The Third Reich in Desperation

It seems that the group of dull Germans are completely unaware that there is still a way to cheat.If you think about it carefully, the reason why Germany did not deliver the goods before is probably due to their rigid spirit.It is necessary to keep improving and nitpicking to manufacture weapons, which makes the construction period far exceed the Soviet shipyard that started construction at the same time.

In Stalin's view, the stubborn and harsh thinking of the Germans is a manifestation of brain flooding.Besides, if they didn't get into the water, how could they choose a dubious head of state like Reinhardt?

With a head of state who can only play tricks and a group of rigid citizens, Stalin was a little worried about the future of Germany as a country.

Fortunately, such a country is just suitable as a temporary ally of the Soviet Union.Dealing with such a country that is easy to deal with, the Soviet Union only needs to send the agreed trade goods over, and then can wait for the group of stubborn Germans to send over the agreed return.

The delivery of the first new battleship as promised was a reassurance received by Stalin.

In addition to this reassurance, the cooperation between the Soviet Union and Germany in other areas is also smooth and pleasant.

The railway system and highway system invested and constructed by Germany's Rheinland Group in the Soviet Union have begun to bring obvious results to the Soviet Union. While the civilian transportation situation in the Soviet Union has been improved, the military material transportation and army mobilization have also become more advanced than before. Faster.

With the fast transportation, the trade cost between the Soviet Union and Germany has become lower and lower, and the transaction speed has been greatly improved.Coupled with the assistance of German scientific and technological consultants, the Soviet Union has already shown a good momentum of development in the heavy industrial areas in the west by taking advantage of convenient transportation.

However, as the heavy industrial area continued to move westward, and even approached the border area, the Soviet Union had to further mobilize troops to the border for safety.

At the moment when Germany is transferring troops to the east because of the Danzig Corridor issue, more and more Soviet Red Army is gathering to the west, which has formed a two-sided threat to Poland, an intermediate country.

The original France-Germany-Poland flanking posture against Germany was added for a while with a German-Poland-Soviet flanking posture against Poland.This was an extremely serious blow to the Polish army, which originally planned to concentrate its forces against Germany.

According to the calculations of the Polish High Command and the French General Staff, after Germany merged the 30 standing army of Austria, received 70 elite troops from Czechoslovakia, and reorganized 10 second-rate troops from Hungary, the number of troops that can be deployed on the German-Polish border Fully capable of over 80 people.Moreover, this is when Germany maintains a large number of troops left behind on the Siegfried Line of Defense.

In this way, the number of troops that the German army could mobilize on the Eastern Front was equal to the total number of the Polish army.If the equipment advantage of the German army is counted, the strength of the Polish army is actually far behind the German Eastern Front Division.

It has to be said that after Reinhardt made changes such as "exploiting local oil in advance", "trading Soviet ore in a targeted manner", "defrauding Spanish gold in a timely manner", etc., the current Third Reich, Compared with the same period in history, there are 15 Wehrmacht troops and 20 Waffen SS troops.

The unexpected merger of Germany and Hungary provided another 10 reserves for the German army on the Eastern Front.

As a result, the original plan of the Polish government to form a numerical advantage over the German army divided into two lines was completely defeated.The only weak advantage of the Polish army in history has now disappeared.

At this time, the huge number of the Soviet Red Army continued to increase its troops on the western front because it wanted to protect the heavy industrial areas that were getting closer and closer to the border.So where should Poland find enough teams to defend the Eastern Front?

Disaster!too difficult!Even if the Polish government tried its best to recruit a group of militiamen, it would be difficult to reach half the size of the troops deployed by the Soviet army on the western front.Besides, how could the militia fight against the Soviet regular army?

Originally, after the Polish High Command rejected the suggestion of the French officer corps to withdraw the line of defense, it was already in front of the German army on the western front, because the troops were evenly deployed behind the border line, and their forces appeared to be excessively dispersed.

Not to mention the transfer of large troops from the already gunpowder-filled border of Poland to defend the Soviet army in the east.Even if the Polish High Command transferred a division from the western front to supplement the eastern defense zone, it would cause the defense of a large area on the western front to plummet.

