Germany recruited 1 million mercenaries from Lanfang, they will become the first batch of soldiers of the newly established mercenary group in Germany, the unique environment in Southeast Asia, so that they are not very suitable as a place for training, China's almost unlimited transportation capacity, highlighted here, after the Germans have been selected, they will first load such a group of troops on the ship, they will be reorganized in Basra, with the help of weapons imported from China, arm them, part of the officers and non-commissioned officers, will also be in place, they will come through the 3B railway, Although it is said that the 3B railway has been cut off, thousands of non-commissioned officers can still come through various methods, as for the time, the battle of Italy has begun, but how to say, if Britain and France occupy the whole of Italy, it will also take time, and they will have a few months.

In fact, after half a month, after Basra became an army, the quality of this group of troops, or the German officers who accepted it were more satisfied, China in order to help, specially sent a part of the translators, and the close relationship between Germany, even Lan Fang has a large number of translators, as for the natives, their native language is not understood by few people, but in Lan Fang is the popularization of Chinese, 2 months, basically solve the language barrier, you can become a qualified army, the strength is much worse than Germany, However, it was much stronger than the colonial army, and at least it could deal with the Allied armies, so as not to fall into absolute inferiority.

The Allied army, after occupying the southern part of Italy, slowed down, and it was imperative to flank Germany, but if it could lose less, Italy was the core of the Central Powers, but it had always been like a grass on the wall. Whoever is strong leans in that direction, even before joining the Allies. Also eye-to-eye with the Entente, a few diplomats sent by Italy. He also came to London to carry out diplomatic mediation and strive to withdraw from the war in a more dignified way.

If this object were to be changed to Germany, the British would certainly not agree, but Italy, in a different matter, Britain's greatest enemy will always be Germany, in order to deal with Germany. All enemies can be used, including Italy, and this is how diplomatic efforts and good offices began, and at first Italy was very unwilling, and thought about getting at the negotiating table, what the war did not get. However, several contacts were fruitless, and in the midst of the Italian war, the Allies marched forward and annihilated at least 200,000 Italian troops. Italy has completely let go, and if it continues to fight, maybe Italy is in danger of destroying the country, after seeing Italy's weakness. France also mobilized its forces to strike from northern Italy, on the premise that destruction was imminent. Italy succumbed.

Diplomacy and mutual exchanges take time. After coming and going, the time went to April 1915. Almost 2 months is enough for Germany to prepare, 2 months of training, basically, let the new army, temporarily integrated, no matter what, can come in handy, of course, Germany can not rely on these Lanfang mercenaries, specially divided the 1 million into two parts, one part of the 900,000 and 100,000 German troops, quietly came to the place where Austria-Hungary borders Italy, they will join forces with 700,000 Austro-Hungarian troops to deal with the attack of the Entente, and the other part, more than 100,000, then put it in the north and joined the war to liberate Baku, which is the best choice.

Eventually, Italy, under the leadership of the government, surrendered to the Entente, and the remaining Italian army, which became the vanguard, came towards the border of Austria-Hungary, but unfortunately, the Central Powers were fully prepared, with at least 2 million men, located on key points near the Albis Mountains, and this part of the Italian army was destined to gain nothing.

In the spring of 1915, spring returned to the earth, everywhere was a prosperous scene, in the snow of Siberia, it also began to show the green of spring, Russia's huge state apparatus also began to start, the lessons of several huge losses before, this time, Russia did not casually recruit new troops, as early as October last year, it was recruited, and passed up to 5 months of training, this training is not three days of fishing, two days of drying nets, with the support of the United States and Britain and France, they have enough arms, even every soldier has had the experience of shooting about 200 bullets.

This is not a big step forward for Russia, you know, the previous gray livestock, it is enough to be able to shoot five bullets, often after the recruitment is completed, people are gathered together, after teaching them to shoot, they are thrown aside, some stupid people, they don't even have a lesson in shooting, so they are sent to the battlefield

This is also the fundamental reason for the strength of the Russian army, several successive losses, especially the battle of Chita, let Russia discover, if it is still the previous point of view, let alone capture Chita, may lose the whole of Siberia, according to the news obtained by Siberia, the other side expanded Chita City, began to go west, at least when sweeping the city from Chita to Lake Baikal, it was quite aggressive.

From Chita to Lake Baikal, another few hundred kilometers, counting the whole of Siberia, another million square kilometers of land, Russia understands that China, which has become strong, is also extremely greedy for land, which they absolutely do not accept, hundreds of attacks, multiplied by the border of Siberia, yes

With an army of 4 million and enough supplies and supplies, Russia once again marched to the Far East, and it took five or six months, and the trains that had already been prepared for geodesic surveys began to concentrate little by little, gathering in Yekaterinburg, and at the same time, the Far East, through cable telegraph contact, was also prepared.

The United States, through Alaska, with the help of the Bering Strait and the frozen soil of the Far North, has struggled to supply the Far Eastern Military District in the past five months.

They spared no effort to help the Far Eastern Military District, and even transferred almost one-third of the materials given to them by the United States to the Far Eastern Military District, which made the Far Eastern Military District, in the past five months, not only not shrink, but with the help of increased materials, it has doubled its military strength, and the total strength of the current army has reached about 2.7 million.

This is different from the domestic one in Russia. With a slight control, there are only a few people in the Far East. Not counting the previous losses, it is almost about 8 million. The 2.7 million soldiers have almost swept away adult men between the ages of 13 and 50.

That's not a bad thing.

Once these people are swept away, even if they just become prisoners of war, it will be a great boost for the next step, China's acceptance of Siberia, which is a man's world, and the nation and stability are for men. Resistance is also, once only women, children and children are left, it is easy to assimilate, as long as they are sent to all parts of China, and then let them disperse and start families, after a few generations, there is not much difference from the Chinese.

