(Because the biggest ** in this book is here, I have been very motivated to write recently. I would like to encourage myself in a second chapter.)

Everyone knows that the magnificent war in 1917 has just begun.

At the beginning of the European War, politicians of the Allies and the Allies promised the people with the most gorgeous rhetoric that their war was just and noble. Unforgettable years, reason was left behind, and young people joined the army with a passion, great patriotism and a white conscription order, and sacrificed their lives on the battlefield. They firmly believed that after the battlefield, there would be permanent peace, prosperity and strength.

After the quick battle and bankruptcy, the cruel side of the war was completely exposed. The muddy trenches, flying shrapnel, running mice, moldy food, blood and brain plasma and broken limbs repeatedly destroyed the nerves of a generation. Idealism and patriotism were ruthlessly mocked by reality, and the generation deceived by politics, because the lost generation of war cried, grew, and withered in the flying fire.

Reflection, war-weariness, anti-humanity, socialism and the great emptiness of the mind is followed by the ups and downs of various thoughts. Europe is experiencing deep tremors, continuing its power in the dark, and the mist is enough to cleanse all the great power.

Just after April, everyone knows that the magnificent war in 1917 has just begun.

In the Middle East, although the Yavos battle patrol style led by General Sorochin still roams the Black Sea, it still cannot change the decisive defeat of the Turkish army in the North Caucasus region.

The last and most elite army of the Ottoman Empire, the Fifth and Eighth Army, were destroyed in the mountains of the southern foothills of the Caucasus, and the Russian army occupied most of Armenia and Azerbaijan. A small British fleet penetrated into the Persian Gulf, and the Arab uprising broke out. The rear of this ancient empire was completely disrupted, causing the sick man from West Asia to fall rapidly into the abyss of general collapse.

In fact, Major General Liman Sanders, a German adviser who was transferred to commander-in-chief of the Palestinian Army, issued a warning to the Turkish Gaomen a long time ago, but Gaomen did not pay attention to Sanders' report. When the news of the Caucasus' defeat came, the three Turkish giants regretted it. Unfortunately, even if Major General Liman Sanders was asked to return, the Ottoman Empire was unable to make up for the situation.

In the war for national survival space, the Ottoman Empire fell behind first. They could only hope that the Allies could win the final victory. In April 1917, Istanbul was bleak, and Anatonian newspapers used a little sentimental lead type to express the despair of the Turks:

"Farewell, the last dream of a powerful country in the Ottoman Empire."

The battlefield in Southern Europe. Mendenegoro was defeated and surrendered. King Nicholas I committed suicide in the Issei people did not happen. Mendenegoro, who had a population of only 250,000, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy and Bulgaria occupied the entire territory of Serbia and Albania. After the Naval Battle of Ustica in 1916, it pushed the front line to northern Greece. One hundred thousand British and French coalition forces, one hundred sixty thousand Serbian remnants, three hundred and four thousand Greek army and less than ten thousand Albanian guerrillas could only rely on Greece, the last bridgehead, to fight bloody battles.

The situation on the Balkans completely turned to the allies, and the Allies could no longer distribute their troops to support allies on the "isolated island". At this time, diplomatic methods were particularly important. In order to win over Romania to participate in the war, the British and French politicians who had broken hearts promised half of Bulgarian territory and Transylvania of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and threw out a blank check of 100 million US dollars of aid. The Romanians were finally moved. At the moment when they were only one step away from victory, Romania mobilized 23 divisions of 500,000 troops to join the war.

Romania's participation in the war was disastrous for the Allies. It not only declared that the Allies' efforts to obtain stable oil supply failed, but also caused the war to burn to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

At this moment, the main force of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was restrained on the battlefield on the Eastern Front. The Russian army was chased and killed in the north, and only 200,000 troops were fighting in the Balkans. There were even five reserve divisions with low combat effectiveness on the border between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Romania. The main force of the Italian army was restrained in North Africa and Genoa, with only 100,000 people deployed in the Balkans, and the combat effectiveness was negligible. The enduring joke about Italy's participation in the war was confirmed that Germany was very likely to be forced to divide the troops of Italy to protect this ally of strong and strong outside the outside world. In the Balkans, the Bulgarian Army was actually taking the lead. After the national mobilization of Romania, the troops were quickly divided into two groups, supporting the Allied forces fighting in northern Greece, and breaking through the border line and sneaking into the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The fact that Romania participated in the war and the attacks on the empire shocked Habsburg, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The health of the old emperor Joseph quickly deteriorated due to the failure of the war. On the evening of April 11, the old emperor reminded his servants to wake up in the early morning of the next day as usual, but this time, the emperor failed to wake up.

The old emperor's nephew, Grand Duke Karl, was a guy who was worse than the Romanov Tsar Nicholas II and the German Emperor William of the Hohenzollern Dynasty. He was not as good as his literary talent, but not as good as his martial arts. The situation in the Austro-Hungarian Empire was deteriorating, and Hungarian politicians even spoke out loud:

"In fact, with the death of the old emperor, the Habsburg dynasty has also declared death."

The situation of the Southern Europe war was changing, and on the Eastern Front, the Romanov dynasty also had a crisis.

"In the chaotic battlefield, the gray animals wore dirty faded military uniforms and dragged heavy steps along the road and railway lines step by step. The unshaven faces under the gray cloth hats and a small number of steel helmets were haggard. Due to the two months of fighting, hunger, terror and death threats, the gray animals were extremely thin. They were unable to eat, were sick and had no ammunition, and behind them were the defeated troops and the Germans who were constantly pursuing. The guns and cannons never stopped. The gray animals could only go north or east silently until they could no longer take steps, and were shot on the spot by the supervising team or surrendered to the Germans.

