My Italian Chapter 680

At this time, Europe was full of wind and clouds, and wars broke out everywhere.

In France, the battle for Paris was still in full swing. Britain, France and Germany have continued to invest 2.4 million people to fight around Paris. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, and the total casualties reached one million. It can be described as the largest battle of the current war.

In the newspapers, the huge casualties suffered by both parties in the Paris area were dubbed a meat grinder.

The current situation in the Paris battlefield is that the British and French troops have the upper hand, but with the tenacious resistance of the German army, they are still some distance away from regaining Paris.

Apart from the world-shocking meat grinder in Paris, the fighting in the Transcarpathians has come to an end.

After the Austrian army paid a lot of casualties and fought **** battles, coupled with the support of the German army, the Austrian army won the battle victory in the Outer Carpathians.

For this reason, the Russian army paid nearly 300,000 casualties, and the German and Austrian armies also paid nearly 200,000 casualties, but most of these casualties came from the Austrian army, and the German army suffered just over 10,000 casualties.

After resisting the Russian attack, the Austrians set their sights on Serbia again.

At this time, the Austrians prepared more than 200,000 people and asked Germany for help, while Berlin sent the 17th Army, whose commander was the famous General Mackensen.

Then nearly 300,000 German-Austrian coalition forces attacked Serbia from the north, and as an ally, Italy also sent an army from Kosovo to contain the Serbian army from the west.

In addition, the new ally Bulgaria is not far behind. Although it is fighting with Greece on the Quastos River, Bulgaria has also sent more than 100,000 troops to attack Serbia for the North Macedonia region.

One more thing to say here, Bulgaria currently has nearly 400,000 troops, and a population of more than 3 million recruits so many people, it can be seen how desperate it is. Moreover, Bulgaria is also the country with the highest rate of enlistment, and may also be the country with the highest rate of enlistment in this war.

While fighting **** battles with the Greeks, the Bulgarians still had the energy to besiege Seville. They really deserved the reputation of Balkan Prussia.

In addition, the Ottomans not only fought against the British in Palestine, but also attacked Georgia. However, compared with the back and forth fighting with the British army in Palestine, the Ottoman army that attacked the Caucasus suffered a failure.

The 11th Army under the command of Hassan Izet Pasha tried to attack the Sarkamish area, but was repelled by the main force of the Caucasus Army. Both sides suffered 59,000 Turkish casualties and 34,000 Russians.

This is much stronger than the original history. You must know that the original history was a disastrous defeat, and this time it can barely be regarded as evenly matched. Of course, what caused all this is that Ottoman trained the German army earlier, making it more and more sophisticated. .

The war is not only unfolding in Europe, but also in Asia and Africa.

In Southeast Asia, the Japanese army is about to conquer the Bataan Peninsula, the last stronghold of the German army on Luzon Island. As for the Italian colony of Borneo, it must have been unable to survive the war.

In addition, Yuan Weiting, an old friend of Carlos in the Far East, is in a dilemma at this time, because he is accepting the solicitation of the Allied Powers.

As a country with the largest population, people are also resources. For Britain, France and Russia, especially France, a large number of adult men were recruited, resulting in an extreme shortage of domestic industry and agriculture.

However, although the Allied Powers offered a lot of money, it still made the Beiyang Group that ruled China very hesitant.

This Europe has played a dog's brains, and it is too risky to get involved. In addition, China generally has a good impression of Germany and Italy. Most of the various weapons equipped by the army are purchased and imported from Germany, Italy and Austria. So this also makes it very difficult for him to transform in a short time.

And in the desolate African continent, the two sides are also fighting.

In German West Africa, Germany failed to stop the British and French attacks. Now most of its colonies in West Africa have been occupied. Only the northern part of Cameroon is still in the hands of the German army.

In German South West Africa, its territory has been occupied by British troops.

As for German East Africa, it is much better.

Under the leadership of General Walbeck, German East Africa was extremely active. It first attacked some towns in southern Kenya, and then repelled the landing British and Indian troops in Tanga, causing the loss of more than 5,000 people.

In the face of the brave German East African army, the British knew that without a large number of troops, it would be difficult to solve the German East Africa, but the Italian East Africa. Considering the urgent needs of Italian East Africa, the British army sent 50,000 troops from Kenya to deploy on its border to defend the German army in East Africa. This is not a small number. You must know that there are only more than 12,000 Germans in East Africa. The defense with four times the strength shows the combat effectiveness of the Germans in East Africa.

The fighting power of the German army in East Africa is strong, which is also the credit of General Volbeck. The largest number of German troops in East Africa were African natives. General Walbeck trained these natives according to German standards and treated his soldiers equally. This also allowed him to be loved by these natives. Naturally, the battle was not comparable to that of the British colonial army. It is not surprising to win the British colonial army.

The scale of the battle in German East Africa was not large. The real large-scale battle in Africa was not the one fought by Italy and France in Tunisia, but the Italian East Africa campaign that had just begun.

The British and French troops sent 216,000 and 253,000 troops from Sudan and Kenya respectively to attack Italian East Africa from the north and the south. In addition to the colonial troops, Britain and France also sent nearly 100,000 native troops.

This shows how much attention is paid to Italian East Africa, which is stuck in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean and threatens the Asian routes of the British Empire. Even if it is against the Indian Ocean Combined Fleet of the Allies, this threatening important area must be destroyed first.

In addition, the British Indian Ocean Fleet also went to the coast of Italian East Africa to conduct bombardment in order to contain the Italian navy and some troops.

Facing the pressure of the British and French troops, General Brining, the commander of the Italian Eastern Army, commanded more than 300,000 Italian troops to resist the Ethiopian army.

On the southern front, the two sides fought fiercely on the banks of the Miba River in Kismayo, Geely, and Boualai. More than 300,000 people from both sides fought around the nearly 300-kilometer lower Miba River. At present, the battle lines are repeatedly fighting in this area. It is still unknown who will win.

The southern front was inseparable, but the northern front was much better. 180,000 British troops on the northern front attacked the Italian troops stationed on the defense line of the Hagarnis Plateau.

Although the British army carried 7-inch heavy artillery, the continuous fortifications made the progress of the British army very slow. As the commander of the northern line, Lieutenant General Zelos used the defense line to consume his opponents, and slowly retreated in the middle of the defense line, making the troops seem to be unable to resist and retreating backwards, attracting more than 100,000 British troops. into the gap. UU Reading www. uukanshu.com

Then it launched a pincer offensive from its two wings, and finally surrounded and annihilated more than 60,000 British troops. The British army on the northern front was seriously injured, so they had to retreat first and slowly lick their wounds. However, it still concentrated heavily on the border, restraining the Italian army on the northern front.

In addition, in the direction of Ethiopia, the British army also sent more than 50,000 people to attack the front line of Lake Tana. As an important grain-producing area in Ethiopia, of course, they do not want to see this area occupied by the British army, so the Ethiopian army gathered heavy troops here to fight against it. . As the king, Eyasu personally went to the front to direct the battle, and the two sides fought fiercely there.

However, Ethiopia has a strong military force. Although the elite level is not good, it is still gradually gaining an advantage. However, the British army's approach has obviously achieved it, restraining the Ethiopian army, although it has caused a lot of losses to itself.

At this time, the fierce fighting in East Africa allowed Italy to speed up preparations for the Egyptian campaign. Only by capturing Egypt can the sea transportation from Rome to Massawa be opened up, threatening India, which is most important to Britain. Therefore, it is impossible not to speed up the preparation work. The Israeli East African troops and ammunition cannot withstand long-term consumption.

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