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After the Battle of the Mediterranean in February of this year, the Allies suffered an unprecedented defeat, and the main fleets of Italy and Austria-Hungary were completely wiped out, and they completely lost control of the Mediterranean. Most importantly, after this fiasco, the Itali were shaken. Everyone knows that the morale of the Italians has always been very worrying, and their current situation is very unoptimistic.

Now that about a quarter of Italy is occupied by the Allies (mainly Japan), what can the Japanese locust army do in the territory they occupy? Naturally, it would have been three feet high, and if it had not been for the reinforcements of 30 divisions sent by the Central Powers, and the extensive use of the source of courage, they would have been on their knees. Originally, although the army lost one after another, the navy managed to regain some face, and with such an increase and a subtraction, it could barely hold on.

But with the collapse of the navy, Italy's last archway, the Italians finally couldn't hold on, and they really didn't want to fight.

To add insult to injury, on the morning of 5 March, the Allies launched a landing operation on Sicily and Sardinia at the same time, taking advantage of the great victory. Italy, whose navy was almost completely wiped out, was powerless to fight back, and the Allied forces landed smoothly and completely took control of the two largest Italian islands in mid-March.

At this point, the Italians don't want to play anymore. For the Italians, this is nothing, because "jumping back" and "surrendering" are the racial skills of the Italian people. So on March 19, they sent a secret envoy to contact the Entente powers, and prepared to make peace privately.

But what Yi Duli didn't expect was that their behavior was soon poked out by someone, and Wei Er and Ferdinand both knew about it. Wei Er and Ferdinand were both furious, so after discussing with the two emperors of Germany and Austria, they immediately ordered the German and Austrian troops in Rome to act.

The matter of private peace with the Entente was a secret known to a few high-ranking people, and the Italian army did not know about it at all, and naturally did not beware of German and Austrian friendly forces. On March 22, the four German-Austrian divisions in Rome suddenly turned their faces, and the unprepared Italian troops knelt without the slightest resistance, and they quickly disarmed the Italian army, while several elite German-Austrian commandos attacked the Italian royal palace and the central government and other key departments, firmly controlling the royal family and the cabinet.

In this way, the desire of the Italians to get off the thief ship was frustrated. However, after the news of the incident, although the Italian army did not cross, the morale was even more low, and now the situation in Italy is completely maintained by the armies of Germany and Austria and other countries. And it also had an extremely bad effect on the rest of the Allied powers.

Under these circumstances, Germany, as the leader of the alliance, in order to boost the morale of its own camp or to prove that it is still capable of fighting, has intensified its offensive on the Western Front in recent months. Naturally, the Entente countries, which are now in a good situation, will not show weakness and will immediately fight-for-tat, so the European war began at the end of March and entered a climax. By the end of June, the number of casualties between the two armies had exceeded 3 million in the past three months.

Moreover, it is not only the Western Front in Europe that is now being fought, but also Africa and India. The independence movement, which had been suppressed by the US and Japanese armies and had been suspended for a long time, rose again. With the support of the Allies and a mysterious organization (mainly the latter), independent organizations in Africa and India sprung up, and the movements of the African and Indian peoples for independence surged, and the power of the Entente in Africa and India was dealt a heavy blow.

Moreover, this time they appeared to be more organized, more experienced in rebellion, and had learned very clever guerrilla tactics, and their weapons had been updated, and their combat effectiveness was at least twice as high as before, making the Entente countries overwhelmed and incomparably bigger.

In contrast, the situation in India was better, and the centuries of rule of the British were not in vain, and they cultivated a considerable number of interests and pro-British forces in the region. The anti-British rebel army for independence fought fiercely against the British and pro-British forces on the vast Indian subcontinent.

The situation in Africa is much worse, because the Europeans don't take these seriously at all, and they don't even do a good job of supporting the interest class. It was only after the outbreak of the independence movement that the Europeans found themselves unable to find a few supporters in the local area, and they were immediately plunged into the sea of people's war.

The whole of Africa, as well as the Somali region under Chinese rule and the German-controlled East African region, is relatively stable, and the territory of other Allied countries can be said to be in full swing, and Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and other countries can be regarded as having a solid taste of the people's war.

Of course, the bottom line of the white-skinned guys at this time is very low, and they also have their own methods for the people's war, and they are quite effective. After all, the people's war is built on the basis of the people, and as long as there are no "people" in the locality, won't the people's war be over?

