Wild North America 1846

The 1918th Battle of the Isa River, which ended on October 10, 25, became the straw that broke the camel's back, causing a series of chain reactions.

The Ottoman Empire, which was already in a state of disintegration, was severely damaged and had no hope of winning the war.

On October 10, representatives of the Ottoman Empire signed an armistice agreement with the Allied Powers on the Chinese battleship "New Duke of Hawaii" anchored in the Port of Moderos.

The news of the unprecedented defeat in the 13th Battle of the Izo River was simply an unprecedented political earthquake, which led to the complete collapse of the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This disintegration process was irreversible.

The backlog of conflicts within the Austro-Hungarian Empire completely broke out, and there was already a situation of war everywhere.

Czechoslovaks, Poles, and Yugoslavs rose up in rebellion one after another. These nationalities declared national unity and independence respectively, and got rid of the rule of the Habsburg dynasty.

In despair, the Austro-Hungarian Empire signed an armistice agreement with the Allied Powers in Padua on October 1918, 10, announcing defeat and surrender.

This time point is a full week earlier than in the original history.

The same cloud of failure enveloped the German Empire. After its allies surrendered, the Germans could no longer bear it.

News of the disastrous defeat in the 13th Battle of the Isa River came. The German army was unable to make up for the shortage of troops on the southern battlefield. Everything from food, weapons to ammunition was extremely scarce, and the war was unsustainable.

On November 11, Marshal Hindenburg, General Ludendorff of the German Supreme Command, as well as the German Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and other government officials held a meeting to take emergency measures.

Ludendorff said at the meeting:

“The German army was unable to launch an offensive on the front line to destroy the enemy, it was impossible to achieve peace through defensive actions, and there was no hope of victory.

Tang's air superiority is very obvious, and they have almost endless sources of supplies and troops.This will destroy all our efforts and the war should be ended through diplomacy. "

On the Western Front

On September 9, the German army was forced to retreat from the Amiens Salient, and the German army suffered heavy losses on this battlefield.

On the Allied side, they concentrated two armored divisions and 32 infantry and cavalry divisions from Britain, France and Tang Dynasty. They used air superiority to strike and quickly broke through the German army's forward positions.

Within days, Germany had lost all of the territory it had captured when it launched its offensive in March 1918.

From September 9 to September 12, the German army suffered another disastrous defeat in the Saint-Mihiel salient.

In this battle, more than 16 German troops were captured by the Allies and suffered heavy losses again.

The Allied forces used superior force to attack the German army and its Allied forces in three prominent areas including the Marne River, Amiens and Saint-Mihiel, completely establishing their dominant position on the Western Front battlefield.

From the summer of 1918 to the present, the German army has lost more than 70 troops. Since its reserve forces have been exhausted and cannot be replenished, the German army on the Western Front is at a great disadvantage.

The defeat on the southern front battlefield was like a death knell, completely crushing the German army's will to resist.

General Ludendorff couldn't help lamenting; "October 10th was the darkest day in German military history."

On the Western Front

As early as early September, the Allied forces began a general offensive between Reims and Verdun and quickly broke through the Hindenburg Line.

The Belgian army also launched a massive counterattack and began to regain its territory. Germany's defeat was a foregone conclusion.

The Tang Empire's army also achieved great success in its counterattack in the Balkan battlefield. On September 9, Bulgaria surrendered to the Allies.

The Western Front battlefield and the Southern Front battlefield collapsed successively, and the front line moved towards the German mainland, which has become an unavoidable prospect of disaster.

At this time, domestic conflicts broke out, leaving the German Empire in dire straits.

At the emergency military meeting of the cabinet on November 11, Field Marshal Hindenburg proposed to the German government:
"Immediately appeal to our enemies for peace...The increasingly tense situation may force the high command to make painful decisions."

The German generals unanimously believed that signing an armistice was the only way to save the Reich.

Actually

As early as October 10, Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed the liberal Prince Max Baden as prime minister to preside over peace negotiations.

However, at this time, Kaiser Wilhelm II was still taking chances and hoped to exit the war with dignity while retaining the German imperial system.

The new German government, with the assistance of the Swiss government, proposed to Prime Minister Tang:

If peace is reached on the basis of the "Fifteen Points", Germany is willing to sign an armistice agreement and start peace talks.

The "Fifteen Points" was a peace policy proposed by Lord Hu Yongtang, Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty, in his speech to the House of Commons of the Tang Dynasty on January 1918, 1, aiming to end the war with this as its core.

Lord Hu Yongtang's "Fifteen Points" policy was a "peace program" for carving up the world in the face of drastic changes in the international situation, and focused on the issue of the "Tsarist Russian threat".

The purpose of Tang's move was to seize the diplomatic initiative in negotiations with Germany into its own hands.

