Chapter 353: A Small Country Defeats a Big Country (Part I)

Why can Rommel's deceptive plan be concealed from the world, so that the whole world thinks that Germany only wants to force Romania to agree to its "arms for oil plan" and has no other purpose, because everything is true in this plan designed by Rommel, and even Antonescu, the dictator of Romania, does not know that this is a strategic deception designed by Rommel. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The tricks of various countries have been shown, and the choice depends on the Romanian dictator Antonescu, who has military talent and administrative and organizational ability, but Romania's backward industrial base and scientific and technological strength make Romania still a typical agricultural country, and Antonescu must choose the most advantageous side for Romania in the current situation.

What is the most beneficial for Romania, the actual situation of each country is different, the needs will be different, what Romania needs most now is security, this is the main thing.

Not long ago, Hungary, the Soviet Union, and Bulgaria had sent troops to occupy a lot of Romania, and in the final analysis, Romania did not have a strong armed force, and although Romania was a neutral country, its neighbors were still eyeing Romania.

As for who can protect Romania more, this does not need to be considered much to know, Germany can protect Romania the most, and now Romania is already a neighbor of Germany, if Romania refuses Germany's request, it is likely that Germany will immediately start a war against Romania, and Romania's demise will be a matter of minutes, don't expect Britain, France or the Soviet Union to send troops to help Romania, there is no such possibility.

On the other hand, Romania can obtain technical support from Germany to achieve basic industrialization of the country, although Germany cannot give Romania the most advanced technology, but some basic industries will still support.

Under such circumstances, Antonescu could only choose, of course, only Germany, the British and French money temptation and the Soviet invasion of the three Baltic countries, did not let Romania choose, and the arms-for-oil plan between Romania and Germany was finally signed on March 29.

Germany paid not only for the arms it had captured, but also for the sale of tanks No. 3 and No. 4 to Romania, and for the construction of factories for Romania, which would pay for these expenses with oil.

Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union were certainly unhappy, but they could not stop this arms-for-oil plan, because Germany at this time already bordered Romania, and it was impossible for Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union to attack Romania at this time.

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The final countdown to the attack on the Soviet Union had begun, and Rommel held a pre-war military conference for this purpose, in which Rommel did not intend to give military lectures to the hundreds of generals sitting in the table, but to tell them some inevitable means of Germany's victory over the Soviet Union.

At the meeting, Rommel recounted how Germany should defeat the vast Soviet Union, and Rommel did not use a direct didactic approach, but spoke in an academic situation:

"Good morning, generals,

What I want to talk to you today about is "The Conditions for a Small State to Defeat a Big Country".

The victory of a small country over a large country is more a representation of a country's war potential than a war strength that can be used immediately in a war.

The most intuitive expression of war strength is whether the armed forces are large or small and whether they are elite or not, whether their weapons and equipment are sophisticated, and whether their logistical supplies are sufficient -- "potential" is not equal to actual "strength."

In other words, if a country's war potential is not transformed into war strength in time, no matter how great its potential is, it may fail.

There is a certain relationship between the size of the country's land and the number of people and the abundance of resources, and it determines the size of the strategic space and the room for maneuver of both sides on the battlefield, and to a certain extent, determines the way in which the war is conducted.

Positional warfare or movement warfare? Quick or protracted? The size of the population is directly related to the human resources urgently needed in wartime: the number of people of military service age determines the size of the army's reserve force, and the male and female population is the main source of labor for the expansion of military production in wartime.

The abundance of mineral resources has a great relationship with whether a country can produce sufficient war materials and weapons and equipment. Oil, iron, aluminum, coal, rubber, grain, cloth, and all kinds of metals are strategic materials that are in great demand in wartime, without which the war machine cannot function normally.

If a country is in a state of blockade in wartime, and strategic materials cannot be obtained through trade exchange, etc., the problem of resources determines the size of its self-sustaining power and its ability to continue fighting.

The level of culture and technology has a bearing on how many weapons and equipment, production equipment, military theories, operational research and other achievements a country can invent in wartime, and they are the amplifier of a country's war strength: advanced weapons can be used as a hundred, excellent tactics can be outnumbered, and excellent theories can maximize the operational efficiency of the war machine.

However, the process of transforming war potential is not achieved overnight, and it requires a considerable degree of time, space, and material support.

For Germany, with a population of less than 70 million, we can only fight fast and slow to defeat and occupy the Soviet Union.

The specific strategy is to occupy a large area of the Soviet Union in the shortest possible time, capture a large number of Soviet people, properly obtain their support and approval, and plunder as many materials as possible of the Soviet Union.

How can a small country overcome a large one? I think it can be achieved in the following ways, mainly in four aspects:

1. Use a well-organized elite army to destroy the enemy's large but bloated army in large numbers. That is, to defeat mediocrity with elite and eliminate the enemy's direct resistance.

2. Occupy the enemy's strategic points, political and economic centers, important cities, resource mining areas, production bases, and transportation hubs, and prevent the enemy from mobilizing for war, producing materials, assembling troops, and mobilizing troops.

3. For conquered areas: requisition of enemy personnel as laborers or even soldiers; exploit the enemy's mineral resources and use the enemy's production equipment as a supplement to its own war; Use captured strategic points or military bases as your own forward base and supply rear.

4. Establish a puppet government and restore the functioning of society; The local people should be governed by the locals, so that the enemy people can return to the normal production and living conditions before the war as soon as possible under the leadership of the regime that conforms to their own will, so as to weaken the will of the enemy people to resist to the greatest extent.

If a country achieves some or even all of the above four points, it will be able to effectively suppress the enemy and prevent its war potential from being transformed into actual war strength, and it will not be a fantasy for a small country to defeat a large country. The forces needed to sustain the conquered territories are far less than those needed for war, let alone a problem.

All in all, nourishing war with war and defeating raze is the only way for a small country to defeat a big country, and the core is one word - fast! ”

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

"Hey! Rommel"

"Long live Rommel!" (To be continued.) )