The year has crossed to 1937, which is a turbulent year in the entire history. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this year, there was a large-scale military operation in the Far East, China suffered barbaric aggression, this year, Maozi in the north, carried out the purge to a new level, Stalin personally pointed out that there were still Japanese, German and Trotskyist spies in the party, as a result, Tukhachevsky was unfortunately recruited and became the top general of the purge.

And in Europe, the civil war in Spain is still brewing and ready to be pushed to a higher level.

"General Ciric, you are very happy with the simplicity." At the military meeting in the new year, Franco was quite happy to see Ciric coming, and after more than a month of hibernation, Ciric was finally willing to come to the military meeting!

Franco was like a mirror in his heart, and Ciric was able to participate in this meeting because he was forced to make many principled concessions in many aspects.

Franco, for example, has signed a new decree allowing Germany to mine minerals. Although the decree stipulates that foreign shares in Spanish mining enterprises cannot exceed 40 percent, this is only a 10 percentage point increase from the previous one. However, it is not impossible for foreign investors to increase their shareholdings.

Bernhardt then proposed that 20 percent of the capital should be raised from the community, which would be subscribed by the Spaniards of the Seymour-Montagna Company.

Since Franco was now completely pinned on the military power of Germany, Franco turned a blind eye to this plan and completely let it go.

By January of this year, five anonymous companies had acquired mining rights to Seymour-Montagna. According to the provisions of the Act, German-owned 40% of the shares; In fact, through a few anonymous companies, Germany controls another 35 percent of the shares.

Since the mining law covered only Spain and not Morocco, Seymour-Montagna bought most of the shares in the Rif mining companies, and Franco's government allowed Germany to set up a wholly-owned company in Morocco called "Mauritania".

In this way, the plan to control the Spanish mining industry is finally going well in Spain.

Franco had already made a series of friendly moves that had greatly benefited Germany, and in return, Ciric had put an end to this non-violent non-cooperation, and the two sides continued to negotiate in detail about the war in the coming year.

Of course, the heads of other military districts, as well as the commanders of the Italian intervention forces, were all present at this meeting.

The topic of the meeting was how to proceed with the next action.

"For a variety of reasons, our last action was unfavorable." "Now, we need to work hard to prepare for a second attack, the shortage of troops is the first problem we face, and in this regard, we hope that our Italian and German friends will be able to give us more support," Franco said. ”

The first question Franco asked was to increase the number of troops!

If you want to fight, you need people, and now, the army in Madrid on the opposite side is constantly increasing in numbers, and Franco also hopes that the more people he has, the better. Although he was constantly expanding his national army, foreign aid was even more important.

It can be said that if there was no international column, he would have taken Madrid a long time ago, and now, in order to successfully take Madrid, he must have enough troops, and the support from Germany and Italy is quite important.

And, in comparison, he values Germany even more!

"We can continue to increase our troops." "In terms of aviation, we intend to double in size, and in terms of ground forces, in order to better assist our allies, we have decided to bring in more troops, our most elite Waffen-SS Panzer Division," said Ciric. ”

In an instant, Franco was overjoyed: "That's really great! ”

The combat effectiveness of the Waffen-SS is far greater than that of the German army, because all good equipment is given priority to the Waffen-SS equipment, such as the kind of Panther tank, which is reequipped for them first, which can be said to be Hitler's descendants!

Now, if you want to mobilize an armored division, it can be said that it doesn't matter if all the Italian troops are withdrawn, with this armored division, it will be enough to sweep through Madrid!

Bringing in the 1st Panzer Division is something that Ciric has been thinking about lately.

Historically, German aid to Spain, mainly the Air Force, that is, the Condor Corps, although there were also ground forces, was almost negligible.

But now, Ciric has crossed over and knows where Spain is going from then on, and Ciric certainly doesn't want this to happen again, so Ciric wants to change all that!

One of the most important points is to deploy a strong force in Spain, which will not be evacuated even after the end of the Spanish Civil War, and will establish a military base in Spain! In this way, after the start of World War II, Germany will be able to attack France from Spain and the mainland, from two directions!

After much deliberation, and after returning to Berlin and interviewing Hitler, the decision was finally made to mobilize a coup armored division!

Now, the second Panzer Division of the Waffen-SS is also fully staffed and is undergoing training, and the 1st Panzer Division has just been pulled up to test their combat effectiveness!

Franco was overjoyed, and now, he fully understood the insidiousness of this guy Ciric, that is, he wanted to exchange the domestic mines for military support.

Last year, they did not cooperate because they did not agree to their conditions, but now, Germany has got what they wanted, and of course they will increase their support for Spain.

Well, now thank them for their support, and when Madrid is laid, when you have secured your position in Spain, the conditions of those mines can be changed slowly.

The Italian side is also quite happy, now, they have invested a lot of money in this operation, and Mussolini does not have so many moths, Mussolini is almost selfless, so Italy, which is mired in the quagmire of war, can no longer afford to invest more money.

In this case, it would be good for Italy to maintain the status quo, and with the German reinforcement of troops, that would be the best option.

"As soon as the German army is transferred, we will be able to launch an attack on Madrid at once." Franco vowed that "I am sure that we will be able to win Madrid this time!" ”

Hearing this, Ciric shook his head: "General Franco, you are too eager for quick success, haven't you really seriously considered the plan I proposed last time?" ”