Chapter 15 Rectification of military affairs

This is a military camp, which is almost like a farm compound in the leisure time. Such an army can only be regarded as a militia, and at this time, Long Mei is no longer angry, he is already planning in his heart how to train this army, and to train this lazy army to be an invincible steel division, the selection will become the most urgent thing at present.

His two brothers in the Führer's Guard, Luxembourg and Bismarck, are good personnel, their abilities are absolutely outstanding, the important thing is that their two brothers have always been in the Führer's Guard, Hitler has a good impression of them, and if he asks them over, he can also show his loyalty to the Führer in disguise.

"Wald, where is their regimental headquarters, take me there."

"Okay, General, please come with me."

As soon as Rommel reached the entrance of the regimental department, he heard the shouting of fists:

“…… Five...... Fifteen...... Haha, it's time for you to drink......"

Wald helped push the door of the regimental headquarters open, and Rommel walked in with a gloomy face, seven or eight officers of the rank of colonel gathered around a long table covered with green military blankets, and drank with empty bottles on the floor and on the long table.

One of the lieutenant colonel-like officers, seeing someone coming in, greeted with a big tongue and a hippie smile:

"Hey...... Elder brother...... Brother, come on...... Drink...... Have a drink ......"

Wald stepped forward, stopped the lieutenant colonel who was spewing wine, and shouted:

"The division commander, General Rommel, has arrived, and everyone is standing upright."

Wald's roar immediately sobered up most of the drunkards, and everyone stood up crookedly. The officers were not afraid, because the former division commander did not leave them because of his alcoholism.

Rommel was no longer angry, he just asked in a cold voice:

"Who is the commander of the 25th Panzer Regiment, stand up immediately."

The lieutenant colonel officer, who had just called Rommel his brother, staggered up to Rommel and replied with a smirk:

"I am...... 25th ...... Panzer regimental ...... Regiment commander, the new division commander is here! …… Belch. ”

Rommel suppressed the anger in his heart and said in a deep voice:

"Lieutenant Colonel, in the name of the commander of the 7th Armored Division, I announce that you have been removed from your post, and you are limited to leave the barracks within half an hour, otherwise military law will serve."

"Why did you remove me from my post......

"Why? It's up to you to bring the 25th Panzer Regiment to the pig-like team and pack your bags! Don't let me order the soldiers to throw you out. ”

The German army's obedience to the orders of his superiors was relatively good, and the dismissed lieutenant colonel did not dare to question Rommel's orders, because he himself knew what the 25th Panzer Regiment was like, and the new division commander did not wronged him in the slightest, and after giving Rommel a military salute, he immediately went to pack his luggage.

Rommel only removed him from the post of regiment commander, but did not revoke his military rank, and Rommel did not have the right to revoke his military rank, this lieutenant colonel can also report to the Ministry of Defense, waiting for a new job assignment, now Germany is in a period of military expansion, a lieutenant colonel is still easy to place, but his file comments may not be good, and it will have an important impact on his promotion in the future.

Rommel violently dismissed one of the regimental commanders, and the remaining colonel-level officers were so frightened that they all lowered their heads and did not dare to look at Rommel. Drinking heavily in the barracks is also a violation of military rules, and even if Rommel uses this to deal with them, they will have nothing to say.

But Rommel didn't want to hold them accountable, the team was not brought well, these officers must have a certain responsibility, but the main responsibility should be the regiment commander, now the regiment commander has been removed, Rommel's goal of killing chickens and monkeys has been achieved, in expanding the scope of processing, there is no need at all, this will also lead to instability in the army's morale, and now a big war is imminent.

"I now order you to clean up the barracks immediately, maintain all tanks and armored vehicles, and start training as soon as the new regiment commander arrives."

"Yes......"

These officers finally breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that the new division commander still had a human touch.

Although Rommel did not remove them, there must have been administrative penalties:

"All the officers involved in alcoholism today will be warned and punished once, and if you violate military discipline in the future, I will personally send you to a military court,......

After Rommel finished speaking, he walked out of the regimental headquarters, he went to look at the tanks in the barracks again, looking at those tanks, Rommel's face became even more solemn, and the entire tank regiment consisted of 60 outdated No. 2 and 38T light tanks.

These tanks were light in tonnage, thinly armored, weak in firepower, and the only advantage was their speed. However, the performance of the tank is balanced in three aspects, namely firepower, armor, and speed, and a tank with only speed and no firepower and armor is not very useful, at most it is used as a reconnaissance tank.

Didn't Rommel ask Krupp to help buy tanks and donate them to the great Führer the other day? In this case, Rommel planned to call Krupp and ask Krupp to donate a regiment of tanks, preferably all four, to the 7th Panzer Division.

Don't think that Germany's tank production can't keep up, Germany in 1944, it produced 18,956 tanks, at the beginning of World War II, Germany's arms industry was not fully opened at all, the whole of Germany believed that the war would soon end with German victory, as a result, Germany fell into the quagmire of war in the Soviet Union, and when the war industry was fully opened in 1944, the United States had begun to enter the war, and new tanks from other countries were put into service one after another, and Germany, which lacked resources, was powerless.

To put it simply, as long as Hitler dared to place orders for the German arms dealers, the German arms dealers would be crazy about production, even in 1940, when Germany was fully equipped with the military industry, it could produce 15,000 tanks and 35,000 aircraft per year, and 1,944 tanks and aircraft were produced. But it was done in the presence of Allied bombing, which shows how powerful German industry was.

So Rommel asked Krupp to buy those 1,000 tanks, and the German tank producers could complete the production task in half a year, and it did not affect Hitler's orders. Rommel only needs a regiment of tanks, which is no problem at all, even if he wants all the No. 4 tanks, Krupp can help him buy them smoothly.

Rommel was inspecting the tanks of the 25th Panzer Regiment, and the soldiers of the tank regiment, led by several officers who had been punished, immediately took action and began to clear the camp of weeds and fallen leaves, and those tanks that had not been maintained for a long time were not driven out for maintenance.

After seeing the tanks, Rommel returned to the regimental headquarters, this time he did not inspect, but directly used the radio of the 25th Panzer Regiment to send a telegram directly to Hitler, Rommel asked the great Führer to transfer Colonel Luxemburg of the Führer Guard to be the commander of the 25th Panzer Regiment, and to transfer two colonels Bismarck to serve as the commander of the 7th Infantry Brigade and deputy division commander, and these former officers immediately returned to the Ministry of Defense to report.

Luxembourg and Bismarck were notoriously loyal to Hitler in the Führer Guard, and now Rommel asked these two men to come over and put them by his side, which means that he has two pairs of Hitler's eyes by his side, and Rommel has nothing to make Hitler feel uneasy.