Chapter 150 150 Romania
After the First World War, the countries of Eastern Europe were anxious to include the land ruled by their legendary ancestors into their own countries, Poland and Romania are typical representatives, and these two countries have received "special care" from Britain and France because of their proximity to the Soviet Union.
After the war, Romania gained the whole of Transylvania, a region dominated by Hungarians and Germans, Bukovina and Bessarabia, two regions dominated by Ruthenians and Ukrainians, and South Dobroga, a region dominated by Bulgarians. The result of this "frenzied" expansion was that Romania had three close enemies: the Soviet Union, which was devastated but still alive and ready to retaliate, a resentful Hungary, and a disgruntled, muttering Bulgaria. Eventually, these three "neighbors" will "help" Romania to complete an unforgettable "metamorphosis......
After the war, Romania was rebuilding economically (especially in oil extraction) very quickly, but politically it fell into a sad state, although friendly relations were established with Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and the so-called "Little Entente", but in 1924, the former leader of the student movement, Codrianu, established the Iron Guard.
The Great Crisis of 1929-1933 was an opportunity for all radical or slightly radical groups – such as the Nazis and the Greater German Party – as did the Romanian Iron Guard, whose slogan "one man, one acre" turned many landless peasants to it, and won the support of some dissatisfied with the status quo in the cities, although its influence was negligible for a long time in parliamentary elections.
However, the threat is getting more and more severe, and the Hungarians and Bulgarians next door are okay, but the Soviet Union, with the help of German engineering on the other side of the Dniester River, is gradually recovering, especially its huge army, if the improvement in efficiency is still relatively limited, but it is undoubtedly stronger in scale and equipment, and Romania's weapons are still being updated unhurriedly. However, the Soviets were not willing to move Romania, which had two backers from Britain and France, for the time being, especially because they were worried that the Germans would take it away.
But things will not happen because of the fears of the USSR. The Romanians were shocked by the speed with which Germany rose after the war, and its determination to intervene abroad was greater than the Romanian king had imagined. When the Romanians welcomed Angela Merkel, the German envoy, many politicians may have been prepared to back down as a last resort.
As a result, before Merkel could start her diplomatic mediation with Romania, she ushered in an unexpected country: Hungary. The country was originally supported by Britain and France, but at one point it somehow sided with Germany, and I don't know if the country's leaders were too whimsical, or if they did have great wisdom.
Merkel's trip to Romania was not an unprepared assault, but the result of two years of painstaking operation by dozens of institutions throughout Germany. They helped Germany establish a man of affairs in Romania, and this man was Antonescu.
With the help of this Antonescu, Merkel almost effortlessly persuaded His Majesty to make the dim-witted Romanian monarch do a complete wall-riding: eighty percent of the oil in the stock was sold to the British at twice the price of Middle Eastern oil, and the remaining twenty percent had the right to buy oil for the next two years to the Germans.
The British made an effort to do so, swallowing their desire to maintain their alliance with Romania, and for this they did not hesitate to pay huge sums of money for oil. However, apparently they failed, and at the last minute they learned that they had been sold by Romania. Annoyed, the British refused to pay for the goods and embezzled the first tens of thousands of barrels of oil sent from Romania to Britain. The Germans generously advanced the funds to the British, much to the delight of the Romanian king.
The Germans were not idle, as they seized two British custom battleships that were being housed in Kiel Military Harbour and threatened the British government with a reasonable explanation for the recent series of provocations against Germany.
In the end, the British compromised, and they needed time to digest the fruits of their victory, and they also saw Germany's ambitions and moves to move eastward from Germany's involvement in Romania, so this time they chose to back down. Britain declared that it would not interfere in the internal affairs of Romania and apologized for the German shipwreck.
Germany did not gain an inch and immediately continued to build two super battleships for Britain, and the Krupp factory worked overtime to manufacture 16 381 mm cannons for these two battleships. However, not far from the dockyard of the two British custom battleships in the port of Kiel, the two Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers have also entered the stage of assembling the hulls.
