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Part One: Twenty Years, Ending (10) The Last Sound [Finale]

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    (It¡¯s really the finale. I don¡¯t want to ask for any subscriptions. I hope, I hope you can remember that there was a novel called "The Soul of the Great Country" in the vast library of novels at Qidian.)

    The conclusion of the "Amsterdam Peace Treaty" does not mean that the vast ocean will calm down. Since the just-ended world war has fully proved the importance of sea control, every country and its rulers who are interested in competing for the ocean will not easily  Give up the opportunity to make the country stand among the nations.

    So, the cruel arms race began again.

    This time, it was the British Empire on the other side of the North Sea that took the lead in proposing a military expansion plan.

    Although the John Bulls have lost two key battles related to ocean control in a row, they are still the country on the planet that best understands the true meaning of the ocean. The residents of the British Isles cannot accept the stars and sea that do not belong to the Union Jack, and even more  There was nothing to say about working hard and working hard, so the war had just ended, and Britain couldn't wait to announce that it would rebuild their navy.

    With reference to the weak financial situation of the British, the British's "Three-Year Army Expansion Plan" is undoubtedly a fantasy.  Although John Bull stubbornly said that the Royal Navy's fiasco in the Skagerrak and the Orkney Islands indirectly provided room for upgrading its navy and saved a lot of money in maintaining capital ships, so the British Empire is definitely "not bad"  "Money", but in just three years, we want to build a local fleet including eight fast capital ships, four traditional battleships, and eight battlecruisers at a rate of three to four battleships per year.  This extravagant hope is a bit too unrealistic.

    "Compared to the British who are trying to make a fool of themselves, the German Navy led by Wang Heidi is much more pragmatic.

    According to the "Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty" signed in 1917, the German Navy successively received four intact Gangu super-class battleships from the Soviet Union's Baltic Fleet, and also seized a Queen Maria from the Soviet Union's Black Sea Fleet.  -class battleship and another semi-finished ship.  The following year, the Treaty of Amsterdam was concluded, and Germany and Italy respectively acquired a Guba-class battleship and a Bretagne-class battleship from the French.

    That¡¯s it.  The number of battleships in the German Navy has reached an unprecedented thirty, including two Bavaria-class ships, four K?nig-class ships, four Kaiser-class ships, four Helgoland-class ships, one Nassau-class ship, four Gangut-class ships, and one  One Queen Maria class, one Guba class and one Breton class, a total of twenty-two battleships, three Mackensen class.  Three Derfflinger class, one Seydlitz class and one Moltke class totaling eight battlecruisers.

    According to British theory, the Germans are bound to waste a lot of naval military expenditures to maintain a huge number of capital ships. This is actually the case. Under normal circumstances, the total cost of a capital ship serving until the end of its life is twice as much as its construction.  cost.

    In view of the sharp reduction in naval military expenditures after the war.  The German navy's abolition of its martial arts was also the right thing to do, but the British obviously still underestimated Wang Heidi.

    The news of Poland's restoration once shocked the so-called military and political observers of the Allied Powers.  Especially when Wang Heidi proposed two principles: "Treat Poland as a natural and cordial ally of Germany rather than a client state" and "Give this emerging European power a complete maritime country identity."  Everyone thought Heidi, known as Germany's "first naval strategist", was crazy.

    It was not until 1918 that the problem of the excessive number of battleships in the Ocean Fleet was exposed, and the world finally woke up.

    The Germans gave the coastline from the Gulf of Riga to Tallinn to the Poles for free, confirming the title of the Republic of Poland as a "maritime country".

    Now that they have the title of "maritime country", the Poles do not mind upgrading it to a "maritime power." Therefore, the Republic of Poland, which received considerable resources and wealth from the Soviet Russians, spent huge sums of money on the alliance leader Germany.  Huge ship purchase plan.

    that's all.  Wang Heidi sold four Caesar-class battleships that were in good service condition and tempered by war at a discount, which not only enriched the navy's treasury, but also satisfied the Polish people's greed for big things.

    With Poland as an example, coupled with free advertising for German battleships in World War I, and Wang Heidi¡¯s unique cleverness as a Chinese.  The first-class German warships became top sellers, creating a massive "German Storm" in the three years from 1918 to 1921.

