Early May

The expeditionary forces from the Tang Empire successively arrived in Bordeaux, France, and southern ports along the Mediterranean Sea in Italy, and transported the first batch of more than 47,600 officers and soldiers from three divisions.

Along with the officers and soldiers of the Tang Empire, there are also a large number of armored vehicles, artillery and trucks and other equipment, which will be tested on the battlefield.

The arrival of reinforcements from the Tang Empire was warmly welcomed by the local people, and the scene was quite lively.

Particularly excited were the local French and Italian women, who let out bursts of screams when the soldiers arrived, which was inexplicably excited.

The expeditionary force of the Tang Empire is indeed different from the armies of Britain, France and Germany, they wear sturdy and durable dark gray military uniforms, and wear 15-type steel helmets, the front of which is the royal badge of the Tang Empire, indicating the identity of the Tang Imperial Army.

The soldiers were tall, with sanded leather boots and advanced bolt-action rifles and carbines, and looked well-groomed and iron-blooded.

Such an outstanding appearance won a full house.

As the First World War enters its fourth year, what is Europe lacking today?

Lack of men.

There is a shortage of young and strong men.

The Kingdom of Italy, having paid a heavy price of more than 2.8 million casualties in the war so far, still has to be known as a "rookie" and has become a bully among the world's great powers.

was caught by the Germans and beaten for a while, Austria-Hungary was also beaten for a while, and the Bulgarians were also beaten for a while, a typical slut and a weak chicken.

Since the first Battle of Izo was launched on June 23, 1915, the Italian army has launched ten battles of the Izo River, each time gathering two, three or even four times the number of military forces, but it has never been able to break through the defense line of the Austro-Hungarian army.

The Kingdom of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire are separated by the Alps, which in peacetime are a popular destination for skiing and tourism.

When war comes

The Austro-Hungarian Empire built a strong line of fortress defenses along the Alps, creating fortresses to defend against military invasions by the Allied military blocs.

In the southeast of the border between the two countries, the Izo River valley is a lowland valley terrain, and it is also the only plateau and mountain area that can be used on a large scale, and it is the easiest direction for the Italian army to break through.

Therefore, the commander of the Italian army, Cardona, formulated the strategy of "defending the west and attacking the east", and determined the area of breakthrough in the "Izzo River area", which is already a well-known thing.

In the 10th Battle of the Izo River, which had just ended in early May, the Italian army suffered another humiliating defeat, suffering more than 150,000 casualties without an inch.

The Italian commander Cardona was forced to turn to the British and French allies for help, and it was at this point in time that the Tang Empire signed the Treaty of Bordeaux to join the alliance.

Now Britain and France and other major belligerents are completely dragged down by Germany, and they simply cannot draw troops to join the southern front.

This heavy task fell on the head of the First Corps of the Tang Empire Expedition.

The First Corps of the Tang Empire's Expeditionary Corps totaled more than 365,000 people, with four armies and 17 divisions, including three field heavy artillery divisions and two armored divisions, which would be mainly used in the southern front of Europe.

It is estimated that it will take 4~5 months to arrive.

In other words, with the rest time, it is expected that around October this year, the Tang Empire Expeditionary Force and the Italian coalition will be able to launch a wave of ferocious counterattacks on the southern front of Europe, reducing the pressure on the western and eastern fronts as much as possible.

The remaining 200,000 or so people formed the Second Expeditionary Corps, which is expected to be put into the French-dominated Western Front battlefield, and the date of arrival will be around the end of the year.

As a matter of fact

The Tang Empire also amassed an army of about 86,000 troops in the Middle East battlefield to prepare for a counterattack on the Iraqi battlefield.

At the end of last year, the British army suffered a total defeat in Iraq, and the British Expeditionary Force under the besieged General Townsend surrendered to the Ottoman and German forces.

On the Syrian front, as early as the summer of 1916, the Ottoman army launched the Battle of Suez, trying to capture the important canal zone.

Under the stubborn counterattack of the British and French troops, the attack of the Allied troops was finally repulsed.

Now, the Red Naval Region of the Tang Empire has gathered heavy troops, and plans to form a coalition with the British and French remnants of the Suez Canal Zone, with a total of about 220,000 additional troops, and will counterattack Kut City and Iraq again.

Entering 1917

The Entente and the Central Powers fell into a brief silence, and they were now in a state of post-war recovery. There were too many people who died last year, and no one was able to set off a new round of million-level battles.

