Chapter 846: Danger and Opportunity

The midwinter gradually passed, and spring was about to return to the earth, and the Allies and the Entente bloc were accumulating forces, and the naval confrontation more or less affected Britain, but not France, and Britain had promised that after the beginning of spring, it would send a large number of troops to France, preparing to launch a large-scale counterattack in France, and strive to be able to repel Germany for a distance, so that the situation in France would be a little better.

This has been determined, and there is the situation of the Mediterranean sea war, and then there is the military operation proposed by Churchill, for the military operation in Iraq, these almost constitute the entire British military operation in the middle of winter, while mobilizing a large fleet, while fighting Germany head-on in the Atlantic, Britain is really the feeling of ice and fire.

In the case of Britain and France, preparing to launch a large-scale surprise operation, Germany was not idle, and the staff not only formulated a plan for a submarine blockade of Britain, but also a huge army plan.

The harsh winter has not only become a time for Britain, France, Russia and other countries, respite and recover, but also become a time for Germany to concentrate its forces and strategically mobilize, taking advantage of the winter, a large number of personnel and troops, forming a large number of troops, ready to take Paris in one fell swoop after the beginning of spring, and now besieging Paris, or the previous army, but their technical equipment, material reserves, and even some special offensive weapons, have been in place one by one.

Previously, with the help of airships, the fortress of Liège was captured, and large-caliber artillery was not used, and now the rear is constantly produced, and 24 large-caliber 420-mm guns were transported to the front line, these guys weighing 42 tons. It was produced urgently in the winter. Although compared to airships, maneuverability is greatly lacking. However, his sustained combat ability is not comparable to that of an airship, when a 420 mm gun sends a ton of shells to the fortress, even if it is a cannon a minute, 30 minutes, it is enough to pour 30 tons, which is almost the maximum load of the airship.

In addition to these heavy guns, 200 mm, more than 100 mm guns. Now around Paris, 4 fronts, almost 1.05 million people, have 5,000 artillery pieces of more than 100 mm, of which 2,000 are still heavy artillery of more than 180 mm. And the huge airship formation will fight fiercely with the other side, and when the time comes, the million-strong army will sweep through Paris. In one fell swoop.

The General Staff has conducted several exercises for the Battle of Paris, and each time the results have been quite good. This allowed the General Staff to continue to deduce the next offensive, the offensive on the Western Front. After the attack on Paris, there will be relative calm. The task of the Germans was to consolidate the line of defense in Paris and to try to digest the land that had been captured. The Anglo-French reloaded cluster on the Bordeaux side, if there is no time to weaken and attack, it is impossible to get results, instead of attacking that cluster hard, it is better to attack the other side, the side that belongs to Russia.

In the winter, a new batch of troops was also formed, they were drawn from the German staff and the War Department, senior officers, plus some promoted officers and alternate officers, a total of 52 German divisions, 1.1 million people, this part of the new army, will not be sent to the brutal Western Front battlefield. They will replace the army on the Eastern Front, compared to the fiercely defended France, Russia is more tasty food, after taking Paris, all the German troops will quickly turn around, wave their troops eastward, attack the Russian hinterland, strive to occupy as much Russian territory as possible, annihilate more enemies, and this time the first target of the attack on Russia is Kulen.

The emergence of the Northwest airship and large fuel units has made Germany realize the huge role of oil, especially the Northwest support, as well as the cars that Germany bought later, which is simply a multiplier for logistics, a car is definitely more pulled than a horse, and it is much faster than a horse, especially when the road conditions allow, the role of the car is very critical.

After tasting the benefits of the car, but also clearly aware of the weakness of the car, without the premise of oil, the car can not play any role at all, oil has become a very important strategic resource, the whole of Europe, there are not many places to produce oil, only Russia is an oil-producing area, of course, there are several small oil fields within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and now it has been fully utilized by Germany, but if you take the Kulen, there are huge reserves, which can reduce Germany's dependence on foreign countries in terms of oil, The huge distance from the German border to the crying road represents the interests of Germany and the interests of greatly expanding Germany's land area, so the war against Russia is the focus.

