Chapter 564: All or Nothing

"Look, that's human nature." Emperor Yang said somewhat embarrassedly, of course, this qiē is directed by him behind the scenes, so there is no need to say it.

"Your Majesty, shall we pour some more into the Indus River?" Attendant Yuan said with a smile.

India mainly has these two major river systems, the Ganges River, the Brahmaputra River system, and later the Indus River, which is mainly in Pakistan, because of the distance, there is no epidemic there yet.

"Down, of course, not only in the Indus, but also in the other major rivers in the southern part of the Indian Peninsula, anyway, now the cholera epidemic in the Ganges River basin is very serious, and it is normal for it to spread to these places. In addition, we also need to do more in terms of rescue, where there is a majority of Hindus, we give medicine to Muslims, but in places where there is a majority of Muslims, we can give medicine to Hindus, so that they will have enough courage to do it, and even among the Hindus, we can see that they have feuds between those princely states, and we can give medicine to the weaker princely states, understand? Yang Feng said very insidiously.

"A few buckets of potions, a few boxes of medicines, just let a country with a population of tens of thousands be completely finished, it's unbelievable, even the gods are nothing more than that." Attendant Yuan said with emotion.

"Technology has developed to the extreme, and man is God!" Emperor Yang said lightly.

It's just that he is a demon god, with barrels of cholera bacteria falling down in various rivers in India and those Chinese businessmen under the banner of charity delivering boxes of life-saving drugs to their respective targets, in order to fight for the chance to live, the bloody melee throughout India has intensified, racial contradictions, land contradictions, historical contradictions... Wait a qiē contradiction quickly turns into hatred, into killing, and those who hide behind the real culprits are smiling and enjoying honor and praise.

However, the plague in India did not attract much attention in Europe. It's too far away from them, and besides, the number of untouchables who deserve to be slaves in a colony like this is just a number.

At this time, Europe has almost reached the moment of decisive battle, how can it care about other places, with a steady stream of American troops into the European battlefield, the Entente bloc can be said to be in a good shape at present, of course, this is without considering the evil dragon in the east.

The American and British forces had reached Hanover and were engaged in brutal street fighting with the Germans in this ancient city, but there was no suspense about victory, 200,000 American troops and 150,000 British troops ravaged less than 50,000 German troops, and victory was only a matter of time. These 50,000 German troops were already the limit of Wilhelm's ability. The total amount he used for the defense of the homeland was two and a half armies, of course, this was only in terms of establishment, in fact, the total was only 300,000. Half of the dead and wounded in the battle some time ago, as for the replenishment, they are all old men and half-grown children who even he can't bear to send to the battlefield, and now he has less than 150,000 in his hands who can really fight, but he needs to defend a series of cities including Kiel, Hanover, and Shmalin, and it is rare to be able to do this.

As for other fronts. None of his troops could be withdrawn at all, and both France and the Eastern Front were equally tense, and at this time all sides of the Entente understood. It would be difficult to win the war without ending the war before Chinese reinforcements arrived in Europe in large numbers, and in addition to the fact that Russia needed to divide its forces to defend against the Ottoman Empire, which was unable to launch an offensive, the French and Italian battlefields, which had been reinforced by a large number of North American troops, launched large-scale attacks at the same time. Because of the lack of troops, the Allies held very both fronts.

Especially in the Italian theater, where there was only one German army and one Austro-Hungarian army. The two Greek armies, one Montenegrin Army, with a total strength of only 700,000 troops, had to face the attack of 500,000 American troops and 1.5 million Italian troops, and more importantly, the Greeks, who accounted for more than half of the total troops, basically had no intention of fighting because of the continuous bombardment of Greece by the British Navy.

After all, the biggest enemy of Greece should be the Ottoman Empire, which is understood by all Greeks, and from the Ottoman navy's view of Greece's situation, it can also be seen that His Majesty the Emperor also thinks so.

Fortunately, at this time, a news that made all sides of the Central Powers cheer finally came, Chinese reinforcements landed, of course, not on European land, they could not be so fast, the first batch of 100,000 Chinese army soldiers ended their long sea journey of more than 10,000 kilometers in Kuwait and the Ottoman port of Basra, which is directly under the Chinese royal family. It can already be said that this exhausted army will board the train to Europe after half a month's rest, which is a must, such a long sea transport is simply torture for those soldiers from the inland areas, many of them will not be able to walk after disembarking, such a situation will definitely not be able to take another half a month on the train.

