Bulgarian Empire

Under the butterfly effect of Ferdinand, 1914 passed without any risk, and history took a turning point here. The world war that originally broke out in 1914 was postponed!

Due to the rise of Bulgaria and the division of Serbia with Austria-Hungary, the powder keg of the Balkans seemed to be wet with water, and it was misfired!

Serbia has been annexed by Austria-Hungary for more than ten years, and the internal rebels and nationalism have been almost suppressed. The people's will to resist is always fragile under the butcher's knife!

Of course, even if the "Sarajevo incident" explodes now, it is useless. It is all an internal problem of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

All countries are making final preparations before the war. The most prominent manifestation is the rapid increase of battleships like dumplings. In 1914, all major European powers had battleships in service. What Ferdinand did not expect was that even Mao, who had been playing soy sauce, Xiong actually served four dreadnoughts. \u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

With the help of Britain and France, at the end of 1914, Russia successively completed the four dreadnoughts Gangut, Petropavlovsk, Poltava, and Sevastopol, which were then incorporated into the Baltic Sea. Fleet service.

Well, the Russian dreadnought project began to be designed and constructed in 1908. It was not completed until the end of 1914, and it was not put into service until the beginning of 1915. This shipbuilding speed is probably only comparable to the eight-year shipbuilding record set by the Italians. !

Of course, the long-term sequelae are also very serious. The longer the time, the greater the influence of the outside world. According to Ferdinand, the Russian battleships have been revised seven or eight times, and finally they learned from the Italians.

I really don't know what the Russians think, they are more like battlecruisers than battleships, and they are more like battleships than battlecruisers.

Simply put, the Russians wanted both the firepower of a battleship and the speed of a cruiser, and finally came up with a thin-skinned battleship. \u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

Of course, the weakness is very fatal. Its speed is not as good as that of a battle cruiser, and its combat power is not as good as that of a dreadnought.

Specification

Displacement: 2336o tons

Length: 181.2m

Width: 26.6 meters

Draft: 8.4m

Main engine: 2 sets of Parsons direct-drive steam turbines/4 shafts

Main boilers: 25 Yarrow-style oil-fired water tube boilers

Power: 42oooo horsepower

Navigation: 23 knots

Endurance: 3500 nautical miles at 10 knots

Armament: 4 triple-mounted 305mm 52-caliber guns (one at the front, one at the rear, and two amidships), 16 single-mounted 120mm 50-caliber guns, four 47mm single-mounted guns, and 450mm underwater torpedo tubes 4\u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

Armor: side 225 mm, deck 50 mm, gun mount 150 mm, turret front 203 mm, conning tower 254 mm

Crew: 1126

After seeing the Russian battleships, Ferdinand finally found his confidence. Obviously, this was misled by the Italians. The Tsarist government dared to send four ships at once, and their courage had to be admired.

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Foreign Minister Megev rushed over and brought Ferdinand news that was both unexpected and reasonable.

"Your Majesty, there was an armed conflict on the German-French border just now.

The French declared: Two German patrol soldiers crossed the border and violated the sovereignty of France, and were detained by the French, and then the barbaric German army rudely launched a sneak attack on the French!

The Germans declared that the French had detained two German soldiers for no reason, and the German army used force to rescue the hostages after negotiations between the two parties failed! "\u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

Ferdinand sighed slightly,

What should come will still come, as for the reason, this is not important! Anyway, the Allied Powers believed what the French said, and the Allied Powers believed what the Germans said, and the onlookers expressed their confusion!

After contemplating for a while, Ferdinand said solemnly: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that Bulgaria will support the just actions of the French to safeguard national sovereignty!"

Ferdinand knew that Bulgaria's statement now undoubtedly brought the war one step closer, but now Bulgaria can no longer drag on, and the preparations that should be made are almost done.

If it continues to drag on, Bulgaria will not be far away from the economic crisis, and war is undoubtedly the best weapon to consume excess production capacity!

At the same time as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement, Bulgaria was also mobilizing for war. All the officers and soldiers who were still on vacation were notified and returned to the troops immediately. \u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

The officers and soldiers who have recovered are also required to be on standby at any time, and the reserves from all over the country have also regrouped in the name of military exercises. It can be said that Bulgaria is the first to mobilize for war among the countries in the European continent!

But now the dominance of the war is not in the hands of Ferdinand. France and Germany are the center of this conflict. The two countries are still arguing. If the governments of Paris and Berlin refuse to make concessions, the war will be inevitable. .

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Obviously, the French government has no way out this time. Nationalism is a double-edged sword. Now the French government has been kidnapped by nationalism.

In the Allied Powers, the British and Bulgaria had the same position, and they all hoped that war would break out immediately. Russia also showed its support for France this time. These factors gave the French the confidence to start a war!

The British were horrified by the German production capabilities, and if the arms race continued, the German navy would soon overtake the Royal Navy, which was unacceptable to the British government. \u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

Of course, given John Bull's pedantic nature, they will not directly express their stance. After all, the pro-German faction in the London government is still strong, and most of the Liberals and the working class are anti-war factions.

So they made the same choice as in history. John Bull cheered the French while calling on the two sides to calmly mediate the conflict.

The Russians have already been counseled once during the Moroccan crisis. If they continue to pretend to be counseled, they will really be counseled! Therefore, the attitude of the tsarist government was very firm this time, and it publicly stated that it would support any action taken by the French to safeguard national sovereignty.

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"Your Majesty, just now there was a massive demonstration in London calling for peace, and the British government has publicly announced that it will do everything possible to prevent a war on the European continent!" Foreign Minister Megeve said worriedly

There is no way that Britain has played too much, and even its own people have been deceived. Now there are less than ten people in the world who know that the Allied Powers are about to start a war. Megeve naturally doesn't know, otherwise he wouldn't be so worried. \u00261t;i\u003e\u00261t;/i\u003e

After all, without the joining of the British, the Allied Powers would not be able to guarantee their sea dominance. Now that the German navy is the second largest in the world, and the main force of the French navy remains in the Mediterranean, we cannot expect the bear navy to kill the Germans, right?

"Don't worry, it is impossible for the UK to tolerate the Germans dominating Europe, our plan remains the same!" Ferdinand said lightly

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There is no doubt that under Niu Niu Gao's diplomatic means, even his own people have been deceived, let alone the Germans!

William II also naively thought that the British would still sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight this time, and would not directly join the war, so the Germans accelerated the pace of the war!

In addition to the stance of the British, there is another more important factor. If the time is delayed until 1917, when the military expansion of France and Russia is about to be completed, then the balance of strength between the two sides will change.

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Since the outbreak of the German-French conflict on February 23, all countries have mobilized for war in a tacit understanding, but the Germans responded a little faster. Within a week, the Germans mobilized 800,000 army troops, and the standing army was as high as more than 1.6 million. The Germans believed that the time for war had come!

On March 2, the German Foreign Ministry issued an ultimatum to the French government, requiring the French to hand over the perpetrators within 24 hours, and apologize to Germany, and pay two billion marks in compensation!

Don't think about it, the French will definitely not accept it, otherwise the people of Paris will start this meaningful activity of overthrowing the cabinet again!

At this time, the war has entered the countdown, and the whole world knows that maybe today or tomorrow, the European war will break out.

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