1890 King of Southeast Asia

The Germans' advantage on the battlefield blinded the Ottomans. It's not their fault. The development of the war was really surprising.

On the Western Front, the Germans actually achieved a strategic failure and failed to defeat France in a short period of time.

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

The main goal of this plan was to kill the French army's manpower and annihilate the main force of the French army. Only in this way would France choose to withdraw from the war because of its damaged combat effectiveness.

This is also the reason why the German First Army turned to attack the French Fifth Army when it was not far from Paris.

Then, Moltke stepped down, and William II had a kind of obsession with Paris. In the next few years, the main purpose of the German army was to attack Paris, as if taking Paris would win.

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

On the Eastern Front, in order to ease 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.

They were the Battle of Masurian Lakes and the Battle of Tannenberg. The two Russian armies suffered 250,000 casualties and lost a large amount of equipment. Before the mobilization was completed, they lost their offensive capabilities.

That's right, the battle was coming to an end in mid-to-late January, and the Russian Empire barely completed the mobilization plan until the end of February, recruiting enough soldiers, and waiting for the soldiers to be trained was even more distant.

In total, 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 just the record of Germany alone.

You should know that the Allied Powers also had the largest ancient empire 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 not wrong to call it the center of the continent.

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

Historically, only part of the Austro-Hungarian army attacked Serbia. At first, the Austro-Hungarian Empire wanted to go all out and solve Serbia in a short period of time, but a series of chain reactions led to the outbreak of the war.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire had to stop the mobilization urgently 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 the Bosnia-Herzegovina region, except for the thirteen divisions that had already launched the attack, the rest of the troops began to mobilize, leaving only two divisions to stabilize the place.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire's divisions were larger, with fifteen standing full-strength divisions, plus some auxiliary troops, about 300,000 people.

After the national mobilization of Serbia, 400,000 people were gathered, which was a large number, but the weapons and equipment and the quality of the troops could not be compared with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Thirteen of the fifteen divisions can be used, but the artillery standard is the standard of fifteen divisions, and one division has 42 artillery pieces.

Among them, twenty-four are 5mm 8cm field guns, and the 8cm field gun is his name.

Six 90mm 9cm field guns (maybe 88mm, I only found information from the later period 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 is unmatched by Serbia, but the Austro-Hungarian Empire performed very poorly in the early wars.

The root cause is that after the war began, the Austrian army frequently mobilized, especially some troops dominated by Serbian or other ethnic soldiers. The emperor wanted to replace them and send them to the battlefield with Tsarist Russia.

This caused serious chaos, so that the Austro-Hungarian army, which had just entered Serbia, had to retreat because of 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 the east of Serbia, and Serbia had to hastily dispatch troops from the north to block it.

Until mid-February, the Austro-Hungarian Empire recovered, and Joseph I made up his mind to deal with Serbia first, and then concentrate all his efforts on fighting the Russians.

At this time, if the Ottoman Empire did not come to an end, he would really have no soup to drink in the Balkans.

Therefore, the Ottoman Empire actively contacted countries such as Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Russia and South Africa, and their appetite was very big.

After not getting a satisfactory response from the Allies, the Ottoman Empire decisively chose the Allies who took the "initiative of the war" and was eager to attack Serbia to get a share of the pie.

In early March, after completing all preparations, the Ottoman Army took advantage of Serbia's fatigue in fighting the north and east and had no energy to take care of the south, and used two armies to raid the south of Serbia.

(The outcome of the Balkan War changed, and the two sides roughly maintained the scope before the first Balkan War, and the two sides bordered each other.)

Serbia could not resist the invasion from three sides. Serbia, with only 420,000 troops at most, could not withstand the attack from three directions of about 600,000 troops.

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

He was going to be disappointed after all. Britain and France were busy with their own affairs and were preparing to race with the German army to see who could reach the English Channel first. They had no manpower at all.

The Tsar? He was still gathering his own army. Russia was so big that no soldier was idle.

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

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

In June 1915, all important cities in Serbia were occupied by the Allied forces. Unexpectedly, the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not dwell too much on the scope 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 goal was - to win the war.

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

Of course, the occupation of the Allied forces would not stop before the war officially ended.

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

Even Serbia could still exist on the surface, just because the Allies, especially Germany, wanted to release information to the outside world-we will not annex you.

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

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

After the Battle of Paris, the French army also recovered. The newly added troops brought the total French army to 1.8 million, while the British army sent 600,000 new troops to France, with a total force of 900,000.

After the British and French coalition forces gained an advantage in terms of manpower, they also wanted to drive the Germans away, or at least push the front back to the German-French border to gain political advantage.

Therefore, the British and French coalition forces established the Northern Army Group, which was mainly composed of the French Tenth and Sixth Armies and part of the British Army, with Joffre as the commander-in-chief, and began to try to bypass the German flank, threaten the German rear, and force it to retreat.

Such a large-scale military mobilization could not be discovered by the German army, so the two sides chased each other in the northern part of the battlefield until the British and French coalition forces suddenly realized that something was wrong.

The two sides were not far from the seaside. If Germany rushed to the seaside first and controlled it, the coalition forces would not only face flank threats, but the British would also have to jump.

The British were afraid that after the Germans controlled this place, they would send the navy to station there, which would pose a huge political threat to Britain.

So, Foch quickened his pace and rushed to the seaside while the Germans were confused.

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

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

The flanking tactics of both sides failed because they were not decisive enough. In April and May, both sides launched several attacks, but with little success.

In the war, both sides generally used heavy artillery, and it was common to have firepower preparations for several hours or even days, which made the body particularly vulnerable in such battles.

Since the emergence of heavy artillery, there have been countless cases of using craters as shelters, because people found that few artillery fell into the same crater.

At this time, people also found that tortuous trenches and anti-gun holes deep underground could effectively improve human survival ability in artillery attacks.

After a series of fruitless mobile warfare, the Western Front entered the stage of full-scale trench warfare. For the next period of time, both sides had to think about how to prevent the trenches from being breached and how to break through the enemy's trenches.

Of course, most people did not realize this at this time, especially ordinary people, who thought that this war would not last too long. Half a year had passed, and the winner would be decided in at most another year and a half.

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In June 1915, the two countries merged, and the fourth month of the establishment of the Huaxia Empire.

Since the sign was set up, Huaxia's reports have basically been vaguely talking about how domineering Westerners are.

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The effect is good. At least fewer people are concerned about whether to merge, and more people are concerned about how the Huaxia 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.

For a few people, the tax law that is about to be implemented is to take their lifeblood. It happens that these people see the power of public opinion, and a conspiracy is taking shape...