    The South Americans who made a fortune in World War I couldn't help Wang Heidi's cries of "cabbage price" and "jump price". Four Helgoland-class battleships and the Moltke battlecruiser were quickly sold.  Empty.  Even the Ottoman Turkish Empire, which was on the verge of disintegration, couldn't bear the loneliness. It once again refused to change its habit of eating and drinking, and gritted its teeth and bought a French Guba-class ship for less than 10 million imperial marks.  battleship, and stubbornly named it the ominous "Sultan Osman I".

    The battleship Queen Maria also quickly found a buyer.  Kolchak, who is entrenched in the lower reaches of the Volga River and along the Black Sea coast, has been in the limelight recently. The reactionary armed forces led by him have captured cities and territories in the hinterland of Soviet Russia. The Red Army, which was ill-prepared for war, has been retreating steadily. Under this good situation, I was shocked to hear that the Germans "  General Kolchak, who was selling his battleship at a "cabbage price", was in love with the navy, so he decided to bite the bullet and buy a battleship to make the situation worse. No matter what, he wanted to intimidate the Turks not to act rashly in the North Caucasus.

    In the end, even Japan, which had a bad relationship with Germany, secretly sent an envoy to Berlin to inquire about the possibility of purchasing ships at a low price.

    Wang Haidi does not want Japan to maintain a strong army and gain the status of East Asian hegemony by continuously cannibalizing China. However, strengthening the Japanese navy and causing discomfort to the Americans is obviously something Wang Haidi is happy to see, so the four ships  The Gangu super-class battleship was sold to the Japanese in a lump sum, and its total purchase price was only equivalent to the cost of a Bavaria-class battleship.

    The Japanese obtained four Gangu super-class battleships, which greatly increased their voice at sea. To this end, the British had to reinforce the Iron Duke battleship and the battleship Dreadnought, which were downgraded to offshore defense ships, to Singapore. The Americans also had to strengthen their  Pacific Fleet.

    The global arms race continued until 1921. In that year, even the United States and Germany, which had the most abundant finances, could not continue to maintain high naval military expenditures. Their national economies had continued to compete in shipbuilding in the world, unless this arms race was brought to an end.  Upgraded to a war preparation signal to prepare for the next war.  The latter was absolutely not allowed during the war during the two decades when pacifism was rampant!

    Peace talks, peace talks again.

    This time, the story took place in Shanghai, China. Representatives of the navies of Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Japan gathered in the Far East to discuss the possibility of limiting the naval arms race, and reached the famous "Shanghai Agreement," also known as the "Shanghai Treaty."  .

    According to this agreement, Germany received a total tonnage quota of 600,000 tons of battleships, and the United Kingdom and the United States received 550,000 tons, with the support of Wang Heidi.  Japan obtained 80% of the British and American capital ship quotas, which is 440,000 tons. In addition, the Shanghai Treaty also imposed restrictions on the tonnage of aircraft carriers, heavy cruisers and light cruisers and equipment of each country.

    Before joining the Shanghai Treaty, the Germans were obviously aware of the general direction of the Shanghai negotiations.  Therefore, before the meeting, the German Navy generously dismantled, refurbished and sold off a large number of old battleships and cruisers to save tonnage.  That's the time.  The Nassau-class orphan and meritorious battleship Gneisenau, which was converted into an offshore defense ship, became a precious collection of the German Naval Historical Museum.

    The "Shanghai Treaty" temporarily ended the global scale shipbuilding competition, but the competition soon reappeared in another form, including the large tanker competition.

    At first, the great powers rushed to build and compete with large oil tankers simply out of national and national honor. However, Wang Heidi soon realized the value of large oil tankers, and the competition began to change.

    The Germans first changed their strategy. The frenzied German tanker builders built every tanker with military strength regardless of cost.  And considerable modification space is reserved for these high-speed tankers.

    When another century war broke out, the German Navy quickly converted these fast tankers built according to military standards into 10,000- to 20,000-ton escort aircraft carriers and fast transport ships, and 30,000-ton main battle aircraft carriers with considerable combat capabilities.  A classic aircraft carrier raid severely damaged the British Home Fleet.

    This is the famous raid on the Irish Sea.

