The British and the French were entangled in wanting to seek justice for the Chinese Empire, but the Allies led by Germany contained their forces in Europe, making it impossible for Britain and France to let go of their hands and send their forces to Asia to compete with the Chinese Empire.

The three countries of the Central Powers, Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary, after the end of the war between the Eight-Nation Alliance and Lin Daxin, have also been speeding up the pace of the arms race, and the current strength of the three countries is compared with the military strength of their three countries in history, which is simply incomparable, Italy and Austria-Hungary because of the limited financial resources of their own countries, compared with the strength of the history can only be said to be a large piece stronger, but now Germany's military strength is much stronger than the Germany in history.

At present, the strength of the German standing army is only ranked behind the Chinese Empire and Russia, and the total number of troops has reached 2.8 million, which is 500,000 more than the French standing army behind Germany.

The German army is equipped with a heavy tank and a light tank, even more prominent in some aspects than the heavy Panther tank and the light Black Wolf tank equipped by the Imperial Chinese Army, the German heavy tank weighs 35 tons, has a crew of 4 people, armor 45 mm to 75 mm, uses a diesel engine produced by the Germans, has a maximum speed of 38 kilometers per hour, and is equipped with an 88 mm tank gun, 2 side-by-side machine guns and 1 anti-aircraft machine gun.

The German light tank weighed 20 tons and had a crew of 4 people. Armor 25 mm to 35 mm, also with diesel engines of the Germans' own production. It has a top speed of 45 kilometers per hour and is armed with a 37 mm tank gun. It was also armed with 2 parallel machine guns and 1 anti-aircraft machine gun, just like the heavy tank.

If the German tanks and the tanks of the Chinese Empire meet on the battlefield, it is not certain who will die!

For example, the grenades equipped by the German Army are not only lighter in weight, but also greater in power.

Moreover, although the German Army ranks second to the Chinese Empire and Russia in terms of numbers, the combat effectiveness of the same force is definitely not weaker than that of the Chinese Empire, as for Russia's 3.9 million standing army. In terms of equipment and training, it is far worse than the German Army, and if it really fights, regardless of other factors, the 3.9 million Russian Army may not be able to defeat more than half of the German standing army.

Such a powerful German army, so that Britain and France can not be unscrupulous, and not only the German army is strong, but the German navy has also exploded after several years of development.

At present, the German Navy has 6 Nassau-class dreadnought battleships, 8 Oldenburg-class dreadnought battleships, 10 Westphalen-class dreadnought battleships, and 10 Helgoland-class dreadnought battleships. A total of 34 dreadnought battleships, as well as a large number of warships of other types, including 31 all-steel battleships.

The Oldenburg-class dreadnought battleship is a 305-mm 45-caliber main gun developed by the Germans themselves because the German Navy felt that the 280 mm caliber main guns loaded on the Nassau-class dreadnought battleships were not powerful enough, and decided to build the Oldenburg class and install them on it. More powerful than similar guns of the British Navy. The main gun layout follows the Nassau-class dreadnought-class battleship, with an increased aspect ratio to overcome the Nassau-class defect that the weight of the gun's side turrets causes the warship to roll too much when sailing.

The standard displacement of the Oldenburg-class dreadnought battleships is 19400 tons. The full load displacement is 22,400 tons, and the length of the ship is 161.5 meters. The width of the ship is 27.5 meters, and the maximum draft is 8.2 meters. Designed for a maximum speed of 20 knots, it is equipped with 5 twin 45-caliber 305 mm main guns, 14 150 mm secondary guns, 8 37 mm anti-aircraft guns, 10 anti-aircraft machine guns, 5 500 mm torpedo tubes, horizontal armor belts from 210 mm to 300 mm, deck armor 45 mm, main turret armor 300 mm, conning tower armor 300 mm, and a crew of 840 people.

The Westphalen-class dreadnought battleship is an improved version of the Oldenburg-class dreadnought, in order to increase firepower, the Westphalen-class dreadnought battleship is equipped with 2 more main guns, reaching 12 45 times the caliber 305 mm main gun, the full load displacement also reaches 24,100 tons, and the maximum speed is still 20 knots.

