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The Republic of South Africa was alarmed by the movement of the United States, but the President of the Republic of South Africa did not decide to go to war against the United States, and at the behest of Germany and the Netherlands, the Republic of South Africa chose to avoid the important and launch an attack on the Republic of South Africa. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the President of the Republic of South Africa was given the opportunity to use force against the regime in the North, he thought he would be at ease. On 4 December, the Republican Army crossed the Third and Third Parallel and launched a surprise attack on the Republic of South Africa. Since two-thirds of the South African Defence Force (NDF) was not yet in combat readiness, it was simply powerless to withstand the onslaught of the Republic's advanced aircraft, tanks and artillery.

The Republic is equipped with advanced weapons and equipment from Germany, many of which exceed the most advanced equipment in service in the Chinese Empire, which Germany has always kept strictly secret.

During the World War, Germany's military industry had always been dominated by the Chinese Empire, and the equipment of the navy, land and air force could only rely on the Chinese Empire to provide technical support. However, the German military engineers did not give up the local industry, and the German side could not tolerate the outbreak of the next war, and could only rely on the technology of the Chinese Empire and rely on the imported equipment from the Chinese Empire to survive.

Therefore, after the war, Germany began to go its own way, trying to get rid of the technological control of the Chinese Empire. During the Great War, the advanced weapons and equipment developed by the Chinese Empire such as thunderbolt, hellfire, and armored three musketeers became the target of Germany's efforts to catch up. However, the gap between German technology and that of the Chinese Empire was too great. For several years after the war, Germany could not catch up.

However, the orders for military equipment that the Chinese empire had scaled back on a large scale after the war caused a considerable number of military industrial enterprises to leave a large number of production lines. German spies seized the opportunity to obtain intelligence information. German merchants spent a lot of money to buy so-called "civilian technology" from the merchants of the Chinese Empire. Although the Chinese Empire is cautious about the secrecy of the core military technology, the civilian technology of the Chinese Empire is still leading the world, and there is no strict distinction between military and civilian technology, and many of the quasi-military technology of the Chinese Empire are also exported to Germany as civilian technology, and German engineers use the advanced civilian technology of the Chinese Empire to quickly develop high-tech products for military use.

In terms of air force equipment, during the war, the Luftwaffe could only rely on the import of advanced fighters and bombers from the Chinese Empire to fight and maintain the undefeated status of the Luftwaffe. Although the Luftwaffe was grateful for the help of the Chinese Empire. However, when the fighters and bombers exported by the Chinese Empire to Germany were sky-high products, and that Germany's wealth was frantically robbed, the Luftwaffe was very unhappy and determined to catch up with the pace of the Chinese Imperial Air Force.

Postwar. On the one hand, the major German airlines learned from the experience of the Chinese Empire in the manufacture of aircraft for the Air Force, and on the other hand, they found a new way to develop their own high-performance combat aircraft.

Representative aircraft manufacturing companies such as Junkers, Aradau, Fokker, Heinkel and Messersmitt have successively invested a lot of money in the research and development of new aircraft, among which the He-X series fighters developed by Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company are the most outstanding.

The He-1 fighter, which was successfully developed in 1920, was designed to imitate the Thunderbolt fighter of the Chinese Empire. But the engine is not enough, and the maximum speed is only 220 km/h, which is a bit worse than the standard speed of 250 km/h for Thunderbolt fighters.

Soon, though, the Heinkel company had a chance. The Chinese Empire during the World War and during the War against the United States. For the mass manufacture of aircraft for export to Europe, as well as equipment for the Air Force of the Chinese Empire. Hundreds of airlines and aircraft manufacturing companies sprung up, making huge profits for the Chinese Empire during the war and providing air combat attrition for the Chinese Imperial Air Force. However, in the post-war period, most of the aircraft manufacturing companies in peacetime could not get orders or had very few orders, and there were naturally many people who closed their doors and changed careers and went bankrupt. As a result, the Heinkel Company did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to acquire several private medium-sized aircraft manufacturing companies in the Chinese Empire, and obtained some of the design drawings and technical specifications for the engine production parts provided for the Thunderbolt and Hellfire fighters during the war.

Although the advanced fighter parts of the Chinese empire were scattered to multiple enterprises to reduce the risk of one enterprise leaking secrets, during the war, many aircraft manufacturing companies did not hesitate to subcontract some orders to other companies in order to further profit and increase the number of aircraft manufactured, resulting in technology leakage.