Britain, France, the United States, and Japan thought so and did so, anyway, this is not the first time they have done this kind of thing, and they are very skilled. Britain, France, the United States, and Japan once again began to purge the colonies, killing two-legged creatures whenever they saw them, and the were once again in hell. But after all, Africa is so big, and there are still the two Germans in East Africa to contain it, and no matter how effective it is, it will require a lot of military strength and time. Britain and France were now unable to spare their hands, and the United States and Japan had to send more troops to Black Africa again.

Originally, they also asked China to increase its troops, or to help other places suppress bandits and quell the unrest. However, China has proposed that because the agreement stipulates that China cannot expand its colonies in Africa, the eight divisions currently invested have reached the limit of the agreement. China will not increase its troops unless it has a larger colony in Africa. As for helping other places to suppress bandits and quell the disorder, we are currently understaffed.

The implication is: Since there is no benefit from Lao Tzu, why should Lao Tzu help you in vain? Of course, Britain and France did not do it, and it was with great difficulty that China promised not to expand in Africa, and if they agreed to this request now, wouldn't it be in vain? You know, now the territory of China is already 2873. 510,000 square kilometers, second only to the United Kingdom, the empire on which the sun never sets, ranks second in the world. Although it is still a little worse than the more than 30 million square kilometers of opium cattle, the speed of expansion is too amazing.

This made Britain and France extremely jealous, and if it were not for the fact that they were really unable to spare their hands after the outbreak of the world war, these two old imperialists would have launched a suppressive action against China long ago. How is it possible to agree to China's continued expansion? I have to admit that the outbreak of World War I really gave China a godsend opportunity for expansion, and it was really cool to grab territory at a time when the European powers had no time to look eastward.

Well, in fact, China is also suffering now, and it will take a while for the doubling of the territory to be digested, or with the temper of Wen Dehei, it will not agree to the agreement not to expand its territory in Africa. If you eat some more turf, your belly will burst, and it won't be fun. Wen Desi is now sure that Britain and France will not agree, so he took the opportunity to open his mouth, if Britain and France are unwilling, then we will continue to grind foreign workers.

Britain and France do not want China to expand its territory in Africa, while China has made it clear that it will not do even a little more work without benefit. So, the matter fell apart. Then the affairs of Africa and India have to be figured out by themselves, but fortunately, now that the situation has been reversed, they are not as anxious as last year, it is nothing more than trouble, it is better than letting China intervene.

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Of course, everyone is still teammates in the same trench, and this small difference does not affect everyone's cooperation. In addition to playing soy sauce grinding in the European battlefield, China's progress in Africa is still good.

Since China cut off the supply of supplies to German East Africa, the German East African Legion, which was once coaxed, has not been able to recover. The commander of the corps, Lieutenant General Leto Forbeck, was indeed very capable of fighting, and had a high level of command and management, and he was called the "African god of war" by the German media, and even the British and French media adopted this title.

However, no matter how awesome Falbeck is, he can't conjure up supplies and supplies, and most importantly, his current East African Legion is much larger than the original plane. When such a configuration is sufficient, the combat effectiveness is of course stronger, so he has also achieved results far beyond the original time and space. But there are two sides to everything, and his East African army consumes much more supplies than the original plane.

You must know that there is no industrial base in that fast part of German East Africa, and their weapons, ammunition, and even medicines are all transported from the outside world, and these materials are mainly from China. As a result, after China's supplies were cut off, his East African Army was tragic, and he could only rely on German ocean-going submarines to transport a little supplies, but how much could the submarines transport? Compared with consumption, that little thing was just a drop in the bucket.

Folbeck, who had no choice, fortunately contracted strategically and gradually abandoned the British East Africa they occupied (Kenya and Uganda). So the People's Liberation Army followed them and took the opportunity to take over these places, and of course they couldn't forget to put a few shots and shoot a few shots, indicating that we had recaptured them through battle.

Now China has recovered most of Kenya and Uganda, and its troops have reached Lake Victoria.

After the Chinese Air Force was stationed in Turkey, it fought with the Allied Air Force day out, and there were several large-scale air battles with more than 200 aircraft, and now it has also brushed a lot of trump cards. Colonel Jin Haihai, who has the largest number of downs, has more than 100 planes, becoming the first super ace in Chinese history to break 100 downs.

