The sudden attack from the Austro-Hungarian Empire attacked Serbia. The Serbian army suffered heavy losses in the first and second Balkan wars, especially the second time. With Turkey's sudden intervention, if Britain and France were not supported by behind the scenes, they might have been wiped out.

A small European country has little history and no savings. It was pushed out by Britain, France and others as the first to be the first to give it a few rewards. If you are unhappy, you will ignore it. Serbia has not returned to its state before the First Balkan War. In addition, the sudden attack of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, three armies were concentrated early, with almost 300,000 troops, all of which were elite troops who had been strictly trained. Although during World War I, the army of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was not very good, and Russia, which encountered a second-rate army, was also annihilated. But no matter what, it was also trained and equipped with a large number of artillery and machine guns, and soldiers with unified weapons, which were not Serbia could resist.

Within 2 hours, two divisions on the Serbian border were broken and fled. The border line of Serbia suddenly opened. The Austro-Hungarian army of the three armies divided into three groups and rushed towards the hinterland of Serbia along the highway. Suddenly, many cities on the border were occupied, and hundreds of kilometers of defense were in danger, and there was even danger of destroying the country.

Faced with such a situation, Serbia declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the first time and issued a national mobilization. All young people of appropriate age joined the army. If there were firearms, they would be equipped with various cold weapons. With a total population of less than 3 million, they would suddenly pull up an army of 600,000. It is far stronger than the mobilization power of one-tenth of the extreme mobilization of other countries.

Against the backdrop of the destruction of the country, Serbia burst out with strong resilience. Even if it could not resist it, it would fight for casualties and injuries and gradually resist the Austro-Hungarian army. In the end, the Austro-Hungarian Empire's speed slowed down slightly and the death rate was intensifying. Serbia took a breath and began to ask for help from Britain and France.

The Balkans are the focus of Europe. Before, it was just the internal friction between the Balkans, and even Turkey's intervention was very sensitive. What's more, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was a first-class power. In the first battle, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a scumbag, but millions of troops, almost all kinds of weapons production capacity, and even the construction of battleships. Such a powerful country is not something that the Balkans can resist, not to mention that the main attack direction is Serbia,

Russia has always regarded the Balkans as its ban. For the sake of the Balkans, it launched more than a dozen Russian-Turkish wars and gradually approached the Balkans. Now that the Austro-Hungarian Empire has come to pick peaches, how can it be accepted? When other countries in the Allies have not reacted, Russia first reacted and issued an ultimatum to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In the form of general mobilization, it demanded that the Austro-Hungarian Empire return to the negotiating table and withdraw from Serbia's territory.

How could the Austro-Hungarian Empire accept it? Not to mention its relationship with Russia, but to talk about Germany's support behind it, it is impossible to retreat. The most vanguard army has entered Serbia 30 kilometers, and tens of millions of apprentices have been occupied, which is a good opportunity for expansion.

Immediately afterwards, Russia and France were the second to issue an ultimatum. France had many interests in the Balkans, and its close relations with Russia have always been advancing and retreating. If the Austro-Hungarian Empire reached out to the Balkans, it would be like a nail firmly in the Mediterranean. This is something that France could not accept. On the second day after Russia issued the ultimatum, it made the same threat to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not withdraw from the Balkans immediately, they would also mobilize the same general and prepare to enter a state of war.

The situation in Europe became extremely nervous under the action of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was originally tense, but now it was just a dagger to see it. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was destined to disappoint Russia and France. Not only did they not obey the ultimatum of Russia and France, they went further. The troops were approaching the capital of Serbia and had begun to clear the strategic points on the road. The speed was very fast and had not been trained. The Serbs, who had only resisted the Austro-Hungarian army with their passionate blood, began to flee. After their three axes were familiar with the regular army, the impact on the regular army was greatly reduced. Instead, in the rear, among the cities occupied by Austro-Hungarian, the resistance movement was intensifying and the results gradually increased.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire rejected the demands between Russia and France with practical actions. Russia and France were almost furious. In almost the shortest time, Russia and France announced a general mobilization, and the whole country was about to enter a state of war. The army began to mobilize and headed towards the border with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, preparing to forcibly interfere with the military.

