Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

This tank can be said to be a product that transcends the times and should not appear in this era.

This is a big guy of over 150 tons, with a frontal armor of over 200 mm.

Logically speaking, Lin Yi knows the development trend of future tanks. He also knows that the performance of this super-heavy tank on future battlefields will not be as dazzling as expected.

In other words, Daxia's super-heavy tank plan is not in line with the development trend of future wars.

In order to save costs, Lin Yi should have stopped this research and development plan.

But Lin Yi also felt that scientific research, to put it simply, means finding the optimal solution through constant trial and error.

In the past, the empire did not have so much funds, and every penny needed to be spent wisely.

Therefore, at that time, Lin Yi directly gave the engineer the correct solution.

But Lin Yi found that after doing this, engineers would become rigid, rigid in thinking, and not good at innovation.

This is not a good thing in the long run.

Therefore, taking advantage of the fact that there is enough money now and it doesn't cost much to build a prototype car, Lin Yi did not choose to stop those engineers.

Under Lin Yi's indulgence, some weapon designs that were obviously unreasonable and unsuitable for future wars also passed the financial review.

If the super-heavy tank design plan is not in line with the development of future war, then some plans are more in line with future war.

For example, a young engineer at an aircraft research institute felt that since the propeller was placed sideways, the plane could fly forward.

What about putting the propeller up? Will the plane take off directly from where it is?

Driven by this curiosity, the young engineer applied for funding.

The person in charge of fund review at the time felt that this design plan was unlikely to be realized.

But out of encouragement, the reviewers approved the engineer's funding application.

Later, he told Lin Yi this design idea.

After Lin Yi learned about this, he ran overnight to check the progress of the research and development, and told the official in charge of the fund review that this research and development would be listed as a key project directly, and the funds applied for would not be restricted.

Because Lin Yi knew very well that the result of this research was the helicopter of his dreams, and it was also the most important part of his ground assault force in future wars.

As a result, Daxia's scientific research strength has grown by leaps and bounds with such huge funds.

From August 1931, the Budapest Republic declared war on the Hans Empire, and in December, the navy of the Kingdom of Italy was crippled by the John and Millennium Combined Fleet.

In January 1932, the Hans Empire, the Gallic Empire and Italy launched the so-called "Desert Storm" plan.

Fierce fighting broke out in this region of North Africa between the Central Powers and the Entente.

The 140 million Allied troops were divided into two directions, the left and right, preparing to sweep across North Africa.

The Gallic Empire in the west had its own army, led by General Philippe Leclerc of the Gallic Empire, including the 2nd Armored Division of the Gallic Empire, the 3rd and 4th Royal Cavalry Divisions of the Gallic Empire, and the 2nd Gallic Foreign Legion. , many elites, including the Third and Fourth Divisions, began to attack British West Africa.

Their goal was complete control of the southern shores of the Strait of Gibraltar.

As the actual controller of the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar, the Kingdom of Iberia cooperated with the Gallic Empire in this drama.

What needs to be explained here is that the north and south sides of the Strait of Gibraltar are in the hands of the Iliban Kingdom and the John Empire respectively.

Among them, the Iliban Kingdom controlled the south coast, and the John Empire controlled the north coast.

The north coast belongs to the Iliban Kingdom itself, which means that the John Empire ran into the internal territory of the Iliban Kingdom and dug a piece of meat from the Iliban Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Iberia has repeatedly tried to regain sovereignty over the Port of Gibraltar, but has been rejected.

This made the Iliban Kingdom extremely dissatisfied with the John Empire.

Later, due to the civil war in the Iliban Kingdom, the victor was Franco, a pro-Hans Empire man.

Although the Iliban Kingdom could not join the Allies for various reasons, after secret talks with the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire, it still agreed to temporarily give up control of the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar.

To put it simply, the Kingdom of Iberia will not join the Allied Powers, and the Allied Powers will declare war on the Kingdom of Iberia and seize the Strait of Gibraltar.

After the Kingdom of Iberia was declared war by the Allied Powers, no defense was added to the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar. The soldiers there did whatever they were supposed to do.

It's as if there was no such thing as a declaration of war.

At this time, the Allied Powers also noticed this little move between the Iliban Kingdom and the Allied Powers.

But he knew it, and there was nothing he could do to stop it.

The reason is also very simple. The Iliban Kingdom is a sovereign country, and it is its freedom to declare war with whomever it wants.

If he wants to defend his own country, that's his business. What can you John accuse them of?

Therefore, even though the John Empire knew that this was a pretext for declaring war, but was actually an operation by the Iliban Kingdom to hand over control of the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar to the Allies, there was nothing the John Empire could do to stop it.

They could only gather troops on the south bank to prevent the Gallic Empire from approaching the south bank of the Strait of Gibraltar.

Because Empire John believed that as long as the Gallic army appeared in front of the Iliban soldiers, this group of shameful Iliban people would definitely put down their guns immediately.

Then the two parties might have a meal together in the evening to celebrate.

The John Empire had no way to stop this obvious conspiracy. They could only establish a defense line on the southern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar to prevent soldiers from the Gauls and the Iliban Kingdom from meeting.

After all, aren’t you going to act? I won't let you meet now, just to see how you can perform in this drama.

Philippe Leclerc had already anticipated John's reaction. Otherwise, why would he have brought so many people here?

The Iliban Kingdom is a friend of the Allied Powers, but due to various reasons they are unable to join the Allied Powers, so they have to help the Allied Powers in this way.

If there were only soldiers from the Kingdom of Iberia on the south side of the Strait of Gibraltar, it is estimated that a platoon of people could make the people on the south side surrender.

He brought half a million troops here this time just to break through the obstruction of the Johns.

Under such circumstances, the Gallic Empire officially launched an attack on British West Africa controlled by the John Empire on January 1932, 1.

The John Empire deployed more than 300,000 troops in West Africa, and there will be a large number of reinforcements later. They are constantly coming.

This includes the 10-miler Army.

On the other side, in the Libyan region, the 300,000-strong army of the Hans Empire and the 600,000-strong army of the Kingdom of Italy formed a coalition and officially launched a ground attack on British Egypt.

Their goal is the Suez Canal!