"oh! Got it! I’ll be there in a minute! " Chen Tian reluctantly left his little baby.
"That legion is the black legion you mentioned last time?" Lisa looked up at him.
"Well, that’s them!"
Two months ago, Berlin Palace
"Here is a report on the establishment of five large tractor factories in Frankfurt, Leipzig, G? ttingen, Bremen and Brandenburg! In addition, the Prussian Armored Academy in the southern suburbs of Konigsberg has started construction and is expected to learn in half a year! "
William II’s room is giving a report to the emperor.
"well! Very good! I am very appreciative of the power of armored forces! I hope to set up such a unit in my Guards. I am going to hand over the second Guards Corps to you for training. How long will it take you? "
One regiment of the Guards can be equivalent to one and a half armies of ordinary troops. It takes a long time to get enough equipment for them, and the emperor is really like talking, but since he has spoken, he can’t refuse it himself. It’s best to "drop in" some small demands
"Please give me a year and I will train a real steel army! In addition, I have a good proposal and hope you can approve it! "
"oh? Go ahead! " Seeing that he promised so readily, the emperor was in a good mood.
But Chen Tian didn’t get to the point
"As far as I know, the Japanese have been coveting our bases in Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay!"
"What? How dare they! Can we be Russians? We have made great efforts to build a lot of fortifications in Qingdao, and they will never take Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay from us! " The actual emperor also knew that the British, Japanese and even Americans coveted the high-quality Far East port.
"The fortifications there are still very reassuring, but my only worry is that we are short of troops there. We have thousands of garrison troops there!" Chen Tian has been in Qingdao for nearly a year. In his opinion, the quality of Qingdao forts and fortresses is still very good, but thousands of people seem a little small for a huge defensive area.
"I know this, but not many soldiers are willing to go there, and the homesickness of soldiers there is very serious. Besides, sending more soldiers needs to increase logistics. Alas …" The emperor also has some tone. There is also a large fleet, and some materials still need to be transported from Wan Li.
"Don’t worry about weapons and food. When the arms factory there is enough food for a division, it can be bought from the China government and the people. We might as well set up a foreign legion!"
"Foreign legion? You mean from China? I think they are too bad to join the great German army! " The emperor shook his head and said he didn’t believe it. It seems that he didn’t have a good impression of China’s army. To be exact, he had a bad impression of the fighting capacity of the Qing government’s army. In fact, at this time, the Qing Dynasty had been overthrown and the revolution led by Sun was sweeping across the ancient land of China. However, in fact, it was not planned to get China people to be German cannon fodder.
"I don’t mean to recruit China people, but to form a foreign legion by Africans."
"Black Africans?"
"It is a hard-working and tenacious African black!"
At this time, it is not surprising that Germany had black soldiers recruited by black police and a small number of black soldiers in African colonies.
"tell me about your plan!" The emperor didn’t object to this suggestion.
"We can recruit thousands of black soldiers from German East Africa to form a foreign legion and send them to the Far East to help us defend. Once the war breaks out, it is likely to be invaded by the enemy, especially the Japanese. I can almost conclude that they will reach out to Jiaozhou Bay." Chen Tian chose German East Africa because it has a vast territory and a population of 7.65 million, which is simply a huge arsenal.
"That reliable? I mean, those black people won’t run away on the battlefield! "
"Black people are still very brave and want us to train them enough. Their fighting capacity will not be much worse than our great German soldiers!" Chen Tian thinks that African soldiers are braver than European soldiers, but their cultural quality is too poor
"Well, I agree! But now the 6 th Army has allocated funds to support your corps. It’s up to you! "
"Yes!" Black soldiers are well fed, and a satisfied smile appears on Chen Tian’s face.
Later, in German East Africa, the governor assisted Chentian to send people to recruit 5ooo strong blacks from there. Some of these blacks were bought by African chiefs and volunteered to join, which was equivalent to selling themselves to foreign legions, so their families would get an objective sum of money.
When Chentian came to the playground, the foreign legion had been reorganized. The 5ooo people were organized into 4 infantry regiments and 2 artillery battalions. They made the standard equipment of the German 6 th Army. Looking around, the gray army and the spire helmet were all black skin. This was a scene that had never happened before. At this time, the sky could not help but feel a little proud. This scene made him feel that he was changing history.
The actual reorganization was not imagined. It is also a very serious problem that almost no officers are willing to command these sweaty black languages. One officer bravely came out. He is now the foreign corps commander Major arens. He is a German-speaking black soldier. The middle-level officers of this unit are responsible for training instructors. At present, these black soldiers have been reorganized and they will be trained in Germany for half a year before going to Qingdao.
