The Third Reich in Desperation

"Yes..." Discovering that General Sugiyama seems to have guessed it long ago, the major also calmed down and picked up the telegram to report: "The Minister of War made a decision immediately after seeing the information sent by the German ambassador. The suggestion from the German side is to launch an attack on the Far East immediately after the Soviet Union sent troops to Poland. Appoint General Sugiyama Moto as the top person in charge of this operation, and appoint Major General Ogizhou Libing as the commander of the new 6th Army to be in charge of the first phase offensive mission."

Straightforward!Dizhou Libing really became the vanguard general of the Japanese army in this battle.And the Sixth Army under his command was all the troops invested by the Kwantung Army in the first stage.As for how many troops the Kwantung Army will add in the future, it depends on how far Dizhou Libing can fight.

As for how capable the new Sixth Army is, Sugiyama Moto is a little clearer than Dizhou Libing who just arrived.

Compared with the 6th Army in history, the current 6th Army can be said to have improved in terms of equipment (equipped with 1000 Iron Fist anti-tank rocket launchers), but other aspects are not ideal.

First of all, the 6th Army is called an army. In fact, the main body is only the 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army, and a brigade of the 8th Border Guard of the Kwantung Army.

而这个关东军第23师团其实只是一个警备性质的三单位制师团，下辖第64、71、72共三个步兵联队。每个步兵联队平均只有2909人，炮兵联队的12门120毫米炮都是第5师团送来的淘汰货。且3个步兵联队都是新建立不久的，到诺门坎战役爆发前1个月的的1939年4月，第23师团士兵才开始野外战术科目训练，武器也低劣，火力比关内正面战场的二流师团还弱，全师团一共才1.5万人。

Although in the 23rd Division formed only last year, most of the enlisted soldiers served in the first or second year.But most of these recruits come from cities in southern Japan such as Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Hiroshima, and Oita.Troops from these conscription areas have traditionally proven to be brave and capable, especially in offensive operations.Therefore, the combat effectiveness of this army may not be too low.

Fortunately, with Sugiyama Yuan's current authority, he can still give his confidant another bargaining chip.

"Dizhou-kun, speed is the key if you want to open up enough situation in the first stage with such a force." Sugiyama Moto reminded him kindly.

Dizhou Libing naturally knew that his boss was concerned about him, and immediately replied respectfully: "Please rest assured, general, I will do my best to break through the Nuomen threshold within the first week and enter the Haraha behind it." area. As long as there is one soldier under my command, I will not order a retreat, and the whole army will not return."

"Good! As expected of me, Sugiyama Yuan, who has courage." Sugiyama Yuan looked at Dizhou Libing with approval and said, "Although most of the troops under your command are newly formed, they are equipped with the 'Iron Fist'. The use of secret weapons that has been kept under the box by the Ministry of the Army. When encountering Soviet armored forces, it must have much stronger anti-tank capabilities than those in the customs.”

"Hi! I think so too." Dizhou Libing agreed from the bottom of his heart.

However, neither the general nor the major general mentioned the key point.

What are the opponents of those troops in the pass?That was a group of infantry!

What do they want anti-tank capabilities for?Do you keep anti-yourself armored vehicles? !

After the two self-deceiving generals cheered each other up, Sugiyama Moto waved his hand again and said: "Considering that you don't have enough manpower, I will find a way to get Qiqihar's 10th Flying Reconnaissance Team, Hailaer Flying 24th Squadron, and related The 100 transport vehicles of the Eastern Army Automobile Team will be assigned to your command of the 6th Army. In this way, you will give me a good result."

"Hi!" Dizhou Libing gratefully assured Sugiyama Yuan: "This subordinate will definitely live up to the high expectations and care of the general, and give the general a brilliant victory at Nuomenkan!"

Chapter 157 Other countries have gone to war, what is Germany doing

"Führer, do you think this group of Japanese will take the bait?" Ross, who knew that Reinhardt had sent Soviet intelligence to the Japanese, was a little worried.

"What's there to worry about? Those dwarves will definitely be hooked." Reinhardt flipped through the documents on his desk and said, "Even if we don't disclose information to those dwarves, they should be tempted by the Soviet Union." .Others’ armies are afraid that the navy will gain the limelight, and they are eager to show themselves.”

When Reinhardt said this, he suddenly felt an inexplicable pleasure.If the German army hadn't suppressed the navy by force, and the air force is full of its own cronies, the situation of the Japanese army must have happened.Historically, the fat Goering has often cheated the army and navy in order to show off.It seems that I am a little more reliable than Lao Xi in this matter.

