Chapter 393

Berlin, Germany.

An officer in charge of the logistics management of the French theater helplessly handed a thick pile of documents to his boss. Because the thickness of the document was a little exaggerated, it was put on the table and made a "bang" sound.

Then he stood at attention and saluted at his desk: "the Fuehrer, akkado? Long live Rudolph

"The Fuehrer, akado? Long live Rudolph The officer in his fifties with glasses raised his head, frowned and asked, "how can there be so many?"

"How much? This is just a week's supply of the 700000 troops expected to be stationed in France. " The young officer sighed and said, "although the head of state put forward the epoch-making proposal of simplifying the supply in 1925, in fact, the work of our logistics department is only slightly reduced."

"I know if you don't say it." The old general pushed the documents to the top right corner of his desk, and then began to check them one by one: "I recommend you to enter the logistics department! What's the point of complaining with me? It's not the army. Those guys are used to living a hard life and are not willing to give up anything? "

The relieved officer pointed to the number on the document and reluctantly reported: "general. This is a 7 for training in France. The total number of 92mm calibre bullets was 2 billion, which were transported into France in four batches. In the later stage, relying on factories in France to supplement, the total reserves will be increased to 5 billion units within one year. "

"Just these bullets are enough to give the railway department a headache." The old general shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile.

"Then there are the air force's 13 mm caliber machine gun bullets, with a total number of 120 million. It is planned to complete the transportation within three months. The additional figures in the later period are still being calculated. General Catherine seems to be holding her breath and preparing to make contributions in Britain..."

"Ha ha, it's natural for us to lose our composure. Both the Navy and the army have marshals. It seems that lundstett has also been promised by the head of state that he will be promoted to marshal after the war. There's no air force. Can he be in a hurry? " The old general shook his head with a smile and continued to read the documents.

After a few seconds, he pointed to a group of numbers on the document and asked, "what's the matter? 500 French S35 tanks left? 200 to Romania? 300 sold to Finland? "

"That's what the Fuehrer means, general." The young officer bowed his head and explained: "Merkel's foreign office is trying to win over these two countries and stand firmly on our side. Fortunately, Romania said that Finland is an important force to balance the Soviet Union in the future. "

"I don't think we have enough trouble here." The old general sighed, shook his head and complained.

Originally, the weapons used by the German side were very single compared with other countries, and the caliber of the army from small to large was only 7. There are eight calibres of 92mm, 13mm, 20mm, 40mm, 75mm, 88mm, 105mm and 150mm (in addition, there are three calibre mortars of 60mm, 80mm and 120mm). However, over the years, the calibre of weapons and ammunition used in the annexed countries and regions has increased to as many as 25.

Tanks have also changed from a few to a hodgepodge of all nations. Dunkirk seized 400 British tanks of all kinds. France surrendered and handed over nearly 1000 tanks and armored vehicles to the German national defense forces. With a stroke of his pen, brauchich kept all of them. Some of them were used as heavy weapons for the rear defense forces and some were used to train the German armored forces.

So hundreds of parts need to be hoarded, transported and distributed. Hundreds of shells and bullets need to be rationed, and now the German team has from 7. Some special ammunition can only be "supplied" by French factories.

For example, Germany has no replaceable or replaceable weapons for the 380mm caliber coastal defense guns deployed near some French ports. These guns can only be used continuously. After the ammunition stored in the warehouse is exhausted, if Germany does not want its ports to be defenseless, it will continue to buy the shells of this kind of large caliber coastal defense guns from France.

Because of the deployment of Tiger tanks with diesel engines, a large number of leopard tanks with gasoline engines, as well as some British and French tanks and armored vehicles with refined gasoline, the German troops used as many as five types of gasoline in February 1938, not including the fuel used by fighter forces and bombers. If you count the warships of the Shanghai army, the number is even more numbing.

The field troops need to supplement vitamins regularly, which requires fresh vegetables, fruits and other materials. In addition, sausage, beef, biscuit and rice are needed for food improvement. Only when the whole German military train is running at almost full capacity can there be no tragedy of material shortage in a large area. However, the devastated German logistics department, which is famous for its strictness, is also going to be tortured and crazy. It has not only put forward the request of reducing the types of materials at the regular meeting once.

