69novels Chapter 453
Chapter 453
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: 0.072s Scan: 0.028sMainz has a certain understanding of the situation of these former allies in Eastern Europe through the intelligence in Himmler’s hands.
Among these Eastern European countries, except for Yugoslavia and Romania, which stood on the side of the Allies and helped the Allies in World War I, the rest are Hans’s younger brothers, including the Asian orphan chicken. Although these countries did not play such a big role in the war, they did more or less tie down some of the Allied forces and helped Hans relieve some pressure.
Taking them as younger brothers is not to care about their combat effectiveness, but to broaden Hans’ sphere of influence and push the enemy’s power outward as much as possible, thereby expanding Hans’ strategic depth and keeping Hans’ core land away from threats.
At this time, Jake, Snofak, and Hungary have been controlled by Hans one after another, and Bulgaria has already had the idea of returning to Hans’ arms.
Therefore, Hans only needs to deal with Yugoslavia and Romania to completely solve the threat from the Balkan Peninsula, so as to concentrate on dealing with enemies in Eastern and Western Europe.
Hans’s geographical location is actually quite bad. Those who have played Go know that there is a saying in Go: Golden Corner, Silver Edge, and Grass Belly. If you occupy a corner, you can quickly control this corner and advance outward without any worries, without worrying about repeated tug-of-war with the enemy. If you occupy an edge, it will be much more difficult to control it. You need to fight repeatedly for a long time, and you may not be able to control it in the end!
As for occupying the middle position, it seems meaningless. If you want to control it, you can only wait until the final victory or defeat is determined. Otherwise, no matter how many chess pieces you invest, you may not be able to achieve your goal!
The survival and expansion strategy of a country is very similar to playing Go. Take Hans, the British Empire, and the Russian Bear as examples.
The location of the Mao Xiong is located in the northernmost part of the map, and will not be attacked by the enemy from behind. No one can attack them from the perennially frozen Arctic, and even if an attack is launched from the Arctic, it does not matter to the Mao Xiong, because the Mao Xiong area near the Arctic Ocean is almost uninhabited, and there is no human habitation at all.
The enemy occupies this place, not only to endure the influence of extremely cold weather, but also to face the trouble of logistical supply difficulties, and it is extremely difficult for them to threaten the core area of the Mao Xiong, at least to advance thousands of kilometers south in the wind and snow to enter the inhabited area!
Landing from the Arctic, then killing through the Mao Xiong all the way, and then capturing the Mao Xiong’s capital, this kind of thing, no army in the world can do it!
So the Mao Xiong has taken the lead in the strategic position, they can have no worries and expand outward unscrupulously!
The situation of the Sun Never Sets is more special. They are an island country. As long as they guard their coastline, they can ensure their own safety, and then attack everywhere unscrupulously. The enemy’s counterattack must cross their naval defense line to threaten their homeland, so the expansion of the Sun Never Sets is also relatively strong.
Hans is located in Central Europe, surrounded by a large number of neighboring countries, and there are enemies on all sides!
They need to guard against many places, including the British Empire and Gaul in Western Europe, the Russian Bear and Poland in the east, Czech Republic in Central Europe, Romania and Yugoslavia in the Balkan Peninsula, and Italy in Southern Europe!
Once a fight really breaks out, Hans’s environment will be very bad. This is not just about being attacked from all sides, but can be called being surrounded by enemies!
Therefore, in history, the Third Reich annexed Odili and Czech Republic long before the war, and then won over Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia!
The strategic intention of the mustache is actually very clear. He knows that it is not so easy to deal with Eastern Europe and the two powerful enemies, so he first kills the easily solved enemies, Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula, to prevent the enemy from attacking him from this direction.
Then use a non-aggression agreement to stabilize the Russian Bear, so that you can boldly mobilize a large number of troops to attack Western Europe and settle Western Europe!
