Ministers Daizer and Gray soon reached a verbal agreement that the British Empire would trade Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait in exchange for the Australasian occupation of the Mesopotamian Plain.

Moreover, the two foreign ministers happily agreed that they would soon visit each other's countries, in order to facilitate the conclusion of an Anglo-Australian entente, which Minister Grey believed would tie Australasia firmly to the chariot of the British Empire.

In fact, supporting the British Empire in the distribution of benefits after the war did not do any harm to Australasia, and even gained a lot of benefits.

Of the three major allies of the Entente, Australasia had the best relations with Britain and Russia, and Arthur could not have risked offending Britain to support French expansion on the European continent.

Anyway, France and Australasia are separated by 108,000 miles, and it is impossible for the French to have any influence on Australasia.

And the situation in Russia is not very clear, let alone a large number of external expansion, it is good to be able to stabilize the domestic situation with war reparations, and it will not be too much help to Australasia.

This also meant that the only country that could help Australasia after the war was the British Empire.

At present, the British Empire's consumption in the war is not large, and it is not a problem to maintain the status of the world's first place after the war.

Establishing good relations with the British Empire will also allow Australasia to gain more in the distribution of benefits after the war, although it will offend France, but who cares?

France, which had suffered a lot of attrition after the war, urgently needed to regain blood through the colonies, rather than clashing with Britain and Australasia, which did not consume much.

By the time France returned to stability, Australasia's strength would no longer have to fear France, let alone the support of the United Kingdom.

After the unification of Britain and Australasia, peace talks in Constantinople went very smoothly.

On 12 August, the Entente and the Ottoman Empire reached an agreement on the cession of land.

The Ottoman Empire ceded tens of thousands of square kilometers of land in the Caucasus to Russia, the coast of the Emir of Rashid to Australasia, the plain of Mesopotamia, Yemen to the British Empire, and all of Europe to the Balkans, leaving only 10 kilometers of Constantinople.

Yes, Constantinople eventually fell back into the hands of the Ottoman Empire, at the cost of losing a large amount of territory.

Although it seems that the Ottoman Empire still has the later regions of Turkey, Syria, Israel, etc., this area is surrounded by Britain, Russia and Australasia, plus the indigenous forces of the Arab region, it is not as peaceful as imagined.

Moreover, the Allied Powers delivered Constantinople after the end of the war, which meant that Constantinople was still jointly administered by the Entente until the surrender of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

Compared to the large amount of land ceded, the reparations demanded by the Allies from the Ottoman Empire were pitiful.

According to the final agreement between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire was required to pay a total of 150 million pounds in compensation to the Allies over a period of 15 years, with an additional 3 million pounds per year after the deadline.

Australasia, the main contributor to the Ottoman war, received a quarter of the £150 million reparations, or £37.5 million.

The reason why the Ottoman Empire's reparations were not high was because the current Ottoman Empire had been divided up in half, and the remaining land was also coveted by the foreign powers.

With only regions such as Turkey and Syria, it is good for the Ottoman Empire to pay 150 million pounds in 15 years, after all, the size of the country can only make the Ottoman Empire pay so much.

However, the great powers have gained a lot of expansion on the land, so they don't care about the indemnity that is a drop in the bucket for the war.

The same is true of Arthur. Australasia has acquired land that has been able to connect from Qatar to Kuwait.

A large area of land is rich in oil and gas, and they are worth an unknown number of times the reparations that Australasia received, and who cares about that small indemnity?

In addition to land cession and war reparations, the Ottoman government also signed humiliating treaties, such as recognizing the pre-war occupation of Ottoman lands by the British Empire and Italy, including Cyprus and Zozek Kanissos.

At the same time, the Allied troops had the right to move freely within the Ottoman Empire, and until the end of the war, the Allied troops could freely enter and leave the Ottoman territory, and the Ottoman government was not allowed to interfere in any way.

In Syria, Israel and other regions, the Entente had a large number of privileges. Although these lands were not ceded, the Ottoman Empire had lost its actual jurisdiction, and these areas were more like semi-colonies.

In addition, a large number of mineral rights within the Ottoman Empire, even railway toll rights and jurisdictions, were sold and leased to the Entente.

With the signing of the Peace of Constantinople, it was inevitable that the Ottoman Empire would become an ordinary state, and its land area and population size were not enough to support it as a regional power.

On the side of the Entente, the signing of the Peace of Constantinople greatly boosted the morale of the Entente, and the media of various countries rushed to report on it.

