Chapter 846: Danger and Opportunity
As the middle of winter passes gradually, spring is about to return to the earth. The Allies and the Allies are accumulating strength. The sea confrontation has more or less affected Britain, but not France. Britain has agreed that after the beginning of spring, it will send a large number of troops to France and prepare to launch a large-scale counterattack in France, striving to repel Germany for a distance and make France's situation better.
This has been confirmed, and the situation of the Mediterranean seas, and the other is the proposed by Churchill. Regarding Iraq's military operations, these have almost formed the entire British military operations in the middle of winter. While mobilizing a large fleet, they fought against Germany head-on on the Atlantic Ocean. Britain really feels like it is a world of ice and fire.
While Britain and France were preparing to launch a large-scale raid, Germany was not idle either. The General Staff not only formulated a plan to block the UK by submarines, but also formulated a huge army plan.
The severe winter has not only become a time for Britain, France, Russia and other countries to breathe and recover, but also a time for Germany to concentrate its forces and strategically mobilize. In the winter, a large number of personnel and troops were mobilized and a large number of troops were formed to take over Paris in one fell swoop after the beginning of spring. The ones who are now besieging Paris are still the previous troops, but their technical equipment, material reserves, and even some special attack weapons have been in place one by one.
Previously, he used the airship to capture the Liege Fortress, but the large-caliber artillery was not used. Now the rear continued to produce and transported 24 large-caliber 420mm artillery to the front line. These guys weighing 42 tons were urgently produced in winter. Although they were greatly insufficient compared to airships, their continuous combat capabilities were not comparable to those of airships. When the 420mm artillery sent a ton of shells to the fortress. Even if it was a fire of one minute, 30 minutes, it was enough to pour 30 tons, which was almost the largest load capacity of the airship.
In addition to these heavy artillery, 200 mm and more than 100 mm artillery were transported one after another. Now, there are four fronts around Paris. They have almost 1.05 million people and 5,000 artillery pieces of more than 100 mm. Among them, 2,000 are heavy artillery pieces of more than 180 mm. As long as the time is determined, these artillery will burst into artillery fire towards Paris, and the huge airship formation will fight fiercely with the other side. At that time, a million troops will sweep across Paris and go down in one fell swoop.
The General Staff has performed several deductions on the Battle of Paris, and the results of each time are quite good. This allows the General Staff to continue to deduce the subsequent offensive. After attacking Paris, the offensive on the Western Front will be relatively calm. The German army's mission is to consolidate the Paris defense line and strive to digest the land that has been captured. If the British and French heavy-armed clusters in Bordeaux do not have a certain time to weaken and attack, it is impossible to achieve results. Instead of attacking that cluster head-on, it is better to attack the other side, which belongs to Russia.
In winter, a new group of troops was also formed. They drew senior officers from various German staff and army departments, plus some promoted officers and alternate officers, and formed a total of 52 German military advisors with 1.1 million people. This part of the new army will not be sent to the cruel Western Front battlefield. They will replace the army on the Eastern Front. Compared with France, which is strictly guarding, Russia is a more delicious food. After taking Paris, all German teams will quickly turn, rush their troops to advance eastward, attack Russia's hinterland, and strive to occupy as much Russian territory as possible and annihilate more enemies. The first target of this attack on Russia is Kulun.
The emergence of Northwest airships and large fuel units has made Germany realize the huge role of oil, especially those supported by Northwest, as well as the cars purchased by Germany in the future. This is simply a multiplier for logistics. A car will definitely pull more than a horse and much faster than a horse. Especially when road conditions allow, the role played by the car is very critical.
After tasting the benefits of cars, I also clearly realized the weakness of cars. Without oil, cars could not play any role. Oil has become a very important strategic resource. In the whole of Europe, there are not many oil producing areas, and only Russia is the oil-producing area. Of course, there were also several small oil fields in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which have been fully utilized by Germany. However, if Coulon was taken down, it would be huge to have reserves, which could reduce Germany's dependence on oil and foreign countries. From the German border to the huge distance, for Germany, it represents real interests and greatly expanding Germany's land area. Therefore, fighting against Russia is the focus.