In this way, the company continued to obtain advanced technology from the Chinese Empire, and finally conquered a number of key speed-up technologies such as air intake, cooling, thrust-to-weight ratio of aero engines, and broke the monopoly of the Chinese Empire on aero engines.

In 1925, in five years, the German Heinkel company and Daimler AG spent more than 4 million coins to finally develop Germany's independent aero engine brand - Daimler-Benz DB601M twelve-cylinder liquid-cooled engine, which was equipped with the latest HE-100 fighter.

The HE-100 fighter was developed by the Luftwaffe for the Imperial Chinese Air Force's most advanced Thunderbolt and Hellfire fighters. The German plan to purchase fighter jets after the war was proposed in 1920, and a total of four companies handed over their designs. The FW-159 of the Wulf company, the AR-80 of the Aradau company, the BF-109 of the BFW company, and the He-112 of the Heinkel company. Prototypes of all four designs were tested in early 1922 with transitional engines, the first two of which were quickly phased out, while the HE-112 and BF-109 required further testing to make a choice. As a result, the Luftwaffe issued a contract to the two companies for the construction of fifteen prototypes each.

While many were optimistic about Hinkel's design, the more powerful and modern BF-109 won more support. The Air Force finally announced the selection of Dr. Messerschmidt's work at the end of March 1923, even though Heinkel had redesigned many parts of the He-112 to create the He-112B, which was superior to the BF-109. But he has no power to return to the sky, and he sees the flowers fall into other homes.

The He-112's defeat in the competition did have its own reasons, mainly due to the complexity of the airframe structure and the preference for curved configurations. It is labor-intensive and time-consuming to manufacture, which is not conducive to mass production. In addition, the prototype of the He-112 had several minor accidents during test flights, although it was not all a problem with the design of the aircraft, but after all, it made the Luftwaffe hide a knot in its heart.

However, the Luftwaffe learned that the British Air Force was also developing a fighter called the Spitfire, and through spies, it was learned that the British Spitfire was mostly the same as the performance parameters of the BF-109 fighter, and the Luftwaffe was questioned by the Congress. It was believed that the technology of the BF-109 fighter had been leaked, and that the equipment of the BF-109 fighter would not be sudden and advanced in future wars, so the Luftwaffe was asked to revise the order plan and develop more advanced fighters.

The Luftwaffe was upset by the leak. Although there was no direct evidence that Messersmitt had leaked the secrets, there was a pimple in the heart, and it was obviously stupid to produce fighters with data from hostile countries, so the Luftwaffe gave the Heinkel company a new opportunity to secretly hand over the data and development drawings of the BF-109 fighter to the Heinkel company. They were ordered to develop more advanced fighters.

As a result, the Heinkel company immediately seized this rare opportunity to organize manpower to tackle the He-100 fighter.

In April 1924, 15 prototypes of the He-100 fighter were secretly tested at the Elder Air Base in Germany. The Luftwaffe was amazed by its powerful performance.

The HE-100 fighter was developed by Walter Brown. Engineer Walter and Siegfleet. Siegfriedgunter engineers jointly designed and developed, defined as a day fighter. From the looks of it. It was a lower monoplane fighter of a conventional layout, and the fuselage section was an egg-shaped with flatter sides (especially in the engine section). The lines of the front fuselage are relatively straight, but the rear fuselage shrinks quite a bit. If you draw a horizontal line along the canopy, you can see that the spine of the entire aircraft has dropped almost below this line near the tail.

The wing is a rectangular wing with semicircular wingtips, the inner segment is level with the fuselage, and the outer segment, which is about one-third of the total length, is folded upwards to look a bit like an inverted gull wing. The inner wing section is thicker, and the front and rear edges are basically parallel, but the leading edge of the wing of the outer wing section is a bit back-swept, and the trailing edge has a distinctly forward-swept angle, and the whole shape is closer to trapezoidal. The flaps are arranged behind the inner segments, while the ailerons are arranged at the trailing edge of the outer segments, extending from one-half of the outer segments to the wingtips.

According to the cockpit design concept of the Chinese Imperial Thunderbolt fighter, the cockpit cover of the Heinkel He-100 fighter is very similar to the cobble-egg cockpit of the Thunderbolt fighter, but with a slightly raised bubble cockpit in the middle. The middle part of the canopy can be slid backwards onto a fixed section at the rear of the cockpit, while the front windshield design is rounded and full, leaving only a flat surface directly in front for the sight. The main landing gear can be retracted inwards into the middle of the wing, and the tail wheel can be retracted and completely covered during flight, giving the aircraft an impeccable aerodynamic shape.

