Chapter 229 Great War, Good Business (2)
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September 9, 255 of the Republic (1914 AD).
This summer is hot, and the war in Europe reached its climax when it entered July. The two sides fought fiercely, making the onlookers excited. This is a veritable "hot summer".
On the Western Front, the British and French Allied Forces firmly defended the Caen-Le Mans-Orleans-Sorne River front line, and once counterattacked to Versailles, but were driven back in two days. Seeing that Er Dezi was so good at fighting, the British and French Allied Forces had to concentrate on defense. They used rivers such as the Loire and the Sorne River as support to build a solid defense line on the shore. War is the best teacher, and people can learn what they want to learn as fast as possible. After losing their lives, the British and French Allied Forces also adapted to the rhythm of the Germans and invented many new tactics.
Their defense line was particularly perverted, completely exceeding the level of the original space-time war, at least reaching the level of World War II. Faced with the tactics of British and French such as turtles, the Germans were also very troubled, and they were unable to use these perverted defense systems. Mainly, with the arrival of Chinese aircraft one after another and the emergence of authorized production of fighters, the sky was no longer dominant. The practice of easily destroying the defense line with airships like when the war started, no longer works.
In order to deal with the German airship bombing, the British developed a special interceptor called "Robin Hood" based on the J-Swift. They replaced two 7mm machine guns with a 2mm cannon, and also used the newly invented white phosphorus inflammable bomb. In the air battle on July 3, this "Robin Hood" interceptor showed off his skills and used white phosphorus inflammable bombs to turn 14 large German airships into fireballs. (In the history of original time and space, the British army used white phosphorus inflammable bombs for the first time in 196)
The white phosphorus incendiary bomb did not have much technical content, which is just a problem of thinking. After Erdezi suffered this loss, he immediately did the same thing and came up with the same thing. Due to the technical level at that time, this powerful thing could not be produced in large quantities, but it was used to equip some interceptors and still had the output to deal with enemy airships.
As a result, the airships of both countries were shot down in large numbers. Niu Niu's invention this time made Mr. Wen extremely depressed because the myth of "airship victory theory" he had painstakingly fabricated went bankrupt, and this strategic fooling bird of shameless failure.
For China, it was just a failure of a fooling plan, which was harmless, but for both parties, it was a huge thing. This means that the risk of using airships increased greatly, and we would no longer dare to use them unscrupulously as before.
The most influential was Germany. Without airships, they would not have a good way to effectively and quickly destroy the opponent's fortifications. So the war seemed to have returned to the extremely bloody trench warfare that was consumed and consumed. Of course, compared with the original space-time, the situation in Germany was much better, but Britain and France were struggling to hold on.
Because of its military cooperation with China, Germany has many more weapons for trench warfare than Germany in the original time and space, such as mortars, explosive ejectors (regular version of the unconscience cannon), submachine guns, shotguns, flamethrowers, etc., and has new tactics for breaking through the trenches. With these things, the German army's attack power is at least twice as high, causing far heavier losses to the British and French coalition forces than the original time and space.
By the end of the month B, more than 450,000 French troops were killed, more than 20,000 British troops were killed, and more than 1 million were injured in the two armies, and 20,000 people were still in prisoners of war camps. Germany not only had new weapons and new tactics, but also imported a large number of high-quality medicines, new medical equipment, and advanced medical technology obtained through exchanges (mainly blood transfusion and surgical procedures). The losses of the German army were far lower than those in the original time and space, and only B,000 people were killed and 30,000 were injured.
On the Eastern Front, although the German army was just a partial division, the results were also brilliant. They annihilated 570,000 Russian troops at the cost of 10,000 casualties and injured 40,000 soldiers, and the soldiers headed straight to Warsaw.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire's performance was also more powerful than in the original time and space. Although it did not defeat the Russian army, it also fought back and forth. With the assistance of Bulgaria, they basically stabilized the southern front and were in a tug-of-war with Russia. The casualties on both sides reached more than 20,000.
Judging from the current situation, the Allies and the Allies are engaged in a cruel war of attrition. In less than four months of the war, the number of casualties on both sides exceeded 200,000, which is also the largest and most cruel war in human history.
Now all the warring countries have fully entered the wartime system, and most of the production capacity is used to produce military supplies, so the civilians are not at ease. Anyway, both sides still have money at this time, and they don’t have the energy to produce things they want to buy from the international market. Especially Niu Niu, the empire is the most powerful empire in the world, and some are money. Roosters are usury imperialism and are also the ones who are not short of money.
