Chapter 466: A Gentle Stroke

Li Tie spent only seven days in Berlin, during which time Mr. Michael, the general manager of Shanghai Huaxing, was in charge of the issue of the purchase of Jews in the German occupation zone.

Li Tie, on the other hand, accompanied by Hitler, visited the industrial base, factories and mining facilities of Berlin and several surrounding big cities during the day.

Under Li Tie's special order, German military enterprises have received a lot of practical suggestions, which have greatly improved the production efficiency of military products.

For example, in the later generation of Foxconn's subcontracted production model, the most important parts of each tank and each aircraft were produced by several large factories separately, and the rest of the small parts were all subcontracted, and finally assembled together.

Li Tie's suggestion alone has increased the production efficiency of German military enterprises by several percent. This made Hitler cherish his friendship with Li Tie even more.

During these seven days, every night Hitler would put down all entertainment and lead the bigwigs of the German military and political circles to frequently feast Li Tie. Originally, not many of these bigwigs in the military and political circles really admired Li Tie.

They didn't think that Li Tie, who could do business, would have any great insights in military and political terms. However, when Li Tie was always able to point out some important tactical knowledge of the German army and air force generals at critical moments and put forward some valuable strategic ideas, these Germans began to really attach importance to Li Tielai.

As a result, the Germans, who were still rigid, also became enthusiastic, and they began to toast Li Tie frequently. Fortunately, the Germans are still very practical in persuading Li Tie to drink, and they always no longer insist on persuading Li Tie to drink when Li Tie asks for mercy, which avoids the scene of Li Tie, who has not drunk well, making a fool of himself.

Hitler would always smile knowingly when he saw Li Tie talking happily with the bigwigs in the German military and political circles. Although Li Tie released all the Jews with both soft and hard methods, he got benefits after all.

In Hitler's view, as long as his ambition to dominate the world could be realized, even if he was asked to give up his national hatred and family hatred, even if he was asked to sell his soul to the devil, he would not hesitate to do anything. What's more, Li Tie is not a devil, Li Tie is his most sincere friend.

Seven days passed in a flash, and after being recognized by the German authorities, Li Tie once again took Wang Qi back to Hainan on the Huaxing special plane. Mike, on the other hand, stayed in Germany and was in charge of all the aftermath.

Li Tie, who returned to Hainan, was also warmly welcomed by the Huaxing Group, and other people did not know that as the core leadership of the Huaxing Group, several commanders of the Huaxing Guard Army and Wang Yaqiao naturally knew the real purpose of Li Tie's trip to Germany this time.

On the evening of Li Tie's return to Hainan, in the conference room of the headquarters of the Hainan Huaxing Guards, a huge world map was hung at the front of the conference room.

Li Tie stood next to the map, holding a wooden stick in his hand, and kept explaining the main military deployment and objectives of the Huaxing Escort Army in the next few years to Wang Yaqiao, Yang Hucheng and other generals.

The generals of the escort army who were sitting there listened one by one, sometimes frowning, sometimes excited, only the thousand-tailed scorpion and Xu Meiqi didn't know whether they really understood or fakely understood, just from the two of them nodding from time to time, Li Tie got a great sense of satisfaction.

However, Li Tie couldn't count on the encouragement of the Thousand Tails Scorpion and Xu Meiqi, after several detailed explanations, and finally all the arrangements were understood by everyone, Yang Hucheng and other military commanders walked out of the conference room, and the entire conference room left Wang Qi to accompany Li Tie to clean up the documents in front of him.

For so many years, Wang Qi has been born and died with Li Tie, and the two have a relationship between the Thousand Tailed Scorpion and Li Yuhong's sisters, and they have long been iron buddies who talk about everything.

Wang Qi asked Li Tie while packing up the documents: "Li Tie, I still wonder, what did you say to Hitler in Berlin that day?"

Originally, our plan was to rescue a million Jews, but you only talked to Hitler in the secret room for a few hours, and he promised to release all the Jews.

