Chapter 184: Title Award
Berlin Imperial Palace.
In a spacious and bright banquet hall, the military band was rehearsing the music to be played, and neatly dressed waiters shuttled back and forth. Everyone had a smile on their face and served the guests carefully.
The top military leaders gathered together. Rundstedt was wearing a gorgeous military uniform and was surrounded by countless people. There were endless congratulations in his ears.
For the military, today is a day worth celebrating. The humiliation brought by the end of the last war made these soldiers extremely depressed. The feeling of being treated as slaves without being defeated really tortured every soldier. If they could choose, they would rather die on the battlefield than suffer this humiliation.
However, a turning point came in 1928. A sudden car accident took the life of His Royal Highness, the eldest grandson of the crown prince, and seriously injured the third grandson of the crown prince. His Royal Highness, who was unlearned and spent all day drinking and partying in the eyes of others, became the crown prince.
To everyone's surprise, the Crown Prince improved the economy and reformed the armaments with astonishing means; he led everyone to regain the dignity of Germany step by step.
His Highness personally led people into the Rhineland. For the first time after the war, Germany took back its own territory. Then he annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia without bloodshed, and took these two vital regions. Whether in industry or economy, the broken German economy was compensated.
His Highness seemed to be guided by God as rumored, showing amazing talents in various fields, omnipotent and omniscient. In the military, he helped the confused German army to formulate the direction of advance. The army established a blitzkrieg and deep combat plan based on mechanized infantry and tanks; in order to achieve the strategic goal of surpassing Britain, the navy abandoned battleships and developed aircraft carrier tactics in all directions; the air force made a leap from scratch to world-class from scratch.
A "first military power in Eastern Europe" with a population of 35.1 million and an army of more than 1.5 million collapsed in just 18 days. The Polish army had a total of more than 66,000 casualties, more than 100,000 wounded, and about 1 million captured or surrendered. The German army achieved this miracle in the history of war with only about 5,000 casualties and about 30,000 wounded.
This is nothing more than being proud!
This war not only made Europe and even the whole world look at Germany with new eyes, but also made blitzkrieg a hot topic in the military circles of various countries. France, Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States and other countries in the world that have large-scale mechanized troops have begun in-depth research on armored warfare, but how much they can understand in the Battle of Poland depends on their own understanding.
At this time, Yannick, who was wearing a dress in the room, suddenly laughed out loud. Sylvia, who was helping him to tidy up his clothes, said curiously. "What's the matter, brother Yannick?" The Spanish princess came and stayed a few years ago, and had no intention of going back at all. The Italian royal family seemed to have forgotten that they had such a princess and ignored her for so long.
As the saying goes, love grows over time, and the two naturally developed into a "living together" relationship.
Yannick smiled and said. "Nothing, I suddenly remembered a sentence, which is 'a country that is small but does not take a humble position, a country that is weak but does not fear the strong, a country that is rude but insults its big neighbor, a country that is greedy and stubborn but does not know diplomacy, may perish.'"
"I don't understand." Looking at Sylvia with a silly face, Yannick touched her hair lovingly. "This is an allusion from the Ming Dynasty, and it's normal that you don't understand it."
This sentence comes from Han Feizi's "The Fifteenth Chapter of the Lost Campaign" in the Warring States Period. It means that a country that is small but does not take a humble position, a country that is weak but does not fear the strong, a country that has no etiquette but insults its neighboring big country, a country that is greedy and stubborn but does not know diplomacy, may perish.
This sentence is simply a true portrayal of the demise of Poland. It makes you jump around, but you end up jumping yourself to death, right?
After getting dressed, Yannick set off for the banquet hall. When he was about to arrive, he saw the Chief of the Navy General Staff Raeder hurriedly coming to meet him. "Your Highness, the High Seas Fleet is on its way back to the port."
Yannick frowned slightly. "So soon? Encountered the British fleet again?"
The Chief of the Navy General Staff lowered his head in shame. "Yes."
Yannick's face was a little ugly. This was the second time! The High Seas Fleet once again fled back with its tail between its legs!
The Navy still didn't have the courage to engage in a firefight with the British Navy! !
If the British Navy could not be dealt with, landing in Britain would be a dream; if the British mainland could not be landed, the German army would be caught in the dilemma of fighting on two fronts; in the end, Britain would become a springboard for the Allied counterattack on the European continent, and his fate would be to hide in a dim basement and shoot himself! !
Yannick wanted to curse!
The German Navy is now much stronger than in the original time and space. Take the scale of the High Seas Fleet that went to sea this time, for example, an Essex-class aircraft carrier, the Scharnhorst battlecruiser, the Gneisenau battlecruiser, the Admiral Hipper heavy cruiser, and several cruisers and destroyers.
However, although this Essex-class aircraft carrier completely copied the data of the American aircraft carrier, it can only accommodate 75 aircraft of various types. You should know that the maximum aircraft capacity of the American version is 100-103.
The explanation of the naval engineers is that although they designed the drawings based on Yannick's data and verified them several times, after all, it was the first time for them to build a large aircraft carrier of this displacement. For safety reasons, they added some additional watertight compartments to ensure that there would be no accidents.
Since the first ship was successful, the subsequent construction would not require these additional watertight compartments, and the aircraft capacity would be increased to 100.
Considering the take-off and landing problems of the BF-109, Yannick also specially ordered the rush production of 30 FW-190t models to be deployed to the aircraft carrier.
Such a formation, which Yannick thought was already quite awesome, was actually frightened by the British Navy and fled back in disgrace!
Yannick suppressed his irritability. "Today is a festive day, let's not talk about this for now, let's go and congratulate our Marshal."
"Your Highness is here!" A rough shout came from outside the door. The originally noisy hall was instantly silent. All the officers and soldiers sitting here stood up, raised their chins, and straightened their spines.
Everyone faced the door, raised their right hands high, and shouted while performing the German salute. "Long live Germany!"
Yannick walked in with a faint smile on his face, and gently raised his arm to signal everyone to finish the ceremony. Everyone withdrew their courtesy and lowered their arms in unison.
Yannick picked up a glass of wine from the side and spoke slowly. "After twenty years of enduring humiliation, we finally regained the dignity of Germany in this battle.
Today, on this day that should be remembered, I pour a glass of wine to toast the dead and living heroes; may the dead heroes rest in peace, and wish the living heroes well. Germany will remember you, and the people will remember you too; you are the national heroes of Germany, you are the national spirit of Germany, and the strongest backbone of Germany! With you, Germany will always stand at the top of the world!"