At this time, Europe was in turmoil, and wars broke out everywhere.

In France, the Battle of Paris was still in full swing. Britain, France and Germany have continued to invest 2.4 million people to fight around Paris, and both sides have suffered heavy casualties, and the total casualties have reached as many as one million, which can be described as the largest battle of the current war.

In the newspapers, the huge casualties suffered by the two sides in the Paris region were dubbed the meat grinder.

The current situation in Paris was that the British and French forces had the upper hand, but they were still some way from recovering Paris due to the stubborn resistance of the Germans.

With the exception of Paris, the world-shocking meat grinder, the battle for Transcarpathia has come to an end.

After a bloody battle in which the Austrians suffered heavy casualties and the support of the German army, the Austrians won the battle in Transcarpathia.

For this reason, the Russian army paid nearly 300,000 casualties, and the German and Austrian armies also paid nearly 200,000 casualties, but the vast majority of these casualties came from the Austrian army, and the German casualties were more than 10,000.

Having fended off the Russian attack, the Austrians now set their sights on Serbia again.

At this time, the Austrians had prepared more than 200,000 men and appealed to Germany for help, while Berlin sent 17 Corps, whose commander was the famous General Mackensen.

Subsequently, nearly 300,000 German-Austrian troops attacked Serbia from the north, and Italy, as an ally, also sent an army from Kosovo to contain the Serbian army from the west.

Bulgaria, a new ally, was not far behind, and although it was fighting Greece on the Krestos River, Bulgaria had also sent more than 100,000 troops to attack Serbia for the sake of North Macedonia.

It should be said here that at present, Bulgaria has an army of nearly 400,000 troops, and a population of more than 3 million people has recruited so many people, which can be seen how desperate it is. And Bulgaria is also the country with the highest rate of call-up now, and probably the country with the highest rate of call-up in this war.

The Bulgarians, while fighting a bloody battle with the Greeks, still had the energy to besiege Seville, and indeed deserved the reputation of Balkan Prussia.

In addition, the Ottomans not only fought the British in Palestine, but also attacked Georgia, but the Ottoman army in the Caucasus suffered a defeat compared to the back-and-forth with the British in Palestine.

The 11th Army, commanded by Hassan Izet Pasha, attempted to attack the Salkamosh area, but was repulsed by the main forces of the Caucasian Army, suffering 59,000 Turkish and 34,000 Russian casualties on each side.

This is much stronger than in the original history, you must know that the original history was a fiasco, and this time it can be barely equaled, and the cause of all this is of course the Ottomans who trained the German army earlier, so that it is more and more sophisticated.

The Great War was fought not only in Europe, but also in Asia and Africa.

In Southeast Asia, the Japanese army was close to conquering the Bataan Peninsula, the last stronghold of the German army on Luzon. As for the Italian colony of Borneo, there must have been no way to survive the war.

In addition, Yuan Weiting, an old friend of Far Eastern Carlo, was in a dilemma at this time, because he was accepting the pull of the Entente bloc.

As a country with the largest population, people are also resources. And for Britain, France, Russia, and especially France, a large number of adult men were conscripted, resulting in an extreme shortage of domestic industry and agriculture.

However, although the Entente made a lot of conditions, it still made the Beiyang bloc that ruled China very hesitant.

This Europe has played out its dog brains, and it is too risky to mix it up. In addition, China generally has a good impression of Germany and Italy, and most of the weapons equipped by the army are purchased and imported from Germany, Italy and Austria. Therefore, it is very difficult for them to change in a short period of time.

And on the inhospitable African continent, the two sides are also fighting.

In German West Africa, Germany could not stop the British and French attacks, and now most of its colonies in West Africa have been occupied, only the northern part of Cameroon is still in German hands, but its time is running out with only more than 4,000 colonial troops.

In German South-West Africa, its territory was already occupied by British troops.

As for in German East Africa, it is much better.

Under General Wallbeck's leadership, German East Africa was unusually active, first attacking towns in southern Kenya and then repelling the landing Anglo-Indian army at Tanga, inflicting losses of more than 5,000 men.

In the face of the brave and warlike German East African army, the British knew that it would be difficult to solve German East Africa without a large number of troops, and Italy belonged to East Africa. Considering the urgent need to address the urgent needs of Italian East Africa, the British sent 50,000 troops from Kenya to defend the German forces on their borders. This is not a small number, you must know that the German army in East Africa only has more than 12,000 people, and the combat effectiveness of the German army in East Africa can be seen with four times the strength of the defense.

The German army in East Africa was strong in combat, and this was also the credit of General Wolbeck. The largest number of German troops in East Africa were African natives, whom General Wolbeck trained to German standards and treated his own soldiers equally. This also made him loved by these natives, and the battle was naturally not comparable to the British colonial army, and it was not surprising that he won the British colonial army.

The scale of the fighting in German East Africa was not large, and the real large-scale fighting in Africa was not the one fought by Italy and France in Tunisia, but the Italian East African campaign that had just begun.

The British and French troops sent 216,000 and 253,000 troops from Sudan and Kenya respectively to attack Italian East Africa from the north and south. In addition to the colonial troops, Britain and France sent nearly 100,000 native troops.

This shows how much attention is paid to Italian East Africa, which was stuck in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean and threatened the British Empire's Asian shipping routes. Even if it is against the Allied Indian Ocean Combined Fleet, it is necessary to destroy this important place with great threat first.

In addition, the British Indian Ocean Fleet also went to the coast of Italian East Africa to carry out artillery bombardment, in order to contain the Italian navy and part of the force.

In the face of the overwhelming pressure of the British and French troops, the commander of the Italian Eastern Army, General Brinnin, commanded more than 300,000 Italian troops to resist the Ethiopian army.

On the southern front, the two sides fought fierce battles on the Kismayo, Geli, and Bualai lines on the banks of the Miba River. More than 300,000 people on both sides have fought around the lower reaches of the Miba River, which is nearly 300 kilometers long, and it is still unclear who will win the battle.

The southern front was inseparable, but the northern front was much better, and the British army of 180,000 men on the northern front attacked the Italian army stationed on the defense line on the Hagarnish plateau.

Although the British carried 7-inch guns, the continuous fortifications made the British progress very slow. Lieutenant General Zelos, who was the commander of the northern front, used the defense line to consume the opponent, and slowly retreated in the middle of the defense line, making the troops seem to be unable to resist and retreating backwards, leading more than 100,000 people of a British army group into the gap.

It then launched a pincer offensive from both flanks, eventually encircling and annihilating more than 60,000 British troops. The vitality of the British army on the northern front was greatly damaged, so they could only retreat first and lick their wounds slowly. However, it still concentrated its troops on the border and pinned down the Italian army on the northern front.

In addition, in the direction of Ethiopia, the British army also sent more than 50,000 people to attack the line of Lake Tana, as an important grain producing area in Ethiopia, of course, they did not want to see the area occupied by the British army, so the Ethiopian army gathered heavy troops here to engage it. As the king, Ayasu personally went to the front line to direct the battle, and the two sides fought inseparably in the area.

However, Ethiopia has a strong army, and although the elite level is not good, it is still gradually gaining the advantage. However, the British army's approach, apparently, was also achieved, pinning down the Ethiopian army, although it suffered a lot of losses.

At this time, the fierce fighting in East Africa made Italy speed up preparations for the Egyptian campaign. Only the capture of Egypt could open up the sea transport from Rome to Massawa and threaten India, which Britain valued most. Therefore, if the preparations are not accelerated, the troops and ammunition in East Africa cannot withstand the long-term attrition.

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