Chapter 1239: Attack on the Middle East

Integrate the strength of the three countries, in the gradual negotiations, gradually clear, although he gave up part of the rights, especially France, he has no way to retreat, with the help of Britain and the United States, he stabilized the front, the possibility of the fall of Bordeaux is almost none, and there is no need to continue to move the capital to the south, but the occupied territory, especially the Germans removed the residents 9 percent, this is too bad, you must know that France has a population of more than 50 million, and about half of the occupied area is equal to half of the French population, as for the colonies, If it weren't for the support of the colonies in the back, France would have collapsed long ago.

But if half of the population is missing, it can't be suppressed, even if in the future, the counteroffensive is successful and Germany is killed, how can this half of the population come back, I heard that this part of the population was sent to China, which is a distant and terrible place, maybe, France, which has lost most of the population, will be beaten to a slump.

This is also the fundamental reason why France agreed for the first time after the joint proposal of Britain and the United States, there is no way, France has no hole cards, and if it does not increase its strength, it may really have to surrender, surrender to the feuding Germany, you can imagine what will happen.

In addition to these co-ordinations, the study of battle plans was also carried out, and in the coming year, if the Entente wanted to gain an advantage, in addition to material and logistical aspects, it was also necessary to make changes in the combat aspects, and they had to think of other ways to fight their opponents head-on like samurai.

The closed-door meeting lasted for more than a month, which amounted to the entire chaotic month of December, and finally formed a comprehensive resolution on the battle plan for 1915.

The strength of Britain and France has reached a limit. Even if you dig again, you won't be able to get many soldiers. At present, the total strength of Britain and France is still about 6 million, but they have lost at least 4 million in succession. In addition, France has lost most of its land and manpower, and its mobilization capacity has greatly decreased, which is already one-tenth of their citizens, and there is still one or two million potential to be tapped, but everyone knows that such soldiers are useless to Germany, have not undergone long-term training, or are congenitally deficient soldiers. In a European war like a flesh mill, even cannon fodder cannot be called, that is, to die, or worthless to die.

The potential that Britain and France can tap is not enough, and the largest part still falls on the Americans, who have the maximum mobilization capacity of 10 million, which is logically possible, but the previous public opinion offensive has greatly reduced the idea of Americans to become soldiers. Even if you continue to work hard now, the effect is not good.

In order to satisfy the United States, Britain and France invested a lot of money, not only transferring hard currency and some technology to the United States. A succession of post-war treaties were also signed, so to speak, as long as the Entente was victorious. The United States will become the three great powers in the core of Britain, France and the United States, and it will have a certain status. Above France, on an equal footing with the United Kingdom. This is what the United States has been looking forward to.

If it weren't for the status, not for the sake of continuing to carve up the world, it would be impossible for the United States to participate in such a cruel world war, and now that it is involved, millions of losses, there must always be a result, it is impossible for the United States to withdraw, only to continue to increase the weight, if Britain and France do not propose enough benefits, he will press them, but after the benefits reach a certain extent, the Americans will also be moved.

In this era, the great powers, even if it is a nominal democratic United States, are very easy to turn to dictatorship, as long as it depends on whether the value is big enough, since Britain and France have ceded enough interests, the next thing is easy to do, first, in the name of the state, take over the vast majority of the large newspapers and radio stations, and the remaining small scales, all declared illegal, or delisted, or banned, especially the newspapers and periodicals that used to be used as mouthpieces for conscription or anti-war, are almost the focus of the crackdown, regardless of whether they are good enough or not, they will be banned.

The sudden action of the United States really exceeded everyone's expectations, especially China and Germany, the media power they control, almost all of them were appealed to, and if several intelligence agencies were not running fast, they might also be implicated, and in this way, the previous network was completely cut off, and it was not easy to recover, and it was conservatively estimated that it would take at least one year to completely recover.

After integrating the media power of the whole United States, everything is decided by the US government, and conscription and disinformation are full of it, even a few discerning people, but the people are already irrational, and the influence of the previous one slowly fades, and the number of conscripts begins to increase.

As long as this development is followed, in the coming year, the United States can complete the investment of 4 million new soldiers, and together with Britain and France 2 million, form two front legions and devote themselves to the European war. A corps would fight in the Mediterranean, mainly to cooperate with France in attacking Italy and Austria-Hungary, completely separating Germany from the other Allied powers, isolating him, and achieving strategic goals.