But the most critical thing is its power plant, a 1,175 hp (876 kW) Daimler-Benz DB601M twelve-cylinder liquid-cooled engine, which makes the He-100 fighter reach a level flight speed of up to 568 kilometers per hour, far exceeding the speed of the Thunderbolt fighter, and even the 380 kilometers per hour speed of the Hellfire, the most advanced active fighter in the Chinese Empire. Even the maximum ceiling of the aircraft has reached the 6,000-meter standard of the Hellfire fighter, and there is no need to worry about the commanding height being taken away by the Hellfire fighter in air combat.

The He-100 fighter also has a maximum take-off weight of 2,500 kg (5,512 lb) and can carry enough fuel to give it a range of up to 900 km (559 mi), again not lagging behind the Hellfire fighter.

However, in terms of armament, the German side did not use six 12.7 mm M2 heavy machine guns similar to Hellfire fighters, but installed a 20 mm MG/FF-M cannon in the engine and two 7.92 mm MG-17 machine guns on the wings.

This firepower was also in competition with the Hellfire fighter, as the German spies accidentally learned from the pilots of the Imperial Chinese Air Force that the Hellfire fighter was a high-strength, all-metal structure. The bulletproof ability is very strong, and ordinary 7.92 machine gun shells cannot cause fatal damage to it, so the 20 mm cannon is installed.

For the first time, the Germans installed large-caliber cannons on airplanes, thus kicking off a revolution in airborne weapons in the history of aviation. Since then, the main battle fighters of various countries have basically stopped using 7.92 machine guns, but have changed to large-caliber machine guns. At the same time, it has also stimulated the all-round development of all-metal aircraft, and the aircraft of various countries have also continuously improved their armor protection capabilities, which has also indirectly led to the revolution of aircraft manufacturing materials.

However, the aircraft was not equipped with a rocket system, as the Luftwaffe did not see the advantages of the Hellfire fighter in rocket combat, and the design of the He-100 was limited. The material process is not up to standard, and the mounted rocket system affects the fighting ability of the aircraft.

Although the He-100 fighter surpassed the most advanced Hellfire fighter in service in the Chinese Empire in all parameters, the Germans were still unable to compare with the fighter materials of the Chinese Empire and lagged far behind in terms of material technology. The Chinese Empire was more than ten years ahead of Europe and the United States in material technology. The Hellfire fighter of the Chinese Empire has achieved a lightweight, high-strength magnesium-aluminum-chromium-nickel alloy material, and in this regard, the German He-100 fighter still uses a skin material with an iron sandwich, which is not a little behind.

At the same time, the cost of the HE-100 fighter far exceeded that of the Hellfire fighter of the Chinese Empire. It reached a staggering 4.99 million marks (560,000 dragon coins), which is equivalent to more than double the original cost of the Hellfire fighter, and now the cost of the Hellfire fighter of the Chinese Empire has dropped to 110,000 dragon coins due to the great progress in manufacturing technology and material technology. Compared with the two, the disparity in cost performance is clear at a glance.

Of course. This was also a step that the Luftwaffe and the aircraft industry had to take. The price to be paid for the initial stage of each country's aviation industry, but the Chinese empire has already gone to the end. Germany is just getting started.

However, the Luftwaffe was proud to have been able to develop such a powerful fighter as the He-100. Although the individual aircraft were extremely expensive, the Heinkel company received a large order from the Luftwaffe, and the first batch of 200 fighters was delivered to the Luftwaffe in March 1925. In order to keep secrets, the Luftwaffe claimed to be the Type 109 fighter of the Messersmitt company, and intelligence officers, including the Chinese Empire, were also deceived by it, believing that it was only a fighter with a speed of 320 kilometers per hour, which did not pose a challenge to the Hellfire fighters of the Chinese Empire.

The Heinkel company had exhausted its capabilities in the development of the HE-100 fighter, and there was no extra money to develop aircraft for other projects, and the Messersmitt company, which had failed in the competition on this project, immediately switched to the development of bombers. Since the range of the BF-109 fighter has already reached 800 km, its engine was changed to four rounds, which made it possible to provide an ultra-long-range and bomb-loaded bomber. The world war showed that the market for bombers was far larger than that for fighters, and the Luftwaffe, in view of the threat of British 0-400 bombers, also approved the development of large bombers by the Messersmitt company.

