Chapter 437 The World War ends like this

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Under the powerful firepower of German aircraft, tanks and cannons, the US and French coalition forces defending Verdun were defeated and were forced to give up the surrounding defense line, but they still stood firm on Verdun.

The German army then transferred 300,000 general reserves from the entire Verdun front, and continued to expand the results from the torn gap in the position of the US-French coalition forces, trying to break through the US-French coalition defense line in one fell swoop, but was hit by fierce counterattacks from the artillery fire of the US-French coalition forces and the desperate resistance of the US-French coalition forces.

The US and French coalition forces on the front line used their flesh and blood to block the German steel torrent, and were immediately severely injured and injured. For this reason, the US and French coalition forces had to rotate combat troops frequently, but they still could not reduce the losses of the main force. One by one, the established divisions were crippled or even wiped out.

In just one week, the US and French coalition lost 32 divisions, of which two-thirds of the troops were crippled, with more than 500,000 casualties. Such huge casualties and losses were just to block the fierce offensive of the German army. The US and French coalition forces repeatedly fought with the German army through continuous counterattacks, delaying the German attack, and ultimately forced the German army to fail to achieve the battle within the scheduled time.

In early February, the German army launched another large-scale offensive. After seven days of fierce fighting, under the assault of two chariot divisions, they successfully cut off the connection between the Fort Woborg and other positions of the US-French coalition forces, and forced the Fort Woborg to surrender on the 7th.

In mid-February, although the German army took advantage of the Allies with relatively small losses during the Battle of Verdun, the German Command was still very annoyed by the war situation on the front line and demanded to defeat the Allies in a short time. Because Germany was also affected by the Russian Revolution, the revolutionary trend of demanding a stop to war continued to emerge, forcing the German Command to consider defeating the Allies as soon as possible and ending the war.

To this end, the German side used more powerful phosgene suffocation gas bombs and tear gas bombs for the first time, and fired 110,000 poison gas bombs on the 6-kilometer-wide front, causing tens of thousands of major casualties to the US and French coalition forces. They were forced to retreat and abandon the sixth line of defense. The German army then attacked and occupied the Duomon Fortress with powerful firepower.

On February 25, the French commander-in-chief Xiafei re-activated General Henry as the commander-in-chief of Verdun. The 20th Army Group and the 33rd Army Group commanded by Henry were transferred from the Somme and Marne River to the Verdun front, increasing the total force of the Allies on the Verdun front to 2.7 million, and preparing to fight the German army to the death.

At the same time, the German army also made every effort to transfer the last batch of reserve troops in China about 500,000 young troops with an average age of only 15 years old to Verdun.

At this time when the war reaches this point, whether it is the Allies or the Allies, it has reached the last juncture. The economies of various countries have completely collapsed, the consumption of the most important personnel in the war resources has reached the cordon, and all countries have reached a state of recruiting minors on a large scale to the front line. Therefore, all countries' politics understand that this is drinking poison to quench thirst. If all these minors are consumed, the entire country will completely collapse.

Therefore, at this time, both sides involuntarily chose to fight to the death.

From the last day of February and until late April, the largest decisive battle in human history broke out on the battlefield of Verdun. The Allies successively invested 6,500 combat aircraft, 4,300 tanks, 43,290 artillery, 90,000 light and heavy machine guns, and the total strength of more than 3.4 million people participated in the decisive battle. The Allies successively invested 8,340 combat aircraft, 7,700 tanks, 73,000 artillery, 50,000 light and heavy machine guns, and a total strength of 4.3 million people participated in the decisive battle.

The two sides placed nearly 10 million troops and logistics personnel on the front line less than 170 kilometers, causing too much troops within the unit area. As a result, under the attack of dense aircraft, tanks, cannons and poison gases on both sides, there were huge casualties. At the most tragic time, when the two sides were fighting for the decisive commanding heights of Verdun, the 832 highland, nearly 300,000 troops on both sides repeatedly engaged in a fierce tug-of-war on this highland. In order to seize this decisive commanding heights, the commanders of both sides tried to control the place at all costs.

