Lin Youde's cognition of this era, in addition to various war history and economic history books, the most intuitive impression comes from various strategy games. Lin Youde's favorite two strategy games with the theme of modern history, one has a hatred and threat setting, and before the war starts, you must find a way to adjust the two values of your country and the target country, whether it is to incite the hatred of the people against the target country or whatever, it will take a lot of effort anyway.

In another game, starting a war is much simpler, but you also need to create a casus belli, and after creating a justification, you have to disclose your goals to the international community when you declare war, and as the war progresses, if you want to increase your goals, you not only need to get a certain number of points in the war, but also need to bear the impact of the increase in notoriety. If you don't increase the target, even if the player occupies all of the opponent's territory, they can only obediently take what they openly asked for before the battle, and return the rest to the opponent as it is.

So although Lin Youde has read a lot of history books, and knows that all major countries in this era are relatively shameless, and the international community follows the pure law of the jungle, he does not have a so-called "real feeling" for this atmosphere, he still feels that he is playing a game, and he has to take into account international reactions and domestic public opinion to do foreplay.

In fact, he also followed the guidelines in the game to deal with the previous problems.

But now the United States and Russia have taught Lin Youde a lesson, allowing him to feel the international atmosphere of "big fist is truth" in a vivid form.

At the very least, the Americans found an excuse to stir up public opinion at home, and then despite the fact that they had not won any international support, they insisted on going their own way and punching the country.

Russia is more direct: I don't know what the excuse is, I just want to grab territory.

The two powers carved up Japan, Russia tortured and killed a Japanese god, and the United States forced the other two Japanese gods and the emperor to death, and as a result, the international community did not even fart.

Not only that, but Britain also declared war on Japan at the last moment, and ran to occupy Jeju Island, and by the way, took the power that Japan gained after defeating the Ming Empire.

The French, who were relatively slow to move, did not get anything, so they hurriedly proposed cooperation with Russia, and the two sides hit it off, and the Russians agreed to the French's participation in the construction of railways in the northeast and the Korean Peninsula occupied by Russia, in exchange for France supporting Russia against Britain and the United States, who wanted Russia to spit out the port of Pusan, which had not been captured before the end of the war.

In this way, the great powers jointly taught Lin Youde what it means to be a weak country without diplomacy.

Although Germany is not a weak country, under such circumstances, even in order to protect itself, it should take more actions in the international arena and expand its space for dealing with sudden wars as much as possible.

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"I always wanted to prevent Germany from becoming a country that started a war on its own initiative, but in recent days I have re-examined the situation in Europe and I always feel that Germany is in a very dangerous situation."

As soon as Lin Youde finished speaking, Viola got up and said to Lin Youde with a nervous expression: "Do you want us to take the lead in starting a war again?" ”

"No, calm down and listen to me." Lin Youde hurriedly comforted his wife, "In general, Germany's situation is better than before the last war, Germany and Russia were next to each other before the last war, and now there is a Poland in the middle, and Russia will face Berlin when it came to fight in the last war, and now Poland can at least delay the speed of the Russian bear's advance." But the lack of sufficient strategic depth in Germany remained an unchangeable fact, especially at sea, where the British could quickly advance under Hamburg if they landed at Ottendorf, and they could even drive their ships to Hamburg with a little effort. ”

"Hmm...... You're right. Viola reluctantly admitted.

The fox added: "If you only count the land area, Germany is about the same as the Japanese mainland, and the Japanese island may be a little bigger, but Japan is a long strip and has no depth." Germany is not much better. ”

"That's it, so if the Anglo-Russian alliance is born, Germany will be in a very dangerous situation, not to mention the Anglo-Russian-French Triple Alliance."

It turned out that one of the main reasons for the outbreak of World War I was that Germany was too afraid of being crushed by Britain, Russia and France, so Schlieffen formulated the famous plan named after him, trying to prevent Germany from being crushed through a "preventive war". Lin Youde was particularly obsessed with studying the history books of the foreign and domestic affairs of various countries before the start of World War I, so he was well aware of the process.

