The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife is an inevitable accident, and the leakage of information is outright absurd, and this is not the first time such a thing has happened, during the American Civil War, someone picked up a cigarette case on the street of Maryland, which actually wrote the time when the Southern Army launched an attack on the Northern Army, and the Southern Army was defeated and lost.

The impact of these extremely small accidents was extremely serious, and the battle plan of the Russian officers led to the German army stabilizing the East Prussian front, and Moltke did not need to draw troops from the Western Front to replenish the Eastern Front, and the pressure on the British and French forces further increased.

Previously, the Russian troops in East Prussia had only the First Army, and their commander was Paul von Camp, from this name it can be seen that Kamp was German, at least part of his German origin, and the commander of the Russian Second Army was Alexander Samsonov, whose troops had 14.5 divisions, 4 cavalry divisions, and 1160 artillery pieces.

The German Eighth Army on the Eastern Front had only 11 infantry divisions and one cavalry division, with a total strength of only 135,000 men.

At this time, the front line of the German army on the Western Front was directed at Paris, in order to strengthen the defense of Paris, Xia Fei formed the Sixth Army to be responsible for the defense of Paris, which led to the resignation of the French Minister of War Adolf Messimi, and the new minister hoped that the British Expeditionary Force would return to the front line as soon as possible to attack the German army, and Frenzi refused the request of the new minister.

"The president is under a lot of pressure right now, we are not ready to fight the Germans, Paris lacks enough troops, there is a lack of barbed wire in the trenches, and even food, the Sixth Army now has only six corps, all the divisions are understaffed, we are building fortifications, and the former War Department is doing nothing-" The evening dinner centered on the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Sixth Army, General Joseph Gallieni, who was previously semi-retired and also held the post of commander of the Paris garrison, Both of these units have just been established, and I really don't know what the French have been doing in the past few years of the arms race.

Presumably busy campaigning.

To build fortifications around Paris, it was necessary to dig trenches, lay barbed wire, and lay mines, and at the same time dismantle buildings that affected the firing circle, so the residents of Paris complained, and the dissatisfaction with the Ministry of War reached its peak, so Messimi resigned, he went to the front to become a major, from the Minister of War to the major, even if he resigned, Messimi was still contributing to France.

'We had no problem with our work, but the direction was off, everyone was thinking about attacking, no one was looking at the defence, we thought we were ready, but as we improved, the Germans also improved. The commander-in-chief of the Fifth Army, Lonle Zack, was the most sober man in France, but he was powerless to change the situation.

Before the outbreak of the world war, the French army's admiration for attack had reached the point of pathology, and it is estimated that their belief in God was not so crazy, and everyone firmly believed that as long as the war broke out, France and Russia attacked from both sides, coupled with the British naval blockade, Germany would have no ability to resist.

So before the outbreak of the world war, all the war-related plans of the French War Department were related to the attack, and no one paid attention to the defense, France built a solid defensive position on the Franco-German border, as if it could defend the enemy from the country, and I didn't expect Germany to attack through Belgium in a roundabout way, and their defense was not done well, at the beginning of the war, the French troops did attack Alsace and Lorraine, but the German counteroffensive had already entered France, and the defense line on the Franco-German border did not play its due role.

"The most important thing now is to contain the German attack, as long as we win in either direction, the German army will have to draw forces to defend, so that the balance on the battlefield can be achieved." Frenzi had a great opinion of the French generals, and he always spoke with a hint of sarcasm.

At Mons, Runkzak retreated ahead of schedule without informing Dorin and Haig, putting the British Expeditionary Force in great danger, and if Dorin and Haig had not withdrawn overnight, the British Expeditionary Force might have been surrounded and annihilated by superior German forces.

Even so, the British Expeditionary Force suffered heavy losses and became the rear force of the French army, the First Army and the 105th Division were thrown into battle, the First Army lost 1,600 men at Mons and 8,000 at Le Cato, and two brigades of the 105th Division were disabled.

"The expeditionary force has done a great job in battle, and I hope you can join the battle for the defense of Paris, and fight side by side with the Sixth Army to defend Paris." Gallerien was sure of the performance of the expeditionary force, but it was mostly flattery, and William II contemptuously called the British Army a "poor little army", and guess what the French would say?

"Our losses last month were so heavy, we need more time to rest, we need more supplies, and there is another important issue, our troops are using Lee Enfield, they need 0.303-inch bullets, but you are sending us 0.315 bullets for Lebel rifles, this is ridiculous, our troops need bullets, but we can't use the bullets you sent!" Frenzi complained to his face, the French-

Absurd indeed.

