Seeing that Fang Yan was still full of confusion, Guderian coughed, and continued with an unnatural expression: "Although it is difficult to deal with this batch of tanks within the army, there is room for foreign countries to take over. At present, with the exception of a few major industrial powers, the armored forces of many regional powers are almost blank; In their eyes, the French tank is undoubtedly a rare treasure, and we can easily sell it at a high price. ”

Guderian's eyes showed a glint of anticipation, and he said to Fang Yan sincerely: "I ask the Ministry of Economic Affairs to accept these captured tanks as special strategic materials and sell them to other small countries. For each vehicle sold, the Army will be compensated with the corresponding standard equipment. As far as I know, Germany's foreign trade is also under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and His Excellency Värt agreed to do so only by a gesture. ”

Fang Yan looked at Guderian with some surprise, this general with a straightforward personality actually had such a delicate and flexible side. Problems that are difficult to solve from the military and technical levels, after he started from a different angle, suddenly felt like a willow blossom. He threw the scum that he didn't need at all to the Ministry of Economy, but what he got back was brand new equipment, even if there was a discount and shrinkage in the middle process, it was still much better than throwing it in the warehouse and rusting.

"However, Xiao Gu, you still have a pattern after all." Fang Yan shook his head slightly in his heart, thinking to himself. After all, the person in front of him has been a professional officer for half his life, and many political factors cannot be as well-planned as the old bureaucrat, Fang Yan only thought about it for a while, and saw two aspects of Guderian's inappropriate consideration.

First of all, Guderian did not realize that Walter's authority was in jeopardy. In order to balance the domestic forces, Hitler made the decision to move Walter more than half a year ago, and Ley, Frank and others, who were vigorously vying for this position, began to gear up early on, preparing to hold this almost fattest shortage into the palm of their hands. Especially since May this year, the German political and business circles have felt this potential wind direction, which has significantly reduced the heat in front of the office of Wärt, and it is no longer the scorching pomp of the past.

If Fang Yan hadn't saved the scene in person, then Guderian's move of pinning his hopes on W&Ert this time would have been a bamboo basket and would have gained nothing. In addition, Guderian's intention to take over these tanks abroad also lacked further consideration. The most obvious question is, who will be the customer of this purchase?

Today, many of the countries that dotted the continent have disappeared from the map with the expansion of Germany and the Soviet Union. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, Netherlands...... These countries, which once had a certain amount of economic and industrial power, are now part of German rule.

The three Baltic states also fell into the hands of the Soviet Union, and Finland in the north was almost exhausted. As a result, the base of potential customers who can take over French tanks in the surrounding area has been greatly reduced, leaving only Spain and a few countries in southeastern Europe. As for overseas, Germany's ocean-going trade has not yet recovered, and it does not have the basis for large-scale material exchange.

Among the several alternative countries, the most suitable to be the receiver is undoubtedly Romania. The country's army had long used French tanks, and its logistics and combat personnel were fully adapted to French tanks, while Romania faced a serious threat from the Soviet Union and did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money to strengthen its armament. In the autumn of 1939, Germany packed up the equipment captured from the Polish army to Romania, which was bleeding heavily for this purpose, and countless truckloads of agricultural food and oil were shipped to Germany every day as payment.

Now, however, Germany could no longer send weapons to Romania for a short time. For no other reason, the situation in Eastern Europe at this time was already turbulent, which had a marked shock to Germany's strategy in the East.

With the rapid defeat of France and the rapid acceleration of Stalin's encroachment on the countries of Eastern Europe, it was clear that he felt that the time was not to be lost. On 23 June, the day after the signing of the Franco-German armistice, the Soviet Union, which had just occupied the entire territory of the three Baltic states, informed the German side that "the settlement of the Bessarabian question is urgent." If the Romanian government refused to accept the peace agreement, the Soviet government was determined to use force. ”

In order to confirm that these words were not empty intimidation, Moscow immediately ordered the Kyiv Military District and the Odessa Military District to enter a state of first-class combat readiness. The two military regions have already assembled 40 divisions and 14 brigades on the border, ready to move south at any time to smash the enemy's nest.

Although Fang Yan did not stay in Berlin to pay attention to the development of the situation, judging from the current situation, the Soviet Union issued an ultimatum to Romania in the past two days. In this matter, Germany will inevitably side with the Soviet Union to force Romania to submit - it is obviously more important to stabilize the Soviet Union than the latter's insignificant gratitude, not to mention that in the secret German-Soviet agreement reached last year, Bessarabia was supposed to be allocated to the Soviet Union.