Starting at 2:00 p.m. on March 17, the army of both sides broke out in a melee on the high ground. During the repeated hand-to-hand combat that lasted for four hours, the German army suffered 70,000 casualties, and the Alliance was more than 110,000 casualties. The result was that when the German army had the upper hand, the Alliance began to prepare for undifferentiated artillery, and would rather sacrifice their own people than let the German army succeed. Conversely, when the Alliance was the upper hand, the German army did the same, carrying out undifferentiated artillery, so that the German army on the high ground and the Alliance died together.

For the decisive commanding heights of the Verdun Front, the Allies and the Allies gave up their last trace of human nature and would rather die together than let the other party succeed. In this way, both sides would rather break up the jade than be completely covered, and the most tragic battle was fought on the 832 Highlands. The corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowed into rivers. The earth turned into scorched earth, the stream turned into steam, and the entire highland became hell on earth.

Tragedy similar to the 832 highland battle can be seen everywhere on the Verdun front. The Allies understood that if Verdun could not defend, once it was broken by the German army, the Allies would sink to the bottom and lose the war and lose the war. Therefore, the Allies resisted at all costs and did not give up in an inch of land. Similarly, for the Allies, the German army could only win the war, otherwise they would not have the strength to continue the war. If this battle was won, it would be able to stabilize the surging revolutionary wave in the country. If it was tied or lost, it would be equivalent to losing the war. Therefore, the German army was also attacking at a cost of no expense. Every inch of land advanced was covered with the blood of the German army.

Both sides fought hard, and the German army had the advantage in equipment, but the number of people was difficult to support. Although the Allies were weak, the casualties and losses in each battle were far greater than those in the German army, but the Allies were large. As reinforcements arrived in Europe, the United States Army entered the inland from the coast of France, it quickly filled the situation of insufficient troops.

In this way, although the Allies suffered heavy casualties on the Verdun front, they finally paid a heavy price of 2.49 million casualties with the tactics of the sea of ​​people, which prevented the German attack and stabilized the Verdun defense line.

The Second Battle of Verdun ended on April 8. After the Germans finally paid the price of 1.33 million casualties, the offensive was finally stopped due to the instability of the troops, the ordnance and the rear. The Second Battle of Verdun ended.

During the Second Battle of Verdun, the Allies lost 5,500 combat aircraft, 3,600 tanks, 35,000 artillery pieces, 50,000 light and heavy machine guns, and more than 1.82 million casualties. The Allies lost 9,240 combat aircraft, 9,100 tanks, 62,000 artillery pieces, and 43,000 light and heavy machine guns, and 3.02 million casualties.

If we simply look at the results, the Allies won tactical victory and almost won by a 1:2 advantage, and the Allies suffered heavy losses. However, from the strategic perspective of the entire European battlefield, after losing Russia's support, the Allies still blocked the Allies' counterattack and successfully prevented the Allies from breaking through the entire Western Front, forcing the Allies to stop the war, the Allies undoubtedly won, even if the price was too high.

After the Second Battle of Verdun, the Allies were no longer able to launch an offensive and thus entered a defensive state. The Allies suffered huge losses and fought all their last bit of strength to barely defend the Western Front, but they also had no ability to counterattack.

The Western Front battlefield was once again in a stalemate, and this state continued until the end of the world war. Neither side launched any large-scale battle, and only small-scale conflicts at the regiment-battalion level.

This is mainly because, at the end of the Second Battle of Verdun, the Chinese Empire sneaked into the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in the United States on April 1 and declared war on the United States, thus causing the world war to spread to the American continent. The world war eventually expanded in an all-round way and became a true world war.

