69novels Chapter 860
Chapter 860
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Third Reich’s homeland, the capital of Berlin.
Two pieces of news came from North America, one good news, one bad news!
“Model and Vanelk did a great job on the Texas issue. Supporting the Red Necks to become independent from the Eagle Sauce country can not only reduce the defensive pressure on the flanks of our North American military, but also create trouble for the Eagle Sauce government. Moreover, there are many oil fields in Texas. If the Eagle Sauce loses the oil here, their local industry and people’s livelihood will definitely be greatly affected!”
After hearing the news of Texas’ independence, the mustache was still very happy in his heart!
Weakening the strength of the Eagle Sauce is equivalent to strengthening their own strength. This kind of thing is certainly worth celebrating!
“Not only that, Texas has just gained independence, and its economy, industry, and even military are all inseparable from our support. They have a lot of oil, and we can just use weapons, food, and some industrial products to exchange for their cheap oil. With the oil from Texas, we can solve the fuel problem of the troops in North America more quickly!”
Industry Minister Speer still looks at the problem from an industrial perspective. In his opinion, the biggest benefit of taking Texas is that it solves the problem of fuel supply, which is a very serious problem they are currently facing in their military operations and industrial development in North America!
Since humans entered the industrial age, the demand for energy has begun to expand rapidly. In the early days, the main energy sources of various countries were coal, but with the outbreak of the internal combustion engine revolution, the demand and consumption of oil began to rise rapidly.
Compared with coal, oil has more calories and higher combustion efficiency, so it has greater utilization value!
Coal requires the use of steam engines, and steam engines are often very large in size, and it is impossible to miniaturize them like internal combustion engines. This leads to great restrictions on the use of steam engines, while the restrictions on internal combustion engines are much smaller. Therefore, the value of oil It is much higher than coal!
Especially in the era of rapid development of the automobile industry and the aviation industry, the value of oil has begun to be fully reflected!
Although the German army does not have many troops in North America, the large number of trucks, motorcycles, armored vehicles, tanks and other combat vehicles equipped by these armies are all big oil burners.
These vehicles consume a lot of fuel every time they start, and now, the fuel used by these vehicles is transported from Europe by ship, and the quantity is limited, so the actions of the German troops are restricted and cannot be used openly!
If their oil supply can be guaranteed and they no longer have to rely on local supplies, then the restrictions they have been subject to will no longer exist, and the German army’s future combat operations will be freer, at least it will not be like the last Battle of St. Marys, because of the logistics and fuel crisis, there is no way to expand the results of the battle, thus losing the opportunity to beat the drowning dog!
“Well, our protection is naturally not free protection, they must give out some resources in exchange!”
Mainz agreed with Speer’s proposal. It is not a loss for Texas to exchange resources for weapons and industrial products.
After all, they have plenty of oil, but they are short of weapons and equipment, especially various advanced heavy weapons!
The rednecks can still use harassment and sneak attacks to fight against the US troops coming from the north, but once the US military dispatches too many troops and compresses their space for activities, then the harassment and attack operations will be greatly affected, and the power of their harassment tactics will be greatly reduced.
At this time, they must rely on regular combat, tear apart the enemy’s defenses, and defeat the enemy’s army, so as to control the initiative on the battlefield!
And to do this, they must have a regular army with sophisticated weapons!
Although the rednecks themselves are not regular troops and do not know how to form such a regular army, Model left behind when he left. A group of German instructors helped them with training, so they could just learn according to the German organization!
However, the organization can be learned, but the weapons and equipment are very tricky. If there are no matching weapons, even if they are trained, they will not have much combat effectiveness.
Therefore, giving the Texas rednecks a channel to exchange weapons, they might be secretly happy in their hearts!
After all, who knows how much oil there is underground. It is said that there are hundreds of billions of tons of oil in Texas. So much oil can’t be mined for hundreds of years!
In this case, there is no need to care about these things at all. Anthony feels that he has made a profit by being able to exchange these things for weapons from the Germans!
The Germans exchanged weapons for a large amount of oil, and the value of the oil exchanged was much higher than the weapons they exchanged, so the Germans also felt that they made a lot of money!
So both parties were very satisfied with this transaction. It was a win-win transaction!
“After talking about the Texas incident, I have to talk about another thing. This is not good news. Everyone should be mentally prepared!”
Himmler gave a shot of prevention before he spoke, so that everyone could be prepared.
“”Tell me, what’s the matter?”
Mainz said lightly. In fact, he already knew it a long time ago, but he was still sitting here at this time, ready to discuss countermeasures with everyone after the news was announced!
“According to our intelligence in South America, it seems that an army has been formed in South America to try to regain control of the Panama Canal!”
This news from Himmler really attracted everyone’s attention, and there was a whisper in the office immediately.
“”Was their attack successful?”
Manstein asked with concern!
If those countries in South America can seize the Panama Canal, it will be good news for them!
“Unfortunately, they failed!”
Himmler shook his head and said with a dim look in his eyes
“Oh? We failed. How did we fail? The number of American troops in the Canal Zone should not be large. If those countries in South America were not rotten to the core, they should be able to win, right?”
“Moreover, the U.S. troops were being held back on the mainland at this time, unable to move south to support the U.S. troops in the canal zone, so it should be impossible for this U.S. army to receive reinforcements, unless they encountered intervention from external forces?”
“Haha, General, you guessed it right. The navies of the British Empire and the British Empire suddenly intervened in this war. Their joint fleet passed through the Panama Canal and then sent a large number of Marines to land, solving the crisis faced by the US military and firmly controlling the canal in their own hands!”
“Is it finally here? It seems that the time for our decisive battle has come!”