It is said that Kai and his team also played a big role in Italy's rebound. In order to consolidate its position, the Holy See directly announced that the demons in Serbia had been defeated by them. Well, the Holy See directly took credit for Kai and his team's achievements.
Of course, this also came at a price, that is, Rome promised that Britain must persuade the Italian government to change its flag and join the Allies. The Holy See readily agreed to this. They had long been unhappy with the Germans' bunch of human beings. A bunch of damned Protestants actually got together with vampires. They were indeed heretics!
Then the Holy See joined the lobbying of the Italian government, which completely changed Italy's already wavering position.
Italy had just declared war on Germany and Austria, and before all European countries had time to adjust their strategies, an even more shocking news came from the other side of the ocean, which once again stunned Europeans.
Two days after Italy changed its flag, on April 6, 1917, the United States announced that it would join the Allied Powers and declare war on Germany and Austria!
In fact, the United States has never been very interested in World War I. They are so far away. Although the United States has made great progress in national strength because of the Europeans going crazy, and the army has continued to expand, it has left the army and their weapons and equipment in Europe. , that would be a bit unworthy. The United States has no territorial demands on Europe. Therefore, the United States will not provide much help in terms of military strength.
What really matters is the material support the United States provides to the Allied Powers. All the countries participating in the war had large debts to the United States. But in comparison, the United States has invested more in Britain and France. Britain and France have a large number of high-quality assets overseas, and the United States is very interested in those things, so the United States is more inclined to help Britain. Germany is far behind in this regard. They do not have many colonies and assets overseas, otherwise they would not launch a war.
There is still more to do with interests between countries, so there is nothing wrong with the U.S. choice.
Originally, these countries participating in the war had almost run out of fuel. Now that the Allies had the support of the United States, Germany immediately fell into crisis.
There is no way, Germany's vision in choosing allies is really bad. A laggard and a rebel. There is no way to tell.
The only good news for Germany now is that at least they don't need to worry about the Eastern Front. The Russians have too much to take care of themselves. Due to a series of defeats, a large number of anti-war elements have appeared in Russia. Czar Nicholas II has lost all his authority and control over the country.
On March 5, 2017, the Tsar was forced to abdicate. On April 16, a bearded bald man returned to Petrograd with the help of the Germans, shouting the slogan "Peace, Land, Bread". Then the Eastern Front offensive came to a complete halt.
But even so, the situation of the Germans was still very bad.
For this reason, Kaiser Wilhelm II had to come up with something to convince his country and people that they could still win the war.
So Ludendorff and Baron von Grossmann both received orders from the Imperial General Staff, asking them to produce results.
Ludendorff did not give an immediate reply, but Baron von Grossmann was very excited and presented his own result-the super soldier.
A group of super soldiers who have no sense of pain, are powerful, agile, cruel and crazy, and fearless of death. He equipped them with the best weapons, each with an MG08/15 machine gun and steel plate body armor. Turn them into killing machines.
(The MG08/15 machine gun is not actually a light machine gun, but a pseudo-light machine gun. It is a simplified version of Germany’s existing Maxim 08 heavy machine gun, mainly to reduce the weight and transform it into a light machine gun. After improvement The machine gun is called MG08/15)
This batch of two hundred super soldiers was immediately put on the front line. The first performance of these soldiers in front of the Verdun Fortress was indeed amazing. In one night, they broke through six French positions and allowed the Germans to capture them. Taking advantage of this gap, we suddenly advanced 6 kilometers and came directly under the wall of the Verdun Fortress.
Six kilometers, this number was not shocking before the war, but now, the advancement of both sides of the war is calculated in meters! You can imagine how amazing these super soldiers are. But soon, the shortcomings of these warriors appeared.
They are indeed brave and fearless of death, but they are a bit too brave and fearless of death. Once the battle is intense, they can easily fall into a drug-like confusion. They will completely ignore the outside world and launch attacks frantically, sometimes against the French army, sometimes against their own people.
What's even more tragic is that once they fall into madness, they cannot recover. Even Germany's own people can only humanely destroy them. In just three days, all two hundred super soldiers were dead. Seventy of the soldiers were killed by their own people. And even more friendly troops died in their hands.
At this point, it was basically concluded that this technology had to be abandoned, because frontline commanders and soldiers were very afraid of this kind of thing, and they refused to go to the battlefield with such comrades. Being beaten to death by the enemy is considered sacrificing one's life for the country, but being killed by one's own people is nothing!
