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Chapter 2564 Surrender is a dead end

 Since the outbreak of World War II, Southern Africa has produced a total of 270,000 fighter aircraft of various types. They are not only equipped with the Southern African Expeditionary Force, but also exported to allied countries in large quantities. Southern African fighter jets can be seen on all battlefields.

Specific to the "Seagull", a total of 11,500 have been produced since it was finalized in 1938. They are mainly used to equip the Southern African Expeditionary Force, and some are also exported to the United Kingdom and France, and are also equipped by the US military.

Different from the latest "Seagull" equipped by the Southern African Expeditionary Force, the ones exported to Britain, France and the United States from Southern Africa are all early models, and there is a big gap in performance compared with the latest Seagull.

The "Seagull" that landed at the Russian airport was damaged in a battle with the Germans and was unable to return to the southern African airport. It had to make an emergency landing near the Russian airport. The specific situation is still unclear.

Even if the "Seagull" is acquired by Russia, Rock will not be able to affect his relationship with Russia because of this. The only thing he is worried about is that Russia may obtain more advanced technologies from the "Seagull" and thereby improve the level of Russian fighter jets.

This is actually difficult to avoid.

Southern Africa has always paid great attention to technical protection when exporting weapons and equipment, but Americans do not have so many concerns.

One of the very important factors is that there is a certain gap in the performance of U.S. weapons and equipment compared with Southern African weapons and equipment. Therefore, in order to compete with their Southern African counterparts in the international market, U.S. military industrial companies have to come up with the most advanced

Weapons and equipment, and at the same time keeping prices as low as possible, can we steal some orders from southern African military industrial companies.

Let’s take the Navy’s carrier-based aircraft as an example. Southern Africa will always lift its export restrictions on the previous generation of technology after a new generation of carrier-based aircraft enters service. The U.S. company Vought, which produces F4U Corsair fighter jets, supplies them to the U.S. Navy and sells them.

The F4U given to the Russian Navy has almost no difference in performance.

Many people will be curious as to why Russia, which does not have any aircraft carriers, needs naval carrier-based aircraft.

This is actually easy to understand.

Now in 1945, when all the countries participating in the war are exhausted, they have indeed run out of fuel. At this time, stop picking and choosing. It will be good if it can be used.

The situation in the United States is actually not much better.

As we all know, the United States is an oil-producing country, and its oil production once accounted for more than 60% of the world's total oil production.

Until 1939, the total oil production of the United States still accounted for 40% of the world's total crude oil production.

In order to save energy, the U.S. War Production Board, established in 1942, stipulated that the maximum speed of domestic automobiles in the United States should not exceed 35 miles per hour.

In order to use all resources as much as possible to support the war, the War Production Board ordered a suspension of the production and sale of all non-military civilian vehicles. This regulation directly eliminated the 500,000 civilian vehicles that American automakers had not yet had time to sell.

, the backlog has been in the warehouse for as long as five years.

In addition to cars, the use of other materials is also strictly regulated. For example, starting in 1942, all dog food in the United States can no longer use metal packaging. Americans who want to buy new toothpaste must use old toothpaste tubes to exchange, and other

The production of all civilian products related to metals has been suspended. The purpose of all this is to make way for war.

As one of the only countries in the world that was not affected by the war and whose industrial production scale continued to grow during the war, the situation in the United States has reached this point, which shows how serious the situation is.

Compared with Britain's wartime rationing system, the only area that the United States did not impose restrictions on was the food industry.

Russia also implemented wartime rationing.

Although Russia is large in area, spanning the two continents of Asia and Europe, most areas have not yet been developed. The best areas are in the European part, which seriously overlaps with the areas affected by the war.

The Patriotic War that lasted for four years caused great damage to Russia. Not only industrial production was severely affected, but agriculture was even more affected. It can be said that the vast occupied areas have almost no harvest in recent years, all relying on southern Africa and the United States.

With assistance, Russia got through the most difficult stage.

Bearded Man has moved many people to Central Asia in the past two years, partly to change the status quo.

On the surface, Russia does have depth.

