Chapter 577: Barbarossa

Feng. Field Marshal Brauchitsch, as commander-in-chief of the German Army, naturally had the duty and obligation to explain the contents of the battle plan to his colleagues.

Feng. Field Marshal Brauchitsch stood up and walked to the other end of the aisle of the conference room, which was illuminated by two huge glass chandeliers on the top of the aisle. On the wall at both ends were the flag of the Nazi Party and the German Army, Navy and Air Force, with a large portrait of Hitler in the center, and on the other side hung an oversized map, now covered by a curtain.

Two lieutenants had already pulled back the curtains, revealing a large map inside, which from a distance was filled with dense names of places and rivers and roads.

"All right, gentlemen, please stand up and walk over to this map, for I believe your eyesight is not good enough to read the names of places the size of flies from a distance of more than ten meters." At the beginning of the von. Marshal Brauchitsch said to everyone in a relaxed tone.

Although the commander-in-chief from a military family is a shell commander and does not have much power in his own right, the marshal who is nearly sixty years old does not have much ambition in his own right, and just wants to retire next year with peace of mind.

A group of generals crowded to the map in the aisle, and the map was clearly illuminated by two lights, on which was clearly written "Barbarossa Plan Operation Schematic Diagram", and the names of places and troops were densely marked in German. Dozens of blue arrows on the map all point to the east, where the two big characters of Soviet Russia are written in red pen.

Feng. Marshal Brauchitsch picked up the whip and pointed to the area and said: "The Barbarossa plan is actually a plan to occupy Soviet Russia, and this plan is mainly divided into two parts: First, before the end of the war against the British, a quick campaign will defeat Soviet Russia in a month and a half to two months. Second, first annihilate the troops of the western military districts of the former Soviet Russia by means of surprise attacks so that they cannot retreat to the interior, and then attack the hinterland of Soviet Russia in three directions with tank units as the lead and supplemented by air force support, and occupy Moscow, Leningrad, and Donbass.

In this operation, we dispatched almost 190 divisions, a total of about 5 million troops, more than 3,800 tanks, 50,000 artillery pieces, and more than 5,100 aircraft. With such strong strength, we have reason to believe that Soviet Russia, which has been beaten by China, will not be able to resist the attack of the brave German army. ”

"Hahaha" Feng. Marshal Brauchitsch's words caused a burst of laughter.

With the addition of von. Marshal Brauchitsch further explained, and the generals also had a better understanding of this plan. About half an hour later, Feng. Brauchitsch put down his whip and asked, "Is there any other general who has any comments or additions to this plan?" ”

A hand in the crowd was raised, and Feng. Marshal Brauchitsch immediately smiled when he saw it: "It turns out that it's you again, General Guderian, do you still have any questions?" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency Marshal," Guderian said bluntly, and very directly: "What I see in this plan is that our soldiers are fighting alone, and we do not have an ally to rely on to provide us with protection from the flanks or behind, which is dangerous. With all due respect, Soviet Russia is too big, especially its winter and rainy seasons are natural allies of the Russians, do you have any countermeasures to this? ”

In fact, Guderian still had a sentence that wanted to occupy Soviet Russia within a month or two, and the person who proposed this timetable should be pulled to the shooting range and shot, but he still held back the unhappiness in his heart and shut his mouth, because he could imagine that there was only one person in Germany who could formulate a timetable for conquering Soviet Russia within two months.

"That's a question I think I can answer." At this time, Hitler walked up, he walked to the map, swept the generals in front of him with bright eyes, and said: "Generals, I believe that you all have such and such doubts, of course, the capture of Soviet Russia will encounter difficulties, but this difficulty cannot frighten our noble and heroic Germans. What the French Emperor Napoleon did not do back then, we Germans had to do for him. And I would also like to tell General Guderian that your fears are completely unwarranted, because we are about to have a powerful ally, which has already sent a representative to Germany from far away Asia, and he is the Chinese government. Generals, you can rejoice now, for the victory is ours."

"Long Live Germany"

"Long Live Hitler"

As soon as Hitler finished speaking, Goebbels, the Minister of National Education and Propaganda of the Third Reich, immediately took the lead in shouting slogans. A fervent admirer of Hitler who climbed from a Nazi tabloid editor to his present position in ten years by virtue of his fanatical praise of Hitler, he was one of the only strongmen in all of Nazi Germany who could listen to Hitler's rambling speeches for days on end without getting sleepy.

