The German superiority on the battlefield blinded the Ottomans. It is no wonder that the Ottomans were like this. The development of the war situation was really shocking.

On the Western Front, the Germans essentially achieved a strategic defeat and failed to defeat France in a short time.

This strategy was actually wrong. The French moved the government before the Germans arrived in Paris, so the Schlieffen-Moltke plan was initially very prescient.

The main goal of this plan is to kill the effective strength of the French army and annihilate the main force of the French army. Only in this way will France choose to withdraw from the war due to the loss of combat effectiveness.

This is also the reason why the German First Army turned around and attacked the French Fifth Army even though it was not far from Paris.

Then, Moltke stepped down, and William II became obsessed with Paris. In the next few years, the main purpose of the German army was to attack Paris, as if taking Paris would lead to victory.

But this is a strategic matter, and outsiders don't know it clearly. What people can see is that one month after the war started, France lost its eastern territory outside the suburbs of Paris and barely held on to Paris.

On the eastern front, in order to relieve the pressure on the western front, the Russian Empire launched an offensive under the pressure of Britain and France, and fought two battles in just one month.

In the Battle of Lake Mazury and the Battle of Tannenberg respectively, the two Russian armies suffered 250,000 casualties, lost a large amount of equipment, and lost their offensive capabilities before mobilization was completed.

Yes, the campaign came to an end in mid-to-late January, and the Russian Empire barely completed the mobilization plan until the end of February. Enough soldiers were recruited, and it was still far away from waiting for the soldiers to be trained.

All in all, the Allied Powers lost a large area of ​​land, about 600,000 troops, and a large amount of weapons and equipment in the first month of the war, and this was only the record of Germany.

You know, the Allied Powers also had an ancient empire with the largest area in Europe - the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In the first sixty years of the 19th century, Vienna was an important city on the European continent. After the Napoleonic Wars, Vienna's status rose sharply, and it was right to be called the center of the continent.

This huge empire was reorganized into a dual empire due to the failure of the Austro-Prussian War, but it is still a part of the ancient European continent that cannot be ignored.

Historically, only part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's army attacked Serbia. At first, the Austro-Hungarian Empire's idea was to go all out and solve Serbia in a short time, but a series of chain reactions led to the outbreak of the Great War.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire had to urgently stop its mobilization and transfer most of its troops to the east to fight or confront the Russians.

In the first week of the war, among the hundreds of thousands of troops deployed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Bosnia and Herzegovina, except for the thirteen divisions that had launched the offensive, the rest of the troops began to mobilize, leaving only two divisions to stabilize their positions.

The division establishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was larger, with fifteen standing divisions, plus some auxiliary troops, totaling about 300,000 people.

After the nationwide mobilization of Serbia, 400,000 people were gathered together, which was a lot of people, but the weapons, equipment and quality of the soldiers were incomparable to those of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Thirteen of these fifteen divisions can be used, but the artillery standard is that of a fifteen division, and a division has forty-two artillery pieces.

Among them, twenty-four are 76.5mm 8cm field guns. The 8cm field gun is his name.

Six 90mm 9cm field guns (it may also be 88mm, I only found information from the latter part of the war.)

There are also twelve 104mm 10cm howitzers. In addition, the Austro-Hungarian Empire also equipped them with a siege artillery regiment and three 305mm siege guns.

This firepower was unmatched by Serbia, but the Austro-Hungarian Empire performed very poorly in the early wars.

The fundamental reason is that after the war began, the Austrian army was mobilized frequently, especially some units where Serbs or other ethnic soldiers made up the majority. The emperor wanted to replace them and send them to the battlefield with Tsarist Russia.

This caused such serious chaos that the Austro-Hungarian army, which had just invaded Serbia, had to retreat due to supply chaos and low morale.

Fortunately, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was not acting alone. When the Austro-Hungarian Empire retreated, the Bulgarian army finally attacked from eastern Serbia, and Serbia had to rush to mobilize troops from the north to stop it.

It was not until mid-February that the Austro-Hungarian Empire slowed down, and Joseph I made up his mind to deal with Serbia first, and then concentrate on fighting the Russians.

At this time, if the Ottoman Empire does not come to an end, it will really have no soup to drink in the Balkans.

As a result, the Ottoman Empire actively contacted countries such as Britain, France, Germany, and Austria, and their appetites were huge.

After failing to get a satisfactory answer from the Allied Powers, the Ottoman Empire decisively chose the Allied Powers that had the "war initiative" and was eager to prepare an attack on Serbia to get a share of the pie.

In early March, after completing all preparations, the Ottoman Army took advantage of the fact that Serbia was tired of fighting the north and east and had no energy to take care of the south. It used two armies to raid the south of Serbia.

