One of the very important reasons why General Liu Gengyun insisted on not giving more aid to the Free French Army was General de Gaulle himself, and this point was actually not understood by General de Gaulle himself.

The situation in France was now very embarrassing, but at the insistence of General de Gaulle, the French Free Army still maintained a special surname and refused to accept the command of General Liu Gengyun and the British.

The serious disagreement with General de Gaulle made Admiral Liu Gungyun simply unwilling to use France as an important force.

The Chinese are very real, if you have the ability, you will act as a big brother, if you do not have the ability, you will cooperate with the main force, you have no ability, but you also want to maintain the status of France in the past, where in the world is there such a good thing?

Everyone can consider their homeland and nation to be the greatest in the world, and the point of view is not important, the important thing is that the point of view needs strength to prove it.

After inspecting Morocco, General Liu Gengyun continued to take a special plane to Ethiopia to meet with Lieutenant General Liu Yazhao, commander-in-chief of the African Military Command here; Liu Gengyun was still very familiar with the situation in Ethiopia and even more familiar with the situation of the Italian army; in the face of Lieutenant General Liu Yazhao, who might agree to the army fighting in Egypt, he had only one suggestion, that is, "a bold attack."

Just as Liu Gengyun was about to continue his trip back to China to report to the Song Emperor, the Central Military Intelligence Department had already received definite information and judged that the Italian army might launch a large-scale attack on Tunisia in the near future, aiming directly at the French Free Axe.

Even after receiving this information, Liu Gengyun continued to take the plane back to China.

It was a 22-hour air force trip from Ethiopia to Yanjing, and the following evening, when Admiral Liu Gengyun's special plane arrived at the Capital International Airport, almost at the same time, the Italian army launched an attack on Tunisia.

…… In the past half a month, the Central Military Department has been convinced that the Sino-German declaration of war may be in the near future, the specific time is unknown, but more and more evidence and intelligence can prove that Germany believes in its tank and armored forces more, and constantly dispatched the main force south to France, outside the border between France and Spain, put on a two-line commando posture, while Spain, with the support of the Imperial Army and the French army, arranged a strong defensive line on the Franco-Spanish border on a large scale to try to block the German attack.

Unable to take Britain and not worried about Britain's counterattack, if Germany wanted to continue to expand its gains and power in Europe, its only choice was to continue to attack Spain and Sweden, and to move south to the Balkans with the consent army.

Germany's frantic desire to continue to expand, to prove the world leadership and dominance of the German nation, to prove the supremacy of Nazi Germany in the world, while China is strictly restricting Germany's expansion, is a fundamentally irreconcilable contradiction.

The Reich had made the final preparations and was waiting for Germany to break the Reich's ban and formally declare war on Germany.

When Admiral Liu Gengyun's plane arrived at the Capital International Airport, the military department officially confirmed the latest news that the Italian army had sent two armored brigades to storm into the Gulf of Gabès in Tunisia in an attempt to cooperate with the Italian Navy to capture the whole of Tunisia.

A few hours earlier, the Imperial Central Military Intelligence Department had received a telegram of early warning, and Emperor Song had been waiting for the final confirmation in his office.

has gone through too many ups and downs, and Emperor Song at this time has long been indifferent, and there are not too many things in his heart that can make him care.

In his office, Emperor Song watched intently a recent intelligence report on Nazi Germany, and the intelligence agents of the Reich lurking in the Nazis passed a large amount of information back home, and now it has been confirmed that Germany is massacring Jews on a large scale, and the methods are extremely crazy.

After reading this information summary, Emperor Song took off his reading glasses, wiped them with a soft flannel cloth, put them on his desk, and lit a Yuxi cigar and smoked it silently.

This is obviously a very tragic thing.

There is always something to hate in all poor people, and vice versa.

The office seemed to be very busy, there were all kinds of footsteps in the corridor, many people seemed to be very anxious, almost like running quickly in the corridor, and various departments were also messily passing all kinds of latest information and news, dealing with various matters.

Emperor Song had a very clear map of the world in his mind, on this map, the Imperial Defense Forces in Ethiopia, the Republic of Tatar and its surrounding areas, Spain, Iraq formed a four-sided layout, the troops withdrawn from the city were directly divided into two groups into Africa and the Middle East to station, and the Emperor [***] who had previously deployed in the Iberian Peninsula and the Tatar and Kazakh regions formed a four-point confrontation, cutting off all the expansion routes of the German-Italian-Polish alliance.

