The whole world was frantic about the Soviet raid, and within a few hours, the world's dignitaries were shocked by the Soviet statement: everyone understood that Romania was now Hitler's prison, and that the Soviet Union was clearly acting against Nazi Germany. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In London, Churchill, who was having a headache with the war in Greece, was woken up from his bedroom in the underground concealment by an adjutant, who directly used the adjective "the Soviet Union declared war on Romania".

In Greece, the British Commonwealth army had suffered a crushing defeat just a week earlier, and now the German Second Panzer Division was storming the Katerini Pass from the front, and the Anglo-Spanish forces were losing heavy positions in their positions. Since yesterday, the New Zealand troops have encountered the German mountain troops on the mountain flank of the pass, and the losses have exceeded 30 percent! Once the New Zealand infantry was lost, the Catellini Pass, the most important part of the entire defensive line, would be flanked by the Germans.

Churchill had not slept for two days, and some time ago, out of emotional considerations, he sent more than 50,000 troops to support Greece. "Can Greece hold on?" -- Churchill knew this question very well: under the inevitable attack of the German army, it was only a matter of time before Greece was lost as an ally.

Larissa, an important city in central Greece, is now under the noses of the Germans, and if Catellini misses, the Coalition will open its doors and lose its most important supply base, and the only way to retreat to Thermopylae will be the only way, and Athens will become an undefended city.

Greece was geographically able to threaten Nazi Germany's flank, and two months earlier Churchill's aides had suggested that a large number of air forces would need to be sent into Greece to bomb Romanian oil fields from the air and undermine the Germans' strategic supply capacity. But now Britain still needs air force protection, and the North African theater also needs the Royal Air Force, and the British Empire simply does not have enough idle aircraft to be transferred to Greece.

A large map of Europe was in the war room outside the bedroom, and Churchill walked briskly to the map, "The Soviets must bomb the oil fields of Romania!" Good! Good job! ”

"Take advantage of the fierce battle between Hitler and us in Greece to attack the soft underbelly of Germany, good time! Hitler, the madman, would have lost his mind and would have been ill-prepared to attack the Soviet Union now, and would have to face our threat. ”

Churchill was glad that the Soviet Union had "done a great favor" at this time, and in his view, dragging the evil Soviet Union into the water a day earlier would have relieved the British Empire of more pressure. He didn't expect that Stalin would dare to take the initiative to provoke Germany, if the Germans took the initiative to attack the Soviet Union, it would seem normal, but no matter what, the Soviet Union was going to fight with Germany!

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Germany, the headquarters of the Führer of the "Spring Charge".

Hitler's personal aide-de-camp, Otto Kunshe, was woken up by the officer on duty in the communications room, and the telegram in his hand immediately made Kyosha feel the seriousness of the situation: the ambassador to Moscow reported that the Soviet Central Radio had broadcast a statement 20 minutes earlier that it was going to launch a military attack on Romania.

At the beginning of this year, the Führer had already demanded that all the heavy industries of France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, and the allied countries of Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, etc., in the occupied territories, be put into the service of the war to be waged against the Soviet Union, and that the industries of these countries should be fully served by the plan to attack the Soviet Union.

Preparations for an attack on the USSR began in full swing in February of this year. Powerful forces deployed in France, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway to attack Britain under the "Sea Lion Plan" were gradually moved to the vicinity of the Soviet-German border on the Eastern Front. Due to the "reconnaissance plane incident" some time ago, in order to avoid prematurely exposing their strategic intentions, the German army has withdrawn its troops for a period of time and slowed down the deployment of the Eastern Front.

The well-dressed Kyosha hurried to Hitler's bedroom, but while he was still halfway there, the officer on duty hurried over again to intercept him: "Report of the commander in Romania: The Soviet Union has dispatched a huge fleet of aircraft and is violently bombing the oil production facilities in the oil production area of Proiesti, Romania!" ”

"Send me a new telegram as soon as it arrives!"

Kyosha trotted to the door of Hitler's bedroom, knowing that the Luftwaffe units in Romania were now dealing with the Balkan war situation in the south, and the oil field area was basically in a state of near "vacuum". The commander used the adjective "huge fleet", and he realized that Romania's oil production could suffer a catastrophe!

"Without Romanian oil, nothing is empty talk!"

The members of the guard standing guard at the door saw the appearance of the Jingshe, and let them go without asking, and entered the Jingshe outside to calm their breathing and knocked lightly on the bedroom door.

