The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 842

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America, Florida, the location of the Southern Army.

After the Battle of St. Marys, the US Army retreated northward and gave up the plan to rescue the surrounded US troops in the south. The Southern Army and the German Army finally got a period of rest!

Taking advantage of this period, Model transferred a large number of officers from the Second Army to the Southern Army to help the Southern Army with emergency training so that they could initially have the ability.

Although the effect of this short-term training is not as effective as the long-term and high-standard training of professional armies, the combat capabilities of these soldiers are far behind the elite Wehrmacht of the Third Reich. However, short-term military training can allow them to quickly transform from a group of civilians into an army, an army that can go to the battlefield and fight.

Historically, when the Soviet-German War was the most intense, the army on the front line of the bear suffered too much loss and the speed of loss was too fast, resulting in a serious shortage of Soviet troops. In order to make up for the shortage of troops on the front line, Starling launched a nationwide military mobilization and mobilized a large number of young and middle-aged people to join the army.

In order to enable these mobilized recruits to acquire initial combat capabilities, the Soviet Union set up a large number of recruit training camps in the rear.

During the most intense period of the war from 1942 to 1944, the soldiers in these recruit camps only had three months at most, and the shortest was even only one week. They were only taught how to shoot and how to dig trenches before being sent to the battlefield!

During the Battle of Stalingrad, many Soviet soldiers were even sent to the battlefield with only a set of military uniforms and a rifle, and then quickly became cannon fodder on the battlefield.

War is not a dinner party, it is a fight between life and death. When forced into a desperate situation, there is no time to train the recruits slowly. As long as they are men and can hold a gun, they will be swept into the war machine and sent to the battlefield to fight!

Compared with the Soviet soldiers at the peak of the Soviet-German War, the soldiers of the Southern Army can at least train for one to two months in the rear.

With the help of the German army’s experienced middle and lower-level officers, after completing the training, they basically have combat capabilities comparable to the US military. Although they are still not as good as the German army, they will grow rapidly in the war and have unlimited potential in the future!

“Which division is this?”

Accompanied by Eisenhower, Model was inspecting these troops of the Southern Army.

Not long ago, the second batch of German supplies and reinforcements had just landed. At this time, the German troops in Florida had reached 480,000, including an entire army group and three armored divisions, two of which had just landed, and the other was airlifted from the Azores during the Battle of St. Marys.

With these two modes of transportation, if the US military marches south again to attack them, they don’t have to worry about being isolated!

Even if the sea transportation routes cannot be kept smooth, at least they still have air transportation routes.

As long as Mobil Oil can produce oil in Florida, and then build a local factory to solve the problem of aviation kerosene, then the problem that restricts their air transportation will be solved. It’s resolved.

The reason why we can’t airlift troops directly from the Azores on such a large scale is because the fuel consumption is a bit unbearable. Hundreds of transport planes will burn more than tens of thousands of tons of fuel. Florida cannot produce these fuels by itself at this time, and all of them need to be shipped from the European empire by ship.

Moreover, after shipping, how to preserve these fuels is also a big problem. After all, Florida lacks local oil storage facilities, and these need to be solved by the German army themselves.

At this time, when the Southern Army was training, Model also organized people to start large-scale construction in the local area, building airports, ports, oil storage warehouses and other infrastructure to prepare for the large-scale landing of the German army in the future!

After receiving the second batch of supplies shipped from the mainland, the newly recruited troops of the Southern Army also completed their refit. Most of the troops were equipped with German standard weapons, and the remaining militiamen were equipped with the standard weapons of the American army seized from the US army!

In the Battle of St. Marys, the US military suffered heavy losses, and a large number of US soldiers suffocated to death due to the lack of oxygen caused by the explosion of the double-temperature pressure bomb. Although they died in battle, the weapons and equipment in their hands were not damaged at all. After all, weapons and equipment do not need to breathe, and naturally will not be destroyed by changes in oxygen concentration!

Because of this great victory, the German army seized more than 1 million US military equipment. Most of these weapons were stored for emergency use. The remaining few were taken out and handed over to the mobilized German immigrant militia, so that these militias have a certain amount of force. In this way, if the Southern Army loses on the battlefield due to combat in the future , they can also directly draw troops from these militias with basic combat qualities and join the army.

In this way, the Southern Army can replenish its lost troops in the shortest time, and will not have too much impact on its combat effectiveness due to combat losses.

However, the specifications of various weapons of the US Army are different from those of the German Army.

For example, the rifles and bullets they use are 7.

62 mm, which is also the international standard caliber in later generations.

However, in this era, there are not many armies using this caliber rifle, mainly the US Army and the Soviet Army.

It happened that these two armies won the Second World War and became the makers of the post-war world.

Their weapons were transported to all parts of the world as their sphere of influence expanded, which spread and promoted this standard!

At this time, the weapon standards of various countries were not unified, and the standards of various countries were almost different. For example, the caliber of the German rifle was 7.92 mm, the caliber of the Japanese rifle was 6.5 mm, the caliber of the British rifle was 7.7 mm, and the caliber of the French rifle was 75 mm.

The rifle calibers of these major countries are different, and the weapons of each country are not compatible with each other on the battlefield. Therefore, even if the enemy’s weapons are captured in battle, it is difficult to use them because the specifications of our own ammunition are different from those of the enemy. After the ammunition in the opponent’s weapon is used up, there is no bullet to replenish it and it can only be discarded.

Therefore, although the German army seized a large number of American weapons on the battlefield, these are basically consumables, and the more they are used, the less they are. Moreover, Model has no intention of opening a new production line to specialize in the production of ammunition of this specification!

Even if Florida’s own military factory is established, it will definitely give priority to the production of the German army’s own standard weapons, and will not produce American weapons at the expense of the main purpose.

“This is the seventh division. I plan to turn it into a mechanized infantry division!”

Eisenhower replied to Model’s question.

“Mechanized infantry division? How many tanks and armored vehicles do you have?”

Model stopped and looked at Eisenhower, asking curiously.

“Not many, about 40 or so, but I can add some trucks. There is no need to turn this army into an armored division. As long as they have excellent mobility and can keep up with the pace of the armored division, that’s enough!”