s: Second update asking for votes September 9, 1914, AD 2755.
This year's summer is hot.
The war in Europe reached its climax in July.
The two sides fought in full swing, which made the onlookers excited.
This was a veritable "hot summer".
On the Western Front, the British and French forces firmly defended the line of Caen, Le Mans, Orleans and the Saône River.
They once counterattacked as far as Versailles, but were driven back within two days.
Seeing that Er Dezi was so capable, the British and French forces had to concentrate on defense.
They relied on rivers such as the Loire and Saône to build a solid defense line on the shore.
War is the best teacher, allowing people to learn what they want to learn as quickly as possible.
After successive defeats and the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives, the British and French forces adapted to the German rhythm and invented many new tactics. .
Their defense line was extremely well built, completely exceeding the level of the original World War I, at least to the level of World War II.
Facing the passive tactics of Britain and France, the Germans also had a big headache, and they had nothing to do with these perverted defense systems.
Mainly because with the successive arrival of Chinese aircraft and the appearance of authorized-produced fighter jets, the sky is no longer dominated by the Germans.
It is no longer feasible to use airships to easily destroy the defense line as they did at the beginning of the war.
In order to deal with the German airship bombing, the British developed a special interceptor called "Robin Hood" based on the J-3 "Swift".
A 20mm cannon replaced two 7mm machine guns, and the newly invented white phosphorus incendiary bombs were also used frantically.
In the air battle on July 30, this "Robin Hood" interceptor showed its talents, using white phosphorus incendiary bombs to turn 14 large German airships into fireballs.
In the history of the original time and space, the British army used white phosphorus bombs for the first time in 1916 Things like white phosphorus incendiary bombs don't have much technical content to begin with, so it's just a matter of thinking.
After Er Dezi suffered this frustrating loss, he immediately followed the same pattern and came up with the same thing.
Due to the technical level at the time, this powerful gadget could not be mass-produced, but it was still used to equip some interceptors and deal with enemy airships.
As a result, a large number of airships from both countries were shot down.
Niu Niu's imaginative invention made Mr.
Wen extremely depressed, because the myth of "airship victory theory" he painstakingly fabricated went bankrupt, and this strategy was a shameful failure.
For China, it is just a failed deception plan, which is innocuous, but for the warring parties, this is a huge matter.
This means that the risks of using airships have greatly increased, and we no longer dare to use them as unscrupulously as before.
The biggest impact was on Germany.
Without airships, they would not have a good way to effectively and quickly destroy the opponent's defenses.
Therefore, the war seemed to have returned to the attrition and extremely bloody trench warfare of the original time and space.
Of course, compared to the original time and space, Germany's situation is much better, but Britain and France are struggling to hold on.
Because of military cooperation with China, this Germany has many more weapons for trench warfare than the Germany of the original time and space, such as mortars, explosive ejector cannons, submachine guns, shotguns, flamethrowers, etc.
There are also new tactics for breaking through trenches.
Relying on these things, the German army's attack power was at least doubled, causing far more heavy losses to the British and French allied forces than in the original time and space.
By the end of August, more than 450,000 French troops had been killed, and more than 280,000 British troops had been killed.
The number of wounded in both armies exceeded 1 million, and 200,000 people had entered prisoner of war camps.
Germany not only has new weapons and new tactics, but also imported a large amount of high-quality medicines, new medical equipment, and advanced medical technologies obtained through exchanges from China, mainly blood transfusions and surgeries.
The losses of the German army were far lower than in the original time and space, only 80,000 people were killed and 300,000 wounded.
On the Eastern Front, although the German army was only a partial division, its results were equally brilliant.
In several battles, they annihilated 570,000 Russian troops at the cost of 30,000 killed and 40,000 wounded, and their troops reached Warsaw.
The performance of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was also more powerful than in the original time and space.
Although they did not defeat the Russian army, they still fought back and forth.
With the assistance of Bulgaria, they basically stabilized the southern front and were in a tug-of-war with Russia.
The casualties on both sides reached more than 200,000.
Judging from the current situation, both the Entente and the Central Powers are engaged in a brutal war of attrition.
Less than four months after the war began, the casualties on both sides exceeded 2 million.
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This was also the largest and most brutal war in human history.
Now that all warring countries have fully shifted to a wartime system, most of the production capacity is used to produce military supplies, and civilian supplies are no longer taken care of.
Anyway, both sides still have money at this time, and they can just buy things in the international market that they do not have the energy to produce. .
Especially Niu Niu, a majestic empire on which the sun never sets, the best brother in the world, and plenty of money.
The rooster is a usurious imperialist and a master who is not short of money.
However, fighting not only requires money, but also people, and no one can get away with it.
At this time, the population of Germany on the Allied side was 67 million, Austria-Hungary had 52.6 million, and Bulgaria had 4.5 million.
The British population on the Allied side is 46 million, France has only 39.8 million, and Russia has the largest population, with 173.2 million.
