Chapter 151: Soviet-German Goodwill Relies on Poland

Stalin has been in a very good mood lately, and this is another time since he got rid of Tukhachevsky's "traitors". 23us. fastest

Not long ago, the Soviet Union, which had always been despised and excluded by Britain, France, and other countries, overwhelmed the British in the naval contest that the British were most proud of, and they were very happy. Led by Germany, the media reports on this matter in various countries were also one-sided ridicule of Britain, as the winner in this contest, the Soviet Union can be described as infinitely good.

As soon as he remembered that this battleship, which had won glory for his country, was already on its way home, Stalin even had a better appetite.

Prior to this, although he appeared to be calm in front of his subordinates, in fact he was worried more than once that the Germans might be reluctant to hand over the well-built battleships to the Soviet Union.

After all, the Germans also lacked battleships, and others scuttled their former family wealth in Operation Rainbow. Thinking from another perspective, even if he Stalin made a decision, it would not be possible to hand over the new warship that had just been built with great difficulty to another country without changing his face.

What's more, the Peter the Great showed such excellent performance in sea trials, and it has already crushed the British Empire, which is known as the overlord of the seas!

However, the German Führer, who had the impression that he could do nothing but please people, so easily handed over the Peter the Great to the Soviet Union. Listening to Warrewski's report, this is still Reinhardt's special inquiry, giving priority to the arrangement of high-quality warships with production capacity. And it won't be long before two more warships of greater tonnage will be delivered to the Soviet Navy.

It seems that the dull Germans were completely unaware that there was a way to cheat. If you think about it carefully, the reason for Germany's delay in delivery before is probably due to their rigid spirit. It was necessary to strive for perfection and nitpick-picking in the manufacture of weapons, and the construction period was far longer than that of the Soviet shipyard, which was started at the same time.

In Stalin's view, this stubborn and mean thinking of the Germans was a manifestation of a water in the brain. Besides, if their brains weren't in the water, how could they elect a fuhrer like Reinhardt?

A clever Führer, coupled with a rigid group of nationals, Stalin was somewhat worried about the future of Germany as a nation.

Fortunately, such a country was suitable as a temporary ally of the USSR. Dealing with such an easy-to-deal country, the Soviet Union only needs to send the agreed goods over, and can rest assured that the group of Germans will send the agreed return.

The delivery of the first new battleship was a reassurance that Stalin received.

In addition to this reassurance, cooperation between the Soviet Union and Germany in other areas was also smooth and pleasant.

The railway system and highway system invested and built by the German Rheinland Group in the Soviet Union have begun to bring remarkable results to the Soviet side, and while the Soviet Union has improved the civilian transportation situation, the military transportation of materials and the mobilization of troops have also become faster than before.

With the speed of transportation, the cost of trade between the Soviet Union and Germany has become lower and lower, and the speed of transactions has been greatly improved. Together with the assistance of German scientific and technological advisers, the Soviet Union has already shown a good momentum of development in the western heavy industrial regions, also taking advantage of the convenient transportation facilities.

However, as the heavy industrial areas continued to move westward, and even approached the border area, the Soviet side had to further mobilize troops to the border for security reasons.

At a time when Germany was moving troops eastward because of the Danzig Corridor issue, more and more Soviet Red Army was gathering westward, which had already posed a two-sided threat to Poland, an intermediate country.

The original France-Germany-Poland flank attack posture against Germany was added for a time to the German-Polish-Soviet Union pinch attack posture. This was a very serious blow to the Polish army, which had intended to concentrate its forces against Germany.

According to the calculations of the Polish High Command and the French General Staff, after Germany merged the 300,000 standing army of Austria, received 700,000 elite troops of Czechoslovakia, and reorganized the 100,000 second-rate army of Hungary, the number of troops that could be deployed on the German-Polish border was fully capable of exceeding 800,000. Moreover, this was when Germany maintained a large number of remaining troops on the Siegfried Line.

In this way, the German troops that could be mobilized on the Eastern Front were already equal in number to the total number of Polish troops. If we take into account the superiority of the German army's equipment, the strength of the Polish army is in fact far inferior to that of the German Eastern Front Division.

It has to be said that Reinhardt made "early exploitation of local oil", "targeted trading of Soviet ore", and "timely deception of Spanish gold"........ After the change, the current Third Reich has 150,000 Wehrmacht troops and 200,000 Waffen-SS troops more than the same period in history.

The unexpected merger of Germany and Hungary provided 100,000 reserves for the German army on the Eastern Front.

As a result, the Polish government's original calculation of forming a numerical superiority over the German army on two fronts was completely defeated. The only slight advantage of the Polish army in history has now ceased to exist.

At this time, the Soviet Red Army, which was in large numbers, continued to increase its troops on the western front because of the need to protect the heavy industrial areas that were getting closer and closer to the border. So where should Poland find enough troops to defend the Eastern Front?

Difficult! It's so hard! Even if the Polish government used all its strength to recruit a group of militiamen, it would be difficult to reach half the size of the Soviet army's troops deployed on the Western Front. Besides, how could the militia be able to stand up to the regular Soviet army?

Originally, the Polish High Command, having rejected the proposal of the French officer corps to withdraw from the defensive line, was already in front of the German army on the Western Front, and its forces appeared to be overly dispersed because of the uniform deployment of troops behind the border line.

Not to mention the transfer of large troops from the Polish-German border, which was already full of gunpowder, to defend the Soviet army in the east. Even if the Polish High Command transferred a division on the Western Front in order to replenish the defense zone in the east, it would cause the defense of a large area of the Western Front to plummet.

At a time when Poland was already pinned down by the Germans to the west, Stalin, who had no plans to attack in the short term, began to covet the empty land of eastern Poland.

And the German social worker newspaper fanned the wind and lit up the ghostly report, and even published an "objective analysis article" about the Soviet Union's westward transfer troops every few days: "Shocking! The Soviet Union mobilized troops overnight, and Poland was in great trouble", "A Military Commissar of the Soviet Union: Zero Tolerance for Polish Military Deterrence", "Poland is in a hurry, just because the Soviet Union wants to wash away the shame of the Soviet-Polish War.......

In later generations, an interesting rumor was that even Stalin himself, after reading a translated article in the German Social Work Daily, had a sudden feeling of enlightenment and shouted: It turns out that I still have this meaning when I transferred troops to the west?!

As a result, before the German army could make any moves, Britain, France, and other countries began to panic in the sudden outbreak of the "Soviet threat theory" and shifted their attention to the far east to guard against Germany.

And the top political leaders of the Soviet Union, who were not in a hurry to send troops, instead had a kind of remarks that were simply fake and real: Didn't they shout all day long that the Soviet Union was going to attack Poland? simply followed the wishes of those European media and destroyed Poland. Anyway, there are not many troops in the east of Poland, and the west has to face the containment of German friends, where is the opponent of the lion of the Soviet Union?