Mankind will one day have to pay the price for its uncontrolled development, in a canal in the Ruhr region of Germany, the black river water is rolling, and many drainage pipes nearby are discharging various colors of liquid into this canal, and the water of this canal will eventually merge into a larger river, polluting the land in a radius of hundreds of kilometers.

A transport ship was sailing on the canal, and the old captain who was in control of it was holding a pipe that represented his identity. No one knows why the captain of a ship likes to smoke with a pipe, but this image seems to be a classic image handed down from ancient times, just like the villain with a plaster on his face.

Germany was the most industrialized, with France and Belgium, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria and some Poland, all of which were trying to expand their production in every possible way, and all the companies were desperately trying to produce more than they had historically.

The Third Reich was like a baby waiting to be fed, she lacked everything, she needed everything. She frantically absorbed all the materials that were produced, and desperately absorbed more nutrients from all over the world. Rubber from Africa, oil from Romania, coal from the Ruhr region, iron ingots from Norway...... Copper, tungsten, manganese, molybdenum and even uranium, in short, the entire Third Reich was consuming countless resources and creating staggering pollution.

The smog from the smelter shrouded Berlin in a haze, and the towering chimneys and countless factories brought almost 100 percent employment to Germany as well as a catastrophe. Rivers are polluted, forests are cut down, mineral deposits are unchecked, and the wealth created is sent to the front lines to be used to slaughter humanity.

On the banks of the Rhine, a huge Rheinland steel company, this subsidiary was originally a military enterprise under the Bailanhua Group, and in the last carve-up frenzy, it was transferred to Krupp and other super military enterprises, and became a leader in the German metal smelting and processing industry.

Huge steel machinery is working day and night, here to provide the most basic material support for the German armored forces - armor! Piece after piece of armor plate is manufactured here, and then quenched for surface hardening treatment, which is commonly known as carbonization treatment, and finally after more processes, it becomes the armor steel plate used in various parts of the German King Tiger tank.

The special steel plate had a complex processing process, and rare metals such as manganese and molybdenum were used in casting, which was the main reason why Germany stockpiled these metals before the war and kept looting them during the war.

The workers worked overtime day and night, and the trade unions did not dare to come out under the high-pressure supervision of the SS. The supply of canned food, butter bread and other food is becoming more and more abundant, and the enthusiasm of the workers is still within an acceptable range.

The Führer sold 500,000 cars in one fell swoop in the German occupation zone, and although these cars were only modest means of transportation, he was finally fulfilling his promise that every German family had a car. Although the supply of oil in Germany is intermittent, life is still developing on the bright side.

The previously strained food supply has been alleviated by the continuous expansion of the occupied areas, and although margarine is still a regular guest at the table, the food that was envied in the past is no longer an unattainable dream. The good times of the German people are about to come, and as for the people of the other occupied territories, this is a question for the Führer to worry about alone.

The ridiculous thing is that thousands of kilometers away on the battlefield, it is this group of workers and engineers who have never killed anyone at all to decide the victory, and the decisive factor is how many tanks, how many planes, how much gasoline and diesel they refine...... In modern warfare, it seems that everyone is an executioner, and no one is immune.

In the roaring factory building, a technical engineer is pointing at the newly built production line, and behind him, a large group of students from all over the world are trying to record the opinions of the industrial expert. Some of these students came from France, some from Belgium, and some from as far away as Ukraine and Belarus, and now they are all workers of the Third Reich, and they will be the backbone of the industry of the Third Reich in the future wave of industrial consolidation.

"I sent someone to the factory in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, to find out that you need four large rolling mills recently. There are also some machine tools for fine machining. The engineer said to several Ukrainian engineers who had come from afar to learn from Ukraine: "First achieve mass production of qualified steel and rails, integrate into the industrial system of the empire, and then seek new development." ”

The problems on the French side are more serious, first of all, the production of artillery in France has entered a new stage, and the production line of 150 mm caliber howitzers has been in operation for almost a month, but it still cannot be stably produced. This is mainly due to the problem of steel rationing, after all, many things are being adjusted according to the situation of the war.

