters?

Asquith was stupid and would not let the British Empire intervene in the war easily. Even if his beloved eldest son died in the Aegean Sea.

"I believe in the power of the Germans. They can teach the Russians a hard lesson. But the Austro-Hungarian Empire was already greatly affected. The airship units of the poor party Russia were repeatedly bombarding the Colpathian Pass. Joseph I demanded the immediate use of the aircraft. Otherwise, the Korpathian Pass would have been lost, and the army of the Russian Poor Party would have plunged directly into Slovakia. ”

Asquith came to France this time to discuss with the French whether to make the plane public. This thing is their killer weapon against the Chinese, otherwise if the Chinese take out the plane, and the Europeans are still using airships, it will be a big joke.

It has been nine years since the whole of Europe first recognized the existence of airplanes in 1905 and actually got pictures of airplanes flying in the air the following year. European military strategists and politicians, including Asquith all, have to admire the Chinese's clever brains in developing new weapons. Contrast a slow-moving airship. The plane, which can easily exceed 100 kilometers per hour, is so fast that it makes them happy!

Although the Europeans' planes were traveling at speeds of more than 100 kilometers per hour in the second year, it was much slower and more difficult to ascend again. But it's still much better than an airship. The design regulator was also invented by the Europeans in the fourth year, and after that, airships were no longer safe in front of airplanes, they were just big turkeys floating in the air.

Because of the projective performance of the airship, the bomber quickly became the focus of the research of the six powers in Europe and the United States after the six powers of Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Italy and the United States broke up, and the results proved that the existence of the airship has been very necessary for a long time. A thin plane simply can't carry a few tons at a time like an airship. Or even a ten-ton bomb. Bombers will leave airships far behind in the future, but at the moment, the necessity of airships is always absolute.

The Russians' offensive on the Carpathian Pass also proved the military necessity of airships as scheduled.

But just as Liu Sheng is afraid of Europeans, Europeans are even more afraid of China. After all, China came up with the airplane first. After 1904, more and more experiments and larger team sizes in China's aircraft industry gave Europeans an opportunity to exploit loopholes. And what about the performance of Chinese aircraft? Is it comparable to Europe? Will it surpass Europe?

So. Whoever throws the airplane first. Who suffers. You can't be sure at all if the plane that your opponent throws on your heels is their latest and greatest model.

If it's possible. Joseph would never have been willing to throw the plane out, but the Carpathian Pass was in danger, and "Austria-Hungary could not bear the pain and shame of being stabbed in the chest." ”

- Privately, of course, both Britain and France firmly believed that Austria-Hungary feared that they would never be able to recover the Carpathian Pass if it was lost.

The Carpathian Mountains are the eastern extension of the Alps, located in the middle of Europe, with a total length of 1,450 kilometers, from the Danube Valley near Bratislava, Slovakia, through the border of Poland and Ukraine to the iron gate on the Danube River in southwest Romania.

In the early years of Tsarist Russia, this mountain range was the natural dividing line between Austria and the Russian sphere of influence.

Austria-Hungary already had at least half a million troops caught in the war against the Ottomans, but just as the Germans suffered a strong defensive line in Belarus, the Ottomans built many defensive lines and fortresses in their own territory. After pulling out the nails, Austria-Hungary had to stop and bring in the 'slim Emma' from the country, the Skoda 305-mm M.11 super heavy gun. The caliber of this cannon reached 305 mm, with two types of shells, 287 kg (630 pounds - light shell) and 384 kg (850 pounds - heavy), respectively, capable of traditional 2 meters of concrete fortifications, with an effective range of 9,600 meters and a maximum range of 11,300 meters.

To use such a huge cannon to fight the Ottoman line, of course, can pull out the nails, just like the fortress of Liège in the original time and space war. However, ultra-long-range artillery was not unique to Austria-Hungary, and in the battle of Liège Fortress in the original time and space, Germany and Austria took advantage of it. Although the Belgians' twelve batteries were armed with 210mm cannons, their range was definitely no match for the "De-Plump Besha" and "Au-Slender Emma" cannons. At the same time, the Belgians did not have air superiority, they could only endure the beatings. The Ottoman Empire had China behind it, and the firing range of the large-caliber train gun was definitely not closer than that of the Austro-Hungarian Skoda 305 mm M.11 super heavy gun, and the train gun was designed to be located in a safe tunnel, and after several battles, the Austro-Hungarian Skoda 305 mm M.11 super heavy gun suffered serious losses. Most of the Ottoman defenses were saved!

No one wants to risk their lives to collide with the fortress, it's a complete 'egg against a stone', and nothing is gained but a lot of casualties.

Archduke Ferdinand, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, initially organized elite mechanized troops to attack, and suffered heavy losses in tanks and armor under the fire of the Ottoman army. The artillery fire of the Austro-Hungarian army was also dense, although their shells hit the top of the fort only emitted a plume of smoke, and the people inside were unscathed, but the black smoke also completely enveloped the fort. Subsequently, the massive Austro-Hungarian infantry launched a charge. As a result, although the observers of the Ottoman batteries could not see the enemy's location clearly, they had a wireless telegraphy, and the fortress command quickly sent a shot of Zhuyuan, and the artillery of the Ottoman army again stretched out in all directions and opened fire, killing and wounding the attacking elite Austrian troops.

Ferdinand, red-eyed, ordered the Austro-Hungarian army to attack continuously, regardless of casualties. As a result, when the brave Austrian elite advanced one after another, some of them rushed into the dead corner of the battery, and the artillery could not hit them. At this time, countless light and heavy machine guns suddenly stretched out from the bunker and shooting hole under the fort, and tongues of fire sprayed towards the rushing Austro-Hungarian infantry. Immediately, the people fell one by one, and in addition to paying a large number of casualties, there was no guarantee of even a few people in the battle.

Ferdinand also thought of taking advantage of the rainy night to carry out a sneak attack, organized an elite Austro-Hungarian infantry division, and quietly approached the opposite side under the cover of wind and rain. As a result, a series of snowy searchlight beams were shot from the various Ottoman batteries that night, illuminating the dark wilderness as if it were day, and all the moving Austro-Hungarian soldiers were exposed in the wilderness. The cannons on the fort roared, and a deface-splitting bombardment blew them up. Light and heavy machine guns also opened fire, fiercely pursuing the fleeing Austro-Hungarian infantry. The Ottoman army stationed at the fortress also took advantage of the chaos of the Austro-Hungarian army and took the initiative to launch a counterattack. The elite of the Austrian army of one division was beaten on all sides, suffered heavy casualties, and hastily withdrew from the battle after losing half of its troops.

On the Ottoman battlefield, although the Balkan Alliance and the combined forces of Austria-Hungary and Italy had the upper hand, the Ottomans could only defend passively, but this advantage was far from being translated into victory. Joseph proposed to take out the plane, and in addition to the Carpathian emergency, it must also be used on a large scale on the Ottoman battlefield. (To be continued.) )