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Whether it is the Allies or the Allies, they have no energy to consider long-term issues. Their only goal is to break the deadlock and defeat the other side, and there is no cost. //《》.com》可一大官网// Therefore, even if the arms dealers in the Chinese Empire offer higher prices, they will choose to buy it.

While the Allies and Allies were in a stalemate on the battlefield on the Western Front, the German Command decided to transfer soft persimmons to defeat Russia on the Eastern Front, and then break the stalemate of the war.

Serbia on the eastern front had been defeated, and Russia was left alone to resist the attacks from Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Turkish Empire. However, Britain, France and Italy were unable to provide assistance on the Western front, which led to the huge military pressure facing Russia, which was very difficult.

At the same time, Russia's domestic political situation is not stable. If it were not for the outbreak of the war, Tsar Nicholas II would not know how to face the domestic situation. But although war attracted the attention of Russian citizens, once Russia's frontline was defeated, it would be very dangerous.

Russia has a common border with Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, extending more than 1,100 miles. It is Poland, a province of Russia, forming a 250-mile-wide protrusion that protrudes to the west 200 miles, bordering Germany in the west and northwest, and adjacent to the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the south. Its western border is only 180 miles from Berlin. To the north is East Prussia, which is 80-mile-wide German territory sandwiched between Poland and the Baltic Sea. A victorious large-scale attack by Russia could cut it off from the entire Germany.

But Russia was restrained by the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Turkish Empire's army from the very beginning and was unable to launch an attack on East Prussia, Germany.

East Prussia was guarded by the fortress, intended to prevent Russian troops from advancing across the Polish border. It built strong strongholds along the upper Vistula River and around the provincial capital Konisburg. Crossing the eastern border is the fifty-mile-wide Lake Mazuri, which became a natural obstacle to strictly limiting the roads of Russia's invasion. Austria used the Carpathian Mountains to set up fortifications from Krakow through Lenberg (now Lviv) to the Romanian border, and between Russia and its Polish province, around the center of Pinsk, there are Pripyat swamps, with 38,000 square miles of swamps, bushes and several dirt roads.

Germany's railway system includes seventeen routes to East Prussia, which can drive 500 trains a day; such a system can transport a huge army in a short period of time. Multiple branches are forked from the main line to many border areas to quickly mobilize troops to deal with sudden events. Austria built seven railway lines to lead through the Carpathians to Galicia, with a daily transportation of 250 trains. Russia has only six railway lines from major inland cities to Warsaw, and there are too few branches and has no military value.

In order to stop the invasion from the west, the Russian railway's gauge was wider than the gauge used by Germany. The border area deliberately made it a semi-barren wasteland separated by forests and bushes, and when it rained heavily on the unpaved road, it turned into a piece of mud. One of the consequences was that when the Russian army approached these border areas, its movement was as slow as the speed of a carriage. This transportation system made the unstoppable military machine extremely nervous. When the Russian Command learned from France that the German army was preparing to move east to deal with Russia, the panicked Nicholas II immediately asked the Russian Command to make a correct judgment and prevent Germany from invading Russia.

The Russian Command decided to take the initiative and take advantage of the fact that the German team had not been transferred from the Western Front to the Eastern Front, the Russian army broke through the German defense line and burned the war into Germany.

However, what Russia never expected was that this was just a means by which French politicians hoped to use Russia to draw Germany's attention, because France wanted to alleviate the military pressure that Germany put on France on the front line of Verdun and the Marne.

But what the French never expected was that their fake intelligence caused Russia to be dragged into a huge abyss, almost destroying Russia, and thus causing the Allies to lose their ally.

General Ivan Gillinsky, who served as the chief of Russian staff and would command the army in the war, assured France that more than 650,000 people were ready.

Jilinsky's troops totaled thirty infantry divisions and eight cavalry divisions, divided into two armies, led by General Alexander Samsonov and Pavel Kampf. Kampf led the First Army and Samsonov led the Second Army, both named after their city base.

In order to invade East Prussia, before the German army drew its main force from the western front back, the two Russian armies had to take fixed routes on both sides of the Mazuri Lake area. General Kampf advanced along the northern border and crossed the border on August 17. Samsonov was scheduled to follow and advance two days later, and go to the southern edge.\\9vk.com start\\\

In the early days, Sliffen spent a lot of time in Lake Mazuli, considering the most effective measures to deal with this type of mobilization. He ordered to concentrate sufficient forces against the first Russian army and then attack another army. This tactic was excellent and simple, but General Max von Pritwitz, who commanded the Eighth Army of Germany in East Prussia, was afraid of making a decision. Cowardly and inaccurate intelligence caused him to miss the forces and then attack Kampf's First Army for many years instead of flanking attacks.

