The Third Reich: The Return of the King

In 1920, after more than half a year of adjustment, the German army completed the disarmament stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles.

At this time, the size of the German navy was reduced to 5,000 men, the size of the army was reduced to 114,000 men, and the actual combat strength of the army was only 100,000 after deducting the civilian personnel in the army.

The Entente were very satisfied with this, and after successfully eliminating the largest army in Europe, they felt a lot more relieved.

So they were curious to see how much combat effectiveness the remaining 100,000 German troops were.

Mainz did not disappoint them either, and in July 1920 the Germans conducted a military exercise of more than 50,000 troops in the southern state of Bavaria.

All the countries of Europe were invited, and the Germans sent them invitations, inviting them to come and observe and guide.

All European countries knew that the German army had been emasculated by the Entente, and there were only about 100,000 people at this time, and a military exercise of 50,000 people was already a big deal for the German army.

Military exercises of this scale are very valuable for reference for all countries, especially the German army has always had a very brilliant record since the Prussian era, even if it was defeated in the First World War, but it was still not looked down upon, after all, everyone knows that the Second Reich did not lose on the battlefield, but in the process of fighting for national strength and internal strength, it could not hold itself up and blew itself up, so if you want to shake the pot, you can't throw the black pot on the German army!

Moreover, after the disarmament, the German army should be cut off from the chaff, a large number of miscellaneous troops have been cut, and elite troops have been retained, so all countries are very interested in this short and concise force!

After receiving the invitation, within a week of receiving the invitation, people arrived in Hans one after another.

On July, the German exercises officially began.

The Germans, who were on the side of the Blue Army, carried out a fierce artillery bombardment of the positions held by the Red Army, and the bombardment attracted the attention of military attachés from various countries as soon as the shelling began.

Due to the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, the German army was not allowed to have heavy artillery with a caliber of more than 105 mm, so when the officers of various countries observing the exercise saw the German artillery units, they all showed mocking smiles.

"That's a 75mm field gun, right?"

A French colonel asked the military attache next to him, who looked at the binoculars and nodded: "Well, it does look like a 75 mm caliber field gun!"

"Hehe, their artillery technology is really inferior to our country, if it is according to our country's artillery standards, field artillery of the same caliber, in the case just now, can fire at least 15 shells in a minute, I just heard that the German artillery seems to have completed only 5 rounds, this speed, the old lady is stronger than them!"

The pride of the French military attache did not arise out of thin air, and the capital of his pride came mainly from the First World War.

In 1870, after the end of the Franco-Prussian War, the French army found that its artillery was completely crushed by the Prussian army in battle, and their loose nature was not as rigorous and serious as the Prussian soldiers.

In 189, three army officers jointly developed a 7 mm field gun, which weighs about 1.5, has 6 times the caliber and an ultra-fast rate of fire of 15 rounds per minute!

This artillery is the M1897 field cannon, which was active from the First World War to the Second World War!

This artillery was immediately favored by the French army, and in World War I, this artillery showed its talents, its excellent rate of fire, completely crushed the same type of artillery of all other countries!

Even the Krupp Group, the best artillery manufacturer at that time, produced a Krupp 75-mm field gun with a rate of fire far inferior to that of the French army, and the maximum rate of fire of the Krupp 75-mm field gun was only 40% lower than that of the French army!

With this tactic, the French artillery had a great advantage in the artillery support that accompanied the infantry, which made the German army suffer a lot during the war.

Therefore, the French army has always been proud of its field artillery, and at this time, seeing that the German artillery technology not only did not improve, but also regressed, and could only fire 5 shells a minute, the French army naturally couldn't help but open their mouths to mock.

Hearing the words of the Gauls, the military attache who never set the sun also laughed, although he didn't know how the German army had fallen to such a point, but the Gauls' poisonous tongue was not wrong, if the German army continued to maintain this level, it would really be inferior to the old lady!

However, when he thought of the triumphant appearance of the French military attache next door, the military attache who never set the sun was not very comfortable.

Since the rise of Prussia, it has always been a tool used by the sun to balance the European hegemon Gaul, if it were not for Wilhelm II, the middle and second disease, who came to power, and expelled the iron-blooded prime minister Bismarck, and changed Bismarck's diplomatic strategy of the balance of power in Europe without authorization, the empire would not regard Hans as its enemy!

After all, the newly rising Hans Empire was unable to expand its territory and seize colonies in the world because of its relatively short time and lack of a powerful navy!

The Gauls were different, not only in the Far East and in the Far East, the Indochina Peninsula was much stronger, directly threatening the colonies in Malaya, but also expanding in Africa, seriously threatening the interests of the empire in Africa.

Not to mention that since the Hundred Years War between Britain and France, Gaul has become the enemy of the sun never setting many times, when the North American War of Independence, King Louis XVI of Gaul in order to deal with the sun never set, even did not hesitate to smash the pot to sell iron to support the eagle sauce, not only sent the army as a volunteer army to fight against the sun never set, but also dispatched the navy to directly declare war on the sun never set!

If it weren't for the continuous threat of Gaul in Europe, the sun never set and did not dare to invest too much force in North America to suppress Eagle Sauce's uprising, maybe North America is still a colony on which the sun never sets, and there is nothing wrong with Eagle Sauce at all!

Louis XVI's support finally made Gaul himself miserable, which caused strong discontent among the people, and the Great Revolution broke out in the country, and Louis XVI himself was guillotined and died!

Because he hated that the sun never set, he supported the enemy at all costs, and in the end he even ended up with a corpse in a different place, which can be seen from the performance of Louis XVI, how much the Gauls hated the sun never set in their hearts!

And in the face of a country that constantly challenges its own world hegemony, constantly creates trouble for itself, and is extremely hostile to itself, the sun never sets and never relaxes its vigilance!

Therefore, until now, the sun never sets on people can't figure out what Wilhelm II, the second middle disease, is thinking!

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the enemy of the sun never sets is Gaul, not Hans, but Wilhelm II is desperate to develop the navy, even if the development of the navy is not enough, he also targets the royal navy where the sun never sets, and even openly proposes to challenge the supremacy of the sun never sets, and asks for a repartition of the world......

But anyone with a normal intelligence knew that he couldn't do such an idiotic thing, and it turned out that Wilhelm II did!

If Hans didn't develop the navy, or if the navy wasn't so strong, and the slogans weren't so wild!

To be honest, they don't have any, no matter how strong the army is, it can't threaten the sun to never set, but once you have a powerful navy that can challenge the status of the Royal Navy, it is clear that the sun does not set, and the sun does not set, who do you beat?

But now Hans has been repaired severely, the navy is gone, the army is only left with this crooked melon and cracked dates, and the emperor of the second disease has also been driven away, so the hostility of the sun never sets towards Hans has disappeared.

At this time, they began to worry about the Gauls again!_

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