ps: I'm sorry, I'm dizzy, the serial numbers of the first two chapters are wrong, it should be chapters 331 and 332. Still asking for votes......

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Wilhelm II's big move of "putting satellites" this time was really unexpected, but it was indeed an excellent move. This made Wen Desi and others admire, and I have to say that it still takes a lot of courage to be willing to let the territory he has fought to become independent, and this kind of courage is not something that every ruler has.

Like the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the reason why they became the general receiver was because they were too greedy and occupied too much territory, far beyond their own digestion capacity. As a result, these territories are not only indigestible and become their own strength, but have become huge hidden dangers and unstable factors in the country, which not only do not play a role, but also occupy a lot of resources to maintain stability.

But as soon as Germany and Austria released the "satellite" this time, the situation was completely different, and those independent countries would only be grateful to the allies, and in order to ensure their hard-won independent status, they would willingly help the allies. In particular, Germany and Austria also took out the occupied Belarus as a reward and divided it among these new countries, and after taking this benefit, even if they had a big enmity with the woolly bear, they couldn't help but sell their lives.

Moreover, Germany and Austria not only released five satellites this time, they also used a part of Bessarabia (Moldova) as bait to win over Romania. This area is located between the Dniester and Prut rivers in eastern ⊙ Europe and covers an area of 4. 40,000 square kilometers, the capital is in Kishinev. In ancient times, it was part of the Roman province of Dacia, and the majority of its inhabitants were Romanians and spoke the Romanian language. In 1812, the Russians won the war against Turkey and seized the region. Later, it changed hands several times in history between Romania and Tsarist Russia (Soviet Union).

This territory can be said to be the heart disease of Romania, and for many years Romanians have dreamed of recovering this territory. Therefore, for the "goodwill" of the Central Powers, they almost did not hesitate to get on the ships of the Central Powers.

Therefore, Wen Desi said with emotion: "I have to say that Wei Er's move is really right, whether it is a mistake or a deliberate move, this move is really wonderful! The situation on the eastern front is alive all of a sudden, not only the eastern front is alive." And all at once there are several more allies, mainly Poland, Ukraine and Romania, which are also medium-sized countries. Although there are only half of Ukraine now, there are more than 15 million people, which is equivalent to Turkey. And whether it is Poland, Ukraine or the three Baltic countries, they are all very capable of fighting, and now the Allies have received a batch of strong reinforcements......"

Zhang Lizheng said: "It's true, although this approach is a bit unbelievable, but the effect is really very good. Originally, although the people in these occupied areas were hostile to Russia, they also had no sense of identity, or even hatred, for the Central Powers, such as the partition of Poland. As a result, instead of receiving help from the Allies in these lands, they had to devote a great deal of energy to maintaining stability. But Wei Er's clever move is equivalent to getting rid of the original burden, and in turn, completely enveloping these countries. ”

"Indeed, I must admit that Wei Er's hand is too handsome. What he lost was only land that nominally belonged to Germany but could not bring benefits, but he completely seized the initiative on the Eastern Front and brought in a large number of cannon fodder with high morale. This is to abandon a false name for real gain. I'll take a look at ......"

Xin Jie said, clicked on the palm computer to check the information and said: "Oh, now the population of Poland is 25.5 million, Romania has nearly 9 million, and the three Baltic countries have a total population of about 4 million. This independent Ukraine is the part west of the Dnieper River and has a population of about 17.5 million. Even without counting Belarus, they added 56 million people to the effective population. In this way, they could raise at least 3 million troops! In addition to defending against Russia, they could send at least 1,500,000 troops to the Western Front, so that the problem of insufficient troops of the Central Powers could be greatly alleviated. ”

Rossi, commander-in-chief of the army, interjected: "But Italy in the Allies is also about to be abolished, and if the Japanese fight harder, it is estimated that Italy should make peace." ”

The Italian battlefield is the only bright spot for the Allies on the Western Front. Because of the Italian medicine, the Japanese army suffered severe losses in the process of attacking Milan, and finally although Milan was captured at the end of March, it also paid heavy losses, and then the Japanese stopped to rest. Subsequently, the Italians launched several counter-offensives, but they were all repulsed.