And also promised that in the future, all the Jews in Europe will be handed over to our Huaxing Company for disposal. I really don't understand what kind of magic you used to change this big devil. ”

Li Tie smiled: "Everyone saw the strength of the Germans at this time, but they really didn't see that Germany has now reached the most dangerous time.

Although they have achieved unprecedented success on the battlefields of Europe, their current strategic position has become very dangerous. And I could help him deal with these dangers, which is why he had to agree to my terms. ”

"Oh, although my overall view is not good, I can still see that the Germans now occupy most of Europe, and even more so that the British have no temper.

So no matter which way you look at it, they should be complacent now, why do you say that they are the most dangerous time? "Wang Qi is a good hand at leading troops to fight, but he is not his specialty in strategic layout.

Li Tie, who was in a good mood, spread out a map in front of the table and explained to Wang Qi: "The current Germany has ostensibly hit the Ingillette Channel, and it has lost the British for a year.

However, on the opposite side, it can actually be understood that the British successfully defeated Germany's strategic intention to occupy LinkedIn in the short term, and blocked Germany's path to continue westward expansion.

And I also talked to Hitler, and his original strategic intention was to defeat Britain and force the British to surrender, or to drive the British to Canada on the other side of the Atlantic, but they failed.

As long as Britain was not defeated by Germany, Germany was trapped inland, without all the resources from the outside. You know, Britain and the United States have signed the Atlantic Treaty Agreement.

It stands to reason that now that Britain has declared war on Germany, the Americans should have joined the battlefield to clean up the Germans a long time ago. But the Americans were still worried about the Japanese in Asia, and the Germans did not want to go to war with the United States before defeating the British.

So both countries are now able to exercise restraint and neither of them will challenge the other. But when this situation will be broken, no one can say.

As long as Britain could hold the Ingillette Channel, once the United States joined the war, the Anglo-American forces could land anywhere on the Atlantic coast and deal a fatal blow to the Germans. ”

"How is that possible? Now that the countries of the Atlantic coast are either occupied by the Germans or friendly neighbors of the Germans, and their armies are so bad, who can be their opponent in Europe? Wang Qi has been by Li Tie's side in the past few years, and he has more and more understanding of the whole world.

"The Germans are very experienced, their army and air force are the strongest in the world, but their navy is not good, although their navy also has hundreds of ships and warships, but the tonnage is too small, compared to the British.

The British army and air force were inferior, but the British warships could blockade the entire eastern coast of the Atlantic. Let the warships of the Germans be trapped in the inland sea.

The total tonnage of the Germans' warships was less than one-tenth of that of the British, and the construction cycle of warships was the longest, and the training of sailors was the slowest, so it was impossible for the Germans to defeat Britain with a strong navy in a short period of time.

And as long as they did not defeat the British Navy, they would not be able to defeat the British, and naturally they would not be able to break through the naval blockade of the British. Look at this picture again. Li Tie picked out a map from the table, which had a red line drawing from Britain to Gibraltar to Malaysia, and then through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean.

"Oh my God, according to this map, Gibraltar, Malta, the Suez Canal, these three points are connected in the Mediterranean, and with the advantage of Britain in the Atlantic, Germany and its occupation zone are actually still in the inner line of blockade. Seeing this clear red line representing the British control forces, Wang Qi shouted out in surprise.

"Yes, now you, a non-professional, can see the history of the British? In fact, everyone underestimated the UK. The British have the most powerful navy in the world and the largest colony in the world, and they have no shortage of strategic masters.

As long as these three strategic points are still in the hands of the British, Britain will always have a strategic advantage over Germany, which is why the Germans began to attack North Africa after they could not defeat the English Channel, which was nothing more than to open up the communication line from Europe to Africa.

However, if Germany only opened up North Africa, it would not change its strategic advantage much, which is one of the reasons why Germany only sent Rommel to North Africa with tens of thousands of men.

In fact, the Germans were not counting on much success in North Africa, but more to help their European ally, Italy, regain face.

Therefore, when they could not break the stalemate in the west and south, they could only risk fighting Russia in the east. As long as they can defeat Russia, they can join Japan in Asia, and only then can they break the naval blockade of the British and achieve the goal of deterring Britain and the United States.