In the original time and space, in 1914, the whole world knew that there would inevitably be a war, so all countries set up the so-called "war ministries", but none of the countries planned to go to war in 1914. In the case of Russia, for example, their plans for military expansion would continue beyond 1918, when ministers reported to the Tsar that Russia was considered ready for war.

In the beginning, in fact, the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not particularly care about the death of Archduke Ferdinand, in fact, because the political views of the Archduke were contrary to many people in the empire, some people thought that the Archduke's death was really amazing, and it was just a good opportunity to let Archduke Ferdinand's younger brother Otto? Franz's son Karl became the heir. In the entire Austro-Hungarian Empire, only Conrad and other main war factions were clamoring for a solution to the Serbian problem once and for all—yes, they only wanted to solve the Serbian problem, and they did not want to start a world war at all.

Therefore, no one in the world thought that the death of the Grand Duke would become the fuse of World War I.

But then dramatic things happened one after another, from the assassination of the Grand Duke to the outbreak of war, and the diplomatic and court activities of various countries could be filmed thirty Qing court soap operas.

The process is too complicated to unfold, anyway, after the most Lu Russia, decided to mobilize a part of the troops to deter Austria-Hungary and Austria-Hungary's big brother Germany, behind this decision is the figure of the Russian Empress and the Empress's red man Rong Mama Oh no **** demon monk Rasputin, as well as the brotherhood between the Tsar and his dear cousin Wilhelm II and so on.

However, the meaning of "mobilization" in the Russian war plan is completely different from that understood by the Germans, the Russians can start mobilization at any time and then stop at any time, and they do not necessarily have to start a war, because Russia is a vast territory, and it takes a terrible time for the troops to complete the mobilization and assembly, so their mobilization plan is completely different from that of the Germans. The mobilization of the Germans meant that the war was about to start, which meant that a large number of German troops and enough supplies for them would arrive at the starting point of the attack within six weeks, and they would cross the border and start fighting.

No one explained the difference to the Germans, and when they found out that the Warsaw Military District in Russia had begun to mobilize, the Germans were terrified throughout the country, thinking that they were about to be smashed to pieces by the Russian and French armies.

Ultimately, this fear, which had been hanging over the minds of the German generals since Schlieffen began to formulate his plan, led the Germans to finally mobilize to carry out the Schlieffen plan that Moltke Jr. had strengthened countless times.

To sum up, World War I will inevitably break out, but it does not have to be launched by Germany, and the reason why it has become this way is because the Germans feel that they have no need to fight if others launch first, and they must first defeat the enemy and abolish France.

And now Lin Youde finds that he is also facing this helpless situation.

The Russians came first, and Germany was about to face the embarrassment of defending Berlin to the death, and its own base camp was still next to Berlin......

If the Russians and the French fight together, Lin Youde will be a meatloaf sandwiched in a hamburger, tender and delicious.

If the Russians and the French and the British ...... together

"So, I think it's a top priority to destroy relations between Russia and Britain and France, and if you can't do that, you have to find a way to get a buffer zone."

"Does the buffer zone mean Poland?" The fox asked.

"Yes, poor Poland." Lin Youde paused, "But the doctrine we are advocating now is not suitable for expansion, especially to Poland without a god. This has the potential to lead to disillusionment with us internationally by those who believe in panhumanism, especially those who are capable scientists and engineers. ”

"Those people are naïve." The fox said.

Viola glanced at her dissatisfied, and in Viola's opinion, the scientists and engineers were right, and naturally she was upset that the fox said that.

"So, we can only start from the aspect of beating Russia's relations with Britain and France. As long as you promise not to fight on two fronts, there is no way to defend Berlin, and even if you are lucky, you can form an alliance with Britain and France. It was more advantageous that Poland was now under British protection, and if Russia invaded Poland, Britain and France would at least formally put pressure on Russia. ”

- In the form of a sit-in battle, but it was the last plane, and I don't know how the Dao will change in this plane.