However, fighting wars not only requires money, but also people. No one is too frustrated. At this time, the German population of the Allies was 660,000, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was 660,000, and Bulgaria was 4.5 million. The British population of the Allies was 4.66 million, France was only 380,000, and Russia had the largest number, with 17.3 million. According to this method of death, France was the first to be unable to hold on. Although Russia suffered greater losses, they had a large population, with gray animals overwhelmingly able to afford it.
During the war, a large number of men who participated in the warring countries directly participated in the front-line war, resulting in a sharp decline in domestic labor force, especially France, which really couldn't stand it, and Britain also felt that manpower was insufficient. So on the one hand, they mobilized "half of the sky" to enter factories to replace men for labor production. On the other hand, they introduced a large number of laborers from abroad.
In the original time and space, China was the second sucker and successively recruited 140,000 Chinese workers to work hard for the Allied Powers. The hard labor of China is often the heaviest and most difficult jobs in factories. Almost all of the 60,000 Chinese workers recruited by the UK were put on the front line, digging trenches, building fortifications, field rescue, digging and burying bodies, sweeping mines, building roads and bridges, transporting grain and grass, loading and unloading supplies. At that time, a Chinese coolie signed a contract for work-year, working 10 hours a day, without rest days, every day, every day, a Chinese coolie signed a contract for work-year, working 10 hours a day, no rest days,
The salary was one franc. The local residents were not friendly to them. The British beat them with sticks, just like beating dogs. The hardest, most tiring and most dangerous work was pressed on them. During World War I, the artillery shells fired by the British army did not hit the ground, and three of them did not explode. When they went to the battlefield to clean up these shells, they naturally came from the Chinese. According to statistics from the Chinese Embassy, among the Chinese workers who served in the British army at that time, there were 996 famous and surnamed deaths. By the end of the war, only 11 Wanhua workers left Europe and returned to their hometown.
Of course, this will not happen in this plane. Wen Desi is not the kind of shaking. Why should the Chinese people work hard for you foreigners? Want people? Bah, there are no windows, let alone the door, let alone the compatriots in their country. Even those free laborers who are unwilling to integrate, President Wen is reluctant to send them out. There are so many construction projects in China, and the manpower needs are huge. If you don’t have enough, how can you help European white skin?
However, there are still people who are rushing to what China refuses to...
presidential palace.
"What? Japan is preparing to send 6 divisions of troops, 60,000 laborers and 100,000 female workers to Britain and France to help?" Wen Desi's eyes widened in shock, and he couldn't help but swear, "Grandma, are they all crazy? Is this information reliable?"
"The information can be confirmed to be true. The current top leaders of Japan are indeed crazy, they are poor and crazy..." Kafur replied with a sarcastic look: "Mr. Wen, Japan's domestic economy is on the verge of collapse. The Mi turmoil is connected together, and it can no longer stand..."
Zhang Lizheng smiled and said, "Haha, although Yamamoto's Honbuki Cabinet has stepped down with a bad reputation, the mess left behind has been changed. It has only been more than a year since then. But according to me, no one in Japan now has the ability to clean up this mess, and if you change it, it will be like this bird."
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Xiao Tu also said intriguedly: "Yes, the compensation we have given to us and the debts we owe to the European and American consortiums are enough for them to drink. Oh, by the way, it seems that they have not paid off the debts they owe in the Russo-Japanese War."
Kafur smiled and said, "This time, the Allies have also invested a lot of money in order to launch Japan, including 30 million pounds of free aid, 100 million pounds of interest-free loans, and 50 million pounds of material orders. For these things, Japan can only work hard for Boss Niu."
As the Minister of Finance, Xiao Tu was concerned about money first, the second was money second, and the third was also money. When he heard this, he said, "Good guy, he really invested a lot of money. But when he thought about Japan was a thug for Britain to deal with Russia, Britain didn't give a penny, and Japan still brought its own dog food gang leader to work hard. Now this investment is nothing, it's just a fair deal..."
"In addition, Britain recruited three divisions in Australia and Canada, 33 divisions in India, and 80,000 laborers from various colonies... France also recruited two divisions and 400,000 laborers in their colonies, of which 6 divisions and 20,000 laborers from French Indochina..." Cafur continued.
Xin Jie pondered for a moment and said, "Australia is only 4.9 million now, Canada is only 7.5 million, and 2.4 million people have to collect three divisions. This is almost the limit. Although India has a large population, it is no problem to collect 30 divisions, but the situation in India is unstable now, and they dare not adjust too much, as is South Africa..."
"Isn't this good? It's just that they can bleed..." Zhang Lizheng said gloomyly.
"That's right, let's continue to sell things. Although the Allies have collected so many colonial troops, their materials and equipment are definitely incomplete. Our military industry can make another profit." Wen Desi said with a smile.
Chapter completed!