Chapter 736: The Grand Opening Ceremony of the War
readx; It is almost impossible for Germany's expansion to stop on its own initiative, because Germany, which has embarked on the pace of expansion, cannot stop at all, and once it stops, it will have to finish itself. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Therefore, after Germany occupied the Sudetenland at the end of 1938, it once again made territorial claims to Czechoslovakia in 1939, and then brazenly invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, and successfully crushed the resistance of the Czechs and occupied the Czech territory.
At this time, Hitler's ambitions were almost exposed to the whole world, but he didn't care, as soon as the Czech strategy ended, the German army immediately began to secretly prepare to attack Poland, in this case, Britain and France, even if they were stupid, knew that the Germans were not so easy to satisfy, the German threat was getting bigger and bigger day by day, and Britain and France were also forced to carry out large-scale arms expansion.
At this time, even in China far away in the East, many people knew that Europe was about to fight again, and unlike Britain and France, the Chinese were extremely excited, a large number of Chinese businessmen went to Europe to look for business opportunities, and countless orders from Europe began to pour in to China, making China present the wartime economic grandeur of the First World War.
Beginning in 1938, when Europe was shrouded in the clouds of war, the industries of China and the United States were developing vigorously, especially on the United States side, the production capacity that had been squeezed for many years began to be liberated, and these orders allowed the United States to really get out of the economic downturn.
China has also profited from this feast of orders, with a large number of industrial products, including antibiotics in pharmaceutical products, canned food for military consumption, and even cloth and various important strategic raw materials pouring into the European region.
Due to the tense situation in Europe, the prices of various raw materials around the world have risen sharply, such as the price of tungsten ore, antimony ore and other rare minerals exported by China to Germany has almost doubled, and even if the price is high, the Germans continue to send orders, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, these countries have benefited countries in other regions a lot, not only China and the United States, the two industrial powers, have gained a lot of economic immediacy, even Soviet Russia has also benefited a lot, and has made a lot of wealth from Germany. Even the Russian Republic in Asia, as Benjamin and North Korea, have benefited a lot from exports to Europe.
To put it simply, the rest of the world has benefited greatly from the war preparations carried out by the four major European powers, and with the influence of such factors, it is not to blame that Chen Jingyun, Roosevelt, and Stalin secretly supported the growing tension in Europe.
In addition to the tense situation in Europe, diplomats from various countries are also in tense contact, trying to find more allies, Germany is in 1938, many times to send friendly messages to China, Hitler even invited Chinese President Chen Jingyun more than once to visit Germany, but was politely rejected by China.
Germany's mind is to form an alliance with China, so that China, Germany, and Italy can form a three-country axis, and even want to pull Ben in, and then use the four countries to form a strong challenge to Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union, but what Chen Jingyun wants is to obtain benefits, and Chen Jingyun is not very optimistic about Germany, and the alliance with Germany is more harmful than good. If the United States in these years is determined to unite with Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, Chen Jingyun does not want to directly confront the United States, which will not benefit China much.
However, military alliances are not good, but it is still feasible to give some diplomatic support and commercial cooperation, and China has provided Germany with a lot of raw materials in recent years, many of which are extremely important strategic raw materials, such as pharmaceutical products, such as important rare metals.
The military-technical cooperation between the two countries is also very close, Germany has the liquid-cooled aero-engine technology that China needs, the high-power submarine diesel engine technology that China needs, and of course, more importantly, the technology of Germany's basic materials, especially the technology on various alloys, is also what China needs. In addition to the engine is not the best, China's aircraft technology is ahead of other countries in the world, China's F4 fighter is even the Germans want good goods, and China has provided the Germans with military aircraft technology, and has successfully developed several advanced military aircraft.
In addition, in the navy, Germany's own naval technology is actually still at the level of the end of World War I, and the overall surname is far inferior to the navies of other countries, while China does not dare to say that it is catching up with Britain and the United States in the navy, but it is still much stronger than Germany.
The main guns were the technology provided by the Shanghai Naval Arsenal, and the Germans' own naval guns were not higher than they were at the end of World War I.
This kind of interactive military-technical cooperation began in the early thirties, and the two countries have obtained the benefits they need, and it goes without saying that the military-technical cooperation with China has made Germany's expansion extremely smooth, especially in tanks, their tank technology level in 1936 was only at the level of the end of World War I, but in just two years, a new generation of tanks was developed, that is, the No. 4 tank, which greatly borrowed from the design of the Chinese T9 tank. The surname Noh is much stronger than the historical tank four.