By September, Akiyama had received reinforcements from the mainland, as well as four new divisions and two aviation brigades, as well as twelve colonial divisions sent by the Allies. In this way, the strength of his troops was expanded to ten Japanese divisions and sixteen colonial divisions. Moreover, among the Japanese troops who came to reinforce this time, there was also the newly formed ace unit -- the First Tank Division.

This is Japan's first armored division, the formation of the division is based on the reference to the similar units of several countries such as China, Britain, France and Germany, the scale is quite large, equipped with nearly 300 tanks and more than 60 self-propelled guns, more than 300 armored vehicles. Most of these armored vehicles were imported from China, and a small number were copied by them themselves after the introduction of drawings and patents such as the "Wolverine". The division commander of the 1st Tank Division is Lieutenant General Yoshinori Shirakawa, and this old man is a junior of Akiyama Yoshiko, and he is also an iron buddy.

Shirakawa Yoshinori was able to become the commander of the chariot division this time, also because of Akiyama's strong recommendation. The reason why Akiyama recommended him was, of course, not to say things like "This is my hardcore little brother, obedient and handy in commanding". According to Akiyama, Shirakawa was the only living Japanese general who participated in the Battle of the Tops Panzer Conference, and also had extensive experience in "engagement" with German tanks. Well, it's actually the experience of being beaten, when Shirakawa-sanko was on the Western Front, he fought with German tanks dozens of times, and every time he was thrown into a mess, he was disgraced, and several major generals with him were hanged, but he has been living well, this is naturally the "experienced" cousin, or he should go to see Aunt Amaterasu.

Regardless of whether this reason is far-fetched or not, Akiyama Yoshiko's face cannot be denied, and people now have a string of shining titles such as "God of War", "Tiger of the Apennines", "Conqueror of Milan" and so on. Although the Japanese military bigwigs had the intention of arranging a certain "noble second generation" to be the commander of the division, they had to make concessions considering the factors of Akiyama. In the end, Shirakawa Yoshinori was made the commander of the chariot division, and the "noble second generation" was transferred to the infantry division.

After gaining enough troops, Akiyama Yoshiko launched another offensive at the end of September. This time, the Entente was divided into two lines, one led by Akiyama Yoshiko, leading six Japanese divisions, eight colonial divisions and one aviation brigade to attack Brescia. On the other hand, Shirakawa Yoshinori led four Japanese divisions, eight colonial divisions, and an aviation brigade to attack Re-Na-Ya.

Although the Italians have scrapped firewood, with the help of the second generation of the source of courage, the combat effectiveness that broke out is still considerable. Akiyama's attack was met with stubborn resistance, and after defeating Brescia, he was already exhausted and wounded, and stopped at Lake Garda. And the Po River Plain, with its dense water network, was also a headache for the Japanese, so they hit the west of the Po River and did not move.

However, Shirakawa Yoshinori, who attacked to the south, had a very smooth road, and the Italians, no matter how much medicine they had, could not become Transformers, and they were defeated one after another under the attack of armored fighting vehicles. Shirakawa Yoshinori marched all the way, successively defeating Re-Na-Ya, Parma and Bologna, and by October 27, Shirakawa had already reached the front line of Florence and Pisa, and only then stopped the attack and turned to the defense under the order of Akiyama Yoshiko.

The Entente occupied the entire northwestern part of Italy, almost a quarter of the size of mainland Italy, and nearly cut Italy in two. If the Japanese hadn't stopped themselves, they would have rushed to Rome.

During the nearly month-long battle, 300,000 troops sent by Italy and Austria-Hungary were killed, more than 400,000 wounded, and 120,000 captured. The losses of the Japanese were not small, a total of 240,000 people were killed (including more than 60,000 Japanese killed), 160,000 were wounded, and more than 4,000 were captured. In particular, those colonial divisions all suffered more than half of the casualties, and the casualty rate of some divisions even reached 80%, of course, the Japanese themselves were not happy, and the casualties reached 130,000, which was also extremely miserable.

This kind of drugged combat is particularly brutal, and the soldiers on both sides can fight to the death during the duration of the drug, so it is very rare for the dead to outnumber the wounded. However, after this battle was fought, both sides were a little unbearable, so now everyone stopped and licked their wounds.

