Bulgarian Empire

At the General Staff Headquarters in Berlin, Hindenburg lit a cigarette and smoked. His worst worry happened. The defection of the Austro-Hungarian Empire meant that the most critical moment for the German Empire had arrived!

At this moment, he was extremely angry with Marshal August von Mackensen who refused to carry out the order. In his opinion, if these German troops withdraw to the Austrian area to help the Austro-Hungarian Empire defend Vienna, then the Vienna government is absolutely Don't dare to surrender so easily!

Of course, the biggest possibility is that they don't even have the chance to enter Vienna, as long as Ferdinand II is not stupid, he will not let them in.

From this point of view, the decision of Marshal August von Mackensen was correct. After all, we were still allies before the Austro-Hungarian Empire defected. They refused the German army to enter the capital. Could it be that they can still attack by force?

If you really want to storm the capital of your allies, it is estimated that the consequences will be more serious than the defection of the Austro-Hungarian Empire! If this happened, who would dare to be allies with the Germans in the future?

But now he doesn't care to settle accounts with August von Mackensen. For these generals in the army, the deterrence of the General Staff has become lower and lower!

Under the butterfly effect of Ferdinand, the Junker aristocratic government represented by Hindenburg had no chance to perform. In this war, the Germans won several major victories during the reign of William II. .

Many Germans now believe that the strategic level of William II with the two knives is better than that of the Hindenburg government. This is not good news for them!

As time went by, Hindenburg also kept lowering the bottom line of ending the war in his heart. Now he does not intend to take the French homeland. Even the Belgian territory Germany can give up. The Eastern Front occupies the Russians. The territory of China can also be returned, as long as the mainland is kept intact and the Allied Powers compensate them in the colonies!

Well, his current bottom line is not as good as the terms of the peace talks proposed by the prime minister in black last year when he was in power. At least half of Poland can be added to the mainland of Germany under the control of others, and it is not in vain for them to start this war.

It's a pity that the interest group he represents doesn't agree! Even now, Hindenburg is still unable to convince the Junker nobles to accept his terms of peace talks!

The battlefield war has been fought for more than two years, and thousands of Junker noble officers have shed blood on the battlefield, but they have not received matching benefits. How should they explain to the families of these people? Regarding this problem, the military leaders are also very troubled!

The smoke gradually burned out, Hindenburg extinguished the cigarette butt, and let out a long sigh. Now there is not much room left for him to choose, either to make the last fight regardless, or to admit defeat and stop the loss immediately!

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Hindenburg asked anxiously: What do the British and French say?

He knows that there is no need to talk to Russia and Bulgaria when they are in contact with the Allied Powers, and they have no leverage to threaten these two countries!

Even if the Germans come here once and all the people are soldiers, they won't be able to scare them! In a war of attrition, who is afraid of whom?

Even if the Germans broke out suddenly and severely damaged the Bulgarian army on the front line, Ferdinand would only be hurt once at most. Bulgaria has not suffered a major defeat after the war has been going on for so long, and it doesn't matter if it was defeated last time.

Not to mention the tsarist government, without the three million, the big deal is to wait until next year to fight again, and the soldiers can afford to lose!

We must know that the Soviet Union lost more than 27 million people in World War II, and more than half of them were troops. Didn’t they also persevere? The current population of Russia is larger than that of the Soviet Union, and the war has only lost more than 10 million people. Even if the tsarist government is weaker in ruling power, it can still hold its own!

Therefore, in this secret contact with the Allies, Hindenburg focused on Britain and France. After all, at this time, if the Germans really fight with Britain and France, they can still cause them heavy losses!

For example, if you are in a hurry, the German Navy will directly conduct a stud with the British Royal Fleet. As long as it can be exchanged for one-third of the tonnage of the Royal Navy, it will sink.

John Bull can't stand it!

Similarly, the French have been exposed to the iron heels of the German army. As long as the defense of Paris starts, no matter what the result is, Paris will be in ruins, and the French are destined to be losers!

These are all the bargaining chips in the hands of the Germans now. As for the issue of killing tens of millions of people in northeastern France, it is enough to talk about it, and it is impossible to implement it!

German Foreign Minister Simmons said with a wry smile: The result was very bad. The British asked us to hand over all the capital ships and submarines of the navy for free, and signed a treaty to never develop the navy, so they agreed to end this war!

The French want us to withdraw from their lands immediately, and they also want Lorraine and Alsace from us, so long as these conditions are met, they will agree to end the war!

Hindenburg said coldly: That is to say, we want to return to the pre-war situation, but the Allied Powers don't agree?

Simmons thought for a while and said: It can also be understood in this way. The Allied Powers have no sincerity in peace talks at all. Bulgaria is asking for 200 million pounds in war reparations. The Russians even asked us for the territory of East Prussia. They simply treat us as fat Sheep!

Hindenburg didn't answer. He knew that the Allied Powers had made a choice for them. Only after Paris was conquered and the British and French allied forces were severely damaged, could everyone sit down and negotiate in peace.

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Well, if Ferdinand is replaced, it is estimated that there will be a compromise with Britain and France!

The British want Germany to give up the development of the navy. This is no problem. It is a country with six powers, so why not do business properly?

To hand over all the capital ships, is there still a discussion between the two parties, such as selling them all to John Bull, or exchanging benefits?

The French want Alsace and Lorraine. This can also be discussed, such as exchanging colonies, so that everyone can have an explanation for the country!

It's a pity that Hindenburg is not a time traveler. He still doesn't know what Germany has missed by suspending the negotiations with the Allied Powers now!

Then needless to say, the two sides will start a new round of pk! The main force of the Germans fought against the British and French allied forces with one enemy and two on the western front!