To this end, the Messersmit company specially imported three H2N1 bombers and two Y-40 Airbus planes of Royal Airlines from the Chinese Empire for dismantling and study, and also bought two discarded O-400 bombers from the United States for comparison.

After a comprehensive study, the designers of Messersmitt developed the BW-300 bomber, which was equipped with two 450-horsepower Newport Ib engines, with a shortened wingspan (from 85 feet to 75 feet) and a modified tail. The aircraft first flew on December 2, 1924, with a range of 1,600 kilometers and a cruising speed of 300 kilometers per hour, which even Thunderbolt fighters could not catch up, and on May 4 of the following year, it flew to an altitude of 14,030 feet with a payload of 3,690 pounds.

At the same time, the BW-300 bomber is also equipped with a weapon system, a turret is set up above the nose and tail, and is equipped with a 12.7 mm M2 heavy machine gun imported from the Chinese Empire, which has a certain self-defense capability.

The overall performance of the whole aircraft has surpassed the most advanced H2N1 bomber and O-400 bomber in the current world air force, and the Luftwaffe greatly appreciated this and ordered 100 bombers of this type from the Messersmitt company.

Similarly, the cost of this type of bomber is also high, reaching 610,000 dragon coins. Although it was less expensive than the H2N1 bomber of the Chinese Empire, the former was built eight years ago and is not comparable. At the same time, the cost of producing an H2N1 bomber in the Chinese Empire now is only 240,000 dragon coins. The price-performance ratio is still much higher than that of the BW-300, which is also incomparable to the German aviation industry.

But in any case, the Luftwaffe had its own advanced fighters and bombers, no longer relied on the Chinese Empire as it did during the World War, and it was only with independent research and development and production capacity that it was in line with the development of the German defense industry.

The armored trio of the Chinese Empire was no longer a secret, and various countries actively studied and copied them after the war. Germany is a fanatical admirer of armored weapons.

Eight years after the war, the German Army finally entered service with the No. 1 tank (Type A\B\C) in the summer of 1925 through research on the armored fighting vehicles of the Chinese Empire and the relevant technical support obtained from the Chinese Empire.

Krupp is the main R&D unit of the German main battle tank. After the war, the company built a 6-ton LKA1 prototype of the W16 wheeled infantry tank of the Chinese Empire, which can be called the originator of the first German infantry tank after the war.

The difference is that Germany is limited in the research of high-performance infantry chariot wheels, and the rubber tires produced cannot meet the wheel load standards of the W16 infantry chariot, and the Chinese Empire strictly blocks the rubber synthesis technology. None of the countries, including the allies of the Chinese Empire, had access to this technology, so Krupp had no choice but to replace it with tracked turf. The LKA1 infantry tank has 4 balanced suspension large-diameter load wheels and 2 carrier wheels on each side of the small hull, and the inducing wheels are rear-mounted, and the turret is equipped with 2 machine guns. Soon it was developed into the LKB1 prototype, also known as the LAS-KRUPP (Krupp Agricultural Tractor). The inducing wheels are rear-mounted and grounded, and the number of carrier pulleys is increased to three. The single-man turret was armed with 2 MG34 7.92 mm machine guns. It uses an air-cooled diesel engine produced by Krupp.

The LKB1 was actually the prototype of the German Army's Type 1A tank. Since Germany did not have the technology for wheeled infantry vehicles, they had to replace them with tracks. Therefore, the territory of the three weapons equipped with artillery, machine guns and anti-tank guns was basically the same, so the German Panzer Three Musketeers became the No. 1 Type A tank with a 40 mm main gun, the No. 1 B infantry fighting vehicle with two MG34 machine guns, and the No. 1 Type C tank with anti-tank guns.

The German Weapons Agency accepted the proposal of three prototypes of the Krupp company and gave the standard number ~103 to approve mass production.

The German Army produced 300 No. 1A tanks, which absorbed the technology of the Chinese Empire's M16 tank as a whole, because of the progress of engine technology, the speed of the modified tank exceeded that of the M16, but the tracks were never up to par, and they had to be imported from the Chinese Empire.

200 Type B tanks were produced, but because they could not reach the high-speed mobility of the W16 wheeled infantry fighting vehicles of the Chinese Empire, the tactics of rapid infantry delivery could not be brought into play, so they were not favored by the German Army, and the production was only used for export.

