Chapter 585: Powerful Enemies Look Around, the Road to Breakthrough of the German Empire
After the World War, peace was largely restored to the countries of the world, and they began to develop their own economies with all their might. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, it is not so easy to restore the economy.
The entire world war lasted about four years, and the core areas of the war, Europe, West Asia and the Americas, were severely damaged.
Europe and North America were the main battlefields, and wars broke out on these two continents, wreaking havoc.
In the case of the United States, which has just ended its state of war, the combined US and Chinese troops have been fighting on American soil for nearly six years.
During this period, the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire consumed more than 11 billion rounds of assault rifle bullets, more than 17 billion rounds of light and heavy machine gun bullets, 122 million hand radiums, and 3.6 million ground radiums, and successively invested 24,000 artillery pieces of various calibers, firing 3.8 million tons of artillery shells, 8,200 mortars, firing 810,000 tons of mortar shells of various calibers, and naval guns of various calibers firing a total of 8 million tons of artillery shells, and finally wiped out 16 million US troops.
Such a huge consumption of war resources can only be supported by the industrial scale and manufacturing level of the Chinese Empire, and it is not possible for any other country, even when the United States is the most powerful.
These hundreds of millions of tons of guns and ammunition poured into major cities in the United States, and its horror and devastating effect can be imagined, not only causing more than 16 million US military casualties, but also indirectly causing 11 million civilian casualties, hundreds of cities being razed to the ground, houses and factories in ruins, and more than 40 million Americans being homeless.
One can imagine how badly the national economy of the United States as a whole has suffered. The GDP of the United States before the war was 1.6 billion yuan, but after the war, the GDP plummeted to 39 million yuan, and the scale of industry was set back by 30 years.
And that's not even counting the large-scale restoration of the American industrial economy by the Chinese Empire in the last two years in order to exterminate the Roosevelt guerrillas, which was used to support the war attrition of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army on the American battlefield.
Leaving aside the United States, the main battlefield of World War II was Europe.
The Chinese Empire quickly wiped out the United States with overwhelming industrial and military power, which had the advantage of being a short drain on war resources.
On the European battlefield, on the contrary, the German Empire fought on two fronts, and from the beginning it fought a stalemate war with Britain, France and Russia, and this mode was the most consuming war resources.
Before the war, the industrial scale of the German Empire was only one-sixth of that of the Chinese Empire, with an annual output of 1.4 million tons of ammunition, and although the industrial scale of France was not as large as that of the German Empire, Britain, France, and Russia combined was on par with the level of the German Empire as a whole, which led to an unprecedented war of attrition in the European theater.
In post-war Europe, the French Empire was basically in ruins, the most prosperous cities such as Paris turned into ruins, the total industrial production value of the French Empire before the war reached 600 million yuan, and after the war it was only a pitiful 23 million yuan, and the industrial economy was completely destroyed, even if the German Empire occupied the French Empire, what it got was a mess.
In contrast, the British Empire, due to its isolation overseas, was not directly destroyed by the German Imperial Army, but was raided by the Chinese Imperial Army in the later stages of the war, and the Battle of London completely shattered the backbone of the British Empire and forced the British Empire to surrender.
In this way, the rapid surrender of the British Empire also prevented the destruction of its homeland by large-scale war. Although the economy of the post-war British Empire had collapsed, since the infrastructure had not been destroyed on a large scale, it was easier and quicker to recover, at least than in ruins of France.
At the same time, after the war, the Chinese Empire began to regard the German Empire as an enemy, so it surrounded the German Empire on all sides, and the British Empire became the bridgehead of the Chinese Empire against the German Empire, receiving large sums of economic and military aid, so that its economic recovery after the war was accelerated.
In the eastern part of Europe, the Russian Empire also suffered heavy losses in the war, and more than 5 million square kilometers of its Asian part were incorporated into the Chinese Empire, leaving the Russian Empire with only a European territory, but still 4.24 million square kilometers.
With the support of the Chinese Empire, the Russian Empire crushed the invasion of the German Empire, but more than 200 of its own cities were also destroyed and more than 150 were reduced to ruins.
