Chapter 530
A year and a half after the World War broke out, America was basically over.
Although Roosevelt was still resisting, unfortunately he tightly controlled several states near the western mountainous areas and deserts. The industrially developed eastern and western coastlines, as well as the Great Lakes, were all under the military occupation of the Chinese Empire.
Although the Cleveland government nominally continued to operate the state power of the United States, it was just administrative power, to put it bluntly, the cows raised by the Chinese Empire, providing blood transfusions for the Chinese Empire's army.
As for the war promised by the Chinese Empire to withdraw from America two years after the end of the war, it is unknown whether the Chinese Empire will indeed withdraw its troops.
Roosevelt would not believe it, even the Cleveland government was half-believing, but the Americans in the occupied areas believed it, and their resistance to the Chinese imperial army was greatly weakened.
Of course, this has a direct relationship with the values of Americans. It is a society where people are in a cold and cold world. When they look at interests, the Chinese Empire is strong, so Americans will naturally surrender and even be willing to be slaves. As long as they are allowed to survive, they can make money.
In the entire world war battlefield, the Chinese Empire's army basically had only two places fighting real wars, one was the Japanese archipelago and the other was Africa.
As for South Asia and Northwest Asia, the Chinese Empire still adopted a defensive posture and did not take the initiative to attack. Therefore, the Tsarist Russian Empire and the British Empire were also very aware of each other and did not take the initiative to attack. For a while, both sides were at peace.
On the other hand, on the European battlefield, the battle between Britain, France, Russia and Germany, Italy and Austria has become increasingly fierce.
The reason is that the German Empire wanted to end the European war as soon as possible and completely defeat the British, French and Russian groups. Due to the surge in military spending, high-intensity wars swallowed endless resources, especially the appearance of tanks and aircraft on the battlefield, which intensified the consumption of war resources and made the German Empire's industry seriously unbearable.
Although William II tactfully prevented the Chinese Empire from interfering in the European war, it was actually because William II did not want the Chinese Empire to benefit from Europe to expand its influence, and Li Weiguo did not intend to really help Germany, so the two emperors tacitly agreed.
However, Britain, France and Russia could not be willing to be defeated by the German Empire. They knew very well what the consequences would be if they were defeated. Huge war reparations, lost territory, lost overseas colonies, and once they were defeated, it would not be so easy to stand up.
Therefore, Britain, France and Russia are also fighting desperately, even if their national economy is almost unable to support it, they will not easily admit defeat and surrender.
The T-tanks and F15 fighters that appeared on the European battlefield have simple structures. As long as the weapons experts from the Allied countries look at them from a distance, they will have a direction of research and imitation. As the major battles progress, many tanks and aircraft of German, Italian and Austrian troops have been captured.
Especially in this era, the flight speed is not fast and the flight altitude is not high. During combat, it must dive down and shoot soldiers on the ground. It is easy to be concentrated by the firepower of heavy machine guns on the ground, and various debris are produced by explosions. Many aircraft are even more than 90% of the aircraft are kept intact, which greatly facilitates the analysis and copying of the military experts of the Allied countries.
If it takes a year to copy a T-tank and F15 fighter in peacetime, it will only take three or five months, or even shorter during the war.
The f15 fighter has the simplest structure, just pretending to be a lightning heavy machine gun in the nose. This weapon Allied country itself has it, such as the Wicks heavy machine gun, or even the imitation of the Chinese Empire's lightning heavy machine gun, it can be made in less than two months.
The only difficulty is that the HF-120 engine used by the F15 fighter jet. With the engine technology of Britain, France and Russia, it cannot completely crack the aircraft engines of the Chinese Empire. However, there are also aircraft in Britain, France and Russia, but the horsepower is just a little smaller.
France was the first to develop the Newburgh fighter. The overall appearance completely imitated the Chinese Empire's F15 fighter, but the engine uses the Newburgh V80 engine, with a thrust of only 80 horsepower, which is a full 40 horsepower less than the Chinese Empire's HF120 engine. It is then equipped with the French Wicks heavy machine gun. Because this heavy machine gun is relatively heavy, it can only reduce the amount of ammunition, with only 100 rounds of 7.92 mm bullets, and its firepower is far less than the 200 rounds of 12.7 mm bullets carried by the F15 fighter. The weight and thrust affect the speed and ceiling of the Newburgh fighter, making the Newburgh fighter completely defeated the F15 fighter in the early stage, causing heavy losses to the British and French coalition forces.
