Chapter 64: Lieutenant General Theodor Hoffmann
January 28, 1982. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ infoPort of Rostock, East Germany.
More than 30 warships of various types, led by the battleship Karl Marx, the flagship of the East German Navy, arrived at the port of Rostock.
Vice Admiral Teodor Hoffmann, as a representative of the East German army, visited and inspected the UAV tactics of China's Fengchao experimental unit and conducted preliminary technical exchanges.
The lieutenant general was also a bigwig of the East German military, and nominally, the GDR should have a field marshal who could command all the army and police - a position that was even far more powerful than the defense minister.
In fact, the marshal of the GDR had been waiting for a vacant position and had not really awarded the general. This was because the political contradictions in East Germany were relatively large, and all sides were afraid that one of the factions would gain the power to command the national army.
As a result, there were now three generals in East Germany β the army general, the navy general, and the Stacy secret police officer.
And Stasi is not liked by the army and navy, especially because the Stasi of this world is so awesome that he shot a bunch of lieutenant general-level bigwigs of the East German Army, which further made the army system and the Stasi system extremely contradictory.
Essentially, because Stasi is afraid of the power of the army, because he has put the army too hard, he is afraid that the army bigwigs will come to power and pull up the list and clean it up.
Comparatively speaking, Stasi's conflicts with the Navy are very few.
After all, the Navy is more in the Baltic Sea, fighting with the Warsaw Pact. And with the fall of the Baltic states, the Warsaw Pact, NATO and the United ****, which organized landing counteroffensives in Poland and other places, were completely inseparable from the naval support of East Germany.
This is also the reason why the Chinese experimental forces communicated with the East German navy, and both the Stasi and the army were afraid of the expansion of each other's forces.
After the expansion of the East German Stasi's power, both the civil and military circulated, and the East German supreme leader Erich Honecker was overshadowed by the Stasi.
Erich Honecker's so-called being set up by Stacy is also false, in fact, he is Stasi's backer.
The generals of the East German army system are basically the henchmen of Erich Honecker's sworn enemy ****** Ulbrich, and they have been unhappy with Erich Honecker for a long time, so the East German top brass has purged the army many times. Therefore, the East German Army had a motive to overthrow Erich Honecker and oust him from power. It's just that I can't find a suitable reason to make trouble for the time being. After all, the Army has always wanted to liquidate in a dignified manner, not to make a failed coup d'Γ©tat.
Stasi is worried that after the army takes power, they will liquidate their group of doglegs. After all, in the past, Stasi had done everything to the bottom of the story, completely offending the army side, and there was no possibility of reconciliation between the two sides.
They are all afraid that the other party will liquidate themselves, so they all want to take the lead, seize the initiative, and completely clean the other party.
Therefore, the fragile balance, touched by anyone, could upset the internal balance of the GDR, and brutal infighting would be staged.
"Hello, General Theodor, it is a pleasure to have a friendly exchange with the GDR!" Li Feng smiled and said, "My colonel officer Li Feng of the Chinese Fengchao Experimental Unit, this time I went to Europe to test new weapons, and I was mainly responsible for leading the team!" β
Lieutenant General Theodor Hoffman couldn't help but be stunned: "Colonel Li is really young, and now my troops are really getting younger and younger!" β
"Our unit is quite special......," Li Feng explained, "not so much the traditional army of our unit, but rather a group of technical nerds, geniuses in computer technology, accounting for a large proportion." The number of real traditional soldiers is not in the majority. β
"I see!" Theodor Hoffman nodded. At a glance, not only Li Feng is very young, but it is Poison Island Tsuneko and Kudo Sakura, and the military uniforms of the two of them also show that the two of them have been awarded the rank of major.
"It's the time of young people." Political Commissar Chu Tian touched his white hair, "We, the old people, will withdraw from the stage of history sooner or later." β
Theodor Hoffman nodded, not too surprised, because many twelve or thirteen-year-old children were forced to go to war on the European battlefield.
The men were still seriously killed and wounded, so the women went to the battlefield to take their place.
Even the female soldiers suffered a lot of losses, so even the minors were trained for a few months, and then, they were issued a rudimentary gun, and then they went to the battlefield to be cannon fodder.
Of course, this is the situation in Europe, and on the Chinese front, ******** teenagers are not allowed to go to the battlefield. The main force is mainly adults between 20~30 years old.
This is also the advantage of China as a populous country, and the manpower and material resources that can be mobilized are by no means comparable to those of a small country like East Germany.
Nominally, East Germany's GDP and industrial scale were about the same as China's. It seems that 10 million people support the industrial scale of China's 800 million people. However, the reality is that China is currently pretending to be a grandson, and many of the statistics are clearly underestimated.
East Germany, on the other hand, has long been compared with West Germany, so it often puts gold on its face for the sake of face. Gradually, the data is becoming more and more mixed, and the GDP data on paper is just better.
Of course, the more than 60,000-ton Karl Marx is still an extraordinary shock to China's troops, especially those withdrawn from the navy.
The aircraft carriers of this world have been scrapped, after all, the traditional naval aviation, under the suppression of the light class, does not dare to rise into the air at all.
So the number of aircraft carriers is constantly compressed.
As for the battleship, although it did not dare to guarantee absolute safety, after all, if the heavy light class occupied the commanding heights, it could shine on the battleship from a high place.
But for the most part, a battleship is still more useful than an aircraft carrier.
And the world's battleships are still showing a trend of getting larger and larger, with more and more battleships of 80,000 tons, 100,000 tons or even larger tonnage.
"Tsk, when will our country have such a big battleship?" A sailor of a missile frigate, said with envy and jealousy.
"Yes, our country is changing with each passing day, including steel production and shipbuilding capacity are increasing, and it is estimated that big ships will be built soon!" This was stated by another sailor of the Chinese Navy.
"You are wrong, in the future, the direction of development of our army is unmanned. Even if you build a big ship, it is a drone carrier. It is required that the communication capability is very strong, and it can be separated by 100 kilometers and remotely command the drone. The captain of the frigate said indifferently, "The overwhelming drones are definitely more efficient than the so-called battleships!" Moreover, this is also the current advantage of our army over the navies of other countries. β
"The combat performance of drones against people is not obvious...... "at least, it cannot sink battleships and aircraft carriers!" β
"Now the mainstream trend of human beings to fight together against the enemy beta, can not defeat the beta, human beings can not obtain the right to live. So, the war between humans is better to win the beta and then think about it! (To be continued.) )