"Marshal, telegram from Marshal Guderian. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Hersmann's aide-de-camp, Colonel Schnetz, walked through the YSL-style corridor and pushed the door into a completely European-style dining room. Hersman was having breakfast with his wife, Chloe, inside.

They are now located at the palace of Gurestan in Tehran, the capital of Iran, where Hesman's trip to the Middle East ended. And Hersman, who arrived in Tehran, naturally became Reza. Khan's guests lived directly in the royal palace of Iran and were treated with the most hospitality.

It is the Pahlavi dynasty that now rules Iran, the unfortunate dynasty that hugged the thigh of the United States and overthrew the religious revolution led by Khomeini.

But on this plane, Hersman wouldn't allow that to happen. For Hersmann is still well aware of how European civilization has emerged from religious fanaticism - not by one-man-one-vote democracy, but by a group of heinous feudal monarchs and bureaucratic profiteers who have pulled the pope and the bishops down from the altar in the course of their incessant struggle.

If the ignorant serfs of the Middle Ages were to vote, who would have elected the Pope of the Ecumenical Church? They are God's agents in the world!

Therefore, when Hersman was in Baghdad, he made it clear to the leaders of the Arab social revival movement, "Go for dictatorship, as long as you follow the line of secularization and Europeanization and the nation-state, Germany and Europe will support them." Democratic elections or something, let's talk about it in 100 years...... The process of European countries from the struggle for Catholicism to democratic referendum can take more than 100 years.

And in Iran and Reza. During Khan's talks, Hersman expressed the same position - Iran must be secular, European, a nation-state, and not pan-Persian. Under these major principles, even if the Pahlavi family goes to engage in "enlightened dictatorship," Germany will firmly support it.

Marshal Hersmann's stance, if it is placed in the 21st century in the future, will not be ousted by the European white left, and it will have to be eliminated by all kinds of YSL Saint Seiya. Fortunately, the current Europe is dominated by the Nazis and fascists, whom even the Saint Seiya fears, so Hersman is very safe.

As for Reza. Progressive dictators like King Khan and Prime Minister Kailani (in fact, their dictatorship is relatively progressive) are far crying out for Hersman's approach, because they can finally be happy dictatorships from now on!

So they agreed to Hersmann's other demands, such as settling oil in Euromarks, buying German government bonds during the world war, and receiving Palestinian and Lebanese YSL believers. It was also agreed that German troops would be stationed on the lands of Iran and Iraq (including Kuwait).

Since the trip to Iraq and Iran was very smooth, Hersman was in a good mood, and last night he even enjoyed Chloe's belly dance - King Farouk of Egypt did not know what to think, and sent a young and beautiful "dance teacher" named Farah to Chloe. Chloe has been learning a little from her during this time, and she showed her husband a show last night.

Although it was a little too plump and his skin looked saggy, Hersman still liked it very much...... So I slept late today, and I didn't get up until three o'clock in the morning for breakfast.

Before breakfast was finished, Colonel Schnetz hurried in and brought some very important news to Hersmann.

Seeing Hersman's brow furrowed, Chloe asked with concern, "Honey, what's wrong?" ”

"A lot of things happened!" Hersman paused, there are a lot of things, some things are confidential, you can't tell your wife, but there are things that can be said.

"An American fleet sailed into Angra Sangra, the capital of the Azores, yesterday afternoon and occupied it. At the same time, the U.S. government also announced that U.S. forces would take over Iceland's defense. ”

This is all that can be said, because it is not a military secret, and the whole world will know about it in a little while.

And what cannot be said is that Hitler squandered oil. And he also proposed a plan for German agents to pose as British MI6 agents to support the YSL Saints in Afghanistan. Supporting the plans of the Afghans against the Soviet Union, Guderian could feel whether to implement it or not, and now the Great General Staff has this power. But Guderian didn't know how to deal with the squandering of oil reserves to speed up the integration of Europe, so he sent an urgent telegram to Hersmann.

"Looks like I'm going to have to go back to Berlin." Hersmann handed a copy of the telegram to Adjutant Schnetz, "Go and inform the plane, it will take off this afternoon, and the destination is Berlin." ”

Tehran is more than 3,500 kilometers away from Berlin in a straight line, because one of the sections is unsafe to fly through Soviet airspace. So Hersmann chose to take a long detour, first to Ankara and then to Berlin, so the whole journey took almost 10 hours. By the time Hersmann arrived in Berlin, it was already early in the morning. But when he returned to his estate in Tsosen, Guderian and Lieutenant General Paulus, who was the head of the Department of Defense's Petroleum Reserves, were already waiting there.

