Section 361 The European War Situation
After leaving China, Yang Chao also removed himself from domestic politics and could see things more freely from a freer position. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
I can finally spare my energy to care about the situation in Europe.
Russia withdrew from the war in 1916 a year early, leaving Germany to use its forces on the Western Front earlier, not to mention the greater losses suffered by Britain and France, and the Americans paid a far greater price than they had in the original history.
In the original history, the Americans entered the war in 1917, and they also entered the war in this era, but they faced a stronger Germany and a weaker Britain and France, so the Americans had to increase and advance the degree of participation in the battle.
The most important thing is that the Germans were not able to drag the American troops into trench warfare and a war of attrition after a large-scale landing of the American troops, which was a strategic defeat for the Germans, because they did not want to fight a war of attrition with the Americans at all, and they also knew the material superiority of the Americans.
However, just as later critics commented, Germany was a tactical genius and a strategic vain, their tactical ability was unquestionable, and all kinds of plans were formulated extremely perfectly, but only in terms of the general direction, they always made low-level mistakes, such as unlimited submarine warfare to let the Americans find a reason to enter the war, such as bombing the United States to make the US government completely mobilize the strength of the whole people.
In short, they can win victory again and again on the battlefield, but they can't get them to stand in a dominant position to fight, and a battle without a dominant position cannot turn a tactical victory into a victory in war. And over the years, they have also produced a Bismarck, who understands this truth very well, and always tries to make them fight in advantageous situations, and after Bismarck, they can only fight again and again in inferior situations, so they have won many battles, but in the end they have lost very badly.
In the face of the increasing number of American troops, the Germans still used their tactical capabilities, and they understood that playing attrition with Britain, the United States and France was a death, and unless the Chinese were persuaded to join the war, or a certain country was withdrawn from the war, sooner or later they would finish the game.
But it is impossible for the British to withdraw, as it has been proven over the centuries that the British are going to kill the most powerful country on the continent.
It is impossible for the French to withdraw, defeat France first, let France withdraw from the war, this is the strategy that the Germans had before the war, but failed, the French are no longer the France of decades ago, a France that does not retreat, a France that will not surrender, and the Germans have given up their intention to force France to surrender and withdraw.
Then they are left with only one option, and that is to force the United States to withdraw.
Therefore, Germany bombed the United States, but instead of forcing the United States to withdraw, it aroused the anger of the Americans.
They soon lost the ability to bomb the United States, and could only strike the Americans on the ground, and they purposefully attacked the American troops, hoping that the American troops would not be able to bear the casualties and make the Americans retreat.
As a result, the Germans vented the most artillery shells to the American positions, and the most breakthroughs were chosen by the American positions, and the casualties of the Americans increased rapidly, and by the middle of this year, their casualties exceeded 1 million, and more than 500,000 were taken prisoner.
This is already more than the total casualties of the Americans' previous wars, as the Germans expected, the American media really began to attack the government and express anti-war sentiments, but the Americans did not control public opinion, their media can say whatever they want, this can only represent a part of the people.
But this misled the Germans, who thought that if they continued to hold on, it was possible for the United States to withdraw from the war.
So this strategy continues.
At the same time, another gain is that because the Germans always focus on attacking the US military, there is a conflict between the Americans, the French, and the British, and when the US troops are attacked, they naturally want these two countries to come to the rescue, but the two countries intentionally or unintentionally or the actual conditions do not allow it, there will always be such and such delays, which makes the American General Pershing very dissatisfied, thinking that the two countries intend to connive.
The separation between the three countries made their united front less solid, and the Germans could always find a junction to break through, and they could always achieve tactical results again and again.
At the same time, the tank technology of the British has also been mastered by Germany, and the Germans have begun to develop their own tanks, and the war has developed towards mechanized warfare, and the role of trenches has begun to weaken, and more and more trenches have been broken through by both sides, and the Entente countries can break through the German trenches, and the Germans can also break through the trenches of the Entente countries, and the offensive force is slowly overpowering the defensive force, so the casualty rate has skyrocketed.
Of course, more prisoners have also appeared, in the past, if you wanted to capture 10,000 enemies, the price paid was very huge, it might take hundreds of thousands of people to launch a large-scale battle, but now tens of thousands of people can make a breakthrough to make the enemy in the encirclement surrender.
Moreover, the will to fight of the soldiers on both sides has fallen to a limit, and they basically surrender when they are surrounded, and there is no legend of swearing to surrender.
