Even in the eyes of the far-sighted Augustus, it still seemed too radical. Augustus believed that even after the German Army's narrow victory over France, it was simply not in a position to continue the ocean-going landing operations against the British. Moreover, there is no certainty that Germany's weak navy will be able to maintain containment in the face of the British Royal Navy.

This conservative estimate made Accardo very depressed, because no one was optimistic that the German navy, with aircraft carriers as the core, could win the naval battle, and even Raeder did not have the slightest confidence in defeating the British. Brauchitsch also expressed doubts about the Navy's ability to protect landing sites, and the doubts of these men made it like a joke.

Augustus preferred Accardo to exercise restraint and drag the war on until 1939 or even 1940, when he believed that Germany was in a state of complete war and the navy had accumulated enough to challenge British sea power, and that a decisive battle would be the wise choice. But Augustus himself admitted that England and France did not seem to have given Germany so much time.

Yes, time, what Accardo lacks is time, a lot of time. If he has time, he can reserve more strategic resources, build more armored units, and produce more aircraft and artillery. If he had time, he could train his million-strong army and expand the German Army to 5 million or even 5.5 million. If there is time......

It's a pity that he doesn't have time now. Britain was already on guard against him, and France had even begun to mobilize troops to meet him. If we wait any longer, we will only worsen Germany's strategic situation. I can't wait, and the army is not fully prepared, presumably Hitler's Germany is also constantly choosing between these two depressed intervals, right?

In fact, the situation in Germany is much better now than in another time and space, because Accardo's wisdom and experience have helped Germany save a lot of resources that can change the outcome.

For example, the German Army did not produce hundreds more P-1 tanks, nor did it produce P-2 tanks in large quantities. All that strained steel and raw materials were used to produce a new, more advanced Leopard tank, which proved to be up to the task at hand.

In the same way, Germany did not waste steel on superweapons that seemed to be powerful but did not actually make any sense, and projects such as train guns and Tiger tanks have been stopped, and the steel and production capacity saved by these projects have been used to produce Leopard tanks.

The Air Force has also crossed the exploration stage under Accardo's plan, and now the fighters used by the Air Force are enough to meet any needs in the early stage of the war, and the follow-up models are also being developed frantically. As a large user of raw materials, it did not produce aircraft such as DO-17 and HE-111, which also saved a lot of materials for the Air Force.

Of course, there are also the Navy, the famous warships such as the Bismarck and Tirpitz, which have now become aircraft carriers, in fact, in terms of the use of steel, the steel used by the 10 aircraft carriers launched by the German Navy is not as much as that of those battleships and heavy cruisers, which also ensures that in future wars, Germany can have the resources to continue to produce their maritime weapons.

But even if there is no detour, resources are still tight, because the navy, the army, and the air force are all big users of resources, and they compete with each other for every bit of useful metal: they compete with each other for every ton of steel, for every technical engineer, and even for every boiler and every briquette.

The army needed more tanks, and in 1937 alone, Germany's weapons factories equipped their troops with 1,300 new Leopard tanks, as well as 400 repair parts for tanks, not counting 1,100 cars and 1,000 armored reconnaissance vehicles. However, the army still felt that it had a pitiful lack of armored fighting vehicles.

This was also true: Germany had expanded its seven Panzer Corps, which included 14 tank and pantry divisions, as well as seven Panzer Infantry divisions. Each Panzer Corps was probably equipped with nearly 800 tanks, so theoretically the Germans had to be equipped with at least 5,600 tanks at this time - in fact, the Germans now had only 3,900 tanks, and most of the Panzer Divisions were understaffed, at least not in the number of tanks.

Taking the 1st Panzer Army as an example, as one of the main forces in the whole army, in fact, at the beginning of the Polish campaign, this army only had 479 capable tanks, about a little more than half of its full strength. Coming up with this figure is the result of the efforts of the whole army.

In order to meet the needs of the main forces, the 5th and 6th light armored divisions had only a pitiful Leopard tank destroyer battalion, and the remaining tank units were replenished with No. 2 tanks and Czech 38t tanks. Even so, the two armies were not fully staffed, with only 510 tanks each.

Under the golden halo of the Polish campaign's daily advance of 50 kilometers was the status quo in which two-thirds of the German army's artillery was dragged by war horses. Nearly half of the infantry had not changed much from the First World War - the other third had been slightly better, though only with a better rifle.

