Chapter 577 - Far-reaching Impact
Then if it is not enough, there is only one possibility, Germany is going to war! Fight a big battle! Ruprecht was taken aback by his own inference! "It seems that history has been changed too much by me!" His Highness figured it out in an instant. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info He at least knew that his efforts over the years had finally paid off!
The Kaiser is now afraid! At some point, he was no longer the megalomaniac who said "you will return home in the fall" when he saw off the troops, and he no longer hoped to end the war with a quick victory! He began to see it as a crisis capable of upheaving the German Empire, and he began to seriously consider the question of how to prolong the war and how to fight it.
Some people may ask, isn't it just 2 years in advance? It was not easy to advance by two years, because the current Kaiser had realized that if a certain limit was exceeded, time was on the side of the Entente. With the rapprochement between Britain and France, the defense strategies of the two countries will be adjusted for the Allies. And the Russian government needs time to recover from its defeat in the Russo-Japanese War.
Over time, the power of the three countries will become stronger and stronger, while the strength of Germany and Austria will change very little, and the economic capacity of Germany will determine the upper limit of his force, and Austria-Hungary? Well, their political system dictates that their preparations for war are also so-so, and if it is said that before the start ......of the war, the growth of the army, and the change of equipment was the slowest who was the slowest, Austria-Hungary was second to none. Don't look down on Russia, Russia's naval spending in 1913 was actually close to Germany's! With such an ineffective ally and an anti-backbone, Germany is enough to carry it.
Of course, at the beginning, Germany's strength was still increasing faster than that of the Allies, not to mention Russia, and after the war, the Russian government had not done anything in previous years to solve all kinds of internal contradictions and troubles. Needless to say, the French have been preparing for a war of revenge since the Franco-Prussian War. And the British? Now that the Boer War is not over, they need to solve the problem of South Africa in order to manage Europe, as for why you say that Germany does not do it now, because Germany itself is not ready, in history in 1910 during the first Moroccan crisis, Germany did not dare to do it, let alone ...... now.
However, the Kaiser knew that he must start a war before Russia was on the right track, or in the early stage of entering the right track, and he must do it when his own strength increased greatly and the relative gap between the two sides was the largest, and at present, the Kaiser meant that in 1912, in less than 8 years in the future, the German Navy and Army should make all the preparations, and then give the other side a fatal blow when the other side has not yet completed its war preparations!
"Hehe, I finally took the initiative." After figuring out this problem, **** thought about it helplessly, it seems that the inertia of history is huge, and when you travel to this era, you can't escape this battle after all, after the end of World War I, whether to turn carp into a dragon or be beaten to the dust in these last few years. Fortunately, however, the process of German war readiness was now proceeding almost along the route set by the prince, and the prince had to admit that the timetable set by Wilhelm II was suitable for the Kingdom of Bavaria.
In order to fight the Russo-Japanese War, the Russians purchased a large number of arms from Bavaria and ordered warships, which greatly stimulated Bavaria's military industry and shipbuilding industry. But with the end of the war in Japan, this external stimulus will disappear, and the Russians will no longer buy a large amount of equipment from Germany, which is already considered a potential enemy, and Germany will not sell it casually, and the military production that has begun to expand and the subordinate industries that it has driven will not stop because of this.
Therefore, in order to maintain the current production capacity and vitality, someone must take over, and this receiver can only be the government! And the government buys these new guns and machine guns to use, otherwise why put them in warehouses? It didn't take long to fall behind again, in the eyes of His Royal Highness ****, because of Germany's expansion of armaments, it directly added a fire to the Bavarian military industry, which has gradually gone out, so that the entire military industrial system continues to maintain efficient operation. This allowed Germany to remain in the best possible shape when it entered the war.
The Kaiser meant this, but it was far from what the war demanded. According to His Royal Highness's estimation, this war will last more than 3 years, right? The Eastern Front took one and a half years to smooth out the world, and half a year to solve the problems of Austria-Hungary ....... (Well, His Highness **** is already thinking about the legacy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.) And then it will take more than a year to draw Britain and France, and it will be hard to say how long it will be, after all, the attitude of the Americans may change over time.
In order to cope with this protracted national war, Germany also needed to establish a relatively complete national reserve system, and also used this time to consolidate the channel with Turkey, and also helped Turkey to develop agriculture to achieve food self-sufficiency within the Allies, which was even more demanding than the former. After all, there is food in the hand, there is no panic in the heart, Austria-Hungary can guarantee self-sufficiency in wartime, it is already burning high incense, Germany will definitely not be able to guarantee it, whether it is a good year or a bad year.
The real potential is still Turkey, Turkey now has at least Asia Minor and the two river basins, as well as Syria, Lebanon and other places in the future, especially the former, there are still many places that can produce grain, the key is that Turkey has a total of only 30 million people, but half of Germany, they are fully capable of being a grain exporter, as long as the farming is more good, and the road traffic can be kept smooth.
Therefore, if there is time, the prince will also talk to the Kaiser that in addition to the Eastern and Western Fronts, Germany should also pay attention to the Balkan line, and even now it will have to keep Turkey's territory in the Balkans, for example, in the later Balkan War, so that Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey can use the existing 3B railway to form a supply system within the Allies!
Then figure out how to do something on the British blockade line in the North Sea, it is impossible for the British's capital ships to patrol and blockade the northern end of the North Sea all day, so don't do anything else. Not even armored cruisers, most of them are auxiliary cruisers, which are not very strong, that is, there is room for manipulation. Well, His Royal Highness **** has an idea.
But before that, he needed to get Tirpitz to fully embrace his strategic and tactical ideas, and for that, he also called von . Admiral Pol, after all, he is the commander of the High Seas Fleet, as long as Liao Le is tied up. The triumvirate of the Navy called 2, and the remaining one was not very good. But the prince also let people pass the word, meaning, you just have to listen to it. We are not talking about personnel issues this time......
The Kaiser, this is obviously the rhythm of handing over the major policy of the Navy to ****. At this time, Liao Le will not jump out of his own boring, and go against the Kaiser and the general trend, right?
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