The Third Reich in Desperation

Third Reich Episode 373

The reason why Reinhardt was so sure that the Soviet Union could not get this batch of supplies after the defeat of Britain was not a simple reverse reasoning.

On the one hand, Britain is gone, and Anglo-American aid can only be called American aid at best.

On the other hand, Britain did not defeat the German army and could only use the airports provided by its Norwegian allies on the Navia Peninsula, including ports, to use space and submarines to intercept the famous Arctic Ocean route.

This route leads to the port of Murmansk, a seaport in the Arctic Ocean of the Soviet Union, and is an important blood transfusion route.However, once the British Isles also became the sphere of influence of the Third Reich and the Imperial Navy took over the port of the Royal Navy, this route was scrapped.

As for the Black Sea route, after the fall of Britain, how long Egypt can persist, and sooner or later it will break away from the broken ship of the British Empire, unless of course it sinks into the bottom of the sea together with the British Empire.

But in any case, this route leading to the port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea of ​​the Soviet Union is basically equivalent to a semi-abandoned state.

The German army on the Pacific route has nothing to do with it.But as long as Japan and the United States go to war, they will not let the American fleet swagger to attack the Sea of ​​Japan and land in the Siberia region of the Soviet Union.

This is also an important reason why Reinhardt has not broken his face with Japan so far.Without the powerful Japanese navy and the U.S. navy fighting each other, it would be too easy for the United States to transfuse blood for the Soviet Union on the Pacific route.

The last is the less well-known, but effective Iran route.As long as Reinhardt destroys Churchill, it will be impossible for Fatty Qiu to organize Commonwealth forces to overthrow the pro-German regime in Iran in the future.In that case, the Iran route will become a thing of the past.

But the key now is... will things really go in the direction Reinhardt most hopes?

The future imagined by Reinhardt is naturally bright.

This kind of thing of depicting a bright future has also been done by the German head of state in history.As far as Reinhardt knew, the Führer ended up committing suicide in the basement...

Now that the "Sea Lion Project" is being launched, Reinhardt is looking at the opportunity that the US neutralist policy was still popular some time ago.

In the United States, a large number of members of the Senate are staunch supporters of isolationism, plus many American consortiums involved in German capital, traditional conservatives, it can be said that there are still many forces in the United States, and they often create various public opinions. Affect public opinion and put pressure on the president.

Under the influence of isolationist forces inside and outside Congress, Roosevelt also followed isolationism everywhere during his last term.

If you can make good use of this god-sent opportunity and knock down the British trust before the United States joins the game, then if the Third Reich is to compete with the United States, you only need to leave a strong navy.

As for the imperial army liberated from the western front, it can also go to various battlefields to compete for world hegemony.

Now, Reinhardt is only worried about whether this most critical step can continue to proceed smoothly until the curtain call.

Once the Sea Lion Project has a perfect curtain call, the next script will not be difficult.

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"Of course we can't let that blond bastard Reinhardt get his way!"

Soviet Union, Moscow, inside the Klimt Palace.

Sitting in the chief position in the center, Stalin smiled with satisfaction: "It is not easy to pretend to be blind, but fortunately, that idiot head of state in Germany is too self-righteous and treats everyone except him as fools." .”

"Now, it's time for the Germans to understand what a stupid mistake it was to ignore us!"

Khrushchev, who has successfully withdrawn from Ukraine and no longer has an interest in the Soviet-German cooperative, is also in high spirits at the moment.As soon as Stalin finished speaking, he jumped up from his seat and shouted: "Under the leadership of the great General Secretary Stalin, tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers will be able to accomplish all goals, let the flag of the Soviet Union, the Reichstag in Berlin Fly up!"

Stalin and Khrushchev did not say this on a whim.In fact, on the desks of everyone present, there was a document that was still absolutely confidential before.

The name of this document is called "Great Thunderstorm Project"!

Chapter 571 The Third Reich in Desperation ([-])

In fact, the Great Thunderstorm Plan follows the Soviet Union's thinking, and it is nothing more than a routine.

The North Road besieged Königsberg, the South Road crossed the Carpathian Mountains and entered the Danube Plain, and the Middle Road broke through the Vistula River and went straight to Berlin.

In fact, Stalin's attitude was exactly the same as that of Reinhardt. They both regarded the non-aggression pact as a tool to cover their own war plans. tear up the treaty.

It's just that this time Stalin did it one step ahead of Reinhardt!

