"Retreat?" Ma Biao, who was fighting hard in Isfahan, suddenly received an order that made him dazed, although after the Russian Eleventh Army arrived in a big way, it was becoming more and more difficult for him to fight this little man, but he was confident that with sufficient supplies, he could still hold on until the two armies withdrawn from the Balkans arrived, if he retreated at this time, it would be equivalent to putting the Russian army in Basra, not only the mountains of arms there would be handed over, but also it would be equivalent to cutting off the logistics supply of the European legions, which would have an irreparable impact on the European war situation.

But this order was not given by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but by the attendants, that is to say, it was given by His Majesty the Emperor himself, as the generalissimo of the army and navy, and it was a holy decree that must not be carried out in the slightest.

"Yes, retreat, but you have to put on a show to make it seem that you are completely powerless to retreat." The Kuwaiti ambassador who came to give the order in person said. As a territory directly under the royal family, in addition to the governor stationed by the royal family, there is also a Xuanfu envoy, the former is responsible for management, on the horse to manage the army, off the horse to manage the people, the latter is actually the supervision of the army, just like the Tang Dynasty to the Jiedu envoy eunuchs, of course, the surface duty is to represent the emperor Xià to show the emperor's grace, such as engaging in charity, grasping education, promoting Chinese culture, etc., in essence, he is a spy leader.

Of course, Emperor Yang will not let his army play here with three hundred warriors, even if Ma Biao can hold Isfahan, I am afraid that the casualties will be ten thousand, so far the Chinese army has not recorded more than five thousand casualties in a single battle in the war, and it is obviously not cost-effective to pay such heavy casualties for a defendable or undefended goal.

And it's not a bad thing to put Brusilov in Basra, as for the military supplies there, this is very simple, transport away what can be transported, blow up what can't be transported, and destroy the railway or something when Ma Biao retreats, and then block it step by step, so as to buy time for the rear to deal with these arms and materials. Deal with those with relatively high technology content first, as for bullets and shells, it doesn't matter if they are left to the Russians, enhance Brusilov's attack ability, and let him continue to kill all sides in the Ottoman territory, which is completely in line with Emperor Yang's strategy.

In the end, Hamid II must also be weakened, he has always put on a caliph posture over the years, thinking about restoring his imperial glory, which Emperor Yang also sees in his eyes, Muslims are not good, and he really wants to make him a climate. It is also a problem for China, and if it is weakened by the hand of the Russians, it will undoubtedly be very good for his growth.

Pit enemies and pit allies, both of which are very important, in fact, to this point today, pit allies are already Emperor Yang's main task, so he gave Ma Biao such an order, as for the supply of the European legion, this can land in the port of Jeddah and then take the Hejaz Railway. However, the port facilities are relatively backward, so there must be some restrictions on the supply, and there is no way to do it, and when the reinforcements from China arrive, they will retake Basra. The offensive on the European battlefield could only be slowed down, and both Germany and Emperor Joseph had to endure it a little longer.

Ma Biao didn't know this, but he was unwilling. But since it is a holy decree, it must be honored, and then when the Russian army concentrates the forces of the entire three armies to attack from three directions at the same time. The Sino-Austrian defense line with only two divisions finally collapsed, and because the breakthrough was first opened on the Ottoman defense line, Ma Biao didn't even need to act, he just retreated, and before leaving, he blew up the Isfahan railway station, especially the railway bridge over the Zaindai River, so that there were no piers left.

After retreating to Zalingshahr, with the cooperation of the defenders here, they reorganized a defensive line to resist, but after all, the gap in strength was too great, and the Ottoman army had lost the courage to fight, and as a result, Zalingshahr was lost again, so it retreated to the Zagros mountains, and then it was slightly stopped retreating, but in the face of the attack of a whole Russian army, it was obvious that he could not hold for long, unless reinforcements could arrive.

But the problem was that there were too many places that needed reinforcements, and the Ottoman 2nd Army, which was trapped in Armenia, finally failed to wait for reinforcements, and the 210,000-strong army had no hope of breaking through under the siege of three Russian armies, plus those Orthodox soldiers mutinied, and finally had to surrender to the Russians. After the total annihilation of the Ottoman Second Army, the Russians immediately forced the remnants of the Persians to surrender, and then divided an army group to reinforce Brusilov, and the remaining three armies all went straight to the Ottoman hinterland.

