Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Corresponding to the Three Kingdoms, the John Empire, Millenia and the Rhineland Republic also formed the Triple Entente Alliance.

Don’t think that the Three Kingdoms Alliance has already included most of the countries in Central and Northern Europe, and that the Three Kingdoms Alliance will definitely win.

The actual situation is indeed that the strength of the Three Kingdoms Entente is not weak.

Let’s not talk about the John Empire and Milicia, the two world’s largest naval tonnage, ranking first and third.

Even Rhineland is not weak.

Although the total population of the Rhineland Republic was only more than two million, and they had no army at the beginning, they relied on the Gallic Empire and the Hans Empire for national defense.

But as relations between them and the two countries deteriorated sharply, the Rhineland Republic did not sit back and wait for death.

They also tore up the non-militarization treaty and formed their own national defense force.

At the same time, the Rhineland is well aware that its territory is small and has little strategic depth.

Therefore, the Rhinelanders spent a lot of money to build the Thionville Fortress. (Note: Thionville Fortress is the Masino Fortress. However, in the original history, the Maginot Line was proposed by A.-L.-R. Maginot, the then Minister of War of the Gallic Empire, so it was called the Maginot Line. Chino Line)

(But in this current time and space, the Gallic Empire was taken away from this area after World War I, so it was not possible to propose the establishment of a defensive line.)

As for the strength of Fortress Thionville, we can see how strong it is from the fact that Ludendorff wanted to use 30 divisions, two divisions of air force and more than ten train guns.

This does not include the fact that the Gallic Empire will also send a force of the same size to attack the Thionville Fortress.

Based on the calculation of an infantry division of 1.8 people, the Gallic and Hans empires are already preparing to use more than 100 million troops to flank the Thionville Fortress.

According to statistics at the end of 1929, the Rhineland Republic had only 20 troops.

But there is a saying that is right, that is, money can make all the difference.

The Rhineland Republic is very rich, so when they established the Thionville Fortress, they had already built a large number of civilian and military facilities.

In fact, strictly speaking, Fortress Thionville can no longer be called a fortress.

Because the original intention of establishing this fortress was to house the people of the entire Rhineland Republic.

In other words, from the beginning, the Rhineland Republic did not intend to hold on to the entire territory of the Rhineland Republic.

They only wanted to hold the fortress of Thionville.

Therefore, in addition to a variety of military facilities, such as forts, firing ports, and fortresses, this fortress also has civilian equipment such as arsenals, power plants, water purification plants, hospitals, and more.

It can be said that Thionville has been built into a solid underground city by the YT people.

As for this underground city, except for the fort which is exposed, more than 90% of the rest are under thick rocks.

This underground city has high hopes from the consortium and regards it as a city that will never fall.

According to the assessment of military experts from the John Empire and Millennium, the living materials in Thionville are enough for all the people of the Rhineland Republic to live for about three years.

At the same time, if you want to attack the Thionville Fortress head-on, you will need to pay at least one million casualties.

Therefore, in John's Empire and Millician's plans, they wanted to use Thionville as a nail in the Allies.

Only when Thionville plays its role and consumes a large amount of the effective forces of the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire can it create favorable conditions for them to land on the European continent.

Therefore, John Empire and Milician also spent a lot of money when building this underground city.

In addition to the Rhineland, the Entente included the colonies of the John Empire and members of the Commonwealth of Nations.

For example, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Tianzhu and other countries.

Of course, in the Americas where Millikin is located, there are also countries participating in the war.

As mentioned before, during World War I, Bactria and Milicia competed for the leadership of South America.

But it’s only limited to South America, and it’s not a complete look at America. Only countries like Chile, Argentina, and Colombia.

However, countries such as Brazil and Bolivia, as well as Central American countries such as Mexico and Costa Rica, are still under the control of the United States.

Therefore, the struggle between Daxia and the Millicans at that time only weakened the Millician control over the American continent, but did not expel the Millician forces from South America.

Another point is that Argentina broke away from the Great Xia camp under the infiltration of Millijan and returned to the control of Millijan.

Therefore, the power that the Allied Powers can use is actually not much worse than that of the Central Powers.

And because the John Empire and Millenia have powerful navies, even in the case of war, the flow of goods, troop transportation, etc. can still be carried out within the Allied Powers.

This is much better than the Allies.

Of course, this does not mean that all European countries must choose sides.

There are also countries that want to remain neutral, such as the previously mentioned Kingdom of Denmark, the Three Low Countries, the Kingdom of Iberia, and Switzerland.

But unfortunately, except for the Kingdom of Iberia and Switzerland, these countries that want to remain neutral are all on the attack lists of both sides.

For example, the Kingdom of Denmark and the Three Low Countries mentioned earlier. These two areas have been listed as the targets of the first round of strikes by the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire.

The Allies also made a plan. They knew that it was impossible for them to force a landing under the defense of Gaul and the Hans Empire.

Therefore, they set their sights on the Iliban Kingdom and the Balkan Peninsula.

That's right, it was the Balkan Peninsula that was the trigger of World War I.

Let’s not talk about the Iliban Kingdom for now. Since the beginning of the civil war in the Iliban Kingdom, the game between the two sides has never stopped.

But the clever Franco went back and forth between the two sides.

With the support of the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire, since Franco threatened the John Empire, if they took action against the Iliban Kingdom, they would open the national borders and let the Allied troops enter the Iliban Kingdom.

Under the threat of Franco, and considering that the Allies are really allowed to enter the Kingdom of Iberia, the Port of Gibraltar will inevitably be captured by the Allies.

By then, John's empire would lose the right to enter the Mediterranean, and this important shipping route to North Africa would be completely cut off by the Allies.

And the more serious situation is that it is only a matter of time before the John Empire loses control of North Africa, which means losing control of the Suez Canal.

This series of chain reactions made John's empire afraid of using force against the Iliban Kingdom.

Therefore, they set their sights on the Balkan Peninsula, which has an extremely important geographical location, but has no more serious negative consequences than capturing the Iliban Kingdom.