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Chapter 2016 Completely rounded
It is not just the navy that worries the British government. While the London Naval Conference is being held, the UK is still trying to limit the air force.

Many people don't know that the most powerful air force of European countries is not the United Kingdom or France, but Germany, which is restricted by the "Versailles Treaty" and cannot have an air force at all.

The "Versailles Treaty" stipulated that Germany could not have an air force, but it did not restrict civil aviation.

This gave the Germans the opportunity to study aviation technology, and Heinkel was developed on this basis.

As we all know, southern Africa has the most powerful air power in the world.

The air power in southern Africa is based on the aviation clubs all over southern Africa.

Of course, Britain and France also know this situation, but after all, Britain and France are old colonial countries, and their pride and self-esteem do not allow them to follow in the footsteps of southern Africa.

On the contrary, the pragmatic Germans seized the opportunity to imitate southern Africa and rely on aviation clubs to train pilots.

By 1925, like southern Africa, aviation clubs had spread all over Germany, training a large number of pilots for Germany. At this time, the only thing that restricted Germany's development of the air force was the shackles of the "Versailles Treaty".

After Germany entered the Rhineland, it has actually broken through the restrictions of the "Versailles Treaty".

The British appeasement policy gave the Germans more courage. The Germans have now openly formed an air force, which finally made the British government feel threatened by Germany.

The key reason why the British government can implement the continental balance policy is that the UK is isolated from the European continent, with the English Channel as a barrier, and the powerful Royal Navy can guarantee the safety of the British mainland.

The emergence of aircraft broke the land restrictions. In the past, European imperial countries had to defeat the Royal Navy to attack the British mainland. This is why the British have always guaranteed the military expenditure of the Royal Navy no matter how difficult it is.

Now that the Air Force can fly over the English Channel and directly threaten the British mainland, Britain finally feels the pain of France.

In this context, the UK proposed to restrict the air force. In order not to further irritate the Germans, the British government hoped that the UK, France and Italy could destroy some of the aircraft in their inventory. The total number of aircraft should be controlled at about 500, so as to bring peace to the world.

Winston was very dissatisfied with this suggestion.

Winston has always been a rare person in British politics who is wary of Germany.

Winston often called on the British government to maintain sufficient vigilance against Germany on various occasions. For this reason, Winston did not hesitate to break with the Conservative Party led by Neville, and often delivered speeches in the House of Commons, criticizing the appeasement policy of the Conservative Party government. criticize.

It is a pity that there are very few followers. Winston does not belong to the Conservative Party or the Labor Party. He is an "independent" in the UK. After the British government proposed to limit the air force, Winston angrily resigned from the cabinet to express his support Protests and anger against the Conservative cabinet.

"I spoke to Lord Nyasaland many times about Germany when I was in southern Africa, when Lord Nyasaland insisted that there would be another world war in the near future - I thought it wasn't that bad , now it seems that your father was right—" Winston looked at Arthur with apologetic eyes, he shouldn't have made such a slip of the tongue.

Arthur smiled and passed, not only not angry, but feeling a little warm.

Rock feels indebted to Arthur.

Arthur hopes to be recognized by others.

If one day, people think of Arthur, the first reaction is the Baron of Cyprus, rather than Rock's illegitimate son, this is Arthur's greatest wish.

"The current situation in Europe is becoming more and more tense. We must work together to overcome the difficulties." There are some things that Winston did not say. In fact, Neville did not completely compromise, and he also had difficulties as a last resort.

During the World War, 150 million people were killed in France, and over one million people were killed in Britain.

France lost a generation to the world wars, and Britain was no better off.

Just a few days ago, thousands of students at Oxford University, at the instigation of a certain guy, publicly declared that Oxford University students "will not fight for the King of England and the British government."

This is a very bad sign. Oxford University students are undoubtedly the British elite.

In the last world war, the British elite, represented by the children of nobles, actively participated in the war, and suffered heavy losses in the war, which led to today's result.

The elite class represents the backbone of British society. Students at Oxford University have received a complete modern education. They were supposed to be the group of people who love the United Kingdom the most, but now they publicly declare that they will not fight for the country. The bad influence not only caused tears in British society, but also fueled the ambitions of the Germans.

"Even if the United Kingdom does not impose restrictions on Germany, it should be prepared for war." Arthur said carefully, the current UK is more dangerous than the UK before the outbreak of the last world war.