The other legion, will land in Norway, under the pressure of the Entente, especially Britain, forcibly put its influence deep into the Baltic Sea, with a strong navy and Germany's retreat, did not completely take the three Nordic countries into its arms, but let Sweden loosen, for Britain to help, Sweden and Germany are almost across the sea, is a good breakthrough point, although in that place, there are not many troops, but one or two million is enough to make Germany anxious.

These are the main directions of the attack in the coming year, but compared with the previous method, there are still certain changes, and the multi-way army attacking Germany makes him tired, but it will not be a final word, and it is still a conventional combat method. In the past year, Britain, France, and the United States have proved the strength of the German Army, even if it continues to expand, and the strength of the German Army, which has declined somewhat, is far above them, although the gap between them has been reduced as much as possible, but the losses are still more than this, which is also the fundamental reason why Britain, France and the United States cannot hold on.

France found in the research that in addition to Germany pay attention to the personal quality of soldiers, the use of automatic weapons and artillery is the focus, Britain and France also began to strengthen automatic firearms, has not been as good as Germany, the reason is not that Britain and France do not want to, knowing that automatic firearms will greatly improve the combat effectiveness of a force, the strength has increased dramatically, but there must also be a degree, the increase of automatic firearms will cause increased pressure on logistics, Britain and France are great powers, but in terms of industrial production, France lost half of the country and most of the heavy industry, Britain, Only the British Isles, because of the control of the world, part of the industry has been transferred, which is not very suitable.

The United States has this condition, but everything needs to be transported from the Atlantic, even if there is no war, it will increase a certain cost from the United States, not to mention that the current Germany, after getting the strengthening of the northwest, has increased a lot on the submarines, the elusive wolf pack tactics, so that the loss of British merchant ships is increasing, and the United States also entered the war in advance, so the German submarines can operate in the entire Atlantic without scruples, in just 1914, a total of 573 sunk uploads, The total tonnage is as high as more than 8 million tons.

Not to mention their value, even if it is a sunken cargo, it is enough to affect this side, and even if the British make efforts to adjust, in the end it will only make the number of automatic firearms reach about half of the Germans, and there can be no more.

It was in this situation that the French proposed to attack the German logistics, cut off his access to the outside world, and finally weaken Germany and gain a strategic advantage. Compared with the colonies of Britain and France all over the world, compared to the vast land and resources of the United States, Germany really has nothing, even if it has just digested the territory it has already obtained, and the output is relatively small, Germany has always been able to produce so many products with the help of outsiders.

I believe that once Germany itself is restricted in the import of raw materials, it will definitely be possible. The North Sea has been blocked, Scheer's main fleet, can break through the British defenses and return to Germany, other merchant ships cannot, not necessarily all blocked, but from the start of the war, what Germany has obtained from the outside sea, basically 10% of small fish So, why do the Germans have such abundant supplies, even above Britain and France, the result is about to come out, the 3B railway, this railway built under the magical construction ability of the Chinese, has become the lifeline of Germany.

As long as the Germans who are cut off here, they will definitely be able to fight, and the French have proposed a multi-pronged approach, like Germany, to send submarine forces to the Indian Ocean, maybe the Chinese do not have to provoke them and attack their merchant ships, others such as Lan Fang, will be fine.

It's a pity that the method proposed by the French did not pass in the end, Britain and France they were on the submarine, there was not much research, after the start of the infinite submarine war, they also intervened in the field of submarines, but the submarine is only a small displacement ship, the technical content has not been low, although Britain also has experimental submarines, but they are all small, they can't run the ocean at all, although they start now, with the strength of Britain and France, they can only increase from 300 tons to 500 tons for the time being, at least more than a year, It is impossible for an ocean-going submarine of more than 1,000 tons, or even 1,500 tons, to appear, and even if it wants to attack, it is beyond its reach.

Following the French to attack Italy and Austria-Hungary, the purpose of which was to cut off this railway, and even the French were not willing to do so, they found another way and came up with the idea of attacking Baghdad and Basra, which was the best way to cut off the German rear route. Compared with the heavily defended Italy and Austria-Hungary, it seems that it is best to start from the Middle East, which is remote, not the focus, and the attack is more sudden. (To be continued.) )