Looking at the wreckage of the raised tank on the battlefield in the distance, Victor couldn't help but laugh that the Germans had discovered the tank as an element of victory, and had not paid enough attention to it. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info or they do not have the ability to translate the elements of victory in ideas and drawings into elements of victory in reality.

When we think of Winston Churchill, we all know that he was the British Prime Minister who led Britain to victory in World War II without losing British hegemony and most of its colonies. In 1915, Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Admiralty, proposed the formation of the "Land Battleship Committee" to personally lead the development of "Land Battleships" (tanks). What an amazing vision and an attitude of actively looking for the elements of victory!

In September 1915, the first test of a prototype car made in Britain was successful. In September 1916, 48 British Marks were engaged in the Battle of the Somme. By the end of World War I in November 1918, the British army had developed a number of tank models such as the Mark 1-5, Greyhound and C, equipped with a total of 26 tank battalions and more than 2,600 tanks. The French army has developed the "Schnader" assault tank, the "Saint-Chamond" assault tank, the "Renault" FT-17 light tank and the 2C heavy tank, equipped with 27 tank battalions and more than 3,800 tanks. Because of the unprecedented role of tanks in the Battle of the Somme, the German army only began to pay attention to tanks in November 1916, and in October 1917 made a prototype - the freak A7V tank with a crew of more than 16 people, 100 were planned to be built, 22 were actually built by September 1918, and no more than 50 German tanks were built by the end of World War I. After seeing such a disparity in the number of tanks in World War I, I finally understood why the number of tanks in Germany was inferior to that of the Soviet Union in World War II. In the A7V, a 16-man tank, we also see the craftsmanship of German engineers who did not consider the practicality of the battlefield.

In World War I, Germany produced more steel than Britain and France combined, but it did not produce enough tanks. This was by no means a limitation of material conditions, but the conservative rigidity of the entire German war machine, the industrial system. It was precisely because of the abundance of tanks that the British and French troops withstood the five German offensives in 1917, and used large-scale tank assaults to launch counterattacks on the front line to defeat the German army, extinguish the hope of German victory, and crush the morale of the German army and the German people.

The conservatism, backwardness, decadence, and rigidity of the German ruling class, including the Junker aristocracy and the bourgeoisie, caused the tragic fate of their nation. Ideologically, 50 years after the United States put forward the open-door policy, they continued to tirelessly advocate the defeat of Britain and France and the seizure of colonies. Militarily, there is no major adjustment to the Schreffen plan based on reality, and there is no contingency plan for the failure of the Schlieffen plan. In industry, Ford Motor in the United States in 1913 to achieve the assembly line production of automobiles, greatly improved the efficiency of industrialization, but Germany until World War II still made people feel helpless and regretful for its poor tank production quantity.

The German class did not change its ideological limitations, so during World War II it almost completely repeated its mistakes in the First World War.

General Guderian of the German army put forward the tactical theory of concentrating on the use of tanks, building armored divisions, and conducting blitzkrieg, but the number and quality of German tanks were not superior, so they luckily defeated Poland in three months and France, which was not strong in battle, in one month by virtue of excellent tactics and good soldier quality. However, it was defeated in the face of the more powerful T34 tank force of Russia, and fell into a tug-of-war like the Western Front of World War I, and finally lost the war.

Didn't the Germans value tanks? Hitler also inspected tank performance testing experiments on several occasions. In 1934, Gudrian proposed a 24-ton tank, in 1935 Daim and Krupp began to develop No. 3 and No. 4 respectively, and in 1937 began to produce the first No. 3 and No. 4 tanks, but before the invasion of Poland in 1939, the German army was equipped with less than 1,000 No. 3 and No. 4 tanks. After the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, there were less than 2,000 tanks No. 3 and No. 4, and as a result, they encountered tens of thousands of tanks of the Soviet army and the more advanced T34 tanks of the Soviet army, resulting in the T34 crisis. In the end, both tank technology and the number of tanks were restrained by the Soviet Union and defeated by the Soviet tank sea.