On October 10, Tang returned to Germany and asked its government to confirm its acceptance of the "Fifteen Points" and the requirements put forward by Lord Hu Yongtang in subsequent statements.

It was not until October 10 that the Tang government notified the Allies of the German government's request for an armistice and peace negotiation, and proposed Prime Minister Lord Hu Yongtang's "Fifteen Points" as the basis for a future "peace treaty."

The Tang Imperial Government stated;

If the "Fifteen Points" were not used as the basis for negotiations, Datang would make peace with Germany alone.

In this situation of forcing the country to abdicate, after many days of closed-door consultations, Britain, France, Italy and other countries notified Tang on October 10 on behalf of the Allied Powers group that they agreed to start negotiations with Germany on the basis of the "Fifteen Points".

At this time, Emperor Wilhelm II had been forced to abdicate and flee abroad, and the cabinet of Prince Baden also announced its resignation.

On November 1918, 11, the German delegation, headed by Matthias Elzberger, the German minister of state affairs, accepted the armistice conditions and formally signed the armistice agreement in a carriage in the Camby Forest northeast of Paris.

At 11 noon that day, the armistice was officially declared.

This time was a full 10 days earlier than the end of World War I.

The signing of the Kham-Bian Agreement marked the end of the 51-month-and-[-]-day war in which the great powers carved up the world.

The scale of this war is unprecedented in history. Nearly one billion people in 34 countries were involved in the war.

The war spread over an area of ​​400 million square kilometers, with 7000 million people from various countries directly participating in the war, and the war affected a population of 3.5 million.

During the war, more than 1000 million people died and 2000 million were injured.The direct military expenditures of the participating countries alone amounted to 80 billion Tang Yuan.

War has plunged people of all countries into more difficult situations.However, the monopoly bourgeoisie of the Tang Dynasty made a fortune.In the three years from 1916 to 1918, Tang Monopoly Capital's average annual income increased by US$69 billion compared with the three years before the war, making it the biggest winner.

The "King of Sterilization" (sulfonamide) alone brings huge profits of more than one billion yuan every year.

Early September
The imperial capital of Chaoge City (Philadelphia) ushered in a heavy snowfall, which covered the huge city in silver and added a good mood to everyone.

When the news of victory in the war came, the whole country was in an uproar.

The people of the Tang Empire still celebrated this good news in the traditional Chinese way, beating gongs, drums, and dancing dragons and lions, and the long-awaited peace was restored to the world.

In Xianshou Palace
There was a jubilant atmosphere in the palace. The Prime Minister of the Tang Empire, Lord Hu Yongtang, was about to lead a delegation to Paris to participate in the post-war conference on the division of the post-war international structure, and to discuss with the allies punitive measures for the defeated countries, including post-war compensation issues.

The "Fifteen Points" policy proposed by Prime Minister Lord Hu Yongtang is the basis of the "Post-War Paris Peace Treaty". Of course, he was not allowed to attend this important international meeting.

Everyone in the palace was smiling and looking relaxed. Victory in the war was good news for everyone.

The Tang Empire acted very quickly. As soon as Germany surrendered, it organized a large convoy of more than 230 large passenger and cargo ships to enter the Black Sea through the Bosporus controlled by the Ottoman Empire.

More than 5.2 members of the advance corps successfully took over the German-occupied coastal areas of Odessa in southern Ukraine, the coal and iron ore-producing areas in eastern Ukraine, and the Crimean Peninsula, and implemented military occupation of the areas.

at the same time
Large-scale deportation of Ukrainians and white Tsarist Russians in the area, forcing them to relocate to central Ukraine to make room for subsequent resettlement of retired soldiers from the Tang Empire.

The Tang Empire has sent as many as 276 million expeditionary officers and soldiers to Europe, and will start demobilization and decommissioning in six months. The main resettlement areas are in the Crimean Peninsula and the coastal area of ​​Odessa in southern Ukraine.

It is estimated that in the next two to three years, 80 to 85 retired officers and soldiers will be resettled in the above-mentioned areas, reaching 100 million in the long term.

Now, taking advantage of the chaotic situation, the above-mentioned areas are vacated to facilitate future governance and rule.

Transporting troops across the ocean is a huge expense. Among the total 270 million expeditionary officers and soldiers, there were more than 38.2 casualties.

Except for the mid-level and senior officers of the European Expeditionary Force who will gradually return to the empire, most of the officers and soldiers will be resettled in place. The main destinations are the Crimean Peninsula and southern Ukraine.

France also hopes to retain as many Datang Empire expeditionary officers and soldiers as possible to make up for the huge population loss, which is probably between 70 and 80 people.

