It was August 2 since Kuster arrived in Belgium, during which the situation of the war had not changed, and the troops on the Western Front were still squatting and facing each other.

Several German officers told him that France was occupied by them as far north as Calais and Picardy, west as far as Normandy, and south by Burgundy and Franche-Comté.

The Germans in Normandy were so short of virtue that they not only seized French lands, but also cut off their supply sources.

They erected huge artillery on the front line and bombarded the Brittany area from a distance, threatening the British navy in Britain from approaching the coast of Brittany.

The Royal Navy was forced to make a large circle from the south to the Aquitaine region south of Brittany.

The effect was so great that the British fleet had been able to cross the English Channel and bring supplies and soldiers to France in about a day or two at a time.

Now it will take at least three or four days to get it, and unlike it directly from the north, Aquitaine is far from the front line, and after it is transported to the shore, it will take a long time to get to the front line.

All things considered, now the Entente in Western Europe needs at least a week for every maritime assistance. This was enough for the Allies to take advantage of the opportunity to finish a week's offensive.

The German army in Burgundy united with the main force in Champagne to attack the important town of Paris.

The Battle of Paris was fought from last year to this year, during which the artillery fire continued, and the offensive never stopped.

However, the initiative has always been in the hands of the Germans, who can fight and withdraw whenever they want, and stab France at the fatal point at any time.

Officially recorded casualties began in February, and to this day, the French army in Paris has lost almost two million.

Germany, on the other hand, began recording as early as last year, with a total of 1.2 million casualties. April 15 was a huge watershed in casualties, and in the previous five months, the German army had suffered a total of only 400,000 casualties, and it easily captured Verdun and Amiens and approached Paris.

But after that, the United States provided volunteer and indirect industrial aid, and the front gradually widened, and the German casualties soared, losing nearly a million men in just three months.

As for the British casualties, there is no way to record them, but they should be around half a million.

The blood of the French was running dry, the supply lines of the British were also stretched, the German attack was still sharp, and the situation of the war was becoming more and more obvious.

But the defense against Paris was never slack, and when the strength of an army group died, it was put together, and immediately replenished an army of recruits to the front.

As a result, the rest of the city was left with almost only a few divisions in Normandy, and Franche-Comté even had only one battalion in the defense.

While the rest of the army was fighting fiercely, Franche-Comté picked up the leaks and continued his attack southward, reaching the Alps, until the French reserves filled the vacancies in the battle line, and their greed was curbed.

However, they were not completely blocked, and their superiors ordered them to turn the direction of the attack, enter the central part of France, and attack Paris from the belly.

When the French army to the south saw them retreating, they thought it was an ambush and did not dare to advance.

Even though the Germans were clearly on the trail of attacking Paris, they did not dare to advance, after all, no one wanted to die. The superiors were busy in Paris and didn't say anything.

Compared to Western Europe, where artillery was incessant, the rest of the continent's war component was so peaceful.

Italy has been at war for several months, but has made no progress, but has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

They had a million troops before the war, and their loud noise was able to crush the ailing and overwhelmed Austro-Hungarian Empire.

As a result, he didn't take a single step, and his blood was about to drain.

The Italian government closed off the unfavorable news from the front, which temporarily blinded the people's discernment.

However, although the Italians are not good at fighting, their brains are still bright, and the enemy countries are relatively lacking in morality. After this move, the unscrupulous media exposed the government's actions, and the Italian government quickly suffered a violent social backlash, which greatly obstructed the implementation of government affairs, made administrative efficiency lower, and the society became more and more chaotic.

In order to compensate for the shortage of troops in the front-line army, more and more workers were called into the front, and there was a dilemma similar to that of Tsarist Russia - the lack of factory productivity.

It is believed that in a short time, the Italian army will not have a single shell, the cars will not have a drop of gas, and even the guns will have to be antiques from centuries ago.

In contrast, the situation in Austria-Hungary was much better, the equipment was all newly-made armaments, the troop establishment was also grouped according to different nationalities, and a large number of hot-blooded nobles poured into the ranks of grass-roots officers, and the combat effectiveness was greatly enhanced.

Of course, the Austro-Hungarian Army's record can be like this, and there is no lack of Kuster's contribution, making the Army the second strongest in the world after Germany.

But I have to say that Austria-Hungary's own strength is also very hard, and the savings of the Habsburg family over a hundred years can give this empire on the verge of disintegration for a while.

At least in terms of front-line food, no European army can eat better than Austria-Hungary, after all, they only have a million people now, unlike other countries that are a herd of dead animals.

Since Russia's surrender, in order to stabilize the domestic situation and make full use of the armed forces, the Austro-Hungarian Army has become a quality-oriented army, greatly reducing the number of conscripts, and even reducing some low-quality armed forces and repatriating them to local areas for maintenance.

Austria-Hungary deployed 800,000 troops in the Alps and 600,000 in the Balkans.

The commander-in-chief of the Alpine army was Borojevich, an old boss of Kuster. Kuster was promoted to the post of honorary marshal, and he also followed the heat and became the commander-in-chief of the theater of operations.

The commander-in-chief of the Balkans was Portiorek, the "ink general", and an old acquaintance of Kuster.

He was the main supporter of the attack on Serbia, and now he is the only candidate to attack Greece, which prevents Austria-Hungary from dominating the Balkans.

Boroyevich had a wealth of combat experience, and from the beginning of Galicia, he led his army through obstacles until he mastered the army group, all with hard power.

Portiorek, however, is not up to the task, and compared to the rugged, mountainous terrain of Greece, it is clearly no match for the flat desk that he is best at.

Although he was in charge of the military, he did not really care much about the front-line warfare, and devoted more attention to internal affairs.

Mutinies continued to break out in various places, and everyone knew that the destruction of Habao was forced by the situation, and they all prepared to share the corpse in advance, and Portiorek was no exception.

He also did not believe that a weak Greece could hold back for long, even if it outlasted Russia.

Greece is at stake, and its demise is already coming sooner or later. Even the government is ready to go into exile.

They had been banished to the Peloponnese and engaged in a pointless recalcitrant resistance.

However, the tenacity of the Greek army and civilians was beyond imagination, and the guerrilla warfare in the ravines made it difficult for the Bulgarian-Austrian army to move an inch. It may be that the blood suddenly awakened, changed from the defeated court, and regained the heroism of Rome back then.

But Rome couldn't save it, after all, a hundred thousand troops couldn't stop a million troops.

The only thing the Allies were worried about was the North American continent beyond the open ocean.