"Lampard, what do you think?" William II looked at Lin Wei, hoping that this little guy who was often unexpected could say something different. Perhaps William II was hoping that someone would convince him to refuse. Italian proposal.
Lin Wei did not see what William II meant, but it did not delay Lin Wei's decision to oppose Italy, because Lin Wei really remembered Italy's failure in Africa. Compared with other Axis powers, Italy, one of the three giants, The Axis Powers seemed to have been losing the war from the beginning. Lin Wei was very afraid of all Italian military operations. In Lin Wei's view, Italy's maintaining a large military establishment and standing still in Europe was the greatest support for Germany.
Before coming, Lin Wei obtained from the SS headquarters the recent situation of the deployment of Italian troops stationed in North Africa. Although it was a bit dirty, this was what Lin Wei had always requested. Even if it is his own ally, the SS must monitor it at all times. , especially when this ally was still Italy, after hearing William II's words, Lin Wei calmly took out a dozen documents, flipped through them and said: "Your Majesty! The British garrison in Egypt, General Wavell's troops are at a disadvantage in terms of numbers. Extreme disadvantage. It can be said bluntly that the Italian army can crush them to death with all their men, but these two British divisions are not vegetarians. They are both steel troops with tenacious combat effectiveness: the 4th British-Indian Army commanded by Major General Pearson Division. Although this division is a mixed force composed of British and Indian troops, it has extremely rich desert combat experience and its strength cannot be underestimated. As for the other division, it is the famous British 7th Armored Division under Major General Clay. Division. This division is the leader of the British armored forces. It was cultivated by General Percy Hubbard, the pioneer of British armored warfare. It is known as the "best trained unit" in the British army, and its combat effectiveness is naturally imaginable."
"Go on!" William II nodded and said with interest.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Lin Wei bowed slightly and continued, "The combat effectiveness of the Italian Army is really worrying. During the Battle of France, the strength of nearly forty divisions was actually blocked by six dilapidated French divisions in France. On the border, as of the armistice between us and France, the Italians had not taken a step forward. It was also this battle that made me very worried about the combat effectiveness of the Italian army. Compared with Italy, France was better able to help Germany complete its planned war plan! In fact, by So far, the French have indeed demonstrated their own value, and the French government headed by Marshal Pétain currently has a good relationship with Germany! If there is still British maritime power in the Mediterranean, I will choose Italy without hesitation. They were beaten and disarmed, but at present, I think Italy will fail, but it can still hold its position! Because the British occupation force does not have many troops!"
"The most important thing is that on June 28, Marshal Balbo, Italy's top commander in Libya, was shot down by Italy's own anti-aircraft artillery while flying over Tobruk for inspection. The newly appointed Marshal Grazia is not familiar with the local Italy. Regarding the situation of the army, I believe that if Marshal Redel is allowed to command a division of troops to participate in a war, Marshal Redel's performance may not be better than that of any German soldier!" Lin Wei concluded.
Field Marshal von Blomberg and Army Commander General von Brauchitsch looked at each other and saw something strange. Lin Wei's reason could not explain the specific current situation of the Italian army at all. You must know that the French Army is larger than the British Army. The Chinese army is much stronger, and now that Italy has complete control of the sea, the British can only wait for reinforcements, but this reinforcement may never come. Britain itself is now blocked by the German submarine force. It can be said that the ships in the port Only half make it back. The British simply could not reinforce Egypt.
Lin Wei really couldn't explain why he was not optimistic about the Italian army. It was indeed bloody arbitrary to deny Italy's combat effectiveness just because of Lin Wei's glorious record in Italian history. However, according to the historical war between Italy and Britain, Italy only took half a year. In time, everything collapsed, let Hit? Rommel's African army was sent to the rescue. The lessons learned from the past are there. Once the British discover that the Axis powers' weakness is in Africa, it will undoubtedly contain Germany's huge energy. So no matter what, Lin Wei will try his best to prevent Mussolini's current mischief.
Although Lin Wei could not explain why he was not optimistic about Italy, Marshal von Blomberg, the commander-in-chief, was about to continue asking questions, but William II had already answered: "Lampard is right, Italy's poor performance in France It’s really disappointing. I think we still need to persuade Mussolini to give up this plan temporarily, at least until we land in the UK!” For William II, it didn’t matter whether Lin Wei’s reasons were sufficient or not. I just want people to voice their objections. It doesn't matter whether this objection can convince the public. All William II needed was an excuse, even if it was ridiculous.
Lin Wei and the two leaders of the Wehrmacht stopped arguing and waited for William II to make the final decision. After a long period of consideration, Wilhelm II said, "Well, let Ribbentrop go to Rome to persuade Mussolini and inform us of Germany's attitude! At the same time, in order to show Germany's With sincerity and gratitude to the Italian navy for helping with the landing, Germany can send troops to help Italy occupy Egypt!”
"Your Majesty is wise. It is urgent to land in the UK. You must make a decision between helping Italy and helping yourself!" Lin Wei complimented, "As for sending troops to help Italy occupy Egypt, I think the strength of one army is enough! There will be no delay. Our future battle!”
Marshal von Blomberg, the commander-in-chief, considered it for a moment and nodded, agreeing with William II's decision. Unfortunately, Ribbentrop had just finished his trip to Turkey and was about to board the plane back to London when he was informed to give up. He traveled to Rome, the capital of Italy, to meet with Mussolini. Ribbentrop, who was promoted to Minister of Foreign Affairs, could only continue his painful and happy career as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
"The Battle of Gibraltar in the Blue Plan has been successfully completed!" William II looked very happy after completing this matter, as if he had removed a piece of his heart, and said, "The Blue Plan must be completed as soon as possible, the empire's Military forces must be prepared where needed as soon as possible!" William II said tacitly while looking at the three people in front of him.
