Rise of Australia

Chapter 399 The Real European War

Nicholas II, who was far away in St. Petersburg, didn't know that Arthur's plan had extended the life of his dynasty, and he didn't know that the turmoil in his empire was far more dangerous than he imagined.

But now, Arthur has more important jobs, such as rotating the [-]th Division fighting in Europe.

It has been more than four months since the Fourth Division was dispatched to Europe to fight. The current death toll and injury toll have reached 1524 and 5323 respectively.

Adding up, there were nearly 6800 casualties, which also made the fourth division, which had only 1.6 people, have only a little over [-] soldiers.

If the fight continues like this, the combat capability of the Fourth Division will be a problem, and the soldiers will also become war-weary due to long-term combat.

After deliberations within the Ministry of National Defense, coupled with Arthur's own plan, it was decided that the third division and the second guard division would be the ones to go to Europe for a new round of combat.

Although the biggest duty of the guards is to guard the capital and protect the safety of Arthur and the royal family.But as the most powerful army in Australasia in Arthur's mind, it is not only equipped with the most advanced and luxurious weapons and equipment in Australasia, but also has to experience life and death that is difficult for conventional troops, and can also train The best and most elite soldiers.

The current Guards Division is an army formed by selecting the best soldiers in training from the regular army, but this does not guarantee that the Guards Division's combat capability in real battles can exceed that of the Regular Division, especially like the Fourth Division. An army that has experienced real life and death.

Therefore, sending all the two Guards divisions to the battlefield in batches is also the way Arthur planned to increase the combat effectiveness of the Guards divisions.

Although the casualties of the Guards Division after participating in the battle will certainly make Arthur feel distressed, compared with experiencing a real large-scale war and improving the combat effectiveness of the army and soldiers, a little casualties are nothing.

Moreover, the 3.6rd Guards Division and the [-]rd Regular Division have a total strength of [-] troops, which will also help the Australasian army to independently launch offensives on the Western Front. After all, the Australasian army has independent command and must use stand up.

Repelling the German attack, or even regaining the territory occupied by the German army, will become an excuse and bargaining chip for Australasia to gain more benefits after the war.

If civil strife broke out in Russia after the war, there would only be Britain, France and Australia left in the Allied Powers.

However, Britain and France were more damaged by the war, and they needed the support of countries like Australasia that were less affected by the war, and had more time to recover their blood.

This also led to an increase in the importance of Australasia after the war. Both Britain and France need an ally like Australasia to help them stabilize their international status.

After all, Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire will definitely be divided up, and the remaining territories will be subject to a lot of restrictions, and the status and strength of the great powers will definitely not be guaranteed.

If Germany suffers from civil strife again, the three relatively powerful powers will directly lose their status as great powers.

This also allowed Australasia's international status to rise sharply, and it even hoped to become the fourth power after the United Kingdom, France, and the United States after World War I.

Of course, if the Australasian army breaks out its powerful combat effectiveness in the war and increases the size of the navy, it is not hopeless to surpass the United States and become the third largest power.

At least for now, it seems that the military strength of the United States is still very backward. The size and combat effectiveness of the army are vulnerable, but the size of the navy is okay, and the combat effectiveness is another matter.

Following the Second Guards Division and the Third Regular Division to the European battlefield, there were also 20 indigenous troops.

The transportation of so many troops is a problem, so it also consumes a large number of British and French transport ships.In the next two months, these troops will arrive in the European battlefield one after another and join the Australasian Expeditionary Force to fight against Germany.

At the same time, the recruits trained by France and the second round of expeditionary forces dispatched by the United Kingdom also arrived in the European battlefield. Along with Russia planning a large-scale battle on the Eastern Front, Britain, France and Australia also planned to organize a large-scale battle on the Western Front. Complete expulsion from French soil.

The preparation time for the two major battles on the east and west fronts is more than one month, and the specific launch time will even have to wait until two months later.

After all, the western front has to wait for the arrival of the Australasian army, and the eastern front has to wait for the supplies transported by Australasia to arrive at the front line. Well, they all wait for Australasia.

Of course, it’s not all about waiting for Australasia.Regardless of whether it is the Western Front or the Eastern Front, the large-scale battles planned are super-large-scale battles with more than one million troops. Naturally, more materials and weapons and equipment need to be prepared, and it takes longer.

It is no exaggeration to say that eating, drinking, and scavenging for millions of troops is a serious problem for logistics. Not to mention the frequent consumption of weapons, equipment, ammunition and shells in wars, it is enough to exhaust a country's logistics system.

Britain and France are not easy either.Britain bears half of the expenses of the Australasian Expeditionary Force, which is not a small sum.Coupled with the British Expeditionary Force's own expenses, a large amount of pounds was thrown into the war, which also made the British look forward to ending the war.