The battle began on August 20 near Gonbinnan (now Gusev). August von Mackenson's 17th Army was the first to be blasted. Kampf was worried about being surrounded for many years. When he was about to retreat, he learned that the German army had retreated. Samsonov arrived at the border on the same day, his troops and horses were hungry and exhausted, and his Second Army was obviously not suitable to enter the battle immediately.

When Samsonov's troops and their exhausted situation were reported to Pritwitz, he was incomprehensiblely suspicious. Meanwhile, Colonel Max von Hoffman drew up an offensive plan for Pritwitz's chief of staff Earl Waldze, namely, to strike Samsonov's left flank. Three divisions would withdraw from Gombinnan to strengthen local forces.

Hoffman, the combat officer of the Eighth Army, was obviously better than his colleagues. He was an expert on Russian issues in the General Staff, and he was fluent in reading Russian. Over the years, he had accumulated rich knowledge about his enemies, especially the confrontation between Kampf and Samsonov.

During the Sino-Russian War, Hoffman was present as an official observer, when he accidentally witnessed an unforgettable quarrel. On the platform of Nibchu Station, two Russian commanders glaring at each other were swearing each other. Suddenly, they punched each other until one side knocked the other to the ground. Hoffman speculated that Kampf would refuse to aid Samsonov again for many years, and this time he would stay in the Gumpinan area.

On August 24, General Friedrich von Scholz's 20th Army was defeated in a small-scale battle with Samsonov's troops, and then a division retreated to a relatively solid defensive position. Samsonov mistakenly believed that this movement was the retreat of the Eighth Army and ordered a relentless pursuit. His non-coded telegram was intercepted by German signal soldiers. In fact, Scholz did not face direct threats, because Samsonov's troops were very tired and could not pursue them.

Realizing that this was a decisive blow, Markens and Scholz retreated southward, leaving only a symbolic cavalry division facing Kampf's twenty-four infantry divisions in succession. Within two days, a large number of German troops were transported to the southwest more than a hundred miles away by efficient railway, with more than nine divisions regrouping on a seventy-mile arc facing the southeast. Samsonov advanced towards the deliberately weakened center and continued to pursue the "retreated" enemy. When Samsonov drove into the weak, concessioning center, the two wings of the German army had strengthened and were about to launch a shocking blow to his two flanks.

On the right wing of Samsonov, who marched towards the German center from the night of August 25 to 26, left the rest of his troops for about thirty miles and contacted the two German troops departing from Gombinan. Although tired but full-fed Germans faced a tired and semi-starved Russian army. After a brief and chaotic battle, the Russian army staggered back, while the Germans stared at them with relief, too tired to pursue them.

Several companies of a Russian division, who were facing the lake of Bethau, walked dizzy into the water, and some drowned. German propaganda workers portrayed it as a legend, saying that Hindenburg drove Samsonov's army into the swamp, and tens of thousands of dead. When involving his own prestige, Rudendolf, who always paid attention to keeping the records accurate, denounced it as "myth... there is no swamp nearby."

The dawn began on August 27, which was the end of the world for the Russian army. At that time, General Erman von Francois's first army bombarded Samsonov's left wing in the Usdo defense zone. The German signal soldiers intercepted Samsonov's telecommunications for help, but Jilinsky and Kampf ignored his request. The hungry and low morale Russian army inevitably disintegrated and fled in panic. Despite the dangerous situation of his troops, Samsonov ordered him to be in the middle.

The attack of the central troops caused a brief uneasiness among the Germans. But the hungry and confusing Russian troops made them arrested like flocks. The German troops, which extended forty miles, only pointed the prisoner circle to the brave men, who had fought to the point of exceeding their endurance. All the Russian Second Army lost; two of the commanders of the five armies were captured, and three were immediately dismissed for incompetence. Samsonov did not suffer such fate as theirs.

On the evening of August 28, he broke into the forest alone, raised his pistol and pointed it at his temple, and pulled the trigger.

This battle was a victory for Germany and a disaster for Russia. More than 92,000 people were captured. An estimated 30,000 were killed and missing. About 500 guns in the Second Army were destroyed or seized. Jilinsky cared about Samsonov's fate and ordered Kampf to find the position of the now-defunct Second Army. But Kampf turned around and fled because the winning Eighth Army concentrated firepower on his troops.

In the Battle of Lake Mazuri two weeks later, the German army cleared all Russian troops in East Prussia. Compared with the 10,000 German casualties, the Kampf's troops suffered a total of 145,000 casualties. Kampf, who felt hysterical about this disproportionate loss, abandoned his army and fled back to Russia quickly.