Since it was the Battle of Paris, Paris naturally became a battlefield. The two sides fought a cruel battle around the city until the Bulgarian army reached southern Germany and the Russian army entered East Prussia. Only then did the Germans admit defeat!

Of course, this is all in the future! Now everyone is still busy with the defection of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

With the defection of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Bulgarian army can naturally attack South Germany directly. In order to pay the vote, regardless of whether the Vienna government is willing or not, they still sent 300,000 Austro-Hungarian troops to act together with Bulgaria!

Now everyone is busy making preparations. The logistics of millions of expeditionary troops is not a small number. Even Bulgaria's efficiency is astonishing. It is impossible to collect all these strategic materials in less than ten days and a half months.

Without more than a month of preparation time, the Bulgarian army will not take the initiative to attack. After all, transportation also takes time. If there are not enough strategic materials, the frontline troops will not have the confidence to start a war!

Bulgaria, as the party that took the initiative to attack, just needed to prepare supplies, but the British and French allied forces who were suppressed and beaten were miserable. They were struggling to meet the Germans head-to-head!

But whether it is passive or active, the British, French and Bulgarians are doing their best, hoping to end this war as soon as possible, but another member of the Allied Powers is different.

Regarding the defection of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Nicholas II was more angry than joyful, and the duck that was about to get flew away!

Obviously, everyone is restricting the development of the Russian Empire, but the problem is that you know what you know, and Nicholas II can't do anything about it. The only thing he can do now is to urge the Russian army to move faster and take as many as possible. soil of!

Nicholas II said fiercely: Order the front-line troops to speed up the offensive. We must take East Prussia before the Germans surrender and turn the Baltic Sea into our inland sea!

Anyway, as long as the established facts are created, it is impossible for anyone to let the Russian Empire spit out the benefits it has obtained. This time, if it is not able to eat enough in Austria-Hungary, then it can only catch the Germans!

It can only be said that Mao Xiong has a good appetite, and a Poland can't feed them enough! If it weren't for the fact that they were hurt by their defeat on the Eastern Front last year, and they are still inseparable from the support of the Allied Powers, everyone would have fallen out a long time ago!

Chief of Staff Brusilov persuaded: Your Majesty, don't worry, Britain and France can let the Austro-Hungarian Empire go, but they will definitely not let the Germans go!

There is no way to ease the conflict between Germany and France. After the war, the French will definitely suppress the Germans desperately; the British want to destroy the German navy, and they cannot let the Germans retreat!

We just need to proceed according to the original plan. After taking the Baltic Sea, the last shortcoming restricting the Russian Empire will be filled!

After listening to Chief of Staff Brusilov's analysis, Nicholas II's mood improved a lot. In any case, Russia's most important strategy was realized in this war.

As for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had escaped, it still ignored Nicholas II, the defeated underling. In the future, there would be opportunities to deal with them, and what gave him even more headaches was Bulgaria, which was rising in the Balkans.

It is no longer Prussia in the Balkans and is about to become Germany in the Balkans! Their industrial strength has actually surpassed the great Russian Empire, and their military strength is also enough to pose a substantial threat to the Russian Empire!

This is embarrassing, originally I just wanted to support a younger brother, but now I have played around and directly supported a competitor!

Of course, he can't say this directly. Now the friendship between Russia and Russia is still the political correctness of the two countries. If you stir up conflicts between the two countries, the people below can say that only he and Ferdinand can't say it, otherwise they will be punished by the people below. People give wrong interpretation, causing unnecessary trouble!

Of course, this is also the sequelae of the Russians' defeat on the Eastern Front last year. Otherwise, the Russian Empire would still have the strength to suppress this little brother, so there wouldn't be so much trouble!

As for how to restrict Bulgaria's development after the war, Nicholas II really didn't think of a good way. After all, the economic ties between the Russian Empire and Bulgaria are too close now, and the economic sanctions against each other may destroy themselves together!

Now more than 90% of the import and export trade of the Russian Empire is carried out with Bulgaria. Of course, this is mainly caused by the war. After the war, this proportion will definitely decline, but no matter how much it declines, Bulgaria and Russia will still be mutually supportive. The largest trading partner!

According to the analysis of economic experts, building a Bulgaria-Russia integrated economic circle is the most suitable choice for the Russian Empire, using economic interests to tie the two countries together.

This is also the current national policy that both Bulgaria and Russia are implementing, so no matter how big the political differences between the two countries are now, under the influence of common interests, the two countries are still the closest allies on the surface!

Nicholas II thought for a while and said: Well, but we still have to get the Baltic Sea into our hands as soon as possible, if it takes a long time, the British will definitely make trouble for us again!

Now the Japanese in the Far East are active again. According to the news from the Far East Front Army, they are going to launch a big operation again. They simply don’t care about the empire! After the war is over, we have to deal with the troubles in the east!

Brusilov was taken aback for a moment, before reacting, it seems that His Majesty the Tsar still has a grudge against the Japanese.

But for the Russian Empire, this is a good thing. Instead of focusing on the European continent and fighting against the French, it is better to go to the Far East to pinch the soft persimmon of the Japanese!

Of course, this is the future. Even if the war ends in a short period of time, everyone will still have to lick their wounds. There will be no ten or eight years, and European countries will not be able to recover.

After thinking for a while, Brusilov said confidently: Yes! Please rest assured, Your Majesty, within a month at most, we can severely damage the German troops on the Eastern Front. The Baltic Sea is ours!

Nicholas II nodded in satisfaction. Generations of the Russian Empire have been fighting for the ocean strategy for hundreds of years, and this is the first time that they are so close to victory!

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