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Volume 2: Managing Beiyang Chapter 711: Collision of Steel

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    After World War II, due to economic difficulties, the German Federation was no match for the Chinese Empire in its three cash-burning arms: the Navy, the Air Force, and the Space Force.  However, in terms of army equipment, the German Federation did not lag behind the Chinese Empire. On the contrary, it far exceeded the Chinese Imperial Army in terms of equipment scale.

    China and Germany have exactly opposite directions in the development of their armies after the war.  The Imperial Chinese Army continues to pursue the line of elite troops. The Imperial Standing Army maintains around 2 million troops and is extremely well-equipped.  The entire Warsaw Pact group has an army of more than 9.3 million, which is well-equipped but slightly lower than the Imperial Chinese Army. It has become the main force to contain NATO.

    In other words, the Imperial Chinese Army is worried that it will suffer the first round of violent attacks in a military conflict with NATO. In this regard, the Imperial Chinese Army has learned from the experience and lessons of the Blitzkrieg of World War II. The main force of the Imperial Chinese Army is not deployed close to NATO areas, but deep back.  deployed to avoid surprise attacks by NATO.  At the front, the armies of other Warsaw Pact countries acted as cannon fodder and directly faced the NATO army.

    The German Alliance was different. Its total army strength not only did not decrease after the war, but more than doubled.  Mainly due to the economic difficulties after the German war, a large number of soldiers were disarmed and returned to their fields with nothing to do. Instead, they became evil forces in society because they could not live with enough food and clothing.  The German Federation then adopted the former Soviet Union's strategy of restoring corps production after World War I, and put most of its troops into production while preparing for war.

    When the Imperial Chinese Army returned to a peaceful combat readiness level, the total strength of the German Allied Army increased to 6.3 million, and the total strength of the entire NATO reached 13.8 million.

    Such a large army requires astonishing army equipment.  In the early post-war period, NATO countries owned 18,000 tanks and combat vehicles of various types.  Because it was difficult for the German Union to catch up with the Chinese Empire in a short period of time in terms of naval, air force and space army equipment.  Therefore, Hitler vigorously built the army and strived to become the world's largest army power.

    The tank is an important symbol of the army.  Therefore, it became the key development target of Delian.

    During World War II, German tanks suffered a lot from Allied tanks.  In addition to lagging behind the Chinese Empire in technology, it was also caused by insufficient quantity due to high production costs.  The production cost of Soviet tanks was low, and the tank group had a huge impact on the German army in the later stage.

    After the war, the German Army learned its lesson.  With the liberalization of the raw material market, the cost of producing tanks for the German army dropped rapidly.  The demise of the Soviet Union and Tsarist Russia joining the German Alliance led to a great integration of German and Russian tank technologies.  The cost-effective Soviet tanks are equipped with powerful engines of German tanks.  Finally, the German tanks achieved a breakthrough.

    In March 1949, the former Soviet Union's T44 main battle tank was combined with the German No. 6 tank to become the first post-war main battle tank of Germany - the T50.

    The T50 main battle tank has a total weight of 39.7 tons, a turret armor of 203 mm (this thickness is only found at the bottom of the turret), and a hull of 99 mm.  The main weapons are PD-9 100mm rifled cannon and two 12.7mm heavy machine guns.  It uses the V8 diesel engine of the German Panzer VI tank, with a maximum range of 600 kilometers (with auxiliary fuel tank) and a maximum speed of 55 kilometers per hour.

    Overall.  The T-50 main battle tank has its significant advantages and particularly significant shortcomings.  Different countries and different camps have different evaluations of it.  In several wars in the Middle East, the tanks of the Arab army suffered a Waterloo-like defeat, and were destroyed and injured by the Persian Imperial Army and the Kuwaiti Army.  Countless people were seized.  In fact, the shortcomings in combat are that due to economic constraints, Delian unilaterally pursued a bulletproof appearance and reduced the size of the vehicle body, causing operational inconvenience.  The lack of protection at the ammunition depot and fuel bunker would prevent the tank from being hit.  It has poor survivability and is prone to "secondary effects" (the legendary internal car explosion. Particularly dangerous).

    But the most fundamental thing is that Delian¡¯s tank artillery lacks an advanced fire control system, the shooting accuracy is average, loading ammunition is physically demanding for the tank crew, and the quality of the engine lags behind the tanks of Eastern Warsaw Pact countries.

    However, due to the extremely low production cost of the T50 tank, Hitler successively produced up to 40,000 tanks in the 1950s and 1960s in order to establish NATO's absolute advantage over the Warsaw Pact Army in a short period of time.  During this period, the T50 tank was continuously improved, and more than a hundred models and versions were derived to adapt to wars on different terrains.  Due to the large number of T50 tanks, although the German army failed in future battlefields in the Middle East, it showed great power on the African battlefield and became a cost-effective tank favored by African countries.

    At the same time that the German Army launched the T-50 main battle tank, the Chinese Empire began a targeted tank plan in response to the absolute numerical advantage of the German tank force.

    First of all, the Chinese Empire concentrated its efforts on mass production of the M36 King Tiger heavy tank, the M28A3 Cheetah medium tank and the M35 Hound light tank. On this basis, it improved and developed the M43 main battle tank with outstanding comprehensive performance. As the Imperial Army of the Chinese Empire in the 1950s,  Main battle tank.

    The m43 tank uses a 120mm gun. Compared with the 100mm gun used by the t-50 tank, in terms of gun caliber alone, the m43 is in an advantageous position.??.  Moreover, the Chinese Empire is an absolute leader in the research and development and manufacturing of electronic equipment, which makes the M43 tank have an advanced fire control system, high shooting accuracy, and automatic loading of shells to save the gunner's physical strength.  Judging from the fact that the M43 has only two crew members, it is much more intelligent than the T50, which requires four crew members.

    However, although the M43 tank is ahead of the T50 in terms of performance, judging from the overall strategic situation in the 1950s, the key to the disparity in strength lies in the number of tanks. The Chinese Empire only produced 14,500 M43 tanks, compared with 40,000 T50 tanks.  The tank was more than three times worse.  Both sides belong to the second-generation tank category, and the performance of the M43 is also high in cost. In this regard, Delian's cheap T50 tank finally takes the lead with an absolute advantage in quantity.

    In 1951, the German Federation, which was gradually recovering its vitality, began to show its aggressive claws.  But in the 1950s, the Bundesliga was in a weak position during the Cold War between China and Germany, so Hitler did not dare to provoke a new round of world war. Instead, he invaded Armenia by supporting and arming the Georgian army.

    Hitler¡¯s goal was to kill Armenia, thereby ending the Chinese Empire¡¯s control of the Transcaucasus region and clearing the way for the German Alliance to seize the Transcaucasus-Black Sea-Caspian Sea oil areas.

    ¡°The Chinese Empire was well prepared for Hitler¡¯s ambitions.  Imperial Emperor Wang Chenhao issued a decree to fully support Armenia, including exporting a variety of advanced weapons and equipment currently in service to Armenia from the Chinese Imperial Army, the first of which was the M43 main battle tank.

    On November 2, 1951, Georgia declared an undeclared war, and 70,000 Georgian troops launched an attack on Armenia.  Armenia immediately declared war on Georgia.

    In this way, under the background of the Cold War, the two Transcaucasian countries backed by the two major military groups of China and Germany began a high-intensity local war.
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