In the early morning of the same day, when the battle for Crete was still in full swing, Li Le sat on the main seat of the conference room and looked at the army generals who were frowning. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Compared to the soldiers on the front, it is not easy for him now - he wants to unify everything that exists and change the fate of the future Third Reich.

This time, he was not going to discuss the question of landing in Britain, but the larger battle plan for invading the Soviet Union.

The whole project was named the "Barbarossa Plan", and the Führer had high hopes for this plan, hoping that with this plan, he could defeat the formidable adversary of the Soviet Union in one fell swoop.

Unlike Germany's previous enemies, this huge enemy possessed vast plains and deep territory, which was an unprecedented and major test of Germany's blitzkrieg tactics.

What is Blitzkrieg? To put it simply, it is to make full use of the quick advantage of aircraft, tanks, and mechanized troops to defeat the enemy by surprise attacks, and use mechanized troops to quickly cut the enemy's main force to achieve the desired results.

And why was the German army able to use blitzkrieg at the beginning of the war? This starts with the reflection of the German military after World War I, as well as a series of policies after the Nazi Party came to power.

In fact, as early as January 1933, when Hitler came to power, he embarked on a plan that seemed firm, but in fact very vague.

The plan was to make it possible for every German family to have a car, and to mechanize it both in life and militarily.

From the point of view of reviving the German economy and expanding German industry, Hitler's plan was definitely beneficial, and even very wise.

Similar economic revitalization programs to expand domestic demand were reflected in Roosevelt's New Deal at the same time. Both countries are desperately building roads and railways, and manufacturing industrial products such as automobiles.

Since its founding, the Kuomintang has always had a very good opinion of automobiles. They make heavy use of cars in their own rallies, parades and demonstrations, as can be seen in today's promotional video.

It has been suggested that Hitler himself was fond of cars, and there is even intelligence that he would let his drivers drag race to relieve the stress of work. Of course, it doesn't matter what this statement is, the truth is that he really likes cars.

This goodwill goes far beyond the normal performance of a head of state, because the car is, after all, only a means in his country's transport system, and not the most important.

Germany, under the leadership of the Führer, began to build the world's largest number of highways, and then in the future, it was planned to run full of Beetle cars!

Goebbels's desperate propaganda of that era made the highway and the automobile a symbol of the country's modernization. Such propaganda was convincing and testified to the strength of the Third Reich.

Of course, Li Le was also desperately expanding automobile production, but in fact he could only rely on this method to expand the scale of the attack on the Soviet Union.

On the basis of the additional fuel obtained, that is, on the basis of the discovery of oil fields in Libya, more cars were built to meet the transportation and supply needs that would be relied on in the event of a future invasion of the Soviet Union.

From the point of view of the German Army, and especially from the point of view of the authorities responsible for supply and transport, this state of affairs is both welcome and worrying.

It is a pity that it seems impossible for the German Army to stop the demand for cars at all. The never-ending expansion makes it seem that no matter how much the production capacity is expanded, it seems to have no effect at all.

The Army is provided with 1,000 new cars every month, and only obsolete old cars can be replaced. The number of scrapped, damaged and repaired cars is staggeringly large on the basis of a huge base.

Of the 200,000 vehicles used by the Army, imagine that 20 percent of them are in a state of repair or breakdown - which means that 40,000 cars are unusable.

When the base of 200,000 is expanded to 400,000, it means that 80,000 cars cannot be used immediately or are facing obsolescence.

This explains why, in the 21st century, automakers can sell millions of cars every year, but the market is almost never saturated.

Because in the face of the huge number of cars in the world, the new cars produced are only replacing the scrapped vehicles, and even in most regions, the total number of cars has not increased......

In the past two months, Germany has produced more cars than it has produced in the past six months, but it still hasn't increased the army's car ownership much.

More cars means more fuel consumption, and more rubber consumption. There is no way to produce these in Germany, and it is difficult to replenish them in the future.

Originally, in this regard, Hitler was a layman who did not have any subjective judgment in the professional field, but now Li Le, who has replaced him, obviously knows a lot.