Major arens is 29 years old. He studied in Konigsberg Junior Military Academy and Berlin Senior Military Academy successively. His officer’s road was not smooth. After graduating from the Senior Military Academy, he joined the Imperial Guards as a staff officer, but he has never been taken seriously. Four years later, he returned to the East Prussian Corps as a battalion commander and deputy head of the First Corps and spent three years in the position of deputy head. When recruiting foreign corps commander in the Corps Department, he resolutely signed up to join him. In his words, "I am eager to command a powerful army." Although militant, arens’s tactical style is slow and steady, so Chentian feels that he is
These strong black soldiers and short Japanese hand-to-hand combat scenes must be very beautiful! Chen Tian nodded with satisfaction at this thought, and he didn’t say anything encouraging to most of these black friends who didn’t know German. He asked the translator to tell these black people that they would be able to become German citizens after serving in this army for ten years.
At this time, Korea has been annexed by Japan, and the Korean royal family is no longer there. At the end of 22, Princess Lee Hyun-yun and 35 other Korean youths who are determined to rejuvenate the country are receiving strict military command training at the Koenigsberg Military Academy. They and the Korean people are still fiercely resisting the Japanese invaders.
Three months later, the second child, Anderes William, a white chubby little Prussian heir, was born in a heavy snow.
Chapter 20 Prelude to War
On May 20, 12, Germany, Austria and Italy signed an alliance treaty in Vienna, mainly because Italy was attacked by France, and Germany and Austria provided stress assistance. For example, Germany was invaded by France, and Italy also assumed the same responsibility. If Russia attacks, the three contracting countries should cooperate in the war. Italy has a reservation to this. For example, if Britain attacks Germany or Austria-Hungary Italy will not help its allies. When a big country (referring to Russia) attacks one of the contracting parties, the other two contracting parties should take good intentions immediately. Once there is a war between Russia and Austria, Italy will keep the neutrality treaty valid for five years, renew it four times in 17, 191, 1902 and 1912, and add some clauses.
It is precisely because of this alliance that the Kemal government of Germany and Turkey entered into a secret pact in 1910. When Italy was unfairly treated in Tripoli and cyrenaica in 1911, the German government threatened to invade the Turkish government with an ultimatum, and the Kemal government actively reconciled with it. In view of the fact that Turkey’s military strength still needs some time to recover, and once the overseas war broke out, the region was isolated. Almost France sent troops from the soil to support it, and at the same time the Balkan region was in crisis. He had to be humiliated and ceded Tripoli and cyrenaica to Italy, so that the original history was finally avoided in the Italian-Turkish war.
After the establishment of the Turkish Democratic Republic in 1910, Kemal has been committed to strengthening economic construction and stabilizing the contradictions among ethnic groups in the country, but Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro demanded to leave Turkish rule, which was a compromise between him and Turkey. In the autumn of 1912, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro formed the Balkan Alliance, and the Turkish government exploded the first Balkan War.
First of all, Albania and Macedonia exploded and rebelled against the soil. Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece demanded that Turkey give Macedonia and Thrace autonomy. The Turkish government refused this request and mobilized troops to declare war on Turkey. Montenegro, Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece also took action one after another. They mobilized 950,000 troops to participate in the war, and soldiers passed through 700,000 guns and 15oo gates. In addition, the Greek navy had 4 battleships, 3 cruisers and 11 gunboats.
Turkey mobilized 50,000 troops to participate in the war, with about 400,000 soldiers, 12oo guns, 30 planes, 3 battleships, 1 cruiser, 5 destroyers and 5 German submarines.
Under the leadership of Kemal government, the morale and equipment of the Turkish army in the training of German instructors have been improved to a certain extent, while the Balkan allies have a great advantage in the number of soldiers, and at the same time, they are encouraged by the goal of national liberation struggle.
Bulgaria’s army in Istanbul is composed of three regiments. Serbia’s main force is to deal with the Turkish army in Macedonia. Greece’s Saglia regiment and Epirus regiment are prepared to deal with Salonica and Janina respectively. The Greek navy should take action to ensure that the allies control the sea in the Mediterranean. Montenegro’s army is fighting in Macedonia in cooperation with Serbian army. The allies have formed a siege situation against the Turkish army and are ready to defeat the Turkish army in the Balkans before the Turkish reinforcements arrive.
The high command of the Turkish army tried to take active action to prevent the allied forces from attacking Turkey before the arrival of reinforcements. Bulgaria was regarded as the most dangerous enemy, so it showed its main regiment to deal with the Bulgarian Black Mountain Army, the Serbian Ibar Army, and jointly fought the Turkish army in northern Thrace and northern Albania.