Jilinsky was furious about his cowardice and telegrammed to the Grand Duke, demanding that he be removed immediately.

In the following three months, the German General Staff decided to concentrate its forces to defeat Russia first and force Russia to cease the war, thus ending the Eastern Front and avoiding the dilemma of fighting on both sides. The Eastern Front became the main battlefield.

In January 1914, the German and Austrian coalition took advantage of the victory and pursued the Russian army, with 18 divisions, more than 2,000 cannons, 1,000 Fokker fighters, and 50 airships, divided into two groups to attack the Russian army, and planned to force the Russian army into the "Polish pocket" and annihilate it.

During the war, the German army used poison gas bombs, white phosphorus bombs, and aircraft. Russia, whose equipment was backward, was looking for teeth, and successively captured Lemburg, Ivangorod, Warsaw, Brest, Verno and Riga, and forced the Russian army to retreat to the front line from the Gulf of Riga to the Transnistria.

At the same time, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Turkish Empire were also in the Caucasus and Persia launched a fierce offensive against Russia, restraining part of the Russian army's forces.

The Russian army was besieged by more than 2 million troops of Germany and Austria's Turkish protection countries, and the Russian army suffered heavy losses. Especially in the face of the strong combat effectiveness of the German army, they were beaten up by the German army and lost more than 700,000 people in just three months.

The German army won a great victory and made a bold statement that it would completely defeat Russia in the next few months.

The Russian defeat on the Eastern Front battlefield shocked the Allies. France regretted inciting Russia to take the initiative to attack Germany because they did not expect that the Russian army would be so vulnerable.

In the Chinese Empire, the General Staff of the Empire was also very shocked, because the large amount of weapons and equipment imported by the Allies from the Chinese Empire were basically rarely used evenly for Russia, so Russia's equipment was too much behind Germany, and it was defeated in the first decisive battle.

The battlefield on the Eastern Front of Europe was about to be imbalanced, which was the result that the Chinese Empire was unhappy to see. Therefore, the General Staff of the Chinese Empire immediately decided to provide large-scale military assistance to Russia, and at the same time delayed the export of white phosphorus bombs to Germany, and in turn supported Russia.

Although Russian Tsar Nicholas II hated the Chinese Empire very much, at this critical moment of defeat, he had to give in and accept the military support of the Chinese Empire.

Of course, considering that Russia is too poor, the Chinese Empire may not be willing to spend a high price to purchase advanced weapons and equipment from the Chinese Empire like Britain, France and Italy. However, the Chinese Empire was not a philanthropist, so it was better to lower the price and make less money than to maintain the balance of the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

The number of Russian aircraft was too small, with only more than 500 camel fighters and Newport fighters provided by Britain and France. Their performance was far inferior to that of Germany's Folk fighters (Britain and France did not give the Cat Demon fighters to Russia on the Western Front), which resulted in the decisive battle between the Russian Air Force and the Luftwaffe, and the entire army was wiped out.

The Chinese Empire urgently provided 300 cat demon fighters to Russia. Since there were no ready-made cat demon fighters, the Chinese Empire had to draw back 300 cat demon fighters from the battlefield against Japan, and directly transferred to Moscow, Russia 10 times and delivered them to the Russian Air Force for use.

The Russian Air Force used pilots to be almost wiped out, and novices did not know how to fly at all. Therefore, the Chinese Empire had to provide Russia with a group of "volunteer pilots". They protested against the German army's use of poisonous gas bombs on Russian land under the banner of democracy and humanitarianism. Using this excuse as volunteers to participate in the Russian foreign flight team and help the Russian Air Force set up the shelf first.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire did this and wanted to understand the strength of the Luftwaffe Air Force so that it would decide whether to export more advanced fighter jets to Germany in the future.

During the Warsaw air battle in May 1914, 300 Cat Demon fighters of the Chinese Empire Volunteer Pilots Brigade broke out in fierce battles with 823 Folk fighters of the Luftwaffe. Volunteer pilots of the Chinese Empire defeated the Luftwaffe with fearless spirit.

In this battle, the Chinese Empire Volunteer Flight Team lost 103 Cat Demon fighters and 23 pilots were sacrificed. Other pilots parachuted and escaped. They were protected by the Russian ground troops at any cost to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Germans. The Luftwaffe lost 643 Fokker fighters, 541 pilots were killed, and the others were captured by the Russian troops on the ground. Other German pilots were rescued by the Germans on the ground.

After the Warsaw air battle, the Luftwaffe's advantage was repelled. The Chinese Empire then urgently provided emergency assistance to the Russian Air Force 300 stocks of J-1 and J-5 fighters, which finally blocked the Luftwaffe and regained air supremacy.