Before the launch of Operation Barbarossa in 1941, the strategy of the mustache was basically fine. He provoked World War II by blitzing Poland, and then quickly controlled the Low Countries and defeated Gaul through the Gallic Campaign and the invasion of Benelux.
The threat to Western Europe now only has one, that is the British Empire!
As long as the British Empire can be defeated and the British Empire’s homeland can be controlled and occupied, then the strategy of the mustache on the Western Front will be a complete success!
However, the strategy of the mustache made mistakes. The Third Reich’s navy and their air force were not strong enough to challenge the British Empire’s control of the sea, and the air force’s bombing of the British Empire’s homeland was not a success. In the uninterrupted fierce battles between the two sides, the German army suffered more losses than the British Empire. Moreover
, because the battle area was over the British Empire, once the German plane was shot down, both the people and the plane were basically lost, while the British Empire’s planes were shot down, as long as the pilots successfully parachuted, they could basically be rescued and put back into battle!
The air battle is not only about the production capacity of fighter jets of both sides, but also about the reserve of pilots, especially high-quality pilots.
Hans did not gain an advantage in the months-long air battle, but lost a large number of aircraft and pilots, which greatly weakened their strength.
Without air superiority and the failure to destroy the arsenal of the British mainland, they could not destroy the war potential of the British mainland!
As a result, Hans’ millions of the most elite army in the world could only sigh in despair.
Although the British mainland was close at hand, they just couldn’t get there.
Without the cover of the navy, they couldn’t let the army swim over in a bathtub, right? The incomplete success of the Western Front strategy caused huge problems for the strategy of the mustache.
If they failed to force the British mainland to land, they would not be able to completely solve the threat on the Western Front.
In this case, Hans’ best choice was to continue to stabilize the bear in the east, and then practice internal skills, increase efforts to develop their own air force and navy, strive to surpass the British mainland in terms of naval and air force strength, so as to obtain the opportunity to land on the British mainland and solve this nail household in the west as soon as possible.
Once they solved the threat from the west, they could attack eastward without any worries, and use all their resources and all their troops to attack the Russian bear!
At that time, the number of troops deployed by the German army in the Soviet-German War was not 500,000 in history, but 7.5 million!
With so many troops, the German army would definitely not have a problem of insufficient troops at the end of 1941, and their offensive capabilities would not have reached their limit when they advanced to the city of Moscow, and they would not need to draw troops from other places to carry out key attacks!
However, the little mustache chose to bite the bullet. Without being able to solve the British Empire, he still invested heavily in the war with the Russian bear, and took the initiative to put himself in a two-front battle, and was attacked from both sides. I really don’t know whether to say he is arrogant or stupid!
There is nothing wrong with the strategy of the little mustache, at least in the general direction, but there were problems in the process of execution, which led to a complete loss and a life-and-death ending!
The strategy that Mainz is currently implementing is actually not much different from that of the Mustache. All he has to do is learn from the failure of the Mustache and then steadily advance this strategy!
Compared with the Mustache in history, Mainz started earlier. The Mustache took over the country in 933, while Mainz took over the country eight years earlier, in 1925.
The Mustache failed to eradicate the Junker nobles, so he had to rely on and compromise with them.
Mainz uprooted the Junker nobles and monopolized the power of the party, government and military. He did not need to compromise with anyone!
The little mustache did not pay enough attention to the navy. When the war broke out, the navy was too weak, which affected the implementation of the Western Front strategy.
However, Mainz had formulated a long-term development plan for Hans’ navy very early, and steadily improved the strength of the navy. Even at this time, the strength of Hans’ navy far exceeded the Third Reich Navy in history!
Moreover, with the completion of the Central European strategy, what Mainz has to do now is very simple!
Take over the Balkan Peninsula and solve the problems of the Balkan Peninsula.
Sign a non-aggression pact with the Russian bear to stabilize the Eastern Front.
Persuade Italy, or force Italy to surrender to the enemy, and completely solve the problem of the Apennine Peninsula.