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Chapter 116 Lessons for German Generals

Although Germany was a defeated country, the Beiyang government unceremoniously confiscated various German industries in China. However, as a veteran power, it still had its own intelligence means. When Albert determined that the Northeast Autonomous Government loaded the materials transported to Germany, Germany's welcome to Li Changgeng reached an unprecedented level.

The Germans were very real, and the government immediately formed an expert group to evaluate and calculate the technicians and engineers needed to relocate Ruhr to China and re-open production. Seeing the sincerity of the Germans, Li Changgeng told Albert that the second batch of aid supplies would be shipped in the next month. By the time of autumn harvest, the Northeast Autonomous Government provided Germany with 100,000 tons of cereal grain, 300,000 tons of potato and side dishes, as well as a sufficient amount of medicine to allow the Germans to spend a winter without hunger and disease.

After learning about China's material aid, Hindenburg personally rushed to Berlin from the manor to meet Li Changgeng. Hindenburg's prestige in Germany was far higher than President Albert. After meeting with Li Changgeng, the content of the negotiations between the two was very broad and more substantial.

The main aspects of the conversation after the two met were mostly military, from the accompaniment of military talents to the military industry system, to various military branches. Li Changgeng said that it is impossible for Germany to break through the blockade of the Allies for a period of time; it is only possible to break through from the outside, wait for the time to ripe, and then find an opportunity to turn things around.

At present, China and Germany have the best foundations for cooperation. First, China and Germany have no strategic conflicts, and the two countries are consistent in their strategy towards the Soviet Union. China hopes to become an influential power in Asia, and under the siege of European powers, Germany can only break through the path of expanding its voice.

2. China is a big country with abundant minerals and materials to provide supplies to Germany and can also carry out secret military cooperation!

3. China is not poor in industry. Although China is weak in basic industry, it is not lacking. All it lacks is management experience and core technology. It is just complementary to Germany's industrial situation.

Hindenburg also said that he might abandon his army and participate in the presidential election in 1925. Germany is also very worried that the defense force is limited to a navy of less than 100,000 people and more than 10,000 people. The army is not allowed to own tanks, artillery, heavy machine guns, or any military aircraft. German territory is ceded 13% and all colonies are lost, the population is reduced by 12%, industrial equipment is demolished or half is suspended, and coal and iron resources are reduced by 16%. The currency is depreciated to a piece of paper. Military academy is closed. War reparations are more than 10 billion British pounds.

Although faced with such difficulties, the Germans would not succumb to the injustice of the Allies. The Germans saw the sincerity of the Chinese and were willing to do their best to support China's industrialization process and national defense construction.

Li Changgeng made a statement in a timely manner that although the Allies had restricted Germany in all aspects, this restriction could only show that the Allies were afraid of Germany. Germany's military scientific researchers were still there, Germany's technical workers were still there, and the knowledge in the minds of the Germans was still there. As long as someone was there, it was impossible to truly limit the development of the Germans.

Germany's restricted military industries can jointly establish a long-term cooperation mechanism with China to research and develop and produce weapons and equipment. With the excellent production capacity of German workers, as long as the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles are broken, Germany can fully produce the results achieved in cooperation with China in a very short period of time.

Hindenburg was very interested in Li Changgeng's cooperation proposal. The Germans looked real, but they were very smart. They had long thought of how to lay eggs by borrowing chickens, but they had not found a suitable partner. They originally targeted the Soviet and Russian Red Army, but now it seems that cooperation with China may be more promising.

Without the secret help of German military commanders, the Red Army was brave and was just a group of ordinary people and second-rate troops with no military quality. It was impossible to command so many beautiful battles just like using a cheat sheet, which beat the Allies and the Belarusian army to the point of being beaten.

As a time traveler in later generations, Li Changgeng also had an advanced understanding of military equipment. When he talked about military equipment with Marshal Hindenburg, he proposed that Heilongjiang was trying to find ways to make military equipment in the army; when the topic of motorization and armorization was realized, it attracted the attention of Hindenburg.

As an excellent military strategist, Hindenburg was much more interested in military topics than in political topics. Coupled with Li Changgeng's desire for Germany's advanced military industry, the two were getting more and more speculative about their conversation.

A relatively comprehensive and objective summary of the victory or defeat of both sides in World War I was also made. From strategy and tactics to weapons and equipment, sometimes nodding in favor of the other party’s statement, sometimes shaking his head to deny the other party’s views, and the talk was very fierce.

During the talks the next day, it was not a meeting between two people. Many German generals who participated in World War I also joined in. Faced with a large group of generals surnamed Feng, Li Changgeng felt that Zhuge Liang crossed Jiangdong and talked about the scholars. Zhou Xiangyu, who was with him, was full of infinite respect for the young party leader in front of him. During his three years of study abroad in Germany, he had a full understanding of Germany's military strength. Germany was not defeated in the local area like World War II, but surrendered on French territory. To be honest, if Germany did not revolution in the country, if it was really based on military capabilities, which side would be defeated.

However, the military remarks of the party leader in front of him can allow these arrogant German generals to carefully record his speech in small notebooks, which shows that his military ability has risen to the height of academic thought.

Seeing Li Changgeng waving the white gloves in his hand in military uniform, he spoke loudly: "After using the tank in this world war, it showed strong assault power. The British Chief of Staff J.F.C. Fuller first summarized the experience of using tanks in this war. In the 1919 plan drafted in May 1918, he proposed a new view on establishing and using a mechanized army. I agree with his view very much!

I think after the emergence of tanks, the mechanization of the army will inevitably be a trend for the development of powerful countries in the future. This will break the trench tactics and form the advantage of the defensive side. The future war will surely be a pure mechanized activity.

Although the outcome of a war does not depend entirely on the advancement of weapons, the more mobile and aggressive sides on the battlefield will have many opportunities to win. I believe that in the future, cavalry will withdraw from the battlefield, infantry will be reduced to auxiliary troops, and artillery will need to improve their mobility.

With advanced weapons, it is just a foundation. What is more important is that when fighting, the strategies and tactics that match the incoming weapons must be evolved from incoming weapons. I think in the future, the tank battle will first use a tank cluster to conduct surprisingly unexpected attacks on the enemy's depth, break through the enemy's horizontal defense, and achieve a tactical effect of point-breaking surfaces. At the same time, the aircraft bombard the enemy's transportation hub and supply system, and then use motorized infantry and artillery to expand the results, chase and annihilate the fleeing enemy, and win the victory of the war in one battle."

Li Changgeng was full of energy to steal the later mechanized war theory of Germany. Although it was not very specific and even used some military terms incorrectly, this did not prevent the German senior executives from recognizing him with the theory of mechanized war. It was precisely because of his military speech that the cooperation between military universities in Northeast China and Germany in the level of equal exchanges.

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