Chapter 466: The Crisis of the Allies

Although in this way, he had to buy a large amount of supplies from China, but William was still very happy to have this kind of pie-in-the-sky good thing. Now he is most worried about the lack of means to break through the Russian defense line, the Russian army's combat effectiveness is indeed not very good, but the numerical superiority of the gray cattle is enough to make up for a qiē, millions of people are piled on the defense line, and the German army on the eastern front, even if it can fight again, it is powerless.

Now that Germany's strategy has been readjusted, it is certainly not possible to fight on two fronts, and it is necessary to first deal with Russia as quickly as possible, and then force Britain and France to admit defeat; in fact, France has been completely crippled by the war, and it is impossible for this country to pose a threat to Germany again in 20 years, and it is no longer very interesting to fight or not.

As for his uncle, William himself knew very well that unless he could land in Britain on a large scale, the two sides would eventually have to negotiate peace, and victory or defeat on the battlefield would be nothing more than the basis for redistributing the colonies in the future.

But the Russians must be disabled, Nikolai is as ambitious as him, which William is also very clear about, without crippling the Russians, Germany cannot really rest assured to expand outward, but the resilience of the Russians on the battlefield does give him a headache, especially after the Russian empress visited China, with this endless logistics base, the huge war mobilization capacity of more than 100 million people has been fully exerted, and there is no magic weapon to defeat the enemy, William is really a little uneasy.

Well, now there is this new type of incendiary bomb, even if it is burned, it will burn the gray cattle to slag, as for burning London to slag as Yang Feng expects, William really has no such preparation in his heart, in fact, even the current bombing of London. He was also worried, and Colonel Hall was given orders to bomb only the poor devils in London's East End. Bombing is strictly forbidden near Buckingham Palace, and after all, it is also his own uncle. If he really wants to blow up Edward VII, he is still a little sad in his heart.

William, who was ambitiously waiting for a new incendiary bomb to be built so that the grey animals could experience the flames of hell, did not know that the Russians were also thinking of delivering a fatal blow to him.

Just as a Chinese merchant ship, loaded with polystyrene and a large number of parts for the manufacture of new incendiary bombs, left the port of Yantai, a huge fleet was assembled in distant Sevastopol, where the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was stationed. There were not only battleships and cruisers, but also four landing ships and dozens of merchant ships of various sizes, and countless Russian soldiers were boarding ships in batches on the shore.

The Russians were to land on the Romanian coast, and then smash the Ploiesti oil fields, which were now vital to the German warplanes, to give Wilhelm a draw, and for this operation Nikolai prepared two entire army groups.

"Your Excellency, I really don't understand what is the point of us fighting this war, our enemy is not Germany. Not Austria-Hungary, but China, the Ottoman Empire, but we are now desperately trying to give away the wealth we have accumulated over hundreds of years to the Chinese. And then let our soldiers needlessly shed their blood on European soil.

This is a war between Germany and England and France, and even if we win the war, what can we do? Partition of Germany and Austria-Hungary? This is simply impossible, and the British will definitely not agree. They must keep enough enemies for us in Europe, and we will get nothing more than some colonies of little value. But when our blood runs dry. The dragon of the East will not hesitate to tear off our entire Far East and even Siberia in one gulp. This is our real enemy. Looking at the soldiers who were boarding the ship, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Makarov, could not help but complain to the commander-in-chief of the Southwestern Front, Admiral Kuropatkin, beside him.

He is a smart man, and he sees the current shape very clearly, although China and Russia are currently in the honeymoon period because of Her Majesty the Empress, but it would be a fantasy to say that the Chinese emperor has no ambitions for the Far East, but unfortunately he understands that it is useless, under Nicholas, smart people are rare, and they are casually overwhelmed by those stupid bureaucrats. What's more, the investment of the Yang consortium in the Russian court over the years is far from what a smart person like him can imagine, Yang Feng's subordinates have no shortage of talents to play this, old bureaucrats like Yang Shiqi, just take out one casually can corrode the entire Russian court to a thousand holes, there are those favored ministers and wives lying in Nikolai's ears and fanning the wind every day, what use can one or two smart people like him have.

At the thought of this, Makarov felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

"Stepan, watch your words, you are criticizing a monarch who has maintained friendship with our country for more than ten years." Kuropatkin said with great dissatisfaction, of course he understood that Makarov was trying to convey this to the ears of the tsar through his own mouth.

