The Return of the King chapter 049

"Marshal, please allow me to ask a more direct question. How do you think the Russian army performed in World War I?"

Marshal Hindenburg fought against the Russian army on the Eastern Front battlefield, and he was promoted to Generalissimo by virtue of defeating the Russian army on the Eastern Front battlefield. Having experience as a commander on the Eastern Front, he can be said to He is currently the most qualified person in the German army to evaluate the Russian army.

Seeing Colonel Mainz's serious inquiry, Marshal Hindenburg also sat up straight and his attitude became serious.

He thought for a while and then relaxed. Slowly spoke:"Honestly, I think the performance of the Woolly Bears in the war was pretty good. The soldiers cannot be said to be brave. Their performance in the early stages of the war was also pretty good. At least they were more chaotic than the military system. There were seven soldiers in an army. The Austro-Hungarian Empire with eight languages was much stronger!"

It can be seen that Marshal Hindenburg is very disdainful of the Austro-Hungarian Empire formed with Odili as the main body. This is also a common problem among these veteran soldiers who came from the Prussian era.

And they do have the capital to look down on the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

, after all, as early as fifty years ago, they had regarded themselves very highly during the Austro-Prussian War, believing that they were the only inheritance of the Holy Roman Empire, and that they were defeated by Odili, the real Hans Empire.

A defeat caused Odili to be excluded from the newly established Hans Empire.

The frustrated Odili people had no choice but to join forces with Hungary to form the strange dualistic country of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

After defeating Odili, Hans quickly formed the Three Emperors Alliance with Odili, but deep down, the Hans looked down on this defeated general, especially after seeing the poor performance of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I.

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"However, the Tsar seemed ill-prepared for this war. He may have thought that his opponent was as weak as the Ottomans, so he only stocked up supplies for a short-term military war. When these supplies were exhausted, Russia The army becomes vulnerable!"

Marshal Hindenburg did not criticize that the Bears were not good, that the soldiers were not good, and that the generals were not good.

Although there were differences in the performance of middle- and lower-level generals and soldiers in various countries during World War I, the overall gap was not particularly large.

Even the high-ranking officers who performed poorly at the beginning of the war The Lu people began to become more vigorous in the later stages of the war.

It can be seen that the armies of various countries will learn lessons from the war and then grow rapidly from the war!

Marshal Hindenburg criticized the emperor of Tsarist Russia, believing that the Tsar had no Be fully prepared for this war!

Although the Tsar did have millions or even tens of millions of gray animals who could live or die, they even formed a huge army of up to 15 million people at the peak of the war! If the equipment of the Tsar's army of more than ten million people is in place, the training can be completed, and there are qualified generals to command it, then there will be no need to fight at all. With the numerical advantage, the Russian army can be piled up to death. The German army is over!

However, the naive Tsar seems to be still stuck in the war period decades ago.

He does not realize that modern war is no longer a competition of pure population, but also a competition of comprehensive national strength, especially industrial strength.

Mao Xiong Although the land was vast, the resources were abundant, and the population was large, their weak military strength made it impossible for them to support the consumption of so many troops on the front line.

Therefore, the war lasted for three years and the Russian army, which suffered millions of casualties, could no longer withstand the First World War.

In the end, all the former Three Emperors Alliance perished, the Second Reich was gone, the Kaiser resigned, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was gone, Karl I was deposed, Tsarist Russia as an Allied Power was gone, the Tsar was even worse, Nicholas II Shi was even shot to death in Catherine's palace, with no chance of saving his life.

Mainz nodded. He understood Marshal Hindenburg's attitude towards the bear, which made him relieved.

"In other words, Marshal, you mean that the lack of fully industrialized Tsarist Russia was the main reason for the Russian army's unsatisfactory performance on the battlefield, right?"

Hindenburg glanced at Mainz. If someone else spoke to him like this, he might be unhappy, because this sentence has a strong sense of coercion. The old marshal didn't like the feeling of being forced like this.

But he Still nodded and said:"You can think so. Of course, this is not the whole reason. There is a complete disconnect between the aristocratic officers at the top of the Russian army and the soldiers below who are hardly regarded as human beings. There are also big problems in the system, but The main problem can still be attributed to the lack of industrial strength!"

Mainz was very pleased. He was extremely happy with the foresight shown by the old marshal!

Marshal Hindenburg's glorious achievements in the past have proven that he is an outstanding general, but his words at this time showed his On the other hand, he has a long-term vision and is extremely sharp in his judgment of the overall situation of the world.

Why can industrialization improve the strength of a country and the combat effectiveness of an army?

The reason lies in the word productivity compared with agriculture! In this era, industrialization can greatly improve social productivity, then promote social development, and further promote the transformation of social and political systems. This sentence will be called the economic base determines the superstructure in later generations!

"So, Marshal, do you agree that if the industrial level of this country reaches that of Western European countries, even if it is not to the level of our country, it only needs to reach the level of Gaul, this country will be completely different from before?"

The question raised by Mainz made Marshal Hindenburg nervous. This question seemed unlikely, because for hundreds of years, Mao Xiong had been a backward serfdom country on the edge of Europe. Suddenly, It is probably impossible to fully industrialize it!

However, if this is really possible, it would be really scary!

Tsarist Russia is currently the only country in Europe with a population exceeding 100 million, and an area of more than 1 million square kilometers. Once this country is successfully industrialized, its war potential will exceed that of any country in Europe!

Seeing Marshal Hindenburg's expression change, Mainz knew the opponent's consciousness. When he realized the seriousness of the matter, he further explained

"My feeling during this visit to the Mao Xiong is that although the social system of the red Mao Xiong is incompatible with mainstream European countries and even mainstream countries in the world, if they really succeed, then Mao Xiong is bound to undergo earth-shaking changes, with hundreds of millions of people The power of one liberated peasant is already frightening, let alone the power of all these peasants transformed into workers!"

"We can't interfere with the Allied Powers' interference in the Mao Xiong Civil War, but I think the reason why the Allies did this is not only because Mao Xiong is a red system, but more importantly because they saw the huge threat after Mao Xiong's complete change, so they wanted to This threat was eliminated when it was just budding.

This is why the Allies also supported a large number of Tsarist Russia's armed forces.

Obviously, they tried to restore Tsarist Russia's system and split Tsarist Russia into several small countries.

In this way, Tsarist Russia will no longer be a threat!

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"Even though it is impossible for us to directly send troops to intervene in the civil war of Mao Xiong, our position on the issue of Mao Xiong is not much different from that of the Allies.

In this case, we cannot cooperate with Mao Xiong.

We can provide them with weapons, even Wumart.

We can provide them with cheap weapons at low prices.

As long as they can attack their own industrial technology, it will be considered a success.

In this process, we must not transfer technology to them, whether it is military technology or industrial technology.

It's easy for Mao Xiong to get it, not to mention the tank technology that will determine future wars!

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"The Sun Never Sets and Gaul are just immediate enemies at best, but Yingjiang and Mao Xiong are our lifelong enemies!""