The Third Reich in Desperation

Reinhardt immediately said loudly: "Leader, you will be my revolutionary mentor to Reinhardt from now on. If you have any instructions, you can just tell me. I will never hesitate at all. , follow your instructions."

The two translators who had joined the Gestapo looked in surprise at the head of state whom they had sworn allegiance to.Does he still have any sense of honor for bowing his head in front of foreign prime ministers without a bottom line? !

Although this was a non-public secret meeting, Reinhardt's behavior still could not be accepted by the two German translators.

Not to mention the rigid and upright Germans by nature, this kind of wretched behavior is worthy of beating in any country.

What's more, Reinhardt is also the Chancellor of Germany and the head of the Socialist Workers Party.But this guy doesn't have the slightest airs at all, or in other words, he doesn't have the slightest sense of his own identity.

As soon as Reinhard finished speaking, he tried to get close to Mussolini very familiarly, completely ignoring the contemptuous eyes of a group of Italian naval officers around him and the dull eyes of two German translators.

Seeing Reinhard smiling all over his face, it seemed as if he had been familiar with Mussolini for a long time.This time is like reuniting with Mussolini after a long absence, with enthusiasm.

Such a shameless slut really opened the eyes of everyone present.Seeing Reinhardt forcefully pulling Mussolini's hand to fist bump with him, obviously hugging Mussolini forcibly, even stretching his neck and pouting his mouth in an attempt to kiss, makes people's eyelids twitch.

How did this shameless person grow up?It is already a miracle that such a bitch, let alone becoming the prime minister of a country, can live to this age without being beaten to death!

Reinhardt continued to boast without noticing: "Leader, I don't know if I should say something or not."

As a result, without waiting for Mussolini to make a comment, Reinhardt immediately spoke out: "If you want me to say, the preparations for war against Ethiopia should be avoided. Not to mention the waste of money and money, it may also cause oil sanctions from Britain and France. We Italy China’s oil cannot be separated from imports.”

We Italy?Mussolini was not used to Reinhardt's familiar attitude, but Reinhardt's flattering attitude towards him was quite pleasing.If anyone else dared to question his Mussolini strategy, he would definitely lose his temper.But for this young man in front of him who respects himself as a revolutionary mentor, Mussolini does not suggest giving him more guidance.

"Reinhardt" Mussolini put on a posture of an elder and called Reinhardt by his name.It is obviously not polite to address the prime ministers of other countries like this. However, apart from a group of entourages, the two parties involved, Reinhardt and Mussolini, absolutely did not know about it.

"Conquering Ethiopia is Italy's strategic goal, and this is absolutely not allowed to change. Once the weak Ethiopia is conquered, Italy's two existing colonies, Eritrea and Somalia, will become one. This is my first attempt to rebuild the glory of the Roman Empire One step, never to be missed!" Mussolini began his speech passionately.

Glancing at Reinhardt, who was listening to his teachings wholeheartedly, Mussolini became more interested, and raised his voice, saying: "That is a piece of land of 1220 million square kilometers, and it is the first easy target for the expansion of the new Roman Empire. Give me a few years, and Italy will be able to enrich the 1220 million square kilometers of land through immigration and use it as a material base for the new Roman Empire. Then, Italy will become the most powerful country around the Mediterranean Sea."

Reinhard, who knew current affairs, saw that Mussolini's ambition would not allow him to speak up, and suddenly realized with a taught expression: "So, the hundreds of machine guns in Ethiopia alone cannot stop the Italian army. Footsteps. Solving a weak enemy and gaining so many gains can also lay the foundation for the establishment of a great empire across the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans. Mr. Leader is indeed far-sighted and wise. I believe that the future of the Mediterranean will definitely be It belongs to the world of Italy."

The empathetic Reinhardt began to promise solemnly: "Teacher, don't worry. Once Italy and Ethiopia go to war, Germany will definitely stand on Italy's side."