In fact, Mustache's method is very correct. As long as Russia's industrial production capacity is eliminated, Russia will not be far from withdrawing from the war.

The good news is that although Russian industry has suffered a devastating blow, after receiving assistance from southern Africa and the United States, the level of Russian industry has greatly improved. The military vehicles in front of the Livadia Palace are the best proof.

Russia's automobile industry started very early. As early as 1899, Russian inventor Hippolyte Romanov designed the "Cuckoo" electric car. This car could accommodate two passengers and had a top speed of 40 kilometers per hour.

, the maximum range is 60 kilometers.

These data are not outstanding, but in 1899, the results were particularly impressive.

Before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, Russia's Gorky Automobile Factory cooperated with Ford of the United States to establish a passenger car brand. Ford provided the site to produce GAZ cars exclusively for Russian senior executives.

After the outbreak of World War II, Russia's fragile industrial capacity was almost devastated. The military's demand for automobiles increased day by day. During the entire war, Russia imported more than 500,000 trucks alone. Military trucks produced by Nyasaland Heavy Industry were the most popular.

Welcome, Russia not only imports in large quantities, but also obtained a production license from Nyasaland Heavy Industries.

Russia now has an annual production capacity of 1.2 million trucks.

In 1940, this number was only 45,000.

The progress of the automobile industry can be seen as the epitome of the rapid improvement of Russia's industrial level.

Big Beard hopes not only to get trucks, but also likes luxury cars produced in southern Africa. He himself has a modified Lord car.

Without modification, how can the leader of Russia ride in a luxury car——

At least it looks simpler on the outside.

After the banquet was over, the bearded man left directly. Rock and Winston were not in a hurry to leave. They wanted to discuss how to deal with the Russian army's attack on Austria.

Once Russia occupies Austria, Russia's influence will radiate to central and southern Europe, which will directly affect the control of "civilized society" over Europe and even the world.

"The most ideal way is to set up a buffer zone between us and Russia to avoid direct contact. This may avoid accidents to the greatest extent. I am not just referring to war-" Winston is not an alarmist, talking to Russia

Compared with the huge mechanized troops, Winston is more worried about the proliferation of the Russian model.

To use the words that Rock is most familiar with, it is peaceful evolution.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the 20th century, peaceful evolution turned out to be Russia's most powerful weapon.

"So, this buffer zone should be turbulent and physically isolated from each other's understanding." Roosevelt was not afraid. The United States and Russia were separated by the Pacific Ocean.

"It's not a hundred years ago now, so it's almost impossible." Roque is even less afraid. It's not like the Communist International hasn't tried it either. Maybe one person will evolve into the other.

There is no need to compare with a hundred years ago. Compared with twenty years ago, people's lives have been turned upside down.

During the First World War twenty years ago, in order to stimulate public support for the war, the Allied Powers and the Central Powers spared no effort to discredit their opponents and described them as demons from hell. The people were convinced of this.

Nowadays, there are not only movies, but also TV. Live broadcast technology is becoming more and more mature, and the channels for people to obtain information are constantly increasing. If we continue to use the previous propaganda methods, it may have the opposite effect.

Of course, this is still not a big problem for southern Africa.

Different periods have different characteristics, the key is how to utilize them.

In the movie, Southern Africa has already realized upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones, every home has a car, 40 hours of work per week, various paid vacations every year, lawns in front of buildings and gardens in the back, swimming pools, and the camera turns to indoors.

There is a dazzling array of household appliances, all of which seem to have become standard equipment for middle-class families in southern Africa.

In fact, there must be a dark side in southern Africa, but movie directors will not focus their cameras there. No one wants to see how terrible the working conditions of miners are. The audience prefers a new immigrant from Europe who has worked hard to live a happy life in southern Africa.

Live and realize your Southern African dream.

"As long as we are determined, nothing is impossible!" Winston was decisive. Based on Rock's understanding of Winston, Winston should already have the embryonic form of the Iron Curtain deep in his heart.

The time is almost the same. In another time and space, in March next year, Winston officially delivered the Iron Curtain speech at Westminster College in Fulton City, USA.