However, the Newburgh fighter jets were the savior of the British and French coalition forces, because at the beginning of the war, the British and French coalition forces had no decent fighter jets to fight against the F15. In order to stop the German offensive, the Newburgh fighter jets were only in hastily served, but they restrained a large number of German aircraft, reducing casualties from the British and French coalition forces on the ground, thus causing the German plan to quickly destroy France to bankrupt.
The development speed during the war was too fast, and the British and French forces were breathing to develop confrontational fighter jets at any cost. Soon, multiple models of Newburgh fighter jets were developed, among which the Newburgh 4 fighter jets already had the ability to fight against the F15 fighter jets.
Of course, the performance of the Newburgh 4 fighter is still not as good as the F15 fighter. The reason why it can cause a even situation is that the German pilots suffered too much casualties and gradually lost their advantage, while the British and French pilots also suffered heavy casualties. However, Britain and France have a large population and have more reserves in pilots than Germany.
Previously, Germany focused on the construction of the Navy and the Continental Army. Now it has suffered a loss. Most of the pilots who were trained in urgent need of any experience and usually take off for combat in 7 days of training.
In this way, even if the f15 is more advanced than the n-4, the pilots are on the same level, and the two fighters do not have a different generation difference, they cannot perform their performance, and the result of the battle depends entirely on the luck of both sides.
Also in ground combat, the German T tanks also gained a great tactical advantage in the early stage, and soon the Allies had their own tanks.
French Mark II tanks quickly entered the battlefield and were also inferior to T-tanks in performance, but they played the role of mobile bunkers.
The Mark II tank travels at a speed of only 2 kilometers per hour, and the French army does not expect this tank to charge, but is used for defense.
When German tanks attack, the movable Mark II tank is basically difficult to destroy. The German T-tank's shooting accuracy is very low. Even though it is known that the speed of the French tank is the same as a snail, it is difficult to hit it accurately.
In this way, if the French Mark 2 tank cannot be destroyed as soon as possible, the infantry behind the German tank will be fired by heavy machine guns, causing heavy casualties.
Therefore, German tanks had to destroy French tanks first, and both sides could only break out of a tank war to decide the outcome.
However, it is difficult for both sides' tank players to directly destroy the other side's tanks. They often take several hours to shoot at each other to destroy the other side. However, during this period, both sides will add new tanks to make the battle continue. When it gets dark, the two sides can only quit.
In the past, the trench made the infantry on both sides unable to advance, but now it has become a barrier to tanks, which has the same effect.
For a time, the European battlefield entered a relatively stalemate again.
Fighting tanks and planes quickly became the fighting style of Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy and Austria.
It was difficult to decide the victory or defeat on the European battlefield for a while, which was in line with Li Weiguo's wishes.
Let the Europeans continue to bite each other!
Li Weiguo focused on new tanks and fighter jets. With T tanks and F15 fighter jets exported to Germany, Italy, Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and even the Brazilian Empire in South America, the Colombian Federation began to import them.
Before the war broke out, Li Weiguo ordered that the T tanks and F15 fighter stocks that he had begun to stockpile were sold out soon, and the T production line and F15 production line were also working overtime, but it was no longer supplied like the Imperial Chinese Army and Air Force, but only supplied allies to obtain gold and foreign exchange.
At the same time, the Imperial Chinese Army and Air Force have also begun to replace new tanks and fighter jets one after another.
The Army's T tank was replaced with the latest T25, and the tonnage was increased to 50 tons, mainly adding armor protection and main gun caliber. Since Britain, France and Russia have begun to use 20mm caliber anti-tank rifles on the European battlefield, it is difficult for the T armor to resist this kind of armor-piercing bomb attack.
Therefore, the armor of the t25 tank reached 50 mm, and the main gun was upgraded from the t's 37 mm short-barrel smoothbore gun to 47 mm, with a significant increase in weight and an engine power increased to 200 horsepower.
However, the speed has not changed much. It may be because the battlefield environment faced by the Imperial Army of China has changed. Without blitzing a certain country, there is no need for high-mobility tanks. On the contrary, it requires strong attack capabilities and defense capabilities.
