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The latest website: The following days in 1935, Romania spent in a slow expansion of the army.

In the world, Edel's old friend of the civil war in the Far East is also heading for a staged victory. The Communist armed forces were forced to relocate, and their base in Jiangxi was nearly occupied. In this battle, the army adapted from the advisory group of Rhodes played a decisive role.

Therefore, Edel's old friend, who 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 adapt more troops, so Nanjing proposed to continue the plan to exchange raw materials for weapons.

As for Nanjing's request, the two countries agreed. Among them, the German side needs industrial raw materials and its own foreign exchange is not sufficient. As for the Romanian side, it is also to expand exports. Because with the Romanian facelift, a lot of old equipment has been withdrawn from active service. The destruction of these equipment will cost money, and it will take up space to store them. It is better to sell them for some raw materials.

Although these equipments seem to be out of step with the times in Europe, for Nanjing, they are happy to receive these very well-maintained equipment. Because the price is a lot worse than the new equipment, the performance is not much different. Therefore, Nanjing is willing to accept this batch of cheap and high-quality weapons.

So in 1935, Romania transported up to 520 million lei, enough to equip eleven divisions. Of course, in addition to collecting rags from Romania, the German fans hidden in the marrow are still breaking out. Germany also exported 110 million Reichsmark weapons in 1935.

Of course, in addition to the Far East, the long-running Ethiopian war also came to an end. Italy went through a change of coaches and an increase in troops, and finally on April 21, 1935, the main force of the Egyptian army was defeated at Mecho near Lake Ashanti. On June 2, Selassie I went into exile in England. On June 5, the Italian army occupied Addis Ababa. On the 9th, Mussolini announced the annexation of Ethiopian territory to Italy.

Although Italy occupied Ethiopia, the war brought huge casualties to Italy, with nearly 100,000 killed and 43,000 wounded.

Although Ethiopia's mountainous terrain limited the Italian army's play, its huge casualties made all countries praise the heroic Italian army.

However, the upper-level command of its army is rigid, its tactics are backward, and its equipment is backward, which cannot be concealed. In particular, the equipped Breda 6.5mm light machine gun and Mannlixia-Carcano rifle are superb.

The Breda 6.5mm light machine gun has its unique sideways magazine, which causes the center of gravity to shift. The mass of the whole gun (without the magazine)----10.34kg, can be described as the big fat man in the light machine gun.

However, its weight does not bring a higher rate of fire. The maximum theoretical firing rate of 500 rounds per minute cannot be achieved at all because of the unreasonable design. It can be said that it can compete with the Taisho Type 11 light machine gun (crooked handle). Yu Liang.

As for the Carcano rifle, there is no need to explain too much. In 1890, Italian chief engineer Salvador Carcano designed the Carcano M1891 rifle at the Turin Arsenal with reference to the pasta maker's rolling pin. Replaces the bizarre 10.4x47R M1870 Vitry Black Powder Rifle.

The Carcano rifle is 1,285 mm long and has a small caliber of 6.5 mm. The 6.5*52mm rifle bullet it selected was the weakest standard full-power bullet at that time.

The Carcano rifle is fed by a leak clip, which in turn draws on the design of the M1888 committee leak clip, and Italy adds a round. (And the previous Vitry rifle has four-shot clips and Carcano six-shot clips. Italians can't count 5?)

The Carcano rifle uses a unique progressive rifling (the shorter the wrap near the muzzle, the faster the warhead rotates), the gun has good accuracy. However, what is surprising is that the Italians are chaotic in the management of ammunition, and the sources of Carcano ammunition are different, so the initial velocity of Carcano ranges from 600 meters to 750 meters per second, and the ballistic trajectory is very random. Everyone depends on luck.

Compared with the Japanese 38-type rifle of the same caliber, the Carcano rifle is completely incomparable. Therefore, this is also one of the main reasons why the Italian army suffered so many casualties before. Mountain warfare requires higher quality of individual soldiers and weapons.

Of course, Italy is still capable of defeating backward countries. However, as for the power players, their combat capabilities are unknown. Although the overall capability of the Italian Army is poor, it still has excellent units. For example, the mountain troops stationed in the mountains of northern Italy facing France are their elites, and their naval strength is still worthy of recognition.

Of course there are other things going on in the world, but that's not something to focus on. However, in 1935, Romania paid more attention to its military upgrade.

Although this year was affected by the weakening of the stimulus of additional currency issuance, driven by the military and shipbuilding industry, Romania’s economic growth stopped falling and stabilized, returning to 7% again.

This year, Romania's GDP reached 82.74 billion lei, ranking fourth in Europe and fifth in the world. Among them, Romania's steel production reached 5.78 million tons, which is already on par with France. The output of grain has also reached 23.84 million tons, which can not only meet domestic demand, but also the scale of its export is not small.

And under the influence of Eder's ascension to the Bulgarian king, the total population of Romania and Bulgaria has now 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. But Romania is still growing by expanding into other markets. Not much, though, with only a 4.1% increase in exports.

In terms of imports, Romania’s demand for raw materials, especially rubber, tungsten ore, tung oil, bristle and other military raw materials, increased greatly due to the impact of the expansion of the military, which led to a 12.4% increase in Romania’s imports in 1935.

Of course, from this point of view, Romania is also on the road of expanding its arms and preparing for war. However, compared with Germany, Romania, which has a better economic environment, is much easier to expand its armaments. However, considering the differences in the national conditions of the two countries, this is not a good comparison.

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 naval and air force officers and soldiers, making Romania's expansion less difficult.

And in 1935, that's how it went. Since 1936, the smoke of gunpowder over Europe has allowed more people to smell it, but they don't know how these visionaries should choose.