The Helgolan-class dreadnought battleships used more advanced 50 times caliber 305 mm guns, equipped with a total of 10 guns, also double-mounted, and the full load displacement was increased a little, reaching 24,700 tons, and the maximum speed was increased to 21.5 knots.

In addition, the construction of the next class of dreadnoughts of the Germans began, which was called the Caesar class, and at the same time 8 were built at once.

The Caesar-class dreadnoughts were still armed with 10 50-caliber 305mm guns, and for the first time the German-designed hexagonal main turret layout was abandoned since the Nassau-class dreadnoughts, using the weight savings to strengthen the defenses, and the ship's side armor was raised by 50 mm in one fell swoop, from 300 mm to 350 mm for the Helgolan-class dreadnought.

At the same time, the speed of the dreadnought battleship of this class is further improved than that of the Helgoland class, which can reach up to 23 knots, with a standard displacement of 24,724 tons and a full load displacement of 27,000 tons.

Before the Eight-Nation Alliance and Lin Daxin went to war, the German Navy had 38 all-steel battleships, but in the Battle of the Taiwan Strait and the Hong Kong Breakout, 17 all-steel battleships were lost, which reduced the all-steel battleships of the German Navy to 21 after the war, but after the war, 10 German-class all-steel battleships with a full load displacement of 14,218 tons were built one after another. Added to the German Navy's sequence, bringing the number of all-steel battleships in the German Navy to 31.

Such a powerful German Navy. It is also basically deployed in Europe, so that the British Navy is like a fish in the throat. Not to mention the French Navy, whose strength is much worse than that of the German Navy, as for the newly formed German Air Force, because of technical problems, it has not been equipped on a larger scale, and the number of fighters is about the same as that of the British and French.

This is just one Germany, you must know that there are two other countries in the Central Powers, Italy and Austria-Hungary, although the two countries are limited by the problem of national strength, the military strength developed in recent years is not as fierce as Germany. However, as two European powers, their strength should not be underestimated.

Italy's current standing army strength has reached 550,000, ranking tenth in the world according to the calculation of troops, and it is not backward in terms of equipment, and new equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles are also equipped with various Italian units, but these tanks and armored vehicles are developed and produced by Italy itself, and their performance is worse than that of the combat vehicles equipped by Britain and France, not to mention the Chinese Empire and Germany, which have the most advanced combat vehicle performance.

The standing army of Austria-Hungary reached 1.1 million. According to the calculation of troops, it ranks seventh in the world, in terms of army equipment, especially new equipment such as tanks. Most of the Austro-Hungarian Army's army purchased the German Army's active equipment, and the large number of military instructors sent by Germany to the Austro-Hungarian Army made the Austro-Hungarian Standing Army combat effectiveness. In the past few years, there has been a great improvement.

In terms of troops, the eighth place in the army was the Ottoman Turkish Empire. In ninth place is the United States.

The Italian Navy had 4 Dante-class dreadnought battleships and 3 Count Cavour-class dreadnought-class battleships. 16 all-steel battleships, as well as a large number of warships of other types, the ranking of the world navy is in eighth place after the Russian Navy.

The Italian Navy can have 7 dreadnought battleships, which is already the result of Italy tightening its belt, after all, the dreadnought battleships of about 2 million pounds are really not something that ordinary countries can play, and Italy, which is not financially well-off, has no plans to continue to build dreadnoughts for its own navy in the short term after the completion of the construction of 3 Count Cavour-class dreadnought battleships.

The Count Cavour-class dreadnought battleships were designed and built by the Italians on the basis of the Dante-class dreadnought battleships, with a standard displacement of 23,500 tons and a full load displacement of 25,000 tons. The length of the ship is 165.2 meters, the width of the ship is 27.9 meters, the maximum draft is 8.5 meters, the design maximum speed is 22 knots, and it is equipped with 6 twin 50 times caliber 305 mm main guns, 12 120 mm secondary guns, 8 47 mm anti-aircraft guns, and 5 500 mm torpedo tubes, the armor of the Count Cavour-class dreadnought battleship is relatively not thick, with horizontal armor belts of 140 mm to 220 mm, deck armor 37 mm, main turret armor 270 mm, conning tower armor 270 mm, and a crew of 890 people.

