Bulgarian Empire

With the end of the first phase of the Battle of Taranto, there were also serious consequences for the World War. Especially on the Western Front, with the addition of the Italians, history has gone to another fork.

Due to the fall of Taranto, the Italian government now desperately hopes to obtain a victory to offset the political impact of the defeat of Taranto.

On April 15, the Italian government decided to cooperate with the Germans to attack France, and it was General Iggie Cadorna of the Italian Army 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. In history, the Italians signed the "Turin Treaty" in 186o in order to obtain France's support to get rid of Austrian rule. Both lands were ceded to the French.

With the rise of Italy, the emerging nationalism was very dissatisfied with this, especially the Nice area, which was also the source of Italian national liberation.

There has always been a natural border between France and Italy, the Alps. It is not so easy to attack France.

But now the opportunity has come, because the Germans have contained a large number of French troops, the French defenders on the French-Italian border are less than 50,000, while the Kingdom of Italy has assembled an army of 500,000.

The French must thank Ferdinand. If it weren't for his sudden Battle of Taranto, France may now face more than half a million 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 does not mean that the Italians can only fight for three months. In fact, they are still producing and supplementing continuously in their country, but this speed cannot keep up with the consumption speed on the battlefield!

Therefore, the decisive battle has become the only principle of Iggy Cadorna, and there are Germans like him.

In 1905, Germany formulated the "Schlieffen Plan". According to the plan, the Germans would quickly invade France through Belgium, defeat the French in a short period of time, and then march eastward to fight the Russians in a decisive battle, trying to end the war within three or four times.

As in the parallel time and space, the German offensive was stalled due to the sudden explosion in Belgium.

Although on this plane, the war broke out later and the Germans were more prepared, they were 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 people.

The Germans who invaded France were dumbfounded, they suddenly found 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 increased greatly, so Germany and Italy conspired, and half a million Italian troops launched a general attack on the French.

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For the French, their crisis is coming. Although their total strength has exceeded 3.5 million, the French commander-in-chief Joseph Jacques Cesare Joffre still feels that the strength is not enough.

"Mr. President, what do the British say, when will the reinforcements they promised arrive?" Joffre asked eagerly

"This week, three British divisions will arrive, next week there will be five more divisions, and in June there will be twenty more divisions arriving on the battlefield." Raymond Poincaré said angrily

Obviously, John Bull has dealt with it. The war broke out for more than a month, and the reinforcements promised by the United Kingdom only arrived on the battlefield with a 6th army division. The pressure on the Western Front was all on the French.

"Oh, the British are willing to send so many reinforcements?" Xiafei asked in surprise

"Hmph, they are all colonial troops, their main division, the British are reluctant to send even one!" Raymond Poincaré said angrily

If it is the main force of the British army, these troops are enough to make the French happy, which can almost offset the threat of Italy.

But the colonial troops? Their combat power has always been slag with a combat power equal to 5, which can be used as cannon fodder,

The only way to defeat the joint attack of the Germans and Italians is to rely on the French themselves.

From the beginning of the war to the present, on average, the French army has suffered 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 has suffered the greatest loss of personnel among all the countries participating in the war so far, and their pressure can be imagined!

Joffre 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 under now, and we are facing the attacks of Germany and Italy at the same time!

Without the support of our allies, we will not last long on our own! "

Raymond Poincaré said with a wry smile: "I know all these issues, the Russians have already completed the national mobilization, and they promised to launch an offensive on the Eastern Front in the shortest possible time to contain the German forces.

As for Bulgaria, their Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that there was nothing they could do. Now that they had to face the siege of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Romania, the Kingdom of Montenegro, and the Ottoman Empire, they really had no spare power to open up a new front! "

After hearing the president's words, Xiafei became even more angry. It was obvious that the Allies had the upper hand, but France was 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 had no strength at all, and they used a bunch of colonial troops to make up the numbers. The influence of the British domestic anti-war faction was automatically ignored by them.

Not to mention the Russians, let the Germans not fight, and now they are catching the soft persimmon of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and beating them hard, and they have not achieved their expected goals.

It sounds like Bulgaria has tried its best, and there is a lot of military pressure on all sides. In fact, they all know that although Bulgaria faces many enemies, the quality is poor!

The four countries combined are not as powerful as the Germans, and the Russians helped contain three of them!

From a military point of view, as long as Bulgaria wants to, it can turn four enemies into two at any time. Romania and the Kingdom of Montenegro have no war potential at all!

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For all this, Ferdinand can only sigh with emotion: Allies are used to cheat!

First, Britain, France, and Bulgaria tricked the Russians together, and now 70% of the troops of the Austro-Hungarian Empire are used on Mao Xiong; Eighty-tenths of the troops, and now an Italy has been added.

After the Russians were tricked once, they decisively let Germany go, caught the soft persimmon of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and changed hands to overshadow France!

Is France so easy to be cheated? Ferdinand didn't know, but he knew that there are only interests among countries, and everything revolves around interests!

So if you are in the position of the French, how should you break the situation?

It is impossible for the navy to move, and the French will never dare to give up the Mediterranean, otherwise the supplies shipped to France from overseas will be cut by nearly half.

So what about the army? Do the French dare to let the Germans enter the country?

Suddenly, Ferdinand thought of something, but he didn't seem to think of anything. He knows that the intrigues that are happening now have also happened in parallel time and space, but his level is too low to be touched.

On the surface, Britain and France worked together to lead 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. In addition to 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 fighting the Germans together with the French, it is absolutely impossible for this war to last for more than four years!

I can't figure out what actions the French will take to break the situation, but it doesn't prevent Bulgaria from continuing to plan to kill Romania and join the Russians first.

At that time, you will be able to advance and retreat freely. Even if the Germans really kill the French, as long as Bulgaria and Russia also kill the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the strength of the two sides will still be equal.

"Mr. Chief of Staff, are you ready?" Ferdinand asked with concern

Imya Dimitev said confidently: "Your Majesty, don't worry! We have assembled 500,000 troops, and the Russians will send 500,000 troops. It is impossible for Romania to block our attack!

If nothing else, within two months, you can receive news of the demise of Romania! "

Well, to deal with a Romania and dispatch a million troops, Ferdinand really couldn't think of the possibility of failure.

Don't look at the fact that the Austro-Hungarian Empire has mobilized more than 4 million troops, but there are 1 million people fighting against Bulgaria in Belgrade, and nearly 3 million fighting with the Russians. The Vienna government has very few mobile forces. up.

Although they also knew that after the fall of Romania, it was very unfavorable to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Hungarian Great Plain was exposed under the iron heels of Bulgaria and Russia, but the help they can provide to Romania is still very limited.

"Then act according to the original plan, 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 answer them?" Foreign Minister Megev asked.

Ferdinand thought for a while and said: "Promise them, sell them the technology of our biplane bomber, you can trade technology, and you can use materials to offset it, but no cash is accepted!"

Although he also wanted to keep the technology secret, the technical content of aircraft in this era is really not high, and the Bulgarian aircraft is not ahead of the times. As long as they want to, they can make it, it just takes a while.

Now everyone is still an ally. Bulgaria also bought technology from Britain and France before. No matter what their considerations were, they finally sold it. It is impossible for Bulgaria to refuse their request now!

Instead of refusing to freeze everyone's relationship, it is better to lead them into the pit openly. Anyway, what they want to buy is bomber production technology.

Bulgaria's current active bombers are all biplanes, but the development direction of future aircraft is monoplanes!

But now is the age of war, and the least valuable thing is money! Whether it is technology or materials, they can be transformed into national strength immediately, but money cannot!

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