Just take canned meat as an example. From the beginning to the end of the French campaign, Germany transported a total of 9 million processed canned meat to the front line. This is only the number that the 2 million army reduced part of its supply. Many second-line troops in the rear did not enjoy this luxury from the beginning to the end of the war.

Another figure is to ensure the attack speed of the fist forces, that is, the German armored forces. The German transport forces are busy day and night, transporting 300000 crawler parts, 50000 engine vulnerable parts, 400 complete engines and 450 gearboxes to the French front line, which ensures that more than 2000 German tanks in France rush forward, There is no stagnation due to the fault. Moreover, the German 7th armored army, which was the first to rush to the French coastline to complete the operation of waving the sickle, also completed the first feat of using helicopters to rush to transport tank engines and repair faulty tanks near the front line in human history. Goodrian was the first to escort 3000 French prisoners with helicopter and machine gun. In order to maintain the expanding German mechanized forces, Bosch's faben group is frantically refining synthetic gasoline, sparing no effort to expand the synthetic gasoline plant to an annual output of 500000 tons. In order to save the use of coal mines and support the production of coal to oil, Germany has built 13 new water conservancy and power plants, creating hundreds of thousands of employment opportunities in disguise. Thanks to the efforts of German engineers and workers, Romania's oil field capacity has doubled since 1935. More than 90% of the oil produced in one year is sent to Germany, and more than half of it is used for war supplies. At the same time, in order to support the German army in France, 3100 special trains were deployed to transport all kinds of strategic materials, ensuring the invincibility of the German army in France. The air force dispatched 5000 Ju 52 transport planes to carry out major combat tasks, including parachute parachutes to Holland and Belgium, and arranged supplies for parachutes and part of the army. It's not too much to say that the German logistic supply forces fought a war in which there was no smoke of gunpowder, and their efforts were highly praised by the front-line combat forces. When blauchich reported the combat situation to akado, he said that "without logistics, there will be no victory."; Catherine also said in the report, "I praise the logistics forces, because every bullet I hit the enemy came from them." From today's perspective, the industrial level of Germany is still shocking. In February 1938, Mercedes Benz's automobile factories in various places had 290000 male and female workers. BMW's engine production line also had 170000 people working day and night. Krupp's factory also had 200000 employees at this moment, The terrible thing is that such a large number of workers produce weapons and equipment every day, which still can not meet the needs of the German team. In addition to the obsolete weapons and equipment, Germany provided 1700 tanks, 960 tank destroyers, 750 short tube support No. 3 assault guns and tens of thousands of various types of vehicles for the newly established troops from 1937 to 1938. Although they are not outstanding compared with the expanded troops, they are still impressive achievements“ It's time to complain to the head of state. " The old general put down his papers, opened the drawer on the left side of his desk, took out two pieces of writing paper from it, then took out a pen from the pen holder and said. The young officer stood up and bowed his head respectfully: "then I'll go out first."“ Don't hurry. Look at the material I wrote. I don't have much to offer you young people. How to talk to your boss is an important skill. Let's learn from today. " The young officer's face immediately showed an expression of joy and stood at attention with a smile: "thank you, teacher! Thank you for your training and promotion. " The old general didn't speak any more. He just wrote on the letter in beautiful fancy script. The young officer didn't dare to disturb him. He just stood there and watched the old general write. In the office, there was only a nice rustle of the nib on the paper, which seemed very quiet. In the distant Paris, an inspiring good news was translated into a message, which was handed to acardo who was eating. After receiving the telegram, akkado could not believe his eyes, because it clearly wrote an incredible news: two aircraft carriers under construction of the German navy have been put into service and will soon be converted into the combat effectiveness of the Navy“ How could it be so fast? " Acardo excitedly asked the way through Paris, ready to rush to Brest military port to inspect the handover of admiral Randall. This meal is the authentic French meal that akado invited Randall to eat - at least for his confidants, akado will not be stingy“ In fact, the interior of the two warships has not been completed, and many of the watertight cabins are under construction. Although it is still a bit reluctant to fight immediately, it is absolutely no problem to pull them out to scare people. " Randall said confidently.