Chapter 359: Pointing the Spearhead to East Asia
"And the megalomaniacal British, Mr. President. I dare say that as long as we are engaged in economic and military construction, they will talk nonsense, so we do not need to look at their faces, but should give them some color. "Young Rundstedt spoke louder than anyone else.
"Bear with me first, Your Excellency General, when we are strong enough, there will be a day, but not now." Eric said with a smile.
"As our military and economic power in the region continues to grow, the UK has placed greater emphasis on the North Atlantic, and a number of small, far-flung areas have been re-registered, including the unnamed islets in the middle of the Atlantic. Agence France-Presse published an article on March 20 saying that British officials are relish about strengthening Britain's military deployment in the Atlantic, and stressed that this has nothing to do with the synthetic mobile brigade and is entirely the behavior of the United Kingdom. Brauchitsch said to Eric.
"Have you forgotten that the British also occupy some of the islands in the Pacific, Your Excellency." This was stated by the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, Hugo Sperle.
"I think it's okay for them to toss, these small islands that have no pre-defense depth will not have any other military role than to expand their maritime fishing economy, and once they are stationed, it will increase their defense burden." Although Franz is honest, he also loses his resourcefulness.
"Franz is right, but His Excellency the Minister of Defense also has a point, take the island of Kofu under our feet, everything around here is closely related to the German Confederation, in other words, if there is no such a place of bullets, how can so many of us stand here and look ahead?" Eric said to everyone.
Everyone talked as they walked, and after a while, they came to the air force airfield. Since last year's battle for the islands between the Red and Blue armies, the airport runways on the islands have all been renovated and upgraded, and the towers, runways and mountains have been camouflaged and disguised accordingly, if it were not for the fact that there are several Z-21 series naval destroyers and frigates moored on the dock, the vast majority of people would not see this beautiful island as a military base, but more like a tourist area for tourists to visit.
In addition to the Navy's surface ships and shore service personnel, the Air Force ground crew is primarily responsible for maintaining the normal operation of the island's equipment.
Like other military control zones, the island has a health and epidemic prevention department, which is small but well-equipped enough to perform ordinary surgeries without leaving the island. At the same time, in order to solve the employment problem of the families of the troops, there are also military service cooperatives on the island, and the troops can easily buy the necessities they want.
In normal times, planes rarely take off and land at the airport, and almost every week there is only one large military plane to transport daily or military supplies for the defenders. In fact, the replenishment of the Navy is mostly carried out by transport ships, and only when there is an urgent need does the aircraft exceptionally increase the number of flights.
French media articles point out that due to changes in the regional military situation, this mountainous island formed by a sandy atoll may have hosted a super-sized German navy, land and air force. The Eric government made it a German gateway to the world's oceans, with both military and economic significance.
With the balanced development of the Wehrmacht's combat capability, the German military presence in the south, especially in the Mediterranean, was regarded more important than elsewhere, not only to deter other countries in the region, but also to carry out a comprehensive display of its own military equipment, in order to win the favor of foreign buyers, and to place orders with Germany without hesitation.
It would be a big mistake to say that this base is just a military equipment exhibition hall; the military installations on the main island of the Kofu Islands are very formidable, and the surrounding tens or even hundreds of kilometers have all been included in the strike range; even as an attack by a large group of air forces, the anti-aircraft firepower hidden on the small islands as many as a sea of stars has formed a network of death, and any provocation by enemy planes may not come back.
Eric hoped to find an identical island in the Aegean Sea, so that he could assist Turkey in blockading the Bosphorus, thereby limiting the actions of the Soviet Black Sea Fleet and not playing its due role.
Due to their narrow size and proximity to mainland Greece, the Kofu Islands are not the safest forward base militarily speaking. To this end, Eric extended the main force of the German Navy's Mediterranean Fleet to the farthest island from the peninsula, and at the same time increased the depth of the garrison at any time to advance to the ocean, and was more able to compete with the invading enemy in the vast waters.
Eric's tour of the Mediterranean was very satisfying, however, it was only the beginning of his global plan, and now he was ready to bring back the former Japanese embassy personnel in Germany to Japan, restore relations between the two countries, and at the same time increase military assistance to the mansion.
These two tasks may seem contradictory, but they seem to be a community, but this extremely incomprehensible approach can only be understood by a real reading of the Barbarossa Plan, carefully written by Defense Minister Brauchitsch and Hoffmann, Chief of the General Staff of the National Staff.
On September 5, 1926, the British ship Koktev shelled Wanxian in the southwest of Huaxia, resulting in nearly 5,000 local military and civilian casualties and great property damage.
Eric suddenly came to his senses, and his plan might be quite difficult to implement, because there were not only Japanese people there, but also his own neighbors.
The waters of East Asia are very deep, and almost all countries that feel they have the ability to intervene in their overseas territories have their own spheres of interest in East Asia.
Countries that are not capable of taking charge of themselves will also join forces to get a piece of the pie, and in this case, Japan finally began to show its strength after the end of World War I, taking advantage of its geographical advantages and the century-old heritage.
The smell of the coming rain wafted in the offices of the heads of state of Western countries, worried, but powerless.
A hundred-legged insect like John Bull also has a shortage of funds, not to mention France, which is not as good as England. After all, Vietnam is the face of a great power that they cannot give up, and like Morocco, if it does not establish its authority, it will be tacitly regarded as a "soft persimmon" by the world.
In less than a decade, Germany has been aggressively expanding its sphere of influence in the focal areas of Europe, and would have been knocked back to its original shape if it had not been for the help of many coincidences and current events.
Eric, who originally only wanted to annex Czechoslovakia and western Poland and the Baltic Sea coast, seized the opportunity again and again to make Austria and almost the entire Balkan Peninsula fall into Germany's sphere of influence.
The forcible attack on Greece was a thankless attempt to give Britain, France, Italy, the United States, and the Soviet Union in vain in order to ease the increasingly tense atmosphere in the international arena and to fight a war of fog, indicating that Germany still had fear of these five countries.
Otherwise, Germany, which seems to be thriving, will have to embark on an unprepared beginning and the end of an endless abyss. So Eric has to point all these spearheads at East Asia. There, the fishy smell of a stubble of careerists is getting stronger and stronger!