Xin Jie smiled: "Hehehe, don't worry. In my opinion, the Japanese will certainly not take the initiative to attack again in the near future. With the virtue of the Japanese, they occupy so much rich land, and they must have to loot the local area, and they will not move if they do not scrape the ground. ”

Wen Deji gloated and smiled: "The Italians are really unlucky to come home this time, and the northwest region is their main industrial area. If the Japanese locust army is so messed up, I'm afraid there won't be anything left. Even if it is recovered in the future, the industrial level of these places will probably be regressed by 20 years...... And this is all self-inflicted, who told them to participate in the war without their own strength, but they still joined the Allies, they really deserve to be unlucky!"

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Cam Ranh District, Thanh Ninh City, Annam Province, Cam Ranh Bay.

The city of Thanh Ninh is the Khanh Hoa Province and Ninh Thuan Province of Vietnam, and the new China of the original plane snatched most of French Indochina from France in the Annam War in 1911. Originally, this place was under the administration of Guangxi Province, divided into two counties, Qinghe and Ningshun, and after the formal establishment of Annam Province in January 1917, Qingning City was established and redivided into three counties and two districts.

As long as people in later generations know the importance of Cam Ranh Bay, Wen Deji is naturally no exception, and after New China got Cam Ranh Bay, it was regarded as an important military port and naval base. In order to strengthen the construction of the place, more than 50,000 people were relocated from the mainland, and Jinlan District was also set up, which was directly under the jurisdiction of the Qingning Municipal Government.

The topography of Cam Ranh Bay is very good, the harbor is 17 kilometers inland, and the inner and outer bays are hugged by two peninsulas, the inner harbor of Cam Ranh covers an area of 60 square kilometers, the water depth is 1-16 meters, and the mouth of the bay is only 1300 meters wide. The water depth is 10-22 meters, the width of the bay mouth is about 4,000 meters, and the water depth outside the mouth is more than 30 meters. The water depth can berth ships of more than 100,000 tons, and due to the wide water depth and wide bay, hundreds of large warships of 10,000 tons, including super dreadnoughts, can be berthed in the port, which is considered to be one of the best natural deep-water harbors in the world. Moreover, the entrance of the port is narrow, the terrain is dangerous, it is easy to defend, and it is located on the important waterway connecting the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, which has extremely important strategic value and is known as the first military port in Asia.

After several years of construction, Cam Ranh Bay has not only undergone large-scale expansion and dredging, and built additional wharves, but also built many new maintenance docks and slipways on the west bank of the inner harbor, built a large military airport on the Cam Ranh Peninsula on the east side of the harbor, and built a large early warning radar station and long-range communication station. In the past, the French built a large number of forts here, and after the Chinese took over, they carried out a thorough modernization of these forts, installing 360 mm and 390 mm heavy fortress guns, and the anti-aircraft firepower has made revolutionary progress, and the entire Cam Ranh Bay port area has been fortified.

Cam Ranh Bay is under the jurisdiction of China's South China Sea Fleet, and about half of the South China Sea Fleet's ships are permanently stationed there. But as everyone knows, the main force of the Chinese Navy is the Pacific Task Force, and almost eighty percent of the cutting-edge large ships are there. The Three Seas Fleet has become a second-line force, and it usually does some miscellaneous tasks such as patrolling, protecting fisheries, fighting piracy, and training new recruits, and it is about to become an armed police force at sea, so the ships equipped are all old goods.

In the past few years, the South China Sea Fleet still had two former dreadnoughts and a few cruisers to support the façade, but since Wen Deji put the clearance in his hands into sale, the remaining basically small and medium-sized ships, the largest combat ships are two 8,000-ton "Minjiang-class" light cruisers, and the ships exceeding 10,000 tons are all auxiliary ships such as landing ships and supply ships.

But at this time, Cam Ranh Bay was already full of large warships, all of the 15 capital ships and five aircraft carriers of the Chinese Navy are all here, in addition to hundreds of cruisers, destroyers and frigates. There are also numerous amphibious ships and various auxiliary ships.

On the heavy cruiser Huangshan, Li Ang said to the political commissar with a puzzled expression: "Lao Lu, what are you saying you are going to do? This is almost the entire Chinese navy is here." You see, even those temporarily modified aircraft carriers have come...... Although it is said to be an exercise, what kind of exercise is going to be used on such a large scale? Moreover, even Vice Premier Yuan has come, he is in charge of the new territory, if it is an exercise, what do you need him to do?"