Chapter 570: The Third Reich in a Desperate Situation (1)
Germany, Berlin, Führer's Palace.
Reinhardt had recently suddenly felt that everything was going so smoothly that it was hard for him to believe how it was going.
According to the battle reports transmitted from the front, among the defense forces in the British mainland, not only the National Guard surrendered to a very high degree, but even the remaining British regular army also surrendered in large numbers.
Today, Portsmouth has been successfully broken through, and the National Guard there is no match for the main German forces.
In the direction of Dover, the Franco-Norwegian forces commanded by Wei Gang, with the help of the German Navy and Air Force, fought impressively, and even brought down the British front-line headquarters in Dover.
That is, in both landing directions, the Confederate armies made a decisive breakthrough. Next, there seems to be no suspense about the outcome of the British battle.
At this pace, Reinhardt could not think of a second possibility other than victory.
The capture of Britain means the acquisition of the British Royal Navy fleet and a series of shipyards, and the ocean-going combat capability of the Third Reich's High Seas Fleet will be greatly strengthened, becoming a real "high seas" fleet!
And the strengthened fleet even has the strength to pose a threat to the US mainland!
Secondly, that is, the key point that Reinhardt pursued from the beginning and laid out from 20 years ago - Germany will no longer have worries on the Western Front!
Militarily, the Germans were able to devote more troops to other theaters, and the benefits were obvious.
Politically, the French traitor de Gaulle's Free France will no longer have any influence. Next, the Third Reich, which has defeated the two permanent members of the League of Nations, will naturally enable the new League of Nations to inherit the orthodoxy and exert its international influence and leadership.
Incidentally, the loss of the British Isles will make it difficult for the US strategic counteroffensive to find a landing support point, which is likely to lead to the abandonment of Europe by the United States in the end.
Who else can the United States, having abandoned Europe, fight with? Of course, it's Asia Japan!
In this way, everything will be as perfect as Reinhardt wanted.
The most important thing is that after the fall of Britain, in the future Soviet-German war, it is impossible for the Soviet army to receive the tens of thousands of aircraft, more than 20,000 combat vehicles, and more than 80,000 transports and motorcycles that the United States and Britain have provided to it in history. And the 130,000 tons of gunpowder, 100,000 submachine guns, and more than 7,000 anti-aircraft guns will not become the capital of the Soviet army's expansion.
What's more, the steel used by Britain and the United States to support the Soviet army to produce tanks in large quantities will definitely not reach the historical amount of more than two million tons!
Yes, anyone with a little brain will find out from the data that it is no longer aid, and this is especially to throw bricks directly into the balance of war!
In the future, without this terrifying scale of American blood transfusion, even if the Soviet army dares to expand its troops in large quantities as it has done in history, they will not be able to provide sufficient equipment for the troops. An army with no guaranteed weapons and equipment will not be much different from the current National Guard in Britain, just a group of militia.
The reason why Reinhardt was so sure that the Soviet Union could not get this batch of supplies after the defeat of Britain was not a simple reverse reasoning.
On the one hand, Britain is gone, and Anglo-American aid can only be called American aid at best.
On the other hand, the British did not defeat the German army and could only use the airfields, including ports, provided by the Norwegian allies on the Navia Peninsula to use space and submarines to intercept the famous Arctic Ocean routes.
The route, which leads to the Soviet Arctic Ocean seaport of Murmansk, was an important blood transfusion route. However, once the British Isles became the sphere of influence of the Third Reich and the Imperial Navy took over the ports of the Royal Navy, the route was scrapped.
As for the Black Sea route, how long Egypt could hold out after the fall of Britain would sooner or later break away from the broken ship of the British Empire, unless, of course, it sank to the bottom of the sea with the British Empire.
But in any case, this route to the Soviet port of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea is basically equivalent to a semi-scrapped state.
The Germans could not control the Pacific route. But as long as Japan and the United States go to war, they will not let the American fleet swagger to attack the Sea of Japan and land in the Siberian region of the Soviet Union.
This is also an important reason why Reinhardt has not yet torn his face with Japan. Without the huge strength of the Japanese Navy and the US Navy pinching each other, it would have been too easy for the United States to transfuse blood for the Soviet Union on the Pacific route.
Finally, there is the less well-known, but well-worked Iran route. As long as Reinhardt destroys Churchill, it will be impossible for Qiu Fatzi to organize Commonwealth forces to overthrow the pro-German regime in Iran in the future. In that case, the Iranian route will be a thing of the past.
But now the key is...... Will things really go the way Reinhardt would like most?
Reinhardt's imaginary future is naturally bright.
This kind of depiction of a better future was also done by the German Führer in history. As far as Reinhardt knew, the Führer had committed suicide in the basement......
Now launching the "Sea Lion Project", Reinhardt sees all the opportunities that the US neutralist policy was still in vogue some time ago.
In the United States, a large part of the Senate members are staunch supporters of isolationism, and in addition to the many American conglomerates and traditional conservatives involved in German capital, it can be said that there are still many forces in the United States that often create all kinds of public opinion, influence public sentiment, and exert pressure on the president.
Under the influence of isolationist forces inside and outside Congress, Roosevelt also adhered to isolationism at every turn during his last term.
If you can take advantage of this God-given opportunity and defeat Britain before the United States joins the game, then the Third Reich will compete with the United States, and only a strong navy will be left behind.
As for the liberated Imperial Army on the Western Front, it can also go to the major battlefields and compete for world hegemony.
Now, Reinhardt is only worried about whether this most crucial step can continue to go smoothly as in the past until the curtain call.
Once the Sea Lion Project is perfectly closed, the next script will not be difficult.
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"Of course we can't please that blonde bastard Reinhardt!"
USSR, Moscow, inside the Klim Palace.
Sitting in the central chief position, Stalin smiled with satisfaction: "It is not easy to pretend to be blind, but fortunately, the German stupid Führer is too self-righteous and thinks everyone but him is a fool." ”
"Now it's time for the Germans to understand what a stupid mistake it is to ignore us!"
Khrushchev, who has successfully withdrawn his hands from Ukraine and no longer has an interest in the Soviet-German cooperative, is also in high spirits at the moment. As soon as Stalin finished speaking, he immediately jumped up from his seat and shouted: "Under the leadership of the great General Secretary Stalin, thousands of Red Army soldiers will surely accomplish everything and let the Soviet flag, the Reichstag in Berlin, fly over!" ”
Stalin and Khrushchev would say this, not on a whim. In fact, on the tables of everyone present, there was a document that was previously absolutely secret.
The name of this document is called "The Great Thunderstorm Plan"!