Piao Tianwen     [There is something happening today, I delayed the update, I owe a chapter, I will make up for it twice tomorrow]

After the Battle of Paris, the Agreement shattered the German army's plan to quickly decide, recovered Paris, and caused the Western Front battlefield in World War I to form a stalemate. The strategic result of this battle was huge, and the Germans lost the only chance to defeat France first and then turn around to deal with Russia.

In this battle, the two sides of the war successively invested 1.5 million troops, with nearly 700,000 casualties. Among them, the French army lost 350,000, the British army lost 33,000, and the German army lost 320,000, which was a loss.

Within more than three months after the outbreak of the war, the German army followed the basic policy set by Schriefen and quickly crossed Belgian territory to advance towards France. At that time, the whole of Germany, even almost the whole world, was deeply convinced that the German army would win quickly and that Paris was about to be occupied. However, when the victory of the Germans seemed to be within reach and the disaster of the French was imminent, the Agreement was in Paris, and the banks of the Marne between Rouen turned into victory, so it was called "the miracle on the banks of the Marne."

French war history expert Middleton said in a future discussion about who made the most contribution to the Battle of the Marne: "History shows that there are many people who demanded the title of "Winner of the Battle of the Marne". Gallieni is justified compared to most people, but Major General Ma Jin, the commander of the Chinese Empire Observatory Group in the Allied, was the one who made the most contribution, because he convinced the Chinese Empire government to export 100 advanced J-1 fighters to the French Air Force, thus changing the direction of the battle. In addition, the recruitment of car rental companies from Chinese merchants in Rouen to transport the French army was also an indispensable contribution."

The Chinese Empire first supported the German white phosphorus bomb, which significantly enhanced the attack power of the German Army. The French army was attacking and searching for teeth and lost the capital Paris. For a moment, the whole world thought that France could not stand it. At this moment, the Chinese Empire took action again and provided the French Air Force with a J-1 fighter jet, which led to the German Air Force severely damaged. The army offensive was also stopped.

The production capacity of Germany's pigeon fighter production line is insufficient, and it cannot compete with the French Air Force's more than 100 Newport fighters in a short period of time. If the German Zeppelin airship does not have enough fighter escort, it will not pose a threat to the French army.

The German offensive on the Marne front was blocked, and Paris was lost after only one week of occupation, which made German Emperor William II very angry and almost removed the position of Moltke.

Moltke promised the German Emperor that the war would be reversed in a short period of time. For this reason, Moltke negotiated with Xu Jingcheng, ambassador of the Chinese Empire to Germany, hoping to obtain fighter jets from the Chinese Empire as soon as possible to stop the French Air Force from massacre of the German army.

This is exactly the result that the Chinese Empire expected. However, for political reasons, the Chinese Empire continued to refuse, but did not oppose private trade exchanges.

So Moltke immediately contacted the major arms giants in the Chinese Empire and soon obtained the export project of the J-5 fighter jet from the Chinese Empire Chengdu Airlines. The Chinese Empire Congress did not allow this type of fighter jet to carry weapons and only allow civilians.

This decision was made to balance the political pressure from the Allies, but it was just an excuse. Chengdu Airlines removed the J-5 machine gun and exported it to German Ford Airways in the name of civil aircraft. Once the aircraft was transported to Germany, the machine gun could be installed immediately and turned into a fighter. For German workers, that was very easy.

Germany obtained 500 J-5 fighter jets from the Chinese Empire in May. The German side renamed it the Ford 3 fighter jet, and publicly stated that this was a three-wing fighter jet that Germany had developed for a long time. At the same time, Germany has also begun to increase production lines of pigeon fighter jets and produce pigeon fighter jets on a large scale.

At the same time, France tasted the sweetness of aircraft operations in the Battle of the Marne. In addition to the large-scale production of Newport fighters in China, it was also very satisfied with the J-1 fighter jets of the Chinese Empire and ordered 500 again.