Because of the emergence of China, in fact, the development level of various equipment of the air forces and armies of various countries in this time and space is higher than that of the original time and space, and even he himself has come up with a medium tank with a good surname.
And China has also got a lot of good things from Germany, in addition to a variety of basic industries such as materials and precision machining, the most important should belong to the technology of liquid-cooled aero engines, the engine department of Chuzhou Aircraft Company cooperated with Germany, and developed a high-power liquid-cooled aero engine in 1937, and this liquid-cooled aero engine called CS1100 is based on the German DB601 engine imitation, The surname can be improved a lot compared to the liquid-cooled engine developed by the aviation department of Shanghai Power Company, the power has increased by a full 200 horsepower, and more importantly, the reliability surname has improved a lot, although the liquid-cooled engine developed by the aviation department of Shanghai power company is also good, but the reliable surname is poor, so that the Chinese Air Force has not dared to equip.
As soon as this CS1100 engine was developed, it was immediately used as the standard power for a new generation of air force military aircraft, and a new generation of fighters and bombers was developed according to this engine, which is very beneficial to the surname of the new generation of aircraft of the Chinese Air Force.
The emergence of the CS1100 engine is also the first time to make the difference between the aircraft models of the Chinese Air Force and the Navy, because the next generation of aircraft scheduled by the Air Force are ready to use liquid-cooled aero engines as power, but the Navy due to the needs of maintenance and damage resistance, in addition, the combat altitude of the Air Force fighter is generally relatively high, and the combat airspace of the naval aircraft is generally relatively low, because the liquid-cooled engine has an advantage in the high-altitude field, but the air-cooled engine has an advantage in the low-altitude field, Therefore, the navy is opposed to equipping liquid-cooled engines, but hopes to continue to equip air-cooled engines, and in fact, the carrier-based aircraft equipped by the navies of various countries in this era are basically air-cooled, and the Chinese Navy is also unavoidable.
In addition to technical limitations, there are also limitations in production capacity. In fact, there are only two aero engine R&D and design manufacturers in China, one is the aero engine department of Chuzhou Aircraft Company, and the other is the aviation department of Shanghai Power Company. Chuzhou Aircraft Company started late, in the air-cooled engine technology is average, but because of the technical cooperation with Germany, so in the liquid-cooled engine ahead of Shanghai Power Company, and Shanghai Power Company, as China's old aero engine manufacturers, its production of various types of air-cooled engines has always been the standard engine of various aircraft in China, but its own research and development of liquid-cooled engines level average.
In this case, in order to ensure the maximum production capacity, Chuzhou Aircraft Company must continue to produce air-cooled engines while letting Shanghai Power Company continue to produce air-cooled engines, so as to form the maximum production capacity, otherwise the liquid-cooled engines produced by Chuzhou Aircraft Company alone will not be able to meet the huge needs of the Navy and Air Force.
Seeing that Germany could not reach a military alliance with China, it quickly changed its goal and said, "itself", but the "this" in this time and space is much more scruples than the "" in the original time and space, and if it cooperates with Germany, because there is a China in the middle, it will not be able to flank Soviet Russia with Germany as it has in history. It could only be when Germany was at war with Britain and France in Europe, and it was said that "it could only attack the Southeast Asian colonies of Britain, France and the Netherlands."
However, there is also China and the United States behind it, so he said, "I didn't dare to act rashly, and I didn't sign an alliance with Germany as in history."
However, as the situation in Europe began to become tense, it was impossible to say, 'I am not impressed, you must know that it has had many conflicts with Britain because of the problem of New Guinea, and I want to seize the whole island of New Guinea.'"
When a major war broke out in Europe, no one could guarantee that Ben would not take advantage of this opportunity to expand the interests of Southeast Asia.
China said that both countries had rejected the German alliance very reasonably, but they did not discourage Germany from continuing to expand.
In June 1939, Germany and Soviet Russia signed a non-aggression pact, followed by a secret treaty to partition Poland, so in July 1939, after several months of secret preparations, the German navy, land and air forces finally launched an attack on Poland in the early morning of July 25, 1939!
After years of brewing, the Second World War officially kicked off with a grand prelude, and as the host country of the prelude ceremony of the world war, the Germans presented the grandest salute of the century with countless shells for this prologue ceremony.
World War II officially broke out, and Yutian will do his best to perform a gorgeous and bloody world war for all the officials!
There are large-scale tank battles, as well as sea and air battles that determine the fortunes of the country, and there are touching family and love in addition to blood!