The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1135

“”By the way, will the Russians come down? We have been here for seven or eight days, right?”

At the foot of the mountain, the commanders of three German army groups were chatting.

It was really boring.

The Soviet troops on the mountain were blocked and couldn’t come down.

They seemed to have given up resistance and looked like they had resigned themselves to their fate.

They had been blocked on the mountain for several days, but they didn’t choose to break through.

This made the German troops at the foot of the mountain feel very bored.

The three German armies that appeared at the foot of the mountain were the Fourth Army stationed in East Prussia, the Third Army that had just returned from North America, and the Sixth Army transferred from Silesia.

Including the First, Seventh and Sixth Army under Guderian on the other side of the mountain. The 12th Army, the German army has concentrated six army groups on the Eastern Front at this time.

The three army groups that appeared in the north will be formed into the Central Army Group in the future, responsible for launching an attack on the Central Front of the Bear.

The commander of the Central Army Group in the future is Manstein, the commander of the Third Army. He will also serve as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces on the Soviet-German War front, responsible for commanding the operations of the three German army groups, in addition to commanding the army composed of the European coalition forces.

Historically, during the Soviet-German War, the German army also had a large number of vassal troops, but that At that time, the vassal army had backward equipment, poor combat effectiveness and discipline, and could only serve as a second-line force, not the main force.

But the European coalition at this time was completely different. The European coalition was composed of multiple countries, and many of them were wealthy countries in Western Europe and Northern Europe. These countries had plenty of money, so the level of weapons and equipment of their army was obviously much stronger than those of the vassal armies in history.

After all, most of the vassal states of the Third Reich were small and weak countries in Eastern Europe.

They were so poor that it was simply a daydream to expect them to form a well-equipped and well-trained army.

In order to take care of the logistics system, the Third Reich was vigorously promoting the standard equipment of the German army in the coalition at this time.

Due to the war, the empire’s military factories had been expanding their production capacity in the previous few years.

Because the German army seized a large amount of territory on the battlefield and integrated most of Europe, the problems of resources and labor that plagued the empire were solved.

Therefore, the empire’s military production capacity began to gradually reach its peak after 1929.

In 1929, the Empire produced a total of 4.5 million rifles, 120,000 machine guns, and 15 billion rounds of ammunition.

In terms of artillery, the Empire produced a total of 32,000 artillery pieces, of which 12,000 were heavy artillery pieces with a caliber of more than 100 mm, and the number of anti-tank guns and anti-aircraft guns exceeded 3,000. In addition, a large number of mortars of various calibers were produced, including a 320 mm 15-times-caliber mortar.

This mortar is a weapon used by the German army to attack. Its tonnage is not heavy, but its firepower is very fierce, and it has a very good destructive ability for some solid fortifications.

The only disadvantage is that the range is too short. The range of this thing is only about 12 kilometers, which is about the same as the range of a 75 mm field gun.

In terms of tanks and armored vehicles, the Empire produced more than 30,000 tanks and armored vehicles this year, including 17,000 tanks and 15,000 armored vehicles.

Such a large number has caused the German army’s equipment to begin to be in oversupply.

After the comprehensive renewal of the weapons and equipment of the imperial army, there are still a large number of weapons in stock.

Considering that a large number of weapons are needed for the upcoming Soviet-German War, the imperial factories cannot stop working at present, and they cannot even reduce production. Because once production is reduced, the previous production lines must be closed, and the skilled workers may also be lost. In this case, even if the production lines are reopened in the future, it will be very difficult to quickly increase production capacity!

Sometimes, too much military production capacity is not a good thing. After all, weapons cannot be sold without war, and if there is a war, there is no war to fight now. Except for a bear, the empire is really at a loss, and it doesn’t know where its enemies are!

Therefore, the empire began to expand the scale of arms exports.

As the boss of the European Union, Mainz began to forcibly promote the German military system in the European coalition.

The change of the system also brings about the change of equipment. Otherwise, it may not be possible to imitate the German army’s combat with weapons produced by other countries, because the German army’s weapons are obviously much more advanced than those of other countries. The performance gap between the two sides is too large, which leads to the problem that what the German army can do, the army equipped with other weapons may not be able to do!

The mandatory promotion of the empire’s weapons and equipment and military system can not only effectively improve the combat effectiveness of the European coalition forces, but also solve the empire’s current dilemma of oversupply of equipment.

Once the integration is completed, the European coalition forces can become a military unit similar to the German army. In this way, it will be easier to command them to fight.

Considering the huge area of the bear, it is too difficult to completely control and occupy the bear with the German army’s troops, especially in Siberia, which is cold and large. The

German army didn’t want to go there at all, but it couldn’t do it without sending troops, because the bears would definitely retreat to the east. If they were left alone, they would always cause trouble for the empire.

Sending troops to encircle and suppress them would be a bit of a loss. The distance was too far, the supply was too difficult, and the climatic conditions were too bad. All of these prevented the German army from taking action.

However, the fact that the German army was not adapted to the cold climate did not mean that others could not!

The Swiss and Finnish people were both people living near the Arctic Circle, and their tolerance to the cold climate was much better than that of the German army.

Moreover, the population of these two countries was not large, and the size of the army was not large. It seemed that the best choice at present was to equip them with German equipment and send them to Siberia to pursue the Soviet army!

Kesselring glanced at the Soviet army on the top of the mountain. The other side was still condescending and planned to bombard the German army at the foot of the mountain a few days ago, but as soon as they took action, they were rushed up by the German Air Force and beaten up. After being bombed several times in a row, the Soviet army looked a lot more honest.

They seemed to understand that there were always German planes above their heads monitoring their every move. As long as they dared to fight back, the German army would definitely hit them hard.

But if they did not take any further action, the German army would ignore them.