It was precisely because the Chinese Empire suddenly declared war on the United States that the allies received reduced material support and were unable to continue to fight. The Allies also stopped supporting the Allies' material support for the Allies because of the outbreak of the Sino-US war, and even transferred the US troops deployed on the European battlefield back to the country for defense, which led to the Allies' lack of ability to continue to fight.

On the other hand, the Russian November Revolution had a huge influence on the Allies and allies. Whether it was the Allies or Allies, large-scale workers' strikes, merchants' strikes, teachers and students' strikes, soldiers' strikes and other demonstrations broke out in various countries. Spies and agents from various countries instigated the revolution in the hostile countries. As a result, there was turmoil and tides of revolution in various countries.

Especially the Soviet regime established by the November Revolution in Russia brought hope to revolutionary parties in various countries. They followed the Russian Revolution and launched revolutionary actions to fight and anti-political policies in various countries.

It is similar to the background of the Russian November Revolution. The high-intensity world war that lasted for more than four years exhausted Germany's huge wealth as the world's third economy. In order to cope with the huge amount of funds needed by Germany, Germany had to strengthen its cruel exploitation of the people at home, and adopted a military rule method to force the people to work hard for their plunder war. The war led to the collapse of Germany's economy and intensified social contradictions. The active activities of anti-war figures led by Einstein in the past four years exacerbated the intensification of German social contradictions.

In order to prevent the outbreak of the revolution, on November 30, 1916, the German emperor announced the implementation of a parliamentary system and agreed to reform the three-level electoral system in Prussia. On January 4, 1917, the parliamentary democratic system was established. The liberal Prince Baden Max was appointed as the prime minister of the empire and invited Schederman of the Social Democratic Party to participate in the political system.

If Germany had ceased to fight for more than three months after the mediation of the Chinese Empire, it might have been possible to recover, but German Emperor William II chose to continue the war, which resulted in the accelerated outbreak of the German Revolution. The German army on the front line was able to win the Second Battle of Verdun, which resulted in the inevitable outbreak of the German Revolution.

On April 9, 1917, the huge casualties of Germany on the Western Front were widely publicized by spies and agents of the Allied Powers in Berlin, and faked the false news that the German army was defeated and lost millions of troops, which immediately ignited the flames of the revolution in Germany. Under the influence of the Russian November Revolution, the class contradictions in Germany were unprecedentedly sharp.

In April 1917, when the Supreme German Command saw that the Chinese Empire and the United States started war, he took the opportunity to order the navy to dispatch all its troops, preparing to take advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the US Navy to eliminate the remaining British and French fleets in the Atlantic Ocean, launch a large-scale battle, and completely force the Allies to surrender.

On April 5, the German Navy Command ordered the fleet stationed in Kiel to go to sea to fight, but was rejected by the sailors, and many sailors were arrested. On the 7th, the sailors at Kiel Port opposed fighting with the fleet of the Allied Powers, held an uprising, and established the first Soviet representative of the engineers in Germany, opening the prelude to the German April Revolution.

The German working class, which was suffering in the war, was unprecedentedly sharp in the domestic class contradictions under the influence of the Russian November Revolution. The German working class was bewitched and instigated by the Allied agents and spies, and began to combine the struggle to end the war with the preparation of an armed uprising. In order to oppose the order to fight with the Allied Fleet to go to sea and demand the release of the arrested sailors, the sailors of the dock workers held a demonstration, and the demonstration quickly developed into an armed uprising.

On April 14, the sailors and workers of the Kiel Revolution formed a Soviet of the Engineer Representatives, seized all of Kiel's regime, and opened the prelude to the April Revolution. Hamburg, Bremen, Lai Pisci, Munich and other places also rose up to respond to the uprising, formed an Soviet of the Engineer, and seized power from all over the country.

On April 19, workers and soldiers in the German capital Berlin also broke out in armed uprisings, occupying political organs, post offices and train stations, overthrowing the rule of the Hohenzollern family, forcing German Emperor William II to flee to the Netherlands in a hurry. Armed workers and soldiers controlled the capital, and Spartacus sent leader K. Liebknesi to announce the establishment of the Socialist Republic at the mass meeting.

