Chapter 150 150 Romania
After World War I, Eastern European countries were eager to include all the lands ruled by their legendary ancestors into their own countries. Poland and Romania were typical representatives. These two countries received "special care" from Britain and France because of their proximity to the Soviet Union. In order to strengthen the emerging countries in Eastern Europe to fight against the Soviet Union as much as possible, Britain and France supported Poland and Ronaldinho expanded their land. Unexpectedly, this actually weakened these two small countries.
After the war, Romania obtained the entire Transylvania, a region dominated by Hungarians and Germans, Bukovina and Bisarabia, two regions dominated by Rosenians and Ukrainians, and Nandobrokar, a region dominated by Bulgarians. The result of this "crazy" expansion is that Romania has three enemies that are close to each other: the Soviet Union, which was seriously injured but still had a skeleton, the Soviet Union was determined to retaliate, the resentful Hungary, and the dissatisfied and mumbled Bulgaria. In the end, these three "neighbors" will "help" Romania complete a "transformation" that makes it unforgettable...
After the war, Romania did a very fast economic (especially oil extraction) but fell into a sad state of politics. Although friendly relations were established with Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, and the so-called "small allies" appeared, in 1924, former student movement leader Kodriana Nu established the Iron Guard.
The great crisis of 1929-1933 was an opportunity for all extreme or slightly extreme organizations—such as the Nazis and the Great German Party, and the Romanian Iron Guards, whose slogan "one person, one acre" turned many farmers who lost their land to it, and won the support of some people who were dissatisfied with the status quo in the city, but in parliamentary elections, the influence of the Iron Guards was insignificant for a long time.
However, the threat is getting worse and worse. The Hungarians and Bulgarians next door are still fine, but the Soviet Union, which has helped German engineering on the other side of the Transnistria River, is gradually recovering its vitality, especially its huge army. If the improvement in efficiency is relatively limited, its scale and equipment are undoubtedly stronger, and Romania's weapons renewal is still underway. However, the Soviets are not willing to move Romania, which has two backers behind Britain and France, especially they have to worry about the Germans taking it away.
But things would not happen because of the Soviet Union's concerns. Germany's rise after the war shocked the Romanians, and its determination to intervene abroad was greater than that of the Romanian kings. When the Romanians welcomed the German envoy Merkel, many politicians might have been prepared to make concessions if they had no choice.
As a result, before Merkel could start diplomatic mediation with Romania, she ushered in an unexpected surrender country: Hungary. This country was originally supported by Britain and France, but at one point she inexplicably took the side of Germany. I don’t know if the leaders of this country were too whimsical or indeed had great wisdom.
Merkel's trip to Romania was not an unprepared assault, but the result of two years of hard work by dozens of institutions in Germany. They helped Germany establish a person in Romania, and this person was Antonescu.
With the help of Antonescu, Merkel persuaded His Majesty the King almost without any effort to make the foolish Romanian monarch do a complete fence: he sold 80% of the stock of oil to the British at twice the price of Middle Eastern oil, and secretly sold the remaining 20% of the oil purchase rights for the next two years to the Germans.
The British tried their best to maintain their ally with Romania and paid huge amounts of oil for this. However, they obviously failed and only realized that they had been betrayed by Romania at the last moment. The angry British refused to pay the payment and embezzled the first tens of thousands of barrels of oil sent to Britain by Romania. The Germans generously paid the funds for the British, which made the Romanian king overjoyed.
The Germans were not idle either. They seized two British custom battleships in the port of Kiel and threatened that the British government must provide a reasonable explanation to illustrate a series of recent provocations against Germany.
In the end, the British compromised and gained the benefits of Middle East oil. They needed time to digest the fruits of victory. They also saw Germany's ambition and actions to advance eastward from Germany's involvement in Romania, so this time they chose to give in. The UK declared that it would never interfere in Romania's internal affairs and apologized for the German shipwreck.