After the surrender of the Ottoman Empire, the Allies were left with Germany and Austria-Hungary to fight back to the rich and stubborn, and the people of the Entente seemed to have seen victory coming.

It is worth mentioning that because of the accession of Australasia, the demand for foreign imported resources of the Entente countries is not so high.

The island countries and the United States have not been able to find a good chance of joining the Entente. The United States repeatedly sold military equipment to the Entente countries, but the Entente countries refused on the grounds that they did not lack supplies.

This resulted in little U.S. trade with Europe during the war, with the exception of some equally scarce supplies in Australasia.

Of course, the war has developed to the present, and Britain, France, and Russia have borrowed a lot from the United States, and this is the only thing in which the United States participates in the war in Europe.

After the Peace of Constantinople was concluded, the eyes of the Entente were once again on the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

At present, the German army on the Western Front has entered a state of hold, and there is no good way to defeat Germany quickly.

If the Allied Allies were able to defeat the Germans again, the devastated Germany would no longer be an opponent of the Allied Powers, and there would be hope for a quick resolution of the war.

In fact, it was not only the Entente that was paying attention to the Eastern Front, but the Allies were paying more attention to the Eastern Front.

Long after the defeat of Bulgaria, Germany understood that the time had come for a desperate gamble. The defeat of the Ottoman Empire was also inevitable, and while the Ottoman Empire was facing siege, the German side also launched an offensive on the Eastern Front.

According to the plan, the German army and the Austro-Hungarian army carried out a strategic encirclement of the Russian army on the Eastern Front.

The plan for the Great Encirclement could be divided into two parts, with the German army in East Prussia advancing eastward and then southward to bypass Poland.

The German-Austrian army bypassed the southern Carpathians, joined up with the German forces in East Prussia, and cut off the rear of the Russian armies in Poland and Galicia.

If this plan of encirclement is carried out successfully, at least a million Russian troops will be encircled, surrounded by the combined armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary.

As long as most of these millions of Russian troops could be wiped out, Germany and Austria-Hungary would have an overwhelming advantage on the Eastern Front.

It is even possible to take advantage of Russia's heavy losses to strike hard at Russia and force Russia to withdraw from this war.

As long as the Russians withdrew from the war and the pressure on the Eastern Front was lifted, the German-Austrian army could move south and force the Balkan grass to fall to the side of the Allies.

The German-Austrian coalition plus the Balkans, against Britain, France, Italy and Australia, the war was still fought at all.

Even if the Ottoman Empire could be mobilized to enter the war again, Germany would be able to obtain material support from the United States from the Persian Gulf, and the resource crisis would be solved.

Without the containment of the Russian army on the Eastern Front, the Anglo-French-Australian forces and the German-Austrian forces on the Western Front were only evenly matched.

Under the one-line war, if the transportation line with the United States could be opened, Germany would not be afraid of the Entente at all.

Adhering to the belief of fighting hard, at the end of July 1915, the German army launched an offensive on all fronts against the Russian army.

It was summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and it was a good opportunity to attack Russia. If you wait until the ice and snow of winter, even the most powerful army is likely to collapse in Russia.

Napoleon more than 100 years ago was one such example, which also made the German army very urgent.

If this campaign cannot be ended before the onset of winter, the Eastern Front will not have a good time at that time.

German-Austrian troops launched an onslaught on the Carpathians. The left flank of the Russian Eighth Army was stationed here, and under strong pressure from the German-Austrian forces, it had to slowly retreat to the rear.

However, the Russians also reacted very quickly, and the commander of the Southwestern Front temporarily transferred the right flank troops to form the new Ninth Army, and hastened to reinforce the Eighth Army.

However, at this time, Germany and Austria-Hungary were already fighting hard, and coupled with the superiority in the number of soldiers, the Russian Eighth and Ninth Armies still could not stop the offensive of the German-Austrian forces, and could only slowly retreat to the rear.

The Russians had no choice but to transfer the 11th Army in the central region again, and barely stopped the Russian-Austrian army's charge from the Carpathians.

However, the combat effectiveness of the Russian army was very different from that of the German-Austrian army, and the casualties of the three Russian armies increased dramatically, and even at their peak, the casualties were as high as more than 30,000 in a day.

Although the Russian army succeeded in preventing the German-Austrian strategy of encircling the Russian army in Galicia, the Russian army also paid a staggering number of casualties.

According to rough statistics from the Russian front, the total casualties of the 8th, 9th and 11th armies exceeded 300,000 and the death toll exceeded 100,000.

This also means that the total number of the three group armies, which is less than one million people, has suffered nearly half of the casualties at this time, which can be described as heavy losses.

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