This made Thule Society very disappointed, but it was not despair. This is just a preliminary product, just find problems and improve them. But the problem is that war waits for no one, and the Army General Staff can't wait any longer.
So they abandoned Baron von Grossmann and instead sought help from their 'one', General Ludendorff.
This time Ludendorff did not refuse. He personally led his own unit, the Viper Commando, to Verdun.
But this time the protagonists are not the Viper Commandos, but a group of mysterious warriors wrapped tightly in combat uniforms, helmets, and gas masks. The Viper Commandos even set up a quarantine zone in the camps of these mysterious warriors, prohibiting anyone from contacting them.
On the night of April 29, 1917, without warning, the German army suddenly launched an assault. The French army was defeated that night. The Battle of Verdun that started in February 1916 was finally lost on the last day of April 1917. The Fortress of Verdun, which had stood for a full year and two months, completely changed hands!
By occupying Verdun, the German army would also open the way to Paris. Once Paris was occupied, France would not attack and destroy itself. With Russia almost withdrawing from the war, Germany's only enemy was the British.
But as a maritime country, how could the British army pose a threat to Germany?
The Germans saw the goddess of victory waving to them.
This was less wonderful for the Allies.
Italy even wanted to slap itself twice. What the hell, when they were in the Allied Powers, Germany was blocked from advancing at Verdun. As a result, just a few days after they jumped back, France was about to lose! What's worse is that once France is finished, no country on the European continent can be a rival to the Germans.
So our Italian classmates immediately ignored the agreement they had just made with the Allied Powers and sent an ambassador to Germany to discuss the possibility of the continuation of the Triple Alliance.
Naturally, Germany disagrees. In particular, Austria-Hungary is even more unlikely to agree. The Austro-Hungarian Empire, which has always been timid, even sent troops directly to the south, intending to settle the score with Italy for betraying the alliance.
This made the British so popular that while they threatened Italy not to do anything that would be detrimental to the country's dignity, they immediately urged the Americans to get their troops and supplies to Europe as soon as possible.
The Americans are also panicking at this time. Damn it, if they don’t work hard and continue to play soy sauce, all their investments in Europe will probably be lost. Because of the declaration of war on Germany, the debts of the Germans have become bad debts. If Britain and France are defeated, the United States will lose money and wet its pants.
So the United States immediately passed a new war budget bill and gave Britain new war loans. This loan did not reach the British account, but was directly converted into supplies by the US government and shipped to the UK.
In fact, before the war budget was passed, the U.S. government had bypassed Congress and sent supplies to the United Kingdom in advance.
Large amounts of weapons, ammunition, and medical supplies arrived at the European battlefield as quickly as possible. At the same time, an expeditionary force of 30,000 people led by Army General Pershing also boarded warships. The U.S. government guaranteed that at least 500,000 American soldiers would go to Europe to participate in the war. (In the last time and space, the United States sent a few thousand people at the beginning, and then only sent about 200,000 people.)
But these are all afterthoughts and are not of much help to the situation at hand.
France will not be able to hold on anymore, and there are already voices within the French government that want to surrender to Germany. The military also began to show fear of war, especially the French troops who retreated from the Verdun Fortress. They simply could not muster the courage to recall what happened that night.
In fact, this time, the French army's losses in Verdun were not large. The German army on the opposite side was not at all mentally prepared for the results achieved that night. When Ludendorff tore apart the defense of the Verdun Fortress, most of the German army was still in their own positions. As a result, the follow-up troops failed to keep up and surrounded the French army. After losing 5,000 people, the French army retreated to the follow-up positions and regained a foothold.
Paris is behind them, and they really can't retreat. But the problem is that the things encountered in Verdun are simply not something ordinary French soldiers can understand and deal with.
In order to ensure the morale of the French army, the British had to come up with their trump card-Diana's commando team.
The British attitude towards this commando team is actually quite contradictory. They have been using Diana for a long time, but they carefully concealed the news about her and made her a battlefield legend. This is a political consideration.
But now the British can't care anymore. If they continue, the Allies will be doomed.
At the same time, the British did not forget that there was another big killer.
Kai!
Although Kai is more fantasy than Diana, the British have an inexplicable sense of trust in him. Probably because he is in a sense an ancestor of the British.
Hmm... This statement is very strange. According to blood, Kai is a Celtic, and according to his heart, he is Chinese. He has nothing to do with those Anglo-Saxons, but the stubborn British always think that he is a Celtic. He is a British hero with a fascinating mind.