In October, the Bulgarian army crossed the border of the Bulgarian army and pushed southward. The Turkish army fought fiercely. The Turkish army was at a disadvantage and fought and retreated. It built a defense line in Edil, 15 kilometers west of Istanbul. In November, the Bulgarian army violently attacked the defense line, but it was repelled by the Kemal People’s Army. The Bulgarian army continued to attack with heavy casualties.
Shortly after the Macedonian army attacked the Serbian 1st regiment in October, but was repulsed, the Turkish army then turned to defense, and the Serbian regiments attacked their 2nd regiment in the southwest, posing a threat to the right wing of the Turkish army. The 1st regiment attacked kumanovo and occupied it at the end of 1o. The 3rd Regiment launched a flank assault on Skopje and conquered it. The Serbian army quickly advanced to the south. In mid-November, the Greek troops cooperated to conquer the Macedonian Turkish army in Bitolli and retreated. The Serbian army entered the Adriatic coastal zone. The Heishan army surrounded shkoder. The Greek army swept the border of Epirus and surrounded Aninat. In southern Macedonia, the Greek army won in November and attacked Salonika, but it was stubbornly resisted by the Turkish army and finally failed to attack this Kemal home.
On December 1, Albania declared independence.
The victory of the Balkan Alliance is not in the interests of the great powers, so Russia, while supporting the Balkan countries, is worried that the arrival of the Bulgarian army in Istanbul will be unfavorable for its own solution to the Black Sea Strait issue. Turkey’s secret allies Germany and Austria-Hungary do not want Turkey’s strength to be too damaged. Under the pressure of the great powers, Bulgaria and Serbia signed an armistice agreement in December 1912, and the ambassadors of the warring countries negotiated the terms of the peace treaty in London. In February 1913, the first Balkan war ended with the signing of the London Peace Treaty, according to which Turkey lost more than half of its territory in Europe.
In May 1913, Serbia lost its mouth to the Adriatic Sea and demanded compensation from Macedonia. Greece also hoped to expand its territory at the expense of Bulgaria. Romania demanded more Brogat territory from Bulgaria. Austria-Hungary and Germany tried to undermine the influence of the allies in the Balkans and intervened. The second Balkan war broke out. In May 1913, the German-Austrian alliance instigated Bulgaria to take military action against the Macedonian Serbian army and the Greek army to protect the armies from attacking the blocked troops. Fight back and break through the position of the 4th Bulgarian regiment. The battle continued until July when the Bulgarian army was forced to retreat. In July, Romania occupied Brogat and pushed its main force to Sofia. After that, Turkey tore up the 1913 London Peace Treaty and pushed forward Varna Bulgaria along the coast. Threatened to be defeated, it surrendered at the end of July. According to the Bucharest Peace Treaty signed in September 1913, Bulgaria lost most of its recovered territory. In September 1913, Bulgaria and Turkey signed the Constantinople Peace Treaty, which forced Bulgaria to cede its southern territory, including burgas Port, to Turkey.
The two Balkan wars have reorganized the Balkan military forces. Romania broke away from the alliance for 12 years, and the allies of the DPRK approached Bulgaria and Turkey, and joined the German-Austrian alliance. The Balkan war has further intensified international contradictions, and the prelude to the war has already sounded …
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Chapter 21 Declare war
June 27th, 1914 shocked the world …
An imaginary enemy of Austria-Hungary Serbia held a military exercise in neighboring Bosnia. Dinan cooperated with Princess Wang to personally review the exercise. After the exercise, Dinan arrived in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. On the evening of June 27th, Sarajevo officials Dinan and his wife held a grand dinner. Shortly after the dinner, a bomb exploded on the dining table next to Dinan and his wife. Dagong and his wife were seriously injured, including three other adjutants who died on the spot. More than 20 people were injured. On the morning of the 2nd, Dagong and his wife both died in the hospital. It was found that a Serbian chef planted the bomb.
The news was both expected and unexpected for Chen Tian, and the fuse of war was lit as scheduled. This war was stopped by everyone. However, history has changed a little here, and a bomb may mean that history will show in another direction from here.
Anyway, this moment has finally come, 32 spring and autumn, 32 winter and summer. The boy who never loses has grown up, the ambitious boy has grown up, and the impulsive young man has grown up. Now Chentian is an ideal but down-to-earth German prince Lisa, her husband Sasha and Anderes’s father. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers are in command of millions of people, and the Lord is also preparing to change the world.
On July 23, Austria-Hungary made extremely harsh conditions to Serbia, and it was limited to 40 hours. Then Serbia responded with humiliation and asked for the rest of the conditions, except that Austria sent personnel to hunt down and try the murderer.
Serbian General Mobilization Order of July 25th
On July 27th, France recalled its troops stationed in Algeria and Morocco.
On July 28, Austria-Hungary formally declared war on Serbia on the pretext that it did not get a satisfactory answer.
On July 28, France reached a general mobilization order.