The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 406

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: 0.080s Scan: 0.109sWhen the morning negotiations ended, Starling couldn’t wait to summon Motolov.

“So, have the Hans agreed to make concessions?”

Because many of the things on the list he had given to Motlov before were technologies that the Russians were very short of, Starling was very concerned about Motlov’s negotiations this time!

Although he knew that it was unlikely that the Hans would hand over all the technologies at once, he felt that it should be no problem for the Hans to give up one or two technologies.

But who knew that after hearing this, Motlov shook his head and said,”Chairman, the Hans rejected our request!”

Starling was stunned by this sentence, and he blurted out,”What, this is impossible, don’t they care about the life and death of the Celestial Empire at all?”

In his opinion, the reason why Hans came to him so anxiously is that they are very concerned about the situation in the Celestial Empire.

If so, then if they are threatened with this matter at this time, they should submit!

But why did this result happen?

Could it be that something went wrong with Motolov during the negotiation?

Starling looked at Motolov with suspicion. Motolov shuddered. He knew Starling. It was not good news if the other party stared at him with such eyes.

So he hurriedly explained:”The Hans people said that they don’t care whether the Celestial Empire is defeated or not, because they can discuss the distribution of those minerals in the Celestial Empire with Jiaoben, and the reason why they care about the war in the Celestial Empire is because they hope to prolong the war, so that they can use the business opportunities created by the war to sell more weapons to the Celestial Empire!”

The first sentence was Ribbentrop’s original words, but the latter part was what Motlov made up in his mind.

However, Starlin himself did not participate in the talks, so he did not know that Motlov was lying, but thought that what he said made sense.

“”So that’s how it is. I understand. It seems that Hans has us in his grasp!”

Starling sighed slightly, and her eyes lost their luster.

She originally thought that this was their chance, but she didn’t expect that this was just their wishful thinking!

This truth is really a blow!

“Chairman, what should we do next?”

Motolov also temporarily lost his goal at this time. Because he failed to complete Starling’s task, he was worried that Starling would settle accounts with him.

“Humph, what else can we do? Since Hans is unwilling to take action, then we can do it ourselves!”

Starlin is a decisive person. He knows that the deteriorating situation in the Far East will pose a huge threat to his own country. If the British Empire had not formed an alliance with the Foot Basin two years ago, and the Foot Basin was fighting alone in the Far East, then he might not have such big concerns.

But now that the Foot Basin has formed an alliance with the British Empire, the Russian Bear has to be careful in dealing with the situation in the Far East!

There were already a large number of warlords supported by the British Empire in the Celestial Empire. It was very lucky for the Russian Bear that the warlords in the Northeast did not turn to the British Empire and the Foot Basin. But if the Foot Basin swallowed up the Northeast, then the entire Celestial Empire would fall into the control of the Foot Basin and the Sun.

By then, when the two countries control the Celestial Empire, I am afraid that there will never be peace in the east of the Russian Bear!

Therefore, whether for short-term interests or considerations, the Russian Bear has to intervene in the relationship between the Foot Basin and the Celestial Empire. War.

If they act now, they can still get help from Hans, and the price they need to pay will be relatively small.

However, if they do not act now, and Hans accepts the control of the foot basin in the northeastern region of the Celestial Empire and reaches a cooperation with the foot basin, then the Russian bear will have to fight alone!

He is not an indecisive person, so after making the decision to send troops to participate in the war, he immediately ordered the Soviet troops stationed in the Far East to prepare for battle and be ready to go south into the Celestial Empire to fight at any time!

At this time, on the battlefield of the Celestial Empire, after the Japanese army successively invested four divisions of heavy troops, they finally captured the positions controlled by the Fengtian warlords and began to advance forward and bombard Beidaying!

Beidaying is an important military camp of the Northeast Army outside the city of Fengtian. This place is Guarding the southern gateway of Fengtian, once it is lost, the Japanese army can use the South Manchuria Railway to quickly move south, cut off the connection between Fengtian and the interior, and completely surround Fengtian City!

Because the location of this place is extremely important, the Northeast Army almost put on a desperate posture. They did not choose to stick to Fengtian City, but sent all the main elite troops out of the city and stationed them in several major peripheral positions outside the city, relying on these peripheral positions to resist the attack of the Japanese army.