Goebbels was followed by the now notorious national leader of the SS, Heinrich Bush. Himmler, the chicken farm owner-turned-SS captain in his black SS uniform, Hitler-like hairstyle, and a pair of silver-rimmed glasses, stared motionlessly at his spitting Führer, his eyes shining with excitement and adoration.

The man who was evaluated by Hitler as the most loyal to him had reached a morbid level of adoration for Hitler. Whatever Hitler said was treated as truth, and anyone who slandered or tried to oppose Hitler would be brutally exterminated by him. Adolf Hitler once said that if I were to kill all the men in Germany who started with the letter S or his grandmother, Himmler would do it without hesitation without asking for any reason, because Himmler was more central to me than anyone else.

Although the two sycophant duo of Goebbels and Himmler were too exaggerated, the generals had to admit that Hitler's speech was indeed very infectious, so the generals in the war room also raised their hands and cheered loudly.

"Generals, please be quiet" Listening to the applause of his subordinates, Hitler's heart became more and more proud: "I will tell you the good news now, in three days, General Bai Chongxi, chief of the General Staff of the Wehrmacht from China, will come to Berlin with his huge delegation for a friendly visit to our country, and we will have detailed consultations on this topic, and I believe that with the joint participation of our two military powers, our goal will definitely be achieved."

It has to be said that Hitler's bombshell suppressed all the generals in the conference room, and the prestige that the Chinese government has built up in the past two years is still somewhat useful, especially since a few days ago they beat up the Japanese task force, which has further boosted its prestige.

"Do the Chinese want to fight Soviet Russia with us?" Guderian muttered, "If this is the case, it is not impossible that we can eat Soviet Russia together with Huaxia." ”

After learning that Huaxia might also participate in this war, the generals attending the meeting were excited, and they knew that if Huaxia could join this war, then Germany would have millions more powerful troops.

"If the Chinese people join us in this program, then our program will increase the chance of success by 50 percent." Even Field Marshal Streicher, who had always been a veteran and respectful, nodded frequently, and he had already learned about the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Wehrmacht from the mouth of the commander of the German garrison in Paris, France, General Bock. Admiral Bock's exact words are as follows: "These Chinese soldiers are physically strong and disciplined, and I can use my experience in the army for more than 20 years to guarantee that they are definitely a strong fighting force." ”

"But Your Excellency, if the Chinese people also join this plan, then don't we finally want to share this big cake with those Chinese people? What if we get into a conflict then? At this moment, a discordant word interjected, and everyone saw that it was Marshal Goering, the commander of the Air Force.

As soon as Goering's words came out, not only the generals around him, but even Hitler frowned, Hitler also knew that Goering, a white supremacist, was not very interested in China by nature, but now is not a good time to say such things, don't you see that I, a racist, have not spoken a word? What kind of big-tailed wolf did you kid run out of?

The surrounding generals were also amazed that Goering had eaten so much butter today that his brain was jammed with butter. Soviet Russia is so big, Germany alone is a country with a population of more than 50 million, it is not a joke, and it is unrealistic for Germany to want to occupy Soviet Russia and avoid China, but this Marshal Goering is good, and he actually wants to push the Chinese government that has taken the initiative to establish good relations with Germany, if it is not for the sake of him being a veteran of the German Nazi Party, everyone would have wondered whether he is a spy sent by Soviet Russia.

Looking at the puzzled gazes cast by everyone, Goering couldn't help but blush, he was just thinking about that sentence in his heart, but he didn't expect to say it unintentionally. But fortunately, Marshal Goering's brain was not really rusty to the point of not being able to turn, and he hurriedly added: "But I think that now they are still a force that can be used by our empire, as long as they can send three million troops when we attack Soviet Russia, then it will be easy to defeat Soviet Russia." ”

Hearing Goering's change of tone, Hitler's gaze at Goering began to soften, and he said with a serious expression: "Goering, I know you have some opinions about the Chinese people, but it is a matter of the fate of the empire, and you must cooperate well when the Chinese government delegation comes in a few days, you know?" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency the Führer"