69novels Chapter 1143
Chapter 1143
“You plan to increase the army on the Eastern Front to 12 armies?”
After reading Manstein’s latest battle plan against the Soviet Union, Mainz was a little surprised.
“Yes, I think the strength of twelve armies should be able to win this war better!”
Manstein nodded seriously, clearly showing his attitude.
Mainz tapped his fingers on the table lightly, thinking about Manstein’s proposal.
Although a round of military expansion has been carried out, the total strength of the empire is actually only 15 armies. Considering that at least one must be placed in the empire’s homeland, one in North America, and one in Western Europe, three armies have been removed.
And Odili, Hungary, Czech Republic and other Central and Eastern European regions also need an army to garrison. In this way, the empire’s military strength will be vacant.
If Manstein’s proposal is really followed and all these troops are given to him, the defense of the empire’s homeland will become extremely empty.
“Italy’s attitude is unclear. Although they joined the European Union before, they did not send too many troops to the coalition.
At this time, they may not dare to act rashly due to the strong strength of our army. However, once our main force is fully deployed to fight on the Eastern Front, Italy is very likely to take action. We must be on guard!”
Although Italy was later dubbed as a weakling, seemingly vulnerable, those were just jokes and could not be considered true. No matter how weak Italy was, it was at least one of the major powers in Europe. As a country with a population of 40 million and top-ranked industrial strength, it would be no problem for Italy to form an army of more than 2 million people.
At present, Italy’s army has exceeded 1.3 million people. The existence of this force poses a great threat to the empire’s hinterland in the Alps.
Therefore, Mainz consciously stationed a German army in Audili to deter the Italians in the south.
When he led his troops across the Alps and facilitated the merger of Germany and Austria, he fought a battle with the Italians. The U.S. Mainz was well aware of the Italians’ covetousness for Audili.
For a country like them that likes to jump back and forth and speculate everywhere, they may be your ally today, but they may betray you and defect to your enemy tomorrow!
This kind of thing is not uncommon, at least among the Italians. During World War I, they once stabbed the Second Empire in the back.
Although the main reason for the failure of the Second Empire was not the Italians’ defection, the Italians’ defection was definitely a very important reason. If they had not defected and continued to stay in the Allied Powers, the Second Empire might not have lost hope of winning.
Mainz has also considered directly solving the security risk of Italy!
But for various reasons before, this matter has always been… All were delayed.
Originally, after conquering the British mainland, Mainz intended to solve this problem.
But the Italians were very alert at that time. They kept showing goodwill to the Third Reich. Not only did they join the European Alliance led by the Third Reich, but they also sent a lot of troops to join the European coalition.
This made it difficult for the Empire to find a suitable excuse to start a war.
And it happened that at this time, the Eagle Sauce suddenly declared war on the Empire, causing most of the Empire’s attention to be focused on the Eagle Sauce, an enemy with a huge size and a great threat to the Empire. At this time, Mainz naturally had no time to pay attention to the Italians, so the Italians escaped.
After the North American Campaign ended, according to Mainz’s original plan, the German army should return to Europe before winter. In that case, In the three months from January to April, the German army had the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to get rid of Italy.
But unfortunately, the last stage of the Eagle Sauce’s dying struggle made the Empire spend a lot more time in North America than expected. When they returned to Europe, it was too late!
When the Empire determined to use troops against the bear, and the climate conditions of the bear must end the battle before the arrival of winter, the Empire must go to war against the bear no later than May.
When the main force of the Empire returned from North America, it was already March and April. In this way, the Italians escaped again! Sometimes even Mainz had to sigh that the Italians were so lucky.
Several times, someone helped them attract firepower, so that the Empire could not concentrate on dealing with them.
Although Mainz could completely cancel the military action against the bear at this time and deal with Italy first.
But Mainz would definitely not do such a low cost-effective thing!
Compared with the threat of the bear, Italy is nothing.
If they delay for another year, the Russian bear may become even stronger, and it will be even more difficult to deal with.
Even if they give Italy one, two, five, or ten years, they will hardly be able to make any waves.
There is no land around Italy for them to expand, so their national strength has actually been fixed, and there is only so much.
However, the hidden danger of not being able to deal with Italy is that in the current situation, they must take this unstable factor into consideration.
“Indeed, if the British and the Mao Bears work together, they might be able to successfully incite the Italians to revolt!”
After hearing what Mainz said, Manstein began to worry.
He really had no confidence in the integrity of the Italians. These guys would take any risk for their own benefit and didn’t care about their face.
“move���If the elite troops of the Empire’s homeland were to be sent to the enemy, it would indeed cause the Empire’s defense to be empty!”
Considering the difficulties of Mainz, Manstein began to think about how to increase the number of German troops attacking the bear while meeting his own requirements and not reducing the defense of the Empire’s homeland.
“Have you forgotten that you have another identity?”
Mainz saw that Manstein seemed to be stuck in a dead end, so he quickly reminded him.
“Ah? What do you mean, Führer?”
Manstein seemed to realize something.
“That’s right, you are not only the commander-in-chief of the German Army on the Eastern Front, but also the commander of the Allied Forces. Under your command are not only the German Army, but also the Allied Forces. In addition, the more than 300,000 American troops that Eisenhower brought from North America are also under your command. This army can be organized into a foreign legion!”
“In addition, Portugal and Taiwan in southern Europe have shown their loyalty to the empire and are willing to send their own troops to join the battle in the form of volunteer teams!”