This is already an all-out confrontation between the German-Italian-Polish Iron and Steel Entente and the Sino-British-French alliance in Eurasia, and the showdown between China and Germany will ultimately decide everything.

Emperor Song thought about all this in his heart, and he hoped that the empire would be able to show real strength to fight a head-on battle with Germany, destroy the main force of the German army through conventional war, and then use nuclear weapons to end the war early.

From the prediction of the frontal battle, Emperor Song felt that the probability of the Imperial Wehrmacht defeating the German army was still very high, and it could usher in an overwhelming victory.

This is a possible outcome.

He smoked his cigar silently, thinking in his heart about the various possible scenarios, from the current point of view, the most favorable battlefield for the empire is still in the Russian region, launching a large-scale frontal offensive from the North Caucasus and the Volga River valley, destroying the main forces deployed by the German army on the Western Front, and at the same time defeating the Italian army in the African theater with France, there will be no suspense about the outcome of this world war.

That's what he came up with.

Chief Chen Jiayou walked in solemnly and quietly, bowed down with Emperor Song, and said, "Your Majesty, General Liu Gengyun has arrived, do you want to meet him now?" ””

Song Biao nodded and said, "Let him come in." ”

Chief Chen Jiayou immediately agreed and immediately withdrew from the General Office.

After a while, General Liu Gengyun, who was dressed in the uniform of an army general, walked into the office accompanied by another first-class chamberlain, Jiang Shoulin, and handed over the saber he was carrying to Jiang Shoulin for safekeeping, and he continued to step forward and bow to the Song Emperor, and said, "Minister Liu Gengyun see Your Majesty." ”

Song Biao looked at him very normally, motioned for him to sit down at his desk, and said, "It's not a coincidence that you came, if you stay in Africa, maybe you can help Lieutenant General Liu Yazhao deal with the Italian army...... Well, the Italian army has attacked the Tunisian team, you should know it too. ”

Admiral Liu Gengyun didn't seem to care much about this matter, and replied: "The Italian army is just like that, Lieutenant General Liu is enough to deal with them, and there is really no need for me to stay and help him." ”

Song Biao nodded in agreement and said: "That's right, Italians are a bit natural, they can do anything, they just aren't suitable for war, they are really a very special nation and country, and the glory of ancient Rome is gone forever." ”

Speaking of this, he added to Admiral Liu Gengyun: "The empire has decided to declare war on Italy, what do you think?" ”

This is also expected by Liu Gengyun, after all, the empire now only lacks a reason to participate in the war, even if this reason is not convincing, as long as the empire can be justified in entering the war.

Having said that, China and Germany have been preparing for this for a long time, and there is nothing surprising about each other.

Hit it.

Admiral Liu Gengyun just asked Emperor Song: "When was war declared?" ”

Song Biao replied: "Today is enough, the only doubt now is whether the Spanish garrison can block the German attack?" ”

Admiral Liu Gengyun thought for a while and replied: "The work that needs to be done is almost done, although it is difficult to stop it for too long, the problem in three months is still not too big, if the Italian navy and air force can be eliminated as soon as possible, and the Mediterranean channel can be opened, the situation will be better." ”

Song Biao pondered for a moment and said, "Try to find a way to last for half a year, after half a year, the war can end." ”

Immediately, he continued to emphasize: "The overall command of the European battlefield is in your hands, and you have to think of more methods." ”

General Liu Gengyun said: "That's just the case, Britain and France are not controlled by me at all, and the troops I can mobilize in Europe are not enough to confront the German Army on the Eastern Front, I think it is better to let the Free French Army agree to fight the army, and wait for the Italian army to attack Egypt, and then we will declare war, take the opportunity to occupy Egypt, and take the control of the Suez Canal in our hands." ”

Song Biao agreed, and said: "Your idea is also a more reasonable opinion, I don't have too many opinions on my side, you should go and discuss your thoughts with the Central Military Department and the cabinet as soon as possible, and come up with a fixed opinion within the National Defense Commission." ”

Admiral Liu Gengyun nodded and said, "Yes, the minister will go and handle this matter." ”

Song Biao thought about it and sighed apologetically: "Originally, I wanted you to rest in China for a while before returning to Europe, but now it seems that you can't do this." ”

Liu Gengyun didn't care about this, and said: "It is the duty of a minister to serve the country, and the emperor doesn't have to mind." ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, signaling Liu Gengyun to go to the General Staff to discuss first.

