Mediterranean Hegemony Road

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

With the fall of Taranto, the Italian government is now desperate for a victory to offset the political fallout from the defeat of Taranto.

On April 15th, the Italian government decided to cooperate with the Germans in attacking France, and the Italian 6th Army General Iggy Cadorna was responsible for implementing this plan.

In fact, there is still a serious territorial conflict between France and Italy - the Savoy area and the Nice area. Historically, in order to get the support of France to get rid of Austrian rule, the two countries signed the Treaty of Turin in 186o. Both places were ceded to the French.

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

Between France and Italy, there has always been a natural border, the Alps, and it is not so easy to attack France.

But now the opportunity has come. Because the Germans have held back a large number of French troops, the French defenders on the French-Italian border are now less than 50,000, and the Kingdom of Italy has assembled 500,000 troops.

The French have to thank Ferdinand, if it weren't for his sudden battle of Taranto, France would now face more than half a million Italian troops.

The Italians have limited strategic material reserves, and if they attack with all their strength, they can only support them 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 replenishing domestically, but this rate cannot keep up with the consumption rate on the battlefield!

Therefore, the decisive battle became the only principle of Iggy Cadorna, and like him there were the Germans.

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Germany has formulated the Schlieffen Plan. According to the plan, the Germans will quickly invade France through Belgium, defeat the French in a short period of time, and then march eastward to fight the Russians decisively, and strive to end the war in three or four.

As in parallel planes, the German offensive was stalled by the sudden explosion in Belgium.

Although this plane, the war broke out later, and the Germans were more fully prepared, it was still delayed by Belgium for a week.

In just one week, the fate of the two empires has been changed. In this week, France has completed the military mobilization of 1.5 million people, and now the total force of the French has reached 2.98 million.

The Germans who entered France were dumbfounded, and they suddenly realized that their advantage was gone! The raid has lost its effect, so the two sides can only compete in strength.

The value of the Italians increased greatly, so a conspiracy was carried out in Germany and Italy, and half a million Italian troops launched an all-out attack on the French.

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For the French, their crisis has come. Although their total force has exceeded 3.5 million, the French commander-in-chief Joseph Jacques Cesaire Chaffey still feels that the force is not enough.

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

This week, three British divisions will arrive, five will arrive next week, and twenty will arrive on the battlefield in June. Raymond Poengale said angrily.

Obviously, John Bull has dealt with it. The war has been breaking out for more than a month, and only one 6th Army Division of the British promised reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, and 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 force, the British are reluctant to send one now! Raymond Poengale said angrily

If the main force of the British army, these troops are enough to make the French rejoice, which can almost offset the Italian threat.

But what about colonial troops? Their combat power has always been slag with a combat power equal to 5. They can be used as cannon fodder. If they want to defeat the joint attack of the Germans and Italians, it is still only the French themselves.

From the beginning of the war to the present, the French army has on average paid tens of thousands of casualties every day. In more than a month, the Germans have caused nearly half a million casualties to France.

It can be said that France is the country with the largest loss of personnel among all the participating countries so far, and their pressure can be imagined!

Xiafei asked again: What about the Russians? When will they be able to attack the Germans?

And Bulgaria, can they attack southern Italy to help us contain the enemy?

Mr. President, do you know how much military pressure we are facing now, facing the attack of the two great powers Germany and Italy at the same time!

Without the support of our allies, we cannot last long on our own!

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

As for Bulgaria, their Ministry of Foreign Affairs said there was nothing they could do. Now they have to face the siege of Austria-Hungary, Romania, Montenegro, and the Ottoman Empire, and they really have no energy to open up new fronts!

After listening to the president's words, Xiafei became even more angry. It was clear that the Allies had the upper hand, but when they arrived in France on the western front, they were suppressed and beaten by the Germans. In his view, these allies were undoubtedly watching the French and Germans desperately.

In the eyes of the French, the British were simply not strong enough, and they took a bunch of colonial troops to make up the numbers, and they automatically ignored the influence of the British anti-war faction.

Not to mention the Russians, who left the Germans alone, and now they have caught the soft persimmon of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and beat them hard, failing to achieve their desired goals.

It sounds like Bulgaria has done everything it can, 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!

These four countries combined are not as powerful as one-third of the Germans, and the Russians helped to contain three of them!

Militarily, Bulgaria can turn four enemies into two whenever it wants, Romania and Montenegro have no war potential at all!

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

First, the British, French, and Paul swindled the Russians together, and now 70% of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's troops are used on the bears; then the three countries of Britain, Russia, and the Paulines united to entrap the French, and took on the Germans alone. Eighty-tenths of the force, now with an Italian.

After being cheated once, the Russians decisively let go of Germany, caught the soft persimmon of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and turned their hands on France!

Is France so easy to be tricked? Ferdinand didn't know, but he knew that there were only interests between countries, and everything revolved around interests!

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

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

So what about the 6th Army? Did the French dare to let the Germans in?

Suddenly, Ferdinand thought of something, but he didn't seem to think of anything. He knows that the intrigues that are born now are also born in parallel time and space, but the level he is in 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 Germans' high seas fleet, they also acted as the chief logistics officer of the Allied countries.

Otherwise, if there are millions of British troops fighting against the Germans together with the French, it is absolutely impossible for this war to last more than four years!

I can't figure out what kind of action the French will take to break the game, but it does not prevent the Bulgarian plan to continue, killing Romania and the Russians first.

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

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

Imya Dimitev said confidently: Your Majesty, please rest assured! We have assembled 500,000 troops, and the Russians will also send 500,000 troops. It is impossible for Romania to stop our attack!

If nothing else, within two months, you can receive news of Romania's demise!

Well, to deal with a Romanian army of one 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 in Belgrade and Bulgaria, and nearly 3 million with the Russians. The Vienna government has very few mobile troops. .

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

Then it's better to act according to the original plan, I'm 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? asked Foreign Minister Metev.

Ferdinand thought for a while and said, Promise them to sell the technology of our biplane bomber to them. We can trade in technology or offset them with materials, but we don't accept cash!

Although he also wants to keep the technology secret, the technical content of the 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 allies. Bulgaria has also purchased technology from Britain and France before. No matter what their reasons are, they finally sold it. Now it is impossible for Bulgaria to refuse their request!

Instead of refusing to freeze everyone's relationship, it is better to take them into the pit openly and aboveboard, anyway, all they want to buy are bomber production technology.

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

But now is the age of war, and the least valuable thing is money! Whether it is technology or materials, they are things that can be immediately transformed into national power, but money is not enough!

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