"In the same way, if we invade Poland, we will face pressure from Britain and France." Viola reminded Lin Youde, "In this way, we should be as consistent with Britain and France as possible in the future?" ”

"Actually, I have a better idea." Lin Youde smiled at Viola, "Can we light another fire for the Balkan powder keg?" ”

"You're going to push Sissi's hometown into war?" Viola frowned, "You want to send troops to the Balkans?" ”

"No, no," Lin Youde shook his head repeatedly, "I don't want to wade into troubled waters, if I can, I don't plan to send a single soldier there." I mean, we should set the Ottoman Empire on fire, first of all, this empire is very backward, and it has done a lot of ****** things, such as the massacre of Armenians and everything, and they also circumcise women, and they treat women as the private property of men, and so on, and there is no problem in characterizing it as an enemy of panhumanism.

"Second, the empire is already in a dying state, and it is very convenient to incite revolution, in the last few days I have read the reports we have received about the Ottoman Empire in the past, although the spread of panhumanism in the empire is not as good as that of the industrialized countries, but because it caters to the revolutionary desires of the people at the bottom of the empire, the spread is okay, and it can encourage revolution."

"What about after the revolution?" Viola asked.

"Induce Russia to send troops." Lin Youde replied very simply, "After Russia sends troops, at least Britain will not sit idly by, and if you are lucky, it may trigger a second Crimean War." If the British were not willing to go to war with the Russians head-on, we would organize volunteers to fight. ”

"Wait, aren't we talking about plans to make Germany safer?"

"Yes," Lin Youde nodded, "the Russians have just conquered Northeast China and the Korean Peninsula, which has consumed a lot of national strength, and it will take time to digest the occupied land, in this case, Russia is involved in the war in Crimea, and we can delay the time for Russia to do something against us as long as we try to quagmire the war as much as possible." As long as we are given enough time to develop new weapons and prepare for war, the Russian threat will be correspondingly reduced. ”

"But," said the fox, who had been silent, "wouldn't that also drag us into the mire?" ”

"It's different, Ottoman still has gods and warriors, we just need to replenish their regular strength. And Russia, in order to fight against the Ottoman gods and warriors, must have invested more than us. And we are already more economically capable than the Russians, we just don't have land for a buffer. And if the battlefield is on Ottoman territory, it will be different, we can even open up and consume with Russia. ”

Although Russia has also greatly strengthened its industry and economy through reforms, the magic technology of this time and space has caused them to have to invest a lot of national power in magic technology, but the magic technology has a limited role in the civilian field, so in general, Russia in this time and space is weaker than the Soviet Union in the original time and space, especially in terms of normal industrial capacity.

But correspondingly, Russia in this time and space has been operating for more than ten years, and has accumulated a group of strong Zhanji troops, after all, they are the victorious countries, unlike Germany, which is strictly limited in the development of Zhanji troops. Ten years after the war, Russia happened to give birth to a relatively large number of goddesses, and they should all come of age in the next ten years, plus they still have a few Austro-Hungarian goddess "students" there - now these students are shoehorned into the name of "Austro-Khaki" by the Iron Queen, gathering many exiles who are dissatisfied with the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

It is precisely because of this that the Russian bear is so terrifying in Lin Youde's opinion.

That's why Lin Youde came up with the idea of using the Ottomans to attack Russia and exchanging economic and industrial capacity for time to climb the science and technology tree.

Lin Youde looked at his two wives back and forth, and finally Viola said, "It's kind of interesting, you convinced me." ”

The fox said with a nonchalant expression, "I have never had a problem with your decision, my dear. ”

"Very well, that's it. However, before the implementation, you can't leak the rumors, and you have to do it quietly. ”

"So Sissi can't even tell her, can she?" Viola asked, looking like she couldn't bear to hide it from Sissi.

Lin Youde nodded.

"Of course, if she joins our camp, then these will not be hidden from her, and if she doesn't join, there will be no way."

Viola still looks like she can't let go.

The fox asked, "What about the approximate time of implementation?" ”

"Now that all three of us have agreed, let's start now, inciting a revolution is not something that can be done all at once. When Russia sends troops, you will probably have finished giving birth and are almost recovering, and we can let go of our hands and act. ”