From the overall situation

Undoubtedly, it was beneficial to the Entente bloc, and after the Tang Empire joined the alliance, it further consolidated the comprehensive military and material blockade of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottomans, Bulgaria and other Allied blocs, making its situation increasingly difficult.

In terms of troop strength, the Entente bloc had a total strength of 425 divisions, while the Allied bloc had only 331 divisions, an increase of 94 divisions.

In terms of weapons, equipment and materials, with the strong support of the Tang Empire, the Entente bloc was far stronger than the other side.

But the situation of the war did not take on a one-sided form, and the Entente military bloc, with many internal problems, looked more like a weak side.

Under the influence of heavy casualties, the British and French forces on the Western Front had refused to take the initiative, and in order to avoid military turmoil, the Allied top brass had to abandon the new battle plan.

The same was true on the Italian battlefield on the Southern Front, where the 10th Battle of the Izo River had just been fought still unsurprisingly failed, and the head was broken again.

This provoked a strong sense of war weariness in the Italian army, as if the bowstring had broken to the tightest place, and a strong backlash would arise at any moment.

This situation was even more widespread in the Tsarist army, which was in dire need of weapons and supplies, and a new tide of resistance surged and formed a huge anti-tsarist force.

The Entente bloc had a larger population, a wider territory, and a greater war potential, but it was not so reflected on the battlefield, and it was difficult to fight on the Eastern, Western and Southern Fronts.

The "unrestricted submarine warfare" launched by the German army at sea reversed the huge disadvantage in material supply in one fell swoop, and caused irreparable massive losses to the Allied allies, and in many cases was also in a situation of supply difficulties.

At this time, it is to see who has more endurance.

The United Kingdom, France, and Italy are all countries that need large quantities of goods and are extremely dependent on the Atlantic shipping routes.

Britain and France aside, before the outbreak of the First World War, the Kingdom of Italy was a typical agricultural country, just one foot in the process of industrialization.

In 1914, Italy's per capita income was only half that of France and one-third of that of the Tang Empire, and more than half of adult men and nearly eighty percent of women were illiterate.

The Italian economy is still highly dependent on foreign imports, while coal and grain are subject to international prices, because Italy not only produces very little steel, but also needs to buy coal from the United Kingdom, and is not even self-sufficient in food.

Its agricultural production is extremely backward, and it has to rely on imports for wheat and other crops.

After the unification of the Kingdom of Italy, even with the support of the industrial region of Lombardy in the north, Italy is still a predominantly agricultural country, with more than 60% of the population engaged in agricultural activities, and the overall industrial strength is at the bottom of Europe.

The war caused millions of Italian male casualties, which caused a major setback in Italy's agriculture and handicraft industry, which was in dire need of foreign imports.

The same is true of Belgium, Serbia and other countries, which rely on industrial and agricultural products imported from the Tang Empire, which is now becoming more and more obvious.

The biggest problem came from the "unrestricted submarine warfare" of the German Navy, which immediately inflicted serious losses on the Entente.

In 1917, the frenzied attack of German submarines caused the losses of Allied merchant ships to increase from 300,000 tons in January to 400,000 tons in February, then to 500,000 tons in March, and finally to 850,000 tons in April.

On average, one out of every four British merchant ships went to sea was sunk, and 1,727 merchant ships had been sunk by the end of June, which is nearly half of the total number of British merchant ships.

Countless goods sank in the icy North Atlantic, causing huge losses to the Entente group and delaying the fortune of the Tang Empire.

And this was one of the important factors that contributed to the Tang Empire's eventual entry into the Entente bloc.

From June

Under the escort system measures strongly advocated by the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, the British Royal Navy worked closely with the Royal Navy of the Tang Dynasty and sent most of the minesweepers and light ships to participate in the escort fleet, which greatly reduced losses.

In the midst of the turmoil in the world, Richard arrived at Fubo, the pearl city of the Red Sea, with Severia's mother and son at the end of June, and started his new journey.

For him

With the signing of the Treaty of Bordeaux, the interests of the Tang Empire were officially recognized by international treaties, and this benefit was put into the bag, and no one could let the Tang Empire spit it out again.

Even if there are no other benefits in the post-war international division, it is completely sufficient.

Today, the Tang Malawi and the Tang Mozambique in Africa together exceed 1.1 million square kilometers, and the north is close to South Africa, which is the largest colony of the Tang Empire in Africa.

After more than 20 years, how is the construction?

