Ankara fell.

The Russians smashed the city with heavy artillery in two days, and in two days 39 280 heavy guns fired 8,000 rounds of shells weighing more than 200 kilograms, exhausting all the shells they captured from Baghdad, and even the life of the barrels was almost exhausted, and the entire city was almost razed, and the Ottoman army, who was still preparing to fight street battles, suffered heavy casualties, and could only retreat in the face of the tide of Russian troops. At this moment, China's transportation line for reinforcements to Europe was completely cut off, not to mention the Baghdad railway, and even the Hejaz railway lost its role, because this railway only leads to Damascus, and to the north it still has to go through Ankara, as for sea transportation, needless to say, the sea control in the Mediterranean is in the hands of the Entente.

The Chinese European Army, which was still on the offensive in the Balkans, had to start to go on the defensive, and the Sino-Austrian coalition forces, which were also forcing the Italians to retreat step by step, had no choice but to stop in the mountains of Croatia, and the strategic goal of cutting off the logistics line of the US-British coalition forces in Serbia was shattered, and more importantly, the Sino-German coalition forces that were struggling to hold out in Berlin were also severely affected.

"Your Highness, we must retreat." Inside a ruined fortress east of Berlin, looking at the city that had fallen into ruins outside, Major General Ludendorff said gloomily to Crown Prince Wilhelm beside him. The Battle of Berlin, which lasted for more than half a year, was coming to an end, and despite the cost of more than half a million soldiers and civilians killed and wounded, they still failed to keep their capital. Of course, the attackers even outnumbered them in casualties, thanks in large part to the reinforcements of the Chinese, and in order to defend the German capital, the Chinese army suffered more than 40,000 casualties, and the remaining 60,000 Chinese soldiers are still fighting stubbornly against the American and British forces in the ruins.

"Sometimes I wonder if we are all wrong, that this war should have ended a long time ago, before China entered the war, or even after the battle of Paris. However, our desire always drives us to keep wanting more, and then we can only put in more soldiers, pay more blood, yes, we will win in the end, we will also get more land, but what do we give? A fifth of the population of the entire country was killed or wounded, and our capital turned into ruins, Hamburg, Bremen. Hannover's cities are in ruins, and the wealth that the country has accumulated for generations is gone.

What do we get? Land, but what is beyond the land? Hatred, hatred for generations, in the past Europe, even if there was a war, it would not be like it is now, and we would be like gentlemen, we could fight on the battlefield. But it will not harm civilians, the bao guild will be condemned, we cherish our reputation, we abide by morality. We all tacitly care for the order of the Western world, the order of civilization, we can slaughter a country in the colonies, but in a war in Europe we slaughter a village will cause an uproar.

And now. However, we have come to regard the slaughter, destruction, rape, and so on as normal. The Europe of the past is no longer there, the civilized Europe is no longer there, the order, morality, and honor of the past are no longer there, and even if we get an empire, it will be an empire that burns with hatred everywhere, and this fire will eventually one day burn brightly. Crown Prince William said with a chattering face.

"Your Highness, but no matter what, we have come to this day, so we can only continue to fight until victory." Ludendorff said respectfully.

"Victory? Not our victory, there is only one winner in this war, it is them! Crown Prince William said with a sneer as he looked at a group of Chinese soldiers who were retreating along the street towards his side.

At this moment, a strange whistling sound suddenly came from the sky.

"Your Highness, be careful!" Ludendorff hurriedly pushed him, but then countless explosions engulfed the ruined fortress.

"Your Majesty, Berlin has fallen! And the German Crown Prince Wilhelm died in battle. An hour later, Chief Yuan couldn't tell whether he was happy or sorry to report an astonishing news to Emperor Yang.

"Huh?! He is a true hero, a hero as great as his father, we must always remember his name, engrave his name on the monument, and let our people remember from generation to generation how such a noble crown prince fought with his sword, and his spirit will always be reflected in the sky over the human world like a red sun! "Emperor Yang, the great poet Yang spoke highly of the sacrifice of Crown Prince William in an emotional voice, anyway, everyone is dead, and he will not be stingy with this kind of worthless praise.

