Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

After receiving the guarantee from the Daxia Empire, William II finally solved his worries.

He has now begun to make final preparations for war, and the factory is operating at full capacity to produce a variety of weapons and equipment.

A large number of firearms and artillery equipment were assigned to the company.

Although the Allies were also making final preparations before the war, they were in no hurry.

According to the predictions of their domestic general staff, although the situation in Europe is already very tense now, there are still 3 to 5 years before the war actually breaks out.

Therefore, John Empire is not in a hurry to complete pre-war preparations.

On the one hand, it is because he uses more colonies and has enough factories, so switching to wartime production can quickly complete war preparations.

On the other hand, John's premature transformation of production will affect the factory's ability to make money.

Once general mobilization is announced, the entire John Empire and his colonies will be converted to military industry, and all supplies need to be given priority over civilian livelihood factories.

This made the capital in John's country somewhat repulsive.

In their view, since the General Staff believes that the war will take at least three to five years to break out, they should prepare for the minimum three years.

Logically speaking, the national policy of John State is correct. It will not affect people's livelihood prematurely and can complete war preparations before war.

On the contrary, the Hans Empire's premature entry into the wartime economy will greatly affect the lives of its citizens. Let the people's living standards drop.

However, the Hans Empire was a little different from the John Empire. The Hans Empire was a centralized empire, while the John Empire was a constitutional monarchy.

For a centralized empire, the level of difficulty for the people does not affect the stability of the upper echelon of the empire, but this is not the case with the John Empire.

This may be the only advantage a centralized empire has over a constitutional monarchy.

In fact, according to the ideas of both parties, what they did was not wrong, but what do you mean, as long as this time comes, there will inevitably be a turning point.

A turning point occurred between the Entente and Central Powers.

That was the European powder keg, and this time it really exploded.

If you want to clarify the interests involved here, it would take three days and three nights to talk about it.

So to put it simply, here in the Balkans, there are too many nationalities involved.

The first thing that needs to be made clear is that the Balkan Peninsula originally belonged to the Ottoman Empire. But as the Ottoman Empire weakened, some more remote places began to become independent.

Among them is Serbia.

What's terrible is that the vast majority of the population here are Slavs, the same clan as the Rakshasa Kingdom to the north.

Therefore, the Rakshasa Kingdom wanted to control this area. But Serbia, the top local country, wants to establish an independent country. Therefore, Serbia roped in Bosnia and Herzegovina to merge.

But the problem is that at that time, Bosnia and Herzegovina was still a province of the Ottoman Empire.

At the same time, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was also eyeing this land. So, two years ago, the Austro-Hungarian Empire suddenly sent troops and annexed these two places.

Then Austria-Hungary's move completely annoyed Serbia and began to deploy heavy troops on the border.

Perhaps in response to Serbia, they also began to mobilize troops to the border. However, the Rakshasa Kingdom's appetite was a bit big. Not only did it want control of the Balkans, it also wanted to annex the Ottoman Empire.

And the Ottoman Empire is so easy to conquer? Maybe it would be possible for another country, but it is absolutely impossible for the Rakshasa Empire.

After all, in the hundreds of years since the Ottoman Empire occupied Istanbul, he had also fought with the Rakshasa Kingdom for hundreds of years.

Now that he saw that the Rakshasa Empire wanted to attack him again, Osman did not want to give in and sent his troops to and from the border overnight.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire, which had just occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina, did not want to throw away the fat that had just arrived in its mouth.

So the Austro-Hungarian Empire also began to send troops to its borders.

The forces of the four countries are concentrated here, and there is a possibility of war at any time.

However, it is obvious that starting a war now is not in the interests of the Hans Empire. He feels that even if a war is to be fought, it should concentrate all its efforts to fight Gaul or the John Empire first, instead of fighting Serbia and Rakshasa in the Balkans. empire.

Therefore, William II quickly sent his diplomats to stop the confrontation between the four countries in the Balkans.

Even if the emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was unwilling, he could not refuse the request of William II.

Therefore, he prepared to send his crown prince to the Balkans to discuss with the Rakshasa Kingdom and Serbia.

In this regard, the Rakshasa Empire and Sevilla also agreed to negotiate.

As a result, Archduke Ferdinand, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was shot in the head several times at close range by a young Serbian man while he was passing by in the back of an open car.

As a result, no one expected that a street parade would end up like this.

But the matter has come to this, even if both parties no longer want to fight, there is no other way.

After all, the crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was assassinated by the Serbs.

When something like this happens, the Austro-Hungarian Empire must maintain the face of the empire even if it is not prepared.

Therefore, on August 1910, 8, under the order of the Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I, the 4-strong Austro-Hungarian army entered Serbia directly and marched towards the Serbian capital.

Serbia was forced to organize an army to fight against the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

At the same time, the Rakshasa Empire declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

In the next two days, almost all European countries participated in this war due to peace treaties or alliance treaties.

On August 8, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia, and the Rakshasa Empire declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The Hans Empire declares war on the Rakshasa Empire, Serbia.

John, the Gallic Empire declares war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Hans Empire.

On August 8, Italy joined the Allies and declared war on the Hans Empire, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers and declared war on Italy, the Rakshasa Empire, the Gallic Empire, and the John Empire.

The conflicts between the two sides that had been accumulated for many years completely broke out at this moment.

From the English Channel to the Caspian Sea, from the Baltic Sea to North Africa, the entire Europe and northern Africa are caught in the flames of war.

Some people who were optimistic about the war woke up almost overnight. They found that peace had left them.

The once peaceful and quiet streets are now riddled with bomb craters.

The soldiers were holding guns and hiding in the muddy trenches, shivering. Bullets flew over the heads of the soldiers, and artillery shells roared from the sky, taking away one fresh life after another.

From this moment on, the originally precious life becomes worthless.

In the face of the country's honor, young people choose to take up arms to defend their country, but women and children cry in the flames of war.

When a soldier sets foot on the land of another country with weapons in hand and looks at the desperate and crying women and children, does he think that his family may also suffer the same pain at this time?

There is no winner in this war, everyone will pay for their greed.