Of course, this deal was a game-changer for Romania. Germany paid for oil with the No. 2 and early models of the No. 3 tank, and more oil payments were made by Romania to buy the world's most advanced high-altitude superfighter Me-109C directly from Germany. Including the 38T tanks and machine-gun rifles imported from Czechoslovakia, the Romanian army completed its long-awaited modernization in an instant, and His Majesty the King trusted his new ally even more.
Even a lot of the equipment that Germany has obsolete is obsolete: old gas masks, armored vehicles with complex designs, Y-shaped tactical harnesses. It is still a coveted upgrade for many armies, such as in the Far East, where the price of an original Mauser rifle can even be bought in the Czech Republic. So Romania didn't feel anything bad about the equipment it got in the slightest.
Antonescu had already been Minister of War in 1933, and although he was considered a pro-British faction, he had long since joined the pro-German Iron Guard, and with the infiltration and temptation of Germany, his thinking changed dramatically, and in his opinion, Germany was bound to win future wars, and only by standing with Germany could Romania be protected.
For a time, Antonescu's Iron Guard became the only legal political party in Romania, and as soon as he came to power, he signed a treaty with Germany, allowing German troops to enter the country for assistance in training troops, etc., and tied Romania tightly to the German chariot.
But even Accardo was amused to discover the fact that almost all the leaders in his camp had a strange self-proclaimed title - he himself was the head of Germany, the friendly Japanese leader called himself emperor, Mussolini liked to call himself leader, Franco called himself a general, and Antonescu, the puppet regime of Romania, appointed himself "chief......
Soon Britain got a terrible piece of information that Germany had sent some of its military supplies to Romania. In order to help each other in joint operations, the Romanian helmet was replaced with an M25 steel helmet, and the Romanian army was armed with a Mauser 98K and a variety of infantry equipment to become the German Wehrmacht ten years ago.
Even more depressed than the British was the Chiang Kai-shek clique in the Far East, because they wanted to redress the Romanian troops on a large scale, and the German * fire supplied to the Far East was out of stock. The original 100 million rounds of ammunition and various long guns and short cannons were gone, and Chiang Kai-shek's plan to strengthen the army had to suffer another setback.
Because of the German arms embargo, Japan, which had received the sweetness, agreed to the request of the Germans and ordered the destroyer fleet, which had always been very small, to go south to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where a small artillery exercise was held, so that the British were forced to distract themselves from the Far East.
Sometimes Accardo really felt that he had chosen a hellish mode when he crossed over, and that Japan had taken advantage of the chaos to lay down the white mountains and black soil of three entire provinces in the three eastern provinces, and it was just that the powers shouted twice and beat him, and he drove away an arms control committee on his side, which caused such a splashing trouble.
Think about it, there are still a lot of discounts for those traversers who go back to resist the Japanese, either with light brains or dragging bases -- what do you want for artillery and planes, what do you want for oil, wood, aluminum, iron, molybdenum, titanium, and what do you want. On his side, he saved up his belongings with a few cannons every day, and he broke his heart for so many tons of petroleum and rubber every day, and people picked up girls to talk about romance and run newspapers, and they took back the lost land in minutes. It's really better than people to die, and goods have to be thrown away.
Of course, then again, even if Gu Changge, who became Accardo Rudolph, a chance to choose, he would not choose to be reincarnated in Japan for many reasons: for example, he didn't like bowing, for example, he didn't like seppuku, for example, he didn't like the phrase "Baga", which was full of negative feelings—of course, if he could change the name of Japan to the Donghai Province of China, that would be a different matter.
Closer to home, Accardo was relieved to learn that Romania had eventually become a dependent ally of Germany - he didn't want to rush into a world war in 1936, and he needed time to make his Wehrmacht stronger, strong enough to withstand not only dazzling blitzkriegs, but also brutal wars of attrition.
It is gratifying that no matter what, the development of Germany's navy, land and air forces will no longer be restricted, and what he has to do is to use the vision of his previous life to check the frenzied development of German equipment, so that these fighters can operate more perfectly.