Imperial Overlord

Blitzing the Soviet Union is Germany's established strategy at this stage, and all Keitel has to do is to urge the Army to complete the Führer's plan as much as possible.

In fact, the step-by-step strategy is also very good, but it cannot give full play to the German offensive advantage, and can only passively rely on annihilating the Soviet army to consolidate its victory.

Li Le hoped that a quick attack could quickly end the war with the Soviet Union.

Although his ideas are similar to Hitler's, he is more sensible than Hitler in that he did not burden the front-line troops with the madness of two strategic goals at the same time.

In the early stage, he only wanted to quickly capture Moscow, and would not have a strong attempt to capture the Caucasus.

In this way, he can save about two months, and he can capture the strategic goal of Moscow before winter comes.

Germany in the real world wants the oil fields of the Caucasus and the fat of Moscow. In the end, neither goal was achieved, and the defeat of Moscow and the defeat of Stalingrad was ultimately had to be faced.

Now Li Le is ready to concentrate his strength and work towards a goal. In this way, he will be more sure to complete one of the strategic objectives, and then wait for the follow-up reaction of the Soviet Union.

"I have already informed Marshal Brauchitch about your order to attack Leningrad. I think the army will launch a new offensive soon..." Keitel looked at Li Le and said.

Li Le nodded and ended this conversation: "When you are ready, start attacking. If there is a chance in the south, you can also try to test in the direction of Kyiv. But don't be too reluctant, the main direction of attack is the decision of Moscow, you can't. shake."

"Yes! My head of state!" Keitel stood at attention and saluted, then turned and walked out of the head of the wolf's lair office.

After Keitel left, Bowman, as the chief secretary of the Fuhrer, walked into the Fuhrer's office in the Wolf's Den.

He stood at attention at the door and reported to Li Le: "My head of state, Mr. Subhash Chandra Bose of India arrived in Italy yesterday..."

Speaking of this Indian, Li Le still knows a lot about him. He first came to Germany and then to Japan, where he became a puppet of Japan and organized the Indian National Army in Burma and other regions to help Japan fight.

It is strange to say that in order to kill the United Kingdom, Japan agreed to all the demands of Bose about restoring India, making this person one of the important figures in the Indian independence movement.

His picture is in front of the Indian Parliament House with Gandhi and Nehru. It can be regarded as the most famous one in the history of the Axis Powers.

When it comes to this person, I have to say that Japan's strategy in Southeast Asia has been successful: as soon as the slogan of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was shouted, under the banner of helping Asian brothers, Japan really deceived the support of many local people.

Unlike China, a sovereign country, most of Southeast Asia was in an imperialist colonial state at that time and had no sovereign interests of its own.

Under such a premise, the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia can easily be disguised as a friendly battle to liberate the colonies.

For the local people, the sovereignty is not in their own hands anyway. The change from Zhang San to Li Si, from Britain, France and the United States to Japan has no essential impact on their status quo.

In fact, the Japanese did exactly that. They only plundered natural resources in these semi-barren countries that had neither resistance nor sovereignty claims, which greatly reduced the resistance of the local people.

For a long time, under such a background, the hatred of Southeast Asian countries towards Japan was not unforgettable, and half of the puppet leaders that Japan fostered in these places became the leaders of the so-called independence movement after the war.

This is why Bowes took refuge in the Japanese, but later became a hero in India.

Now, this radical anti-British figure, after discovering that Germany was stronger than it had been in history, has come to Germany at an even faster rate, seeking support from the Third Reich for its Indian independence demands.

It is a pity that Li Le, or the current Germany, is really out of reach for the distant India and is not interested.

In Li Le's plan, unless Germany can occupy the Middle East smoothly and without hindrance, it should not reach out to India.

Unfounded expansion will ultimately lead to Germany's collapse without real benefit.

On the other hand, Bowes, the leader of the anti-British Indian independence movement, was not the ideal candidate for German cooperation.

The current anti-British person will become a more fierce anti-German person in the future. It is more appropriate to support such a person, it is better to temporarily support a puppet when the time comes.

"He really came..." When Li Le was studying the history of World War II, of course he knew such a person.

