Chapter 787: A Failed Coup

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As for the servant army and the puppet army, although there are even more than the German army, they are much worse than the German army in terms of morale and combat effectiveness, and even have a big gap compared with the Soviet army. Moreover, due to the racist ideology of the mustache, Germany has strictly limited the size of the puppet army, and even the number of troops is limited, so they naturally cannot play much role

In 1944, more than 1.5 million Soviet civilians and partisans were directly slaughtered and captured by the Germans in concentration camps, setting a new high after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, but it was still unable to fully guarantee the safety of the supply line, and the huge loss of more than 100,000 permanent attrition of the German army made the mustache heartbroken. But the greater impact on the German field forces was the staggering number of wounded and the huge consumption of supplies.

In addition, the U.S. Navy's strategic bombing of the Western European continent soon after regaining sea supremacy after its decisive victory in the Atlantic forced Germany to bring back most of the jet fighters that had been hated by countless Soviet aces on the Eastern Front, allowing the Soviet Air Force, which had been suffering so badly, to regain its strength. After the air supremacy was unstable, the losses of the German ground forces naturally increased significantly, further increasing the casualties of the German army

And in the situation where the total number of troops is already tight. The center of gravity of the German army was still on Leningrad on the northern front, and the southern front battlefield presided over by Manstein was naturally even more unavailable, and to be honest, being able to hit Samara was enough to surprise the mustache. The increasingly outstanding performance of the SS also prompted Mustache to order the expansion of its size to more than one million, which inevitably caused unease among many Wehrmacht generals, especially those who had always been anti-Greek in their hearts, and even more worried that Mustache was going to unload the mill and kill the donkey, and this contradiction eventually led to a military coup

The Wehrmacht generals may have been on the Mustache's precautions against rebellion, but his most trusted friend Goering actually betrayed him, which was really difficult for the Mustache to accept, and the anger in his heart gushed out like a volcanic eruption

Göring has always been a very ambitious man. The main reason why there is no rebellion in history is because he does not have that strength. Because historically only the air force was under his jurisdiction, and the planes of the air force were basically useless in the coup, although Goering came up with all kinds of reasons to establish some army units under the establishment of the air force, but the number was only one percent of the total number of the German army. Far from fulfilling his ambitions.

Although Goering could cooperate with those anti-Greeks in the Wehrmacht. But in the case of insufficient self-strength. Even if he overthrew the mustache, Goering would not want to be the boss, and Goering would already be the number two man in Germany if he did not rebel. Why bother?

But this time and space Wegener's surrender has given Goering confidence, even in the open seas at the end of 1944, there are still 4 battleships available, in the coastal zone can easily suppress the army, you must know that the German army does not have land aviation, it can be said that all the aircraft are under the control of Goering, in addition to Wegener's command has a total strength of more than 100,000 marines, and the combat effectiveness and weapons and equipment are not inferior to the elite of the army, This emboldened Goering to assume the position of the principal in cooperation with the anti-Greek generals in the Wehrmacht.

But what Goering didn't expect was that Wegener had taken refuge in him in the first place to avoid him from continuing to obstruct the development of HNA, and now seeing that he was dying, it would be strange not to take the opportunity to remove this guy who restricts the development of HNA! As soon as the coup d'état was launched, Goering was arrested by the marines, who thought he would be a trump card in his hands

What was even more surprising to Goering was that almost all of the Air Force pilots he had always loved so much abandoned him without hesitation, which made Goering completely desperate. He didn't understand that no matter how much care he usually cared for, it was just a small favor for the Luftwaffe pilots whose status and treatment were not low, and Goering's blind command again and again had already buried the lives of countless German pilots, which was even more fatal, even if it was just to avoid dying like those people, and the current Luftwaffe pilots also wished that Goering would die sooner

Goering's side was killed before it could be mobilized, and the situation was similar on the part of the Wehrmacht, because there were not only generals in the Wehrmacht who opposed the mustache, but also many mustachioed supporters such as Manstein and Moder, and because of their great achievements, they had more real power, so the anti-Greek factions chose the method of assassination instead of the mutiny, but because of the problems on the Goering side, they fell short, and it was too late for them to raise troops to rebel. What's more, the mustache's support rate among the Wehrmacht, especially among the lower-level officers and soldiers, is not low, and it is impossible to rely on these generals, who have mostly lost power

After the coup d'état was easily put down like a farce, Mustache was brutally liquidated, and the anti-Greek Wehrmacht generals were arrested, executed, or thrown into concentration camps, and Goering, in despair after learning that Mustache would not even refuse his request to see him again, committed suicide that night, and the Luftwaffe and the Navy were given a new lease of life

In addition, through this round of purges, Germany also found out a lot of spies or internal responses of the allies, and those who have been secretly dragging their feet or not contributing to the work, and passive confrontation have also been cleaned up, so that Germany's military production and logistics support have been significantly improved, at least it can be guaranteed that there will be no more embarrassing things like the original 37mm "hand machine" that had to be manually reloaded for every shell as a near-fire cannon mounted on the Bismarck

Despite this, the sudden outbreak of a coup d'état in the rear made the German army on the front line inevitably have some military morale, and the Soviet high command took the opportunity to launch a fierce counterattack against the Axis forces encircling Leningrad on the northern front of the Soviet-German battlefield, and almost succeeded in relieving the siege of Leningrad, but due to the outstanding performance of the unaffected Nordic army, the Soviet counterattack ultimately failed to achieve its desired results. On the southern front, Manstein was forced to abandon the newly occupied Samara and retreat to the west bank of the Volga River because of the precaution, which made the Soviet government breathe a sigh of relief (to be continued......