Vol 4 Chapter 72: , The era of pit teammates

With the end of the first phase of the Battle of Taranto, it also had a serious impact on the World War. Especially on the Western Front, with the participation of the Italians, history has gone to another fork.
Due to the fall of Taranto, the Italian government is now eager to win a victory to offset the political impact of the defeat of the Battle of Taranto.
On April 15th, the Italian government decided to cooperate with the Germans in attacking France, and it was the Italian Sixth Army General Yiji Cardorna who was responsible for implementing this plan.
In fact, there are still serious territorial conflicts between France and Italy-the Savoy region and the Nice region. Historically, in order to obtain the support of France to get rid of the rule of Austria, the two countries signed the Turin Treaty in 186. The two lands were ceded to the French.
With the rise of Italy, the emerging nationalism is very dissatisfied with this, especially the Nice area, which is also the source of Italian national liberation.
Between France and Italy, there has always been a natural border of the Alps. It is not easy to attack France.
But now there is an opportunity. Because the Germans have contained a large number of French troops, there are now less than 50,000 French defenders on the French-Italian border, and the Kingdom of Italy has assembled a large army of 500,000.
The French must be grateful to Ferdinand. If it were not for his sudden battle of Taranto, France would now face more than 500,000 Italian troops.
The Italians have limited reserves of strategic materials. If they attack with all their strength, they can only last for three months.
Of course, this is not to say that the Italians can only fight for three months. In fact, they are still constantly producing and supplementing domestically, but this rate can't keep up with the consumption rate on the battlefield!
Therefore, the battle became the only principle of Yiji-Cadorna, and there were Germans just like him.
In 19o5, Germany formulated the "Schlieffen Plan". According to the plan, the Germans would use Belgium to quickly invade France, defeat the French in a short time, and then march eastward to fight the Russians to end the war within three or four.
As with Parallel Space, the German offensive was delayed due to the sudden explosion in Belgium.
Despite this plane, the war broke out later and the Germans were more fully prepared, but it was delayed by Belgium for a week.
In just one week, the fate of the two empires was changed. Within this week, France completed the military mobilization of 1.5 million people, and now the total strength of the French has reached 2.98 million.
The Germans who broke into France were dumbfounded, and suddenly they realized that their advantage was gone! The surprise attack has lost its effect, so the two sides can only compete in strength.
The value of the Italians greatly increased, so Germany and Italy conspired, and half a million Italian troops launched an all-out attack on the French.
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For the French, their crisis has come. Even though their total strength has now exceeded 3.5 million, the French commander-in-chief Joseph Jacques Cezer Chaffi still feels that his troops are not enough.
"Mr. President, what did the British say, when will their promised reinforcements arrive?" Xiafei asked eagerly.
"This week, there will be three British divisions arriving, next week there will be five divisions, and there will be 20 divisions arriving on the battlefield in June." Raymond Puengale said angrily
Obviously, John Bull had dealt with it. The war broke out for more than a month, and the British promised reinforcements arrived on the battlefield with only a 6th division. The pressure on the western front was all on the French.
"Oh, the British are willing to send so many reinforcements?" Xia Fei asked in surprise.
"Hmph, they are all colonial forces, their main force, the British are now one and they are reluctant to send them out!" Raymond Puengale said angrily
If it is the main force of the British army, these forces are enough to make the French happy, which can almost offset the threat from Italy.
But colonial troops? Their combat power has always been scum with a combat power equal to 5. They can be used as cannon fodder. If they want to defeat the combined attack of the Germans and Italians, they still rely on the French themselves.
From the beginning of the war to the present, on average, the French army has to pay tens of thousands of casualties every day, and the Germans have caused nearly 500,000 casualties to France in more than a month.
It can be said that France is the country with the largest loss of personnel among all the participating countries so far, and their pressure can be imagined!
Xiafei asked again: "What about the Russians? When will they be able to attack the Germans?
And Bulgaria, can they attack southern Italy and help us contain the enemy?
Mr. President, you know how much military pressure we are now under, while facing the offensive of the two great powers of Germany and Italy!
Without the support of our allies, we alone will not last long! "
Raymond Poincaré said with a wry smile: "I know these issues. The Russians have completed the national mobilization. They promised to attack on the Eastern Front in the shortest time possible to contain the German forces.
