Australian Storm 1876

   Chapter 1071 Dragon Lake Palace

  After winning the Battle of the West Lom and the Battle of Verdun successively, Britain, France, Yangde and other countries chose to die, licking the wounds on their respective sites, and slowly regaining their strength.

   This is not because Britain, France and other countries are unwilling to pursue the victory, but they are really unable to continue fighting.

Only 8 days and 8 nights of artillery shelling on the Somme River front (5 days of artillery preparations before the war, plus three days of day and night bombing after the war) consumed 3.7 million rounds of artillery shells, not including the Somme North line. , as well as shell consumption on the battlefield of Verdun.

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   After several consecutive large-scale battles, the shells hoarded by the Allied countries have been exhausted, and if they continue to fight, it will be hand-to-hand combat.

  This is the case with artillery shells, and other war materials are roughly the same. War is like a black hole that devours massive materials, and there is not enough to fill it.

As happened in the original history, after suffering the defeat on the Western Front, Kaiser Wilhelm II, who realized that he might lose the whole war, finally let go of the last veil of hypocrisy and personally approved the German Navy to launch an "unlimited" war. Submarine Warfare".

In January 2006, the British, French, Ocean and other countries were sunk with a total tonnage of 290,000 tons of various merchant ships. In February, this figure rose sharply to 470,000 tons, and in March, it rose to 635,000 tons. In this month, a total of 230,000 tons were sunk. The remaining passenger and cargo ships were sunk on the icy bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

   These included ships transporting an entire tank regiment, more than 200 aircraft and other military supplies, and the German submarines frantically raging in the Atlantic Ocean, which had a huge impact on the Allied war preparations.

   Released the morally burdened German submarine warfare, brought boundless fear on the transatlantic route, loomed over the shadow of death, and almost all non-essential commercial flights were suspended.

  The 1,460-kilometer-long route from Yasol Island to Europe is often full of large groups of German submarines, baring their fangs to the passing merchant ships, and it has become a dead sea.

   The Dinghai-class aircraft carrier squadron, which had just been commissioned by the Ocean Empire, rushed to the Yasore Islands naval base under urgent **** pressure.

  The aircraft carrier group will be centered on the Azores base, responsible for anti-submarine **** and maintenance of the Atlantic route.

   On March 8 (the second month of the Russian calendar), the long-standing conflict between Tsarist Russia finally broke out. Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate, and the Romanov dynasty ended.

   And this major event allowed the German army to see the dawn of victory on the Eastern Front.

In this regard, Marshal Hindenburg, the German chief of staff, formulated the overall strategy of "defense from the west and advance to the east". He took the defensive position in the German-French border area on the western front, and sent more mobilized German troops to the battlefield on the east front, trying to quickly overwhelm the battlefield on the east front. The Tsarist Russian Army.

  After winning the battle on the Eastern Front, he will move troops to the west in a big way, and fight to the death with all the strength of the German Empire.

  Australia

  Different from the panic-stricken European situation, today’s Australia is sunny and the grass grows and warblers fly. Every holiday, families who drive their wives and children to the suburbs for a wild trip have grown rapidly, becoming a new way of leisure for middle-class citizens.

  Some of Australia's scenic tourist cities, beaches, parks and forests are the favorite places for car owners to go to pastime.

   The gas stations, retail stores, road hotels, and auto repair shops that have developed along with it have also rapidly spread and become a part of life with a car.

  The good news of the Imperial Expeditionary Force in Europe came back, triggering a carnival in the local public opinion circles and citizens. Newspapers and radio stations reported the victory of the European battlefield in a row, and an emotion called pride and pride pervaded and subtly affected the Australians.

   Qinglong Lake in the Red River Valley Metropolis

  Longhu Palace

  Li Fushou took the royal family's wives and concubines here to spend the summer vacation and enjoy the happiness of the family.

   (end of this chapter)