In addition, the outbreak of war between the Soviet Union and Romania was also a situation that Germany would never want to see. The Romanian-Soviet border is 1,163 kilometers long, and troops can be used almost everywhere, and the total strength of the Romanian army is only one-third of the Soviet army in front.

And once the war is opened, it will be difficult to control the scale. At that time, Stalin would have taken the whole of Romania as his goal and completely annexed the country. Germany would not only lose important sources of food and oil, but would also allow the Soviet Union to expand throughout the Balkans through pro-Russian Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, opening the door to Constantinople, the "Tsargrad" they had coveted for thousands of years. At that point, Germany and Italy were complete losers, and Stalin alone won the game!

Therefore, it is not possible for Germany to add fuel to the fire of the tense situation in Suro and sell sensitive arms to Romania at the moment. And even after this storm has passed, Germany is not suitable to sell weapons to Romania, because Romania is not only the Soviet Union, but Hungary to the west has a deep hatred for him.

Under the Treaty of Trianon signed in 1920, Romania ceded more than 100,000 square kilometers of territory from the newly independent Hungary. The fact that this land is the richest part of Hungary, Transylvania, is home to more than 2 million Magyars and Sacklers, which naturally caused outright anger in Hungary. From the very first day of Transylvania's partition, the Hungarians vowed to retake their old lands, an obsession that outweighed the Germans' anger at the Polish Corridor.

In the last quarter of 1939, there was a marked easing of relations between Hungary and Romania, but this was not because the Hungarians wanted to give up revenge, but because the aggressive expansion of the Soviet Union had already terrified Hungary, fearing that one day the Soviets would swarm in from the east and swallow them up.

If you look at the map, you can see that after the German-Soviet partition of Poland, the Soviet Union bordered Hungary, and the Hungarian bourgeoisie once brutally suppressed the Hungarian Shovel Party that failed to seize power, and the ideological bond between the two sides was definitely not small. Now that the bloodthirsty bear of the Soviet Union is lying on its doorstep, the pressure is enough to make Hungary, with an area of only 100,000 square kilometers and a population of less than 10 million, tremble. Therefore, Hungary decided to temporarily shelve the plan to recover Transylvania, so that Romania, which also had a territorial dispute with the Soviet Union, had no worries and went to the front to fight the other side.

It was also for the sake of driving away the tiger and the wolf that Hungary did not raise any objections when Germany sold arms to Romania at the end of 1939. However, as soon as Romania ceded Bessarabia to the Soviet Union without any resistance, its role in Hungary suddenly diminished, and it was transformed back from a front-line barrier to a bitter enemy. If Germany were to sell weapons to Romania again, it would be tantamount to supporting the former in the Romanian-Hungarian conflict, which would not only run counter to the original foreign policy, but would also greatly damage Germany's strategic interests.

Of the small countries in Eastern and Southern Europe, Hungary has the closest ties to Germany. One of the former dualistic nuclei of the Habsburg Empire, which had been tormented by the Versailles system, was enough to make it a natural quasi-ally with Germany because of its strong resentment at the need to repay its blood debt to the victorious powers.

Economically, although the total amount of grain from Hungary is not as large as that of Romania, it is also an indispensable part of Germany. Politically, Hungarian regent Horthy was a staunch anti-communist whose ideas had much in common with Hitler's Eastern policy. Crucially, the Hungarians spent 20 years cultivating a well-trained officer corps in order to retake Transylvania, which enabled them to quickly assemble a combat-ready army to serve as the Second Army of the European Axis (Italy: ??? Swing your sword and plow.

It stands to reason that Hungary would seem right to take over the captured French tanks. But it is precisely because the Hungarian Army is much more malleable than the Italians that handing over these French tanks with the wrong technology tree to them weakens the strength of the number one German thug. According to Fang Yan, the worst tanks that Germany gave Hungary should be 38t, even if it sells Bobcats or even Snow Wolves.

Historically, Germany has provided several Tiger tanks, which are extremely scarce, and there are hundreds of conventional combat vehicles such as the No. 4 and the Third Assault. And the Hungarians did not disappoint the Germans either, with these weapons they fought a record that was not inferior to the Germans at all.