Chapter 312: Balkan Campaign
There is also the issue of weapons production, we need to fully integrate the arms production of all EU countries, one to make up for our losses in the war, the most important thing is aircraft and tanks, if other EU countries can not produce complete machines, they can also help Germany to produce various accessories, Germany can assemble it, now our aircraft and tanks are relatively large, so we must increase weapons production as soon as possible, so please the great head of state must approve. ”
"Well, I agree with all your suggestions, and I'm sure you can bring me unexpected surprises and great victories
I also plan to reuse Long Lianjun'er, but his sinusitis has recurred, and when he recovers, I will arrange a very ideal position for him, and you don't have to worry about your teacher at all. ”
"Thank you, Great Führer."
Li Mo is thinking about the whole of Germany, and now that the war has reached this point, if everyone is still worried about the income of their own one-third of an acre, no such Germany will be far from extinction.
As for Germany's arms integration period, it must share some technical information with EU countries, so that these technical materials may be leaked, and the British coalition forces and spies will definitely steal these materials, because they are afraid of leaking technical information, Li Mo will not do it? It must be done, but the sooner the better, the most advanced and core technology Li Mo of course cannot take out and share, and the British coalition army can produce it without any secrecy.
For example, the FA223 helicopter of the Leopard tank, which must be produced by Germany itself, and the most advanced weapons and equipment such as airborne radar are produced by Germany itself. Will not prosthetically hand any EU country. Even aircraft accessories such as the JU89 strategic bomber, Li Mo plans to separate them to other EU countries to help produce, and Germany only needs to purchase them.
After Limer left, Hitler hurriedly convened a relevant military meeting and told them that they had decided to start the North African campaign, and what Hitler arranged was almost what Limer suggested to him.
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Limer is now busy mobilizing troops, and Italy's Prime Minister Mussolini, after the British coalition troops landed, urgently asked Germany for help, thanks to Mussolini's self-knowledge. Know that your troops are definitely not opponents. At the first time, it was like Germany sent a telegram asking for help, which gave Germany more time to react, and Li Mo was also an efficient person, quickly organizing troops to go to North Africa.
Because the British troops landed reinforcements earlier than the Germans. But the armies of the British Allied forces transported long distances. And the German forces in Germany were scattered everywhere. The British garrison in Egypt had already begun a small offensive against Italian-occupied Libya, and the Italian army was crushed only by a small blow from the British. From Libya to Tunisia.
Tunisia is Italy's last stronghold in North Africa, behind the retreat is the sea, the British army did not expect the attack to be so smooth, only a small-scale attack, and when it came to Tunisia, the Italian army of 500,000 Afrika Korps, there were more than 200,000, and the attacking British army was more than 230,000, but the supply line of these British troops was transported from Cairo to Tunisia, through Libya, Egypt's wide desert more than 800 kilometers, the lack of supplies of the British army temporarily stopped the offensive, waiting for the follow-up troops and supplies to deliver, Only then did he launch the most violent blow to Tunisia, the last stronghold of Italy, and drove all the Italian troops into the sea to feed the sharks.
Unfortunately, the paused British attack also gave Italy and Germany the opportunity to draw up a "Balkan Campaign Plan" and actively make various preparations, and the time for the German attack was July 9.
Germany is deploying nervously, is it possible that Churchill in Britain is sleeping? Of course not, how could Churchill not give Hitler bad medicine, a godsend!! Originally, the coup d'état in Greece was carried out by Britain, and it was impossible to let such an opportunity slip away, and Britain had already suffered a big loss at the hands of the German army in Norway, and Churchill planned to get it back.
Churchill mobilized 150,000 men from the 1st Australian Army, the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force (W Corps) and the 2nd New Zealand Army to Greece to support Greece against Germany, but the British had only a few aircraft to fight, the British Army was close to fully motorized, but its equipment was more suitable for fighting in the desert than on the roads in the Greek mountains, they lacked tanks and anti-aircraft guns, and the communication routes across the Mediterranean were very unstable, because the frigates had to approach the enemy-controlled islands in the Aegean Sea, Problems in this area limit the shipping capacity of Greek ports. By 9 July, half of the British troops had landed in Greece.
And Germany's 300,000 troops attacked Greece, a total of nine armies and one armored division, three of these nine armies were armored armies, and there was also a mountain infantry corps and a mechanized infantry corps, and those two infantry corps were playing soy sauce to attract the enemy's attention, and the high command also planned to use "blitzkrieg" to directly crush Yugoslavia and Greece.
The German army attacked on July 9, 1940, when the German 2nd Panzer Division captured Thessaloniki on the morning of July 6, when the Luftwaffe bombarded Belgrade, the German Army invaded Greece, the 7th Panzer Army originally attacked southern Yugoslavia, launched an offensive at 5:30 a.m., crossed the Bulgarian border at 2 different points, and on the night of July 8, the 1st Panzer Division of the German High Command captured Pupida, thus cutting off the railway line between Belgrade and Thessaloniki and isolating Yugoslavia from among the allies, The Germans thus occupied a favorable terrain.
On the night of 9 July, General Stum deployed his forces north of Bitola in preparation for a major offensive across the Greek border towards Florina, from which it would be possible to surround the Greek army in Albania and the W Corps at Florina, Edessa and Katerini, and when a sudden attack was launched from central Yugoslavia, the German 9th Panzer Division attacked west to join up with the Italians on the Albanian border.
The German 2nd Panzer Division (18th Mountain Army) entered Yugoslavia from the east and attacked west through the Strymont Valley, where they met only a small amount of enemy resistance, but were delayed by the need to clear road obstacles, mines and mud, but the division still reached its objective on the same day, the town of Strimont, Yugoslavia launched a counterattack on the northern flank of the division, and on the second day the division crossed the mountains and attacked the Greek 19th Motorized Rifle Division south of Lake Doylen, although it was blocked by narrow mountain roads, The Germans, attacking Thessaloniki on the morning of 9 July, entered the city without resistance, and the Greek 2nd Army Corps surrendered.
After the surrender of the Greek army in Macedonia, they left their posts and began an organized retreat, with the Metaxas line defended by the East Macedonian Army under the command of the 7th, 17th and 17th Infantry Divisions, led by Constantine? Under the command of Lieutenant General Bakopoulos, the defensive line stretched eastward from 170 kilometers from the Nestvez River, along the Bulgarian border to Bilassa near the Yugoslav border, and there were more than 200,000 defenders in peacetime, but due to lack of manpower, the defenders actually had only 70,000 men, and the defense line was relatively weak due to insufficient troops.
…… (To be continued......)
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