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Chapter 485: Quasi-Allies in the Far East (Part 2)

There is no love without reason in the world, and naturally there is no hatred without reason. Li Han once read later historians to analyze that the internal contradictions between Italy and the Three Kingdoms Alliance have truly intensified, and it must be discussed from the Italian-Turkish war provoked by Italy and the Balkan crisis triggered by the Italian-Turkish war triggered by Italy.

In 1911, during the Second Moroccan Crisis, Italy took advantage of the opportunity when Britain, France and Germany fought each other and had no time to take care of it and launched the Italian-Turkey War aimed at annexing Tripoli. Since it had already concluded the "Ragonnikki Agreement" with Russia in advance and obtained France's understanding, Italy itself was an ally of Germany and Austria, so it was fearless. On September 29, the war broke out, and Turkey had no ability to resist and was quickly defeated, but it refused to surrender.

Türkiye's disastrous defeat in the Italian-Turkish war exposed its corrupt nature, accelerated the alliance between the Balkan countries against the ruling forces of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and then the first Balkan War broke out.

This war was on the surface a war between the four countries and Turkey, but in fact it was filled with the shadow of the intervention of the great powers. Since the Balkan crisis, Serbia regarded Austro-Hungary as its main enemy, and Russia secretly supported it, striving to make its alliance mainly oppose Austro-Hungary, so that it could seize Bosnia and Herzegovina in the future, and further occupy Albania to obtain an outlet to the Adriatic Sea. Bulgaria and Greece advocated opposing Turkey, in an attempt to seize Macedonia and divide the Turkish territory in the southern Balkans. In order to safeguard its privileges in Turkey, Germany worked hard to support Turkey with Austro-Hungary and obstruct the struggle goals of the Balkan countries. For their own interests, Britain and France were not willing to expand the German and Austro-Austrian forces in the Balkans, but also opposed Russia taking the opportunity to seize the straits and adopted the policy of demolishing the two sides.

So after the establishment of the four-nation Balkan alliance, the First Balkan War broke out. Under the fierce attack of the allied troops, the Turkish army retreated step by step. In order to suppress the strength of its allies, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany chose to support Italy in expanding its influence in the Balkans, and even abused the Austro-Hungarian Empire and betrayed the interests of Turkey under the control of the pro-German faction. Since then, the relationship between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire has been inconsistent. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, which has gained nothing, was particularly vigilant and uneasy about Italy's expansion in the Balkans, and therefore has suppressed Italy's expansion a lot in Europe.

At the same time, Britain, France and Russia have also strengthened their enlistment of Italy. Germany has now made a decision to win over Turkey and Bulgaria, two defeated countries that have suffered heavy losses in the two Balkan wars, to join the "Tongmenghui". German Emperor William II, who has always believed that he had personally ruled and forced Italy to give up some of the interests robbed from Turkey in the previous Italian-Turkey War, and used it to win over Turkey.

If the proposal is delivered to the Italian decision-makers, regardless of whether the other party wants it or not, it is obvious that there will be some cracks in the relationship between the Three Kingdoms Alliance.

The three-country alliance clearly had fundamental differences of seriousness at the beginning of its birth. The most serious performance in the early stage was the competition between Germany and Austria and the competition between Germany and Germany and the Balkans between Italy and Austria-Hungary. Later, it was reflected in the conflict between the Austro-Hungary Empire and the Bulgarian Kingdom in the Balkans, and the conflict between Italy and Turkey in the Near East and Balkans. But there was no way for the German Emperor to be stubborn and unwilling to lose.

His Tsar's cousin was even more arrogant and denied Bismarck's "Three Emperors Alliance". As a result, he introduced high tariffs and closed Russian bonds, and stopped Germany's role as a middleman between Russia and Austria on the Balkans issue in the Bismarck era and changed to fully support Austro-Hungary to suppress Russia. All other practices made Germany and Russia turn into enemies. During the reunification of Germany, almost all of their neighbors were offended, and in the end they had no choice but to choose to re-choose their allies.

Otherwise, it was as analyzed by a group of historians in later generations. If the first three emperors were still alive in 1914 and France was isolated on the European continent, Italy might not have dared to make a statement in the Balkans and Russia and Austria. As a result, either the British and French Allied Powers, which were too strong to suppress the war, which greatly delayed the outbreak of the World War. Another possibility was that the World War One broke out at the same time as before. The Three Emperors Alliance destroyed France and Italy at the first time, ended the European war within half a year and divided Europe again, allowing Europe to return to the feudal rule of the royal family.

During World War I, Italy's rebellion dragged down nearly 50 divisions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, making it impossible for the Allies to show stronger pressure on the battlefields of Russia on the Eastern Front and France on the Western Front. These are things that Li Han, who is now constantly adding oil to the Allies' tanks, cannot allow. Therefore, it is still half a year before the war in history is coming, which makes Germany be wary of Italy in advance, add pressure to it or add more attention to its ally Austro-Hungarian and future ally Türkiye.

