In the third year of the war, the atmosphere in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, was still very tense.

In fact, the British ruled the Ireland Islands back to the 12th century, but Whitehall's consistent arrogance, the arrogance of the English, the dispute between Catholicism and Protestantism, the Great Irish famine from 1845 to 1849 and the endless Irish labor discrimination caused the Ireland, which was mainly composed of Celtics, to be disunited against the pretentious British Empire and to continue national uprisings.

Around the 1890s, the Irish National Liberation Movement fell into a trough due to the bloody suppression of Arthur Belfer, the current British Navy Secretary. However, as time progressed, domestic contradictions in Britain with slow economic growth became increasingly prominent, and the Irish national liberation movement showed a trend of rising.

In 1912, the Irish ** movement entered a new **. Politicians far away in London manipulated Protestants in Ireland to break with Catholics, inciting Protestants in northern Ireland to resist the Irish Autonomy Act proposed to please Irish MPs. Asquis, then Prime Minister, decided to send troops to suppress the rebels entrenched in northern Ireland, but the army refused to accept the order. The angry Irish people then formed a volunteer army to unilaterally resolve the rebellion issue, which eventually led to the famous "constitutional crisis."

In 1914, the crisis came to an end due to the king's mediation and the outbreak of the European war. However, history has repeatedly proved that once religious and ethnic conflicts are opened, it will be an ending forever. In Ireland, religious and national forces and various parties are entangled, resulting in the serious deterioration of Ireland's public security. The deteriorating public security has further aggravated the Irish dissatisfaction with the British government.

Today, Dublin's economy is in a slump, and the streets are full of hungry beggars. Small riots and robberies occur frequently. Even if the city government sends a large number of military and police, Dublin residents still don't like to go out.

The East District military policeman Gladstone patrols the chaotic streets of Dublin. Before the dark forces ruled the city, Gladstone could still lean against the window of a gold shop, holding a cigarette in large numbers.

When bored, a slow street iron truck caught Gladstone's attention. In Ireland, where the economy is lagging behind, there are few new things like automobiles.

Of course, the military policeman Gladstone only showed some attention to the iron truck. The reason why he did not come forward to interrogate was simply that the truck had a customs pass on the front window.

The truck was parked in front of a trading company under the attention of the British police. Employees of the trading company came up and moved the wooden boxes loaded by the truck to the warehouse.

"The German submarine officer said this was the last batch of aid ordnance. It included one hundred and fifty rifles, a heavy machine gun, three cardinal rifle bullets and four cardinal machine gun bullets."

The truck driver calmly turned to a place where policeman Gladstone could not see it and took out a cigarette from his pocket. An employee who seemed to be the head of a trading company took the cigarette handed over by the truck driver and went to listen to the information of the truck driver.

"Whitehall announced the delay in the implementation of the Irish Autonomy Act. The ** Army Command believes that the time for the uprising is ripe. In short, we will leave you fifty rifles, and you must take down the General Post Office opposite. Remember, the uprising time is nine o'clock in the evening, and all the uprising soldiers must tie a black cloth strip on their right arm!"

The truck driver just spoke. The accident happened. A clerk was not careful and tripped by the stone under his feet. His body tilted. The wooden box that was resisting his shoulder immediately slid down and hit the ground hard.

The roar from the corner trading company caught the attention of the military policeman Gladstone. He turned his head casually and was surprised to find a loose wooden box in the aisle near the truck, and several buttered rifles and some orange bullets rolled out.

"God!" Gladstone quickly retreated, hid his body into a hidden place on the street, and while taking off his rifle, he subconsciously put the whistle into his mouth.

With a bang, a faint smell of blood came from the air. Gladstone only felt something penetrate into his chest. The world in front of him became dark, and then there was a burning and scorching pain.

After the last bit of strength was blowing the whistle, Irish military policeman Gladstone fell down as the first victim of the Irish uprising that shocked the world.

(--Gorgeous dividing line--)

On September 16, 1916, when the German heavy army group on the Western Front, which was constantly weakened due to the need for defensive war on the Eastern Front occupied the ruins of Paris at an extremely tragic price. The tired soldiers who lost their offensive spirit drilled into the dark and dirty sewers like wanderers, repeatedly swept the tortoise into Paris' complex sewer system. The remnants of the Allies who resisted the remnants of the Allied Army, located in the remote Greek Kingdom, finally could not stand the loneliness, and perfectly explained to the world that weak countries had no diplomacy.

On this day, Falkenhe, the chief of staff of the German Army, who insisted on using troops to the Western Front, stepped down because of the "decent" resignation of the Paris meat grinder. Although the military chief Ludendolf was responsible, the "total war" he proposed to cause explosive growth in German industrial production, so Ludendolf barely retained his position as military chief.

On this day, Marshal Hindenburg took over the vacant position of Chief of Staff and Chief of the Army. The Marshal fought the Riga Battle with only two armies on the Eastern Front, with a brilliant victory. Of course, no one would be serious about the actual role of the Marshal Hindenburg Battle during the Battle of Marshal Hindenburg. As the only trusted subordinate whom Rudendolf could rely on after his transfer, he was promoted to commander of the Eastern Front in this personnel change on September 16.