He was stupid to do this, as the first Russian minister to contact Emperor Yang, he has received no less than 200,000 pounds in various gifts from the Yang consortium over the years, and he must be kind, not to mention that if he wants to destroy Sino-Russian relations, he will immediately become the target of the entire Russian court.

When he said this, Makarov understood that this guy had no hope, so he could only close his mouth and watch with a melancholy face as the fleet boarded, and soon the whole boarding process was over, and he also boarded his flagship and escorted the landing force of the entire army to Romania, which was four hundred kilometers away.

This distance was nothing more than half a day, and the fleet, which set sail early in the morning, arrived at its destination in the evening, and then, escorted by the main guns of the battleships, swaggered into Constanta, the main port of Romania.

Now the defense in Romania is empty, only one German army and one Romanian army group are guarding, and they are all second-line troops, the main force is all on the Dniester front, the Drog coalition army relies on the wide Danube, in fact, there is no garrison on the east bank of the Danube, because there is no point in defending on the east bank, the Russian Black Sea Fleet completely controls the coast, the main port of Constanta is under the guns of the Russian naval guns, and the defense on the east bank is no different from suicide, and the defenders are all on the west bank of the Danube.

The whole landing process was not hindered in any way, even the vast majority of the inhabitants of Constanta have been evacuated to the west bank of the Danube, even the railway from Constanta to Bucharest has been demolished, and the railway bridge over the Danube no longer exists.

Of course, their landing in Constanta, too, was not the core of this plan, which was to the north.

The news of the Russian army's landing in Constanta immediately made William nervous, you must know that the current Romania is extremely important to the huge war aircraft of the Central Powers, and the status of the Ploiesti oil field can not be described as an exaggeration, under his direct urging, Count Schlieffen immediately ordered Baron Gortz, who was on the Transnistrian front, to send troops back, and at the same time urgently formed the Eleventh Army in Germany to join the Romanian battlefield.

Baron Golz, who received the order, naturally also understood the importance of Romania, although the pressure on his side was also very heavy, but he still sent a German army and a Romanian army to reinforce, but at this time, a corps led by Lieutenant General Brusilov, supported by a large number of river gunboats, suddenly entered the Danube River on an inland river transport ship, and landed in the north of the Danube line of the Droz coalition army, cutting off the road for Baron Goltz to return in one fell swoop.

Then the two armies, which had just completed the landing in Constanta, under the personal command of Kuropatkin, and despite the fact that the follow-up troops had not yet arrived, immediately launched a fierce attack on the Danube line, and tens of thousands of gray cattle, led by the officers, rushed to the second largest river in Europe in front of them.

At this moment, the Allies were dumbfounded, and King Carol I of Romania hurriedly pushed all the troops that could be collected to the front line, and even his Janissaries went to the battlefield, and Germany didn't care that the Eleventh Army was still being formed.

Baron Golz on the Northern Front left the headquarters of the Transnistrian line and personally ran to Galatz, where he presided over a frantic attack on the Russian army occupying the south bank of the Syrett River, but unfortunately he encountered a hard stubble this time, his opponent was the only real famous general of the Russian Army in the original history of the First World War, at this time the unknown Brusilov led one of his corps, like a stubborn stone blocking the road of German reinforcements.

At the same time, more Russian troops were still coming from Sevastopol, and then joined the battlefield along the Danube, and the Russian troops on the other side of the Dniester River also launched an offensive on all fronts, and the entire Romanian war situation was reversed at once.

I have to say that this is the most dangerous moment for the Allies, once the Russian army breaks through the Danube defense line and occupies Romania, then for Germany and Austria it is not just as simple as losing the oil fields, the Russian army can directly attack Serbia from Romania, and then those Serbian partisans who are still entangled with the Austro-Hungarian army will immediately run out to welcome their liberators, with the interference of these people, it is difficult for the Austro-Hungarian army to block the Russian army in Serbia, once the Russian army enters Serbia, the next step is to go straight to the great plain of Hungary, The army is coming to Vienna.

At that time, all the countries that are doing the wall, including Italy, will not hesitate to show their claws to the Allied bloc, and even William is scared into a cold sweat when he understands this. (To be continued......)