In fact, they have another way, which is to control the Middle East region through Turkey and reach the Indian Ocean, which can also break through the strategic blockade of Britain.

However, passing through the Middle East will have to pass through the complicated situation in the Paergan region, and it will be too difficult to supply the entire battle line, and the losses will be extremely huge.

With the shrewdness of the Germans, they would not have done such a thankless task. So in the end, they could only choose to go east and attack Russia. Speaking of this, Li Tie pointed on the map and pressed his finger on the Russian border.

"But the Russians are so big, and as far as I know, the Russian army is very strong, and their population is full twice that of the Germans, and the Germans are so confident that they can easily defeat the Russians?" Wang Qi asked.

"Originally, there was not much confidence, but the war between the Russians and Finland two years ago gave the Germans a great confidence in defeating the Russians." Li Tie said leisurely.

"Oh! Why? Wang Qi was even more puzzled.

"Because in the war between Russia and Finland, the Russian army performed so badly that although they eventually defeated Finland, they suffered millions of casualties.

This was also a huge loss for Russia, which had only four million troops. This battle fully exposed the shortcomings of the Russian army's low combat effectiveness and poor organizational ability.

And the reason for all this is because Russia has carried out a long-term purge campaign for more than ten years, and the commanders who can recruit and fight well have killed and escaped.

So the Germans believed that Stalin had lost the morale of the Russian army, and that if there was a war with the Russians now, the Germans would have a great chance of victory.

You must know that the strength of the Finnish army was very poor in the eyes of the Germans, and the French legion, which was claimed to be the strongest in Europe, was completely defeated by the Germans in less than a month.

So against the Russians, who had just been battered, the Germans thought their chances of victory were a few more layers. In addition, I have provided all the military dispositions of the Russians on the German-Russian border, so I believe that soon the iron hooves of the Germans will step on Russia. ”

"Just like this, Hitler risked the destruction of the country to attack Russia? Fighting on two fronts is a taboo for soldiers, and their German generals will not understand? Wang Qi still couldn't believe that the Germans would attack Russia so hastily.

"Then what is the way, the westward advance will not succeed, the southward will not succeed, there is no other way except the eastward advance, if we do not take advantage of the most internal strife in Russia to attack Russia now, the chances of victory in the future will be even smaller.

Moreover, the Germans thought that if they attacked Red Russia, Britain would stand idly by, because all the Western countries of the world were now afraid of Red Russia.

So he was not afraid that the British would take the opportunity to log in and attack Germany. What's more, I also told Hitler a piece of free information. He just can't fight if he doesn't want to.

Now the Germans will either win or lose if they fight later, and if they fight later and wait for the Russians to strike first, they will be defeated. Li Tie said affirmatively.

"Oh, what kind of intelligence is so bad?" Wang Qi asked curiously.

Li Tie packed up the map in front of him and said with a smile: "You must know that Germany is a country short of oil, and the most respected armored forces they rely on are oil.

But I have definite evidence that the Russians are gathering troops, and that they are preparing to seize the Romanian oil fields, which are now Germany's only source of oil, while the fighting between Germany and Britain is raging. ”

"Oh my God, oil is like blood and bone marrow to Germans right now. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to resist attacking the Russians. Wang Qi suddenly realized.

Li Tie smiled slightly: "Yes, so when Hitler saw my information, he immediately agreed to all my requests, not to mention that I promised him that I would help him when he needed me the most, and my requirements were very low." ”

"I don't believe it, say, what are you blackmailing him again?" Wang Qi said with a smile.

"It's nothing, I just crossed a line from top to bottom on the map." Li Tie said lightly.

"Scratch one, which one? How big is it? Wang Qi asked curiously.

Li Tie spread out a world map again, took out a pencil and drew a line on the map. And Wang Qi saw Li Tie's gentle breathing, and his whole breath became short.

I heard Wang Qi shout in shock: "Your ambition is too big, right?" No wonder you and Hitler became good friends! ”