Prologue: The Rise of Victor

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Victor Francis Kowalski

"Hey! Awake, Victor! Wake up! You okay? ”

His face was slapped heavily, and at this time, Victor finally woke up from his drowsiness, opened his eyes, and looked at the two people in front of him in a daze. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A skinny young middle-aged man with a small beard was holding a small metal cross and whispering prayers, while another man with lion-like hair on his face was slapping Victor's face with his furry bear paws.

"God forbid! You're finally awake. I'm tired of praying death. The little beard drew a cross on his chest and said lightly.

Looking at the two people in front of him, there was a strange and familiar feeling.

"I'm fine." Victor was shocked by his own voice, "Is this his own voice?" He thought to himself.

"Can you give me some water and give me a break?" Victor said quietly, now that he has come to this inexplicable environment, he must not show his flaws.

The two handed over a metal kettle and left silently.

"Damn concerts, damn classical music, damn Chopin・・・・・・" Leaning against the earthen wall of the trenches, Corporal Victor kept whispering a barrage of Mandarin Chinese curses. As a pseudo-military fan in the past, Wang Ling still knows a lot about modern warfare, but the blue military uniform on his body makes him scratch his head: no Iron Cross, not the German army of World War II, no five-pointed star, not the Soviet Red Army, blue? Could it be the French army?

Wang Ling depressedly unbuttoned his collar, and suddenly touched a hard iron chain, took it out and looked at it, and a string of Latin letters on it read: Polish 1st Division, Victor Francis Kowalski, May 5, 1900.

Poland! FUCK!Is it just that I want to pretend to accompany my sister to a Chopin concert and travel to the Poles? Although Wang Ling has always fantasized about crossing into a certain historical hero before, he can save the sky with one hand. But when this happened to him, he was still a little difficult to accept.

Think about your parents, well, you can have a second child if you work hard! Think about your classmates, you probably don't have to return the hard drive full of evil data. Isn't there a trace of nostalgia for the world that used to be for me? I just touched that girl's delicate and white hand, and a good start is about to end unexpectedly? Come to this place and face a new life of epic difficulty.

Yes, an epic life.

Because the era of Wang Ling's rebirth was an era full of blood and fire. Just like the countless strategy games he has played, the land, population, troops, and development are up to five stars, and he chose a country with a three-star population, three stars, and three stars in development at the beginning, which looks good, and he can often flip through the computer if he is a little better, but the most tragic thing is that this country is sandwiched between the three five-star powers of Sudeo, and is their enemy.

After drinking a few sips of water, Wang Ling finally received a little memory left of this body in his mind: Viktor Francis Kowalski, whose father was a member of Pilsudski's Polish Legion, was later killed in the war against Russia, and after Pilsudski was imprisoned by the Allies and the Polish Legion was disbanded, he came to France alone to join the Polish army in France, and became a corporal squad leader because of his military skills.

"Corporal! If only it were the German corporal! "Wang Ling, no, it should be Victor laughing at himself.

At the beginning of World War II, the Soviet-German joint offensive and the destruction of Poland in three months are the deepest memories brought by the previous life. Just thinking about it makes me feel powerless.

Victor screwed on the cap of the kettle, stood up, patted the dirt off his helmet, and strode out.

A section of the trench was blown up, it turned out that the German bombers dropped the bomb, the original Victor was too unlucky, and he was accidentally stunned by the aftermath of the bomb, so Wang Ling borrowed the corpse to resurrect his soul.

"We've been here for three months, and nothing happened, so why did the German plane come here today." Several soldiers sat on the ammunition box by the trench and talked about it.

"They're going to attack us!" Victor strode over.

"Sir" "Sir" The soldiers saluted unevenly. , I think I don't have any awe for this chief who encountered this unfortunate thing not long after he came.

"Victor, we are the third line of defense here, how can the Germans break through here?" Pastor Mustache asked.

"Because behind us is Paris! Like a red cloth that attracts a bullfight, the desperate Germans will not give up until they make a last-ditch effort. Victor gestured to the distance behind him.

"Our guns are about to rust, just wait for the Germans to taste them!" Novak, a strong man who looks like a woolly bear, said.

For the sake of Poland's recovery, these Poles volunteered to join the Polish Legion in France to fight against the Central Powers, and their morale was always very high.

"Oh my God, we're going to tell the division headquarters the news." The pastor said.

"The division headquarters may have received the message, didn't it inform us that we need to strengthen the defensive line. If they were smart enough, they would have been ready for any offensive in three months, otherwise, no one would have believed a prediction. Victor said coldly.