According to this method of death, France will definitely be the first to be unable to survive.
Although Russia suffered greater losses, they have a large population and overwhelming gray cattle, so they can afford to die.
During the war, a large number of men from the participating countries directly participated in the front-line war, which led to a significant reduction in the domestic labor force.
France, in particular, was really unbearable.
The United Kingdom also felt that it was short of manpower.
So on the one hand, they mobilized "half the sky" to enter the factory and replace men in labor production.
On the other hand, a large number of workers are imported from abroad.
In that time and space, China was taken advantage of for the first time and successively recruited 140,000 Chinese workers to work hard for the Allied Powers.
Chinese hard laborers often perform the heaviest and most difficult jobs in factories.
Almost all of the 96,000 Chinese workers recruited by the British were sent to the front line to dig trenches, build fortifications, conduct field rescues, dig up corpses, clear landmines, build roads and bridges, unload grain and grass, and load and unload supplies.
At that time, the contract signed by a Chinese coolie was to work for three years, working 10 hours a day, with no rest days, and the daily salary was one franc.
The local residents were not friendly to them and the British beat them with sticks like dogs.
The most painful, tiring and dangerous work is all on them.
During World War I, 30% of the artillery shells fired by the British army failed to explode due to poor technical skills.
It was natural for the Chinese to clean up these artillery shells on the battlefield.
According to statistics from the Chinese Embassy, there were 9,900 named Chinese workers serving in the British Army at that time.
By the end of the war, only 110,000 Chinese workers were left in Europe and returned to their homeland.
Of course, this kind of thing will not happen in this plane.
Wen Desi is not that kind of trembling.
Why should the Chinese people work for you foreign devils to kill people?
There are no windows, let alone doors, let alone our compatriots, even if they are our own compatriots.
Mr.
Wen is reluctant to send out those free laborers who are unwilling to integrate.
With so many construction projects in China, the manpower demand is huge.
He doesn’t even have enough.
How can he help European white men?
However, there are still people rushing to do things that China is unwilling to do. presidential palace.
"Why is Japan planning to send five divisions of troops, 600,000 laborers, and 100,000 female workers to help Britain and France?"
Wen Desi was so shocked that his eyes widened, and he couldn't help but cursed: "Grandma, are they all crazy?
Is this information reliable?”
"The intelligence can be confirmed to be true.
The current Japanese high-level officials are indeed crazy and poor."
Kafur replied with a mocking look: "Mr.
Wen, Japan's domestic economy is now on the verge of collapse, and the rice riots are happening one after another. , I can’t stand it anymore.”
Zhang Lizheng said with a smile: "Haha, even though Yamamoto Gonbei's cabinet resigned under infamy, it left behind a lot of mess.
In just over a year, the cabinet has been changed three times.
But in my opinion, the current No one in Japan has the ability to clean up this mess, and it will still be like this.”
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Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Xiao Tu also joined in and said: "Yes, the compensation paid to us and the debt owed to European and American consortiums are enough for them to drink.
Oh, by the way, it seems that they owe the debt from the Russo-Japanese War.
It’s not even finished yet.”
Kaful said with a smile: "This time, the Allied Powers spent a lot of money to lure Japan into the water.
They provided 30 million pounds of free aid, 100 million pounds of interest-free loans, and 50 million pounds of material orders.
For these Things, Japan has no choice but to work for Boss Niu.”
As the Minister of Finance, Xiao Tu's first concern is money, his second concern is still money, and his third concern is, of course, money.
When he heard this, he said: "Good guy, you really spent a lot of money.
But think about the time when Japan worked as a thug for the British to deal with Russia, but the British didn't give a single penny.
Japan still brought its own dog food to help the master fight.
Now This investment is nothing, it’s just a fair transaction.”
"In addition, Britain recruited 30 divisions in Australia and Canada, 33 divisions in India, and 800,000 laborers from various colonies.
France also recruited 20 divisions and 400,000 laborers in their colonies, among which the French There are 6 divisions and 200,000 laborers in Indo-China,” Kaful continued.
Xinjie pondered for a moment and said: "Australia now has only 4.9 million people, and Canada has only 7.5 million.
But 12.4 million people have to recruit 30 divisions, which is almost the limit.
Although India has a large population, it can't even recruit 300 divisions. problem, but now that the situation in India is unstable, they don’t dare to make more adjustments, and the same is true for South Africa.”
"Isn't this good?
Just let them bleed a lot," Zhang Lizheng said grimly.
"That's right, let's continue to sell things.
Although the Allied Powers have recruited so many colonial troops, the materials and equipment are definitely insufficient.
Our military industry can make another profit."
Wen Desi said with a smile.
Kafur said: "Not only are there insufficient supplies and equipment, there are not even enough military uniforms, and there are even insufficient troop transport ships.
Most of the Japanese and American fleets have been employed by them":