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Chapter 422
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: 0.192s Scan: 0.212sSeven years ago, the Romanians tried to invade Odili, but were beaten up by Mainz. Not only did their attack fail, but they were also invaded by the German army and even the king became a prisoner of the other side.
This incident is an eternal shame in the hearts of the Romanians, at least for their King Ferdinand I!
Although they quickly beat up Hungary and annexed 100,000 square kilometers of Hungary’s land to get the factory back, it was not enough, because the Hans took away the oil mining rights of Pro City from them, and really found oil here!
When the Hans proposed to mine oil in this place where chickens don’t lay eggs and birds don’t shit, the Romanians didn’t care at all. They thought that the Hans were busy in vain. How could there be any minerals here?
In addition to coal mines, Romania has no other minerals, and coal is not worth anything at all, so even if the Hans dug up coal, they would not lose much.
But who would have thought that Hans actually dug up oil, which made the Romaniyan people feel uncomfortable!
Oil!
This is a resource that all countries urgently need now, and it is called black gold!
The Romaniyan people never dreamed that there was such a thing as oil in their own country, but what they didn’t expect was that this oil field was discovered by the Hans and mined by the Hans!
So, the mentality of the entire Romaniyan changed!
They are very eager to drive away the Hans who stay in their country, take the oil fields mined by the Hans as their own, occupy these oil fields and then export the oil here in exchange for foreign exchange!
Since Hans officially started to exploit the oil fields here in 1921, Hans has been mining here for about six years. In six years, the oil production of this oil field has rapidly increased from 1 million tons per year at the beginning to 12 million tons per year!
Mainz knows that Romaniyan has a lot of oil reserves, but because Romaniyan’s own national strength is relatively weak, it lacks the ability to exploit on a large scale.
Hans had no such problem at all, so after they took over Pro City, they immediately invested heavily to start extracting oil here.
Mainz knew the importance of the oil here to Hans during the World War, so he spent six years drilling nearly 10,000 oil wells to increase the oil production of Romani Ya to 12 million tons per year, which is almost the limit of Romani Ya’s oil production!
Because there is a lack of better oil-producing areas, and there are only so many places near Pro City where wells can be drilled, so this output can no longer be increased!
The annual output of 1 million tons can not only meet the needs of Hans’ domestic industry and transportation industries, but can even take out a part of it for export.
The three Baltic countries have a good relationship with Hans, so these countries currently import oil from Hans.
However, most of the oil extracted from Romani Ya was shipped back to Hans. Even if it could not be used up, it was stored by Mainz using strategic reserves!
Once the war breaks out, it will be very difficult to easily obtain oil supplies from outside. Their enemies are likely to send bombers to bomb their oil fields at the beginning of the war, destroying their oil production capacity, thereby cutting off their fuel supply and leaving them without oil.
Therefore, it is necessary to establish national oil reserves in advance, purchase a large amount of oil at a low price in peacetime and store it. When the war comes, even if the enemy cuts off the oil supply, some of the reserved oil can be used to avoid the dilemma of the army having no oil available.
This is also the reason why Mainz is so eager to increase the output of the Roman oil field to the top: in addition to the current use of part of the 12 million tons of oil, a large part will be stored for future use, so the current output is naturally the higher the better. The higher the output, the more excess oil will be left, and the more oil can be stored!
For the Romanians, the Hans exploited so much oil in their country every year and ran away, which made them feel so sour!
But they didn’t dare to do anything to Hans. After all, it was clearly written in black and white that they had sold the oil mining rights in these places to Hans. Before Hans’s mining period expired, they had no right to take it back.
If they wanted to take it back, it was not impossible. They could ask Hans to change his mind. Of course, this possibility was very low. Unless the Hans were crazy, they would not give up 12 million tons of oil every year and do a favor to the Romaniyan people.
The relationship between Romaniyan and Hans was not good at all. They were not worthy of Hans’s face at all!
If possible, Mainz even wanted to extract all the oil underground in Romaniyan. Even if they didn’t use it, digging a pit and burying it in Hans’ own underground was better than leaving it here in Romaniyan!
After all, if they buried it in their own underground, they could still mine it themselves if they needed it in the future, but if they left it in Romaniyan’s underground, they wouldn’t get a single drop!
Romaniyan didn’t dare to touch Hans’ oil fields because they were afraid of being beaten, and they couldn’t beat them.
But they can draw the British to pay attention to the Hans oil field, and the British do not want to see Hans continue to suck blood from Romani Ya.
Hans’ industrial strength is stronger than the British. If they can get a lot of oil from Romani Ya at almost zero cost, then Hans’ industrial development will be faster.���If they can catch up with the strength of the Eagle Sauce, I am afraid that even Hans can’t catch up!
So for the British Empire, destroying Hans’ oil fields in Romania is a strategic consideration. If there is a chance to do this, they will definitely do it without hesitation!
However, the British Empire’s help is not for nothing. The Romanians must pay a price to get their help.
And this price is to act as a thug on behalf of the British Empire and take the initiative to attack their western neighbor, Hungary!
In late February, the British Empire’s representative arrived in Romania from Jake and had a secret meeting with King Ferdinand I of Romania for a period of time.
No one knows what the content of the conversation between the two was, but one thing is very clear: after the meeting with the British Empire’s representative, Ferdinand I immediately ordered his trusted general, Admiral Bandtner, to lead his troops to the west!
Two days later, a fierce conflict broke out between Romania and Hungary in the border area. The scale of this conflict was not large, and the casualties on both sides were not many. Romania lost 15 soldiers, while Hungary lost 12 soldiers.
This kind of conflict has happened before. After each border conflict, the two countries would blame each other, insisting that it was the other party’s responsibility, that the other party invaded their country and took the initiative to provoke the conflict!
Because of the signing of the Treaty of Trianon, Hungary lost a lot of land, and the boundaries of the re-demarcated border areas have always been very vague.
For Hungary, the Treaty of Trianon itself has taken away nearly 200,000 square kilometers of their land, and Romania alone has obtained at least 150,000 square kilometers of land!
As a result, the Romanians did not know how to be satisfied, and frequently crossed the border, trying to push the boundary marker into Hungary, which naturally made Hungary very dissatisfied, so they strengthened patrols in the border area.
The Romanians have always wanted to nibble away at each other’s land by advancing step by step, so they have a lot of troops in the border area and many small actions.
Therefore, with both sides deploying a large number of troops on the front line, this kind of friction is almost inevitable!
However, unlike previous conflicts, when conflicts broke out in the past, both sides would choose to restrain themselves and not provoke a bigger conflict.
And all this, the Romanians took the excuse that their country was invaded and took the initiative to send troops to attack the Hungarian Empire!
The 150,000 troops led by Admiral Bantner quickly crossed the border at the beginning of the war and killed into the border of the Hungarian Empire, with the intention of driving straight in, breaking through the capital of the Hungarian Empire again, and then looting again!
In the face of the brazen invasion of the Romanians, the Hungarian Empire certainly could not give in, so they immediately sent troops eastward to resist the invasion of the Romanians’ army!
At this time, Jie Ke in the north took advantage of the opportunity that the Hungarian army was transferred to the east and the defense in the north was empty, and immediately sent troops south to attack the weakly defended Hungarian Empire!