Even such a Wehrmacht unit, which was not fully motorized, drank one-fifth of Germany's oil reserves in one fell swoop during the Battle of Poland. Even for the Wehrmacht, half of whom were still using Mauser Type 98K rifles, the use of steel shells to fight consumed the total amount of steel that had left Accardo depressed for a long time.

In the 1937 White Paper on Wehrmacht, Field Marshal Brauchitsch hoped to have 5 million Wehrmacht soldiers by 1940, who would be armed with 11,200 tanks, 5,600 infantry assault guns, about 50,000 vehicles, and 33,000 guns of large and small calibres -- a request to triple the current arms production line.

Of course, compared to Field Marshal Brauchitsch, Air Force Commander Catherine was much more sensible, and he "merely" demanded that the existing 2,700 fighters be "doubled". Of course, his deputy Dick was a little more radical, because he was presiding over the development of a four-engine large bomber project, and he believed that Germany should be equipped with at least 1,500 new four-engine long-range strategic bombers in 1941.

5,500 fighters, combined with 2,000 Stuka dive bombers, 1,500 Do-217 medium bombers, and 1,500 large long-range bombers that will soon be put into production, this figure is enough for German aviation companies to work overtime for a long time. Of course, in the event of a war, in order to maintain the size of this air force, then the production of aircraft can only be faster.

And that's not even counting the helicopter project being developed by Germany, which was very promising for the Air Force, Navy and Army, and was initially expected to be put into service in 1939. As for the number of helicopters produced, the Air Force wants about 750 units, the Army wants to equip 2,500 units, and the Navy is the most conservative and intends to equip 100 "try it out" first.

Therefore, Germany's existing pilot reserve of 30,000 was completely insufficient to meet the needs of the air force, and Accardo agreed that the pilot reserve should be expanded to more than 50,000. All of this requires investment, a new flight school, a new trainer, a new fighter line, and countless metal resources.

The Navy is even more blood-spitting. Spurred on by the Royal Navy's return to Wilhelmshaven, Raeder submitted a plan for the future development of the navy that made Accardo laugh and cry, and this plan required Germany to build almost every type of ship it could find: he asked for the construction of two 40,000-ton battleships, four 20,000-ton heavy cruisers, and four additional aircraft carriers, 25 cruisers, 40 destroyers, 20 minelayers, and 30 torpedo boats.

He even put forward a point in the plan that made Marshal Brauchitsch scold: "Since the army has won the war, it means that the current number of weapons is almost sufficient, and the production resources provided to the army should be stopped, and all of them should be allocated to the navy for the production of more warships." ”

Of course, Dönitz's request was not so varied, he only asked for a threefold increase in the number of submarines built in 1937 in 1938, and to ensure that when he launched the wolf riding tactic in 1938, he would have about 200 ocean-going submarines at his disposal. Of course, Accardo's reply to him was simple: "Can't do it!"

If there is time, Accardo can calmly import qualified natural rubber from Myanmar and the Philippines; if there is time, Accardo can transport back tens of thousands of tons of high-quality crude oil from the Middle East; if there is time, Accardo can import steel and rare metals that Germany urgently needs from all over the world. Of course, Accardo was willing to wait a few more years to make his war resources more abundant, but ...... Time didn't allow him to do that.

British vigilance made it difficult for Germany to trade at sea. The German High Seas Fleet had become a thorn in the side of the Royal Navy, and the painstaking deception had long since ceased to work, and the naval fleet with aircraft carriers could no longer pretend to be weak to win the sympathy of the British.

In addition, after a long two-month wait, France and Britain found that the German army still did not launch the promised declaration of war on the Soviet Union, but instead sent a large number of troops to the Western Front. Large numbers of British and French troops were also sent to the front. This information has been confirmed by German intelligence officers, and intelligence shows that these British and French units are equipped with a large number of heavy weapons.

It's time to make a break, because intelligence fraud and diplomacy have lost their effectiveness. So in order to ensure victory, Accardo felt that it was time to fight a decisive battle against the British and French forces on land and the British Royal Navy at sea. For while Germany was not ready for war at present, Britain and France were not. At least in terms of war preparations, Germany still had the upper hand. And this advantage is quite obvious.