After all, such a phenomenon is not uncommon for a resource-poor military power.Each military branch hopes to obtain more resources to develop itself, but the total resources in the hands of the country are limited.As a result, the services compete for attention for resources.

In Japan, an island country, the most direct manifestation is that the army and navy always confront each other and propose completely opposite strategies for comparison. Whoever has better performance can occupy more resource allocation with peace of mind.

The Japanese Army wanted to show its importance by coming in from the north.You see, the army has punched the Soviet Union, is it majestic?Is it time to think more about resource allocation?

The Japanese navy came in from the south to highlight their powerful strength.In this one, the navy is kicking the British and the United States. Is it awesome?Why do the grandsons of the army compete with such a powerful navy for the allocation of national war resources.

Even Reinhardt was lucky for them. Fortunately, the Japanese army did not have the concept of an air force, and all aviation units were subordinate to the army and navy.If Japan pulls the Air Force out of the air force to form a separate army, it will have to stage a "three-legged confrontation"!Then why fight, the three armies get together to fight against the landlord every day.

"Okay, now we don't have to worry about this." Reinhardt, who knew that Japan had a battle of Nomenkan before, was not worried at all, and said lightly: "If it weren't for the sake of saving us from losing some soldiers in the future, I would We will not lure Japan to attack Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union again and again, let alone sell them so many weapon technologies against Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. What we have to do now is to watch a good show."

From the bottom of his heart, Reinhardt is also looking forward to what this war will develop into.First of all, he estimated that it was mostly because of the former Japanese Major General Meichuan that the Nomonkan Battle, which was supposed to start in May, was delayed until today.But this also happened to form a situation where the Soviet Union was fighting on two fronts in Poland and Japan, so you can disgust the Soviet Union.

Secondly, Japan in this life has obtained the Iron Fist rocket launcher bought by Germany in the past, and can deal with it more calmly when facing the Soviet armored forces, causing greater casualties and losses to the Soviet army.In this way, the optimistic dwarfs in Japan can also see a little hope of defeating the Soviet Union. It is best to let this group of northern gamblers continue to bet on the north, the more the better.

Seeing that Reinhardt is quite relieved, Rose has no reason to worry.Marching into the Rhineland, merging Austria, and taking over Czechoslovakia, what did the head of state predict and miss?In the eyes of many Germans, a kind of inertia has formed. What the head of state said must be right, including officials like Ross, and even generals like Manstein!

The only veteran general who questioned the Führer, Lundstadt mustered up the courage to make a bet with the Führer.Anyway, now that the German military has spread, Rundstedt and Reinhardt must have a naked run!A group of generals are waiting to see a good show.

Sometimes, Rose really felt that the Führer was not like an ordinary human being.He didn't believe in God at first, but if someone told him that the head of state was the reincarnation of God, he would immediately become a devout believer of God.Apart from other things, just looking at Reinhardt's nature of taking off his clothes at every turn, he is somewhat similar to the gods on the murals.Have you ever seen a god in a mural wearing thick clothes?

"My head of state. As a result, the Soviet Union, Poland, and Japan are all fighting. What are we going to do?" Ross asked suddenly, as if remembering something.

"What are we doing..." Reinhardt covered his head and pondered: "Your question is too complicated, I can't answer you."

"Is it complicated? Why?" the one-sided Rose asked naively.

Damn it, how do you want me to say it so freshly and elegantly about fanning the flames? Can you understand it yourself?Reinhardt smiled helplessly: "Do nothing, just concentrate on developing yourself. Are you satisfied with this answer?"

The confidant I chose, I have to use it with tears in my eyes.Although Reinhardt was relieved to use this one-sided confidant, he didn't take too much trouble.There are a lot of things that need to be pointed out to him before he can react, which is really a bit tiring.

However, Reinhardt does not plan to replace Rose with someone else.The reason is simple. Rose's position is too critical, and he must find a loyal subordinate to sit down.It is not difficult to find a subordinate who is respectful and efficient like Himmler on weekdays.The real difficulty is determining how loyal the person is.

Although Rose is quite well-behaved, he is also loyal to Reinhardt.Reinhardt even felt that even if he ordered Ross to shoot himself immediately, he would have a 90.00% chance of doing it right away.

True loyalty is not the kind of respectful flattery that Himmler showed in history.It's someone like Ross who is not good at words, but will follow through to the end.He will not flatter you, and will not try his best to please you, but he will develop his inner support and respect for you.Reinhard likes such a person from the bottom of his heart.

