Quiet

Four months is neither short nor long.

But Europe had already been fighting to the death in these two months.

Because in order to gain a time advantage with advanced weaponry, after the brutal meat grinder of Strasbourg, Germany didn't even bother to alleviate the pain caused by this war and frantically continued to push forward, in order to fully occupy France and simultaneously eye the United Kingdom.

Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front, it was simultaneously resisting the Russian Empire.

The Russian Empire was also a powerful enemy of Germany at this stage.

Especially on the Western Front, battles were either crushing advances by Tanks or brutal street fights, while in comparison, the Eastern Front was a series of large-scale operations.

Tanks were indeed bulldozers in this era, making the trench warfare, which the British and French excelled at, completely ineffective on today's battlefield. Without specific means to counter Tanks, their well-dug trenches were useless and utterly unable to stop the German advance.

However, on the large-scale battlefields of the Eastern Front, the advantage of Tanks was difficult to fully exploit.

This statement might be hard to understand, as Tanks can only demonstrate their powerful strength on large battlefields.

But Germany had too few Tanks; only a mere hundred were allocated to the Eastern Front. While a hundred Tanks sounds like a lot, in a large-scale operation involving hundreds of thousands of people and an extremely long front, such a small number of Tanks couldn't even make a ripple.

Moreover, what the Russian Empire lacked least were passionate, self-sacrificing soldiers. These people would run up to Tanks with gasoline barrels and self-detonate, and even Tanks couldn't withstand the high-temperature burning.

This fighting style made the German army extremely uncomfortable.

But even so, they had to fight, after all, Germany was facing the classic problem of the Third Reich: not enough oil!

In just four months, the German Second Reich Empire and Austria-Hungary advanced through Kalisz and Podolia towards the Russian Empire, pushing all the way to Kaluga before finding it difficult to advance further.

After four major large-scale operations—the 'Battle of Kyiv,' the 'Great Minsk Offensive,' the 'Battle of Kursk,' and the 'Chernihiv Army War'—the three parties completely stalled.

Each of these four battles was a meat-grinder-style engagement.

The Russian Empire had no other special abilities except dragging its enemies into a war of attrition.

This method of mutual human attrition caused immense suffering to the German Second Reich Empire and Austria-Hungary.

Imperial soldiers sent to the front might return with an honorary certificate in just two or three days. Such battles, where one watched their forces being depleted, were a huge torment.

Moreover, the time had already dragged on for so long. Europe and the Russian Empire had clearly begun to research and manufacture Tanks. If they failed to capture important locations within another six months, they would be completely dragged into an endless war of attrition or even pushed back to their homeland.

The war situation in Europe made William II anxious and sweating every day.

He was micro-managing every day, but with little effect.

A few hundred Tanks still provided too little advantage for the entire battlefield. Although they were very efficient for breaking through points, they could not form an all-encompassing crushing force.

"If only I had two thousand Tanks!"

William II sighed deeply in distress.

Starting the war was too hasty; he should have at least accumulated a thousand Tanks before starting, but he only had five hundred when he began. Now, even with full production, it's difficult to achieve a decisive advantage.

Of course, the main reason was that the battlefield was expanded too quickly. They shouldn't have opened up such a large front with the British, French, and Russian so soon, which resulted in the advantage brought by Tanks being negligible.

No wonder, who would have thought that Mr. Dutch Van der Linde and the United States could endure so much!

According to his prediction, Dutch Van der Linde would not be able to withstand the first large-scale war with the Russian Empire at all.

Unexpectedly, he actually endured it, and he did so remarkably well!

Now, only William II was suffering!

"Damn it, initiate total war!"

William II was furious.

With a wave of his hand, he launched an overwhelming ambition!

The European front turned into a chaotic mess.

And at this very moment, Mr. Dutch Van der Linde, far away in the American West, was finally preparing for something big.

New Hanover.

Mr. Dutch Van der Linde had been recovering the western and southern states during this period, and his current land area was already much larger than that of the American East.

Along with the recovery of various states, various infrastructure plans were also gradually being implemented.

For example, establishing various large factories to extract and process resources, and building railways and roads for urbanization. Vigorously developing military and industrial sectors, transforming New Hanover and West Elizabeth into advanced cities in the American West...

The number of personnel required for so many undertakings grew exponentially. All the poor and refugees could find satisfactory work, receive satisfactory wages, and live a happy life with Mr. Van der Linde.

But just as the United States New Eastern Government said, his, Dutch Van der Linde's, policies could only attract the poor, not the vested interests of the American East.

Therefore, the East-West conflict became increasingly sharp. As the United States New Eastern Government continuously expanded its forces by injecting capital during this period, the situation between the two sides had reached the brink of explosion.

And coincidentally, Mr. Dutch Van der Linde was finally preparing to start a total war!

And at this moment, in New Hanover, Mr. Dutch Van der Linde held his final grand military parade before the total war!

Mr. Dutch Van der Linde had already decided on this pre-war parade when facing the Russian Empire's landing.

Now, with the full-scale war about to begin, the grand parade will finally be held.

This is to boost the morale of the American West, but also to display its strength!

He, Mr. Dutch Van der Linde, wants the world to know his strength, and let those restless brats in Europe know that he, the American Great Western President, is not to be trifled with!