…… At this time, in the city of Ufa in Russia, the Northwest Coalition Army of the Empire has launched a large-scale general mobilization of the whole army to make final preparations for the upcoming full-scale military offensive, and the five main army groups and three reserve armies under the command of Zhao Tingzhu and Wei Lihuang are ready to go, and only wait for the central government to give an order, the 1.78 million army will immediately break through the Volga River from Kazan, Samara and Volgograd, and launch a full-scale offensive against the German Western Front troops on the opposite side.

The total number of troops stationed in the western part of the Volga River and the Caucasus by Nazi Germany and Poland is close to 2.7 million, which has an absolute superiority in strength over the Northwest Coalition Army.

From Kazakhstan to the Republic of Kazan, the Reich deployed 27 air divisions, equipped with the latest J-6 jet fighters and the latest modifications of J-4\5 and G3 series fighters, and the Reich's self-propelled missile vehicles and ballistic missile silos were also deployed in large numbers in the rear of the battlefield.

In Kazakhstan, Xinjiang Province and Novosibirsk, the empire also retained 2 main army groups and 3 new army groups, which will enter the battlefield within a month and cooperate with the main force to launch a decisive battle.

The advantage of the Reich is that the German-Polish coalition forces are deployed separately, the Polish troops are mainly concentrated in the Ukrainian and Russian rear, while the German army is concentrated on the front line, in fact, in the first [***] scale decisive battle, it is only the German Army Group Center with 1.27 million troops on the German side, and the client state troops around the army group.

Germany's total active military strength is 9.5 million, while the total active military strength of the Reich is 7.2 million, Germany has theoretically reached the limit of its own military strength, and if it continues to expand, it will pose a threat to the normal operation of German society, and the Reich can continue to expand easily to double the size of the limit of 15 million.

Of course, it is impossible for the empire to do this, because it is not difficult to fight riots, but it is difficult to maintain the combat strength of new troops and recruits.

The current plan of the Central Military Department is only to increase the number of troops to 10 million by the end of the year, which is the maximum size of the Reich's estimated troop strength, which will ensure that the Reich will spend more on the purchase of more advanced military equipment and guarantee a considerable gap in military equipment to Germany.

War is such a thing, once it starts, it always uses what it has.

When General Liu Gengyun arrived in Yanjing, after confirming that the Italian army had attacked Tunisia, the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Coalition Army, Zhao Tingzhu, and the chief of staff, Wei Lihuang, were really excited.

The two of them spent the whole night discussing the next military operation, and on the surface the strength of the troops was not superior, but they had enough missiles in their hands, and the expensive missiles had unparalleled tactical value, and they could attack all important military units behind enemy lines.

The key is that the air force occupies an absolute superiority, and most of the German air force is concentrated on the western front to compete with the British army, while although the Imperial air force is only 1/3 deployed in the northwest theater, it maintains an absolute superiority over the German army in terms of quantity and quality.

At this time, the Volga basin is in the best time of the year, neither cold nor hot, there will be no large-scale rainfall, the ground is vast, it will not become muddy, there are no large-scale mountains and hills, as long as you cross the wide Volga River, there are large plains on both sides.

It's the right area, the right season, for a truly world-class battle here.

From time to time, the air force planes of the Chinese and German armies circled and patrolled in the cloudless sky, alerting each other's opponents, and the two sides constantly dispatched spy and reconnaissance planes to explore the opponent's military deployment and the surrounding terrain conditions, and to supplement the information on the military map in as much detail as possible.

The five main armies of the Northwest Allied Army are the 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th, and Novosibirsk armies, all of which belong to mechanized armored armies, and the newly formed 14th, 15th, and 20th armies belong to conventional mechanized units that focus more on artillery and motorized infantry regiments.

Wei Lihuang's battle plan was to launch an attack in the Volgograd area first, and put forward a heavy force to cut into the South Caucasus, exposing the plan to cut off the German oil reservoir area, so that Germany must gather the main forces in this area and start a battle with the Northwest Allied Forces in Volgograd, in this case, he will send the real main force from the area between Samara and Kazan, find a gap in the German defense line and rush out, and attack with a revolving door similar to Moltke's plan, completely defeat the German rear and quickly outflank the rear of the German main force. Realize the north-south flank attack on Nazi Germany.