    In the early summer of 1939, the Soviet Union, which was allied with Britain and France, which maintained a strong desire for revenge, used the excuse that two soldiers disappeared.  War was declared on Poland, and within the next two days, members of the Berlin Treaty Organization and members of the London Treaty Organization declared war on each other, and World War II officially broke out.

    On the first day when Germany declared war on Britain, the British air station deployed in the Orkney Islands suffered a devastating blow. More than 60 fighters, torpedo planes and bombers were wiped out in the hangar and airport runway.  Just as the British were gathering strength to counterattack the German main fleet temporarily stationed in the Shetland Islands, the Germans slipped into the North Atlantic and turned to Iceland to the west of the Shetland Islands.

    The German main fleet and the Shetland Islands land-based air wing successfully angered the British and attracted all British attention to the area north of Scotland, while the one reported by the British Intelligence Service was "offshore Morocco".  However, under the cover of a Mackensen-class battleship and three treaty-type heavy cruisers, the German aircraft carrier formation "conducting routine ocean training" quietly approached the British Isles at night, and launched a large number of torpedo planes and dive bombers in the early morning.

    This is the last time Wang Heidi, a 40-year-old veteran, visits the front line of the war in person.  existDuring the long inter-war period, Wang Heidi was accustomed to staying in a swaying cabin, smelling the soot of warships, and sleeping with the roar of naval guns. He encountered the backlash of the war. He was extremely unsuitable to the peaceful life, and encountered repeated threats.  After the death of close friends such as Erpitz, Scheer and Hipper, and in 1934 when she attended the funeral of David Beatty who died in depression, he contracted a serious cold illness. Therefore, Wang Heidi, who served as Chairman of the Military Council in these years, did not  Instead of actually controlling the army, he gradually faded away from the navy.

    In 1939, the dense war clouds over Europe could not hide from Wang Haidi's sight. Wang Haidi, who was old and addicted to alcoholism, actually had the idea of ????correcting her evil ways at this moment, and regained the high-spirited feeling of her youth.

    Veteran Wang Heidi came out to take charge of the navy again. Although the juniors complained, the navy chief Redel was his lifelong friend. From Redel on down, they were Wang Heidi's disciples and disciples. The juniors had no choice but to follow Wang Heidi's temper.  , and even allowed the veteran to reboard the German main fleet flagship Bernhard Oden heading to the battlefield.

    Less than a week after the war began, the German navy achieved a typical "Silem-style" victory. The German aircraft carrier fleet sank three British battleships, a heavy aircraft carrier, two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and  An escort aircraft carrier severely damaged two battleships and a heavy aircraft carrier, and slightly damaged a light cruiser. The price paid was only 24 torpedo planes and bombers.

    Victory is glorious.  After the costly raid on the Irish Sea, Wang Heidi was strictly prohibited from visiting the front lines of the battlefield by the then German President Hess. After all, Wang Heidi was already an old man in her forties, and the cruel battlefield belonged to young people!

    The Second World War finally ended with the victory of Germany and the United States. The German Army, which used the Blitzkrieg to an extreme extent, with the strong support of the Navy, occupied half of France in less than two months, forcing the world's third largest army to directly  Declare defeat and surrender.

    ¡°Just when the whole world thought that the Germans would take advantage of the situation to defeat the United Kingdom, the German army secretly moved northward at the end of July. They abandoned the blitzkrieg model that made the entire Europe tremble, and joined forces with millions of elites from Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.  Suddenly bursting out from the hinterland of Central Europe, the Soviet-Russian war model used large corps and deep penetrations to block more than 1.5 million Soviet Russian invading troops on the Polish plains.

    After fifteen days of fierce fighting, more than 1.5 million Russian troops disappeared.  In mid-September, the Russian army's losses on the Eastern Front exceeded 2.3 million.  Boyo's army completely switched from defense to offense on the Eastern Front battlefield.

    At the same time, Finland, the unknown Nordic ice and snow kingdom, suddenly joined the fray.  Hundreds of thousands of Finnish troops, not well-equipped but proficient in winter operations and mountain operations, penetrated the Russian army's fragile northern defense line.