After the war, the Tsarist Empire, although it remained hostile to the German Empire and friendly to the Chinese Empire, but the Tsar also hated the Chinese Empire deep down, after all, the Chinese Empire swallowed more than 10 million square kilometers of land in the Tsarist Russian Empire, and more than 500 tons of gold belonging to the Tsar were transported away by the Chinese Empire.
In Yekarinaburg on the Eurasian dividing line, the once majestic Liening has now become a hairless rooster, and in the first battle of Yekarinaburg, more than 400,000 revolutionary troops who firmly believed in the Bulvik faith were defeated by the Chinese Imperial Shence Army.
However, Liening seemed to have a big fate, and a girl named Starling actually took him with him, after half a year of long-distance travel, climbing snowy mountains, crossing grasslands, walking deserts, and smuggling across the Caspian Sea, and finally escaped to the German Empire under the blockade and siege of hundreds of thousands of Chinese Imperial troops, and received political protection from the German Empire.
This girl named Starling was so powerful that she even persuaded Hitra to get the German Emperor Wilhelm II to pay out of his pocket to support the revolutionary movement in Liening.
In southern Europe, the merger of the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the annexation of the French Empire, the entire German Empire expanded dramatically, the population exploded, and the Kingdom of Italy was surrounded on three sides, which once made the Kingdom of Italy feel deeply afraid.
Recently, however, Italy's attitude has changed, and the king of Italy has married a sister named Mozarini, who is very fond of Mozarini and will soon make her queen.
The newly appointed Queen of Italy, Mo Zilini, took the initiative to make peace with Italy and the German Empire and not to engage in confrontation.
At this time, the envoy of the German Empire, Hitla, also arrived in Rome to meet with the King of Italy, explained the foreign policy of the German Empire, promised not to invade Italy, and reminded the Italian King to be careful of the Chinese Empire's economic and military control of Italy.
The Italian king did not believe Hitler's claims at first, but he was soon persuaded by his empress, Mozarini, to sign a non-aggression pact with the German Empire.
At the same time, Moselini advised the Italian king to maintain a neutral attitude between the Chinese and German empires, so that he could reap the greatest benefits, and at the same time obtain economic and military aid from the Chinese and German empires.
The King of Italy was convinced of his empress's words, so he made adjustments to the Italian state policy, maintaining a neutral attitude between the Chinese Empire and the German Empire, and currying favor with both sides, so as to benefit both sides.
After the signing of the non-aggression pact between the German Empire and Italy, the embattled situation of the German Empire was alleviated to a certain extent.
Next, on behalf of the German Empire, Hitra visited Spain, Britain, the Ottoman Empire, the Tsarist Empire, Norway, Sweden, Finland and other countries, trying to persuade the leaders of various countries to give up their hostility to the German Empire, and successively signed non-aggression treaties with Spain, the Ottoman Empire, the Tsarist Russian Empire, Norway, Sweden and other countries.
The British Empire was the only one that rejected the request of the German Empire, mainly because the British Empire was currently under the control of the Chinese Empire, and the Rus' government could only obey the Chinese Empire.
However, Rose's excellent speech and eloquence shocked Rose, and he became good friends with Hitra in private. The assassination of Hittra by the special forces of the Chinese Empire was ultimately declared a failure by Ross deliberately releasing water.
When Hitra escaped from Britain, he realized that he had been on the number one assassination list of the Chinese Empire, and he was more cautious in the future not to give the Chinese Empire a chance to assassinate him, and he even prepared a real stand-in for himself to save his life at a critical moment.
After the World War, although the German Empire expanded its territory several times, except for Germany itself, France and Austria-Hungary were in ruins, and their economies collapsed, and it took a long time to recover.
However, after the world war, the Chinese Empire did not give a penny of aid to the German Empire, and all the aid of the Chinese Empire was given to the countries surrounding the German Empire, Italy, Ottomans, Tsarist Russia, Spain, Britain, Norway, Sweden and other countries, which surrounded the German Empire from all sides.
