"Food, is only one aspect, the basis of our two countries' cooperation, then we can have in-depth exchanges on other issues, if I say, we can provide your country with all kinds of continued ammunition and spare parts, I don't know what your country thinks." Xu Jie asked with a smile.

"As the world's highest industrial level and the second largest industrial country, how can it lack production capacity? I am very puzzled by this. Or ridiculously. "Prince Henry has finally been given a chance to attack, and he naturally won't give up." I have full confidence that the industry of the German Empire will definitely be able to support it until the end of the war. ”

"I am well aware of your country's production capacity, but is your country aware of the consumption of ammunition and materiel in modern warfare? Let's listen to the analysis of the professionals. Xu Jie gestured to Peng Yi.

"I once checked the army's ammunition consumption during the Franco-Prussian War, and then compared it with the consumption of the Chinese Army in previous battles, and came to a very difficult conclusion, I don't know if you are interested?" Peng Yi said and took out a document from his bag, and after Prince Henry nodded, Peng Yi continued.

"In your country's archives, in 1870 the number of rounds of ammunition that could be allocated to each rifle in your army should have been 200 rounds, and these 200 rounds were not the number carried by soldiers, but included soldiers' carrying, transportation, and storage stockpiles. Am I right? General Hindenburg? Peng Yi asked.

"Your Excellency is right, we used only 56 rounds of ammunition per rifle for six months." Hindenburg added. "But the Chinese Army was in the Sino-Japanese War. We had 200 rounds of ammunition for each rifle, and in just one month, we were able to run out of ammunition. Peng Yi said with a smile.

"The consumption of bullets is only a minor issue. Let's take a look at the consumption of artillery shells, in that year, the consumption of each artillery gun of the German army in the Franco-Prussian War was 199 shells, but in the process of our army's attack on the fortress of Vladivostok, each 75MM gun fired an average of 150 shells, and the siege of the fortress of Vladivostok lasted only a few days. We have so much to consume. I have to say that this is definitely a challenge for your country's logistics supply. ”

"Now, let's make a systematic assessment of ammunition consumption. On the march. A division of the Chinese Army needs to consume about 20 vehicles of various supplies every day, and once it enters the state of positional warfare, the daily consumption of non-ammunition weapons will drop to about 15 vehicles. However, the daily ammo consumption is the consumption of 24 standard carts! And this is just the normal consumption of ammunition, not counting the breakage of weapons. Peng Yi paused and continued.

"In 1870, the power of the cannonball was very small, after hitting a cannon. Usually, you can continue to use it with a different gun mount. But what about now? Even if the Russian army is quite fragile in firepower, it can still suppress the opponent's artillery to a certain extent, and in the Sino-Russian War, the Chinese Army alone had more than 500 artillery pieces destroyed by the opponent. This cannot but be said to be a great challenge to your country's military supplies. "I'm just talking about the consumption of weapons and ammunition. In the face of such huge industrial consumption, do you dare to say that you are ready to deal with it? And even if your country comes and expands its production capacity, the available population will be another constraint. The army needs the population, the logistics transport is needed, the agro-industry is needed, in this case. Was the 60 million population of the German Empire really enough?

"General Peng said that modern warfare consumes ammunition, so let me talk about the need for transportation in modern warfare." Zhan Tianyou, who is in charge of the work of the Ministry of Industry, said with a smile. "I know that your country is preparing for future wars. Military horse farms have been established all over the country, and in terms of effect, at least from the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, your country's military horse transport capacity can meet the needs of the front. We have also referred to the experience of your country, but in practice, we have found that the simple horse transportation capacity is no longer enough to meet the needs of the army for mobility in a large area, especially if your country intends to advance the front to the heart of Russia! ”

"In 1870, there were only 457 carts for an army in your country to transport all the supplies and supplies, but in 1900, when our country was at war with the Russians, a corps of military size needed at least 900 carts, which doubled the number. This does not include the vehicles required to replenish the troops with depleted mobile reserves, which are often in larger quantities. In other words, in a future war, your country will need about three times as many carts as it did in 1870. The problem with this is the explosion in the number of horses. ”

"As for the consumption of horses, I think you should be more familiar than us, a horse consumes 10 times the weight of grain and grass than a soldier, and we have requisitioned more than 42,000 pack horses in the Sino-Russian War, and the consumption of forage has reached 1 million pounds per day! This requires more than 400 standard carts to transport the feed for it! If your country were to march into the hinterland of Russia, Russia's own railway network would not be perfect, and without the railway, the main means of transportation, your country would become more dependent on horses, and the grain and grass of these horses themselves would be a very large quantity, and at the same time occupy a large amount of capacity! Well, the question arises, if your country wants to defeat Russia, how to solve this logistical transportation problem? Zhan Tianyou asked.