Germany, which valued tanks, only had 4,000 tanks before the invasion of the Soviet Union, while the Soviet Union had 24,000 tanks.

Another powerful weapon of the German navy against the British Navy was submarines. Compared with the appearance of sonar, radar, and aircraft, the natural enemies of submarines during World War II, the First World War was the most beautiful and glorious period for submarines. During World War I, submarines were at the top of the chain of marine life, and there were hardly any predators that could threaten their existence. During World War I, the German army had more than 300 submarines, sank 197 warships, about 4.8 million tons, and 5,900 merchant ships, totaling 13.2 million tons. During World War II, the German army had 1,188 submarines and sank more than 5,000 ships with a total of 20 million tons.

Based on the annual production of about 10 million tons of steel in Britain and about 5 million tons of steel mills in France during World War I, sinking 15 million tons of ships a year would have made Britain almost blockade. Germany needed about 1,360 submarines, and considering that the submarines of World War I were less than 700 tons, they needed 950,000 steel. This is a strategy that is perfectly appropriate and possible to blockade Britain. Instead of wasting manpower and material resources to build the so-called Paris cannon. Even if the United States is considered to join, this is still a strategy with a very high attrition ratio that is sure to win without losing money.

On September 22, 1914, the German submarine U-9 sank three 10,000-ton cruisers in one hour, with 7,000 soldiers on board, and only 700 survived. What a shocking and great battle! However, Germany has not taken full advantage of this advantage. In four years, only 300 submarines of 210,000 tons were built, and 197 warships, 5,800 merchant ships, and a total of 18 million tons were sunk. The 1.3 million-ton German naval fleet, which spent most of its time as a spectator of the consumption of German national resources, sank to the bottom of Scarpa Bay without doing anything.

Similarly, before World War II, the German Navy valued submarines because of the great success of submarines in World War I, but until the start of the war in 1939, there were only 57 submarines.

It's just a joke!

Compared with its rival Soviet Union, the Soviet army attached great importance to tanks, with 24,000 tanks before the war, and at the same time as the production of these tanks, many tank factories were established and many workers were trained.

The Germans valued tanks but could not turn their ideas into real advantages, nor did they value submarines and turn their scale into a winning weight. Their outdated and backward industrial production system and the state's military system have constrained the country from achieving victory.

Comparing the Soviet Union and Germany during World War I and the Soviet Union and Germany during World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union were both losers during World War I, and the industrial output value and population quality of the Soviet Union were far lower than those of Germany. However, the Soviet Union broke the old production and social system and established a planned economic system, and in 1937, the Soviet Union's industrial output accounted for 13.7% of the world's total, which had surpassed Germany's 12%. It has already been shown that Germany can no longer overwhelm the Soviet Union in terms of national power.

When Germany is unable to defeat its opponent by "plotting" or "attacking foreign relations" and cannot rely on an all-round industrial system to defeat its opponent, it must rely on "attacking troops" and "attacking cities," and must rely on an advanced tactic and an advanced weapon to quickly defeat the opponent, or quickly change the unfavorable strategic and diplomatic situation. Both an advanced tactic and an advanced weapon are bound to be quickly learned by the enemy, so you must achieve your goals before the enemy learns them. And for a weapon to affect the outcome of the battle, it must be large enough. An atomic bomb could not make Japan surrender. The greater the scale of the war, the greater the scale of this weapon must be.

In World War II, the German army was unable to push the Soviet Union in waves because of its short-sightedness and lack of preparation, and finally was pushed back to Berlin after being fought by Maozi for a protracted war. 1355 Tigers, 480 King Tigers, 6000 Leopards, not enough to defeat the sea of tanks of the Soviet army, T34 produced a total of about 45000 units.

The use of advanced tactics and advanced weapons when there is no scale will not change the tide of the war, it will only make your opponent stronger and stronger, and finally the armored torrent of the Soviet Red Army is sharper and sharper under the tempering of the German armored forces.

So when you craft a sword, you have to hide it, and others will learn from you to build more knives; When you silently build 10,000 swords, you can kill all those who covet your swords.