The Third Reich: The Return of the King

"Marshal, allow me to ask a more direct question, how do you think the Russian army behaved in the First World War?".

Field Marshal Hindenburg had fought with the Russian army on the Eastern Front, and he was promoted to Generalissimo by defeating the Russian army on the Eastern Front.

Seeing Colonel Mainz's solemn inquiry, Field Marshal Hindenburg also sat up straight and became serious.

He thought for a while, and then slowly spoke: "To be honest, I think the performance of the woolly bears in the war is not bad, the soldiers can't be said not to be brave, and their performance in the early stage of the war is also good, at least they are much stronger than the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which has a chaotic military system and has seven or eight languages in an army!".

It can be seen that Field Marshal Hindenburg was very disdainful of the Austro-Hungarian Empire formed with Odilli as the main body, which was also a common problem of these old soldiers who came from the Prussian era.

And they did have the capital to look down on Austria-Hungary, after all, more than fifty years ago, they had regarded themselves very highly in the Austro-Prussian War, believing that they were the only inheritance of the Holy Roman Empire, and that they were the great defeat of the real Hans Empire Odili.

As a result of this defeat, Odili was excluded from the newly formed Hans Empire, and the disillusioned Odili had no choice but to unite with the Hungarians to form the strange dual state of Austria-Hungary.

Although Hans formed an alliance with Odili soon after the defeat of Odili, the Hans looked down on this defeated man in their bones, especially after seeing the poor performance of Austria-Hungary in World War I.

"It's just that the tsar seems to be underprepared for this war, and he may still think that his opponent is a weak enemy like the Ottoman chicken, so he only reserves the materials for the military war for a short time, and when these materials are exhausted, the Russian army will become vulnerable!"

Field Marshal Hindenburg did not criticize the woolly bears, the soldiers, and the generals, although there were differences in the performance of the middle and lower-class generals and soldiers in various countries during the First World War, the overall gap was not particularly large, and even the Gauls, who performed poorly at the beginning of the war, began to become vigorous in the later stages of the war

Field Marshal Hindenburg criticized the emperor of Tsarist Russia, believing that the tsar was not fully prepared for this war!

Although the Tsar did have millions, if not tens of millions, of gray cattle who could live or die, they even formed a huge army of 15 million people at the height of the war!

If the Tsar's army, which numbered more than 10 million, could have been equipped with equipment, training could be completed, and there were qualified generals to command, then there would be no need to fight the First World War at all, and with the advantage of numbers, the Russian army would have been able to pile up the German army!

However, the naïve tsar seems to be still stuck in the war period decades ago, he did not realize that the modern war competition is no longer a simple population, but also a comprehensive national strength, especially the competition of industrial strength, Mao Xiong is of course a large population of large resources, but the weak military strength makes them simply unable to support the consumption of so many troops on the front line, so the war has been fought for three years, and the Russian army with millions of casualties can not withstand it.

At the end of the First World War, the former Three Emperors Alliance was all destroyed, the Second Reich was gone, the Kaiser was gone, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was gone, Karl I was deposed, Tsarist Russia, which was an Entente country, was gone, and the Tsar was even more miserable, Nicholas II was even shot and killed in Catherine's palace, and he couldn't even save his life.

Mainz nodded, he understood Field Marshal Hindenburg's attitude towards the woolly bear, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.

"That is, marshal, you mean that Tsarist Russia, which is not fully industrialized, is the main reason why the Russian army is not performing as well as it should on the battlefield, right?".

Hindenburg glanced at Mainz, and if someone else had spoken to him like this, he might have been upset, because the coercive meaning of the sentence was strong, and the old marshal did not like the feeling of being forced in this way.

However, he still nodded and said: "You can think so, of course, this is not the whole reason, there is a complete disconnect between the noble officers who are high up in the Russian army and the soldiers who are almost not looked at as people below, and there are also big problems in the system, but the main problem can still be attributed to the lack of industrial strength!".

Mainz was very pleased, and he was extremely pleased with the foresight shown by the old marshal!

Field Marshal Hindenburg's past brilliant achievements have proved that he is an excellent general, but his remarks at this time show another side of him, he has a long-term vision in judging the overall situation of the world, and he is extremely sharp.

Why can industrialization improve the strength of a country and the combat effectiveness of an army?

The reason lies in the three words productivity!

Compared with the agricultural era, industrialization can greatly improve social productivity, and then promote social development, and further promote the transformation of social and political systems

"Do you agree, then, marshal, that if the level of industry of this country is brought to the level of the countries of Western Europe, if not to the level of our country, but only to the point of Gaul, the country will be completely different from before?"

Field Marshal Hindenburg's heart was nervous with the question posed by Mainz, which seemed unlikely, because for hundreds of years the woolly bear had been the backward serfdom on the periphery of Europe, and it was probably impossible to suddenly industrialize it in full form!

However, if you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what if, and if this kind of thing is really possible, it will be really scary!

Tsarist Russia is currently the only country in Europe with a population of more than 100 million and an area of more than 1 million square kilometers

Seeing Field Marshal Hindenburg's face change, Mainz knew that the other party realized the seriousness of the matter, so he explained further.

"This time, I went to the woolly bear to inspect the feeling, although the social system of the red woolly bear is incompatible with the mainstream countries of Europe and even the mainstream countries of the world, if they really succeed, then the hairy bear is bound to undergo earth-shaking changes, and the power of hundreds of millions of liberated peasants is already terrifying, not to mention the power after all these peasants have been transformed into workers!"

"We can't intervene in the Entente to interfere in the civil war of the woolly bear, but I think the reason why the Entente did this is not only because the woolly bear is a red system, but more importantly, because they see the huge threat after the complete change of the woolly bear, so they want to extinguish it when this threat is just budding, which is why the Entente countries also support a large number of armed forces of Tsarist Russia, obviously, they are trying to restore the Tsarist Russian system and split Tsarist Russia into several small countries, so that Tsarist Russia will no longer be a threat！"

"Even if we can't directly send troops to intervene in the civil war with the woolly bear, but on the issue of the woolly bear, our position is not much different from that of the Entente, in this case, we can't cooperate with the woolly bear, provide them with weapons, or even provide cheap weapons to them at a low price, as long as they can hit their own industrial technology, then it is considered a success, and in this process, we must not transfer technology to them, whether it is military technology or industrial technology, we can't easily let the woolly bear get, let alone the tank technology that determines the future war！"

"The sun never sets and Gaul are at best our immediate enemies, while Eagle Sauce and the Woolly Bear are our lifelong enemies!"