After that, he will continue to avoid the Moscow region, which the German army focuses on defending, start from Ukraine and Belarus, and adopt a rapid blitzkrieg of mechanized troops to tear apart the German occupation zone and Germany itself, so that a large number of German troops are trapped in Moscow, attack Moscow with fewer troops, and contain the German northern forces At the same time, he will continue to fight a large-scale war of annihilation in Ukraine to besiege the city and send reinforcements.

After destroying the first large-scale reinforcements of the German army, Wei Lihuang would consider sending more troops to besiege Moscow and expel the German army from the occupied areas of the former Soviet Union.

The Reich tried to place the center of the decisive battle with Germany on the Russian theater, because the Russian theater was more suitable for large-scale mechanized warfare, and the Reich was not at a disadvantage in terms of supplies.

As the war progresses, the empire is expected to invest more than 6 million troops in the Russian battlefield, as well as 3/4 of the entire military force of the empire with tanks, 1/2 of the aircraft, and 3/5 of the artillery, and in order to maintain this scale of operations, the empire will also invest more than 800,000 military trucks and 20,000 large transport planes.

The empire has provided more than 400,000 military off-road vehicles for the Northwest Coalition Army, this powerful and thick off-road vehicle has wider and thicker tires, which is very suitable for use in the Russian region, and in the future, there will be about six models, and the production of these military off-road vehicles by different automobile companies will continue to double, which will ensure light mechanized combat of nearly 2.5 million infantry, as well as ensure that a large number of patrol troops can effectively expand the actual control of the army.

In all plans, the quantity and quality of tanks are the key to victory, in the face of German-made heavy tanks, the Reich adopted the more expensive, but more mobile surname can be more MBT40 tank, at that time, the Reich will use the mobile surname to concentrate more MBT tanks, in every battle to achieve more victory and less situation, and widen the gap between the two sides in numbers.

Germany's military industry is also expanding wildly, and the two sides have made all preparations for this ultimate land decisive battle, and now the time has come for war.

Surprisingly, the German offensive plan on the Western Front was almost identical to Wei Lihuang's rotary attack, and this attack plan called "Samas" came from Fedor. Feng. Field Marshal Bock.

History is magical.

Ferdo at this time. Feng. Bock had almost rivaled the authority of Field Marshal Goering of the Air Force in the Army of Nazi Germany, and the Führer Hitler's special trust in him, having already led Army Group Center to conquer the Soviet Union and France, and was now deployed on the western side of the Volga River valley to ensure the occupation of the entire western Soviet Union and Eastern Europe together with Army Group North, as well as to guard against the allied forces in Northwest China.

Field Marshal Bock's Army Group Center had a total strength of 1.27 million men, which was the first of the three army groups of Nazi Germany, with the most elite military equipment and personnel, and with the addition of the client state troops, Field Marshal Bock had more than two million troops on the west bank of the Volga.

Taking the German Central Army Group as an example, the Central Army Group has the most elite 2nd Armored Group, the 3rd Armored Group, as well as the 4th Army Corps and the 9th Army Corps, the two armored clusters and corps are equivalent to group armies, with two or three armies, each of which has 4-5 divisions, while the Imperial Army Group directly governs 5-10 divisions, omitting the command unit at the army level in the middle.

To be precise, the empire's army group is a larger army with a more comprehensive operational establishment.

…… Field Marshal Bock may have been a less prominent military commander in the history of World War II, and it seems that he could not be compared with the famous Marshal Rommel, or even inferior to his subordinate General Guderian, but he was indeed a very clever military commander in his own right.

In the middle of 1941, that is, from May to October, the military deployment of the Chinese and German armies on both sides of the Volga basin was practically unlikely to change significantly, because the confrontation between the two sides was too long, and since the fall of the Soviet Union, the confrontation between the two sides on both sides of the Volga had been as long as 20 months, and the deployment of troops and the accumulation of ammunition had reached a certain limit.

Marshal Bock estimated that the main direction of attack of the North-Western Coalition Army would be in the Samara region and the Kazan region in the north, and the North-Western Coalition Army would be deployed along the river at three separate points on the east bank of the Volga River, while the German Army Group Center would be divided into two points, confronting the enemy's garrisons in the Samara and Kazan areas in the Ulyanov region, and forming a confrontation area on both sides of the Volgograd River.

