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One Person's Time and Space Smuggling Empire VIP Volume Chapter 129 The First World War Begins

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    While China and Russia were fighting to the death in Asia, the Greek War in Europe detonated the situation in Europe. An unprecedented war began, with both sides going all out.

    Since the Greek War started on June 17, all the Allied countries soon entered the war. On June 18, Britain declared war on Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria, and France declared war on Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria.  On June 19, Russia issued a general mobilization order to join the war.

    Immediately afterwards, Germany, Italy and Turkey invoked the Allied military treaty and declared war on Britain, France and Russia. Britain, France and Russia in turn declared war on Germany, Italy and Turkey at the same time. When this series of diplomatic procedures were completed, the war had already begun.  In more than a week, the progress is staggeringly fast.

    On June 26, Germany "entered" the permanently neutral country of Belgium for the purpose of safeguarding its homeland security. Within two days, the German 3rd Armored Division, with 700 tanks of the German 1st Armored Division as the vanguard and motorized troops as the main force,  A group of 320,000 troops crossed the Scorching Sun Defense Line and advanced towards Brussels.  Behind the Scorching Sun Fortress, the carefully built fortress defense line was reduced to a pile of ruins under the bombardment of German super-heavy siege mortars.

    The King of Belgium denounced Germany¡¯s treacherous invasion at the Royal Palace in Brussels and vowed to fight Germany to the death. Belgium¡¯s hundreds of thousands of heroic soldiers will never give up the country and will let the Germans shed the last drop of blood on this land.  Unexpectedly, less than seven hours after saying these words, Brussels was captured by the German steel army. The King of Belgium and his hundreds of thousands of troops all became prisoners of the German army.

    In the battle of conquest of tanks and steel armor, Belgium became the first victim.  The German army marched through Brussels, and the army turned south.  Heading towards the French border.

    France responded immediately.  Deploying a large army to defend the French-Belgian border, they collided head-on with the peak of the German First Army heading south at Lille during the advance.  After the bloody battle.  The German armored divisions broke through and surrounded them in depth, and surrounded and annihilated most of the four and a half divisions. Only the remaining soldiers had to retreat. Under the threat of the rapid German advance, they retreated all the way to the Somme River before regaining their footing.

    At this time, the French Commander-in-Chief, Joseph Jacques C¨¦saire Joffre, had already urgently mobilized troops from Alsace-Lorraine under domestic emergency orders, and was mobilizing troops from the rear under constant signs.  Eight hundred thousand French troops accumulated on the Somme defense line, and they finally withstood the German front.

    Facing the sharp breakthrough of the German army, the French army was forced to scramble, and even its proud domestic mobilization system could not keep up with the situation.

    As the First Army advanced, the French northern defense line was torn to pieces. The First Army turned around and attacked eastward, cooperating with the German Second Army, which turned from the direction of Luxembourg, to attack the flank of the French northern defense line.  .

    Immediately afterwards, the Ardennes region was breached.  The Ilson and Sedan areas fell into the hands of the enemy one after another. Behind the front of the First Army, they easily captured this series of French border defense points one by one. France stationed nearly 400,000 soldiers in these areas and had no time to retreat from the two armies.  Army.  All were annihilated or defeated.

    By mid-July, the front line finally stabilized on the Somme River.  The line of fire between Germany and France is already very close to Paris.

    Paris is in danger.  France is in danger!  The entire European continent was horrified under the German armored legions!  No one could have imagined that France, which has always been known as the world's strongest army, would be so unbearable!

    ¡°This is our German blitzkrieg!¡± Heinrich von Falkenhuysen, the commander-in-chief of the German Western Front who organized this series of battles, said.

    at the same time.  The Eastern Front is not idle either. Just like the previous Sino-German secret treaty, the Western Front is not the main direction of the German army's attack. Russia is Germany's main offensive target.

    While a total of three main armies of the German Army on the Western Front launched an attack on France, on the Eastern Front, under the command of General Ludendorff, Germany's most outstanding commander, the German Army concentrated a total of 1.2 million troops from five armies to launch an attack on the Russian Army.  Attack across the board.

    In the first stage alone, the Second Army led by General Samsonov of the Russian army was surrounded and annihilated, and the First Army of Lennan Kandolf was defeated. The two elite Russian troops on the front line were completely wiped out and could not be defeated.  Don¡¯t take big steps to retreat and give way to the Polish plains.

    On the entire Eastern Front, the Russian army, which seemed to be more than one million strong, was torn apart by the German attacks and was completely unable to defend itself. They retreated and retreated, and kept retreating. During the entire half month, all Russian soldiers and officers  He couldn't even find where his retreat destination was.

    The retreat of the Russian army along the way was in sharp contrast with the long-term advance of the Germans. The Germans relied on the motorization of their troops to complete a thousand-mile leap forward on the Great Plains, chasing the Russians and beating them.Within a few weeks, the fighting line was pushed 300 kilometers eastward, almost into Ukraine, and all of Poland fell into German hands.

    The weakness of the Russians after the Sino-Russian War can be seen from this.

    Since the beginning of the war, from the end of June to the beginning of July, there has been news that Germany has conquered one area after another. The Eastern and Western Fronts have won all the victories, almost overwhelming the two traditional powers of France and Russia. The invincible Prussian army  At this time, the conclusion that only the Germans are the best army in the world was once again proved.

    In this series of wars, the Germans maximized their excellent logistics support system, relying on good communication lines and a large number of motorized infantry to complete this magical scene.

    The Blitzkrieg is ringing in Europe. There is no doubt that Germany has been vigorously developing the automobile industry and contributed greatly to this war!

    At the same time, Germany's confidence has also been extremely expanded in a series of wars. Within a few days, it has conquered countries such as Belgium and Luxembourg. Is it still far away to dominate Europe in the future?  William II, who was in Berlin, even shouted out the rhetoric of destroying France in two months.

    In the south, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Bulgaria attacked Greece. Under the pressure of the three countries' attacks, small Greece retreated step by step, and its future was precarious.  So much so that the British Minister of Defense wanted to shout to the King of Greece that he could not retreat, could not retreat anymore, and must withstand it. The Greek peninsula was small and lacked strategic depth. The subsequent British cross-sea support force was even there.  I am worried about whether I will be able to find a place to land in Greece in half a month.

    When all these allies of Greece, France, the Balkans, and Russia were retreating under the ravages of their enemies, the great Great Britain could only rely on its navy to harass Italy.  In its own country, the plan to cross the Channel to support France has only just been launched at this time.  (To be continued)
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