"The Lebel rifle uses an eight-millimeter bullet—" Langlezak did not relentlessly correct, just as Frenzi did not like the French generals, and Langlezak did not like the British Expeditionary Force.

In terms of national strength, Britain's national strength far exceeds that of France.

However, the British expeditionary force was in France, but it needed France to provide logistical supplies, which made the French very dissatisfied.

The British are also not satisfied, the war broke out in France, the British mainland has not been affected, the expeditionary force is completely fighting for France, the precious lives of the soldiers are being wasted, the logistics supply of France is a mess, their own troops have eaten the individual food package provided by southern Africa, but the British expeditionary force is sent to the potato beef stew, although compared with the individual soldier food package, the army in southern Africa prefers potato beef stew, but the soldiers of the expeditionary force do not think so.

To the embarrassment of the French side, the supplies ordered by the French War Ministry from southern Africa do not seem to be being used effectively, and now there are individual food parcels produced in southern Africa on the market, which should have been supplied to the army, and these foods are openly sold on the shelves by unscrupulous businessmen with great powers.

"We should unify our weapons, and your troops can be reloaded with more powerful Lee Enfield rifles." Frenzi made a "sincere suggestion" to Gallieni, and as for Langle Zac, Frenzi completely ignored it.

"Why don't you replace your Lebel rifles, none of you can supply enough Lee Enfield to your own army, and you still need to order from southern Africa, while our Lebel has enough stock." Langle Zack did not care, Britain's traditional advantage was in the sea, the army was not valued, and the arsenal was naturally not valued, so when the army was expanded, there were not even enough weapons.

France, on the other hand, is a traditional army power, and although the army is not doing well, the strength of the military industry is still good, especially rifles, and during the world war, France's arsenals produced nearly three million Lebel rifles.

The only regret is that the Lebel rifle is a single-shot rifle, and the French have not noticed the advantages of the magazine rifle until now, it is really a stubborn Frenchman, more stubborn than the Germans, and the Germans have begun to gradually replace the magazine Mauser rifle.

"Lebel is a weapon destined to be obsolete, and Southern Africa is also part of the United Kingdom, an overseas dominion of the British Empire, so we can afford to have enough rifles for our own troops." Frenzi has a hard mouth, which is also the birth of Roque, which gave Frenzi a chance to be hard-mouthed, another time and space, this batch of British weapons was ordered from the United States.

"Gentlemen, if the troops need more weapons, our American enterprises can provide sufficient help, we have a strong military industrial capacity, and we can produce tens of millions of weapons of all kinds with just one order, and of course, we also need all kinds of authorizations." Colonel Edward House, who was a diplomatic adviser to US President Woodrow Wilson, had a great deal of influence on Woodrow Wilson.

Before the outbreak of the World War, Edward House had been in Europe, campaigning for peace and getting more orders for American companies.

It's a pity that the rebel son of the United States has betrayed his home, and in another time and space, Kitchener has no choice but to give orders to the United States, and now there is southern Africa, and the orders from Britain to the United States are all agricultural products.

"Gentlemen, our weapons in southern Africa have always been known for their excellent workmanship and durability, whether it is Lee Enfield or Lebel, our military enterprises in southern Africa can produce them, we have a large number of skilled workers and a complete supply chain of raw materials, which is our greatest advantage." Ford Lew seized the opportunity to advertise for the Nyasaland military-industrial complex, rifles are consumables, the two million orders given by the War Department to Southern Africa will certainly not meet the needs of the British Expeditionary Force, and the French military-industrial complex cannot produce Lee Enfield, so there are still many orders in the future.

"General Lu, when will Lord Nyasaland come to France, I hope to talk to Lord Nyasaland then." Edward House was interested in Roque, who was now British, despite the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States.

"We in Southern Africa are fighting against South-West Africa and Tanganyika, and when the war between South-West Africa and Tanganyika is over, I think the Lord will soon come to Europe." Although Ford Lew smiled reservedly, he couldn't hide the smugness on his face, and his eyebrows were flying.

"You can indeed put an end to it, the first cavalry division has already invaded Sudan, is there a German army in Sudan?" Frenzi also did not like the military of southern Africa, and presumably, in Frenzi's opinion, the generals of southern Africa were too greedy.

The point is that greed is at the same time capable at the same time, which is terrifying.