Chapter 503 The Rise of the Power of Ethics

【It will explode today ~~】

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The movement of the United Nations ** has alerted the Republic of South Africa, but the President of the Republic of South Africa has not decided to start a war against the United Nations. Under the instruction of Germany and the Netherlands, the Republic of South Africa chose to avoid the important and attack the Republic of South Africa...--/--Advertisement full text

After the President of the Republic of South Africa was jointly promoted to fight against the northern regime, he thought he had been restless since then. On December 4, the Republican army crossed the Third and Third Lines and launched a sudden attack on the Republic of South Africa. Since two-thirds of the troops of the Republic's National Defense Forces had not yet entered a state of combat readiness, they had no power to resist the fierce attacks of the Republic's advanced aircraft, tanks and cannons.

The Republic is equipped with advanced weapons and equipment from Germany, many of which exceed the most advanced equipment currently in service in the Chinese Empire, and these are strictly confidential that Germany has always kept.

During the World War, Germany's military industry was always influenced by the Chinese Empire, and the equipment of the three navy, land, air and military forces could only rely on the Chinese Empire to provide technical support. However, the German military engineers did not give up their local industry, and the German side could not tolerate the next war broke out. They could only rely on the technology of the Chinese Empire and rely on imported equipment from the Chinese Empire to survive. The feeling of being robbed by the Chinese Empire made Germany's political and business circles very unhappy.

Therefore, after the war, Germany began to go its own way and tried its best to get rid of the technological control of the Chinese Empire. The advanced weapons and equipment such as lightning, hellfire, and armored three musketeers developed by the Chinese Empire during the war became the targets that the German side had worked hard to catch up. However, the gap between Germany's technology and the Chinese Empire's technology was too big, and Germany could not catch up within a few years after the war.

However, the large-scale reduction of military equipment orders by the Chinese Empire after the war caused a considerable number of military-industrial enterprises to leave behind a large number of production lines. German spies took the opportunity to obtain intelligence information, and German merchants spent a lot of money to buy so-called "civil technology" from Chinese Empire merchants. Although the Chinese Empire was cautious in keeping the core military technology confidential, the Chinese Empire's civil technology was still ahead of the world, and there was no strict distinction between military and civil technology. Many Chinese Empire's quasi-military technology was also exported to Germany as civil technology. German engineers quickly developed high-tech products for military use using Chinese Empire's advanced civil technology.

In terms of air force equipment, during the war, the Luftwaffe could only rely on imported advanced fighter jets and bombers from the Chinese Empire to fight and maintain the undefeated position of the Luftwaffe. Although the Luftwaffe was grateful for the help of the Chinese Empire, the fighter jets and bombers exported to Germany by the Chinese Empire were all sky-high products. When German wealth was robbed wildly, the Luftwaffe was very unhappy and determined to catch up with the pace of the Chinese Empire's Air Force.

After the war, major German airlines learned experience in air force aircraft manufacturing from the Chinese Empire, and on the other hand, they took a different approach and developed their own high-performance combat aircraft.

Representative aircraft manufacturing companies such as Juncker, Aladao, Folk, Henkel, and Messmith have successively invested a lot of money to develop new aircraft, among which the he-x series fighter jets developed by Henkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company are the best.

The He-1 fighter successfully developed in 1920 has a design that imitates the lightning fighter of the Chinese Empire, but the engine is not up to standard, with a maximum speed of only 220 kilometers per hour, which is a little worse than the standard speed of the 250 kilometers per hour of the lightning fighter.

However, soon the Henkel Company had a chance. During the World War and during the US, in order to manufacture aircraft on a large scale, hundreds of airlines and aircraft manufacturing companies were established in order to manufacture aircraft on a large scale and to provide air combat consumption guarantees for the Imperial Air Force. However, after the war, most of the aircraft manufacturing companies in the peace era did not get orders or had few orders, and there were naturally many people who closed down and went bankrupt. Therefore, Henkel Company spent huge sums of money to acquire several private medium aircraft manufacturing companies in the Chinese Empire, and obtained some design drawings and technical indicators for engine production parts provided for Thunderbolt fighters and Hellfire fighters during the war.

Although the advanced fighter parts of the Imperial Chinese side were distributed to multiple companies to reduce the risk of leaking secrets in one company, during the war, many aircraft manufacturing companies would subcontract part of the orders to other companies in order to further profit and increase the number of aircraft manufactured during the war, which was inevitable that technology leakage would be caused.