In the middle is the vast Volga River, Nazi Germany's Central Army Group maintains two defense lines on the west bank, and China's Northwest Coalition Army maintains three defense lines on the east bank, the difference in strength is not large, the main force of the German army is inferior to the opponent, but there are a large number of servant state troops supplemented, the total strength is 400,000 higher than the opponent's scale, the number of tanks on both sides is about the same, and the number of artillery and aircraft of the Northwest Coalition Army occupies a large advantage.

Because the operational intentions of the Northwest Allied Army were already obvious, the battle plan drawn up by Marshal Bock and the German General Staff was very targeted, and the German army's plan was to take Volgograd as the main attack point, which was also an offensive tactic similar to a revolving door.

In short, both the Chinese and German armies tried to use the operational deployment of one attack and one defense to strive to hold the opponent's main force, send the elite main force to destroy part of the opponent's troops, and finally realize the front and rear flanking attacks of the two main forces.

A very important reason why the two sides have such similar tactics and strategies is that the Volga River is indeed very wide, and the resources for rushing to cross the river must be effectively concentrated in order to ensure an effective attack.

Fedor. Feng. Field Marshal Bock came from a traditional German Protestant aristocratic family, dating back to the Teutonic knighthood, where his father was promoted to major general in the German Empire during the Franco-Prussian War.

In his military principles and art, military is that there is nothing wrong with it.

In the Central Army Group under his command, there were many outstanding and best military generals, but the final plan of military planning depended on the German General Staff, and he and General Guderian were only responsible for the best execution of every order, as well as the military battle plan of the General Staff.

Darkness falls.

In the dark world, great military generals are always as bright as the stars, and their light will be released on the hellish battlefield and will be remembered by the world.

Wars are like that, there is a possibility of victory and a possibility of defeat, Fedor . Feng. Field Marshal Bock was convinced that he could accept either outcome with confidence, because the opponent he faced had a real chance of defeating him.

He is serious and confident, and he strives to do the best he can.

As usual, he still spends a lot of time patrolling the various clusters and regiments on the front line, and he has already done everything he needs to do, and all that remains is to see whether the various units can effectively carry out the work, and the emergency handling of various unexpected situations in the war phase.

That's what he faces, every military commander has a moment where there's always a limit to what you can do, and most of your fate is left to God.

Even Fedor. Feng. Field Marshal Bock, who was so experienced in many battles and had a high position in the Nazi German army, the outcome of the war was still unknown to him.

There's so much you can't be sure of.

All you can do is do everything you can to the best of your ability, and that's the only option.

As for the possible gaps in the military equipment of Nazi Germany compared with the Imperial Wehrmacht, Fedor. Feng. Bock was also powerless, expecting more that his opponents would not be able to use those weapons effectively, or that they still lacked the skills, confidence, and dignity necessary to defeat all enemies relative to the great German nation and German soldiers, or that their weapons were not as good as advertised.

Weapons are not everything.

Fedor. Feng. Bock knows this well.

On the eastern side of the Volga, the vast plains of the world are always so unobstructed, Fedor. Feng. Field Marshal Bock galloped along the field highway in an open-top off-road vehicle, and Volgograd was divided into two parts, and Germany was stationed in the cities on the west bank, facing off against the Second Army of the Imperial Defense Forces of China, the new Fourteenth Army, stationed in the cities on the east coast, and was responsible for defending the entire Caucasus and the oil supply lines on which Germany depended.

The focus seems to be on both sides, but the opponent may adopt a detour strategy to make the whole situation less clear.

Even in times of war, most moments on the battlefield are the kind of "quiet periods" full of cruel waiting and torment, Heinz said. Guderian's Second Panzer Group was stationed on the east bank of Volgograd and was secretly preparing for a large-scale cross-river operation, while opposite him was Lieutenant General Xue Yue's Second Army, and the two armies faced off in a silent confrontation.

Fedor. Feng. Field Marshal Bock was going to inspect Guderian's troops and meet with Guderian. General Guderian is also one of the most famous military generals of the Nazi German army, it is he who led the process of Germany's blitzkrieg, and it is he who laid the military foundation for Germany's blitzkrieg theory.

The two famous military commanders and generals had been working together for many years, and both regarded each other as one of their best friends, and they were almost identical in their military doctrine and surnames, as well as in their attitudes towards politics and Nazism, which were almost identical in the German Army.

