Chapter 225

Even in the eyes of the farsighted Augustus, "plan seburas" is still too radical. Augustus believed that even after the German army won the victory over France, it could not continue to launch ocean landing operations against Britain. What's more, Germany's weak Navy is not sure whether it can keep a check on the British Royal Navy.

This conservative estimate made akkado extremely depressed, because no one was optimistic that the German Navy with aircraft carrier as the core could win the naval battle, and even Ryder had no confidence in defeating Britain. Brauchich also expressed doubts about the Navy's ability to protect the landing site, which made plan sebras a joke.

Augustus hoped that akkado would exercise restraint and postpone the war to 1939 or even 1940. He believed that at that time, Germany had entered a state of war and the Navy had accumulated enough to challenge British sea power. At that time, a decisive battle was a wise choice. But Augustus himself admits that Britain and France do not seem to leave Germany so much time.

Yes, time. What akado lacks is time, a lot of time. If he has time, he can reserve more strategic resources, build more armored forces, and produce more airplanes and artillery. If he has time, he can train his million troops and expand the German army to 5 million or even 5.5 million. If you have time

Unfortunately, he has no time now. Britain has been very wary of him, and France has even begun to mobilize troops to meet him. If we wait any longer, it will only worsen Germany's strategic situation. Can't wait for the national conditions, there are not fully prepared army, presumably Hitler's Germany, is also in these two depressing range constantly choose?

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

For example, the German army did not reproduce hundreds of P-1 tanks, nor did it mass produce P-2 tanks. The tense steel and raw materials are used to produce more advanced new leopard tanks, which have proved to be capable of all the current tasks.

Similarly, Germany has not wasted steel on super weapons that seem to be powerful but actually have no meaning. Train guns, Tiger tanks and other projects have been stopped, and the saved steel and production capacity of these projects have been used to produce leopard tanks.

The air force has also crossed the exploration stage under akado's plan. 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 aircraft are also being madly developed. As a large user of raw materials, it did not produce do-17 and he-111 aircraft, which also saved a lot of materials for the air force.

Of course, the Navy, Bismarck, tilbitz and other famous warships have all become aircraft carriers. In fact, in terms of the use of steel, the steel used by the German Navy to launch 10 aircraft carriers can not catch up with those battleships and heavy cruisers. This also ensures that Germany can have resources to continue to produce their sea weapons in future wars.

However, even if there is no detour, resources are still tight, because the Navy, the army and the air force are big users of resources, and they compete for any useful metal: they compete for every ton of steel, every technical engineer, and even every boiler and every coal ball.

The army needs more tanks. In 1937, German weapon factories equipped 1300 leopard tanks for the army, and provided maintenance parts for 400 tanks, not counting 1100 cars and 1000 armored reconnaissance vehicles. But the army still felt that its armored vehicles were very few.

It's true: Germany has expanded seven armored forces, including 14 tank Armored Divisions and seven armored infantry divisions. Each armored force should be equipped with about 800 tanks, so theoretically, the German army should be equipped with at least 5600 tanks at this time. In fact, the total number of tanks owned by the German army is only 3900, and most armored divisions are not full, at least the number of tanks is not full.

Take the 1st Armored Force as an example. As one of the best main forces in the whole army, in fact, at the beginning of the Polish campaign, the 1st Armored Force only had 479 moving tanks, about half of its full strength. This figure is the result of the efforts of the whole army.

In order to meet the needs of the main force, the 5th and 6th light armored divisions only have a poor leopard tank expelling battalion, and the rest of the tank troops are replenished with No. 2 tank and Czech 38t tank. Even so, the two armored forces are not satisfied with the number of tanks, and each army has only 510 tanks.

Under the golden halo of 50 kilometers per day in the Polish campaign, two-thirds of the German artillery was towed by war horses. Nearly half of the infantry had not changed much from World War I - the other third was slightly better, but only had a better rifle.

Even such a national defense force, which was not fully motorized, drank a fifth of Germany's oil reserves in the war in Poland. Even such a half of the people of the national defense force still use Mauser 98K rifles, and use steel shell ammunition to fight, it also consumes the total amount of steel that makes akkado depressed for a long time.

In the 1937 white paper on the construction of the national defense forces, marshal blauchich hoped to have 5 million soldiers of the national defense forces before 1940. These soldiers will be equipped with 11200 tanks, 5600 infantry self-propelled assault guns and about 50000 vehicles, There are 33000 guns of different calibres, which is about three times the requirement of expanding the present ammunition production line. Of course, compared with field marshal brauchich, air force commander Catherine is much more rational, he "only" asked to "double" the existing 2700 fighters. Of course, his deputy Dick seems to be a bit radical, because he is in charge of the development of four large bombers. He thinks that Germany should equip at least 1500 new four long-range strategic bombers in 1941. With 5500 fighter planes, 2000 Stuka dive bombers, 1500 do-217 medium bombers and 1500 large-scale long-range bombers to be put into production, this figure is enough to make German aviation enterprises work overtime for a long time. Of course, in order to maintain the scale of the air force, the speed of aircraft production can only be faster once the war starts. This does not include the helicopter project that Germany is developing. The air force, navy and army are very optimistic about this project. It is initially expected that it will be put into use in 1939. For the production of helicopters, the air force needs about 750, the army wants to equip 2500, and the navy is the most conservative. It plans to equip 100 helicopters first. Therefore, Germany's existing reserve of 30000 pilots is totally unable to meet the needs of the air force. Akado also agreed that the reserve of pilots should be expanded to more than 50000. These all need investment, new flight school, new trainer, new fighter production line and countless metal resources. The navy is even more bloody. Inspired by the British Royal Navy blocking him back to Port William, Reidel submitted a plan for the future development of the Navy that made akkado laugh and cry. In this plan, Germany was required to build almost every possible ship type: two 40000 ton battleships, four 20000 ton heavy cruisers, and four additional aircraft carriers, 25 cruisers, 40 destroyers, 20 minecutters, 30 torpedo boats. He even put forward a point in the plan that made marshal brauchich yell: "since the army has won, it means that the number of weapons is almost enough. We should stop the production resources provided to the army and allocate them to the navy to produce more warships." Of course, Donitz's requirements are not so varied. He only asked to double the number of submarines built in 1937 in 1938, so as to ensure that when he launched wolf riding tactics in 1938, about 200 ocean going submarines could be used. Of course, akado's reply to him was simple: "I can't do it!" If there is time, akado can import qualified natural rubber from Myanmar and the Philippines; If there is time, akado can transport tens of thousands of tons of high-quality crude oil back from the Middle East; If there is time, akado can import steel and rare metals from all over the world that Germany urgently needs. Of course, akado is willing to wait a few more years to make his war resources more abundant, but... Time does not allow him to do so. Britain's vigilance made German maritime trade difficult. The German high seas fleet has become a thorn in the eye of the British Royal Navy. The elaborate deception no longer works. The fleet with an aircraft carrier can no longer pretend to be weak to win the sympathy of the British. In addition, after two long months of waiting, France and Britain found that the German army still did not launch the promised declaration of war against the Soviet Union, but transported a large number of troops to the western front. It also began to transport large numbers of British and French troops to the front. This information has been confirmed by German intelligence personnel, and intelligence shows that these British and French forces are equipped with a large number of heavy weapons. It's time for an end, because all intelligence fraud and diplomacy have lost their effectiveness. So in order to ensure victory, akado felt that it was time to fight a decisive battle with the British and French allied forces on land and the Royal Navy at sea. Because although Germany is not ready for war, Britain and France are not. At least in terms of the degree of war preparation, Germany still has the advantage. And this advantage is quite obvious.