"Alright soldiers, let's get moving, dig this damn trench again, and we'll rely on them to protect us in a few days."

Because this is already the third front, the trenches are not dug deeply. When I heard that the Germans were going to attack here, a squad of ten people picked up shovels and dug them up desperately.

The zigzag trenches can prevent the power of the shells from spreading to the sides when they fall into the trenches. Victor thought about it for a moment, and led the men to dig three cat holes in the walls of the trenches, so that it would be safer, unless the large-caliber artillery hit directly. As for what anti-slope anti-artillery holes, think about the fact that after the Germans broke through the front line of defense, they did not have the ability to carry too many large-caliber guns, so there is no need to think about it.

The sun slowly sets in the west, and the sky is dyed a bloody color of red glow. Victor sat in the observation post.

The war was coming to an end soon, Tsarist Russia turned into the Soviet Union, Austria-Hungary collapsed, the Kaiser fled, Germany surrendered, the industrial region of northwestern France was in ruins, a country with a population of less than 40 million, 1.5 million dead soldiers, millions disabled, and none of the great powers of the entire continent had a winner. Poland did gain its independence as a small country.

In addition to the instigation of Britain, the war in Europe without a winner was also due to the lack of a great statesman like Bismarck.

For Germany, since Bismarck, their military power and national strength have become more and more superior to other powers, and they have won most of the battles, but their end has proved that their political and military strategy has been completely defeated, losing two world wars, and finally being forced to cut off their Prussian soul. Wilhelm II and Hitler, who had been in Bismarck for great success, overused force, and finally ended up like Emperor Yang of Sui. The German rulers and the people were misled by the German capitalists, did not distinguish between the economic interests of the country and the core interests, and sacrificed the lives of the people and the future of the country for the interests of the capitalists. The German capitalists preached that economic development needed markets, raw materials, and colonies. In fact, before World War I, Germany had 2.9 million square kilometers of colonies (33.6 million in Britain and 10.6 million in France), which was very large compared to Germany's 540,000 native area. At the same time, the United States had only a few small key islands except the Philippines (300,000). Britain and France are among the countries that developed colonies first, and Germany, the United States, Italy, etc., are countries that are later developing colonies. Compare the strategies of Germany, the United States, and Italy to seek colonies: the United States seizes key positions related to national security such as Panama and Hawaii, and grabs the Philippines of Spain, a second-rate country; Italy, a warlike country defeated by Ethiopia, seized Somalia, East Africa, Ethiopia, Libya, attacked Ottoman Turkey, the sick man of West Asia, to get many ports in the Mediterranean, and annexed Albania and Montenegro; Germany, together with France and Spain, failed to seize Morocco, threatened the British fortress of Gibraltar, built a huge fleet, and challenged Britain's sea power.

As a result, the United States was in a position where the United States was in the last place to play its cards in World War I and World War II. Italy won the colony in World War I, followed Germany in World War II. Germany lost the two world wars completely, losing not only all of its colonies, but also 40% of its homeland.

The policy of Germany after Bismarck's death was entirely an impulse to lose rational judgment, and the United States and Italy were all befriended with first-class powers, seizing the colonies of the ownerless or weak, and getting something in return. And Germany deliberately contradicted almost all the first-class powers, how could such a crazy and irrational policy not lead to national defeat.

It was the frenzied pursuit of profit by the German capitalists, who vigorously advocated the importance of colonies to the development of the country, and who vigorously advocated the theory of expanding space, which led to the madness and destruction of the German nation.

What a foolish thing to lose your homeland because you didn't have a colony!

Does the colony really matter?

If the colonies were important to the national economy, Britain should have three times as much industrial production as France, and France three times as much as Germany. In fact, the industrial output of major countries accounted for 32% of the world's total: in 1870, they were 32% in the United Kingdom, 22% in the United States, 13.2% in Germany, and 10% in France; In 1913, they were 14.1% in England, 38% in the United States, 15.7% in Germany, and 6.4% in France. The proportion of Britain and France, which occupied the most colonies in the world, declined and was lower than that of Germany, while the United States, which had the fewest colonies, developed the fastest, and the United Kingdom, which had the most colonies, declined the fastest. This shows that the golden age of the colony to promote industrial output (1870) has come to an end, and after 1900, the colony has no obvious positive effect on the country's industrial output, and it can even be said that it has played a side effect in the fields of cultural thought, national spirit, and section-level innovation. Comparing the changes in industrial output between the United States and Germany, it shows that Europe as a whole is completely lagging behind the United States in the new field of large-scale industrial production, and there is a huge gap.

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