Flesh pain! Headache! Angina!

Franco's old man was too ruthless, when did the Spaniards become so good at business? The guy who can survive the troubled times of World War II is really a master. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

At the dinner at the Prime Minister's Office, Chen Dao silently cursed Franco while feasting.

In order to win Franco into the Axis powers, Germany paid a terrible price:

The first was that Germany needed to assist Spain with the modernization of forty divisions;

Because Spain cannot achieve food self-sufficiency, Germany also has to help Spain with a large amount of grain every year, and the specific amount of aid each year is determined by the Ministries of Agriculture of the two sides after consultation;

After the occupation of the Gibraltar Peninsula by Germany, it was temporarily administered by Germany, and it was to be transferred to Spain within two months after the end of the war between Germany and Britain;

Germany needs to provide Spain with 30,000 tons of oil every month;

Forty divisions could be equipped with a selection of captured British and French weapons, with an absolute guarantee of modernization, which was not a big problem for Germany, nor was it a big problem for Gibraltar to be handed over to Spanish administration after the war.

What Chen Dao really felt in his flesh was grain and oil, especially oil.

Since Italy entered the war, Germany has had to supply 100,000 tons of Italian oil per month to keep the Italian military machine running, and now with the share of aid to Spain, Germany has to produce 1.56 million tons of oil a year.

Had it not been for the capture of Iraq, and the seizure of 8 million tons of strategic oil reserves from France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Denmark, Germany would have been able to provide such assistance, but it would not have been able to sustain it for many years.

Fortunately, there is no Eastern Front now, and everything is easy to do without the Eastern Front, and nothing is easy to do with the Eastern Front.

Chen Dao was silently complaining about Franco, and Franco was also silently looking at Chen Dao.

It was this kid who ruined his plan to walk a tightrope between Britain and the Axis powers, and forced himself to join the Axis powers.

In September 1939, when war broke out, Franco was cautious about choosing neutrality and did not immediately make up his mind to defect to one of the belligerents.

May 1940. With the outbreak of the French campaign and the German sweep through Western Europe, one victory after another, the opportunistic Franco's position of neutrality began to tilt. He wanted to take the opportunity to reclaim Gibraltar, which had been controlled by the British for more than two centuries.

In June of the same year, the defeat of France was assured, and Franco suddenly sent troops to occupy the Tangier area.

Tangier is located at the mouth of Tangier Bay in the southern part of the Strait of Gibraltar, and ships heading east to the Mediterranean Sea and west to the Atlantic Ocean pass through or anchor here. Ships traveling from south to north on the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean also have to adjust their course here, and their strategic position is very important.

At that time, Tangier was administered by Germany, Italy, Britain and France. Before taking this military action, Franco only informed Germany and Italy, but not Britain and France.

Having captured Tangier, Franco again implicitly raised the slogan of recovering Gibraltar.

In the second half of 1940, the German-Italian forces first occupied the island of Malta, then inflicted heavy damage on the British Mediterranean fleet, and the army swept across the Middle East, and Britain was invincible.

The Balkan states fell like dominoes to the Axis powers. The glorious victory of the Axis powers and the decline of Britain strengthened Franco's desire to regain Gibraltar, and he intuitively believed that this was the best time to realize Spain's dream of reconquiring more than 200 years.

Just when Franco hesitated, "One Piece Project" was born.

In order to make the One Piece Project possible, the German Foreign Office once again approached Franco to try to get Spain to join the Axis powers.

Franco euphemistically wrote a long letter to German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, saying that if Germany could come up with evidence of the victory of the Axis powers, Spain would immediately join the Axis bloc.

After receiving Hitler's promise, Chen Dao promised to provide all kinds of materials needed by Spain, and even personally designed a set of plans for Spain to restore its economy.

What really struck Franco, however, was the sentence at the end of the reply.

"Take Gibraltar. The war between Germany and Great Britain would end in six months; Without Gibraltar, the war between Germany and Britain may not end for six years. In order to get the people of Europe out of the clouds of war as soon as possible, the Axis bloc will occupy British-controlled Gibraltar at any cost, even at the expense of local interests.

Since Mr. Prime Minister wants to see the evidence of the victory of the Axis powers. Please join the Axis powers, and in six months, you will surely see the proof.

If Mr. Prime Minister decides to remain neutral, then within six months you will also see evidence of the victory of the Axis powers. ”

The letter was accompanied by the Soldiers.

Under the command of Field Marshal Liszt, it had two Panzer armies and two armies. Army Group Iberia, with a total of 46 divisions, made a major advance toward the Franco-Spanish border, and Luftwaffe reconnaissance planes also "strayed" into the northern Spanish border from time to time to conduct reconnaissance.

The Germans put the whip in front of Franco along with the candy, and Franco, who was already wavering, finally chose to take a gamble on the fortunes of the country.

Thinking back on the past, Franco felt his heart tighten for a while, whether his decision was right or wrong? On the road to war, what awaits Spain in heaven or hell?

It's all to blame for this hairless kid who made the "One Piece Plan", and he had to drag Spain into this war.

Franco subconsciously looked up at Chen Dao, Chen Dao suddenly looked up at Franco like a ghost, and the eyes of the two collided with a flash of fire in the air.

On the one hand, the fire rises because the future of the country is uncertain, and on the other hand, because they are knocked on a bamboo pole, they are angry because they are enemies for a while.

Franco raised his glass and said to Chen Dao: "General Rosen, the battle to attack the fortress of Gibraltar is about to begin, for the upcoming victory, cheers." ”

Chen Dao did not hesitate to raise his glass and touch Franco, and then drank it all.

Refilling his glass, Chen Dao raised his glass and said: "Cheers to the more distant victory, to the future good life of the Spanish people." ”

In the following banquet, the two frequently raised their glasses, imagining crazy booze for all kinds of victories.

Twenty minutes later, Franco, unconscious, was helped out of the Prime Minister's Office.

Looking at Franco's departing back, Goering walked up to Chen Dao and said, "Who does he think he is when he dares to knock on our bamboo pole?" Hermes? ”

"Put him on the blacklist first, and then deal with him when the war is over." Chen Dao said.

The Spanish border was opened to the Germans, and the Iberian Army Group was disbanded after the completion of its historic mission.

The Gibraltar Army Group under Manstein's command marched into Spain.

The main forces of the Luftwaffe Second Air Force and the First Air Division of the Naval Air Force were successively transferred to various airfields in Spain, and the second phase of the "One Piece Plan" "Operation Felix" was officially launched. (To be continued.) )xh118