As for Bulgaria, their Ministry of Foreign Affairs said they could not do anything. Now they have to face the siege of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Romania, the Kingdom of Montenegro, and the Ottoman Empire. They really have no spare capacity to open up new fronts! "
After hearing the president's words, Xia Fei became more angry. It was obvious that the Allied Powers had the upper hand, but France was crushed and beaten by the Germans on the Western Front. In his view, these allies are undoubtedly watching the French and Germans desperately.
In the eyes of the French, the British were not strong at all. With a bunch of colonial troops, they automatically ignored the influence of the British domestic anti-war factions.
Needless to say, the Russians left the Germans alone, and now they are beating the Austro-Hungarian empire, failing to achieve their desired goal.
It sounds like Bulgaria has tried its best and the military is under great pressure on all sides. In fact, they all know that although Bulgaria faces many enemies, the quality is poor!
Together, these four countries are not as strong as one-third of the Germans, and there are also Russians who have helped contain three of them!
From a military standpoint, Bulgaria can turn four enemies into two at any time as long as it wants. Romania and the Kingdom of Montenegro have no war potential at all!
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Regarding all this, Ferdinand can only sigh: Allies are used to cheat!
First, Britain, France and Paul confessed the Russians together. Now 70% of the Austro-Hungarian empire’s forces are used on Teddy Bear; then the three countries jointly pitted a handful of Frenchmen and shouldered the Germans alone. Eighty-quarters of the force, and now another Italy.
After being pitted once, the Russians decisively let go of Germany, caught the soft persimmon of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and turned their hands on France!
Is France so easy to be pitted? Ferdinand doesn't know, but he knows that there are only interests between countries, and everything is developed around interests!
So if you are in a French position, how can you break the game?
The navy is impossible to move, and the French absolutely dare not abandon the Mediterranean, otherwise the materials shipped from overseas to France will soon be cut by nearly half.
What about the 6th Army? Do the French dare to let the Germans in?
Suddenly, Ferdinand thought of something, but he didn't seem to think of anything. He knew that the intrigue he was born now had also been born in parallel time and space, but he was at a level that was too low to reach.
On the surface, Britain and France worked together and led the Allies to defeat the Allies.
But in it, Ferdinand can be sure that from the outbreak of the World War to the present, the British have been playing soy sauce. Apart from blocking the German high seas fleet, they also acted as the chief logistics officer of the Allied Powers.
Otherwise, if there are millions of British troops working with the French against the Germans, this war is absolutely impossible to last for more than four years!
I can't figure out what action the French will take to break the situation, but it does not prevent the Bulgarian plan from continuing, first kill the Romanian and Russians together.
At that time, you will be able to advance and retreat freely. Even if the Germans really kill the French, as long as Russia also kills the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the strength of the two sides will still be equal.
"Mr. Chief of Staff, are you all ready?" Ferdinand asked concerned.
Imya Dimityev confidently said: "Your Majesty, please rest assured! We have assembled half a million troops, and the Russians will also send half a million troops. Romania will not be able to stop our attack!
If nothing happens, within two months you will receive news of Romania’s demise! "
Well, one million troops were dispatched to deal with one Romania. Ferdinand couldn't think of the possibility of failure.
Don’t look at the fact that the Austro-Hungarian Empire has mobilized more than four million troops. UU read www.uukanshu.com, but there are one million in Belgrade and Bulgaria, and nearly three million against the Russians. The Vienna government There are very few mobile forces in hand.
Although they also knew that after the fall of Romania, it was very detrimental to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and that the Hungarian Great Plain was exposed to the iron shoes of the two countries, but the help they can provide to Romania is still limited.
"Then act as planned, I am waiting for your good news!" Ferdinand said with a smile
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"Your Majesty, Britain, France and Russia have all asked us to purchase aircraft technology, how should we respond to them?" Foreign Minister Metjeev asked
Ferdinand thought for a while and said: "Promise them, sell them the technology of our biplane bomber, you can conduct technical transactions, you can also use materials to offset, but no cash!"
Although he also wants to keep technology confidential, the technical content of aircraft in this era is really not high, and Bulgaria’s aircraft are not considered to be ahead of the time, as long as they want to make it, it takes a while.
Now everyone is still an ally. Bulgaria has also bought technology from Britain and France before. No matter what their considerations, they finally sold it. Now it is impossible for Bulgaria to refuse their request!
Instead of refusing to froze the relationship between everyone, it is better to take them into the pit openly. Anyway, all they want to buy are bomber production technology.
Bulgaria’s current bombers in active service are all biplanes, but the future direction of aircraft is monoplanes!
But now is the age of war, and the least valuable is money! Whether it is technology or materials, it can be transformed into national power immediately, but money is not enough!
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