On the way to retreat, resentment was accumulated again and again. The moment he stepped into Belarus, the news that the police fired at the people marching in St. Petersburg came, and the soldiers' anger and dissatisfaction reached their peak."

This is the diary of an old Bolshevik. After swallowing the 700,000 Russian troops in Poland's pocket, the Germans began to counterattack on the whole line. The Russian troops could only retreat and then retreat until the crisis on the Western Front and logistical difficulties made them stop.

The Russian army, which lost 1.3 million troops, barely stabilized the front line between northern Riga, Lithuania and Minsk, Belarus. This time, they lost almost half of Poland's territory.

After the Battle of Poland, the cruel Tsar Nicholas II, who had experienced the war personally, lost the courage to continue to command the front line. He planned to let his younger brother, Grand Duke Mikhail, command the front line army on his behalf, and he took a train to return to the safe St. Petersburg. However, St. Petersburg after the Battle of Poland may not be safe.

Two years since the war began, the large number of conscriptions by the Tsarist government caused the lack of sufficient labor in the countryside and caused a food shortage. Landlords and illegal grain traders hoarded again, which eventually led to a terrible famine. The fiscal deficit caused by huge military expenditure caused the economy to collapse, industrial bankruptcy, and unemployment surge. The death of Rasputin proved that the aristocratic class loyal to the Tsar was also unbearable to the current situation in Russia, and some radical conservative parties even advocated that terrorist measures should be used to eliminate the queen, forcing the Tsar to withdraw from the war and reform.

**, exploitation and military failures are tormenting this twilight empire at all times. Internal contradictions are rapidly intensifying. During the 1848 Revolution, the double-headed eagle, which claimed to be the European road roller, was on the verge of collapse at any time.

On April 21, as soon as the Tsar's special train left the front line, a strike and a food riot broke out in St. Petersburg. The Tsar's special train was blocked in an unknown platform on the railway line and could not move. Faced with the citizens and workers of St. Petersburg who demanded bread, peace and democracy, the Tsar's government dispatched a large number of military and police to disperse the marchers with bullets and butt stocks. Learning that the National Duma MPs also appeared in the march, Tsar Nicholas II ordered the dissolution of the State Duma, which led to the alliance of the bourgeois parties within the State Duma, the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks, triggering larger marches and riots.

The military and police in St. Petersburg were unable to stop the spread of riots. The troops sent to St. Petersburg to suppress the riots sympathized with St. Petersburg workers and citizens. They refused to obey any orders of the Tsar. Many soldiers took off their military uniforms and picked up rifles to join the march. The situation was no longer controlled. When the news of the military and police shooting at the marchers reached the front line. The morale of the Russian army fell to the bottom and small mutinies occurred in many positions. The Tsar finally realized that its throne was in danger.

"Comrades, this is the victory of the workers and the victory of the Bolsheviks!"

In mid-April, news of the Russian army's disastrous defeat came. The Party Central Committee headed by Lenin secretly returned to St. Petersburg to lead the strike movement. On April 25, the Tsar secret police arrested dozens of leaders of the Bolshevik Petrograd Committee and more than 100 other revolutionary activists. The people of St. Petersburg were furious. Lenin believed that the time for the revolution was ripe. In an abandoned old factory workshop in Vyborg District, the Russian Bureau of the Central Bolshevik Party and the Petrograd Committee held a meeting and decided to launch the general strike on April 26 and change it to an armed uprising.

On April 26, the workers and many soldiers who sympathized with the workers took action. They captured the arsenal, seized guns and ammunition, built barricades on the streets, and fought with reactionary military and police. After a night of melee, tens of thousands of garrisons of Santa Petersburg, Baltic Fleet sailors and nearby troops also joined the uprising team. The revolutionary forces captured the Winter Palace and government departments in one fell swoop, arrested the Tsar's ministers and generals, and established the world's workers' regime in St. Petersburg, which is the legendary Soviet of the Soviet Union for workers, peasants and soldiers.

Tsar Nicholas II ordered the army to suppress it, but no one obeyed his orders. So Nicholas II, who was overwhelmed, had to announce his abdication and give way to his younger brother Grand Duke Mikhail. Grand Duke Mikhail did not dare to accept this hot potato, so the Romanov dynasty that ruled Russia for more than 300 years disappeared into the long river of history.

History is always so ruthless because it is written by the victors. In St. Petersburg, the rebels were carefully clearing the traces of battle: the bodies of military and police and soldiers who were loyal to the Tsar were dragged away, old soldiers and politicians were shot on the spot, blood and dust on the road were swept away, and the flag of the two-headed eagle that was domineering was removed. In the warm April, the imprint of an era was so easily and deliberately disappeared, democracy was established, peace was coming, and all bad things were gone with the wind with the abdication of Nicholas II, but the facts... only God knows.

On the last day of April, the great revolutionary mentor Lenin came down to the gate of the Eastern Palace by the Bolsheviks, giving his supporters one of the strongest voices of the century:

"The overthrow of the old dynasty does not mean the end of the revolution. The great Bolsheviks, now it is not time to stop. We, who are responsible to the Russian people, must expand and defend our cause. Therefore, we must establish a Soviet regime in every piece of land in Russia, and we must export revolution to the whole world!"

When Lenin said this, his deep eyes had already skipped the German-Austrian coalition forces that were deeply involved in the Russian border and focused on the turbulent German land. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!