Mummer and the other two quickly completed the exchange obscurely. These things that required more political minds were obviously not mixed with the rest of the two. The "Lagonnikki Agreement" was taken away by Colonel Srifin, revealing the following information, which was very brief. Franz placed it after the "Lagonnikki Agreement" and was obviously more important than it.

"Is this?" Mu Mo said, picked it up and looked at it a few times, frowned. It turned out to be a piece of artillery data. How did he, the diplomat, know what it meant, and immediately handed it to Colonel Srifin.

Colonel Srifin took it and looked at it in shock, "This is impossible!"

He suddenly stood up, "Doesn't the Schneider m1897a3 75mm field gun have only eleven rounds per minute?"

It turned out that the second piece of intelligence provided by Li Han to Germany was known as one of the greatest victories in the history of world military weapons intelligence, and the military fog from the romantic France. The Schneider m1897a3 type 75mm field gun, referred to as the "75mm French fast gun". The gun was widely used during World War I and was one of the most important artillery in the treaty countries at that time. Its appearance made all artillery of its contemporaries obsolete overnight, including all 60 and 7 German equipment.

The 5mm caliber rapid-fire field gun and the German proud Krupp 77mm caliber rapid-fire field gun. The "Miss France gun" adopts a system of retreat and advance, which improves the stability and accuracy of shooting, and greatly improves the rate of fire. The rate of fire can reach 15 rounds per minute, and can fire howitzers of up to 7 kg specifications. It completely suppressed the same number of German divisions in the early stages of the war. If it weren't for the large number gap, I believe that the endings of several battles in the First World War would be completely rewritten.

The French invented the Miss France gun at the end of the 20th century, but it covered its real performance for more than ten years. Although according to some information decrypted by the French side in later generations, key technologies such as the system of the system of the system were gradually improved after several years of research. However, there is no doubt that the development of 3 kilogram shells has been publicized to fire, with a rate of 11 rounds per minute. The successful smoke with the world's top performance made the arrogant German side believe and relaxed its vigilance. Because of Germany's pride, the Krupp 77mm rapid-fire field gun can fire at a rate of 13 rounds per minute, and can fire a 5.71 kilogram shell, which is a complete victory over the Miss France gun!

Colonel Srifin didn't believe it at all, "Krupp is the pride of the empire and the best artillery manufacturer in the world. The 77mm rapid-fire field gun equipped by the Imperial Team only reached 13 rounds, and the French Schneider m1897a3 type 75mm field gun could not reach a rate of 15 rounds per minute!"

If we really want to achieve it, it will be a disaster for the German army, which always adheres to firepower first and believes in artillery, is the truth. Because of the belief in Krupp and German intelligence personnel, we have been equipped with too many "out-of-the-art" artillery!

"Col. I suggest you continue reading."

At first, Franz was not very clear about the performance of artillery, but when Li Han explained to him personally, he realized that because French artillery added 'hydraulic cylinders', strengthened the spring structure', and optimized mechanical timing fuses', all artillery in the world became outdated products. If France had not rejected the French Army's requirement to transform all artillery equipment in the entire army, I am afraid that in this world, France would have reached the top of the world's first army again in terms of artillery performance!

The reason why Germany was able to rank in the European continent and suppress France and Russia for many years was because it had defeated France, the world's largest army power, and for decades it had been committed to building the German army into the world's first army. If even the army failed, the empire's situation was really dangerous. Therefore, regardless of whether the information was true or false, the German side needed to make a ruthless attempt to verify it.

The information below introduces detailed new technology adopted by Miss France. Although the Bureau of Investigation has had a considerable force in Europe after more than a year of development, the intelligence personnel of the Bureau of Investigation only obtained general data and general introductions from an ordnance expert bribed by the French Army Ordnance Bureau. Although it is very specious, many of the German military officers are elites drawn from military intelligence agencies because they are not only knowledgeable about military information, but also served in the army for many years. Colonel Sriffin had dealt with artillery. After careful consideration, his concern gradually became stronger and he had to stand up and say, "This information is best fake, otherwise if it is true, it will have a great impact on the Imperial Army. You, please allow me to leave, and I must send this information to the country as soon as possible!"

He turned his head to look at Ripede, "Your Excellency, I don't want your help!"

There was constant filth between embassies of various countries, and there was no shortage of monitoring each other's codes. Colonel Sriffin should have used military codes to shoot such confidential documents, but he was worried about the speed issue and decided to use Ripede's hands. As a businessman, especially His Majesty's distant nephew, Dehua naturally had a dense line in the foreign company that could be directly photographed to the country.

"Col. Please wait for a moment! If possible, take away this information related to the military together!"
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