"We can make cars, and Mercedes-Benz can provide a lot of car production capacity for the empire." Prince Henry replied.

"I believe that, but I want to say that the cars made by the Chinese Republic in the practical German technology are cheaper, do you believe it? We have cheaper labor, have a more advanced way of production organization, although from the technical point of view, we are not as good as your country, and even a lot of key components of the engine need to be imported, but in terms of production capacity, we still have our own advantages, we can not only provide your country with a large number of ammunition and weapon parts, but also can provide your country with a large number of transport tools and related accessories according to the principle of standardization. Xu Jie said with a smile.

"Is that all? Anything else? Prince Henry said with some discouragement, none of the conditions proposed by Xu Jie were something he could refuse. At present, there is no government in the world except China that can afford the food and horse fodder of tens of millions of Germans during the war. In addition to China, Germany can not find a country that can seamlessly connect with German industry in industry, Britain, France, the United States and Italy, these industrial powers, each has its own set of standards, even if the Americans are willing to sell to the Germans, then the German army will continue to import American parts while using American products, unless the Germans make a new industrial system according to American standards, otherwise the products purchased by Germany will become a pile of scrap iron! Now, if some of the industries of the Huaxia Republic can be Germanized, then the two sides will be an industrial system, and it will be quite cost-effective in terms of time and cost.

The current situation is already obvious, it is not that China must rely on the German Empire, even without the help of Germany, with the help of the half-hearted British, China can still defeat Russia, and have a thrilling way to survive the greatest dangerous period after the founding of the People's Republic of China. After the end of the war, regardless of whether other countries want to or not, China will stand in the East as an equal to the European powers, and the British, Italians and even the French will still do business with China, after all, no one can get along with money, as long as China does not do anything with Britain and France and other countries in the Far East, then the relationship between Britain and France and China will at least maintain a general harmony.

And what about Germany? Now the situation is already obvious, there will be a big war in Europe after all, and after the war, all German foreign aid will be cut off, and it can only rely on its own strength to fight against the old empires of Britain, France and Russia, and Germany is not afraid of industry, but in terms of resource consumption, the Germans really have no chance to compare with Britain and France, and the resources that can be mobilized by the two colonial powers with more than tens of millions of colonies are simply too much! The only way for Germany to do so was to reserve enough resources to defeat Russia before forcing Britain and France to negotiate. And there is only one country that can provide so many resources, and that is Huaxia! Germany has no other choice, at least for now!

"There is no shortage of iron ore or coal in your country, but there is a lack of metals such as manganese, tungsten, and tin, and the current industry is no longer supported by steel alone. And these resources are available in China, so why can't we sit together and trade fairly? Xu Jie continued to enlighten.

"But your country does not have the resources that Germany needs most, and if you have them, we can consider accepting your full proposal. We don't want any privileges or anything, I wonder if your country can do it? Prince Henry was silent for three minutes before finally speaking.

"I know what your country needs, oil and rubber! Am I right? In your country, there are some rubber plantations in Hainan Province in China. Elsewhere there is almost no rubber, and as for oil, we ourselves need to import, so do you think that we are not in a position to provide your country with these two most critical resources? Xu Jie said with a smile.

"Isn't it?" Prince Henry asked rhetorically.

"Once, Trans-Khingan Mountains and Sakhalin Island were also seized by the Russians, and now they are not recovered by our country? One of our enemies in this battle is the Dutch, and the Dutch East Indies have enough oil and rubber for your country! Even now, we can't get our hands on the oil fields, but we can still supply your country with rubber! Many rubber plantations are under the control of Chinese businessmen, which is not difficult for us. Xu Jie's words are no less powerful than a bombshell!

Thank you for the reward at the beginning of the new life of the book friend, no one has rewarded for more than a week, thank you very much~~~. (To be continued......)