Germany did not make any progress and immediately continued to build two super battleships for Britain. The Krupp factory worked overtime to build 16 381mm caliber cannons for these two battleships. However, not far from the docks of the two British custom battleships in Kiel Harbor, the two Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers have entered the stage of assembling the hull. Compared with the few deserted workers on the British custom battleships, the construction site there can be described as being very hot.
Of course, this transaction brought earth-shaking changes to Romania. Germany used the early models of the No. 2 tank and No. 3 tank to pay a sum of oil, and more oil payments were directly purchased by Romania from Germany. Including the 38t tank and machine gun rifle imported from Czechoslovakia, the Romanian army instantly completed the long-awaited modernization transformation, and His Majesty the King also trusted his new allies more.
Even many equipment eliminated by Germany: old gas masks, complex armored vehicles, and Y-type tactical straps. They are still upgraded products that many troops dream of. For example, in the far east, an original Mauser rifle can even buy a light machine gun in the Czech Republic. So Romania did not feel that there was anything wrong with the equipment they received.
Antonescu had served as the Minister of the Army in 1933. Although he was considered a pro-British faction, he had long joined the pro-German Iron Guards. Moreover, with the infiltration and temptation of Germany, his thoughts also changed tremendously. In his opinion, Germany would surely win future wars, and only by standing with Germany could he protect Romania.
For a time, the Antonescu Iron Guards became the only legal party in Romania. As soon as he came to power, he signed a treaty with Germany, allowing the German army to enter the country on the grounds of assisting in training the army, and tied Romania tightly to the German chariot.
However, even Acardo discovered a fact that he was amused and puzzled: almost all the leaders in his camp had a weird and weird claiming - he himself was the head of Germany; friendly Japanese leaders called himself the emperor; Mussolini liked to call himself the leader, Franco called himself the general, and now Romanian puppet regime Antonescu proclaimed himself the "leader"...
Soon, the British country received a piece of information that made people curse. Germany transported some of the military supplies in stock to Romania. As a reason for joint combat and mutual assistance, it replaced the Romanian helmet with an M25 steel helmet, and used Mauser 98k and various infantry equipment to arm the Romanian army into the German Wehrmacht ten years ago.
What was even more depressed than the British was the Chiang Kai-shek group in the Far East. Because they had to change the Romanian troops on a large scale, the German fire, which was supplied to the Far East, was out of stock. The original 100 million bullets and various long guns and short cannons disappeared, and Chiang Kai-shek's plan to strengthen the army had to be set again.
Because of Germany's arms embargo, Japan, which had received the favor, agreed to the German request and ordered a very small destroyer to go south to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where a small artillery military exercise was held, forcing the British to disperse their attention to the Far East. The Destroyer took two destroyers through the Suez Canal, entered the Indian Ocean, and headed straight for its own Hong Kong in a fierce manner.
Sometimes Akado really feels that the way he chose when traveling through time is simply hell. Japan took advantage of the chaos to build up the white mountains and black soil in three provinces in the three northeastern provinces. It was just that the great powers called out twice and drove away an arms control committee, which caused such trouble.
Think about it, those time travelers who went back to fight against Japan had many discounts, either with their brains or dragging the base - what cannons need, what metals needed for oil, wood, aluminum, iron, molybdenum, titanium and what cannons need. I have a few cannons every day to save my family, and I have been worried about the few tons of oil and rubber every day. People pick up girls to talk about love and run newspapers, and they regained the lost ground in minutes. It’s really a matter of people who are more dead than others, and a matter of goods they have to throw away.
Of course, then again, he would not choose to be reincarnated in Japan by giving Akado Rudolph's Gu Changge a chance to choose. There are many reasons: for example, he doesn't like bowing; for example, he doesn't like septiles; for example, he doesn't like the sentence "Baga" full of negative emotions - of course, it would be a different matter if he could change Japan to China's Donghai Province.
Back to the topic, when Akado learned that Romania finally became a subsidiary ally of Germany, he finally breathed a sigh of relief - he did not want to start the world war in 1936. He needed time to make his German Wehrmacht stronger, so powerful that it could not only fight dazzling blitzkriegs, but also withstand cruel war of attrition.
Chapter completed!