There are also some retired officers and soldiers who are willing to go to the UK. This number is being counted and will be arranged one after another after retirement. The number ranges from 10,000 to 40.

A small number of people will flow to other European countries, and no more than 20 people will actually return to the empire, mainly military officers.

Review of the Crimean Peninsula and Southern Ukraine Sovereignty Issues
The Tang Empire did not take over the above-mentioned areas from Tsarist Russia, but from defeated Germany. This related to important legal basis, which must be clarified.

After the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the German and Austro-Hungarian armies successively occupied Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic Sea coastal areas in accordance with the treaty.

With the end of World War I and the defeat of the Allied Powers led by Germany, this land had a new owner.

After the Tang Empire occupied the Black Sea coast of Ukraine, the entire Ukrainian region became landlocked and no longer had an outlet to the sea.

Such a new situation in the Black Sea region is also in line with the original intention of Britain, France and other countries to restrict Tsarist Russia, and is in line with the geostrategic interests of European countries, and thus has the support of the world's powers.

Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to get a piece of meat in Europe.

Everyone knows
Placing a small Balkan country at the door of a behemoth like Tsarist Russia would not be able to isolate or block it at all.

After winning the First World War, the world's great powers turned their attention to Tsarist Russia, which has become a big problem that makes them sleepless.

Needless to say, the French wanted Marshal Foch to mobilize 200 million troops from the Western Front battlefield to form a multinational coalition to intervene in Tsarist Russia's internal affairs and eliminate this source of danger in one fell swoop.

The reason
This is because after the new regime of Tsarist Russia came to power, it openly declared that it would not recognize the huge international debt of more than 600 billion francs owed by the previous Tsarist Russian government.

Of this unprecedentedly large figure, more than one-third of the debt belongs to the French government and private loan sharks, totaling more than 200 billion francs.

Before 1914 alone, Tsarist Russia owed France as much as 140 billion francs in various loans, the earliest of which could even be traced back to 130 years ago.

After the war, France was devastated and burdened with huge war debts from the Tang Dynasty. It was called "the giant with clay feet lying on the operating table." How could it endure the old man from Tsarist Russia who wasted such a large sum of money?

Therefore, the French are very active in the issue of multinational joint armed intervention in Tsarist Russia.

The most active person in the UK is the current Secretary of War, Churchill, who declared at a recent meeting with representatives of the Tang Dynasty: "We will organize a joint armed intervention of 14 countries in Tsarist Russia next spring, and the UK is ready for this."

The Rosta news agency (the predecessor of TASS) quoted a piece of news from the Finnish Information Service, which proved that Churchill's words were true, and the 14 countries specifically invaded were identified.

That is;
Britain, Tang, France, Italy, Japan, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia.

In fact, this is a false concept. Except for the top five world powers, the others on the list are all regions that originally belonged to Tsarist Russia.

These were all separated from the Tsarist Russian Empire. They hated Tsarist Russia for centuries of oppression and wanted to get rid of Russian control and become independent countries. Therefore, they united to resist Soviet Russia. This is a legacy of national and historical issues.

The real participants were the five major countries: Britain, Tang, France, Italy, and Japan. Each country had different attitudes.

France and Japan are the most active countries. France organized troops to invade Tsarist Russia in the Balkans in August this year, demonstrating an extremely tough attitude.

On April 1918, 4, the British and Japanese troops landed in Vladivostok and invaded Tsarist Russia.

Among them, Fuso deployed 1.2 troops as soon as it took action, which later increased to more than 4.4 troops in three army divisions. It also planned to further strengthen its troops and increase the intensity of armed intervention.

Britain's attitude was hesitant, and the British were of course very angry about Tsarist Russia's reneging on the deal, because they were also one of the biggest victims.

Prime Minister George was troubled by the fact that the British economy was in dire straits after the war and could not spend too much money to launch a new intervention war. Moreover, the domestic people were extremely war-weary, so he mostly hesitated.

Although the Minister of War, Churchill, was a hard-line militant, he was not the prime minister of the cabinet. He was also greatly constrained in the cabinet and could not influence London's final policy.

The current British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chamberlain, strongly opposed armed intervention in Tsarist Russia, believing that London's finances could no longer support such a war and needed enough time to recuperate.

He said; "Our young men have sacrificed enough, and the most important thing now is to let them go home to reunite with their families and enjoy the rare peace and tranquility."

Such remarks were supported by the majority of people in the cabinet.

The attitude of the Tang Empire is ambiguous, and it seems that it is not very motivated. It has not sent troops to the Far East yet, nor has it used the chips in its hands to make a fuss.

But Italy is completely useless. If Britain, France, Tang and other countries send troops in large numbers, Italy will naturally do its part and take advantage of it.

Instead, watch the paddling, which is what they do best.