At the same time, the Chinese Empire gave priority to 1,000 tons of advanced artillery-fired poison gas bombs and white phosphorus bombs, as well as 400,000 sets of gas masks to the Russian Army.

The Battle of Warsaw broke out on May 11, and the Russian Army and the German-Austrian coalition launched the largest poison gas battle in human history. In order to retaliate against the huge casualties caused to the Russian people by the release of poison gas by the German-Austrian coalition forces, the Russian army fired guns and poison gas bombs at the German-Austrian coalition positions at all costs. In just 4 hours, 1,000 tons of poison gas bombs and white phosphorus bombs were poured onto the German-Austrian coalition positions.

Since the poison gas bombs used by the German army have not yet achieved the true artillery firing and explosive proliferation methods, the cylindrical poison gas bombs launched by the German army on the Russian positions were released at a slow speed. The Russian army had time to wear a gas mask, so casualties were controlled. However, the poison gas bombs and white phosphorus bombs used by the Russian army had already achieved artillery shell type, and they exploded instantly when they hit the German positions. Many German troops won the bid without time to react, causing a surge in casualties in the German army.

The Battle of Warsaw lasted for a month. From the initial panic, the Russian army gradually recovered its fighting spirit. With the supply of a large number of military supplies that the Chinese Empire continuously flew to Russia, the Russian army, which also had advanced weapons and equipment, began to counterattack and drove the German army out of Warsaw.

During the Battle of Warsaw, the Russian army accumulated more than 1 million casualties, and the German and Austrian coalition forces were not much better, with 790,000 casualties, which was also severely damaged.

During the period when Germany attacked Russia, Russian civilians suffered huge casualties of up to 2 million, most of which died under German poisonous gas bombs.

Although the German army had a victory, the losses were also huge and did not destroy the main force of the Russian army. As a result, it could not force Russia to surrender, and the strategic task was not completed.

During this Polish Battle, Russia suffered more than 1.7 million troops, which were also severely injured. After driving the German army out of Warsaw, it was no longer able to continue to advance, so it once again fought against the German and Austrian coalition forces, and the battlefield returned to a stalemate.

After the Battle of Poland, Russia had to admit that it was the Chinese Empire who saved them, otherwise the German army would definitely be able to attack Moscow.

Therefore, Tsar Nicholas II had to bite the bullet and write a letter of thanks to Emperor Chenhao of the Chinese Empire, expressing his gratitude for the generous assistance of the Chinese Empire.

After this battle, the Russian side could finally break the obstruction of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Duma Parliament and import the military and strategic materials needed by Russia from the Chinese Empire. Tsar Nicholas II had always been resentful of the Chinese Empire, so he did not trade materials with the Chinese Empire.

The Russian side quickly negotiated with the Chinese Empire government. Since China and Russia are neighboring countries, Russia can obtain the supplies of weapons and materials from the Chinese Empire at any time. Once the negotiations are successful, it will naturally be of great help to Russia.

After some negotiations, the Chinese Empire approved the export of aircraft, cannons, heavy machine guns and other weapons and ammunition to Russia, but stopped exporting poison gas bombs and white phosphorus bombs to Russia to prevent being criticized by international public opinion.

The first arms transaction between China and Russia reached 70 million dragon coins, all of which were paid to the Chinese Empire in gold and silver. At this time, Russia was in turmoil and needed weapons and equipment to arm the army in order to suppress the surging revolutionary party in the country.

At the same time, Russia urgently needed a large amount of daily necessities to appease the Russian citizens, and the young and strong men in Russia have basically gone to the battlefield. Russia's light industry and agriculture have almost been abandoned, so it has to import light industrial products such as oil, salt, rice and vinegar, as well as agricultural products such as grain, vegetables, etc. from the Chinese Empire.

Russia's rubles have depreciated wildly, and the Chinese Empire requires Russia to use gold as collateral to allow exports to Russia. For this reason, Russia had to take out 300 tons of gold from the treasury and transport it to the Chinese Empire as collateral.

With the strong help of the Chinese Empire, Russia temporarily stabilized its domestic political situation, allowing the Russian army to gradually recover its strength and fight against the four-nation coalition forces of Germany, Austria and the Turkish Protection Army.

The Allies' Allied countries knew that they almost killed Russia this time, so they immediately expressed their intention to restrain the military power of the allied countries and force the German army to return from the Eastern Front to the Western Front in order to reduce Russia's military pressure. Italy also launched a fierce offensive against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, hoping to force the Austro-Hungarian team to return to the aid, but the Italian army's combat power was not strong and did not produce much effect.


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