In the future, Siberia may still be the most sparsely populated place in the whole of China. But this is a treasure land, not to mention the rich animal and plant resources, just say that the value of environmental protection is enough to make people excited, the climate of the alpine zone. restricts human activities, but protects nature,

War is on the verge of breaking out, and Germany has been paying close attention to this matter. The army of 500,000 has not yet set off in full force. But they were already training close to the south of France, once the Entente set out from Apennines. They will definitely block it, the number of people is about the same, and they also occupy a certain geographical advantage, and they are not ready to achieve great results, but they are only defensive battles, and the probability of stalemate is almost more than ninety percent, as long as they do not worry about the south, a battle in the north is inevitable.

Russia really mobilized a large army to the Far East as expected, 4 million personnel, even Germany has some scalp numbness, the most important thing is that in the Far East, there are close to 3 million, 10,000 people, not to mention 7 million, it is estimated that China will be under greater pressure.

With a shortage of 7 million troops, Russia proper, that is, more than a million troops, is still widely distributed throughout Europe, especially along Turkey and Austria-Hungary.

Although it is said that after the start of the European War, the powerful Austro-Hungarian Empire showed weakness and could not play its role at all, but Germany knew that he was indispensable, unlike the First World War in history, Austria-Hungary basically did not stand on the front line, at most only in the Balkans and Russia, but through the help of Germany, the industrial power of Austria-Hungary was integrated, you know, the industrial power of Austria-Hungary, in World War I, can definitely not be regarded as a weak, independent production of battleships of the country, Before the First World War, there were really not many, before it was just a chaotic management system, in the name of Germany, began to integrate, really, Austria and Hungary's industrial integration, with the help of Germany, Austria-Hungary's industrial production strength increased by 2.8 times, and therefore, Austria-Hungary became a very important part of Germany.

In order to conquer Baku, of course, it is not possible to start from the border between Germany and Russia, where there are a large number of fortifications, a large number of troops, with the ability of the 3B railway, Germany is easy to transfer troops to Austria-Hungary, and then enter the border between Austria-Hungary and Russia, the number of reasonable Russian troops is not only less, but the most important thing is that it is almost hundreds of kilometers closer to Baku.

In this era when walking is basically by walking, even if there are some cars, they are all used in logistics, hundreds of kilometers, definitely not a very short distance, if you want to travel, without a train, it will take more than ten days, maybe the success or failure of the war, in such a dozen days.

Russia is waiting, waiting for the results of the Far East to come, as long as the Far East starts, they will also do it immediately, with Russia's strength, it is simply not comparable to Germany's reorganized fat army.

The Far East did not start fighting, compared to before, Russia was much more cautious, the army gathered in Yekaterinburg, continued to adapt to the environment, waiting for supplies from the country, and on the other hand, the Russian army in the Far East also cautiously moved forward, preparing for a two-way army attack, a Chita, even if it has been strengthened and expanded, it is impossible to accommodate the attack of so many troops, they must be in order.

Russia did not take a direct shot, but China is ready, first of all, the Northern Fleet. The Northern Fleet was in 1915 during the Chinese New Year, through integration, and finally established, the original Bohai Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet part, into the Northern Fleet, their combat area to Shanghai as the dividing line, the whole north, belongs to the Northern Fleet sequence, the main ports are Huludao, Dalian, Lushun, Tianjin and Qingdao, these cities will become one of the ports of the Northern Fleet, under normal circumstances, most of the ships will be anchored in Qingdao, Qingdao is also because of the rich shipbuilding industry base, It became one of the most important home ports of the Northern Fleet.

In contrast to the Northern Fleet, the Southern Fleet has Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong as its main ports, and Shantou, Xiamen, Hainan and other places can also anchor, while the southern part of Hainan, the entire South China Sea and Southeast Asia belong to the scope of the Lanfang Fleet.

Strict distribution, so that China formed a pattern of three fleets, with the entry of capital ships one by one, the strength of the three fleets skyrocketed like a snowball, among the three major fleets, the Southern Fleet and the Lanfang fleet, there is no sense of urgency to be established, on the contrary, the Northern Fleet, because it wants to participate in the war against Russia, is the first to supply, but also the most important.

The warships are the same as the Scheer fleet, and in the training of the Scheer fleet, there are 40% of the soldiers, and this part of the people is distributed in any aspect of the various systems of the entire warship. As long as a small number of emergency officers were added, this fleet, in the previous situation, did not encounter problems that they could not handle, and after the battleship was launched, it quickly made its way.

After a full period of construction, and after half a year of training and sea trials, the same specifications as the Scheer fleet, but the new fleet with twice as many heavy cruisers and destroyers, has entered the naval sequence, in the competition between the south and the north, the north has the upper hand, obtaining 6 of the capital ships, only three in the south, and Lan Fang has only obtained a part of the heavy cruise. In a short period of time, the tonnage of the Northern Fleet expanded several times to 500,000 tons, accepted most of the students of the Qingdao Naval School, and formed a huge fleet to defend the entire Bohai Sea.

All this, the countries that were caught up in the European war, did not discover at all that a huge fleet, which is enough to compare with the top five countries in the world, was built in the Far East and quietly entered the sequence of the Chinese Navy.

Conservative estimates, the strength of this fleet is quite strong, at least not under the Scheer fleet, Cheng Biguang also became the first commander of the Northern Fleet, 6 battleships of more than 40,000 tons, more than 25 15,000 tons of heavy cruisers, even if the heavy patrol focuses on air defense, but where is the tonnage, speed and attack power are not weak. (To be continued.) )

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