Of course, despite the poor performance of the idiots, we still have to fight. The Isonzo River is not easy to fight, and the Alps are even harder to fight. It is the roof of Europe. Except for a few steep canyon passes, there is no way to fight.
There are no roads to pass through. In ancient times, if one person carried a spear and attacked, he could still get through. After all, the logistics requirements at that time were not so terrible. At most, it was difficult to transport food. Hunting and grabbing some food in the mountains was basically enough.
I can handle it.!
But in the era of hot weapons, everyone started to play with large machine guns. It was a joke to launch a large-scale attack in the Alps, so the idiots had no other choice but to withstand the firepower of the Austro-Hungarian army over and over again.
Repeating the process of dying, and repeating it for a long time, in fact, in the end they launched a total of ten large-scale offensive campaigns, and paid the price of more than one million casualties, and then...
Well, then they lost the battle, allowing the Austro-Hungarian army and the reinforcing German army to cross the Isonzo River and enter Italy. Of course, this was a long time later.
The large-scale offensive war immediately overwhelmed Italy's already poor industrial strength. You must know that such a battle consumes not only human lives, but also weapons and ammunition. An attack of hundreds of thousands of people, a day's worth of bullets.
It is possible to consume tens of millions of rounds. Even if the number of Italian artillery is smaller, it is normal to have dozens or even millions of rounds. Especially when Italians who have not fought in a war for almost ten years are working hard on the battlefield.
They fired at the risk of death, and the ammunition was consumed extremely quickly. It didn't take long for their reserves to be unsustainable, and the production capacity of the arsenal could not keep up with the consumption rate.
The idiots had no choice but to keep urging Britain and France to send them arms, especially large-caliber heavy artillery, dun gas bombs, and even tanks, which troubled Britain and France endlessly. Only then did they realize that this was not a helper.
This is purely a burden. The only use of the million-strong army is to hold back the two Austro-Hungarian armies. Moreover, Britain and France have to find ways to assist the Italians, otherwise it will be troublesome for the Austro-Hungarian army to invade Italy.
Because once Italy is unable to stop the Austro-Hungarian and even German troops from entering the Apennine Peninsula, the French government will have to watch its back. It is only a few hundred kilometers from the battlefield of the Isonzo River to Marseille, and the entire northern Italy has developed transportation.
In the plains, all we need to do is push the Italian army to the south. The German and Austrian troops can go straight to Marseille. This is not as good as before when Italy did not participate in the war. At least there is no need to worry about this problem at that time.
In order to support Italy, Britain and France had to divert their already tight military supplies. Heavy artillery, tanks, aircraft, and tens of thousands of tons of ammunition were all shipped to Naples, Genoa, and Livorno.
These ports are then continuously sent to the Isonzo River battlefield by train, leaving it to the idiots to squander it pointlessly.
However, the idiots were still somewhat useful after all, at least Nikolai was very satisfied with it. For the Battle of the Isonzo River, the Austro-Hungarian Army had to transfer the finally formed Ninth Army, which was originally going to join
On the Eastern Front, after all, the Italians have an army of one million. Even the most bizarre points cannot be blocked by one army, and a large part of the Austro-Hungarian Sixth Army must be used to defend the mountain passes in the Alps and be used in Ison.
There were only two armies on the battlefield of Zuohe.
This also made Britain and France finally breathe a sigh of relief, but unfortunately bad news hit them again immediately. The Germans began a new large-scale attack, and the target was Verdun.
At this time, Verdun had become the forefront of the Western Front battlefield. This ancient fortress on the Meuse River and the protrusion it formed were firmly blocked between the German Center Army Group and the Left Army Group.
It smashed into the middle of the entire German-controlled area like a wedge, making three entire armies unable to move. Eliminating this thorn in the side was already the most important task of the German army on the Western Front.
Once Verdun is captured, the German 5th, 6th, and 7th armies can all withdraw to connect the front line with the Marne River at the forefront. And at that time, the German army can at least withdraw one army group to join other battlefields, especially at the moment.
The important Eastern Front. Although the newly formed 12th and 13th armies have been added, the German army on the Eastern Front is still weak. The goal of William and Schlieffen is to go all out to force Nicholas to admit defeat and then free up their hands to deal with it.
Britain and France on the Western Front, but as the front advances to Ukraine and Belarus, just four German armies are definitely not enough. You must know that they are facing a full four million Russian troops. The Russian army still has an absolute advantage in strength.
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In this case, Verdun must be solved first.
Verdun.
"Shell!" Following a series of screams, countless French soldiers suffering in the muddy trenches were so panicked that they looked for hiding places. Then, there was a piercing whistling sound above their heads, and a huge explosion exploded like this.
Shelling is very common. For more than a year, neither side has been able to do anything against the other. Shelling, attacking, retreating and reorganizing, shelling again, and attacking again. This procedure has been repeated countless times. The result of each repetition is that countless soldiers have become
of rotten soil.
The French soldiers huddled in the trenches were holding their helmets on their heads. Amidst the intensive explosions, they were waiting for their fate with the earth and broken limbs falling from their heads. Occasionally, shells hit the trenches.
, the pushed away soil instantly buried a bunch of unlucky people like a landslide.
Especially the most important Fortress of Verdun, which has withstood countless artillery fires, is undergoing a new round of tests at this time. The shells of the 420 giant siege gun are like meteors, with a heart-stopping sound.
Howls continued to fall one after another, and horrific explosions continued one after another. The entire fortress seemed to be buried in the flames of the explosion, and the land around the fortress looked like the surface of the moon, filled with countless huge craters.
However, the French have built this fortress as if it were made of steel. In fact, this fortress is mostly made of steel. Even the one-ton shell of the 420 cannon cannot break through its solid shell.
But today, the Germans were obviously not prepared to use artillery shells to smash them open. Just as the Verdun front line was being bombarded, combat alarms sounded at the nearby French airports at the same time. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for more novel updates.