"If only the French could stand with us at this time!" Hitler shook his head, "But these Gauls are now as slippery as the Italians......"

"We don't need the French to win in Warsaw. "Even if the 1,000,000 Soviet Red Army can't take Warsaw, the 6th Army led by General Moder will not waste the precious time it is currently hauling, and they will take advantage of the slight slowdown in the Soviet offensive to reinforce and renovate thousands of buildings, and they will also prepare to form hundreds of street fighting battle groups and conduct intensive training."www.biquge.info ”

"It's all a matter of tactics and campaigns!" Hitler waved his arm vigorously, "But the addition of France will give us a huge strategic advantage!" Marshal of the Reich, don't you understand? As soon as the French joined, the balance of power on the Eastern Front would immediately change radically...... It's no longer 170 million against 180 million people, it's 260 million against 180 million people! ”

The population of 190 million is the total population of the German Empire (including the Confederation States) plus Finland, Romania, and Croatia-Hungary, which are already fighting against the Soviet Union, and is slightly more than the 180 million claimed by the Soviet Union. The 260 million is the total after adding the population of France, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Bulgaria, Ireland, and other European Community countries that did not declare war on the Soviet Union or did not officially send troops (SS volunteers were not counted).

"And it's France after all!" Hitler said in exaggerated tones, "France is a decisive force!" It is the 5th most industrialized country in the world and once had the most powerful army in the world...... And now part of it has been rebuilt, France now has 500,000-1 million troops! Their artillery is quite powerful, with more than 5,000 barreled guns of more than 100mm alone, and if they join us, the balance of forces on the Eastern Front will be reversed. ”

The German leader suddenly looked at Hersmann with blazing eyes and said: "If the French suddenly declare their support for us at a critical moment in the Battle of Warsaw and send a large army, it will definitely be a heavy blow to Stalin and the Soviets, right?" Perhaps their leaders and commanders will panic and make the wrong decisions as a result. ”

France was certainly a decisive force, and although it would not necessarily frighten Stalin, their participation would certainly change the balance of power on the Eastern Front.

Hersmann's view was the same as Hitler's, in fact, the troops that France could bring to Germany immediately when it joined the Eastern Front were not only hundreds of thousands of French troops and thousands of French artillery...... Because now Germany also retains a reserve of 300,000 elite troops on the Western Front, which is used to prevent the French from suddenly going crazy.

"Leader, the French will join!" Hersman thought for a moment and replied in the affirmative. "I have a way of convincing them...... In fact we have already given the best conditions, and both Pétain and Darlan knew very well that only by following Germany would it be possible for France to turn French North Africa into a permanent territory. ”

Germany is a monopoly on all kinds of Nazis and fascists! Therefore, the Petain and Darlan regimes that followed Germany also carried the attributes of Nazi fascists. The guys in North Africa can also bully the European white left, and meet the Nazis, fascists, and Stalinist Bolsheviks, which there is no way at all. If you believe in Christ, you have to believe in Christ, and if you believe in GCISM, you have to believe in GCism, and whoever dares to disagree will be sent to a concentration camp for labor reform, and if it doesn't work, there will be shooting and poison gas, isn't it millions of people......

Therefore, if the French want to deal with North Africa, it must be a victory of Nazi fascism, and a victory in the free world of Britain and the United States, and freedom, equality, and fraternity will not be able to influence the people of North Africa.

"I've said all these things, but it doesn't work!" Hitler was very confident in his own mouth, he was inferior to Hirschmann in his ability to fight, and he was not as good as Hirschmann in ten tongues. "Marshal of the Reich, how are you going to convince the French?"

"The facts must be presented!" "What the French want is nothing more than proof of our inevitable victory, and if they can prove it, the French will support us." ”

"Proof? Have it? ”

Hersman nodded heavily and said, "Of course!" Leader, what kind of celebration should we have and invite the French Minister of Defense, Admiral Weygand, to Germany. ”

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"I'm going to kill myself! I'm going to kill myself! I'm going to kill myself......"

Sokalov, the commander of the 16th Mechanized Corps of the Soviet Red Army, sat on a train bound for Berlin, and repeatedly thought about suicide.

Suicide is his current ideal in life, and he actually attempted suicide a few days earlier when he was captured by the Germans. But a Nazi snatched the pistol away in advance, and tied it up with a rope next door. Then, along with other Soviet prisoners of war who "betrayed the country", they were taken to a place called the "Soviet-German Friendship Concentration Camp" in Warsaw and locked up.

