East Prussia, Rastenburg, Wolf's Lair.

Chen Dao followed Colonel Schmund to Hitler's office, knocked lightly on the door, and pushed it open.

Hitler looked up at the door with reading glasses on, and when he saw that it was Chen Dao who came in, he was stunned for a moment, and then stood up and walked towards Chen Dao, with a smile on his face.

Holding Chen Dao's hand tightly, Hitler said: "I thought you would come back tomorrow, sooner than I thought." ”

"The matter was urgent, and I couldn't wait to get on the train, so I had to take two sleeping pills to put myself to sleep first, and then let the adjutants carry me on the plane and fly back."

Hitler took off his reading glasses and put them on his desk, motioning for Chen Dao to sit down.

"Herman also thought you would arrive tomorrow, so he went to the front line to inspect and would not be back until tomorrow morning. Tell me about your feelings at the front and what you think of the Soviets. ”

Chen Dao said: "Purely from the perspective of combat effectiveness, the performance of the Soviets can be described in one sentence, it seems to be powerful. Their commanders, both at the top and at the grassroots level, are of poor quality and are very rigid in their operational command. There are a large number of tanks, but because of the lack of radios, their ability to coordinate operations is very poor, and at most they can only exert about 50 to 60 percent of the combat effectiveness of weapons and equipment. ”

Hitler crossed his arms, nodded again and again while listening to Chen Dao's narration, and then smiled reservedly: "Romanian direction, General Guderian and Admiral Heinrich also said so in their reports. Now that I've heard your judgment again, I'm even more confident about the attack that is about to be launched. Even if the Russians had the "Theory of the Great Deep Campaign", I would not give them a chance to use it. ”

Seeing that Hitler's self-confidence seemed to be over-inflated, Chen Dao hurriedly reminded: "Attacking the Soviet Union itself and fighting in Hungary and Romania are two different things. Fought on Soviet soil. It was much more difficult than fighting on the territory of Hungary and Romania. We cannot underestimate the enemy. The enemy is light"

"Underestimating the enemy is the greatest original sin of a commander, do you want to say this?" Hitler preemptively said.

"Yes, that's what I'm going to say. If we enter the Soviet Union to fight, we will face difficulties in three aspects: bad weather, bad geographical environment, and increased combat effectiveness of the Soviet army. The railway gauge in the Soviet Union was different from ours, and in order to use the railway, the gauge had to be modified in advance. Until the track gauge modification was completed, we had to rely on roads for logistical resupply. However, according to aerial reconnaissance, the condition of the roads in the Soviet mainland was very poor, and the number of roads was not only small. Moreover, the quality of highways far behind ours is bound to aggravate the wear and tear of our equipment and will also add great difficulties to logistics and transportation.

Moreover, fighting abroad is different from fighting at home, and the enemy can not only avoid the difficulties I just mentioned, but also because they are fighting a war to defend their homeland, their will to fight will be qualitatively enhanced, and their combat effectiveness will also increase, and these are all things that we must take into account.

As for the weather, I don't need to say more, the winter in Russia is always so cold. The past is, and so does the future. ”

Hitler was silent for a few seconds. Suddenly, he asked, "What do you think will be the reaction of Britain and the United States when we invade the Russian mainland?" ”

Hitler's thinking leap span was so great that if he didn't know Hitler, Chen Dao would have almost found it difficult to keep up with Hitler's train of thought for a while.

Chen Dao sneered a few times and said: "I'm afraid that it is the same way to treat the war between them and Japan with us, verbally accusing the Soviet Union of invading Hungary and Romania, but behind the scenes, I wish that we and the Soviet Union would lose both."

"One goes to the grave, the other goes to the operating table." Hitler added.

"Yes, that's definitely what they think. If the Soviet Union could not hold on, they would secretly come to the aid of the Soviet Union. When a breakthrough is made in the war against Japan, they may take the initiative to declare war on us to undermine our great cause of unifying Europe, after all, they do not want to see a united Europe. ”

"What are you going to do with the attitude of Britain and the United States, which is what I am most concerned about, and which has the greatest impact on our great cause of European unity? I need your advice. ”

Chen Dao scratched his right forehead, his face full of embarrassment.

"It depends on the implementation of our "Kilgardan Plan" and "Diablo Plan", if the implementation is good, then the attitude of the United States and Britain will no longer be a problem, but the implementation of these two plans is all based on the premise that the Japanese, the Americans, and the British can take the bait, and in general, they have to pin all their hopes on others.

