After the war between Germany and Britain and France, it was clear that there were not many united allies, Britain and France, but only Austria-Hungary.In addition to the Slavic Republic, Britain and France also had the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Italy, Belgium, Serbia, Romania and other countries.Although the Anglo-French alliance was numerous, there were few that really had combat effectiveness.Germany was fully prepared before the war, Wilhelm II was full of confidence in the outcome of the war, he proudly said to the soldiers who were about to go to the front, "Before the leaves fall, you can return home" The German army was also full of confidence, they completely defeated the French army during the Franco-Prussian War, and this time they did not take the French army seriously.As soon as the attack began, the battle between the two sides was very fierce.France had also been preparing for the First World War against Germany for many years, and since the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War, it always wanted to defeat Germany and take back the land ceded to Germany at that time.The European theater of operations was divided into three directions, a Western Front with the Anglo-French forces against the German army, a Southern Front with Austria-Hungary against Serbia, and an Eastern Front with Germany and Austria-Hungary against the Slavic Republics.Although the Ottoman Turkish Empire declared war, it was still waiting and watching, and did not rush to join the battle.They, like other small countries, are ready to take advantage of the fire, and now the war will not burn their heads.The fighting on the Western Front was the most tragic, and the German army single-handedly fought against the British and French forces, which were the strongest armies on the European continent.After fighting on the German-French border, the German attack was beyond the imagination of the British and French, and the British and French troops quickly withdrew back to the south of the Somme.The Anglo-French forces deployed defenses on the line from Paris to Verdun, and the front was more than 200 kilometers long.Germany dispatched fifty divisions with a total strength of more than a million men.The Allied forces deployed more than 60 divisions, more than a dozen more than the German army.Military newspapers continued to be transmitted back to New China from the European battlefields, and Qiao Zhiqing looked at the military newspapers one by one, and had already predicted the outcome of the war.Everything was being rehearsed for World War I in his time and space, and the situation in Germany was even more unfavorable, with even the Ottoman Turkish Empire on the side of Britain and France.While the Western Front in Europe was in a stage of persistence, the Slavic Republics on the Eastern Front were defeated one after another.The army of the Slavic Republic was already composed of the Polish army and the old Russian Tsarist army, and its combat effectiveness was simply not comparable with that of Germany.Although they also have an army of more than a million, they are very backward in terms of weapons.Fortunately, the Polish army is fine, and one million of its two million troops are equipped with weapons aided by New China.Some of the old Tsarist troops in Russia took wooden sticks and tied bayonets to the battlefield, and in the face of the powerful German firepower, they could only flee backwards step by step.Poland did not intend to garrison itself from the beginning, and as soon as the Germans came, all the Polish troops retreated to the territory of Belarus in an organized manner.In order to avoid fighting on two fronts, the German army did not pursue deeply, but only temporarily stopped fighting on the eastern front and concentrated all its forces on the western front.Schlieffen, the chief of the German General Staff, originally wanted to plan a quick victory, because Germany's land size and national strength were not suitable for a protracted war.As a result, the offensive on the Western Front did not go well, and the Germans were blocked on the north bank of the Somme and failed to get the soldiers home by Christmas.The war lasted from the spring of 1894 to the winter, and the two sides lined up on the front line and fell into a protracted battle.Under the construction of deep trenches, barbed wire, mines, and machine guns, the traditional infantry and artillery offensive mode was completely broken.All European countries borrowed from New China for trench warfare, and this time it was completely used in this battle.They only borrowed defensive methods, although they really wanted to learn from the offensive of New China, but because there were no tanks and planes, they could only stare dryly.Qiao Zhiqing's arrival advanced the First World War by more than ten years, and the level of science and technology in Europe was far from what Qiao Zhiqing had in that time and space.The engine technology needed for tanks and airplanes is not something that can be built by imitation, and New China still keeps the technology strictly secret.Both sides attacked on the battlefield with the bodies of soldiers braving bullets.Whichever side attacks, it will come at a great cost.The following year, the Germans focused their offensive on the Verdun generation.Verdun was located in a bulge of the Somme line and posed a considerable threat to the flanks of the German army.And taking Verdun will open the door to Paris and enter Paris directly.The two sides began the second phase of the battle, and the Germans adopted a strategy of combining virtual and real.On the surface, he concentrated his forces to attack from the front, but secretly mobilized his forces to launch a general attack on Verdun.The Germans dispatched thousands of artillery pieces, millions of soldiers and horses, and the crown prince personally went to the front to direct the battle.As soon as the attack began, artillery fire immediately shook the sky.When the British and French forces found out that they had been deceived, they immediately returned to Verdun.Because the Anglo-French forces held on to the fortress of Verdun, the German attack failed to succeed in the surprise attack a day later, and lost its fighters.British and French reinforcements arrived, and the two sides started a tug-of-war on the Verdun front.Both sides have invested nearly two million troops, and even used poison gas warfare, but it still has no effect.After the beginning of the spring of 1895, the British and French forces launched a counterattack.Due to the great attrition of the German army, almost half of the casualties were killed and wounded on the battlefield of Verdun.In the end, the strategy changed from offensive to defensive.Because the Western Front had withdrawn a large number of German troops, the strength of the German army on the Eastern Front was greatly reduced.When Britain and France launched a strategic counteroffensive, the Slavic Republic also launched a counterattack.Ottoman Turkey also moved at this time, launching an offensive on the Balkans.During this year, the two sides fought many major battles at sea.Because of the German army's wireless submarine strategy, it repeatedly bombed and sank cargo ships sold by the United States to the British and French forces at sea.The United States also declared war on Germany in that year, committing a large number of troops directly into the European theater.Germany and Austria-Hungary were beaten and retreated, and after a year of persistence, all the peripheral forces were cleared out, and they could only retreat back to their homeland.By the time 1897 arrived, Germany and Austria-Hungary were at the end of their power.Neither material nor manpower can continue to be supplied.The war has drained the savings of both countries for many years, and nearly millions of soldiers and civilians have died in the war, and the voice of domestic opposition to the war has become stronger and stronger.Britain and France pressed forward step by step, and at the end of the year, they finally entered the city of Berlin.The Slavic Republic also achieved good results, defeating the Austro-Crarian army in Ukraine after the complete withdrawal of German troops to the country, and recovering Ukraine in one fell swoop.However, during the war, the contradictions between the old forces of Poland and Tsarist Russia grew.There were also a lot of anti-war voices in Tsarist Russia, and they didn't want to follow Poland as cannon fodder in vain.Poland belonged to West Slavia, and most of Russia belonged to the East Slavic peoples, and the two sides were already unpleasant to the other.Poland cooperated with them in the first place to overthrow the Tsar's power
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