In this time and space, Winston is more likely to change the place of publication to Nyasaland University.

"Then let's start with Austria?" Rock actually didn't know how the Cold War was formed. Rock had never paid attention to this issue in his previous life.

"Russia cannot be allowed to occupy Vienna, at least Russia cannot be allowed to completely occupy Austria." Roosevelt nodded. It was rare for the three people to reach an agreement on an issue.

Then begin.

After the Italian Campaign, the Allied forces did not continue to advance northward, but stationed themselves on the border between Italy and Austria.

The trio gave the order, and the Italian Allied forces immediately took action to "grab territory" with the Russian army as quickly as possible.

Yes, it's a land grab.

Compared with the Battle of Budapest, the resistance will of the Axis forces has been further reduced. There are still some German troops in Vienna, and the Axis forces on the border between Italy and Austria are all Austrian servants with lower combat effectiveness.

After World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated and Austria established a republic, which was annexed by Germany in March 1938.

Within the Axis system, Austria joined earlier and was more influenced by Germany. It had the highest support for the German army. At its peak, about one million people joined the German combat system and played a role in Germany's conquest of Europe.

huge.

When Austria was annexed by Germany, the entire country had only about 7 million people.

Of the 7 million people, nearly one million have joined the army. This ratio is higher than Australia's support for Britain during World War I.

For the same reason, during the Russo-German War, the Austrian Servant Army, as the first loyal dog of the German army, suffered the second largest losses in the Axis system after Germany.

Now the situation in Austria is the same as that in Germany. All the strong and experienced soldiers have been lost. The newly recruited soldiers are either underage children or gray-haired old people. When they faced the Allied attack,

There was barely even token resistance.

This situation surprised Rock.

Just one day later, the Southern African Expeditionary Force, which was the first to attack Austria, captured approximately 15,000 Austrians. It is said that the entire battle lasted only four hours, of which the capture of prisoners took 3 hours and 55 minutes.

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"Don't you want to kill a good person and take credit for it?" Winston was also surprised. If he had known this was the case, Winston would definitely not have only one division in Italy.

The term "killing good people and claiming merit" has appeared frequently in newspapers in southern Africa in recent times.

Don't ask the reason, just ask about the Budapest attack and defense.

According to the battle report that Rock received, the Southern African Expeditionary Force only dispatched one battalion of less than 1,000 men and captured 15,000 Austrian soldiers. This was obviously inconsistent with Winston's understanding of the war.

The combat effectiveness of the Austrian army is quite strong. When the Axis powers attacked France, the Austrian Servant Army participated. The British Expeditionary Force at that time fought head-on with the Austrian Servant Army.

Then there was the Dunkirk evacuation.

In Winston's mind, even if the fighting power was as weak as the Italians, it would not be enough to spread the word.

It really depends on the message.

The entire battle was lackluster. It was probably the Southern African Expeditionary Force that issued an ultimatum to the Austrian army.

After thinking for five minutes, the Austrian army commander directly ordered the troops to give up resistance, which was much easier than the French.

"Probably not, I have 16,000 prisoners here -" Roosevelt was also very happy, and the American soldiers also received good news frequently. It seems that the bearded man's talk of ending the war in a short time was not a boast.

Winston looked gloomy and said nothing.

Unlike the Southern African Expeditionary Force and American soldiers stationed at the border, the British troops in Italy were deployed in Sicily, a thousand kilometers away from the front line. It would take at least a week to reach the battlefield.

Here you can see the quality of the British army.

The war is not over yet. The army should be prepared to fight at all times and set off as soon as the order is given. There is no need for preparation time at all.

After receiving the order, the British army needs at least 140 hours of preparation time before it can set off.

In Big Beard's words, by the time the British army arrived in Vienna, the battle in Vienna would have been over long ago.

To Big Beard's expectation, the Russian army encountered the same problem as Budapest in Vienna, and its attack was far less smooth than the Southern African Expeditionary Force and the US military.

This is normal. When facing Russia, the Austrian army will not surrender with just a telegram.

Surrender is a dead end.


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