But historically he came to Germany in April 1941, and now it is just the end of March.

The flapping wings of the huge butterfly Li Le and the huge storm that rolled up made Bowes, a "little person" who had nothing to do with the situation of World War II, also change the original trajectory of his actions.

Saying that Bose is a small person, there may be different opinions in India. However, in the entire history of World War II, the leader of a puppet regime like Bowes really did not play any positive or negative role.

With the help of the Japanese, he established the so-called Indian National Army. Although it participated in the battle, it did not play any role in influencing the situation of the war.

And throughout the war, he has been in a state of soy sauce except for one attack behind Japan.

It is indeed because he did not even make any contribution to the Axis powers, so he can be proudly worshipped by the Indians as the leader of the independence movement...

It is really chilling to say that a person is finally recognized as a good person because his ability level is not enough...

"Let those idle and boring noble bureaucrats spar with him, whether it's visiting the wheat fields on the outskirts of Berlin, or going to the Netherlands to see the cows... In short, just don't do business." Li Le gave Bowman an order. such a command.

In the more than half a year that he has traveled, he has not done nothing to consolidate his rule. He squeezed out several bureaucrats of the Junkers aristocratic faction and sent them to innocuous retirement positions.

In order to balance the grievances of these people, he offered some benefits and made a relatively peaceful transition of the power transfer stage.

Some people didn't buy it, and he was accused of smuggling Britain, or through the action of eliminating Himmler, they were completely eliminated.

And some people are very cooperative, so they can stay and enjoy the glory and wealth, but they can no longer have real power.

In the case of echoing the stick and the carrot, Li Le has restored some vitality to the German bureaucracy, and is no longer as rotten as before.

The idle and boring people he talked about were those Junker nobles who handed over their power in a safe and secure manner.

Now that Bowes has traveled all the way to Germany, Li Le hopes to let these nobles accompany Bowes to his dream of spring and autumn.

Of course, under the right opportunity, Li Le will send this Mr. Bowes to Japan as a great gift, just like in history, and return him in exchange for some practical things.

Japan cares more about India than Germany, because according to historical development, even if Li Le has changed too much, the Japanese army is still likely to achieve a series of victories in Asia.

When Japan won Southeast Asia, it will naturally focus on India. At that time, a Bowes may be able to exchange a lot of things that Germany needs from Japan.

If nothing else, sending submarines from ports in Southeast Asia to transport urgently needed rubber to Germany is much safer and more convenient than in history.

As long as you start from Myanmar, bypass India to the Red Sea, and pass through the German-controlled Suez Canal, you can reach the Mediterranean Sea—not too far.

Let a fleet go south through the Suez Canal~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and try to annihilate the British Pacific Fleet, so that Germany can obtain stable rubber resources from Japan.

What an alluring future, it's just a very, very small move for the Third Reich.

After all, a huge British fleet has already been defeated, and defeating an Indian Ocean fleet with only two battleships and an aircraft carrier is not a problem at all.

"If Bowes mentions that we should help him complete the Indian independence movement, and let those idle people keep their mouths shut... You write this matter into a memorandum, and cold treatment is our basic principle." Li Le instructed Bowman.

Li Le scoffed at the so-called Indian national hero. As a standard World War II military fan, he has no good feelings for anyone who joins the Japanese forces.

This is a national sentiment that has long been engraved in the soul and will not change over time.

Of course, another reason is that, even if there is no relationship like Japan that disgusts Li Le, the impression left by India itself on Li Le is only that self-defense counterattack.

Li Le does not like any country that has provoked China, so he does not have any good impression of Indian heroes.

He didn't like this Bowes, and Bowes didn't have any value worthy of his investment. Japan has proved with history that this person does not have the means and ability to control the situation in India.

It is the existence value of Bowes to exchange the greatest benefit with the least cost. As for the time-consuming and laborious efforts to help India become independent, it is not in the fundamental interests of the Third Reich.

Compared with this option, Li Le is more willing to sell him to Japan for a good price, and then let Japan move the corner of India, stand by himself, wait for Bows to disturb India, and then take a low-key bargain.