Mussolini nodded in satisfaction, and smartly added an insurance policy to Reinhardt's guarantee: "In order to ensure a more stable cooperation between Germany and Italy, I suggest that the two countries sign a secret cooperation agreement."

Having achieved his goal, Reinhard secretly smiled from an imperceptible angle.An alliance proposed by Italy could not have been a better result. In this way, Germany will have to pay much less.After all, it was you Italy who invited Germany to form an alliance, and it was not Germany who asked for an alliance. Why should Germany offer a lot of benefits to trade.

So an alliance agreement called the "German-Italian Friendship and Alliance Treaty" was secretly signed in Rome.The No. 2 leader of Italy who was in charge of drafting this treaty, Rossi, the head of the Gestapo branch installed by Germany in Italy, added many clauses that were not in history and were beneficial to Germany under the instruction of Reinhardt.

As in history, the main contents of the "German-Italian Friendship and Alliance Treaty" are:

1. When the security or major interests of one of the contracting parties are threatened by external sources, the other party will give political and diplomatic support;

2 If one side gets involved in a war, the other side will give military support by land, sea and air;

3 The two contracting parties guarantee that once they can fight together, such as signing an armistice agreement or contract, they must be completely consistent with each other;

4 In order to ensure the fulfillment of the above-mentioned obligations, the two countries decided to strengthen cooperation in the military and economic fields and set up a standing committee.

However, in many details, Rossi has added many changes that did not exist in history.

First of all, the treaty added that when one of the contracting parties requests the other party to send an expeditionary force for assistance, it needs to accept the military deployment control arranged by the other party, otherwise the other party has the right not to send an expeditionary force for support.

This seemingly fair supplement is actually a preparation for Germany to send an expeditionary force to support Italy in the future.At that time, the German African Army in history can also make better use of the Italian army in the early stage.

In the later stage, Italy will not have the courage to defy Germany's will.

In addition, Ross also added a supplementary clause that seemed redundant: "A contracting party shall not use force without notice against a third country that has friendly diplomatic relations with the other party."

This article was specifically added by Reinhardt, in order to prevent Italy from invading Germany's quasi-ally Greece in the future.You know, in history, Germany, in order to make up for the holes left by Italy's failed invasion of Greece, delayed the original Barbarossa plan by 5 weeks.And this delay is generally believed by later generations to be the biggest reason why the German army failed to occupy Moscow in time.

Text Chapter 82 Lean Oil Solution

Until Reinhardt left Italy, he did not mention any news about the Libyan oil fields to Mussolini.

Although Libya's oil fields are much less difficult to exploit than Germany's Schleswig-Holstein, they are not buried particularly deep, and the content is still large.

But now Reinhardt knows that before Italy recognizes its own strength, any cooperation between Germany and Italy will be demanded by this greedy country for endless benefits.Instead of launching Libyan oil cooperation with Italy now, it is better to wait for Italy to stumble a few times and Germany to develop stronger, and then take out the Libyan cooperation project.

Of course, Reinhardt did not forget to provide appropriate support to Italy, a country with only small oil fields.On the second day after Reinhardt was in Rome, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Rossi received a copy of the coordinates provided by Reinhardt.

Immediately afterwards, Rossi personally led 5000 black shirts to search the coordinates in the mountains of northern Italy overnight.Sure enough, 3000 barrels of oil were sealed in the approximate coordinates provided by Reinhardt.

Although there is no evidence that this is oil hidden away by the Italian royal family.However, under Reinhardt's instructions, Rossi contacted the Italian royal family and demanded a hush money for a full ton of gold.

In Italy, where white terror prevails, the guilty Italian royal family reluctantly paid the price of 1 ton of gold and bought a peace.

The 1 ton of gold was finally handed over to Mussolini faithfully by Rossi, gaining Mussolini's almost absolute trust.In fact, Mussolini himself did not get the 1 ton of gold.Gold was simply added to Italy's modest gold reserves in the name of Mussolini.