The Tang Empire's East African Governor's Office is now gathering 23,000 troops to attack Tanzania in German East Africa with the British, and the German colonists are losing one after another.

According to the consistent urine of the Tang Empire

In the colonies of Mozambique and Malawi, the local blacks were enslaved to build infrastructure on a large scale, including railways, roads, bridges, towns, ports, power plants, dams, etc., and invested large sums of money in the comprehensive development of industry and agriculture in the coastal areas.

Over the past 20 years, the region has been built into one of the most industrialized and well-developed regions in Africa, second only to Yunzhong Province.

The proportion of blacks in the region has also rapidly decreased, with more than 300,000 of the more than 1.7 million black tribes living in the area remaining as of a few days ago, mostly in remote mines, roads, bridges and dam sites.

It won't be long before there will be black-free.

The process of immigration from the empire's North American mainland and East Asia to the East African colonies has been continuing, and the Chinese population has become the mainstream of the local population, and will adhere to the immigration policy for 30 or even more than 50 years in the future.

Nowadays, the number of immigrants from East Asia to North America has been greatly reduced, and the government no longer pays for the cost of immigrating mainly from the Chinese themselves.

More encouraged immigrants were directed to the South American vassal states and Brazil, the islands of Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Paradise on the southwestern Pacific islands, the province of Yunzhong on the Red Sea coast, the new six provinces of the Arabian Peninsula, and Malawi and Mozambique within the territory of the Tang East African Colonial Governorate.

It is expected that new destinations such as Tanzania will be added in the future to continue to strengthen the influence of the Chinese.

According to the different destinations of immigrants, the preferential subsidies of the government of the Tang Empire are also different, the ferry ticket subsidy is from 10% ~ 100%, and the living allowance ranges from 6 jiao to 1 jiao 5 cents per day, and preferential policies are used to guide immigrants.

The final destination is Chinese immigrants from North America, and now there is no dime preferential policy.

This is the only one

Nine into nine Chinese immigrants with empty pockets were blocked out of North America, and their new destinations were the islands of the Southwest Pacific, the countries of South America, and the colonies of East Africa.

Fubo City

Coming to this pearl city of the Red Sea again, Richard was surprised to find that the city had undergone earth-shaking changes, and it had become a little unrecognizable to him.

In just a few years after the outbreak of the war, countless European capitals poured into this Red Sea star city, contributing to the city's take-off.

In the originally desolate western suburbs, countless tall new buildings have risen from the ground, and there are countless high-rise buildings with more than a dozen floors and dozens of floors, showing the style of a modern city against the backdrop of wide roads and beautiful street gardens.

In just over three years

The city has expanded by two and a half times to a built-up area of 1,432 square kilometers, and is still growing at a very high rate.

The number of cement factories in the city has increased dramatically from 6 to 22, and the city's population has increased dramatically from less than 800,000 to more than 1.91 million, which is about to exceed the 2 million population mark.

On the outskirts of the city, new buildings and new roads can be seen everywhere, and the built-up area of Fubo City is rapidly moving closer to the central city of Yunzhong.

The distance between the two cities, which was originally 67 kilometers, is now less than 35 kilometers, showing a trend of integration of twin cities.

Along with the inflow of a large number of people, there is an inversion of the social structure, and whites account for the largest ethnic group in Fubo City with 59.63%, and nearly half in Yunzhong City.

The influx of European capital into the region has contributed to the rapid development of Yunzhong Province, and the national economic output has even skyrocketed by more than 43% every year, which is simply the same every year.

Here you can see the architectural characteristics of European countries, the Apennine architecture on the Mediterranean side, the elegant French architecture, the simple and charming Victorian architecture, and the unique Han and Tang Dynasty architecture.

It was a transshipment center for the entire Arabian Peninsula and a center for smuggling into the Allied territories, from which a steady stream of windfall profits were derived.

Although the Tang Empire imposed an embargo on the Central Powers, the enforcement was not strong and the measures were not strict.

The six provinces of the Arabian Peninsula had a long border with the Ottoman Empire, including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jerusalem, and there were arguably too many smuggling channels.

No one can defend the long desert Gobi border line of more than 3,000 kilometers, and there can only be a few points to selectively garrison, but what is the use?

The history of smuggling in Kuwait, led by Kuwait, can be traced back to more than 60 years, and mature smuggling channels have already been developed, which is simply impossible to prevent.

Among them, there are many active figures of German immigrants, and there are many entanglements of interests, which must be blocked.

(End of chapter)