It was through this method that Henkel Company continuously obtained advanced technology from the Chinese Empire, and finally conquered a number of key acceleration technologies such as air intake, cooling, and thrust-to-weight ratio of aircraft engines, breaking the Chinese Empire's monopoly on aircraft engines.

In 1925, five years later, Germany's Henkel Company and Daimler Automobile Company spent more than 4 million yuan in a joint venture to develop Germany's independent aviation engine brand - Daimler Benz db601m twelve-cylinder liquid-cooled engine, equipped with the latest He-100 fighter.

The he-100 fighter was developed by the Luftwaffe Air Force against the most advanced Thunderbolt and Hellfire fighters of the Imperial Air Force. The German side proposed in 1920 that a total of four companies handed over their own designs, namely FW-159 of Folk Wolf, Ar-80 of Aladao, BFW's BF-109 and Henkel's He-112. All four design prototypes were tested using transition engines in the early 1922, and the first two were quickly eliminated, while further testing was needed for the he-112 and BF-109. Read h-u-n mixed*h-u-n--- remember that the Luftwaffe issued a contract to these two companies to manufacture fifteen prototypes respectively.

Although many people were optimistic about the design of Henkel, the BF-109, which had better performance and more modern performance, won more support. The Air Force finally announced at the end of March 1923 that Dr. Messer-Schmidt's work was selected. Although Henkel had redesigned many parts of the He-112 and launched the He-112b fighter with better performance than the BF-109, it had no power to turn things around and watched the flowers fall.

The he-112's defeat in the competition is indeed its own reason, mainly because the body structure is too complex and it is keen on using curved configurations, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming to manufacture and is not conducive to mass production. In addition, the prototype of the he-112 had several minor accidents during the test flight. Although it was not all about aircraft design problems, it left a knot in the heart of the Luftwaffe.

However, the Luftwaffe learned that the British Air Force was also developing a fighter called Spitfire. Through spies, it was learned that the performance parameters of the British Spitfire were mostly consistent with the BF-109 fighter. The Luftwaffe was questioned by Congress and believed that the technology of the BF-109 fighter was leaked and equipped with the BF-109 fighter will not be sudden and advanced in future wars. Therefore, the Luftwaffe was asked to revise the order plan and develop more advanced fighter jets.

The Luftwaffe was unhappy with the leak. Although there was no direct evidence to show that the leak of Messmit, he felt a knot in his heart. It was obviously a foolish act to produce fighter jets that were mastered by hostile countries. So the Luftwaffe gave Henkel a new opportunity to secretly hand over the data and R&D drawings of the BF-109 fighter to Henkel, and ordered them to develop more advanced fighter jets.

So, Henkel Company immediately seized this rare opportunity and organized manpower to tackle the he-100 fighter jet.

In April 1924, 15 prototypes of the He-100 fighter aircraft were secretly tested at the German Eld Air Force Base, and its powerful performance shocked the Luftwaffe.

The he-100 fighter was jointly designed and developed by Walter Gunter engineers and Siegfriedgunter engineers, and is defined as a daytime fighter. From the appearance, it is a conventionally arranged single-wing fighter. The fuselage section is a flat cross-section of the fuselage (especially in the engine part) egg-shaped body. The front fuselage lines are relatively straight, but the rear fuselage shrinks very heavily. If you draw a horizontal line along the cockpit cover, you can see that the back of the entire aircraft has almost fallen below this line near the tail.

The wing adopts a rectangular wing with a semicircular wing tip. The inner wing segment, which accounts for about one-third of the total length, folds upward, looking a bit like an inverted gull wing. The inner wing segment is thicker, with the front and rear edges basically parallel, but the front and rear edges of the outer wing segment have a bit of sweep back, and the rear edges have a sweep angle, making the whole shape closer to the trapezoid. The flaps are arranged behind the inner wing segment, and the ailerons are arranged at the trailing edge of the outer wing segment, extending from half of the outer wing segment to the wing tip.

According to the cockpit design concept of the Chinese Empire Thunder Fighter, the cockpit cover of the Henkel He-100 fighter is very similar to the pebbly cockpit of the Thunder Fighter, but the bubble-shaped cockpit is slightly raised in the middle. The middle part of the cockpit cover can slide back to the fixed section at the rear of the cockpit, and the windshield design in front looks round and full, leaving only a plane in front to install the sight. The main landing gear can be put into the middle section of the wing, and the tail wheel can also be retracted and completely covered when flying. The aerodynamic appearance of the entire aircraft can be said to be impeccable.