The personnel change at the German Army headquarters declared that the Western Front Battle had entered the final stage, and Hindenburg's work was just to clean up the mess. Taking stock of the long battle of Paris, Germany's achievements were amazing: the Allies lost more than 800,000 troops in one go, almost four-fifths of their heavy equipment, and the French even lost Paris and the most important industrial base.

But even so, the purpose of the battle was not completed. France did not surrender, and the proportion of war losses did not reach one to two levels. The industrial area of ​​the Paris Basin in France obtained was just a ruin, and the reconstruction of the factory would probably be less than worth the cost. The more than one million remaining soldiers entrenched in southern France allowed the French to retain a trace of vitality and possibility. France is still a bridgehead for the European anti-allies.

The disaster of the empire was far more than that. This protracted fierce battle greatly consumed the empire's resource reserves and weakened the imperial war potential. As the large fleet re-entered the strong period, the maritime transportation line that had been restored for less than a year was paralyzed again, and the problem of resource shortage became increasingly serious.

The oil crisis has also begun to emerge. Army land cruisers need fuel, and the Navy uses new main battleships, cruisers, and destroyers using fully oil-fired boilers also need fuel. However, the oil fields lacking in the entire Allied Powers. Although the Empire established an oil reserve system before the war, there was little oil reserve left after two consecutive years of high-intensity combat.

What is even more terrifying than the oil crisis is the food crisis. After Ludendolf implemented the "total war", the imperial industrial output showed explosive growth in a short period of time, but as more and more laborers were transferred into the army and factories, a large amount of land was abandoned. There was a huge gap in food, and it is still unknown whether the newly implemented rationing system can cope with the food shortage and the cold winter of 1916.

On the same day, in Athens, the Greek capital, the Greek king issued a crazy declaration of war on behalf of the Greek people. The target of the declaration of war was not the Allied Powers that everyone expected, but the Allied Powers that were about to be exhausted.

For a moment, public opinion around the world was in an uproar. Neutral and allies wanted to figure out what happened in the small tiny land of Greece, so that this country lost its due reason and went into mass madness. The Qing dynasties in the Far East, which had some similar situations, could deeply understand the helplessness of the Greeks and understand the madness of the Greeks. They had already stepped into the threshold of the Allies with one foot.

"This damn dog bite dog war!"

In Kiel, Germany, Blunt, wearing a capable dock worker costume, folded the newspapers that published the news of Greece declaring war on Germany on the front page and put them in his pocket. He was familiar with the road and entered the slums near the factory in the old town of Kiel, and walked to an inconspicuous low building.

The site Blunt, who was sent back by the organization to carry out inciting riots and uprisings and supported the Russian Revolution, chose to settle down after returning to China. This was not only the place Blunt is most familiar with. It was also the hardest hit by the third naval political storm in 1915. It was Blunt's natural base camp!

Before and after Heidi Silem stepped down, Schleswig Holstein, the fastest-growing workers' movement, suffered a fierce counterattack from the Junker conservative forces and the industrial and commercial class. The Social Democratic Party, Guilds and Workers' Organizations in Shihe Prefecture were severely suppressed, and the overall war implemented by Rudendolf seriously damaged the interests of workers. Therefore, in Shihe Prefecture, both workers and ordinary people were dissatisfied with the imperial government. If Germany was destined to be baptized by the workers' movement, then the first place that broke out must be Shihe Prefecture!

Blunt knocked on the door panel with the contact information agreed in advance, and the dilapidated door opened quickly. After greeting the guards guarding downstairs, Blunt quickly climbed the wet and hot loft.

The stench came over, and Blunt spent a little time to adapt to the dim light in the room and the ubiquitous smell of sweat. He then took out the newspaper in his pocket and threw it heavily on the table.

"Greece declared war on us? Is it not a member of the Allies before?" The owner of the room came over with a glass of water and asked in a low voice: "Blunt, how did the infiltration of the Kiel Sailors?"

"The morale of the Baltic Fleet is generally not high, and our people are developing smoothly there. Give me some time, and I can make the Baltic Fleet go from its initial neutral attitude to secretly support us during an uprising!" Blunt took the water cup, raised his head and took a few sips and continued: "But there are only a few dome cruisers of more than 2,000 tons and some old torpedo ships. The Baltic Fleet with gunboats does not mean much to us. Even the Baltic Sea Blockade Fleet that is wandering in the Gulf of Finland can easily solve it..."

"Hey, it would be great if Sylem was from our side." The owner of the room sighed lightly, vaguely regretting his weakness back then.

(--Gorgeous dividing line--)

September 16, 1916, Berlin.

Although the Battle of Paris only achieved tactical victory and was defeated strategically, from the perspective of people's morale, the propaganda agency of the imperial government still exaggerated the fierce battle into a great victory for the Allies.

"Great victory, ho!"

The imperial prime minister Bateman Hallwei, who was alienated by Emperor William, stood in the luxurious suite of the Paris hotel, staring at the rich Baroque Berlin outside the balcony in a daze, saying neither salty nor lightly.

"Mr. Prime Minister, what do you think of the peace plan proposed by US President Wilson?" the aide stepped forward and asked.

"Peace plan?" Bateman Hallwei repeated it and murmured: "I am not greedy, I am just a great victory!" To be continued)

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Chapter completed!