The two sides of the war, no one stopped the investigation of each other's intelligence, but the two sides did a good job of secrecy in this regard, within the borders, when the war came, basically already the army, everyone was on close guard, before the spy war between Belgium and northern France, so that Germany was furious, of course, it will not relax its vigilance, the defense in the country is very in place, and even in Belgium and northern France have also strengthened the defense, although Britain and France have spies here, but the activities are restricted, and millions of people are missing, Military control was implemented again, and in this case, no spy dared to do anything.

The other side does not have access to first-hand information, but some simple external environments are easy to monitor, and the most important thing is that Germany has obtained a lot of information in the United States.

Germany has always been monitoring the situation in the United States, and he is absolutely vigilant against the United States, and Germany, which is developing rapidly, if there is another country in the world that has always received their fears, that is the United States, with several times the steel production capacity, two or three times the population, and a unique environment, the United States is definitely a big enemy.

The Americans do not seem to realize that the protection of intelligence seems to have been peaceful for a long time, and on the surface it is perfunctory to Germany, but at home, it is making real preparations in a big way, and almost all enterprises related to the military industry have entered the state of military management, and the National Guard has been merged into the Wehrmacht, and the original Wehrmacht, which has only 100,000 troops, has expanded 10 times on the original basis, and has retired from the army in the past 10 years, unless there is strict evidence to prove it, it is impossible to continue to engage in military work.

Such an almost universal general mobilization, perhaps at the beginning, it was able to hide the unfamiliar, but with the deepening of the military mobilization, more and more information began to spread in the United States, and it became closer and closer to the truth.

The actions of the Americans startled Germany, the United States, which has always been vigilant, is really ready to do it, they also need to plan early, in case of being caught off guard, the Americans' navy and army, more or less, will let the German Alexander, for the first time want to have someone to share the burden next to him, other important partners in the Central Powers, Turkey, Austria-Hungary, and even Italy, have them when they are fighting and picking up cheap, but if they really want to fight hard, the whole world, It can only be carried by the Germans themselves.

Through secret channels, they learned the news of the general mobilization of the Americans, which put tremendous pressure on Germany, and they almost immediately thought of the Northwest, and immediately asked Mulmer to inform the Northwest, and there was only one request, that is, when the United States entered the war, the Northwest could give support, even if there was no practical support, material and weapon support was indispensable.

The United States, Yang Yuanzhao looked at the top-secret information turned by Mu Mo, he knew very well that the United States would almost inevitably be connected to the First World War, but in history, the time when the United States entered World War I was three years after the outbreak of World War I, with the help of these three years, the United States absorbed a lot of money and wealth from Britain, France and Russia, and only then joined the First World War in the final stage, and won the entire war, but now, the war began only about two months, Are you ready to step in if you don't?

Yang Yuanzhao couldn't be sure whether it was because he changed history and made the Germans too powerful that he would attract the wings of the butterfly of the United States, and he didn't care about it, and he didn't promise Germany more conditions, because it was a little unnecessary for the time being, but some preparations still had to be made, China has been divided for so long, and it has been reunified, and only by bringing China's manpower and material resources together can it play a more role.

Originally, Yang Yuanzhao's idea was to make as much money as possible in World War I, and now the goods in the northwest have become the world's king, and it can be said unceremoniously that the northwest has become the world's factory, in a sense, he can't get the core orders of Britain, France and Russia, those are all attributed to the Americans, and only the United States will choose them if they can't produce it.

What the Americans missed, in the First World War, once fed Japan, so that Japan from a backward agricultural country that has not completely changed, into a powerful industrial country, but these, can not meet the development of China, fortunately, in advance with the Allies to deal well, an Allied order can also, especially when Germany swept across the whole of Europe, countless civilian wealth, plundered by the occupying powers, this is the core laws and rules of this world, this money, he must earn.

The emergence of the Americans can be said to have opened the door for the Northwest to speed up production and intervene in the world situation. This money is very important for China's development, as for the future, how to choose, then need to be carefully considered, in the face of the world situation in which white people are the mainstream, the northwest must make a careful choice, so as to be able to gradually expand the influence of the Chinese, and even promote the Chinese nation, re-rise. (To be continued......)