On May 2, the first Congress of the German Soviet Union was held in Berlin. Due to the lack of the leadership of the proletariat's revolutionary party and the betrayal of the right-wing Social Democrats, the regime fell back into the hands of the bourgeoisie and the Junker landlords, the right-wing leadership group of the German Social Democratic Party. The leaders of this group, F. Albert and P. Schedman, formed the People's Plenipotent Soviet. It did not touch the old state institutions and army, and remained as a large number of officials and generals of the original empire, trying to calm the mass movement, so that the April Revolution could not achieve the results of the Russian November Revolution.

On May 16, the General Assembly of the German Soviet Union was held in Berlin. At the conference, right-wing Social Democrats tried their best to restore peace and order, advocated the convening of a constitutional national conference and the establishment of a formal political system. The representatives of the Spartacus League put forward the slogan of the Soviet Union's power to the Soviet Union and the establishment of a socialist republic. The Congress passed the resolution to convene the National Assembly in January of the following year, announcing that Albert's political system would exercise all the legislative and administrative powers of the country before this.

At the same time, all political parties agreed that Germany would withdraw from the world war unconditionally and handle it in accordance with the agreement agreed with various countries in the Chinese Empire last year. Germany agreed that all countries would resume their pre-war state in order to quickly end the war.

On May 29, the Spartacus League held a congress and decided to immediately break away from the Social Democratic Party and establish its own organization - the German Communist Party. On the 30th, the founding meeting of the German Communist Party was held in Berlin, and Luxembourg made a report on the issue of the party program. The congress decided to use the article "What does the Spartacus League require" she drafted as the basis of the party program.

On June 5, in order to protest Albert's political dismissal from the left-wing Social Democrats' post as the Berlin police chief, workers in the capital held a grand demonstration. The next day, the demonstration developed into a general strike and an armed uprising, with 500,000 participating in the massacre. Germany firmly led the battle. On the 11th, the political army led by the right-wing Social Democrat G. Nosk and bloody massacre of workers. On the 15th, German Communist leaders Liebknesi and Rosa Luxembourg were brutally killed.

In July, the government held a national meeting in Weimar, and Albert was elected the first president of the German Republic.

On August 13, under the leadership of the Bavarian capital, Munich, the workers in Munich, held an uprising to seize power and announced the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic, which was soon brutal suppressed by the political army. On September 2, the army occupied Munich. The vigorous German April Revolution ended completely.

Although Germany failed to embark on the socialist path like Russia, the April Revolution overthrew Germany's feudal system and prompted the end of the European part of World War I.

The Allies knew that in order to block the fierce offensive of the Chinese Empire, the United States no longer had the ability to support the European battlefield. Therefore, the Allies had to accept Germany's ceasefire conditions. The two sides negotiated in Madrid, Spain and agreed to return to pre-war state.

Similarly, the revolution that broke out in Germany also broke out in European countries. In March 1917, the war fell into a stalemate again, and the conflicts in the Austro-Hungarian Empire were much more intense than those in Germany. Although the leaders of the ethnic minority leaders in the Austro-Hungarian Empire have been loyal to the Habsburg emperors so far, they had to consider their own interests at this time. When they discovered that after the German April Revolution, Germany had the intention to withdraw from the world war, it was also a time for them to leave the old empire, and accepting the nationalism promoted by the Allies was the must-take.

At this time, the Austro-Hungarian Empire could no longer unite these many nations. The descendants of the royal family were extinct, and no one could connect with the nations like the Austrian emperor. Economic development had collapsed, and many open policies introduced before the war in Austria were abolished, which made the socialists very angry. Under these conditions, the extreme nationalists gained many supporters.