Just a dozen days ago, the armored forces of Germany, which had not experienced huge losses, began to experience a blowout of attrition. Hundreds of Leopards were destroyed by the Germans' opponents in all corners of the world, and the Tiger tanks went from being rarely destroyed to being often killed...... The King Tiger tank, which has just been mass-produced, has even appeared to have a record of more than a dozen destroyed.

Such huge losses made the commanders on the front line begin to care about the tanks in their hands. The previous voice of shouting for large-caliber artillery became weaker and weaker, and was replaced by countless "reminder letters" urging the rear to provide a large number of tank replenishment.

How urgent was this need to urge the rear to expand the production of tanks? It was so urgent that General Modell, the nominal commander-in-chief of the Southern Theater of Operations, personally rushed back to the Wolf's Den from the front and met with the staff of the German High Command and Field Marshal Brauchitsch of the General Staff.

Guderian, who was fighting the front line, offered a price that was close to a joke: his troops needed to be replenished with 200 King Tiger tanks, preferably 100 Leopards and 300 Leopard assault guns. If it had been placed a year ago, these equipment would have been almost the entire belongings of an armored corps, but now Guderian, who had only one 1st Panzer Corps, actually wanted another Panzer Corps......

On weekdays, this demand for "eating alone" would have been scolded by all the commanders of the group armies, but it did not make a wave at this time, because everyone knew that Guderian did not want much at all, on the contrary, it was already a very righteous "conscience demand".

You must know that these hundreds of tanks will not be replenished in one go, but will be trained and transported by rail to a place close to the front line. Being able to replenish dozens of vehicles at a time is already the result of the full-hearted service of the soldier replenishment department.

This also reflects from another aspect how huge the losses of Army Group G on the front line were. The main force of the German army, which had been famous all over the world since the invasion of Poland, finally fought the most difficult and cruel armored battle for Germany on the battlefield that tested them the most.

Army Group G has reached the point where there are not enough tanks to make up for assault guns, anti-tank guns to make up for not enough assault guns, and 88-mm anti-aircraft guns to make up for not enough anti-tank guns. And even with the loss of more than a third of its tanks, this army group, which is marked by the letter "G", has not asked a word of retreat.

One thing that no one knew was that just a day earlier, the SS Reich Division, which had just been replenished to Army Group G, had wiped out a full half of its formation in the positions they had been ordered to hold, but it still did not take a step back. The division commander killed the deputy division commander in battle, and the deputy division commander killed the regiment commander in command, and in the end, the highest commander of the entire division was left with a deputy regiment commander, who actually shouted on the radio station "send ammunition quickly" instead of "ask for retreat".

Therefore, the originally built French heavy artillery factory can only start work every day to complete 20% of its own production capacity, because all the original steel has been requisitioned by tank manufacturers, and they have to rush to complete the production of 400 King Tiger tanks in a short time.

While the Soviets were frantically mass-producing T-34 tanks and Stalin tanks at the Chelyabinsk tank factory, the Germans, of course, were not complacent about their achievements, and on the automated production line, one King Tiger tank after another was coming out of the workshop, and the Germans were replenishing their tank losses on the front line with no inferior speed.

In order to speed up the production of the King Tiger tank, the chassis of the No. 3 tank began to be supplied only with the No. 3 150-mm open self-propelled howitzer; the Leopard tank was discontinued, and the chassis was only supplied with the production of the Leopard assault gun; the production of the Tiger tank was completely discontinued, and the production capacity saved was fully shifted to the King Tiger.

In Accardo's office at the Führer's residence in Berlin, Speer is reporting to the Führer on his plans for industrial integration for the next three months: "My Führer, in the next three months, the production of King Tiger tanks will reach an unprecedented peak, and we will replenish the front line with 500 King Tiger tanks. ”

"I'm not concerned about how much has been replenished in 3 months, I am concerned about how much General Guderian's Army Group G can replenish now!" Accardo sighed and said: "Even now, it is more painful for us to fight with the Leopard tank and the Soviet T-34 tank." ”

"So we will only mass-produce the King Tiger tank in the future, and the production line, on the side of Vice Chairman Krupp, is already being prepared. Speer confidently replied: "We have successfully completed the second phase of industrial integration. ”――

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