Chapter 271: Dragging Italy into the water

Reichstag Berlin, Germany.

Dozens of soldiers of the Führer's Guard were standing straight outside the Capitol at the moment, their blue eyes as sharp as eagles, slowly scanning the surroundings, vigilant of everything around them.

Obviously, there are some special people in this building behind them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what is your opinion on the proposal I just made?" At the end of the long conference table, Leon folded his hands and clenched his fists under his chin, looked at the heads of state around him with a serious expression, and asked slowly.

"Your Excellency, I cannot answer your question right away." Francisco Franco, the Prime Minister of Spain and leader of the Phalangist Party, was the first to say, "You know, Spain has just been liberated from the evil republican government, and it still needs time to prepare, and it cannot immediately devote a large number of troops to an all-out war against the Central Powers." ”

Leon nodded, then turned his gaze to the others.

"Czechoslovakia will stand firmly by the Führer." "But if we are asked to mobilize 800,000 people within three months and increase military production by 50%, I don't think it's realistic......"

"It's the same with Poland...... Carroll said, bowing her head.

"Where's Mr. Leader?" Leon asked, looking at the other end of the conference table.

"Yuan Xiansheng, I think the proposal you just said is absolutely impossible to do." Mussolini closed his eyes and shook his head, "Mobilize more than 2 million people in three months?" It's a fool's dream......."

"Foolish dreams? Hehe......" Leon sneered, "I don't think it's a fool's dream. You may not understand that Britain, which is only a few tens of kilometers from the European continent, is crowding the streets of every city at this moment, filling out enlistment applications, and they have raised the total number of British troops by 400,000 in just one week! They are making what you say is possible! ”

Everyone listened to Leon's words, they were shocked, they really didn't know this news, because this news is very secretive, if there is no Gestapo, then they will only know that Britain has mobilized a large number of troops in a short time, but they don't know that it has reached the terrifying figure of 400,000.

"And that's just the number of soldiers." Lyon went on to reveal more "surprises": "According to the approximate information from the Gestapo, British fighter production has increased by 50% in a week, and it is expected that monthly production will rise from 700 to about 1,100 - and possibly more." In terms of tanks, they have produced about 30 units in this week, and almost 700 trucks have been produced, and that number is soaring. On the naval side, the exact information we have received shows that Britain has placed new orders for two George V-class battleships, one Lion-class battleship and two Tejour-class fleet aircraft carriers to five private shipyards in a week, and more than 15 10,000-ton dockyards are now converting light aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, which has just been wrecked by the High Seas Fleet. I think the above data should explain the meaning of the word 'impossible'. ”

The crowd was speechless at the bombshell news one after another, and with the clock forward five hours, a large part of them were complaining that Lyon was "going to call him all the way to Berlin with the slightest".

"God! Are the British crazy? They don't care about their own economy? They want to break themselves? After a long time, Hacha was the first to shout, as the "German tank supplier", they know best how much it will cost to achieve this set of data, anyway, they themselves have to work hard to get their tank production to reach 200 units a month.

"Yuan Xiansheng, it seems that the British in your high seas fleet this time really hurt, even Churchill's scheming fat man has been driven crazy......" Franco received.

"I'm not asking you to discuss whether the Brits are crazy or not and whether Churchill is fat or not...... Well, Churchill was indeed very fat,......" Leon was a little speechless, "and we are now discussing how to deal with the British, after all, it hurts more for a madman to beat someone than an ordinary person." ”

"But what the Führer can do doesn't mean we can do......," Hacha replied, "and we have three large tank factories, all of which are already producing orders for the Wehrmacht and the Czechoslovak army, and there is really no way to speed it up. ”

"I don't make this request to you in a short period of time, but to remind you that the enemy is already gradually using all his strength." "We have to speed up the war, and the Wehrmacht's forward has advanced to the Ostend line, and there are only about 30 kilometers left from the French mainland," Leon said solemnly. Although the current situation seems to be very good, and the Allies we are fighting are losing and losing without resistance, in fact, if we slack off the momentum of our offensive, the Allies will gain a foothold, and according to the current situation in Britain, it will be difficult for us to make another major breakthrough at that time, and the two sides will be caught in trench warfare like the First World War, depending on who has more resources - I don't think we can fight the Allies with the resources we have. ”

Everyone was silent, indeed, Lyon was right, as long as the German offensive in Belgium was slightly frustrated, then judging by the rapidly increasing production of weapons and equipment in Britain and France, they could easily use tanks and planes to force a defensive line with them, forcing Germany to fight a positional war with them—they knew very well what would happen to Germany in the First World War.

Even this time, it would not take four years like the First World War, as long as the British successfully rebuilt a new, more powerful Royal Navy, and the French successfully armed more troops, they could drive the Germans back home.

"What are we going to do, Führer?" Carol asked, uneasy.

"The first option is to increase your weapons production and mobilize more troops, as I said before—which, of course, is unrealistic." Leon glanced at Mussolini as he spoke, "The second way is to look at Mussolini's leader." ”

"Look at me?" Mussolini looked confused.

"Yes." Leon nodded, then pointed to a point on the map, and said, "As long as the Italian army succeeds in sneaking up here and entering France from here, the pressure on the German army will be greatly reduced, and the French will naturally be defeated before the British expeditionary force has completed its training and arrived in Europe!" ”