In June 1917, a series of regions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire announced **. On July 3, the Austro-Hungarian Empire also joined the negotiations in Madrid and reached a ceasefire agreement with the Allies.

Germany and Austro-Hungary empires had to negotiate peace with the Allies, which made the Ottoman Empire, which was exhausted during the Arab uprising, had to bring Bulgaria together and go to Madrid to negotiate with the Allies.

In the end, all the allied countries agreed to unconditionally negotiate and truce with the Allied countries. On the Allied countries, France broke out in the Lyon Revolution in June. Because France had the lessons of the red regimes of Russia and Germany, the crazy suppression caused the revolution to not expand. At the same time, France was the biggest victim of World War I. The light and heavy industries in the sixteen provinces were razed to the ground in the war. If there was no truce, even if the stalemate continued, it would not be able to stand it. Therefore, after consultation with Britain, France believed that the current biggest enemy was no longer the ally, but the Soviet Russian regime from Russia. If there was no truce, the red regime would definitely sweep across countries on the European continent, which would be disastrous. Therefore, Britain and France officially agreed to the conditions of the allied countries, and both sides ended the war unconditionally and returned to the pre-war level.

The negotiations between the two sides were very fast, and a ceasefire agreement was reached in July. In early August, the Allies evacuated from the battlefields of France and Italy on the Western Front, and the Allies recovered all lost territory. On the battlefields of the Eastern Front, the Allies did not return the territory of the Soviet Union, and the Allies also demanded that the Allies could not return the territory of the Soviet Union, and the Allies and the Allies jointly sent troops to continue to suppress the Soviet Union's revolution.

In terms of the Sino-US war, since neither the Allies nor the allies have the power to manage China and the United States' affairs, they are also happy to see the war between the two emerging powers of China and the United States, and hope that the two countries will be weakened by the war.

On August 15, 1917, the Allies and Allied Powers quickly signed the Madrid Contract in Madrid, ending World War I, and all countries unconditionally accepted the armistice and returned to the pre-war state. Since the Red Soviets were the common enemy of European countries, all countries were able to reach a reconciliation in a short time because of their common enemies. However, all countries had their own local war problems that need to be resolved urgently. For example, Britain wanted to suppress the Irish Revolution, the Indian Revolution, France suppressed the Vietnam Revolution. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was in a separatist war, and civil war broke out between Austria and Hungary. Germany suppressed the remnants of the November Revolution, and the Ottoman Empire was defeated in the Arab uprising and suppressing war, and collapsed in an all-round way. About 40 countries declared their separation from the rule of the Oldman Empire.

The world war was eventually caused by the sudden declaration of war on the United States by the Chinese Empire, which forced the United States to be unable to reinforce the Allied Powers, resulting in a very different result from the first World War in history. At the same time, the Chinese Empire secretly dominated the world war, making its scale and destruction far exceeding history. As epoch-making weapons such as aircraft and tanks appeared in the world war early, the military consumption of various countries increased, with heavy casualties and heavy economic damage.

The entire world war lasted for 4 years and 8 months. During this war, more than 30 participating countries were involved, with a population of about 1.5 billion, accounting for 67 of the total world population at that time. The direct economic losses of the participating countries reached US$280.5 billion, and indirect economic losses also reached US$351.6 billion. More than 15 million soldiers were killed, 30 million civilians were killed, and about 150 million people were homeless. The entire European economy regressed for 15 years, only in 1898. More than 15,000 tons of gold and 540,000 tons of silver flowed out of Europe and fell into the treasury of the Chinese Empire. The world's financial center was transferred from Britain to the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire in the East was reversing from the new dominance of the world, and the East and West pattern was reversed.

At the same time, the First World War ended in this way, and the core contradiction between the Allies and the Allies was not resolved at all. Although all countries reached reconciliation when fighting because of their inability to fight again and the threat of the Red Ghost, the fundamental contradiction was not resolved, which could only leave more intense war risks for the future.

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