Starting from June, Germany and France launched a large-scale air battle on the battlefield of the Marne River. The two sides invested more than 1,000 fighter jets to fight, opening the prelude to large-scale air battles in human history.

Since the combat performance of the Fokker (J-5) fighter jets is much higher than that of the J-1 fighter jets, after the start of large-scale air combat, the French Air Force could not defeat Germany's Fokker fighter jets, and every large-scale air combat was a huge loss.

Britain and France have seen the huge power and function of fighter jets, and are eager to supplement the losses. However, the fighter jets in Britain and France are not as good as those of the Chinese Empire. After a failed attempt to make up for quality by quantity, they had to import J-1 fighters from the Chinese Empire on a large scale. Although the J-1 is not as good as the J-5 fighter jets in combat, the J-1 is much stronger than Newport, so Britain and France have no choice but to buy J-1 on a large scale to make up for it by quantity.

During this period, Britain and France hoped to obtain more advanced fighter jets from the Chinese Empire, but the Chinese Empire still had more than 8,000 J-1 fighter jets in stock. If they were sold to Britain and France, these stocks would not be sold.

Fortunately, the Chinese Empire only had more than 2,000 J-5 fighter jets in terms of inventory, and the number of J-5 fighters supplied to Germany was not large. Therefore, Britain and France could still withstand Germany's Folk (J-5) fighter jets with a large number of Newport (J-1) fighters and temporarily maintain the balance of air power.

At the same time, the Allies also need more J-1 fighter jets in Serbia and Africa. Because the number of J-5 fighter jets exported to Germany by the Chinese Empire was limited, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Turkish Empire and Bulgaria received not much, and the Allies temporarily have the advantage in numbers on other battlefields.

After the end of the Marne River Battle, the two sides entered positional wars from the Oates River to the Swiss border, and formed an exposed flank in the northwest direction. The French Chief of Staff j.-j.-c. Xiafei attempted to detour the German right wing to threaten its railway supply line, forcing the German army to evacuate the Eine River, Oates River, Somme River and Esco River areas, and at the same time rescued Antwerp, defending the Biz. The German Chief of Staff e. von Falkenhein decided to draw the 6th Army from the Lorraine area to reinforce the right wing, trying to defeat the coalition plan and detour the coalition left wing.

On May 16 and 21, the 6th and 2nd Army of France launched attacks on the German 1st Army between the Oates River and the Somme River, and the 6th Army of Germany provided timely reinforcements. The French army was repelled. From the 24th to the 25th, the two sides fought fiercely in the upper reaches of the Somme River. They had a victory or defeat.

On the 25th, the French army formed the 10th Army, and launched along the lines of Aras, Lance and Lille, and launched an assault on Cambray and Valencienne, threatening the German supply line. From May 30 to June 7, the two sides fought fiercely on both sides of the Scalp River, and the front gradually moved northward.

The German army occupied Douai and Lance and repeatedly fought with the French for Aras. On June 8, the German army began shelling Lille and attacked the west bank of the Liss River.

On the 9th, the French army established a Northern Army Group (the 10th, 2nd, 6th Army and the British Expeditionary Force). The French deputy commander-in-chief F. Foch. From 10th to 15th, the British Expeditionary Force launched a raid on the German army along the banks of the Les River, with little progress. Finally, the two sides turned into defense. While fighting with the British and French coalition forces, the German army sent heavy troops to surround Antwerp and captured the city on June 20th. The Biz and British reinforcements retreated to Ostend.

During the one-month "Run to the Sea" battle, the German army suffered 130,000 casualties, and the concord team lost about 100,000. Due to the equal strength and insufficient movement, both sides' attempts to deviate from the other side's wings were not realized.

During this battle, France fully utilized the tactics of the automobile transport army, which made the German army's mobility and reinforcements always lag behind France half a beat. Even though Germany occupied a large area of ​​French territory, it still failed to cut off the supply lines between France and Britain. As a result, the strategic plan to quickly destroy France went bankrupt.

