The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 700

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However, if you give up something, you must gain something. This expenditure is worth it in Mainz’s opinion.

If the Celestial Empire can gain a foothold with their support, or even defeat the joint invasion of the Foot Basin and the Sun Never Sets, then their money will be worth it.

After all, it can let friendly forces help them absorb firepower, reduce their pressure, let them die less, spend less time, end the battle as soon as possible, complete the unification of Europe as soon as possible, and complete their European strategy. Compared with the benefits obtained by Hans, the price they paid is naturally not worth mentioning.

After all, in Europe, in order to form the European Union and integrate European countries, didn’t Hans also provide a lot of assistance to the vassal states and puppet states that followed them?

Compared with those small countries, the assistance to the Celestial Empire is obviously more meaningful. After all, in Europe, even if the armies of these small countries are in a mess, Hans can do it himself.

So the significance of supporting these European countries is not very great!

In the Far East, if the Celestial Empire is a hopeless case and cannot be used, then Hans will have a headache because they cannot personally take part.

By comparing the two sides, we can see who should be given priority support.

The Eagle Sauce people could think clearly about this issue at the beginning, and Mainz believed that Speer would definitely think the same way!

However, compared to Speer’s psychological activities, Mainz was more concerned about the Celestial Empire. When the senior government officials of the Celestial Empire saw the assistance from Hans, what would they think?

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Hans transported such a large amount of materials, and it passed through his own land, so it was naturally not hidden from the eyes of the Russians.

After Kuznetsov and others returned to Russia, they were immediately summoned by the Russian leader Starlin in the Kremlin.

“How about it, what did you gain from this trip to Europe?”

Starling is still very concerned about the navy, at least more than his successor Khrushchev.

Khrushchev prefers missiles and is not very interested in surface warships.

When the Eagle Sauce vigorously develops aircraft carriers and even nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, he thinks that aircraft carriers are floating coffins on the sea and does not allow the Russian Navy to develop aircraft carriers, which leads to the Cuban crisis.

The Russians are out of reach of the little brother Cuba and can only watch the Eagle Sauce Navy blockade the Caribbean Sea, but they have no way to break through the other side’s blockade.

The Cuban crisis greatly stimulated the navy of the Russians and changed the political landscape of the Russians. After Khrushchev stepped down in disgrace in 1964, the Russians finally began to develop aircraft carriers. Of course, this is a later story.

At present, the Russians are still under the control of Starling, and in Starling’s plan, the Red Navy has a very large shipbuilding plan.

However, now, when they are facing the increasing number of Hans, Starling does not intend to focus his main energy on the navy, but intends to let go. The armored forces of the army and the army.

However, the navy is also very important to them, especially on the Black Sea side. If they can have a strong navy in the hinterland of their southern region on the Black Sea side, then they can ensure that the enemy cannot attack them from the sea, which will make their southwestern region safer!

So Starling agreed to the request of Kuznetsov and the navy and asked them to go to Hans to negotiate this arms sale.

Of course, there are other intentions here. One is to investigate the true situation of the British Battle of the Sun and determine whether Hans has really landed on the British mainland and whether the British mainland can no longer support it! The second is to test Hans’ attitude and see if Hans has any inclination to use force against them.

Therefore, Kuznetsov not only served as the commander of the navy, but also as a military observer, responsible for personally reporting to Starling what he saw and heard along the way, which is of great significance to Starling’s subsequent decision-making.

“We have already inspected the situation of the two warships. The damage to the two warships themselves is not great. As long as they are repaired in time, they will soon be put into service for our use. I heard that the Hans shipyard is now empty due to lack of orders. If we complete the salvage as soon as possible, we can send them to the Hans shipyard for repair. The repairs should be completed before the beginning of next year. By then, our Baltic Fleet will have two battleships!”

Seeing Kuznetsov’s excited expression, Starling hesitated for a moment, but still shattered his dream.

“I don’t plan to place these two battleships in the Baltic Sea, but in the Black Sea!”

“”Ah? What, why?”

Kuznetsov was shocked by Starlin’s news. He didn’t expect Starlin to change his mind. Didn’t they agree to place these warships in the Baltic Sea to help them protect Leningrad?

Why did they suddenly change their minds?

“The situation has changed. The Baltic Sea is a dead end. As long as the enemy blocks the outlet to the sea, they can go all the way north and wipe out our navy. So when facing a powerful enemy at sea, our Baltic Fleet will not be able to survive!”

Starling’s words silenced Kuznetsov. He knew that what the other party said was right.

This trip to Europe allowed him to see the strength of the navies of European countries. Although he did not see Hans’s main fleet, Hans’s navy was able to defeat the Royal Navy many times. Their strength must be impressive. Relying on only two battleships and the broken copper and iron of the Baltic Fleet, they are definitely not their opponents.

Kuznetsov knew very well who the powerful enemy that Starling was talking about was.

There is only one enemy that can control the Baltic Sea, and that is Hans’ navy!

And facing the situation that Starling described, even Kuznetsov himself could not think of any good way to deal with it.

The enemy’s navy was too strong. It not only had more than a dozen battleships, but also two aircraft carriers. Although Kuznetsov had not seen this new weapon of the navy, this weapon had shown extremely strong combat effectiveness in these naval battles, which made him quite fearful!

“We have a large number of factories in the Caucasus and the Volga River. If a war breaks out, the enemy may launch a landing from the Black Sea region. At that time, we will face a great threat here, so I hope to deploy a strong navy here to thwart the enemy’s attack!”

Starlin’s strategic deployment is very appropriate. Hans’s main naval forces are in the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea. If you want to enter the Black Sea, you have to pass through the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea controlled by the British. This is bound to cause a battle with the British. The Mediterranean

Fleet of the British is powerful and occupies the strait fortress.

It is very difficult for the German army to pass through here, so they can only rely on several vassal states that originally had navies in the Black Sea region, including countries like Turkey.

The naval strength of these countries is not strong, and only Turkey can make the bear look up to it slightly, but as long as they can have two battleships, Turkey will not be afraid, so the two battleships placed in the Black Sea are much more meaningful to them than in the Baltic Sea!