Romania spent the rest of 1935 in a slow military expansion.
In the world, the civil war in the Far East, Edel's old friend, was also heading towards a staged victory. The Communist Party's armed forces were forced to transfer, and its base in Jiangxi was almost occupied. In this battle, according to Rhodes
The military restructured by the advisory groups of the two countries played a decisive role.
Therefore, Edel's old friend, who has temporarily relieved his confidant, is more urgent to promote the reform of his army. Because the Japanese have become more and more restless in North China, he urgently needs more weapons and equipment to reorganize more troops.
Therefore, Nanjing proposed to continue the plan to exchange raw materials for weapons.
As for Nanjing's request, both Germany and Germany agreed. Among them, Germany needed industrial raw materials and its own foreign exchange was insufficient. As for Romania, it also wanted to expand exports. Because as Romania's replacement progresses, a large number of old equipment has withdrawn.
It will be in active service. It will cost money to destroy this equipment, and it will take up space to store it. It is better to sell it in exchange for some raw materials.
Although these equipments in Europe seem to be out of date, Nanjing is happy to accept these well-maintained equipments. Because the price is much lower than the new equipment, the performance is not much different.
.So Nanjing is totally willing to accept this batch of cheap and high-quality weapons.
Therefore, in 1935, Romania transported up to 520 million lei, enough to equip eleven divisions. Of course, in addition to collecting rags from Romania, its German-style fanaticism hidden in the bone marrow was still active. Germany also
110 million Reichsmark worth of weapons were exported.
Of course, in addition to the Far East, the long-running Ethiopian War has also come to an end. Italy has undergone changes in commanders and increased troops. Finally, on April 21, 1935, the main force of the Ethiopian army was defeated at Mechu near Asandi Lake. In June
On the 2nd, Selassie I went into exile in Britain. On June 5, Italian troops occupied Addis Ababa. On the 9th, Mussolini announced that Ethiopian territory would be annexed to Italy.
Although Italy occupied Ethiopia, this war caused huge casualties to Italy, with nearly 100,000 people killed and 43,000 wounded.
Although the mountainous terrain of Ethiopia limited the performance of the Italian army, its huge casualties made all countries praise the bravery of the Italian army.
However, it cannot be concealed that the upper-level command of its army is rigid, its tactics are backward, and its equipment is backward. In particular, the Breda 6.5mm light machine gun and Mannlicher-Carcano rifle it is equipped with are top-notch.
The Breda 6.5mm light machine gun has a unique side magazine, which causes the center of gravity to shift. The mass of the entire gun (excluding the magazine) is 10.34kg, which can be said to be a big fat man among light machine guns. However, its weight does not
It can achieve a higher rate of fire, and the maximum theoretical shooting ability of 500 rounds per minute is completely impossible due to the unreasonable design. It can be said that it can compete with the Taisho 11-type light machine gun (Crooked Gun) for a while.
As for the Carcano rifle, there is no need to explain too much. In 1890, Salvatore Carcano, Italy's chief technician, designed the Carcano M1891 rifle at the Turin Arsenal with reference to the pasta master's rolling pin. It was used as a replacement.
The bizarre 10.4x47R caliber M1870 Vitri black powder rifle.
The Carcano rifle is 1,285 mm long and uses a small caliber of 6.5mm. The 6.5*52mm rifle bullet it uses is the weakest standard full-power bullet at the time.
The Carcano rifle is fed by a leaky clip. This leaky clip draws on the design of the M1888 committee leakage clip, and Italy adds one round. (While the previous Vitri rifle had a four-round clip, the Carcano had a six-round clip.
, Italians can’t count to 5?)
The Carcano rifle uses a unique progressive rifling (the shorter the twist close to the muzzle, the faster the bullet rotates), and the gun has good accuracy. However, what is surprising is that the Italians have chaotic ammunition management, and the Carcano bullet
The sources of gunpowder are different, so Carcano's muzzle velocity ranges from 600 meters to 750 meters per second, and the trajectory is therefore very random...Whether it hits or not depends on luck.
Compared with Japan's Type 38 rifle of the same caliber, the Carcano rifle is completely inferior. Therefore, this is one of the main reasons why the Italian army suffered so many casualties before. Mountain warfare requires higher individual quality and weapons.
Of course, Italy is still capable of defeating backward countries. But as for facing powerful players, its combat capabilities are unknown. Although the Italian Army's overall capabilities are poor, it still has outstanding troops. For example, it is stationed in the mountains of northern Italy.
Facing France's mountain troops, it is one of its elite. In addition, its naval strength is worthy of recognition.
Of course, there are other things happening in the world, but this is not worth focusing on. However, in 1935, Romania focused more on improving its own military.
Although this year was affected by the weakening of additional monetary stimulus, driven by the military and shipbuilding industry, Romania's economic growth stabilized and returned to 7% again.
This year, Romania's GDP reached 82.74 billion lei, ranking fourth in Europe and fifth in the world. Romania's steel output reached 5.78 million tons, which is comparable to France. And its grain output also reached 23.84 million tons.
Not only can it meet domestic demand, but its export scale is also not small at all.
Moreover, affected by Edel's ascension to the throne of Bulgaria, the current total population of Romania and Bulgaria has reached more than 43 million people. It ranks fourth in Europe, surpassing France and Italy in one fell swoop, and the gap with the United Kingdom is narrowing.
At the same time, in terms of exports, although it is affected by the economic downturn, Romania still has growth by exploring other markets. However, it is not much, with only 4.1% export growth.
In terms of imports, due to the impact of military expansion, Romania's demand for raw materials, especially rubber, tungsten ore, tung oil, bristle and other military raw materials, increased significantly. As a result, Romania's imports increased by 12.4% in 1935.
Of course, from here, Romania is also on the road to expanding its armaments and preparing for war. However, compared to Germany, Romania, which has a better economic environment, can expand its armaments much easier. However, considering the different national conditions of the two countries, this is not good.
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In addition to the growth of the economy and population, the Romanian army also reached a new high this year, with a total strength of 540,000 navy and air force officers and soldiers, making Romania's expansion less difficult.
And time passed like this in 1935. Starting from 1936, more people could smell the smoke in the sky over Europe, but they just didn't know how these far-sighted people should choose.