In other words, the Germans had to wait, but the problem was that their enemies could not make them wait, and the news of the arrival of the Chinese European Corps in Kuwait was tantamount to a whip on the ass of the Entente parties, telling them that time was really running out, and under this stimulus, the Entente were also preparing for the last fight.

"Your Majesty, the information from Europe that the Entente is sending more troops to Italy, and that an American army group that has just arrived and is preparing to join the French battlefield has been transported to Italy by rail." In the newly built Pentagon in Beijing, Li Yuncong, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pointed to the huge map in front of him and said to His Majesty the Emperor.

"Italy? What do they want to do in Italy? Yang Feng was a little surprised.

"If the minister is not mistaken, the Entente wanted to concentrate their forces on breaking through the Po line and then continue eastward until they reached the Balkans." Li Yuncong said with a smile.

"Blocking our way into Europe." Yang Feng immediately understood that in addition to Germany on the current European battlefield, the easiest breakthrough for the Entente was undoubtedly the Italian battlefield, where they had almost three times the advantage of troops, although the Italian army's tragic combat effectiveness weakened this advantage, but the Allies also had the Greeks dragging them down, and the two sides could be said to be half-hearted.

Once the breakthrough had been made in Italy and the capture of Gorizia into Austria-Hungary, and then the advance from Slovenia to Serbia, it would be possible to organize a solid line of defense against the Chinese and Ottomans from the Balkans to the north. On the other hand, it will continue to rely on naval superiority in the Mediterranean to block the exit of the Suez Canal, so that China can be completely blocked from the core of the European theater, or at least before Germany is settled. When Germany is settled, then the remaining qiē will be easy to do, and tens of millions of troops will be able to counterattack if they can counterattack, and if they can't counterattack, they will force China to negotiate and end the war through the division of interests, so that Britain, France and Russia can protect their interests to the greatest extent.

This is completely feasible strategically, as long as the Chinese navy cannot enter the Mediterranean, then there is no need to worry about landing in France or Italy to copy the back route of the Entente, blocking the Suez Canal can do this, as for the detour of the Cape of Good Hope or sending troops from the Americas, it is like a joke, it will have to change the shipping capacity.

As long as the Chinese did not enter the Mediterranean and simply entered Europe by land through the Ottoman Empire, then they had to go through the Balkans or the Russian Caucasus, but no matter where they were, the mountains were easy to defend and difficult to attack, which was very beneficial to the Entente.

This was arguably the only way the Allies could think of at the moment, and they could no longer find any way to contend with the huge China.

"Yes, yes, these guys are still very smart, I didn't expect them to think of it, it's easy to do, so that our biggest headache now is solved." After straightening out the whole train of thought of the Entente, Emperor Yang said with great satisfaction.

"Your Majesty, their idea is good, but the hope of success is at most fifty percent, it can be said that it is a desperate gamble, if they can't achieve their goal, the minister is worried that they will immediately negotiate a truce with Germany and Austria, at that time Germany will definitely not refuse, after all, now Germany is also very dangerous." Li Yuncong said.

"This question can only depend on God's will, but I think God will definitely help us." Emperor Yang said with a babbled expression.

Li Yuncong and a group of generals looked at the emperor in amazement, of course they would not know how Emperor Yang was going to solve this problem, in fact, it was very simple, his old man personally went out with the plane transformed by the shuttle, and when the time came, he could just throw hundreds of tons of bombs on the alliance defense line, he had not done this kind of work before, and at that time he was afraid of accidentally running into someone else's plane, and he didn't even need to consider this kind of problem in this era.

He and his generals were indeed right in their inferences, the Entente side was ready to make a final gamble, if the problem was successfully solved, if it did not succeed, it would be quickly stopped, and peace talks would be launched while there was still a certain strength, and as many interests could be preserved at that time, and the war would definitely not be allowed to continue without any hope of victory, which was already a consensus between Britain and France and the Russians, even if it paid all the colonies that have now been occupied by China, they could only admit it. In this world, 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi, it should be a 20-year truce, and it is enough to accumulate strength and regain it. (To be continued......)