The French feud and proud German soldiers appeared on the clean streets of Paris, the army of Moltke the Younger, who had conquered Paris, participated in the parade as representatives of the German army, and the tanks and grenadiers of the 1st Panzer Army showed the French what an elite division was. They were shabby, tired, and mud-stained with their boots and tracks, were these people the ones who defeated our army? I believe that many French citizens who visited the occupiers would have thought so.

The most disappointed were the young women and girls of Paris, those German soldiers were completely different from what they had imagined, dirty, stinking all over, with murderous expressions. When the parade and the ceremony of entering the city were over, when the combat troops left and the logistics officers occupied Paris, those young girls who were pregnant with spring and the young women who could not bear it found their ideal objects.

After their husbands or boyfriends were recruited by the French army, the women of Paris soon became pairs with German officers, and constantly frequented the high-end entertainment venues of Paris. Paris took off her pants to greet the German army, and she didn't seem to feel the atmosphere of war, and she cared only about high-end wine and balls, not the fate of the country.

In Berlin, there are more high-rise buildings than in Paris, but with a very different temperament. He looks tougher, the Germans here are more pragmatic, and of course, the Germans don't need to be depressed when they need to be happy.

In the General Staff, Kaiser Wilhelm II personally presided over the award ceremony, which was attended by Schlieffen and other high-ranking generals. Moltke the Youngster soon returned to Berlin after attending the ceremony of entering the city, where he would be awarded the rank of general, just one step away from marshal.

Who would have thought that the sad little Moltke in his previous life would shine in this time and space? Everyone has his own unique position, and Moltke's position is that of commander of the German armored forces, and this position has brought him great honor. Moltke Jr. could not have achieved such great success if in the position of Chief of the General Staff, he was more suited to obedience, more to follow orders from the General Staff, and not to give orders from the office.

"Congratulations, General Moltke Jr., your armored forces are off to a perfect start, without them our plans wouldn't have gone so well." At the reception after the award ceremony, the elderly Marshal Schlieffen walked up to little Moltke and said with a smile.

"Everything I have achieved under the guidance of His Majesty the Emperor and you, and I have learned a proverb in my contact with Huaguo - Maxima is often present but Bole is not, which means that talents need the vision of the leader to discover and use it in the right place. In retrospect, it is fortunate that you and His Majesty were not agreed to be the Chief of the General Staff, compared to you, I am not a qualified leader, but a good commander of armored forces. Little Moltke was full of emotion, he was moved by the trust of Little Moltke and Wilhelm II, and deep down, he was also moved by the experience of China.

As if he had a heart-to-heart with Moltke Jr., Marshal Schlieffen said: "Huaguo is indeed a magical country, it is not a country that believes in God, but it has a miraculous rise process. I think that the cooperation with Huaguo is the most important decision for us, fortunately, we can continue to cooperate with Huaguo after the victory of the naval battle, and get more rewards. ”

"I want to continue to expand the size of the armored forces, the battle of France proved the role of the tank, which has a huge advantage in a quick assault. To the south of Paris, there were still more than a million French soldiers who were resolutely resisting, and our battle was far from over, and those plains were ideal for an armored assault. ”

"I agree with you, it turns out that there are many factors that restrict the expansion of the armored forces, and there are also many factors that restrict the speed of the advance of the armored forces. I carefully read the operational report you submitted and got a lot of inspiration from it. Speaking of this, Schlieffen was a little tired and walked to the sofa next to him and sat down, and the people around him consciously left a distance.

"The manufacture of tanks will consume a lot of steel, rubber, oil and other resources, and will also occupy part of the production capacity of industrial production. They either have ample resources, or huge industrial capacity, or both. Our country needs to support two million or more army units, countless guns and ammunition, and the amount of steel needed by Krupp's factories to make artillery is not a small amount, and shipyards are big users of steel. After the victory in the naval battle, we could import resources from overseas to make up for the lack at home, but the warships of the British would cause a lot of trouble for our transports - who would have thought that they would also start to intercept our transports with submarines and cruisers? Schlieffen said with a happy smile, as if this was something to be proud of.