Although Italy is still not strong enough, it already has more gold reserves and oil reserves than at the same period in history.Although the increase in the two items is not huge, it is enough for Italy to have one more armored division.

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In Germany, in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein, a total of 10 prodigious oil fields have begun to produce large amounts of oil.

As Germany's oil minister, Myers couldn't believe that Reinhardt's predictions have now come true.

Originally, Miles tried to exploit the oil fields in northern Schleswig-Holstein that Reinhardt said existed with the idea of ​​doing his best.

Not to mention whether the content of this oilfield area is really as huge as Reinhardt said.Just the depth of 2000 meters cannot be easily mined with the current technology.

It wasn't until the actual mining work started that Miles knew that the Rhine Group, which was in charge of the mining work, had mastered a new oil extraction technology-water injection mining technology.

In fact, this technique is not difficult in nature.Reinhardt, who proposed this technology, just borrowed the invention of the later generations of China to exploit the Daqing Oilfield.

The specific process is to inject water into the oil layer to increase the pressure of the formation. By increasing the pressure, it is equivalent to squeezing the oil out of the formation with water, and then separating and extracting the oil.

This new technology can be said to be the most advanced oil recovery technology in the world at that time.However, the implementation of this technology is not as difficult as imagined.Sometimes, many technological innovations are just a creative thinking.The technological content may not be very high, but the effect is often good.Through the advantage of traveling, Reinhardt easily came up with this idea from the East, creating a huge oil field for Germany in advance.

With this stock of more than 5000 million tons, it is enough to support large oil fields in Germany that have been exploited for more than 30 years.The German army does not need to formulate an occupation plan to rob resources for oil, the German armored forces do not need to consider the fuel limit before each attack, the German air force can attack more recklessly, and the German navy can set sail for training multiple times with peace of mind. .

The German Wehrmacht can also further enhance the mechanization of its troops.We must know that the reason why Germany has not achieved large-scale mechanization in history, and even used a large number of horses and ox carts to participate in transportation, is not because of the inability to increase automobile production capacity, but because of insufficient oil supply.

Therefore, such a new oil field that broke through history can be said to be Reinhardt's greatest achievement after crossing.This oil field directly gave Reinhardt the confidence to win.Without fuel restrictions, many famous German generals can safely and boldly formulate marching plans. German factories can produce tanks, assault guns, and military transport vehicles with almost no upper limit...

In addition to importing iron ore from the Soviet Union, Sweden can also provide a large amount of iron ore to Germany.Only the quantity of oil is the most critical reason for limiting the degree of mechanization in Germany!

Now, this key bottleneck was easily broken by Reinhardt, and the only thing left is to make a fortune silently and Germany needs to do it.

The oil in Schleswig-Holstein is now kept as a secret.The size of the oil fields in Schleswig-Holstein is still an unknown secret at this moment due to the SS blockade of the area around the oil fields.Although the British and French governments obtained clues, the two countries were unable to determine the scale of the oil field.

Based on an analysis of information on historical oil fields in Germany, neither Britain nor France felt that Schleswig-Holstein would have a large oil field that was easy to exploit.Otherwise, the Germans have already exploited it, so why bother to import oil from countries as far away as the Americas.

"Minister Myers, our Ministry of Petroleum should have made great achievements this time." A young civil servant in the oil department is reporting to Myers with excitement: "There are 10 large oil fields, and our department will no longer use them. Going to great lengths to import oil."

"Contributing merit?" Miles rolled his eyes at the young civil servant and said, "From the discovery of the oil field to the investment in exploitation, which key part is not contributed by other people's Rheinland Group. The Ministry of Petroleum is just icing on the cake and assisting them in their exploration work."

The young civil servant said with envious eyes: "The chairman of the Rhein Group is really great. He not only made a lot of money, but also became a hero. In the end, our Ministry of Petroleum became a supporting role."