It's very risky, and we have to devise a backup plan, and it's a last resort, so that even if those two plans fail, we can be prepared for the future. ”

Hitler's eyes lit up and he asked eagerly: "What plan?" ”

"General mobilization, general mobilization must be carried out." Chen Dao said.

"Why the general mobilization? Do you know how much impact a general mobilization will have on the national economy and people's lives? Do we need a general mobilization to deal with Russia? Are you overestimating the power of the Russians? ”

Hitler was so sensitive to the word general mobilization that he asked four questions in a row.

"We carried out a general mobilization not just for the sake of the USSR, but for the sake of dealing with Britain and the United States, which could declare war on us. In 1940, after the annihilation of the British Expeditionary Force in France, Britain had moved to a wartime system and has maintained it to the present day. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States also immediately switched to a wartime system, and there were long queues in front of every recruiting station in the United States, men put on military uniforms and stepped into battle, and American women were not idle, they put on overalls and went into factories to produce weapons and ammunition for men on the front line. As for the USSR, not to mention, as soon as we attack the USSR itself, they will definitely carry out a general mobilization as soon as possible. ”

Chen Dao pointed to the globe on Hitler's desk and said: "You can take a look, how much land is controlled by these three countries, and how much population and resources are there?" How many times more than ours?

If we do not make preparations in advance and mobilize at the same time as these three countries, once the United States and Britain find an excuse to declare war on us, the consequences will be disastrous if the three fully mobilized powers join hands to deal with us without mobilization.

So we had to carry out a general mobilization, and we had to build up a strong reserve force while fighting the USSR in order to deal with the unpredictable situation in the future. ”

"Heinz, I understand what you say, but do you know why there was a revolution in Russia during the last war? Why did Germany fail? In the last war, we were defeated not on the battlefield, but within the country. This is because under the general mobilization, the life of the people was extremely difficult, and in the end they could not bear the heavy pressure and triggered the revolution, and in the end they suffered a shameful defeat, a defeat without failure, and this is what we must be vigilant against, and we absolutely cannot carry out the general mobilization until the last moment. ”

Hitler's opposition was very resolute, Chen Dao was slightly taken aback, and then shook his head and said: "I know that you are afraid that the general mobilization will affect the living standards of the people and cause domestic contradictions, but our failure to carry out general mobilization is the most irresponsible attitude towards the country, which is a joke about the future and destiny of the country." There is an idiom in the East, called choking and giving up eating, which means that we can't be afraid of choking on eating and give up eating, which is a metaphor for not doing anything because of a small problem or fear of going wrong, and we must not make the low-level mistake of choking and quitting food.

In this way, we can adopt a compromise approach, we can adopt a planned mobilization order, that is, to raise the mobilization intensity to the level between general mobilization and non-mobilization, that is, semi-mobilization.

For example, if it weren't for the three-shift production of tanks in the Czech Republic and Poland that we control, the production of tanks day and night would have been impossible to complete the replacement of equipment of the army's armored units with the criminal production style of Krupp and Rheinmetall companies that work eight hours a day. I suggest that at least the shift to a two-day shift should be moved up, and that a mobilization plan be drawn up in other corresponding industrial sectors.

Rest assured, our Kil Gardan and Diablo projects will come to fruition by the end of this year at the latest. If the result is what we expect, we can completely dismobilize the mobilization for half a year, and it will not have a great impact on the lives of the people. If it is not the result we expect, mobilization in advance can save us half a year. ”

After hesitating for a while, Hitler said: "I have to think again, this matter is too important for me to make decisions on my own, I need to ask for everyone's opinion." ”

Chen Dao pressed forward step by step.

"There are less than three days left before the offensive starts, and I advise you to make a decision as soon as possible."

"I know that, in any case, the first thing we have to think about is to fight a war against the Soviet Union itself. As for the Soviet troops in Hungary and Romania, since they are in, do not think about going back. ”

"That's for sure, not to mention the Soviet troops in Hungary and Romania, and even the Soviet troops in Ukraine, there were only two ends, either death or going into our prisoner of war camps. My attitude towards the Soviet Union was that either I would not fight, or if I wanted to fight, I would not dare to fight back for 50 years, and eliminate the hidden dangers of the Eastern Front at one time. ”

"I'm glad you have that kind of belief. Your troops have been assembled and are waiting for you to take up your duties. I am waiting for you to lead your new troops to new feats on the Eastern Front, and I am waiting for you to be awarded new medals. ”

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PS: Just came back, work things to deal with, today and tomorrow only one shift a day, Wednesday began to break out for a period of time to make up for everyone. (To be continued......)