On the other side of Beidaying, the Northeast Army is stationed here. The 7th Independent Brigade, which is Wang Yizhe’s unit, is the trump card unit of the Northeast Army. It was established very early and is extremely well-equipped!

They are not only equipped with the latest Mauser 98 rifles, but also equipped with a large number of Maxim heavy machine guns, and even The artillery was equipped with a full artillery regiment, with 24 Krupp 1908 75mm field guns, 12 105mm howitzers, and a large number of homemade mortars!

Starting from 1920, under Zhang Zuolin’s investment, the Northeast Army spent a lot of money to buy a large amount of equipment and technology from Hans, and established the largest arsenal in the Celestial Empire-Fengtian Arsenal!

After being equipped with a large number of machine tools provided by Hans, this arsenal has a very considerable weapons production capacity.

Fengtian Arsenal can currently produce artillery including rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, field guns, howitzers and mortars, including 150mm mortars, 80-meter mortars, imitating the German 105mm field guns, 100mm light howitzers and 150mm type howitzers.

In terms of firearms, they imitated almost all German weapons. After obtaining the production technology of the Mauser 98 rifle, the Fengtian Arsenal could produce about 3,000-4,000 Mauser 98 rifles and 1.5 million bullets per month.

As for heavy machine guns and light machine guns, they did not produce much each month, about 40 heavy machine guns and about 60 light machine guns per month. They mainly imitated Hans’s equipment, and the bullet production was 500,000 rounds per month.

Because of the technology and equipment provided by Hans, the technology of the Northeast Army was not a problem. The main problem was actually the production of raw materials, mainly high-quality steel! The Celestial Empire was just a backward agricultural country at this time, without large steel mills, and almost all of these weapons needed to be manufactured using steel, especially in the manufacture of artillery and shells.

Because of the lack of steel, Zhang Zuolin also paid for steelmaking equipment himself, which could produce about 7,000 tons of steel per month. Although this number was not high, it was only about 85,000 tons a year, which was completely incomparable to industrial powers like Yingjiang and Hans, which easily produced tens of millions of tons of steel.

However, this output was already unique in the Celestial Empire at that time. The Khanyang Iron Works, which was established earlier than the Fengtian Military Factory, was almost unable to operate at this time. Their steel production was only a few hundred tons per month, and after 1925, the Khanyang Iron Works stopped making steel because the domestic market was squeezed by imported steel, and the steel they made had no market at all!

Of course, for the Northeast Army, 7,000 tons of steel per month was still too little, which severely limited their weapons manufacturing capabilities. They could manufacture about 120 artillery pieces of various types per month, including 80 mortars, and manufacture about 80,000 artillery shells.

With such production capacity, although the weapons and equipment of the Northeast Army were not as good as those of the Japanese Army, they were at least unique in the Celestial Empire!

And the artillery equipped by Wang Yizhe’s Independent Seventh Brigade was almost all produced by themselves, and the shells were directly pulled from the arsenal in Fengtian City to the position!

Originally, the weapons and ammunition produced by the Fengtian Arsenal were to be supplied to the entire army. Although their output was good, it was very thin when spread over the 400,000 or 500,000 troops. However, if these weapons were concentrated to supply an army, it would be very rich!

Therefore, Wang Yizhe relied on a steady supply of artillery shells. When facing the Japanese attack, he used his 36 cannons and a large number of mortars to bombard the Japanese army!

His artillerymen disliked the 75mm field artillery, so they simply brought a batch of 12 imitation 150 howitzers that had just been completed in the military factory to the position and bombarded the Japanese army! The dense machine guns and unlimited supply of bullets allowed the Seventh Brigade to relax and open up!

Therefore, the Japanese army, who braved the artillery fire and bravely charged, was beaten into a sieve by the dense bullets on the Northeast Army’s position halfway!

The Japanese army’s habit of fighting to the death did not bring them victory this time, but only death!

After one charge, almost all the Japanese troops were killed. After all, it was shameful enough to fail to capture the position of the Celestial Empire Army. If they retreated in the battle, it would be even more shameful!

However, the Japanese army never thought that a small warlord would have such terrible firepower.

So without any preparation, they were bombed by the Northeast Army all of a sudden. After more than 3,000 people were killed, the Japanese army was completely confused:

Is the army on the opposite side really a local warlord?

Why are their weapons and equipment even more luxurious than their own?