On the first day, the talks between the three countries were mainly between governments, and the discussions were basically about the division of future interests and the cooperation of industry.

Because the enemies faced by the three countries are extremely strong, and the talks are basically not about core interests, but more about the future, this has also caused the three countries to feel that they are happy and get along very well.

However, this feeling disappeared immediately after the night, because the next thing the three countries needed to talk about was more pragmatic.

"Your Excellency Simeone, our country needs your country to flank Serbia in the Kosovo region in order to achieve the intention of dispersing the Serbs. At present, we have gathered 200,000 men and will cross the Sava River from the north to attack the country, and it only takes 80,000 men in Kosovo for your country to crush the Serbs. ”

During the day's talks, the military played the leading role, and it was the chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff, General Hetzendorf, who was currently speaking.

He was talking about precisely the needs of the Austro-Hungarian military.

The main content of today's talks is to coordinate the strategic unity of the three countries. This is naturally indispensable for the military plans of the countries to be discussed that need the cooperation of allies, and Austria-Hungary, which was the first to start the war, naturally needs to preemptively put forward its own requirements.

He first raised the fact that Austria-Hungary needed the assistance of Italy in its attack on Serbia.

"Your Excellency Hezendorf, your country's request is a bit difficult for our country to deal with at present, because our country is currently about 60,000 people behind the Balkan territory, can we now increase our troops to catch up with your country's offensive?"

Simeone opened his mouth to point out the current shortage of Italian troops. This was when Italy maintained the largest number of troops in the Balkans after the war with Turkey, and the Chinese military only left 20,000-30,000 troops stationed here on weekdays, even during the Balkan War, Italy only stationed 50,000 people. At present, more than 60,000 people are stationed, which is already a peak of the Italian garrison.

One might ask why Italy didn't station more troops in advance. The stationing of this army was not so simple, and the total strength of the Italian army was just over 600,000 before the mobilization order was issued. Keep in mind that this is the total strength of the Royal Italian Army, and it is necessary to deduct first of the more than 80,000 people stationed in the overseas colonies.

(There are more than 10,000 people in Borneo and more than 70,000 in East Africa, and it is not clear from the garrison who is more valued.) Of course, this is also related to East Africa, for the sake of Italy nailing nails in the Indian Ocean, so that Britain and France cannot casually use the colonies around the Indian Ocean to reinforce the mainland)

Secondly, Libya is an important oil and iron base in Italy, and it also needs to send troops to protect it, which has removed more than 60,000 people. Next, whether to garrison heavy troops on the French border, which took another 240,000, and then whether the kingdom needs to be garrisoned, and Sardinia and Sicily also need troops, and this share is gone, and another 100,000 are gone.

Then the military needs to leave some mobile troops, and the seeds for expanding the troops, just use them cleanly. Therefore, as long as this force is used, there will be no time for it to be sufficient.

Of course, the troops we are talking about here are the troops formed by the Kingdom of Italy, and the troops formed by the colonial governments with the natives are not counted.

The reason is very simple, the combat effectiveness of the colonial army is worrying, even the British Empire, which has always liked to use colonial troops, only used these cannon fodder to fill the trenches in large quantities after the native army could not bear the high losses.

Admiral Hezendorf, who knew a little about the situation in Italy, did not pay much attention to this, but asked. "So how many troops can your country send to respond to our country in a week?"

Faced with the question of the Austro-Hungarian Chief of the General Staff, Simeone immediately spoke. "In a week's time, our Italian army can send 60,000 men to cooperate with your country's operation."

Since the Italians were still cooperative, the Admiral Hezendorf would not ask too many questions, and then he talked with Admiral Moltke Jr. about the cooperation between the two countries on the Eastern Front.

After the Austro-Hungarian military chief had finished talking, Moltke Jr. stood up and began to talk about Germany's operational needs.

"General Simeone, I wonder how many troops your country will be able to mobilize in three days to launch a diversionary attack on France?"

Moltke Jr. shocked Simeone as soon as he said this, and three days later he was going to directly start a war with France, and it seems that Germany has been planning for a long time.

"We can mobilize 300,000 troops on the French border to launch an offensive against it."

Although he was surprised, Simone's words were also quite bold, in the expansion of the army, he can take out 300,000 long-trained elite troops to cooperate with the German military operation, how can it not be described as heroic.

Moltke Jr. was very pleased with Simeone's words, and then, after muttering a few words to the other German generals, he took out a map and spoke. "Admiral Simeone, can I ask your country to launch a month-long offensive against France on the Alpine front to contain the French forces?"

Moltke Jr. was asking for help from Italy.

Because over the years, Moltke Jr. has been revising and advancing, and the Schlieffen battle plan, which is regarded as a treasure by the German military. Because this required the German army to take risks, use risks, and lure the French army to attack.

Moltke Jr. has always been uneasy about the thin left wing, and is bent on strengthening the thickness of the left wing, so if there is the help of the Italian army, which can contain its 200,000 French troops, then the success rate of Schlieffen's plan will be greatly improved.

This is also the reason why Germany did not revise Italy's demands, except for the Suez Canal, which was too involved and had to intervene.

If you ask for it, you will be courteous and virtuous.

The Germans don't understand this, but they understand it.

"There is no problem, we can launch an offensive against the French army in three days, but given the complex terrain on the border between our country and France, we can only contain the French army in the area."

Simeone was trying to dispel some of Germany's illusions, and the Alps were not so easy to navigate. It's okay to be contained, but if the other party has any drastic demands, then I'm sorry.

Regarding Simeone's words, Moltke Jr. and other high-ranking German military officials did not refute it.

Although many of them had not been to the terrain of the Franco-Italian border, the German military had also surveyed it, and the terrain was mountainous and ravine-crisscrossed, which was very suitable for defense. As for trying to attack, it was very difficult. Even if the Germans came on their own, they would not be much better than the Italian army.

Since Germany and Austria have asked for cooperation, and Italy has also met their demands. Then when Italy comes to put forward conditions, it cannot favor one over the other.

And Italy's requirements are different from theirs, Italy has more needs for the Navy.

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I'm sorry.,Overestimated myself today.,I can only code out two chapters.,The third chapter will be made up tomorrow?