After this battle, the German General Staff quickly summarized his experience. There was no railway support, so why could the French reinforcements always take one step ahead of the German army? After special agents' investigation, the German ** realized that France had tasted the sweetness in the tactics of requisitioning the car company to transport troops in the Battle of the Marne, so it recruited cars in France on a large scale. However, the car carrying capacity of the rental company was too small, and the Chinese Empire hurriedly seized this opportunity and promoted advanced transportation such as military trucks and military jeeps to Britain and France.

The British and French Allied Forces Command agreed to purchase military vehicles on a large scale from the Chinese Empire. For this reason, the first batch of 1,000 military vehicles in the Chinese Empire were urgently loaded in Cyprus and shipped to France. It was just as it rushed to the seaside battle. The British and French Allied Forces quickly entered the battlefield in military vehicles provided by the Chinese Empire, effectively preventing the German offensive.

After the battle, the British and French Allied Forces Command was very satisfied with the military vehicles of the Chinese Empire, so it added an order for 10,000 military vehicles.

After Germany obtained this information, Moltke immediately negotiated with the Chinese Empire and also imported 20,000 military vehicles from major automobile companies in the Chinese Empire through civilian methods and equipped the German army on the Western Front.

To this end, the Chinese Empire produced military vehicles on a large scale. In order to fill the European military vehicle market as soon as possible and prevent European countries from producing military vehicles on their own, the Chinese Empire's mainland was not threatened with war, so the military sprayed the 100,000 active military vehicles and sold them to various European belligerent countries. At the same time, the newly produced military vehicles in China served in the Chinese Empire's ** team.

In this way, the Chinese Empire sold second-hand military vehicles to European countries at the price of new cars, which helped the imperial side upgrade military vehicle equipment for free, and earned a lot of gold from European countries.

In June, Bulgaria sent 300,000 troops. Under the cover of the J-1 fighter jet, it cooperated with the German-Austrian coalition to attack Serbia. As a result, the allies quickly occupied the entire territory of Serbia. The Serbian government and army were forced to retreat to Greece's island of Kerkira.

The European Allies were extremely unfavorable, but in this case, the Allies actually accomplished a big thing, which was to convince Italy to join the Allies.

In June 1913, the British and French forces on the Western Front fought hard against the German army, but still lost a large area of ​​territory. At the same time, on the battlefield of the Eastern Front, Russia's 2 million troops were restrained by 2.4 million troops of Turkey, Bulgaria, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Germany, and could not invade East Prussia. The Allied Powers formulated before the war with France as bait to attract the main force of the German army. The Russian army took the opportunity to quickly invade Berlin and force Germany to surrender to bankruptcy.

The situation was not optimistic and the Allies faced serious threats, so it became the top priority for British and French politicians.

Through the unremitting efforts of Britain and France, as well as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Turkish Empire's exclusion of Italy, Italy eventually chose to join the Allies camp.

Because Britain and France agreed to divide Fum and Dalmatia after the war, Italy defected to the Allies and declared war on the allies. Although the Italian army was weak, after declaring war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire on June 5, it lost nearly 300,000 people at the beginning of the war, but it successfully delayed the strength of the 40 divisions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and eased the pressure from Russia and France.

As a result, Italy successfully restrained the main force of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, causing the pressure between Russia and France to be greatly reduced, and the European war entered a stalemate.

Putting aside the European war, the African battlefield and the Asian battlefield also became a stalemate. The 400,000 British and French coalition forces and 300,000 German troops broke out fiercely along the Suez Canal. Both sides held fortifications, and the Chinese Emperor's side was secretly supported by secret support. Under the control of the Chinese Empire, the two sides were evenly matched, so they became a stalemate.