    The Soviet Union in this plane is far less powerful than the Soviet Union in another time and space.  In addition, the Japanese and Turks were restrained in the Far East and the North Caucasus, coupled with the joint attack of the three armies of Finland, Poland and the German-Austrian Allied Forces. Therefore, the exhausted Soviet army retreated steadily, and lost the battle before winter.  Major European industrial cities, including Moscow and Leningrad, and in the end, even the Ural Industrial Zone pre-built by Comrade Stalin were directly exposed within the combat radius of German bombers.

    Soviet Russia is finished.  In less than half a year, the seemingly powerful London military group was left with only the dying Soviet Russia and the United Kingdom, which was overwhelmed by the paralysis of maritime shipping again. The Americans, who were eyeing the other side of the North Atlantic, did not even have time.  Make your voice heard.

    The defeat of the London Military Group has been determined, and Americans who are determined to play a military balance in Europe regret it.  But they soon found the target of their anger.

    In 1939, in addition to war-torn Europe, Asia was also rumbling with gunfire.

    In fact, as early as 1937, Japan ignored the warnings of the United States and the dissuasion of Germany and couldn't wait to start a full-scale war of aggression against China.

    During the interwar period, China exchanged mineral resources for a large number of rifles, machine guns, small and medium-caliber artillery and ammunition production lines. Under the leadership of President Chiang, China's resistance was far stronger than in another version of history. It had at least one all-German weapons group army and many German retired soldiers.  The Central Army of Fighters did not lose Wuhan.

    In 1939, Japan had not completely annexed China, so they were short-sighted and had to open up a new battlefield in Longshu. The entire main force of Japan's navy went south and severely damaged the British Far East Fleet stationed in Singapore. Millions of troops were deployed on the Indochina Peninsula except for German North Vietnam.  and the capture of the Indonesian archipelago.

    In only half a year, the Imperial Japanese Sun Flag covered most of Southeast Asia.

    The arrogance and arrogance of the Japanese angered the Americans.  The cowboys are determined to attack small island countries and appease their failed European policies. Since the European balance of power cannot be maintained and the rise of Germany is unstoppable, what will happen in the Great Depression in the second half of this century?In the competition between the two countries, the United States of America "as a responsible great power" has the right and obligation to "conquer the Japanese to obtain complete Pacific hegemony and East Asian hegemony" and increase "the confidence and confidence of the United States in confronting German 'hegemonism'".

    On December 25, 1939, the Japanese destroyer Yukikaze mistakenly attacked the Philippine patrol ship USS Aquino III, America's "most solid ally", giving the Americans the best excuse to start a war.

    When the Americans imitated the Spanish-American War and excitedly sent people to investigate the Maine, no, it was the Arnold III that sank with a bomb. The Japanese, who were keenly aware of the Americans' idea of ??using force, took action first.

    The same date and different years resulted in the Pearl Harbor attack, which was almost identical to the Irish Sea Raid, sinking three more American aircraft carriers. This small accident created a huge butterfly effect, which ultimately cost the Americans more than three years.  It took more than two million navy and army officers and soldiers to break through the Japanese absolute defense circle and reach Tokyo Bay.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? If the American not wisely allied with the Chinese.  Providing a large amount of weapons assistance to China has restrained a large number of Japan's elite army. It is believed that the time and price paid by the United States to return to Tokyo Bay will be greatly increased.

    In short, this is how World War II ended.  It made Hitler the god of propaganda, gave veteran Heidi Wang the best retirement gift, completely brought Germany and the United States to the altar, and at the same time destroyed quasi-states such as the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Soviet Russia, and Japan.  First-class powers.

    In 1944, Heidi Wang ended his military career and delivered a speech full of sadness at the Kiel Naval Academy.

    Wang Heidi, who was leaning on a cane, stood in front of the old small auditorium, facing young people filled with youth and passion.  He uttered a sigh that belonged to an old man from the old days:

    "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away"

    History has turned the page when Wang Heidi retired and entered the era of superpowers.

    Whenever historians refer to the international history of the second half of the twentieth century, they always simplify the international relations of these fifty years into Germany, the representative of old Europe, and the United States, the representative of the new world, ranging from infant diapers to  Mars exploration in outer space.  All-encompassing competition and confrontation at every level.