At the moment when Poland was pinned to the west by the German army, Stalin, who had no plans to attack in the short term, began to covet the empty land in eastern Poland.

And the German Social Worker newspaper fanned the ghostly will-o'-the-wisp report, and even published an "objective analysis article" about the Soviet troops transferred to the west every few days: "Shocking!The Soviet Union mobilized troops overnight, and Poland is facing a catastrophe", "A Soviet Military Commissioner: Zero Tolerance for Poland's Military Deterrence", "Poland is in a hurry, because the Soviet Union wants to wash away the shame of the Soviet-Polish War"......

In later generations, an interesting rumor is that even Stalin himself had a feeling of enlightenment after reading a translated article in the German Social Worker. !

As a result, before the German army took action, Britain, France and other countries began to panic in the sudden outbreak of the "Soviet threat theory", and shifted their attention to guarding against Germany to the far east.

However, the high-ranking Soviet politicians who were not in a hurry to send troops, instead made a statement that was simply fake: Didn't they shout all day long that the Soviet Union was going to attack Poland?Simply follow the wishes of those European media and destroy Poland.Anyway, there are not many troops in the east of Poland, and the west has to face the containment of German friends. Where is the opponent of the Soviet lion?

Chapter 152 Diplomacy around Poland

Just when Stalin had already moved his mind on Poland and began to discuss with his senior staff, German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop came to Moscow unexpectedly and rushed to the Kremlin to visit Stalin.

As the current foreign minister of the Third Reich, Ribbentrop had already won the trust of Reinhardt in foreign affairs.Therefore, this time he came to the Soviet Union, similar to carrying Reinhardt's Shangfang sword, and he has the right to directly sign a treaty with the Soviet Union.

For Ribbentrop, Reinhardt actually didn't think about reusing it at first.In his view, Ribbentrop only had the opportunity to enter the upper class by marrying Annalize Heinkel, the daughter of the German champagne maker Heinkel.To put it bluntly, it is because of the background of the old man that he has the opportunity to live a romantic life.

As a time traveler who was once suppressed by the rich second generation, what Reinhardt looked down on most in his life was this kind of people who rely on the background.In his view, truly capable people should rely on their own hard work and opportunities, just like themselves.

And every time I think of myself tying my head to my waist after transmigrating, I was frightened and risked my life to survive until today, but there are other people who married a wife and walked to the pinnacle of life easily and safely, which made Reinhardt I can't help being envious, and when envy reaches its extreme, it becomes jealousy.

However, when Reinhardt later met Ribbentrop for the first time, his opinion changed.

In Reinhardt's words, Ribbentrop is a rare visionary in Germany at the moment. He can always understand his true diplomatic ideas and goals.

Five years ago, when Ribbentrop met Reinhardt for the first time, he talked about his views on the "British-German Naval Agreement" under Reinhardt's temptation.In his opinion, this agreement not only did not restrict the development of the German navy, but created favorable conditions for the expansion of the German navy.

His ideas coincide with Reinhardt's, or in other words, his vision is far ahead of most people of the same era.

Later, Ribbentrop followed Reinhardt to participate in the negotiations and signing of the German-Italian "anti-Soviet agreement".

Two years ago, when Reinhardt decided to put the issue of Austria's merger on the agenda, Ribbentrop, who had already served in the German Foreign Ministry, stood up to all the arguments and firmly supported Reinhardt's decision, and Privately reported to Reinhardt, analyzing that "Britain will not take action against Austria".

He was then ordered to draft an ultimatum to Austria.With the connivance of the appeasement policy of Britain and France, Germany really successfully merged with Austria.

Just when everyone was cheering for the merger of Germany and Austria, and the officials were immersed in this magnificent feat.Ribbentrop was the first to jump out again and strongly advocated the transformation of Czechoslovakia into a German protectorate.

He also assured Reinhardt that he could "keep France out of the way", saying of Britain that "they will back down if you show them that you will never back down."

As an authority figure, Ribbentrop can make such a judgment is very commendable.Without any reference, the guidelines and suggestions he put forward coincided with the plan of Reinhardt, the traverser!