(The outcome of the Balkan War changed. The two sides roughly maintained the same range as before the First Balkan War, with the two sides bordering each other.)

Serbia was unable to resist the invasion from three directions. Serbia, which had only 420,000 troops at full strength, could not withstand an attack from three directions by an army of about 600,000 troops.

As a result, Serbia quickly sought help from its "protector", the Tsar of the Russian Empire, and its allies, Britain and France, hoping to receive assistance.

He was going to be disappointed after all. Britain and France were too busy taking care of themselves and were preparing to race the German army to see who could reach the English Channel coast first. They couldn't spare any manpower.

The Tsar is still gathering his own army. Russia is so big that no soldier is idle.

In mid-April 1915, after four months of resistance, the Royal Serbian Army was out of strength and its defense line collapsed.

The remaining hundreds of thousands of Serbian troops retreated into the mountains and began to fight guerrillas. It was only a matter of time before they were wiped out.

In June 1915, all important large cities in Serbia were occupied by the Allied forces. Unexpectedly, the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not struggle too much in terms of expansion and only occupied about 1/4 of Serbia's land.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire was not interested in Serbia at this time. As soon as the battle began, the Austro-Hungarian Empire knew what its purpose was - to win the war.

At the end of June 1915, the Serbian puppet regime was established after being forced out by the Allies, and immediately signed a treaty of defeat. Serbia lost two-thirds of its land and one-half of its population and withdrew from the war.

Of course, the occupation by Allied forces will not stop until the war officially ends.

At this point in the war, the situation seemed to be becoming increasingly unfavorable to the Allied Powers. Although Serbia was small, it was indeed a member of the Allied Powers group, but it was the first to be defeated and surrender.

In fact, Serbia can still exist on the surface only because the Allies, especially Germany, want to release information to the outside world - we will not annex you.

By June, the war lasted for more than half a year. After supplements, the two sides chased each other on the Western Front and carried out battles such as "Running to the Sea" and "Battle of Ypres".

In order to achieve a breakthrough, the German army gradually increased its troops on the Western Front to 2.2 million people, concentrated a large amount of materials, and made many breakthrough attempts in a short period of time.

The French army also regained its composure after the defense of Paris. The newly added troops brought the total strength of the French army to 1.8 million. The British army sent 600,000 new troops to France, bringing the total strength to 9.

One hundred thousand.

After gaining an advantage in military strength, the British and French forces also wanted to drive the Germans away, or at least push the front back to the German-French border to gain political advantage.

As a result, the British and French allied forces established the Northern Army Group, which was dominated by the French 10th and 6th Army and some British troops. With Xiafei as the commander-in-chief, it began to try to bypass the German flanks, threaten the German army's retreat, and force it to retreat.

It was impossible for the Germans to miss such a large-scale military mobilization, so the two sides chased each other in the northern part of the battlefield until the British and French forces suddenly realized that something was wrong.

The two sides are not far from the seaside. If Germany is allowed to rush to the seaside first and take control of it, the coalition forces will not only face flank threats, but the British will also have to jump.

The British were afraid that if the Germans took control of the area, they would station the navy there, which would pose a huge political threat to Britain.

Therefore, Foch accelerated his pace and rushed to the beach first when the German army was confused.

The Germans were a step late, but due to the final stage actions of the British and French forces, the Germans were given the opportunity and were beaten for a while.

At the end of March, the German army captured Antwerp, and the British and French forces had to retreat to consolidate their defenses.

The roundabout and outflanking tactics of both sides ended in failure because they were not decisive enough. In April and May, both sides conducted multiple attacks, but with little effect.

In wars, both sides generally use heavy artillery, and it is not uncommon to prepare firepower for several hours or even days. The body is particularly vulnerable in such a battle.

Since the emergence of heavy artillery, there have been countless cases of using craters as bunkers, because people have discovered that it is rare for artillery to fall into the same crater.

At this time, people also discovered that zigzag trenches and anti-gun caves deep underground could effectively improve human survivability in shelling.

After a series of fruitless mobile battles, the Western Front entered the stage of all-out trench warfare. In the next period of time, both sides will have to think about two issues: how to prevent the trenches from being breached, and how to break through the enemy's trenches.

Of course, most people are not aware of this at this time, especially ordinary people, who think that this war will not last long. Half a year has passed, and the winner will be determined in another year and a half at most.

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In June 1915, the two countries merged, the fourth month after the establishment of the Chinese Empire.

Since the sign was erected, reports in China have basically been talking about how Westerners are overbearing and so on.

The effect is good, at least fewer people are concerned about whether to merge, and many more people are concerned about how the Chinese Empire will develop.

For many people, the changes in the past few months are not obvious. The government has posted a lot of regulations, bills, etc., but they can't understand them.
Chapter completed!