Germany will certainly not be slow to promote the plan. While Russia and France launched a general mobilization, on November 2, Germany issued a note to Russia and France, putting pressure on Russia and France to cancel the general mobilization. After being rejected, Germany also began to announce the national general mobilization.

Germany's actions were not only beyond Russia and France's expectations, but also beyond Britain's expectations. In the UK's view, when things come to this point, the Austro-Hungarian Empire will hardly return, and Russia and France are destined to declare war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Germany will definitely come to ask about the meaning of Britain. At that time, Britain can have many choices, or even tease Germany. In short, it can delay Germany's time for 20 to 30 days. Unexpectedly, Germany directly ignored them and only unilaterally proposed a general mobilization. This was beyond his expectations. What exactly did they want to do.

Britain had not realized that all this was planned by Germany, and the mobilization order had been issued more than ten days ago. The first wave of attacking troops had already been stationed on the border and could suddenly attack at any time. Then, everything was natural. Russia and France did not obey Germany's request and began to mobilize their troops. In order not to allow the Austro-Hungarian Empire to independently resist the attack of Russia and France, on November 3, Germany declared war on Russia and France at the same time. While receiving the German declaration of war, Russia and France declared war on Germany. The four major countries of the Allies and allied countries declared war on each other. World War I officially broke out.

The dazzling changes, from the beginning to the declaration of war between Europe and the state of war, seemed to have only taken a few days, and everything became uncontrollable. Even Britain, who was mentally prepared and knew that it would be outbreak, felt a sense of loss. As the boss in the world, this war seemed to be isolated from it intentionally or unintentionally, and it was very unhappy.

Britain did not stay for long. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs spent most of the afternoon to create an article. In short, many insignificant aspects of Germany were declared war on Germany and Austro-Hungary. All the main forces of the Allies participated in the war. Immediately afterwards, Turkey declared war on all the Allies, and the Allies also declared war on Turkey. However, in the meantime, Italy, a member of the Allies, remained neutral. Among the Allies and the main countries of the Allies, except for the strange Italy, the others entered a state of war directly, and the entire Europe was filled with war.

Such a big thing, and it is clearly published, anywhere, at any time, is the biggest news. In addition to the Northwest, which was prepared for a long time, Japan, the United States, Europe, and many small countries, Canada and Australia, seemed to be suppressed by this huge war. For a moment, all diplomatic rhetoric broke out suddenly, spreading across Europe, a great showdown between hundreds of millions of people, and the smoke of war spread over the entire Europe from south to north.

The Northwest General Staff, the newly arrived telegram, the news that the Allies and the Allies officially started the war, was directly obtained by the General Staff. The staff members who were originally half-believing and half-doubted seemed to be beaten and slapping. What was really the most unlikely thing happened. The war that could have started in three months or even four months actually happened within 10 days. At this time, the two fleeing British intelligence officers could not escape from Borneo. Most of the plans made before were in vain. Only Yang Yuanzhao has always asked that most of the power of Britain and France were limited to Europe, and the direct support of the Netherlands was limited. As for the British Asian fleet that was close, it was naturally the Germans to deal with it. The former East Asian fleet was enough to fight against the British, not to mention that now, there are 9 battleships including 600,000-ton warships.

Although the sea test has not been completely over yet, more than three months of high-intensity training have allowed most German sailors to successfully operate these warships. The most critical power systems, weapon systems and protective armor have been installed, and the soldiers have also been running-in for 80% to 90%. It takes a little time to deal with the powerful British local fleet, but the only one battle patrol is behind, and the remaining ones are the former dreadnoughts and ordinary heavy patrol Asian fleets, which is an overwhelming advantage.

In the world, except for the United States and China, the four largest industrial countries and a bunch of second-rate powers are really shocking. The Balkans have been fighting in a huge war, and France and Russia have also begun to mobilize troops on a large scale, but it only takes time, which may take one week or half a month. Britain and Germany should be similar. Maybe Germany needs to be faster, but it will take two or three days.

However, Germany has made complete preparations, and the first target is not France, nor Russia, but Luxembourg and Belgium, which puzzled many historians in later generations and questioned Germany's conspiracy theories. However, on November 3, the day Germany declared war on Russia and France, a declaration of war issued by William II was directly handed over to the Belgian king who was still shouting to maintain neutrality and maintain peace. Germany declared war on Belgium, which was neutral, not the Allies camp. (To be continued...)
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