Before the outbreak of the last World War, the British Minister of War was still Kitchener. Before the outbreak of the World War, Kitchener ordered 200 million Lee Enfield rifles from southern Africa with great foresight. Therefore, the UK is conducting a national mobilization Only then can they be armed as quickly as possible.

Even so, it took the UK a full four months to complete the national mobilization.

So what about this time?

While the elites were actively participating in the war, it took four months to complete the national mobilization.

Now that the elites have publicly stated that they will not fight for the country, how many months will it take to complete the national mobilization again?

Is six months enough?

What about ten months?

It didn't take four months, and France only resisted for 40 days.

"We all know we should do this, but it's too difficult!" Winston looked up to the sky and sighed, he really couldn't do it alone.

A fact that cannot be ignored is that Germany is recovering at a lightning speed, which is so fast that people are caught off guard. It will not take long, maybe only a year or two, before Germany can return to its peak state.

There are many reasons why it has come to this point, the most important reason is that after the end of the last world war, the Allied Powers raided Germany.

It sounds amazing. Germany, which was looted by the Allied Powers, sounds like it should be devastated, and it is impossible to make a comeback.

But the reality is so magical. After the end of the World War, the Allied Powers removed property worth about 10 billion pounds from Germany, including the Germania shipyard in southern Africa and Zeiss optics.

However, in the next few years, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Southern Africa gave Germany about 15 billion pounds in loans.

This is amazing. Germany not only made up for the losses through loans, but also successfully completed a wave of industrial manufacturing upgrades. Now Germany's take-off is based on this foundation.

In contrast, Britain and France are complacent.

After the World War, Germany was not allowed to possess heavy weapons including machine guns and artillery, so Germany's heavy weapons were either taken away by the Allied Powers as compensation, or destroyed on the spot.

After Britain and France took away the German weapons, they did not destroy them, but sealed them up as war supplies to prepare for the possible Second World War.

So now warehouses in Britain and France are full of old weapons used during the last world war.

Not only the color is old, but also the technology is backward.

Look at Germany again.

Because all weapons and equipment were taken away, to rearm Germany, only newer and more advanced weapons could be produced.

Raw materials are needed to produce weapons.

The country with the richest resources in the world is Southern Africa.

So the Americans sold scrap metal to the Japanese, and southern Africa sold scrap copper to the Germans.

Not just "bad copper and iron", but also a large amount of aluminum, nickel, tungsten, chromium, natural rubber, and petroleum.

Not to mention copper and iron, which are the basic materials for the development of heavy industry.

The latter types are all essential raw materials for the development of the military industry, especially oil.

This is the main purpose of Winston's going to Rock.

It’s fine if you sell some hulks and broken machines, but can’t the export of rare metals and oil be restricted?
You must know that every gram of rare metals sold to Germany will eventually be made into bullets by the Germans to start wars. Do you think that the First World War did not kill enough people in Britain and France?

Arthur didn't speak, it wasn't his business, he hadn't even figured it out at the Navy meeting yet.

While the British government was doing everything possible to limit the arms race, southern Africa had quietly completed the upgrading of weapons and equipment.

This is mainly thanks to the cooperation of the new Brazilian government.

The new Brazilian government has built an army of up to 50 people from scratch.

In the southern African combat readiness warehouse, there were not many weapons and equipment produced during the First World War. This time, they were completely covered by the new Brazilian government, and the price was still high, which made Martin ecstatic.

"Our local troops, including the National Guard, have all been replaced with semi-automatic rifles developed in 26 years, but this is not enough. We need at least 150 million semi-automatic rifles to supplement the combat readiness warehouse. In addition, our light tanks All have been eliminated. In the future, our mechanized troops will be based on the 'Tiger' heavy tank as the core, supplemented by the medium 'Leopard' tank, the alligator armored vehicle has been updated to the third generation, run-flat tires, anti-mine V-shaped chassis, More ferocious firepower and faster speed can provide better cover for light infantry." Martin is satisfied, and the current Southern African Army has far exceeded Martin's original concept.

"Light tanks are still in demand and cannot be completely eliminated." Rock requires a reasonable mix. Heavy tanks and medium tanks have too high requirements for traffic conditions. Many bridges in Europe can't bear the weight of dozens of tons.

(End of this chapter)