But the "Friendship Prisoner of War Camp" in Warsaw was only a temporary place for them, and within a few days, everyone was put on a train to Berlin. It is said that near Berlin the Germans also built a larger "Soviet-German friendship camp" that could be used to hold 1 million Soviet prisoners of war.

But Sokalov does not want to be one in a million, all he thinks about now is suicide!

Because he knows that to be captured is to betray the Motherland! All Bolshevik fighters knew this, and Sokalov, as a high-ranking general, knew even more. It is impossible to forgive his current behavior, and he also lost the battle and buried the 16th Mechanized Army, even if he is put back, he will be shot, it is better to die himself, maybe he can barely be counted as a revolutionary martyr.

But the Germans seemed to have guessed his mind, and did not give him a chance to commit suicide at all, and even confiscated the belt of his trousers that could be used to hang himself. And also sent four "traitors" 24 hours a day to take turns watching him and the attempted suicide of Fedulov.

This comrade political commissar is really good at shouting slogans, if you kill yourself, you can kill yourself, pull out a pistol and shoot it in the head. What slogans? It's not the execution ground, who do you shout to? As a result, after a bunch of hoorays were shouted, the Germans also discovered him, and an SS officer knocked the pistol in his hand away with a single shot, and then the man was also captured. It is really unworthy that a good revolutionary martyr has become a traitor in this way.

I don't know if I'm discouraged because I've died once and I've not been able to die, but Fedulov hasn't been looking for death in the past few days, and unlike Sokalov, he hasn't eaten a few times, hit a wall a few times (unfortunately he didn't die, and the National Socialist concentration camps are not afraid of this), and he is trying to jump off a high-speed train -- he is looking for an opportunity, but the windows have been modified, sealed with iron bars, and there are SS guards standing guard on the side of the door, so it is difficult to jump, what can I do......

Just when Sokalov wanted to die, the train carrying Soviet prisoners of war was already rumbling slowly into Berlin's Fred Richer Strass terminal in a steaming white steam.

Hersmann and French Defense Minister General Weygand, who was visiting Germany, were standing in a VIP room facing the platform on the second floor of the railway station building, watching a train of Soviet prisoners of war get off the train, and then, under the guard of the heavily armed officers and men of the Berlin garrison, they walked along the agreed route to the outside of the station.

In stiff French, Hersmann told Weygand, "General, today there will be tens of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war walking through the main streets of Berlin and then on foot to the prisoner of war camp in Potsdam." In fact, these people are only some of all the Soviet prisoners of war that we have captured, and some are being transported from the Middle East and will arrive in Berlin tomorrow. ”

The idea of the "Prisoner Parade" was conceived after consultation with Goebbels, and the purpose was, of course, to boost the confidence of the reactionaries in the European countries who followed Germany. And Maxim. Weygand, a French reactionary, came to Berlin in order to visit the streets of the Russian prisoners of war.

"Reich Marshal, I suppose the Russians will soon hold the same POW parade in Moscow, right?" Wei Gang said lukewarmly.

Wei Gang was right, since the beginning of the war, the Germans have not captured as many Soviet prisoners of war as the Soviet Red Army.

The ring defensive fortress designed by Guderian has proved to be ineffective, at least it cannot stop the Soviet Red Army under the guidance of artillery doctrine - it is not possible to fight a mechanized movement war, but if it is compared to attacking fortifications, Maozi is no worse than the Germans.

This method of "fighting bayonets" with 203mm howitzers is much cheaper than the "Assault Tiger" and "Grizzly Bear" that the Germans are developing.

So Hersman had already ordered the suspension of the "Grizzly" and "Assault Tiger" programs, and instead learned from the Soviet comrades and put large-caliber howitzers on "tractors" for use. However, there is no need for German artillery experts to design and develop it, because the French have ready-made things. The St-Chamond 194mm self-propelled gun used by France in World War I was similar to the B-4 Stalin's hammer.

This cannon did not disappear after the end of World War I, most of it was mothballed, a small part continued to serve in the French Army, and after the Western Front Campaign it was stored in Europa Fort (the capital of the European Community, formerly known as Strasbourg). After France declared war on Britain, these cannons were released from mothballing and returned to the French as part of the rebuilt French artillery.

In addition to this St-Chamond 194mm self-propelled powerful gun, the French also had the St-Chamond 280mm tracked heavy mortar (which required vehicle towing), which was also similar to the B-4 and could be used to bombard targets at close range in an offensive attack. (To be continued.) )