The most important thing for them was not Nazism, but the honor of the German Army.

The honor of the military man is above all else.

On the west bank of the Volga, Fedor. Feng. Field Marshal Bock and Heinz. Admiral Guderian observed the enemy forces on the other side of the river through a telescope at close range, and the Italian attack in North Africa was likely to cause the Chinese Empire to formally declare war on Italy, which was essentially equivalent to a declaration of war on the German army, which was a fact that they were all well aware of.

The other side was quiet, and there was no obvious change.

The fortifications on the banks of the river were dense and dense, but it was strange that the ships did not stop working, and were as busy as usual shuttling back and forth across the vast river.

The Chinese are strange.

It's true.

Heinz on the west bank of Volgograd. Admiral Guderian had many opportunities to deal with the Chinese [***] on the other side of the river, as well as with other Chinese, and he even had several meetings with the commander on the other side, Lieutenant General Xue Yue, and invited Lieutenant General Xue Yue to dine at his headquarters.

Regarding the strangeness of the Chinese, Admiral Guderian once asked Lieutenant General Xue Yue with a certain contempt and curiosity, and Xue Yue's answer was that "Chinese do not spare their lives to make money", which is still a little difficult to understand.

Although the war always seems to be on the verge of breaking out, most of the merchants who come and go between the banks of the Volga every day are Chinese, and the number is increasing, as long as there is a profit, they are willing to buy everything, even the scrap products left over from the war, and in the same way, as long as there is enough profit, they are willing to sell everything, and even in this special situation, they will go to the former Soviet Union controlled by the Germans, and even as far away as St. Petersburg and Moscow, to buy local goods, Sell the goods they ship over.

Admiral Guderian even bought a Hanyang rifle and an early model of the Benxi saber from the Shenyang Arsenal in China, which in his opinion were very collectible: wine, cigarettes, lighters, bread, butter, cheese, noodles, textiles, woollen wool, toothpaste, soap, radios...... All the supplies that the army wanted for daily life could be purchased from Chinese merchants, and they were of high quality and cheaper than those shipped from Germany, the Czech Republic, and Poland.

As long as they were willing to pay, the German officers could even buy some rare luxuries, such as gem-encrusted Shanghai watches, coffee and cigars from Yunnan, wine from Xinjiang Province, and some canned fruits with tropical flavors, so that many German soldiers would mistake China for a tropical country.

Fresh fruits such as bananas and pineapples could also arrive in Volgograd by air, but only to the east coast, and to enter the west coast through merchants, which were expensive, and as for all kinds of other dazzling goods, Admiral Guderian felt that China was indeed a strange empire.

It is a very attractive country, and even for the great Nazi Germany, China is an exceptionally prosperous and wonderful country, as if it lacks nothing, and it is difficult to imagine what it is like to live in this country.

Admiral Guderian believed that all this was due to the vastness of the Chinese Empire, its abundance of resources, and its large population of nearly 500 million, which gave them the ability to manufacture all kinds of goods.

He liked such an empire very much, and it seemed that Germany would have to put in a lot of effort to reach this level, which might not be decided by a few more large-scale victories.

Admiral Guderian was really most worried about the opponent's industrial population, the industrial manufacturing capacity that that the huge population could produce was a bit too outrageous, and there were always many errors in the intelligence work of the German army, and it was difficult to determine the number of artillery pieces of Xue Yue's corps, sometimes it was confirmed that it was 17,000 guns, and sometimes it was overestimated at 30,000 guns, which was almost twice that of the entire Army Group Center.

Since the start of Nazi Germany's war machine, the German people have become more and more accustomed to the invincibility of Germany, even the once powerful France and the former Soviet Union, so even in the face of a quasi-world hegemon such as the Chinese Empire, the Germans are not overly worried.

Fedor. Feng. Field Marshal Bock and Heinz. Admiral Guderian was in this mood, knowing that the opponent was very difficult to deal with, and that Germany was likely to suffer heavy losses in the Volga Valley, but the final victory would definitely belong to the German nation.

In several meetings with General Xue Yue, Heinz . Admiral Guderian once asked too much about the possibility of war between the two armies, and in the words of Lieutenant General Xue Yue - "If war must break out, there is always a reason, and the final result should be acceptable to both sides", Heinz said. Admiral Guderian also judged in a similar way, that a battle is always inevitable, and no matter what the outcome of this battle is, both sides will not continue to fight indefinitely for a long time, because it is unnecessary.