Hamid II hurriedly pushed his Sixth Army and the defeated Third Army to block the Russian army, and the first and fourth armies withdrawn from the Balkans rushed to reinforce day and night, but it was clear that after the defeat at the front, he had lost confidence in his army, and he was very unconfident about whether the four armies could block the three Russian armies, so at his repeated requests, the two Chinese armies that were originally reinforcing Basra were transferred to reinforce the Ottoman army.

After all, he lost Basra the most difficult point of the war, and if he couldn't stop this Russian army, he should go straight to Istanbul, and he didn't want to end up with Muzaffar al-Din.

The brilliant victory in the Middle East finally gave the Allies the confidence to negotiate, and under the mediation of the Swedish government, the two major blocs of the Central Powers and the Entente Powers, for the first time, formally sat down in Stockholm and began to negotiate on ending the five-year war. In particular, the people of the Entente countries are about to cry with joy, five years, tens of millions of dead and wounded, the whole of Europe is in ruins, hunger is everywhere, even Britain, which has suffered the smallest losses, has reached the point where the common people catch frogs to eat, even the most belligerent people are looking forward to the end of the war at this time, and now they can finally see a clear hope.

But it is a pity that they were hit in the face immediately afterwards, and there was no change in the conditions of the Central Powers, what the Beijing Declaration said, how it was written in the terms of the negotiations, that the land that should be ceded should not be less than an inch, and the war reparations were added, and the Entente countries paid in their national currencies according to the standard before the war, that is, the currency of the gold standard, if converted into pounds, a total of 30 billion, this figure made the representatives of the Entente countries feel like they were going to kill.

Nima, it's hard to say whether there is so much gold in the world now, isn't this pure bullying, and the gold has been scraped to China by Emperor Yang at this time, let's not talk about 30 billion, even 300 million gold pounds can't be taken out, although it can be paid in 50 years, of course, plus interest, but after losing all the colonies, what do we use to earn more than 200,000 tons of gold?

There is no sincerity at all, this is pure playing with us as monkeys, this is simply not negotiations, this is pure humiliation, to put a heavy shackle on us for generations to come, and to make our people slaves forever for the next half century.

After these terms of negotiation were made public, the common people of the entire Entente were completely enraged, and they were still talking, talking about a fart, we have just won a heavy victory, okay, since you are determined to force us to death, then fight, and continue to fight, although we are very difficult, but people have dignity, for dignity, for honor, for the future, fight, fight with you to the end.

"Your Majesty, isn't such a condition too harsh, our emperor thinks that we might as well consider their conditions." Hai Jing cautiously said that in fact, this negotiating clause has indeed caused a lot of waves within the Allied countries, especially those celebrities such as writers, artists, scientists, and so on have published articles in newspapers, thinking that such a clause is very unrealistic and too bullying, and it is not unacceptable for the Entente to propose a clause at present.

The Entente side has already made a lot of concessions, for example, the Russian side can use the Yenisei River as the dividing line with China in the future, and Central Asia can be divided equally with China by the 43rd parallel, with the south to China and the north to Russia, basically giving Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan all to China, but most of Kazakhstan to Russia, but because the main population areas in Central Asia are in the south, it is actually equivalent to giving all the good places to China, but leaving enough strategic depth for Russia.

The British agreed to give Western Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand and those small islands in the southern Pacific Ocean to China, as for Australia can get a real state, but China cannot annex this country, in fact, it is equivalent to slowly ceding this land to China, everyone understands that once China's huge population begins to move to Australia, this country will become Chinese if it is not annexed, and the British have no qualifications to compete at this point, but at least it looks better. Now they're just asking for face.

As for the German-Austrian side of the territory is not too much, everyone knows that the current Allied Yang Feng has the final say, and getting him is equivalent to getting a good job, there is no need to waste too much on others, that is, to give Finland to Germany in addition, anyway, the Finns are not honest at this time, Russia has been hit so hard, the Finns must fight for Duli, since this is the case, it is better to simply throw it to William. In addition, the British could agree to give the Sinai Peninsula to the Ottoman Empire and then share the Suez Canal taxes, but Egypt certainly not. It is also absolutely impossible for the Russians to give Crimea to Hamid II, but Armenia can negotiate. (To be continued......)