Needless to say about France, part of French territory is currently occupied by Germany, and most of the wars on the Western Front were fought on the French border and on the territory of France.

The longer the war lasts, the greater the damage to the French domestic economy, and the greater the French people's expectations for peace.

On April 1915, 4, the 11nd Guards Division and the [-]rd Regular Division successfully arrived in France, and completed the rotation with the [-]th Regular Division.

Thomas Johansen, Commander of the [-]nd Guards Division, succeeded Commander Scott as the second Commander-in-Chief of the Australasian Expeditionary Force.

In order to express his support for the army, Arthur handed over the command of the expeditionary force to the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and Australasia was only responsible for the logistics supply of the expeditionary force.

This also means that the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force has great power, and can even decide on his own the role of the Australasian army in the war.

Although the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.But the role of the commander-in-chief of the Australasian Expeditionary Force is also the greatest credit that can be obtained in the war.

Among other things, after the victory of the war, the successive commanders-in-chief of the expeditionary force, as long as they did not make too many mistakes in the war, could be promoted to a higher rank according to the usual practice.

If you make a lot of contributions in the war, you can even enter the defense department, or enter important positions such as the Guards Division and the Staff Department.

If Australasia establishes a corps-level army in the future, the commander will also give priority to those who have made great achievements.

Not being able to become the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, the commander of the third division, Batro Yudrog, still has some regrets.

Suddenly thinking that his competitor was Martin Ruth, the commander of the Second Guards Division, Batllo Yudrog thought a little bit about it.

Being able to become one of the few guards commanders in Australasia, Martin Ruth's ability is naturally needless to say.

According to the promotion practice of the Australasian army, in addition to the internal competition within the Ministry of Defense, the next Minister of Defense is also a strong contender for the Commander of the Guards Division.

As for the commander of the regular division, no matter how great his achievements are, he cannot directly become the Minister of Defense.

Although the promotion from the regular division to the guard division to the Ministry of National Defense is not rigid, no one can deny that there is indeed a certain gap between the regular division and the guard division in Australasia.

After arriving in France, the Second Guards Division and the Third Regular Division were quickly transported to the front and stationed where the Third Division had previously been stationed.

The next day, Joffre, Commander-in-Chief of France, and Sir French, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force visited together and expressed their importance to the Australasian Expeditionary Force.

In the jokes between Joffre, French and Martin, a large-scale battle involving more than 200 million people in four countries was planned, and the lives and deaths of these more than 200 million people were easily determined.

The topic discussed by the three of them is likely to cause another hundreds of thousands of casualties on the Western Front.But there is no way, for the victory of the war, compared with the hundreds of thousands of casualties, achieving greater results is the most important thing at present.

The specific attack plan on the western front is divided into three directions. In the north, the joint Belgian army drives the German army out of France, and defends against the strong fortress of Belgium.

In the center, attack the Alsace and Lorraine regions again, threatening the Ruhr area of ​​Germany as much as possible.

If Alsace and Lorraine can be captured, it will not only greatly improve France's combat morale, but also reduce Germany's material supply by a large amount, and threaten the hinterland of Germany.

For the southern direction, the main plan is to win over Italy and unite the Italian army to counterattack, threatening the western part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the southern part of Germany.

Coupled with the large-scale campaign launched by Russia on the Eastern Front, Germany and Austria will be overwhelmed and tired of fighting on two fronts.

In order to make the campaign a success, the Allied Powers played all their cards.All European countries, including Italy, that have not participated in the war are all targets of the Allies.

If the war in the previous six months was a war between the Allied Powers and the Allies, then from now on, this war will become a major war in the whole of Europe, affecting not only Britain, France, Russia, Australia, Germany and Austria, but Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia , Greece, Turkey, Belgium, Montenegro, etc., a mixed war in multiple countries.

On April 1915, 4, Romania declared war on Germany and joined the Entente.

On April 1915, 4, Greece declared war on Germany and joined the Allies.

Montenegro followed, joining the Allies on April 4.

After that, Italy was the most difficult to crack. After agreeing to Italy's acquisition of some territory and a large number of benefits, Italy publicly declared war on Germany on April 4 and joined the Allied Powers.

Germany's countermeasures came soon, because the Allies had fallen into a disadvantage in the war, so few countries joined the Allies, and only Bulgaria and Turkey in Europe were willing to join the Allies.

Since May 1915, more than ten countries have participated in the war between the Allies and the Allied Powers, specifically: Allied Powers (Britain, France, Russia, Australia, Italy, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Black, Belgium) ), the Allies (Germany, Austria, Turkey, Bulgaria).

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