"Marshal, there was originally a shortfall of only 2 million tons, but now it has suddenly become 6.2 million tons, so that by 1943 the Petroleum Reserve Bureau will not have many reserves to cope with emergencies."

Lieutenant General Paulus snapped his fingers and counted the accounts for Hersman. Guderian on the side also echoed: "Now I am afraid that the oil collection in the Middle East will not reach 11 million tons in 42 years...... Here in Europe, the maximum of 6.5 million tons can be excavated in 42 years. In addition, I was worried that there might be a war with the Soviet Union in 1942, and that oil consumption would increase even further, and that we would probably face an oil crisis in 1943. ”

After a tiring journey, Hersmann, who was a little sleepy, tried his best to listen to Guderian and Paulus's advice. Then there was silence, and after a while, he said: "The prime minister is still too bold, why should he leave more than 6.8 million tons of reserves for 1943?" All oil reserves should be used, at least 6 million tons, and 800,000 tons for emergencies should be left. ”

"Use them all?"

"Marshal, what are you talking about?"

Both Guderian and Paulus were shocked, Hitler had squandered enough, why did Hersmann even worse? In 42 years all the oil reserves were exhausted, and what to do in 1943?

"By 1943 we'll have enough oil to go to war!" Hersman said slowly, "As long as we can achieve a total advantage in 1942, only if we have a total advantage, we can get more oil." ”

After a pause, he added: "I have calculated that Iran's Khuzestan oil field will be able to increase production to more than 15 million tons by 1943, the Kirkuk oil field will provide more than 10 million tons of oil, the Kuwait and Saudi oil fields will also provide 1 million tons of oil each, and the fields in the Sinai Peninsula and Syria will provide a total of 1 million tons...... So we can harvest 28 million tonnes in the Middle East alone. And Romania, Hungary, Poland and Western Ukraine will have 7 million tons of oil by 1943, and the production of synthetic oil will exceed 8 million tons, so we will have 43 million tons of oil. Therefore, there is no need to set aside any more reserves, and we should use these more than 6 million tons of reserves to expand arms production and expand the scale of the air force and armored forces.

So we are now going to carry out even greater military and economic mobilization! Now the United States has begun to speed up its armament, and it is also stationed in the Azores and Iceland. This means that they will soon go to war. We must be prepared for war with the United States, so we must increase our mobilization. ”

Later generations of military enthusiasts often blamed Germany's defeat in World War II on the late mobilization of the general mobilizer, so that there were not enough planes and tanks in the most critical three years of '41, '42 and '43.

However, in the opinion of Hersmann, who is now the chief of the General Staff of the German Wehrmacht, the reason why Germany did not carry out the general mobilization in time was the lack of oil.

The Luftwaffe and navy are now expanding much faster than they did at the same time in history, at the cost of consuming millions more tons of oil than they were at the same time in history. If it were not for the large pre-war reserves, Germany would simply not have been able to maintain its navy and air force on the scale it is today.

And to win the war in the end, it will certainly require further mobilization, not only of Germany alone, but of Europe as a whole. Then the consumption of oil will be even more staggering!

The reason why Hitler generously took out more than 4 million tons of crude oil was to take advantage of the current situation to look very favorable to Germany, and in one fell swoop to pull France, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, and other countries that still maintained neutrality on the surface into Germany's chariot. In this way, Germany could further mobilize the manpower and material resources of Europe to fight against Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union.

But to mobilize Europe's manpower and material resources, it will cost more oil! At the end of the day, it's about oil.

Seeing that Guderian and Paulus were a little hesitant, Hersman smiled: "As long as we can achieve a large advantage in 1942, there will not be any shortage of oil by 1943." If we lose 1942, then we will have to rely on the nuclear fission bombs of Project U to blow up a decent peace. ”

Guderian's brow furrowed even tighter, "Will we go to war with the USSR in 1942?" ”

"It's a situation to try to avoid," Hirschman shook his head, "but you still have to be prepared to fight." Therefore, the armored forces must also be strengthened to a certain extent, and the development of tanks No. 5 and No. 6 had to be completed by the end of June 1942, and mass production began in July. (To be continued.) )