The African colonial war is also ongoing. The German colonial army is not large, and the British army has the advantage. However, because the French front is tight, Britain has to suspend the war with Germany in the colony. It transfers a large number of colonial troops back to Europe to support France in the battle. Therefore, the German colonial army has a chance to breathe and is evenly matched with the British army. It also leads to the two sides in a stalemate in the colonial war.

In Asia, the Turkish Empire and Russia broke out in large-scale wars along the Black Sea coast, as the twelfth Russian-Turkey War between the two countries and as part of the Asian battlefield of World War I.

Russia and Turkey were half a pound of eight. The two countries fought for hundreds of years, and almost every twenty years they fought a big war, and both sides won and lost each other. Before this war, Turkey was defeated in the 11th Russian-Turkey War. Russia was also severely weakened in the two Sino-Russian wars, so neither side won and won and lost each other. Soon, the stalemate was reached.

The entire Europe, Africa and West Asia were in a stalemate, which was the result that the Chinese Empire was most happy to see.

The Chinese Empire used the International Red Cross and the International Human Rights Commission as a guise, and with the empire's huge industrial capabilities, it built a powerful maritime transport fleet, air transport fleet and land transport fleet, exporting materials on a large scale to various belligerent countries and making great money in war.

For the Allies, they can get direct supplies from the Chinese Empire in the air and sea, and for the Allies, they can get direct supplies from the land railway and the air. The connection between the two sides to the outside world is basically not affected, and the supply of materials can be maintained through the Chinese Empire.

However, both the Allies and the Allies were worried about the other party's supply route and vowed to take the lead in destroying it.

The Allies carried out landing operations in the Balkans in June 1913, with the intention of cutting off the Baghdad Railway and preventing the Chinese Empire from replenishing land supplies to the Allies. However, Serbia was besieged by 900,000 troops of Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Turkey and Bulgaria, and was defeated in less than a month after defending, resulting in the Allies being forced to give up before they completed their landing.

Similarly, Germany launched the Battle of the Sea to cut off the British sea supplies to France, but it also declared a failure.

However, the German Navy followed the Chinese Empire Navy and began to carry out submarine warfare against Britain.

When the European war broke out in January, the German Navy planned to formulate a decisive battle at sea and prepare to fight the British Navy in order to break the British Navy's maritime blockade against Germany. However, because the German Navy did not have the experience of a large-scale naval main force, he was afraid that one battle would kill the German Navy and would fall into a passive situation. In addition, the army achieved brilliant results, the German General Staff suspended the naval decisive battle plan.

However, the German Navy planned to follow suit, considering that the Chinese Empire broke the war and defeated Britain. However, German surface ships could not leave the North Sea, so they could only send submarines to carry out submarine warfare.

On March 1, the German submarine, which has always been underestimated by Britain, finally showed the world its terrible strength. The torpedo launched by the German Navy U-35 submarine patrolling the waters near Forth Bay hit the British Royal Navy's Explorer light cruiser, which declared sunk within minutes and caused huge personnel losses.

The u-35 submarine is the export version of the Seawolf 4 submarine of the Royal Navy submarine of China. The combat power and performance are far more advanced than those of the submarines built in Germany. Captain Otto Helsing () was the first group of students to graduate from the Royal Navy Submarine Academy of China. After systematic study, he has become well aware of the combat objectives and tactical goals of submarines.

Soon, the first record of German submarines in World War I was immediately refreshed on April 12. In order to prevent the British ships entering and leaving the Thames River and the English Channel, the German army set up a submarine position between Ostander in Belgium and Malgard in the UK. On the morning of the 12th, the submarine u-17 found three British Royal Navy cruisers coming in a horizontal line in the waters near the Gulf of the Netherlands. At 7:20, the submarine u-17 launched a torpedo and sunk the cruiser "Hug". Then two more fish were launched.