Wilhelm II was jealous in his eyes and angry in his heart, and he knew very well that the Chinese Empire had regarded the German Empire as an enemy, but now neither side had officially torn its face.
All this is thanks to Hitra, and it is precisely because Hitra vigorously develops the aircraft carrier fleet of the German Empire that the Chinese Empire has some scruples about the military strategy of the German Empire.
If you want to wage war against the German Empire, there is only one person in the Chinese Empire who can call the shots, and that is Li Weiguo.
However, when Li Weiguo learned that the German Empire had frantically built more than 200 aircraft carriers, he temporarily canceled the decision to break out a war with the German Empire.
Because Li Weiguo knows very well the power of more than 200 aircraft carriers, although the tonnage of Germany's aircraft carriers is small, almost all of them are converted from 10,000 or 20,000 tons of cruise ships, and each aircraft carrier carries only a dozen or twenty fighters.
However, Li Weiguo's caution soon proved to be right, and after a year of investigation and infiltration, S.H.I.E.L.D. finally obtained the secrets of the German High Seas Fleet.
Intelligence shows that while urging the German Navy to refit aircraft carriers, Hitler also secretly set up a secret base for the conversion of aircraft carriers, and in this secret base, the fighters of the German Empire can already carry aerial bombs and fish radium.
In this way, the more than 200 aircraft carriers of the German High Seas Fleet can carry thousands of fighters capable of carrying aerial bombs and fish radium, and if the Imperial Chinese Navy rashly starts a war against the German High Seas Fleet, the losses may be unbearable.
Li Weiguo still underestimated the strength of Hitra, so Li Weiguo quickly issued an order and ordered the relevant departments of the Chinese Imperial Military to immediately increase their efforts to develop and manufacture aircraft carriers, as well as supporting carrier-based fighters and bombers.
However, during this period, the Atlantic Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy still had a skirmish with the High Seas Fleet of the Imperial German Navy, which almost detonated a full-scale war between China and Germany.
The incident occurred on January 3, 4000, when the British Royal Navy's Seventh Patrol Fleet was on a routine patrol in the English Channel, when he was passing through the English Channel in the morning, a French steamer was intercepted by the British battleship USS Ligon frigate, and asked to board the ship for inspection.
The French steamer, which actually carried 500 Imperial German soldiers, was supposed to be escorted by a German frigate, but the German frigate broke anchor in the North Sea, and the troop carrier passed through the English Channel on its own.
Due to the tension between China and Germany, the attitude of the British Royal Navy towards the French in the English Channel was hostile, so when it saw a French steamer passing, it asked to board the ship for inspection.
The French ships were transporting German troops, and the German commanders did not dare to argue with the Chinese Imperial Army, but it did not mean that they took the British seriously.
The German commander refused to allow the British Legon to board the ship for inspection, and ordered the French steamer to go straight ahead, ignoring the warnings of the British ships.
The captains of the French steamers were not afraid of the British navy because they had the support of the Germans, and the British navy thought that they had the backing of the Chinese Empire, so they took tough measures against the French steamers.
And so a proxy conflict began!
The British ship Ligon opened fire, and the 128-mm gun fired only three times before the French steamer exploded.
In fact, the shells penetrated the German munitions loaded inside the French steamer, causing a large explosion.
The French steamer was sinking at a speed that was seen, the French captain and crew on it were frightened, and the five hundred German troops were also confused, because of the suddenness of the incident, the British ship did not warn and shoot, and the ship exploded in three strokes, causing the Germans above to have no time to react, they were all landlubbers, and a large number of people died soon after falling into the water.
And at this moment, the German frigate escorting the ship arrived after repair, saw that the steamer they were escorting was sunk by the British ship, and immediately opened fire on the British ship.
The British ships immediately returned fire, so the two British and German frigates began shelling each other.
At the same time, the British and German ships also immediately sent a telegram to their respective naval commands, reporting the situation. Both sides accused each other of firing first, which caused the officers of the naval commands of both sides to be furious.
Two hours later, the French fleet of the Imperial German Navy arrived in the English Channel and engaged in a military confrontation with the Home Fleet of the British Royal Navy, which had arrived half an hour earlier.
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