Such a visionary politician naturally became the object of Reinhardt's attention.What's more, this person is good at catering to Reinhardt's instructions, and joined the Socialist Workers' Party early, swearing allegiance to Reinhardt.As a diplomat, his eloquence of turning right from wrong to falsehood is quite to Reinhardt's liking.

With this stink... a congenial confidant, Reinhard naturally let go of his prejudices, and turned to use this historically tested diplomatic genius with confidence.Think about it carefully, eating soft rice is also a kind of ability, isn't it?To be able to be so brazen and eat soft food with peace of mind is because of this thick skin, a fellow...

Engaging in diplomacy requires such talents.Not only must you have extraordinary insights, but you must also have a brazen spirit and the ability to tell lies with your eyes open.

The position of Minister of Foreign Affairs is really not something that can be taken by just anyone.Among them, the degree of maneuvering, counter-offering, wits, tension, blood, and intensity is no less than that of going whoring.

Speaking of which, since Reinhardt's crossing, I haven't seen many German officials who are thick-skinned enough to be diplomats.He himself is considered one, but the position of the head of state cannot be separated from him.

Therefore, Ribbentrop, who was able to take on this important task, contacted Molotov, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, and after obtaining permission to visit the Soviet Union, he took Reinhardt's instructions to "pull the Soviet Union into the water as soon as possible" and hurriedly Busy flight to the capital of the Soviet Union by special plane.

You must know that at this time, the Soviet Union was heavily guarded by the British government because of the "Peter the Great Incident", so it did not carry out cooperation negotiations with Britain and France that had existed in history.In the current Soviet Union, the only Western "friends" that can be found are Germany for the time being.

In addition, the Soviet-German "friendship" is still relatively harmonious, and Stalin happened to pay more attention to the Polish issue.The subject of Ribbentrop's talks this time was set at a high standard as Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union.

"Great Soviet leader, Mr. Stalin, hello. It is a great honor to meet you." Ribbentrop praised Stalin as usual as soon as they met.

"I'm glad to see you too." Stalin smiled, shaking his standard beard. "German friends have come from afar, so they must have something to say to us."

Ribbentrop nodded humbly, and said straight to the point with a serious expression: "Yes, according to the information we have received, the Soviet Red Army has been gathering large-scale troops on the Soviet-Polish border recently. As you know, Poland and Germany The relationship between the Soviet Union and Germany is now on the verge of war. The head of state hopes that I can discuss with Soviet friends about the future coordination of actions between the Soviet Union and Germany."

You hype the Soviet Union's attack on Poland all day long, and your German newspapers are the loudest.Now it seems that we may really do it, and came to discuss with us again.Stalin secretly despised this group of German officials who didn't know how to control the domestic media. If they hadn't let the domestic media talk nonsense, it is estimated that the Soviet Union would not have mobilized troops so quickly.

However, Stalin quickly calmed down his mental activities, and laughed loudly: "You should know that, apart from Germany, the relationship between our Soviet Union and Poland has always been bad. Personally, I can say that I hate this country that once brought The country that gave me a huge loss."

Then, Stalin said in a serious tone: "Poland has occupied too much land that should have been ours. Shouldn't the Soviet Union snatch it back? I think our German friends can understand our desire to take back the territory."

Yes, in your eyes, all the territories in the world should belong to you.Ribbentrop cursed inwardly, but on the surface he greeted him with a smile: "Of course, we quite understand."

Text Chapter 153 The March [-] Treaty

"Then, since we have all been usurped by the shameless country of Poland, this matter will be much easier to handle." Ribbentrop raised his eyebrows and said ostentatiously.

"Oh? How is this easy to handle?" Stalin glanced at the cunning German foreign minister and asked defensively.

Seeing Stalin speak, Ribbentrop did not hesitate for a moment, and immediately came up with his solution: "We, Germany, will send troops to attack Poland. Once the whole of Poland is captured, Germany promises to divide a large part of eastern Poland to the Soviet Union." .How about the Soviet Union extending the existing border 30 kilometers westward?"