Chapter 227

Unfortunately, it is obvious that akado is not willing to let Mussolini easily achieve his wish: "Mr. leader, since Italy has abandoned its loyal allies, then I will fulfill the sacred mission of defending national interests alone... But the previous German commitment to Italy's interests in the Balkans will also lose its effectiveness. After all, we need help from other countries, like Turkey. "

Now in front of the Italian leader Mussolini, is a difficult choice: on the one hand is to brazenly implement the treaty, and the powerful Britain and France to fight; On the one hand, he is brazen in not fulfilling the covenant, but risks losing the interests of the Balkans. For Italy, neither option is satisfactory, but one has to be chosen.

After a long silence, acardo even felt that Mussolini had hung up. He even wondered if the Italian leader would go to the bathroom. However, the faint breath in the phone still proves that Mussolini is beside the receiver. At this moment, Mussolini doesn't speak. He is weighing and thinking over and over again.

"My head of state, Italy will continue to carry out extensive cooperation with Germany and support Germany's efforts to strive for national interests... But Italy is really powerless for Germany's upcoming actions." About ten minutes later, Mussolini once again said: "since Italy is unable to implement the previous treaty, it will have no face to ask Germany for support on the Balkan issue, so Italy will deal with the Balkan issue on its own in the future."

"It's very gratifying that you can understand the situation facing Germany now." Acado said with a smile, as if he had already guessed Mussolini's choice: "but when we win, please also ask the kingdom of Italy to continue to maintain good neighborly relations with our Germany."

In fact, it is not only Mussolini of Italy who is not optimistic about the war between Germany and Britain and France, but also Antonescu of Romania who implicitly persuades the German head of state to give up the confrontation with Britain and France. Of course, he would prefer Germany to go to war with the Soviet Union, so that he could lead the Romanian troops to recover the territory plundered by the Soviet Union.

At the moment, however, akado was more confident than ever, and his army was much larger and more elite than Hitler's in the 1940 French war. France and other rivals are weaker than in another time and space. He thinks he has the chance to win.

As early as 1914, mauge's successor, Schlieffen, saw the hope of ending the dilemma of the two lines from the track. He made the Schlieffen plan. Generally speaking, it was to quickly defeat France through railway maneuver, and then to move troops to the east line and defeat Russia through railway maneuver.

In fact, at that time, the German war machine also started large-scale construction and drilling according to this opportunity. By 1914, there were 13 double track railways running through the East and West. There were four north-south double track railways on the western border, two double track railways and one single track railway on the eastern border, and four independent double track railways dedicated to connecting the East and West frontlines. In addition, the single line branch railway is as dense as a spider network. If you can see the railway network that Germany built in 1914, you will be dizzy.

At the same time, the Germans made strict transportation plans for each army. For example, 170 officers' carriages, 965 soldiers' carriages, 2960 cavalry carriages and 1915 artillery carriages were needed to transport an army. Taking 42 carriages per locomotive as an example, about 140 trains were needed. According to 20 trains per day, one army can be transferred within a week. At the same time, the military supplies of one army need about 6000 cars, and the number of trains needed can also be calculated. It can also be calculated that a reserve army needs 85 columns, and an independent cavalry division needs 31 columns.

On August 1, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia and issued a general mobilization order. On August 3, Germany declared war on France and World War broke out. From the 1st, the German Railway began to run at full speed for the war, and reached * on the 4th-6th. By the 12th, 1.5 million troops were sent to the Dutch front line. When the mobilization was completed on the 20th, the German railway had transported a total of 3 million troops, 860000 war horses, and a large amount of ammunition and grain. Every day, a large number of military trains cross the Rhine River. The busiest hohensolum bridge passed 2150 military trains in the two weeks before the 12th, almost every 10 minutes. The most important thing is that there are 11000 trains participating in the transportation task, but none of them is delayed.

I want you to understand that the meticulous and rigorous work style of the German people is very terrible. These achievements are not someone's boast, not those who failed to complete the war weapons fantasy, but actually completed the miracle.

It's time to get to the point. Akkado came to power around 1930 and expelled the Allied arms control commission in 1933. At that time, Germany began to prepare for war. Naturally, it paid more attention to railway construction. He unified and loosened the railway companies, established the German railway company, and changed its name to German Railway in 36, The German state-owned railway company will be responsible for all railway transport matters in Germany in the future. Doppler was the director general of the German railway. After swearing allegiance to akkado, he became the Minister of transport of the Empire. At that time, the whole railway system was making more precise wartime transport plans.

After 37 years of Blitzkrieg against Poland, this railway system helped Germany transport more than 30 divisions of troops quickly. When the French and British did not respond, they concentrated their superior forces to kill Poland in one breath. Now, at least 50 divisions of troops are on this railway transportation system, driving to the western border area of Germany with incredible efficiency and high speed. France has not yet realized that the crisis has come: the German 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th and 7th armored forces, with more than 2000 tanks, have begun to gather on the western line. To cover the tanks, the air force mobilized more than 2000 fighters and bombers. In addition, Germany has deployed more than 1.1 million national defense infantry on the west line, and more than 9100 guns of various types as support. At this moment, Britain and France are still dreaming of the German army marching eastward. Although intelligence shows that Germany is increasing the number of troops on the western border, the British army is confident that this is still a reasonable behavior for Germany to guard against the French army's attack again.