However, what made Jin Hai depressed was that Wen Deji personally ordered that he was not allowed to go to the front line anymore. There are other people who are at the top of the performance rankings, and they are recalled to China as instructors, and they are not allowed to go to the front line.

Of course, the most active of the three armed forces is probably the navy. After their victory in the Strait of Kithera in the Mediterranean, they actively participated in escort operations on the Atlantic route.

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June 19, Republic 2760 (1919), Atlantic Ocean, Azores Sea.

The Azores are volcanic islands in the east-central North Atlantic Ocean and are an overseas territory of Portugal. The archipelago has long been an important supply point for the Atlantic shipping route. It is a relay station for air routes between Europe, the United States and Africa, and its strategic and transportation location is extremely important.

On the blue sea, a pod of dolphins are playing carefree. At this time, an extremely large fleet appeared on the Tianhai junction line to the west.

It was a fleet of more than 300 merchant ships that departed from New York, USA, and sailed in a neat queue to the northeast of the island of Britain. They don't come out of this formation to pretend to be forced, but for safety.

This neat-looking queue is an anti-submarine formation, which is the most efficient and effective anti-submarine formation summed up by Britain, the United States, and France at the cost of countless blood, ships, and countless cargoes. Merchant ships were discharged from the inside out according to their size, type, and importance of the cargo. Then the escorting warships will surround them, protecting them.

Naturally, this huge merchant ship formation was accompanied by a large escort fleet, mainly composed of China, the United States, and Japan, and a few British and French destroyers mixed in. Because China has sent the largest number of warships in this escort mission, it is customary for China's navy chief to serve as the commander-in-chief.

On the bridge of the flagship aircraft carrier Han Dynasty, Vice Admiral Yue Youyuan, commander of the escort fleet, was surveying the fleet.

"Hehe, this array looks like a shepherd dog herding sheep......" Lieutenant General Yue Youyuan put down his binoculars and said with a smile.

The captain of the ship, Colonel Wei Yong, said disapprovingly: "Commander, I think they are too exaggerated, they actually used 74 warships to escort the escort. It's just a few submarines, do you need to do that?"

Yue Youyuan smiled: "No way, they are scared of German submarines, as of last month, they have been sunk by German submarines more than 7,000 merchant ships, and the total tonnage has exceeded 25 million tons." We in China now have less than 9 million tons of merchant ships, which is almost three times our size, and this tonnage is enough to replace all the merchant ships of the United States, Britain and France.

"Hehe, indeed, this loss is painful to think about, most of the merchant ships we helped the British and American French built were blind, all of them were sunk by the Germans, and it was really heart-wrenching to think about it, hey, what a waste. These German submarines are also really hard enough. Wei Yong nodded, and couldn't help but feel a little pity.

25 million tons of merchant ships, not counting the cargo on it, but this ship is shocking enough. To tell the truth, if China hadn't come up with the "Liberation Ship", a standard merchant ship that is easy to manufacture, the merchant ships of the Entente countries would have been wiped out long ago. Later, the Yankees also saw the benefits of the "Liberation Wheel", so they proposed to China to buy patent licenses and drawings, and use the things invented by the Yankees 20 years later to make their own money.

Because for an industrial power and a copycat power like the United States, there is no difficulty in the simple merchant ship of the "Liberation Wheel", even if China does not sell patents and drawings, they themselves can completely copy, and it is not without samples. With the Yankees' deep pockets, it was possible to directly dismantle a new ship for reverse mapping.

As a result, the first industrial power and the second industrial power of the earth began to join forces to make dumplings, and the Yankees called this kind of merchant ship "sandwich merchant ship", which means simple and fast like a sandwich. The official name they gave to this merchant ship was "Liberty Wheel", which has to make people sigh at the strength of historical inertia. Officially, because of the explosion of ships in China and the United States, the shipping of the Entente countries was not interrupted.

"The technology we exchanged with the Germans back then was very advanced, and it was ......normal for the Entente to have no way to take German submarines," Yue Youyuan said with a smile: "But now that we have joined, it will be different." Britain and the United States have no good way to take German submarines, but we are different, we have sonar, we have anti-submarine torpedoes, and our anti-submarine everything is based on aviation. As long as the German submarines dare to take the lead, once we find out, they will not be able to escape......"

"Report, crew 65 has spotted an enemy submarine!" At this time, the communications non-commissioned officer suddenly said. "Azimuth west longitude XXX, north latitude XXX, distance 145 km, number of targets 4 to 5 ......"