If he loses, Germany will continue to promise not to threaten the interests of the Chinese in Europe, and to return to China the part of French interests that originally belonged to the Chinese consortiums, and if he wins, everything that Germany occupies in France will always belong to Germany.

Germany had no intention of making a real threat and was not going to attack Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

The Führer assured the military of this.

More than 70 percent of the foreign capital in Spain and Sweden comes from China, and half of the financial capital in Switzerland also comes from China, and these three places are the centers of the interests of the Chinese empire in Europe.

The world is vast, fully capable of accommodating the two world empires, Germany and China.

As for the anti-colored oath and all sorts of acts of Nazism, Heinz . . Admiral Guderian felt that those threats that were not too serious for the time being, Germany needed to become strong first, and then solve some negative factors, so that the German nation would be the greatest race in the world.

Due to various factors, Heinz. Admiral Guderian did not think that the Sino-German war would be as fierce as the Soviet-German war, because the strength of both sides was too strong to completely destroy the opponent, and the real strong side was proved through the war, and a new peace would be reached logically in the end.

In addition, Heinz. Admiral Guderian really thought he was sure to win this battle.

Both sides of the Volga River are covered with strong and cumbersome fortifications, compared to the former Soviet Union, German and Chinese fortifications have a more strict systematization, although the Volga River is wide, but the river is not turbulent, as long as there is enough preparation, and can suppress the opponent with artillery fire, the difficulty of forcibly crossing the river and building bridges is not particularly great, which also makes both sides actively committed to strengthening the defense with fortifications.

Dense machine guns and concrete fortresses armed the two Maginot lines on both sides, which were the trenches between the Chinese and German armies, and the most headache for both sides. Admiral Guderian actually preferred to bypass the Volga and launch a full-scale offensive from the direction of the Republic of Kazan, which would be more conducive to the advantage of the blitzkrieg of the armored group.

The Führer did not think so, the Caucasus was of great importance to Germany, so the German army had to give priority to the security of this side, and the main forces of Army Group Center could only be deployed on this side.

For the Germans, one of their advantages was that they controlled the area south of Volgograd, as well as the two iron bridges downstream, which allowed them to quickly bypass the front of Volgograd and the Volga River, and attack from the south, although on the southern front, the Sino-German occupation zone was still divided by the eastern river of the Volga, and the Germans still had to take the river crossing attack.

In the face of such an adversary as the Imperial Chinese Defense Force, no matter how it attacks, it will inevitably face many difficulties.

Heinz. Admiral Guderian hopes that the opponent will be the same as the Manchu Qing Dynasty a few decades ago, but it seems to be relatively powerful on the surface, in China's traditional military philosophy, the two armies meet in a narrow way, the brave wins, Germany does not have such a proverb, but in Germany's military dogma, a strong will to fight and national glory is the most powerful combat effectiveness.

After a moment of careful observation, Fedor. Feng. Field Marshal Bock with Heinz. Admiral Guderian emphasized: "The war is very close to us, but victory seems to be much farther away from us. ”

With that, Fedor. Feng. Marshal Bock put away the binoculars and prepared to leave the front, he knew very well in his heart that the strength of the opponent was much stronger than that of the Soviet Union, perhaps, he felt that the fighting spirit of the [***] team would not be stronger than that of the Slavs, after all, there were ethnic and civilizational differences, but the number of opponents and the degree of sophistication of military equipment were also important factors that could not be ignored.

In the past, they emphasized that the factor of civilization was industrialization, and today, when the industrialization level of the Chinese Empire has surpassed that of Europe and the United States, they began to emphasize more of the soft surnames of civilization, such as the quality of the nation, modern spirit, religion, etc., in short, European and American countries are still ahead of China in the level of civilization development, ahead of the East and colored people.

It's a must.

This kind of inference mainly comes from Britain and France, and even Germany, which is in serious confrontation with Britain and France, and the United States, which is far from the European continent, quickly adopt the same view to consider the development of civilization in the East and the West, in fact, there is still a deep-rooted white superiority theory behind it.

This kind of thing is not worth paying attention to at all.

Who is strong and who is weak, after the end of the war, there will naturally be a verdict.

(To be continued)