But the most important thing is its power plant. A 1,175-horsepower (876 kilowatts) Daimler Benz db601m twelve-cylinder liquid-cooled engine makes the He-100 fighter's level flight speed as high as 568 kilometers per hour, which not only far exceeds the speed of the Thunderbolt fighter, but even the 380 kilometers per hour speed of the Hellfire fighter, the most advanced active fighter in the Chinese Empire, cannot compete with it. Even the maximum ceiling of the aircraft reaches the 6,000-meter standard of the Hellfire fighter, and there is no need to worry about the commanding height being taken away by the Hellfire fighter during air combat.

The maximum take-off weight of the he-100 fighter also reaches 2,500 kilograms, and can carry enough fuel to make its range up to 900 kilometers (559 miles), which is also not behind the Hellfire fighter.

However, in terms of armed equipment, the German side did not use six 12.7mm caliber m2 heavy machine guns similar to Hellfire fighter jets, but installed a 20mm mg/ff-m cannon in the engine and two 7.92mm mg-17 machine guns on the wings.

Such firepower equipment is also in competition with Hellfire fighters, because German spies accidentally learned from the Imperial Chinese Air Force pilot that the Hellfire fighter is a high-intensity all-metal structure with strong bulletproof ability. Ordinary 7.92 machine gun bullets cannot cause fatal damage to it, so they installed a 20mm cannon.

The Germans installed large-caliber machine guns on aircraft for the first time, thus starting the revolution of airborne weapons in aviation history. Since then, the main combat fighter jets of various countries basically no longer use 7.92 machine guns, but have changed to large-caliber machine guns. At the same time, it has also stimulated the comprehensive development of all-metal aircraft. Aircraft of various countries has also continuously improved their armor protection capabilities and indirectly led the revolution in aircraft manufacturing materials.

However, the aircraft did not have a rocket system installed because the Luftwaffe did not see the advantage of Hellfire fighter using rockets. At the same time, the design of the He-100 is limited, the material technology is not up to standard, and the launching rocket system affects the aircraft's fighting ability.

Although the parameters of the He-100 fighter exceed the most advanced Hellfire fighter in service in the Chinese Empire, the Germans cannot compete with the fighter materials of the Chinese Empire in terms of material technology and lag much behind. The Chinese Empire has been ahead of Europe and the United States in material technology for more than ten years. The Hellfire fighter of the Chinese Empire has achieved lightweight and high-strength magnesium, aluminum, chromium and nickel alloy materials. In this regard, the German He-100 fighter also uses iron sandwich skin material, which is not a little behind.

At the same time, the cost of the He-100 fighter is far greater than that of the Hellfire fighter of the Chinese Empire, reaching an astonishing 4.99 million marks (560,000 dragon coins), which is more than twice the initial cost of the Hellfire fighter. Now, the cost of the Hellfire fighter of the Chinese Empire has dropped to 110,000 dragon coins due to the significant improvement in manufacturing technology and material technology. Compared with the two, the cost-effectiveness difference is obvious.

Of course, this is also a step that the Luftwaffe and the aircraft industry must take. The price that each country has to pay for the initial stage of the aviation industry, but the Chinese Empire has already completed and Germany has just begun.

However, the Luftwaffe was already proud of being able to develop a powerful fighter such as the He-100. Although the single-aircraft cost was extremely expensive, Henkel still received a large-scale order from the Luftwaffe. The first batch of 200 fighters were delivered to the Luftwaffe in March 1925. In order to keep it confidential, the Luftwaffe claimed to be Messmit's 109 fighter jets. Intelligence personnel including the Chinese Empire were also deceived by him, thinking that only fighters with a speed of 320 kilometers per hour would not pose a challenge to the Chinese Empire's Hellfire fighter jets.

Henkel has done its best to develop He-100 fighter jets. Without extra funds to develop aircraft for other projects, Messimite, which failed to compete in this project, immediately switched to the development of bombers. Since the range of the BF-109 fighter jet has reached 800 kilometers, its engine has been changed to four engines, which can provide ultra-long-range and large-capacity bombers. During the World War, it was shown that the bomber market was far larger than that of fighter jets. The Luftwaffe Air Force also approved Messimite to develop large bombers in view of the threat of the British 0-400 bomber jets.