"Judging from the advance of the armored forces, it needs a complete and powerful logistics support system, especially the supply of fuel. And this is our biggest shortcoming, the oil stored before the start of the war has bottomed out, there are no large oil mines in the country, overseas oil production areas are controlled by the British and Americans, our share of oil in the Middle East cannot meet domestic needs, and oil carriers have to take a detour to the distant South African route. ”

"So, Marshal, what is your solution?" Moltke knew that Schlieffen had already thought of a solution, which came from his blind trust in Schlieffen.

"First of all, the domestic steel resource production capacity can continue to expand, Norway and other Nordic iron ore will alleviate our shortage of iron ore, Huaguo provides a new steel smelting technology, can use the existing steel equipment to improve, it is estimated that our steel production can be increased by 30%!"

After Schlieffen finished whispering, Moltke who was sitting on the side stood up suddenly, then noticed that his behavior was inappropriate, nodded apologetically to the surprised generals around him, sat down again, and asked in a low voice, "Is this true?" ”

"You can't be wrong, the steel plant in Krupp has carried out a small scale of tests and proved its authenticity. The Ministry of Industry has given a plan to complete the improvement of all large steel plants in the country within one year, and then the improvement will be extended to all small and medium-sized steel plants. The only difficulty is time, these two years are the most critical two years of our war, so we can't wait for the gradual improvement of the steel plant. But China has offered us another option, which is to consolidate the industrial capacity of the occupied areas to supplement the capacity gap in our country. I don't know the details, but it roughly means that the industrial areas of the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and France will be brought under the control of German industry, and those factories will be used to produce guns for us. ”

Schlieffen did not say in detail, after all, he was not a professional internal affairs talent, in fact, Huaguo had already sent an industrial integration team of more than 10 people to assist the German Ministry of Industry in integrating the factories in the occupied areas. After consulting with Kaiser Wilhelm II and other high-level officials, Germany decided to adopt a relatively modest approach to consolidation, rather than brutal looting and buying. Factories in the occupied areas were used to produce low-tech industrial products, such as kettles, military boots, etc., in order to raise the motivation of the people in those areas. After that, the proportion of overseas factories was gradually increased, and the military factories of those countries were not much worse than those in Germany, and the number of skilled workers and the number of elite talents was very large, and if these regions could be successfully integrated and served the German industrial system, then Germany would be invincible.

"Marshal, IMHO, I'm not interested in those industrial consolidations and the like, what I want to know most is when our armored forces will be expanded, when our tanks will go off the production line, and whether our oil shortage will be solved." Little Moltke said a little anxiously.

"Well, I intend to complete the rearmament of five more tank divisions in three months, by which time there will be enough tank No. 3 out of the factory. The latest tank No. 4 will also be in service within a month, you know the power of that tank, and the tank crews you sent to test it! As for oil, hehe, this is one of the main operational objectives of the General Staff at the next stage, which cannot be revealed to you yet. ”

Moltke gave up the questioning, and after a two-day reunion with his family, he left Berlin for the new tank test site near the Bavarian tank factory, where he was most concerned about his family, tank No. 4.

The performance of the No. 3 tank in the battle of France was not satisfactory, Moltke Jr. expected it to be invincible in all directions, in fact, the gap between the No. 3 tank and the enemy's tank was very small, the French Renault II tank could pose a great threat to the No. 3 tank, and the British Vickers II tank was also very powerful. Moltke wanted a steel monster like the T01 tanks in the Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion.

The engineers did not disappoint Moltke, who believed that the No. 4 tank was completely superior to the Renault tank and the Vickers tank, and the failure rate was very low, which was the most satisfying point for Moltke. However, it will take some time for the No. 4 tank to be mass-produced, that is, after the 3rd Panzer Army enters the combat sequence, the German tank forces will still have to use the No. 3 tank as the main force, and fortunately the enemy has not been able to come up with more powerful tanks in a short time. (To be continued.) )