In the era of information explosion in the future, he has summarized countless times the failure of the Führer and what avoidable flaws exist.

The mistakes that the real Führer often makes, such as not paying attention to the in-depth and meticulous arrangements of the administration, and not having the patience to realize long-term plans, will not exist.

On the contrary, Li Le gave his own suggestions in detail, and then eased the contradictions little by little, and finally implemented what he wanted.

The formation of a truly mechanized army is not something that can be achieved overnight. Germany owes too much debt in this area and has too many tuition fees to pay back.

In order to build more trucks, Li Le lowered the construction requirements of the cars, adopted the method of cutting corners, and simplified the existing car models as much as possible.

Even so, the second-line troops are equipped with a variety of cars and equipment, and there are still countless varieties. The German logistics department was in disarray, and it was a headache to look at.

The trucks used by the railway troops were taken entirely from France, and even with this arrangement, they still could not achieve mechanized propulsion.

Every inch of the railways in Russia needed to be modified before they could be used. This was a huge problem for the German logistics troops, a very big problem.

The unbelievably exaggerated rail network in the Third Reich was the basis for Germany's simultaneous operations on both the Eastern and Western fronts during the First World War.

It was precisely because of the railway transport lines, and the inability of the enemy to destroy them, that Germany was able to quickly transfer forces between the two lines and achieve a series of military victories.

But the railroad also exposed its own problems in the war, that is, the line was too rigid to reach the endless end of the front line.

Hitler and his generals found a way to fill this end, and that was the car! So for a time, the status of the road in Germany was raised to the level of the railway.

Today, everyone knows that mechanized and even information-based troops are an indispensable force for success on the battlefield.

Around 1935, the German top brass realized that in order to solve the difficulties they faced, it was indeed important to realize the motorization of the supply force.

However, this kind of advanced thinking, considering Germany's own strategic conditions, is not so certain. In 1939, the technical conditions of the time were only as capable of carrying 1,600 trucks as a double-track railway – which, mind you, was just that.

To achieve the same capacity as trains, car transport consumes far more than rail transport in all aspects, including fuel, manpower, spare parts, maintenance, etc.

Because of this, at least when the transportation distance exceeds 200 miles, the railroad still has an absolute advantage. In other words, it is necessary to realize motorization from the perspective of a campaign or strategy, but it has not improved as much as imagined.

Even today, in all countries of the world, road transport has not replaced rail transport, this is the practical truth......

As a person who has traveled from the 21st century, Li Le certainly understands the future of transportation. Of course, he would value the road, but he would not easily disdain the role of the railway.

Under Li Le's emphasis, since June 1940, Germany has not only attached importance to the development of railways, but also emphasized the importance of automobile production.

But another acute problem that plagues Li Le is Germany's fatal production capacity. Despite the use of female workers, the mobilization of workers and the introduction of overtime, Germany was unable to produce enough of the goods that were needed.

The development of the automobile industry is not enough to balance the needs of civilian use with the needs of the newly established motorized army. On September 1, 1939, there were less than 1 million four-wheeled vehicles of all types on German roads, one for every 70 people per population.

During the same period, the average number in the United States was one car for every 10 people. The gap between these is not something that can be easily caught up.

What's worse is that the motorized mechanization of the army requires not the coal and steel that Germany has, but the rubber and oil that Germany does not have...... It's embarrassing.

No one can predict whether this policy of relying on imported raw materials will be wise. Although both rubber and petroleum are synthetic, the production has never been able to meet the demand.

Unlike Hitler, Li Le has Libyan oil fields this time! At least in terms of raw materials for synthetic rubber, Li Le has a greater advantage.

And because Libya has more crude oil, the German armored forces are more guaranteed to consume fuel when they start - and this is definitely good news.

Therefore, at least for the time being, Li Le's current expansion plan is much more reliable than Hitler's back then!

Another fatal problem is the production capacity problem! This problem Li Le's improvement time is still short, so the improvement effect is not obvious. From 1933 to 1939, when Germany began to rebuild its armament, there was never enough weapons produced in Germany.

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