Before the last war, the Italian Navy had 20 all-steel battleships, but the Italian expeditionary fleet sent to Asia to participate in the battle was completely wiped out, 4 Queen Margaret-class all-steel battleships, 1 was sunk, 3 became prisoners of the Northeast Navy, and now these 3 all-steel battleships are in service in the sequence of the Imperial Chinese Navy, making the Italian Navy have 16 all-steel battleships left.

The Austro-Hungarian navy was very weak before the war between the Eight-Nation Alliance and Lin Daxin, and the entire Austro-Hungarian navy only had only three all-steel battleships with a displacement of less than 10,000 tons, plus other warships, and the total tonnage of warships fought by the Austro-Hungarian Navy was only 70,000 tons.

Moreover, the Austro-Hungarian navy also lost in that war, including 1 all-steel battleship with a displacement of less than 10,000 tons, 2 ironclad battleships, 4 fast protection cruisers, 4 destroyers and 8 torpedo boats, and its strength was equivalent to more than half of the decline.

However, after the war, Austria-Hungary began to strengthen its naval strength, on the one hand customized 2 Dante-class dreadnought battleships in Italy, on the other hand, a large-scale expansion and transformation of its domestic shipyards, and according to the Italian Dante-class dreadnought battleships, plus some technical support from Germany, Austria-Hungary itself developed and built 4 Austrian-class dreadnought battleships, as well as a large number of other types of warships, so that the total displacement of the Austro-Hungarian Navy suddenly rose to the ninth position of the world's navy.

The Austrian-class dreadnought battleship has a standard displacement of 21,200 tons, a full load displacement of 22,300 tons, and a length of 162 meters. The ship has a width of 26.5 meters, a maximum draft of 8.6 meters, a designed maximum speed of 20 knots, and is equipped with 5 twin 50x caliber 305 mm main guns, 8 155 mm secondary guns, 6 47 mm anti-aircraft guns, 3 533 mm torpedo tubes, horizontal armor belts 220 mm to 280 mm, deck armor 57 mm, main turret armor 310 mm, command tower armor 310 mm, and a crew of 845 people.

However, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was also limited by financial problems, and after the four self-built Austrian-class dreadnought battleships were put into service, there was no further shipbuilding plan.

In addition, Italy and Austria-Hungary also formed new air forces, but the air forces of the two countries are not large, and the number of fighters in each country does not exceed 100.

Generally speaking, the three countries of the Central Powers, Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary, were weaker in overall military strength than the Entente powers, Britain, France, and Russia, but this gap did not allow the British and French to ignore the power of the Central Powers and focus on the Chinese Empire.

And at present, although the Allied and Entente countries have been in the same position because of the interests of Europe, but the two sides are also very restrained, try to avoid causing war, after all, the Entente and the Allied countries are also full of vigilance against the Chinese Empire, the Entente Britain, France and Russia in the eight-nation alliance and Lin Daxin's war, was beaten fat, the Allied Germany, Italy and Austria were not spared, and in that war also suffered a lot of losses, that is, Germany, Italy and Austria 3 countries, there is also a lot of hatred for the Chinese Empire, In this way, a situation of mutual restraint has been formed.

Neither the Entente nor the Central Powers were willing to go to war with each other, or one of them to break out with the Chinese Empire, otherwise someone would have to pick up the bargain.

Maybe only the emperor of the Chinese Empire, Lin Daxin, has an indifferent attitude in his heart, who dares to provoke the Chinese Empire, provoke him Lin Daxin, he will never get used to the other party, the powerful Chinese Empire's navy, land and air forces will make those countries that do not have long eyes regret their intestines. (To be continued......)

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