The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1005

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: 0.115s Scan: 5.527sEisenhower was busy reforming his Southern Army in the South at this time.

In fact, the Southern Army was not created by Eisenhower. This army had been formed before Eisenhower went south.

At that time, the Southern Army imitated the military organization of the Eagle Sauce, and later accepted the military guidance of the German Army. As a result, after mixing the military organization and ideas of both sides, the Southern Army fell into chaos.

This chaotic situation is not conducive to combat and command. Therefore, it is urgent to reform the existing Southern Army.

The reform of the Southern Army is certainly not to continue the previous military thinking and combat organization of the US military. At present, countries around the world are learning the military system of the German Army. As the illegitimate child of the Empire, the Southern Army must of course keep up with the pace of military development of the Empire.

Therefore, Eisenhower intends to turn the million-strong army of the Southern Army into three army groups.

He mentioned this idea to Model once before, but judging from Model’s authority, he could not meet Eisenhower’s requirements.

After all, when it comes to the reorganization of a million-strong army, this kind of thing must be approved by the Ministry of Defense or even the head of state himself. He is just the commander of an army group and does not have that much energy to complete this matter.

Therefore, the pace of military reform of the Southern Army is not very fast. Although they gathered some elite troops to participate in the battle during the Florida Campaign, overall, the performance of the Southern Army in that battle was not very good, and the gap with the German army was still very obvious!

However, after Manstein arrived in North America, the situation was very different.

Compared with Model and Guderian, Manstein, who was the chief of the general staff, had significantly more authority. Even if it involved military reforms involving millions of people, it was possible for Manstein to do it.

So Eisenhower did not miss this opportunity. Shortly after Manstein arrived in North America, he submitted his complete reform plan for the Southern Army.

Manstein also attached great importance to this matter. After carefully checking and reviewing the other party’s plan, he made certain modifications and then approved Eisenhower’s request.

After winning the Battle of Bermuda, the German army had controlled the sea control in the southeastern coastal areas of the Eagle Sauce, which completely opened up their route from Europe to the Eagle Sauce mainland.

A large amount of materials can be transported from Europe very safely, so the weapons and equipment and a series of equipment required for Eisenhower’s military reform can be fully met under the guarantee of this unobstructed sea transport line.

Moreover, it is a decision made by the head of Mainz a long time ago to improve the combat effectiveness of the Southern Army as soon as possible so that they can take on more work, thereby reducing the burden and pressure of the German army and allowing the German army to withdraw its main force back to the European mainland as soon as possible.

Therefore, not only Eisenhower is concerned about the reform of the Southern Division, but Manstein also attaches great importance to this matter.

If there were not too much work on hand, he would even want to lead this situation personally!

After all, there are very few countries that have experienced complete military reforms in this era. In the past ten years, only the German army, which lost the First World War, completed a full-scale reform after the war. Therefore, the German army has rich experience in this matter.

Although he could not complete this work personally, Manstein still used his relationship to provide a lot of support for Eisenhower’s military reform. While he strongly supported Eisenhower, he also secretly observed the other party to see how strong this person was.

If Eisenhower’s strength is not enough, then he may look for new people to take over Eisenhower’s position!

Eisenhower is also very clear about this in his heart, so Eisenhower is extremely active and serious about the military reform, and dare not be careless at all.

Because there is the successful military reform experience of the German army in front of him, he can fully learn from the successful experience of the German army, and then make some subtle adjustments and changes in a targeted manner, combined with the actual situation of the Southern Army, find the most suitable path for himself, and then complete the reform.

This work is not particularly difficult, at least compared to the military reform of the German army at that time, this difficulty is undoubtedly a level lower.

When the German army was reforming its army, it had a Versailles Treaty on its head!

Moreover, the road that the German army took at that time had never been taken by anyone, so there was no successful experience to learn from. They were completely crossing the river by feeling the stones, and it was extremely difficult. At this time, the Southern Army had the strong support of the empire and the support of a mature military system. Their reform purpose and direction were extremely clear, and the difficulty naturally decreased a lot.

After two months of reform, Eisenhower basically completed the formation of the three armies. Although each unit in the three armies lacked some corresponding equipment at this time, it involved the weapons and equipment of the million-strong army, especially heavy equipment such as tanks, armored vehicles and heavy artillery. Obviously, it would not be delivered in a short time, and it would take some time.

But at this time, Manstein’s transfer order came down, and Eisenhower naturally could not continue to stay in Florida and toss slowly.

So he evened out the equipment of the three armies a little bit, so that the First Army of the Southern Army could set off in the most fully staffed state possible to take over the task of Guderian’s First Army in the Eastern Theater.

After the military reform, the spirit of the Southern Army was completely different.

Although the weapons of the First Army of the Southern Army were not fully assembled, compared with the previous equipment, they were completely upgraded at this time.

The soldiers of the Southern Army not only got a full set of standard equipment of the German Army, but also got some weapons that even the German Army did not have large-scale equipment.

For example, they were equipped with some Panzerfaust anti-tank rockets, some STG44 rifles, and Mauser 98KS, a new rifle with a grenade launcher.

Although these equipment can only be regarded as some light weapons, because these weapons are extremely advanced, they are so advanced that they can’t be seen in the armies of other countries in the world!

Even the German army itself did not have large-scale equipment, even the First and Second Armies of Guderian and Model did not see such equipment, so the Southern Army was extremely excited and thought that they were highly valued by the Führer.

Although most of them had never seen the head of the empire thousands of miles away, this did not affect their enthusiasm and loyalty to the head of the empire!

Seeing this situation, Eisenhower had to sigh in his heart. The head of the empire was so courageous that even these soldiers were full of yearning for the head of the empire.