Of course, he was not just talking, and in the following days China immediately began a massive commemoration of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, accompanied by condemnation of the brutal murder of such a noble and great hero by the Entente bloc. In order to commemorate Crown Prince William, Emperor Yang even asked the Japanese government to change the name of Shimonoseki, where Crown Prince William had visited, to Wilhelm City, and as for the streets in China that were named after Crown Prince Wilhelm in the cities he had visited, there were even more streets named after Crown Prince Wilhelm, and even a monument was built in Beijing.

Of course, even if he didn't do this, the German people would not be able to share the sky with the US-British coalition forces, and the German civilian casualties in the Battle of Berlin alone exceeded 300,000, and not only the casualties in the battle, but also some of them were simply slaughtered by the annoyed and angry US-British coalition forces. Of course, in the end, Berlin has been completely disrupted, and it is impossible to distinguish between civilians and soldiers, if you don't want to be shot by seemingly harmless German civilians, then the best way is to give them a shot first, these British and North Americans are not here to promote friendship, of course, this kind of thing will not be verbose, but this also escalates the hatred between the two sides to the point of not sharing the sky.

At the peace talks being held in Stockholm, the German delegates reversed their initial wavering stance and became more firm than China's, and in the end they demanded not only the cession of land and reparations, but also the establishment of an international military tribunal to punish the war criminals of the Allied countries after the war, and the commanders of the American and British armies in the Battle of Berlin were all on the list of war criminals. In this way, the Entente side will not do anything, after all, they have the advantage in the European theater, and the Allies are now completely on the defensive because of the fall of Ankara, the railway hub of Baghdad, even the most combat-ready Chinese European Corps.

If you're being so tough in this situation, it's a bit too much.

"Excessive? I don't think there's anything excessive, it's normal that the loser has to accept the winner's disposition unconditionally. Wu Tingfang, the Chinese representative who participated in the negotiations, said lightly.

"Your Excellency, I need to remind you that you are not yet victors." British negotiator Negotiator Chamberlain proudly said that this Chamberlain was not the one who would later become an international joke, but his brother Austin. Chamberlain, their son Joseph. Chamberlain is also a prominent figure in British politics right now.

"Well, I did say that a little too early, so we might as well wait until we are the victors before we get back to that." Wu Tingfang shrugged and said.

The second formal negotiations in Stockholm broke down again, and since the negotiations failed, they had to continue fighting, and the Serbian American and British forces began to attack Bulgaria, while the Ottoman Russian troops continued to march on Istanbul and Konya respectively after capturing Ankara, apparently preparing to squeeze the Chinese European Corps and the Ottoman army to death in the narrow area in the middle. This legion, which had almost driven the Entente to a dead end, was currently in a difficult situation, the supply on land was completely cut off, and it could only rely on the air supply of airships, even if China mobilized all the airships that could be mobilized in the country, and even Emperor Yang's royal airships were sent over, but the supplies that could be provided were still a drop in the bucket. Moreover, this army is even inferior to the German and Austrian armies, Germany and Austria-Hungary can at least produce most of their own weapons and ammunition, and the Ottoman Empire does not have a decent military industry.

Without sufficient ammunition supplies, the Chinese soldiers could no longer fight, no matter how well equipped they were, they were blind, and they could only retreat step by step in the face of more than 2 million enemy troops attacked from both sides, and even the bomber force, which was originally the most superior, had to drastically reduce the number of bombings because it needed to act as transport planes to airlift supplies from Damascus to Istanbul.

In order to reopen the Baghdad Railway, the 15th Army of the Chinese Army and the 17th Army, which arrived later, quickly began to march towards Baghdad, while at the same time the 10th Army in the north had also begun to attack Tehran, and in order to prevent the United States and Britain from landing on the flank again to attack Damascus, two armies of the 17th Army landed at the port of Jeddah and then went north to Syria.

In this way, the Russians on the inner line attacked desperately, the Chinese on the outer line attacked desperately, and millions of people turned the Ottoman Empire into a huge battlefield, and under each other, this already small country gradually fell into ruins at a rapid speed.

Farther north, Russian lands on the Siberian battlefield were in ruins at almost the same rate, as the Chinese Eighth Army broke through the Russian lines at Atbasar and struck the rear of the Russians under Grand Duke Nicholas like a right hook, and he had to abandon the Ishim line and retreat to Kurgan. If you retreat, you will retreat to the Ural Mountains and the Ural River, although these places that are now discarded are sparsely populated and have little value, but if the Chinese fight to Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk again, this problem will be serious, it will be tantamount to knocking on the door of Europe. (To be continued......)