Neither side stopped investigating each other's intelligence, but both sides did a good job of keeping confidentiality in this regard. Within the border, when the war came, they were basically the army, and everyone was closely guarding. The previous spy war between Belgium and northern France made Germany angry, and of course they would not relax their vigilance. The defenses in the country were very in place, and even strengthened defenses in Belgium and northern France. Although Britain and France had spies here, their activities were restricted, and millions of people were missing, and military control was implemented. In this case, no spy dared to take action.
The other party cannot obtain first-hand information, but some simple external environments are easy to monitor. The most important thing is that Germany has obtained a lot of information in the United States.
Germany has been monitoring the situation of the United States and is absolutely vigilant about the United States. If there is another country in this world that has always received their fear, it is the United States, with several times the steel production capacity, two or three times the population, and a unique environment, the United States is definitely a great enemy.
The Americans seemed not aware that the protection of intelligence seemed to have been peaceful for a long time. On the surface, they were perfunctory in Germany, but at home, they made drastic preparations. Almost all enterprises related to military industry have entered the state of military control. The National Guard was incorporated into the National Defense Force. The National Defense Force, which originally had only a hundred thousand, expanded 10 times on its original basis. For 10 years, they have retired from the army and cannot continue to engage in military work unless there is strict evidence.
This is an almost universal mobilization, perhaps at the beginning, it can be hidden from unfamiliar things, but with the deepening of military mobilization, more and more information began to spread in the United States and became closer to the truth.
The Americans' actions scared Germany. The United States, who had always been vigilant, was really ready to take action. They also needed to make plans early to be caught off guard. The American navy and army would more or less make the German Alexander. For the first time, he wanted someone to share the burden. Other important partners among the allies, Turkey, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and even Italy, were there when they were fighting and getting cheap, but if they really had a tough battle, they could only bear it themselves in the whole world.
Through secret channels, they learned about the news of the American army's general mobilization, which put huge pressure on Germany. They almost thought of the Northwest at the first time and immediately asked Mummer to notify the Northwest of the Northwest, requiring only one, that is, when the United States accessed the war, the Northwest could provide support. Even without actual support, material and weapons and equipment support, it was essential.
United States, Yang Yuanzhao looked at the top-secret information that Mumo turned around. He knew very well that the United States would almost certainly be connected to World War I. However, in history, the time when the United States entered World War I was three years after the outbreak of World War I. With the help of these three years, the United States absorbed a large amount of funds and wealth from Britain, France and Russia, and joined the World War I in the final stage. It was a final decision and won the entire war. But now, the war has only been about two months since it started. Are you ready to intervene?
Yang Yuanzhao was unable to determine whether it was because he changed history and made the Germans too strong that the wings of the United States, the butterfly, that he could not care about it and did not agree to Germany's more conditions, because it was unnecessary for the time being, but some preparations still need to be made. China has been divided for so long and has been reunited. Only by concentrating China's manpower and material resources together can it play a more role.
Originally, Yang Yuanzhao's idea was to make as much money as possible in a battle. Now the Northwest products are already Xiaowang World. It can be said without hesitation that the Northwest has become the world's factory. In a sense, he cannot get the core orders from Britain, France and Russia. Those belong to the Americans. Only when the United States cannot produce them will they choose.
The things that the Americans missed were fed Japan during the war, turning Japan from a backward agricultural country that had not yet been completely changed into a powerful industrial country. However, these could not satisfy China that had developed. Fortunately, they had made deals with the allies in advance, and the orders of an allies were also OK, especially when Germany swept across Europe, countless civil wealth was plundered by the occupying countries. This is the core law and rule of this world, and he must earn this money.
The emergence of Americans can be said to have opened a door for the Northwest to accelerate production and intervene in the world situation. This money is crucial to China's development. As for how the Northwest should choose in the future, it needs to be carefully considered. In the face of the world situation where whites are the mainstream, the Northwest must make a careful choice so that it can gradually expand the influence of the Chinese people, and even promote the Chinese nation to rise again. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!