"Don't think too much, we've already done everything right now." Reinhardt patted Ross on the shoulder and said, "With our efforts, the Soviet Union has successfully obtained our military ally who attacked Poland. Here we got the secret intelligence of the Soviet Union attacking Poland, Poland got Japan, an ally that attacked the Soviet Union, and Germany got a detached situation of watching the fire from the other side. Isn’t this a good thing?”

Ross nodded thoughtfully: "It seems that the Soviet Union, Germany, Japan, and Poland have all benefited from it."

Looking at Rose who didn't turn the corner, Reinhard shook his head.He had played mahjong for 5 or 6 years before time travel, and he had never heard that the last four people all won money.

"They are all working for Germany." Reinhardt smiled at Rose: "So, we can't live up to their good intentions now. While everyone is going to war, let's develop another round and put Get ready."

Text Chapter 158 Ore

As the relationship between Britain and Germany continued to deteriorate, the original deal to import the rare metal tungsten from China has become difficult to maintain.That itself is an import project that requires many detours. Now coupled with the British naval blockade, it will be even more difficult for Germany to import Huaxia's tungsten ore.

In fact, Germany in history only imported a part of tungsten ore through cooperation with China before the start of World War II.When World War II began, this cooperation was completely terminated.

However, Reinhardt knew that in fact, the eastern province of Germany, namely Austria, had the second largest tungsten mine in the world.It's a pity that Germany, who didn't know about it during World War II, has never been able to excavate and mine it. I have to say that it feels a bit far away and close at hand.

Now, after Reinhardt dispatched one geological team after another to Salzburg, Austria, they finally found the famous Mittersill tungsten mine.

Tungsten mining in Salzburg is classified as a secret project, just as Germany has kept its oil in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein secret.Now, Ross has mobilized tens of thousands of Jewish reform-through-labour prisoners from the Labor Construction Corps to the mining area to build external roads and build smelting factories.

The use of these Jewish prisoners of labor reform to build the foundation projects of the mining area is not only low in cost, but also convenient for confidentiality.After all, the state does not need to pay them a penny of wages, and occasionally rewards them with a pack of low-quality cigarettes to make them happy for a long time.As for secrecy, a group of reform-through-labour prisoners whose activities are all placed in the factory area designated by the government, can they still send letters to enemy countries far away in the sky?

In order to supervise the labor camp prisoners of the Production and Construction Corps, Ross also specially dispatched 1000 SS soldiers to go and detain them.The weapons and equipment of these 1000 SS soldiers are basically warehouse stocks eliminated from the original Czechoslovakia. It is definitely impossible to use them on the front line, but it is more than enough to symbolically deter a group of reform-through-labor prisoners.

Tungsten mines in Austria have been found, oil in northern Germany can be exploited at any time, and mineral resources such as lignite, uranium, and iron in Hungary have also been placed under the jurisdiction of the Third Reich.Germany under the leadership of Reinhardt now has more confidence than the Third Reich in history.

With the large oil fields in Germany, the armored forces of the Third Reich will have more choices in the future.With the tungsten mines in Austria, the armored forces of the Empire can produce and equip more armor-piercing rounds.As for the utilization of coal resources, Germany has improved energy conversion efficiency and accumulated more technologies earlier than in history.

At the same time, in order to pay Germany to transform its railway and road network, manufacture battleships for it, and sell surplus precision machine tools to the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union is still continuously transporting oil, iron, manganese, copper, lead, zinc, etc. to Germany. Resources are used as transaction costs.

At this moment, Ross, who participated in the resource secrecy work of the entire Third Reich, was visiting the Austrian mining area with Reinhardt.Also going there is Steve, the first-rank general of the SS who is preparing to form three new Waffen-SS infantry divisions in Austria, and the commander-in-chief of the Waffen-SS.

The composition of the current SS is relatively complicated, but it can be roughly divided into two types: the armed SS and the garrison SS.The Waffen SS is an elite unit in the SS, with the combat capability of integrating offense and defense.The Garrison SS Army picks up the remaining old and weak personnel, and its function is to station and maintain the occupied area, without much offensive capability.

The current Waffen SS is naturally all handed over to Steve, the commander-in-chief of the Waffen SS, for future wars.The SS troops stationed in the station were all transferred to Gestapo Minister Ross, and they were temporarily used to supervise the construction of the Jews who built the Labor Corps, and they could also be sent to garrison the rear occupied areas in the near future.

When Reinhardt, Steve, and Ross, the three "startup partners" who have been along the way, get together again, there will inevitably be more topics.

"My head of state, recently I have often wondered why you have been able to predict what is about to happen every time in the past 20 years? Is there any secret to help you determine it?" Steve knew Reinhardt the first time. , The two also know each other very well, so they have less worries when chatting.