To this end, Messmitt specially imported three H2n1 bombers and two Royal Airways y-40 airliners from the Empire of China for dismantling and researching, and also bought two abandoned O-400 bombers from the United States for comparison.

After comprehensive research, the designers of Messimette Company developed the BW-300 bomber, which was equipped with two 450-horsepower Newport IB engines, with a shortened main wing span (from 85 feet to 75 feet), and some corrections were made to the tail. The aircraft made its first flight on December 2, 1924, with a range of 1,600 kilometers and a cruising speed of 300 kilometers per hour. Even the lightning fighter could not catch up. On May 4 of the following year, it flew to an altitude of 14,030 feet with a payload of 3,690 pounds.

At the same time, a b2 heavy machine gun has certain self-defense capabilities.

The overall performance of the entire aircraft has surpassed the most advanced H2n1 bombers and O-400 bombers currently in service in the world Air Force. The Luftwaffe greatly appreciated this and ordered 100 bombers of this type from Messimette.

Similarly, the cost of this type of bomber was also thought to be high, reaching 610,000 dragon coins. Although it was lower than the cost of the H2n1 bomber of the Chinese Empire when it was finalized, the former was manufactured eight years ago and was not comparable. At the same time, the cost of producing an H2n1 bomber in the Chinese Empire is only 240,000 dragon coins, and the cost-effectiveness is still far higher than the bw-300, which is also an unmatched place in the German aviation industry.

But no matter what, the Luftwaffe has its own advanced fighter jets and bombers, and no longer relies on the Chinese Empire as it did during the World War. It is only in line with the development of Germany's defense industry with independent research and development and production capabilities. From this point of view alone, the Germans are still worthy of pride.

The three armored musketeers of the Chinese Empire are no longer a secret. All countries actively studied and imitated them after the war, and Germany even worshiped the country with a fanatical worship of armored weapons.

In eight years after the war, the German Army finally served tank No. 1 (a\b\c) in the summer of 1925 through research on armored combat vehicles of the Chinese Empire and relevant technical support obtained from the Chinese Empire.

Krupp is the main research and development unit of Germany's main battle tank. After the war, the company built an Lka1 prototype that weighed only 6 tons, which imitated the Chinese Empire's W16 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle. It can be regarded as the originator of Germany's post-war No. 1 infantry tank.

The difference is that Germany is limited in the research on high-performance infantry fighting vehicle wheels. The rubber tires produced cannot meet the wheel load standard of W16 infantry fighting vehicle. The Chinese Empire strictly blocked rubber synthesis technology, and countries including the allies of the Chinese Empire could not obtain this technology. Therefore, Krupp Company had no choice but to change to a crawler-type turret to replace it. The Lka1 Infantry fighting vehicle has 4 balanced suspension large-diameter load-bearing wheels and 2 pulleys on each side of the small body. The induced wheel is rear-mounted and 2 machine guns are installed on the turret. It soon developed into a lkb1 prototype, also known as the Las-Krupp (Krupp Agricultural Tractor). The induced wheel is rear-mounted and grounded, and the pulleys are increased to 3. The single-person turret is equipped with 2 mg34 7.92mm machine guns. It uses air-cooled diesel engines produced by Krupp.

lkb1 is actually the prototype of the German Army Type 1 A tank. Since Germany cannot obtain the technology of wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, it can only be replaced by piping. Therefore, the territory of the three weapons of artillery, machine gun and anti-tank gun is basically the same. Therefore, the German three armored musketeers became the No. 1 A tank equipped with 40mm main gun, the No. 1 B infantry fighting vehicles equipped with two mg34 machine guns, and the No. 1 C tank equipped with anti-tank guns.

The German Weapons Agency accepted the three prototypes of Krupp and gave the standard number of sd.kfz.101~103 to approved mass production.

The German Army produced 300 Type 1 A tanks, which overall absorbed the technology of the Chinese Empire's m16 tank. Due to the advancement of engine technology, the speed of the modified tank exceeded m16, but the tracks were always out of standard and had to be imported from the Chinese Empire.

200 Type B tanks were produced because they could not achieve the high-speed maneuverability of the W16-wheeled infantry fighting vehicle of the Chinese Empire, and the tactics of quickly deploying infantry could not be exerted. Therefore, they were not favored by the German Army, and production was only used for export.

The z16 anti-tank tanks of the Chinese Empire played a huge role in the Sino-US tank war. The artillery fire of the rapidly deployed anti-tank tank regiments severely damaged the US tank troops and played a key role in the victory of the tank war.