"Führer, I'm Jingshe, and I have an urgent military intelligence report."

Hitler had actually woken up, and three minutes later the bedroom door opened: he was in good spirits in silk pajamas - the kingdom of Yugoslavia had already been defeated by himself, and the Anglo-Spanish army in Greece was about to collapse, and he was certainly in a good mood.

But now, seeing the serious expression of the adjutant, Hitler realized that it would never be good news.

"My Führer, I have just received reports from Moscow and Romania that the Soviet Union announced at 7:25 Moscow time this morning that it would launch a military strike against Romania, that their air forces had already flown to the Romanian oil producing area of Proyesti and were now bombing oil production facilities."

The fluorescent lamp in the room emitted a white light, and under the light, Kyosha could see Hitler's face change from angry to gloomy as he reported it, which made Kyosha, who knew Hitler well, a little worried.

"I immediately want a detailed report, call the members of the Supreme Command, immediately!"

"Yes, my Führer!"

Kyosha walked out of the room quickly to prepare, and Hitler, who remained in the room, did not move for several minutes, and stood there with a gloomy face. Not only was Hitler angered again by the hubrist of the Soviet Union, but his sanity also made it clear to him that the Third Reich was about to face great trouble: the Russians had apparently been planning for a long time to cut off their own oil supplies.

The military attack on Romania was clearly the outbreak of contradictions between the Soviet Union and Romania, but in fact the goal was to directly target the Third Reich.

For two months, the Soviet Air Force's offensive high-altitude reconnaissance forced itself to back down and pull its troops back from near the border; creating friction on the Romanian border and keeping the situation under control in the context of border conflicts; The sudden bombing of the Romanian oil fields at a critical moment in the German attack on Greece, at a time when he was accustomed to the recent actions of the Russians - this was definitely a long time in the making!

It was only a few minutes from the announcement to the start of the bombing, and it was well arranged and determined to win!

At about the same time, Mussolini, who was being caught up in the war in North Africa, was also reported that his reaction was much more intense than Hitler's: Italy was even more short of oil than Germany, and it was barely enough for Germany, which was usually "not rich", to support him. Although the dictator did not yet know that Porenin's bombers were blowing up Romania's oil facilities, he could also imagine that the Soviets would definitely make those oil fields a priority target.

Out of gas? The Italian army is not moving an inch!

On the other side of the ocean, Roosevelt in the White House also got a report, and Mr. President of the United States, who was in a wheelchair, felt that the world was getting more and more chaotic, and although the "isolation policy" of the United States had been made unworthy of the name of the "Lend-Lease Act," the United States was at least peaceful. Now that a war between two behemoths in Europe is inevitable, the time is not far off for the United States to get involved!

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Two hours after Porenin's triumphant return from his mission, Hitler, who was urgently studying countermeasures, finally received a preliminary report of damage from Romania: 12 refineries had completely lost their refining capacity, it would take more than a week to extinguish the refinery fire alone, and it would take at least six to 10 months to restore a certain production capacity -- this is still an optimistic estimate.

More than 70 percent of the crude oil and refined oil stored in the oilfield area were destroyed, more than 40 percent of the oil production and transportation equipment was destroyed, and more than half of the oil wells were destroyed, and it would take several months to extinguish the fire! The whole of Romania will not be able to supply Germany with a drop of refined oil in half a year, and the supply of crude oil can only be guaranteed at most 10 percent, and it can be restored to more than 30 percent after three months, but to reach the original supply capacity, it will be at least after February next year!

"Despicable! Shameless! Russian bastards! Hitler couldn't help it anymore and scolded in the conference room! This surprise attack put him in the most disadvantageous position: the strategic oil reserves of the entire Third Reich were only ten months, and this was calculated according to the consumption of the French campaign. Hitler was confident that Soviet Russia would be defeated by the onset of winter this year, but only if his mechanized troops were supplied with enough fuel, which would have been enough for three to five months at most. Worse still, Romania has lost its imports of refined oil products, which is difficult to meet this minimum requirement.

Hitler was Hitler after all, and the strategic plan of fighting the war first by reserves, winning the war and then plundering had already been set in his mind: this time he could not bear it any longer!

"Inform Liszt that within two weeks the Greek problem will be solved, no matter what the cost! The troops of the Eastern Front are in attack positions and will attack the USSR by the middle of next month at the latest! ”

The more it was consumed, the more difficult it became, and Hitler made up his mind! (To be continued.) )