Chapter 179： High cost

"This time I was able to break into Badajoz, thanks to General Cyric's men." In the base of the Vulture Legion, Cyric received the group that came.

This time, Franco led the team, and he personally came to commend Cyric. This time, thanks to the Condor Legion!

First attacked Merida, cut off Badajoz's back, and then sent tank soldiers to help out. The Italian Legion could not attack for a few days. In front of the Vulture Legion's tanks, it suddenly became ashamed.

This surprised Franco quite a bit, and he also had a high interest in this German tank. This time he came to the Vulture Corps to accept Cyric’s invitation and to celebrate Cyric’s victory. Come look at these tanks.

Behind Franco, followed by the commander of the Central Army Jose, now Jose, his face is still full of excitement.

Jose is really lucky. He believes that this is the luck Cyric has brought him. Originally, he thought he could only sit below. Who would have thought that he has now become the commander of the Central Army! This was Franco's vigorous promotion, and at the same time, it was also Cyric's luck.

He remembered very clearly that Cyric once said that he would surely rise to the top, and now it has been verified.

"We just did what we were supposed to do." Cyric said: "It just happened that the supplies arrived in time, otherwise, we wouldn't have such a big result, and at the same time, it was also a tacit understanding of the cooperation of other brother troops."

Other troops! Although the National Army has a high fighting will, their weapons are still too backward. As for the noodle army, there are a lot of people, but they have no combat effectiveness!

Franco came to the front of the Panther 2 tank and looked at these tall and mighty tanks with great interest.

"This is the latest tank developed by our Germany." Cyric introduced to Franco: "The output is very small, and only the elite troops can equip it. The cost is also high. Each tank has 200,000 Germans. mark."

Cyric deliberately doubled the cost of construction. Now, with the development of streamlined production, the production cost of this tank has been reduced to 70,000 Reichsmarks.

200,000 German marks! The cost of such a tank is enough to buy more than a dozen Italian light tanks!

Franco climbed up happily, looked inside the turret, looked at the cockpit in front, and kept asking what.

"Why is there a hole here?" Franco said, looking at a small hole in the front armor.

"In this battle, we encountered the opponent’s anti-tank gun. However, the opponent’s bullet was just a small hole in our armor. Our current tank armor is 50 mm thick. No ordinary anti-tank gun can penetrate." Cyric said.

The secret cannot be hidden. In the Spanish battlefield, it is not only to test one's own equipment, but also to expose a lot of technical data. For example, the frontal armor of this tank, which is almost 50 mm thick, will definitely be known by the Soviets.

In this case, the Soviets should be complacent, thinking that their existing anti-tank weapons are more than enough to deal with German tanks! It will also give up the development of new anti-tank weapons.

They certainly don't know that it is easy to add additional armor to their own tanks, and the steel used in German tanks is much better than the crude steel used in Soviet tanks.

In later history, the Soviets had this kind of confusion. For example, their armor-piercing projectiles could penetrate their own 80mm thick armor, but they could not penetrate the German 80mm thick armor! Generally speaking, the penetration capability of armor-piercing projectiles is incorrect. The armor steel and the craft must be specified.

"This kind of tank is really good." Franco looked up and down, and then said to Cyric: "I really hope that our Spanish National Army can also be equipped with such a tank."

"General, let's go to the conference room and speak." Cyric said.

Franco, I can never get enough to feed, I want everything! But now, if he wants to, he needs to take actual action!

"Although the war has only been going on for a few months, we have already provided a lot of assistance to you." Cyric said: "I have a statistics from Seymour."

A few days ago, the heads of the two companies were called over, and Cyric asked them for a detailed bill. Now, this bill, through Cyric, is placed in Franco's hands.

So far, the German side has spent 90 million marks; various materials provided to Spain are worth 70 million marks. If the maintenance costs of the Condor Legion are also included, up to now, the personnel costs totaled 75 million marks.

Cyric's bill is of course moist. It can be said that compared to the actual situation, it is about double.

From Berlin to Spain, of course, there must be overtime pay, and the staff's salary is doubled!

Germany is not a Communist International. It does nothing. It volunteers to help Franco. Regardless of various political purposes, at least, Franco has to be reimbursed for the cost of sending troops.

Moreover, after these few victories, more than just a few bottles of wine can be solved, we must give rewards!

Franco took the bill in his hand, took a cursory look, then handed it to the people around him, and then said: "I already know about this matter This is all you need to know. Isn’t it because you want to go wrong? Cyric continued: "General Franco, we hope you can return part of our expenses. Our expenses are too great. "

Franco spread his hands together: "Now, I don't have any money in my hands. When I lay down Madrid, Madrid has at least 600 tons of gold. Then, it will be enough to pay you and Italy."

The six hundred tons of gold is long gone. Cyric couldn't help but think in his heart that the Soviet Union and the Madrid government can really calm down, and this kind of loss is actually a dumb loss.

"No, no, we can't support it now." Cyric said: "We hope to get some compensation now, so that Berlin can reduce the pressure and continue to send all kinds of supplies to Spain. You should know that we are domestic The army is being expanded, and the expenditure is huge."

After a pause, Cyric continued: "It was said that the Italian army is in charge of the ground, and our Vulture Army is in charge of the sky. The armored unit we arrived was originally just to protect our base. As a result, I It was sent out, you don’t even know. For this, the head of state even scolded me and told me that next time he would not give me weapons and ammunition."