Chapter 149: The First War Is in Progress (Dian Niang Is Dead in the Background) Please Collect and Recommend
Time is the most terrifying thing in the world. It can make everything deteriorate, decay and perish. It can also make everything from nothing to prosperity. It can also turn the sea into mulberry fields and the mountains into valleys. Nothing can remain unchanged in front of it.
Nothing can stop time from surging forward. The world will not stop because of the departure of one person.
The disappearance of Kai did not stop everything. The world continues, and people and things continue.
It's just that with the passage of time, everything that has happened has become a legend, and the legend seems extremely pale and powerless in the face of time. The legend will change dramatically according to the different times.
For example, Arthur became King Arthur, and then became a legendary story famous throughout the world, but the background of the times has changed. The original Celtic legend became a typical Christian story after Christianity was introduced to Great Britain.
The relationship between the characters has changed greatly. For example, Arthur's uncle Tristan became a member of the Knights of the Round Table in the subsequent legend. For example, in the legend of King Arthur, Arthur became a wild child. He was taken away by Merlin at birth and given to Kay's father, Sir Ector, for adoption. Then there was the sword in the stone, and the one who pulled out the sword became the king.
Of course, there are some things that have never changed, such as King Arthur, who is still a great man, but ended tragically, being cheated on by his own knight and stabbed to death by his own son. →
Another example is Kay, King Arthur's sworn brother, who still has a high status in the legend. It was he who helped King Arthur stabilize the situation and sit on the throne. It was also he who killed the dragon and saved King Arthur. In the end, it was his heroic death that allowed King Arthur to win the war and unify England. (This is something I made up. I can't let Kay be too much of a soy sauce in the legend)
In short, although time has preserved some things, it still changes the past beyond recognition. Maybe in a few years, King Arthur will become a quilt king, a woman, or even a cold-faced queen with a great figure. Who knows?
Fortunately, even after countless years, at least they have not been forgotten.
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Time came to the early twentieth century.
The saddest thing about human beings is that no matter how they evolve, they cannot resist the factory settings in their DNA. They love to create, but they are also keen on destruction. They are always in a cycle of self-destruction after development.
It is still the same today.
In the late 19th century and early 1920s, the world was unprecedentedly prosperous, and the invention of the steam engine set off an industrial revolution.
The railway brought Europe closer together. It only took a few days for people to get from the Atlantic coast to the Istanbul Strait. Distance was no longer a problem. → As long as you dare to imagine, everything seems possible. People are excited about the convenience brought by technology. The future is so bright and beautiful, and it seems that everything is under control. People did not realize that reality would be so cruel until the summer of 1914.
On June 28, 1914 (Serbia's National Day), Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were shot and killed by Serbian youth Gavrilo Princip while inspecting in Sarajevo.
Then the war began.
Before that, no one had expected that the death of a crown prince would drag the whole world into a huge disaster. You must know that before the war, the rulers of several major warring countries were relatives. Many people thought that the assassination of the crown prince this time would end with mediation and negotiations among various countries, but unfortunately... things did not go as planned.
On July 28 of the same year, with the support of Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia on the pretext of the Sarajevo incident. Immediately afterwards, Russia declared war on Austria-Hungary. Germany also immediately declared war on Russia, and then the two major military groups of the Allies and the Central Powers went to war.
The beginning of the war was beyond everyone's expectations, and the process was even more so. No one would have thought that the war would be so tragic and so long.
The war broke out in 1914. In that year, the German army first launched a large-scale offensive on the Western Front according to the Schlieffen Plan formulated before the war. Due to the fierce resistance of the British, French and Belgian armies in the Marne River and other battles and the offensive of the Russian army on the Eastern Front, the German army's plan for a quick victory failed.
The two sides fighting on the Western Front built trenches, confronted each other for a long time, and turned to positional warfare.
In the next two years, the death toll on both sides of the war exceeded the expectations of the countries themselves, and the two major military groups began to seek ways to end the war.
In 1916, Germany first launched a plan to break the deadlock. In this year, Erich von Ludendorff was appointed as the first military director by Kaiser Wilhelm II - this position is equivalent to the deputy chief of staff, and he was promoted to general of infantry in the same year.
Secretly, Ludendorff actually led a secret force, a biological and chemical force, and was determined to use biological and chemical weapons to reverse the passive war situation of the German army.
In the same year, there were three major land battles, namely the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front and the Russian summer offensive on the Eastern Front (the Brusilov Offensive). At sea, after the Battle of Jutland, Britain still firmly controlled the sea power.
This year was also regarded as a decisive year by both sides of the war.
It was also on such a stage that Ludendorff and his Viper came into everyone's sight.
All kinds of terrible biological and chemical weapons began to show their power in the war, and the Allies suffered heavy losses. If it were just this, the Allies could still resist. After all, although biological and chemical weapons are powerful, they cannot play a decisive role. At most, they can prepare more gas masks. What really makes the Allies feel difficult is the special forces led by Ludendorff. They come and go without a trace. Every time they appear on the battlefield, they will kill the enemy in a whirlwind.
According to the reports of the front-line soldiers, they call these people demons. They don't shoot bullets, move quickly and secretly, and some soldiers even claim to see them sucking the blood of the enemy.
In short, the impact is very bad. Of course, what's worse is that until July 1916, for a full six months, the Allies were at a loss for them. They have not captured these special operations team members once, and they don't even have corpses.
However, this situation improved in early October. With the help of an American spy, Steve Trevor, the Allies brought back a super soldier, Diana Prince. The soldiers on the front line prefer to call her Wonder Woman!
From July when she joined the Allied camp, to September, she and a British special forces unit started a two-month battle with Ludendorff's Viper Special Forces. In terms of the record, Ms. Diana should be considered to have the upper hand.
However, in late September, Steve and Diana received an order from the Allied Joint Command to secretly retreat to the British Isles. According to their contact, Sir Patrick, the head of the British MI6, they will carry out a secret mission personally issued by the royal family.
The content of the mission is absolutely confidential, and even he, the head of MI6, is not qualified to know. He is only responsible for taking them to the residence of the royal teacher, Reverend Dalton. He knows nothing else and is even asked to forget all the details of the mission.