Of course, Li Weiguo only replaced the Imperial Army of China with 500 T25 tanks. Li Weiguo still wanted to continue selling the remaining T25 tanks to the allies. On the surface, he supported allies, but in fact he continued to cheat allies.
Li Weiguo ordered the production of 5,000 T25 tanks in the next three months, and still planned to forcefully sell them to allies including Germany. As long as Germany continues to purchase tanks from the Chinese Empire, Germany's own tank research and development will be hindered.
Of course, Li Weiguo did not know that William II and Bismarck had seen through his strategy and had secretly begun to develop advanced tanks in Germany.
In the Air Force, Li Weiguo also gradually phased out and replaced the F15 fighter jets in service in the Air Force, and instead began to mass produce more advanced F16 fighter jets.
The overall appearance of the f16 fighter has not changed much from the f15. The only change is that the engine has been replaced and the hf-150 is used, which means that the thrust reaches 150 horsepower.
The aircraft's aero engine thrust is not the same as the tank's engine thrust. The tank can easily use 200 horsepower or even higher, but the aircraft is different and weight issues need to be taken into account.
It is also a 150-horsepower engine, but the tank engine cannot be used on the plane because it is too heavy and the engine used on the plane must be light.
So, although the engine thrust of the f16 fighter is only increased by 30 horsepower than the f15, this 30 horsepower can make the f16 fly faster and reach a speed of 160 kilometers per hour, which is 20 kilometers faster than the speed of the f15 fighter.
Similarly, the ceiling was greatly increased to 4,000 meters, a height that the Allied Newburgh fighter jets could not reach.
Once in battle, as long as the F16 fighter flies high, the British and French Allied Forces' Newburgh fighter can only stare at it without any help.
Li Weiguo had already dug a pit and was waiting for changes in the European battlefield, and then began to sell tanks and aircraft to allies at high prices.
Since defeating the United States, Li Weiguo's sense of urgency has not been so strong. As long as the United States continues to have a civil war, it will be impossible for the United States to turn over and rise again.
As for the European battlefield, although the German Empire had a huge threat, it also had fatal shortcomings, that is, the population was insufficient. As long as Germany was not allowed to unify Europe, it would not pose a threat to the Chinese Empire.
Li Weiguo was even less worried about Britain, France and Russia. One Germany could beat them three, and he was not even a match for the Chinese Empire.
Therefore, after a world war was provoked by the Chinese Empire, it has now become a situation of watching the tiger fight.
War ruthlessly swallowed up shocking resources. Although the Chinese Empire has strong national strength, after a year and a half, its strategic reserves have basically been exhausted and industrial resources have been consumed. This is still the case with the oversupply of industrial output in the Chinese Empire. It can be seen how expensive it is for the Chinese Empire's army to go abroad to fight.
The domestic economy did not receive much impact, mainly thanks to the fact that there was no mobilization of full-scale war from the beginning, but only half of the national industry was mobilized to transfer to the military, and the remaining half of the national industry continued to produce daily necessities and maintained the daily lives of the imperial people.
As America was basically defeated, the scale of combat on the front line of the Chinese Empire also greatly weakened, and the defense strategy on the Western Front also greatly reduced the number of battles with Britain and Russia. These have greatly reduced military consumption and casualties. The domestic industrial pressure is basically the only large-scale production of tanks and aircraft.
Most of the tanks and aircraft are used to pit allies such as Germany and other allies, and will exchange them for huge amounts of gold.
In this way, the transfer to the military industry is no longer a consumption that only goes out but not in, but uses arms exports to make large-scale profits.
As a result, a strange phenomenon appeared all over the world. The Western world was fighting wildly, but the Eastern world was relatively calm. European and American powers were consuming national strength and the resources accumulated over hundreds of years, while the Chinese Empire was making great achievements in war.
As one goes up and down, the Western powers are originally far behind the Chinese Empire in terms of national strength, and this gap will widen in the future.
When the world war ends one day, the Western powers will find that their world is in ruins, and the Chinese Empire has become a paradise on earth.
Everything seemed to be proceeding according to Li Weiguo's established plan, but only one thing exceeded Li Weiguo's expectations.
Chapter completed!