This is a huge manpower burden on both sides.
The solution to the manpower problem on both sides was to find labor from the colonies, hire Chinese laborers, and so on.
The French have hired 5 million Chinese laborers, all of whom work in farms and factories in the rear of France, and they cannot afford to anger China.
The French young people on the front line continued to die, resulting in a serious imbalance in the ratio of men and women in France, and the Germans erected loudspeakers on the front line to proclaim, telling the French, you are dying on the front, but the Chinese slept in their beds.
Germans are not alarmist, there are indeed many French widows living in hardship, or unwilling to be lonely, can only hook up with the only young men they can contact, Chinese workers in farms and factories, these sex-shy Chinese, after having a relationship with French women, naturally feel that they have a responsibility for these women, many people move into the French widow's house, not only to bear the family's expenses, but also to help French women raise their children, since then many French children are the same as Japanese children, There is also a Chinese dad.
In addition to the widows, there were also French girls who felt the urgency to break free from all shackles and marry the Chinese laborers. However, French law does not support the regulation that a woman marries a foreigner, and once married, it often means that the woman loses her French nationality and automatically moves into the other party's nationality.
French public opinion told young French girls that Chinese workers who came to work in France were very poor in China, so they were willing to come to make money, and if they married in China, it would be very hard. But it still did not prevent a large number of French girls from marrying outside, because many of them felt that if they did not marry the familiar Chinese workers they worked with, they might marry a disabled soldier, an old man who drank and beat his wife, and even had several children.
Transnational marriages began to occur in large numbers, causing the French to be very passive, and they even planned to change the law, because they assessed that if Chinese Chinese workers returned to China with French girls after the war, it would bring the birth of France to a halt immediately, and they hoped that the law would recognize that married women would still maintain French nationality, and absorb foreign labor to enter France through marriage.
Of course, this law is not only for Chinese workers, the French are not only hired from China, Africa's blacks, the Vietnamese were also recruited to Europe by the French during the war, especially Africans and Vietnamese, but directly involved in the army, these people shed blood for France, and the French are more likely to accept them.
The Germans are hyping up threats against the French, but in fact their situation is not much better, and the Germans have also hired Chinese laborers on a large scale, although the scale is not as large as the French, but it is also very objective, at least 1 million Chinese laborers work in German farms and factories.
Germany also forcibly conscripted more than 3 million laborers from Poland, Ukraine and other places, the reason why the Germans refused to hire more industrious Chinese laborers, because they could not afford to pay the wages, the Poles and Ukrainians were basically forcibly conscripted, and the wages were pitiful, otherwise the Germans really wanted to hire millions of Chinese like the French, which meant that they could liberate millions of laborers to join the army.
"The Germans can't fight anymore. If they are so defeated. It's not good for China. ”
Things were troublesome for the Germans, because history had changed.
Now that the American airships and planes are constantly being transferred to Europe, they have begun to suppress the German airships and planes, and they will soon be able to launch a large-scale bombing of Germany.
However, the current situation in Germany seems to be able to hold out for a while, and if Germany's surrender by the American bombing makes the German people intuitively feel the cruelty of the war, they may not have the courage to start World War II. In the original history, the reason why Hitler was able to encourage the Germans to start the war again was because the German people were always in the rear, did not come into contact with the war, did not suffer damage, and their impression of the war was only that life was difficult. After World War II, the Germans easily repented because their country was bombed into ruins and they felt the threat of death. Don't think that the moral level of the Germans is really so high, how great it is for their president to kneel to the Jews, and the Japanese devils to kneel in the Nanjing Martyrs' Cemetery.
The Germans were forgiven, and that was because of political needs, and Europe needed Germany to resist the expansion of the Soviet Union, so Germany was forgiven, and Germany was relaxed, not that kneeling, of course, it was better to push the understanding of the Germans to the repentance of the Germans, so everyone just propagandized it like this. Imagine if it weren't for the Soviet Union, would the French allow a Germany to compete with them?
After thinking deeply, Yang Chao felt that if Germany could not be defeated in the short term, it would be inevitable that they would be bombed by the Americans.
So Yang Chao decided to take action, he planned to give Mi Qing a political achievement.
"Send a note to Europe and the United States to mediate the European war!"
Yang Chao told Mi Qing that China could mediate the war in Europe and withdraw from the war before Germany was completely destroyed. (To be continued.) )