Therefore, the German Army attaches great importance to this and strongly supports the development of anti-tank combat vehicles. The German army likes heavy artillery and is very interested in the 155mm heavy howitzer of the Chinese Empire. Therefore, the C-type anti-tank combat vehicle is based on the 155-heavy howitzer, which leads to the self-weight of the modified tank as high as 38 tons. At the same time, the Germans have installed a 20mm gun on it to make it have self-defense capabilities, which has a heavier weight. However, the German tracks are not up to standard. Although the "export" tracks were imported from the Chinese Empire, such a heavy anti-tank combat vehicle reduced the track with an original lifespan of 300 kilometers to less than 200 kilometers, putting huge pressure on the German army's logistics.

However, the German army was very happy to have the idea that it was possible to imitate the three armored musketeers of the Chinese Empire, believing that the German army would be invincible in the war against other countries.

For Germany, in addition to developing advanced weapons and equipment such as Henkel fighter, Messmit bomber, tank No. 1, etc., there are other individual combat equipment, which basically draw experience from the current equipment of the Chinese Empire. Overall, the German equipment is also targeted by the Chinese Empire. At the same time, they also know that the Chinese Empire could not remain in place for eight years after the war, but the latest equipment of the Chinese Empire has always been in a highly confidential state.

Germany provided these advanced weapons and equipment to the Republic of South Africa, on the one hand, to safeguard Germany's interests in South Africa, and on the other hand, to test the German army's equipment in actual combat. At the same time, Germany is an export trading country, and its exports to the outside world are the foundation for Germany's economic recovery, and military exports to South Africa are naturally also huge profits.

Armed with advanced weapons from Germany, the South African Republic Army formed combat capabilities during the negotiations of one year in the first year. The advantage of equipment allowed the South African Republic Army to quickly break through the defense line of the South African National Army.

Although the United Kingdom, which was supported by the South African National Army, also gave them advanced weapons and equipment, it was obviously not comparable to German equipment.

The Republic of South Africa, which was originally in a weak population, had only 120,000 National Army. It was mainly infantry, and its main weapons and equipment were British Enfield rifles, Maxim heavy machine guns, and armored units. The British Army's standard Mark 1918 light tanks and racing dog heavy tanks. These two tanks were not enough to compete with the No. 1 tank provided by Germany to the South African Republic Army. In particular, the latter had anti-tank combat vehicles, which was not available to the South African National Army.

In terms of the air force, the South African National Army Air Force has 400 F2b2 fighters and 50 O-100 bombers. The UK did not deploy the most advanced F5 fighters and 0-400 bombers to the South African National Army, because the British authorities did not want to expose the strength of the British Air Force in front of the United Nations, and at the same time they hoped to destroy the Republic of South Africa. Therefore, the British carelessness caused the South African government to suffer heavy losses at the beginning of the war.

On December 7, 1926, Worcester, which was heavily defended by the South African people, fell, and the gateway to Cape Town was opened. The Republic of South Africa government was panicked and forced to move the capital to Elizabeth City, because it was the location of the United Nations headquarters.

During the retreat, the senior officials of the Republic of South Africa were panicked. They retreated from sea to Elizabeth, but ordered the railway from Cape Town to Elizabeth and the bridge along the way to blow up. As a result, a large number of South African National Army were sent to the Republican Army, which soon collapsed the resistance of the Republic of South Africa.

On the 8th, the First Armored Division of the South African Republic Army broke through Parr, which was heavily defended by the South African National Army. The Second Cavalry Division detoured from Robertson to Karisu, blocking the South African National Army's retreat to Elizabeth. Due to the bombing of the railway, 70,000 South African National Army could not evacuate. The South African Republic Army had a cavalry unit composed of the Boers, and successfully interspersed and detoured, partitioning and surrounding the South African National Army in Grom, Breda and Hermanus.

On the 9th, the First Armored Division of the South African Republic Army drove the First Army of the National Army out of the sea, and 50,000 National Army surrendered. The United Kingdom and the United Nations quickly dispatched warships to shell Breda, blocking the Republican Army's path forward and quickly rescued more than 10,000 National Army located in Breda and Grom to the sea.

In this way, less than six days after the war started, the main force of the Republic of South Africa lost almost all. The Republic of South Africa occupied two-thirds of the land in the Republic of South Africa, leaving only the Elizabeth region controlled by the joint **.
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