    After the new millennium, this bipolar pattern of "East-West confrontation" seems to have undergone new changes.  Americans' influence gradually became limited to the Americas.  China, on the other hand, has risen strongly as a representative of Asian power.

    it is a pity.  The young generation in Germany, who are crazy about parkour and Twitter, are indifferent to the changes in the situation.  They are unwilling to perform military service and hate to abide by the rules. Even Heidi Silem, who once profoundly influenced and changed Germany, cannot tell the specific time of death. What is even more ironic is that the craze for studying Silem is among the Chinese.  The border is in the ascendant.

    Of course, the post-90s generation in Germany are always able to speak plausibly when faced with harsh criticism: "Who says we don't know who Sealem is? Isn't she the first female chancellor in the history of the German Republic? She is willing to give up her position to live with her."  The man who stays for life!"

    "The people born in the 1990s are talking about Catherine who has forgotten Wang Heidi in the world.

    1946.  German women, organized by the legendary Catherine, began an unrelenting street political movement to demand the right to vote.

    In 1947, all women in Germany over the age of 18 gained the right to vote.  The second year he gained the right to be elected.

    In 1948, Catherine, a well-known feminist and Kiel business tycoon, defeated Hitler, the chancellor candidate from the Social Democratic Party, and was elected German Chancellor.

    In 1952, the elderly Catherine announced that she would no longer run for the next prime minister, and confessed in an interview with the Mirror that Heidi Sealem was the person she described in her personal memoirs as "willing to give up her position to live with her."  She sincerely warned all girls in Germany: "Don't give up your heart easily because of worldly prejudices, because there are some things that some people can never get back if they miss them."

    The above are all the memories of Heidi Seelem by the post-90s generation in Germany. Apart from this, the only thing that the post-90s generation in Germany can clearly remember is that the late Heidi Seelem once wrote in his personal memoirs  Make an incredible plea:

    "I hope that my descendants can accomplish something for me, something that I am not willing to take to heaven and honestly explain to God."

    "The Frankfurt Times" conducted an interesting survey around the millennium, the content of which was what Heidi Silem would tell his descendants.

    Investigators randomly checked more than a thousand people in Berlin, New York and Beijing, and the answers they got were varied, ranging from "Don't bury Anne's grave with me" to "Splash paint on David Beatty's tombstone."  Their wisdom is beyond your imagination. Without him,They can't tell.

    The fact is that Silem¡¯s great-grandson led several foreigners with blond hair, blue eyes and sturdy backs to guard the overpass near a university in China. On the left is the Medical University.

    "Silem, although we have diplomatic immunity, the Chinese may not beat us up secretly before repatriating us"

    Under the scorching sun, urban management officers driving green pickup trucks and holding soft leather rollers were patrolling back and forth in the university town, arresting unscrupulous traders and hawkers. Bruckner, who worked in the consulate with Max Sillem, looked at the Chinese people under the overpass.  The military personnel already had a hint of retreat in their words.

    "Stop talking nonsense, it's that stinky Taoist!" Max Sillem rudely interrupted Bruckner's conjecture. He shouted out the words "The stinky Taoist is looking for a fight" in chatty Chinese, and nimbly covered a gray sack.  On the head of the old man in gray robe who had just climbed onto the overpass and was dressed in a suit worthy of a sharp man, exuding a strong post-modernism atmosphere from the inside out, he raised his fist and beat him hard.

    The beating of a Taoist priest by a foreigner was naturally big news in a boring and lonely university town, attracting a large number of bored onlookers including urban management officials.

    The cute girl from the Medical University was just about to take a light step and squeeze into the crowd to find out, but then she was grabbed by a hand that could not be called a strong one.

    "Honey, don't let our next generation see such a bloody scene. We want peace and friendship!" The boy who had drunk some wine, with red and swollen eyes from playing games all night, gently rubbed the cute girl's white hands and said to please her.  .

    "Wang Heidi, don't you like children? Why"

    "Hey, how do you women understand the first reaction of men who become fathers for the first time? I thought I was just an isolated case, but after searching on Baidu, I found out that all men are like this. Let's not talk about this, wife, how about we go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get a certificate today?  , go to study after receiving the certificate, and go home to have a baby. In short, I will be responsible for you" (To be continued. Mobile users please read it.)
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