As the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin not only has the same ambition to swallow the whole of Europe as Reinhardt, but also like Reinhardt's trust in the combat capabilities of the German army, he also has the same bloated and inefficient Soviet combat power in the Soviet Union. , is also extremely confident.

At the beginning, Stalin did not believe that the German army could penetrate the so-called insurmountable Maginot Line as early as in the French campaign.However, the German lightning operations surprised him.It took the Germans less than 6 weeks to completely defeat the French army, which is number one in Europe!

In this way, the previous strategy of the Soviet Union is not applicable.

Stalin and his think tanks originally thought that the German army would be trapped by the insurmountable Maginot Line, while the Soviet army could see the opportunity and would attack eastern Germany on a large scale, seize the weak link of the German army, and occupy Poland and Slovakia. , the Czech Republic, took advantage of the victory and went straight to Berlin.

Then meet the grateful Anglo-French allies somewhere on the Elbe - if you're lucky, on the Rhine.

In this way, half of Europe will be under the control of the Soviet Union, so that the peaceful revolution created by the Soviet Red Army with bayonets is not far away.

However, Stalin's calculation had just begun, and the war on the other side was over.

Stalin was not a fool. After failing his calculations once again, he was determined not to make the same mistake again.

This time, Germany's large-scale landing in the British Isles was the second opportunity for the Soviet Union.

On the one hand, the current German army is at its peak, and its combat effectiveness is at its peak. Apart from the isolated island of Britain, there is no decent opponent on the entire battlefield.

In other words, if the Soviet Union does not seize this opportunity to send troops immediately, there will be no chance to attack Germany on both sides in the future, and there will be no teammates participating in the attack.

Everyone knows that fighting on two fronts is a taboo for military strategists.It was the Soviet Union's best choice to let the German neighbors fall into the quagmire of war on both sides.While the French were desperate, they missed an opportunity.Now it's the British's turn to fight desperately on the German western front, and Stalin will never be so stupid as to let the German eastern front continue to calm down!

On the other hand, Stalin and even most of his cronies are also extremely confident in the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army.

Stalin did not think that the strength of the Red Army was far inferior to that of Germany. On the contrary, he believed that the quality of the Red Army was at least as good as that of the German Army, and the size of the Red Army was significantly stronger than that of the German Army.

He felt he had more planes, tanks, artillery, and more soldiers than Reinhardt.Even if Su De is singled out one-on-one, the chances of winning are great.

In addition, the German army was still pinned down by the British army on the western front. At this time, the Soviet army went all out and seemed to have won.

In order to be able to launch a powerful attack at any time, the Soviet army's deployment of troops was very close to the border, obviously lacking in depth, and even completely inconsistent with the deployment principle of strategic defense in depth and echelon configuration.Zhukov once advised Stalin that once the German army launched an attack first, the current deployment of the Soviet army would lead to a large number of troops being encircled and wiped out by the German army on the border.

However, Stalin stubbornly rejected Zhukov's suggestion of rearing troops.His stubborn decision must ensure that the front-line troops are saturated, so as to deal the deadliest first wave of blows to the German army.

Fortunately, Stalin made the right bet this time.Because the German army did not attack the Soviet Union first, invisibly, a large number of Soviet troops on the border escaped the fate of being encircled and wiped out.Even, they really waited for the opportunity to attack!

Stalin's luck, in turn, is naturally Reinhard's misfortune.

The sad thing is that after Manstein clearly reminded that the deployment of the Soviet army on the border was not purely for defense, but a deployment that could attack at any time, Reinhardt still had a gambler's mentality and started to attack the Soviet Union. British combat.

Can't help Reinhardt not to gamble!

He has won so many times, and now he only needs to win one game from Churchill, the fate of the Third Reich, and he can sit back and relax!

But this time, Reinhardt really underestimated Stalin's IQ and persistence. In other words, Reinhardt, who was already sitting at the gambling table, couldn't care less, like a red-eyed gambler, wanted to Like Hitler who launched Barbarossa back then, he can't help himself!

In history, Hitler lost his main navy in Norway, let go of the British army in Dunkirk, and failed to win the British air battle.Therefore, at that time, he could only choose to blitz the Soviet Union and win a high-risk victory.

Hitler was not stupid, but at that time, he did not have the slightest favorable background factors, so he could ignore the Soviet Union and attack Britain first.

Therefore, he could only choose to fight the Soviet Union first.

But now, Reinhardt has these factors, and has a stronger navy, land and air force than in history.So for him, attacking the UK first is the most suitable choice now.