The Z16 anti-tank fighting vehicle of the Chinese Empire played a huge role in the Sino-American tank war, and the artillery fire of the rapidly deployed anti-tank fighting vehicle regiment inflicted heavy losses on the US tank troops, which played a key role in the victory of the tank battle.

Therefore, the German Army attaches great importance to this and strongly supports the development of anti-tank combat vehicles. The Germans liked heavy artillery and were very interested in the 155 mm heavy howitzer of the Chinese Empire, so the C anti-tank combat vehicle was based on the 155 heavy howitzer, which led to the weight of the modified tank being as high as 38 tons, and at the same time, the Germans installed a 20 mm gun on it to make it have the ability to defend itself, which increased the weight. Although the German tracks were not up to par, although the "export" tracks were imported from the Chinese Empire, such a heavy anti-tank combat vehicle reduced the original 300 km life to less than 200 km, putting huge pressure on the German army's logistics.

However, the Germans were very happy to be able to imitate the armored Three Musketeers of the Chinese Empire, believing that in the war against other countries, the Germans would be invincible.

For Germany, in addition to the development of Heinkel fighters, Messersmit bombers, No. 1 tanks and other advanced weapons and equipment, there are other individual combat equipment, etc., basically from the Chinese Empire's active equipment, on the whole, German equipment is still on par with the Chinese Empire, and at the same time they also know that the Chinese Empire cannot stand still eight years after the war, but the latest equipment of the Chinese Empire has been in a state of high secrecy.

Germany provided the Republic of South Africa with these advanced weapons and equipment, on the one hand, to safeguard Germany's interests in South Africa, and on the other hand, it also wanted to test the equipment of the German army in actual combat; at the same time, Germany is an export trading country, and foreign exports are the foundation of Germany's economic recovery, and military exports to South Africa are naturally profiteering.

Armed with advanced German weapons, the South African Republican Army (REC) formed a combat capability of 200,000 troops during the one-year negotiation period, and the superiority of equipment enabled the SAR to quickly break through the South African National Army's defense line.

Although the British behind the South African National Army also gave them advanced weapons and equipment, it was obviously not enough to compete with German equipment.

The Republic of South Africa, which is already demographically weak, has only 120,000 national troops. Mainly infantry, the main armament is the British-made Enfield rifle, the Maxim heavy machine gun, and the armored unit is the British Army's standard Mark 1918 light tank and Greyhound heavy tank, both of which are not enough to compete with the No. 1 tank provided by Germany to the South African Republican Army, especially the latter has anti-tank fighting vehicles, which the South African National Army does not have.

In terms of air force, the South African National Army Air Force has 400 F2B2 fighters and 50 O-100 bombers, and the British did not deploy the most advanced F5 fighters and 0-400 bombers to the South African National Army, because the British authorities did not want to expose the strength of the British Air Force in front of the United League, and at the same time pinned their hopes on the United ** to destroy the Republic of South Africa, so the British carelessness caused the government of the Republic of South Africa to suffer heavy losses at the beginning of the war.

On December 7, 1926, the heavily defended Worcester of South Africa fell, the gateway to Cape Town was opened, and the government of the Republic of South Africa was in a panic and was forced to move its capital to Elizabeth City, because it was the location of the United Command.

During the retreat, the top brass of the Republic of South Africa panicked, and they retreated from the sea to Elizabeth, but ordered the railway from Cape Town to Elizabeth and the bridge along the way to be blown up, resulting in a large number of South African National Army to the Republican Army, which quickly broke down the defense ability of the Republic of South Africa.

On the 8th, the 1st Armored Division of the South African Republican Army broke through Parr, which was heavily defended by the South African National Army, and the 2nd Cavalry Division made a detour from Robertson to Carissu, blocking the way for the South African National Army to retreat to Elizabeth. The 70,000 South African National Army (HNN) could not evacuate due to the bombing of the railway, and the RECA had a cavalry force composed of Boers who successfully carried out a detour to divide and encircle the SANA in Grom, Breda and Hermanus.

On the 9th, the 1st Armored Division of the South African Republican Army drove the 1st Army, the main force of the Nationalist Army, into the sea, and 50,000 Nationalists surrendered. Britain and United ** quickly dispatched warships to shell Breda, blocking the advance of the Republican Army, and quickly rescued more than 10,000 Nationalists in Breda and Grom to the sea.

Thus, less than six days after the start of the war, the main forces of the Republic of South Africa were lost, and the Republic of South Africa occupied two-thirds of the land of the Republic of South Africa, leaving only the Elizabeth region under the joint control of **. (To be continued)