The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1193

“Ask me to make the decision? What a bullshit decision! I think he is hinting at me to allow him to send troops to attack Turkey!”

After seeing Guderian’s telegram, Mainz saw through the other party’s little thoughts at a glance. He said that the hydrological conditions of the Caspian Sea are good and it is suitable to send troops to Central Asia from here, so he proposed to build a shipyard and build transport ships.

Isn’t this nonsense?

No matter how big the Caspian Sea is, it is just a bathtub. Building a shipyard here and building ships vigorously is simply stupid.

Because these ships are almost disposable, the kind that are thrown away after use.

There are few people around the Caspian Sea and business is not developed. After these ships are built, they can only be used to transport troops. Moreover, after the war is over, the troops will withdraw, and then all these ships will be empty. Down, they become useless, and then slowly rust and rot.

Spending such a huge price just to build a fleet that can only be used once, isn’t that crazy?

Even if Guderian doesn’t care about logistics and industry, he won’t be unable to understand such things.

So Mainz judged that this guy was just pretending to be confused!

He knew that this proposal would definitely be rejected, but he still made such a proposal.

The purpose is certainly not to really let Mainz agree to build a shipyard in the Caspian Sea and waste money here to build a useless fleet.

But to hint to the head of state that there is another simpler and more direct way. Choice – Attack Tuji!

As long as Tuji can be captured, the connection between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean can be opened up. At that time, the empire’s fleet can continuously enter the Black Sea from the Mediterranean, helping the German troops in Eastern Europe to quickly transfer to West Asia!

And if we start from the Anatolian Peninsula, we can not only rely on the whole of Europe as the rear, but also take advantage of the shipping convenience of the coastal areas east of the Mediterranean, give full play to the empire’s sea and land coordinated combat power, quickly control West Asia, and after gaining a foothold, continue to go deep, and then control the whole of Central Asia!

This tactic is probably what Guderian wants to express!

However, Mainz does not have this for the time being. The idea of doing it!

It is not impossible to attack Turkey, but the timing is wrong.

Now is not a good time to take action.

If you want to attack Turkey, it is not enough to deal with the bear.

You need to sort out all the mess in the Balkan Peninsula and Eastern Europe before you can send troops.

Otherwise, the empire lacks a smooth channel connecting the mainland to the Thrace region, and the empire’s army can only go by sea and send troops from southern Europe.

This will put a lot of pressure on logistics supply, and there is a high probability that problems will arise in the rear during combat.

These are all worrying hidden dangers.

Mainz doesn’t want the imperial army’s reputation to go wrong with Turkey, the country’s husky.

“Tell Guderian to send an armored unit eastward along the Ural Mountains, cut off the Soviet army’s retreat from the south, prevent the Soviet army from escaping as much as possible, and create conditions for a frontal attack!”

“In addition, let him be prepared and ready to come to Moscow to participate in the military parade at any time!”

Mainz still attaches great importance to a general like Guderian.

Guderian could not be a famous general who commanded the overall situation. In terms of strategic ability, he was not as good as Manstein, but in terms of tactical execution, the two were actually at about the same level. In fact, because he often led troops to fight, Guderian’s level might be higher.

Therefore, Mainz attached great importance to Guderian. For things like the Red Square parade, he naturally had to be brought along. After all, this military parade was a huge honor for the soldiers.

After arranging Guderian’s affairs, Mainz shook his head and glanced at the telegram sent by General Bock, commander of the Northern Army Group.

The Northern Army Group has relatively few armored units, and most of the troops are infantry. Moreover, the terrain in the north is very poor, and the Russian bear has built relatively few roads in this area, so their marching speed is relatively slow.

General Bock sent a telegram to Mainz, explaining their I hope Mainz will not blame the Northern Army Group for the delay in arriving at the battlefield.

Mainz can understand this. In fact, when the General Staff formulated the battle plan, it overestimated the carrying capacity of the northern railway and gave an overly optimistic estimate.

However, in the actual implementation process, the German army soon discovered that the infrastructure in the north of the bear was too bad. Even if there was a railway, the carrying capacity of the railway was far less than that in the south. Therefore, the Northern Army Group, which mainly relied on railway mobility, marched much slower than expected and has not yet reached the scheduled combat position.

This delayed the German army’s general attack on the Soviet army in the Kazan area by about a week!

Fortunately, the Soviet army in the Kazan area did not seem to have the intention of escaping, and Starling showed a posture of intending to defend Kazan to the death.

This made Mainz very curious: Could it be that his intuition was wrong?

Starling really didn’t run away this time?

“”Knock, knock, knock!”

Just then, there was a knock on the door outside.

Mainz is now in the place where the leader of the Russian Bear used to work, which is located in the Kremlin. The palace here is very large. His office alone is more than 200 square meters. It feels quite empty sitting in it. When there is a knock on the door outside, there is even a sound of echoes in the room.

To be honest, Mainz doesn’t like this place. Although it is very large and the decoration inside is very luxurious, it can be seen that the Tsar spent a lot of real money here to create a royal sense of top luxury and dignity.

However, this empty space gives people a very deserted feeling, and the temperature in the Russian Bear is very low, which makes this feeling even more obvious.

So when Mainz sits here to work, he can’t always concentrate, and his state can’t be adjusted to the best.

Therefore, he gave Secretary Baumann an instruction to find him a new office. It doesn’t need to be so luxurious, and the area doesn’t need to be so large, but the style and layout should be similar to his office in Berlin.

In an environment that he is familiar with, it is easier for him to get into the state.

“”Come in!”

He said loudly, and Secretary Bauman’s fat body squeezed in from outside.

Mainz looked up and glanced at Secretary Bauman. This guy was busy every day and he even gained weight.

Looking at his body that was getting fatter and fatter like a bucket, Mainz felt that the person standing in front of him was not Bauman, but Goering.