Lightning sunk the Abujir. At around 8 o'clock, the U-17 fired three torpedoes 1,000 meters away from the Classi cruiser. The ship sank within 15 minutes, and a total of 1,460 British crew members died in this terrible attack. The U-17 submarine also created a case of sinking three cruisers within 75 minutes in the history of naval warfare. In Germany, people were greatly encouraged by this successful attack, and the German Emperor awarded the Iron Cross Medal of all crew members of the U-17 submarine.

June. Another dark month for the Allied Navy. On June 11, the German Navy U-26 submarine sank the Russian cruiser Parada with a displacement of 7,900 tons in the Gulf of Finland. Soon, the U-17 submarine sank the British Royal Navy's "Haoke" light cruiser with a displacement of 7,000 tons in the waters near Aberdeen. On June 20, a very important event in history occurred. The German Navy's U-18 submarine sank the 8,660 tons British freighter Gretra in the southern waters of Norway.

The German submarine carefully identified the freighter before sinking. After ordering all crew members to leave the ship and board the lifeboat, they launched torpedoes to sink it. This was the first time that a German submarine sank a merchant ship during the war. Since then, merchant ships have also become the primary target of submarine attacks.

Six days later, the German Navy's U-24 submarine surfaced in the Dover Strait and immediately ordered an attack after confirming that it was not a merchant ship of the Chinese Empire.

"emission!"

Two minutes later, the U-24 used torpedo to sink a US merchant ship returning to port without warning.

The US government quickly protested solemnly, and Germany was forced to order the submarine fleet to stop attacking American merchant ships under pressure. However, unlike the Chinese Empire's merchant ships, Germany required that the United States not be allowed to export military supplies to the Allies, otherwise it would be sunk once it was found.

At this time, the United States focused on preparing for war against the Chinese Empire, because the United States felt the smell of gunpowder. Therefore, the United States also agreed to Germany's request and allowed German submarines to inspect American merchant ships.

Both are merchant ships, and the merchant ships of the Chinese Empire do not allow any national naval ships to be inspected. The governments of all countries have acquiesced to this point. Even spies clearly told the governments that the xxx ship was loaded with arms and supplies sent to the enemy countries, but the ** side also directly released the evidence on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence. On several occasions, some stupid officers insisted on boarding the ship for inspection, but they were soon expelled by the Chinese Empire ship. There was even a confrontation between the two sides, but in the end, the Chinese Empire won.

Both sides of the belligerent countries did not want to offend the Chinese Empire, and they also needed military supplies from the Chinese Empire. Therefore, three months after the war started, the navies of various countries implemented "exemption" for the Chinese Empire's merchant ships.

In a memorandum submitted to German Prime Minister Theopold von Besmann Hervig, Hugo von Boer, chief of staff of the German Navy's Far Sea Fleet, suggested that the German Navy adopt a maximum tactic against Britain, that is, to use submarines imported from China on a large scale and produce submarines themselves, thereby increasing the possibility of winning the war.

Although the Chinese Empire remained neutral in the European war, its arms exports were not banned. In particular, submarine transactions have lasted for several years. Germany imports a batch of submarines of the Chinese Empire every year and takes them back to domestic research.

However, the German Navy's development of submarines was very slow due to the large construction costs of surface ships. Moreover, Germany has never wanted to expose the German Navy's submarine force, so it has always been developing in a low-key manner.

After the German submarine force achieved brilliant results on the Atlantic Ocean, although it lost a lot of submarines, Germany made more money than the sunken warships and merchant ships in Britain.

This kind of submarine warfare with little investment, short production cycle and fast results is highly valued by the German Admiralty. To this end, the German Admiralty approved the large-scale construction of submarines to break through the British army's blockade.

However, due to war tensions, Germany consumed huge steel for the navy to build super battleships and battle cruisers, as well as other battleships, which made Germany carefully allocate the use of steel. At the same time, the dock was filled with construction modules of surface ships, and Germany's only submarines built by the docks could not provide submarines for the navy on a large scale.
Chapter completed!