"Long live victory!" Lin Wei and the others certainly knew what the so-called new goals were, but it was still too early to talk about them now. The British Campaign was the most important thing at the moment.
But immediately, Commander-in-Chief Marshal von Blomberg spoke of the difficulties he was currently encountering, "We have assembled 168 transport ships, 1,910 barges, 419 tugboats and 1,600 motorboats. But these ships are still not enough. If we have to mobilize all German river ships to meet the requirements for landing in the UK, this will have a certain impact on our economy!"
"Huh?" William II hesitated and said, "On major issues, we must make appropriate choices instead of looking forward and backward! We only need one month, even if it delays some of the economy, the result of killing the British is still It will make the people think it is worth it! The other half of the blue plan, which is the British plan, cannot exceed August 20 at the latest, which means that my generals, you only have twenty days to prepare! "
"I wonder what preparations the SS has now!" William II suddenly asked curiously. Although the number of SS troops is only one-twenty-fifth of the Wehrmacht, their performance has far exceeded everyone's expectations of him. Looking forward to it, now that the Battle of London is about to begin, William II wants to know what the children of his old friends in front of him think.
"Of course the SS has its own preparations, but it is not sending troops to fight!" After Lin Wei finished speaking, he could clearly feel that Marshal von Blomberg and Army Commander-in-Chief General von Brauchit relaxed. Lin Wei said in an instant, "The SS will make its own contribution to the British landing operation from other aspects!"
"Go on!" William II said simply.
"In this battle, the SS will dispatch 5,000 Gestapo from all over Europe to cooperate with the Wehrmacht!" Lin Wei casually pulled out a few lists from the working committee bag again and said, "There are about 2,300 in them. A well-known British figure, I think controlling them will be beneficial to our occupation!"
William II took it and took a look and took a deep breath. Churchill is naturally on the list, along with cabinet members and prominent politicians of all parties. The list included prominent editors, publishers and reporters of newspapers, including Norman Ebut and Douglas Reed, two former Berlin correspondents for The Times who had published news that had displeased the Nazis. Some British writers received special attention. What stands out is that there is no name of Bernard Shaw, but there is H.G. Wells. Other writers include Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, J.B. Priestley, Stephen Spender, C.P. Snow, Noel Calder, Rebecca West, Sir Philip Gibbs and Norman Angell. Scholars were not spared, among them Gilbert Morey, Bertrand Russell, Harold Lasky, Petrice Weber and J.B.S. Haldan.
Not only that, the list provided by Linwei also includes many exiles from other countries in the UK. On its list are Badlevski, Freud and Chaim Weitzman, as well as Czechoslovak exiles. Government of President Beneš and Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk. Among the many German refugees, two were Hitters in the past? Le's personal friends and later opponents were Hermann Rauchning and Ernst Hanfstengl. Is this considered Lin Wei in Hit? After strangulation, remove a piece of his heart disease.
"Very good!" William II was very satisfied with Lin Wei's preparations. If a large number of British upper-class figures could be controlled, it would be beneficial to Germany's actions.
William II undoubtedly set the tone for Germany's current combat operations, that is, everything should be war first. After saying these things, William II sent Field Marshal von Blomberg and Army Commander General von Brauchitsch out, and then showed a fox-like smile to Lin Wei: "You know why I am alone?" Shall I keep you? Little one!"
"It seems that my application for army expansion has been approved!" Lin Wei said confidently. Recently, Lin Wei has been busy with small things, and the only big thing is to expand the army.
"What a smart man!" William II was not stingy with his praise, "But do you know my real intention?" William II looked at Lin Wei with piercing eyes and said.
"Balance!" Lin Wei said two words softly, believing that William II could understand the meaning. William II's eyes lit up as expected, "Little guy, I hope I didn't misjudge you!"
"I will be like my father and maintain my ancient loyalty to the royal family, just like I am to Germany!" Lin Wei bowed slightly, turned around and retreated.
William II stayed where he was, and after a long time he smiled and said, "What a thoughtful little guy, Gustav, you are so lucky to have such a son!"
Lin Wei received Wilhelm II's approval and immediately returned to the headquarters to hold a meeting. Heydrich and Louis were both present. At the meeting, Lin Wei dropped a bombshell about military expansion to many senior SS officers. And announced the designation of the future SS.
Behind the seven already formed SS divisions are the SS8 Florian Gale Division, the SS9 Hohenstaufen Division, the SS10 Frundsburg Division, the SS11 Nordic Division, and the SS12 Hitt? Le Youth Division, SS13 1st Croatian Division, SS14 1st Ukrainian Division, SS15 1st Latvian Division, SS16 National Leader Division, SS17 Gotz von Bersingen Division, SS18 Horst Wessel Division, SS19 2nd Latvian Division, SS20 1st Estonian Division, SS21 Skanderbeg Division, S22 Maria Theresa Division, SS23 Netherlands Division (1st Dutch Division), SS24 Karst Hunter Division, SS25 Hunyadi Division ( 1st Hungarian Division), SS26 Hungarian Division (2nd Hungarian Division), SS27 Lange Mark Division (1st Flemish Division), SS28 Walloon Division, SS29 1st Italian Division, SS30 1st Belorussian Division, SS31 Volunteer Grenadier Division, SS32 January 30th Division, SS33 Charlemagne Division (3rd Hungarian Division), SS34 Netherlands Territory Storm Division, SS35 Police Grenadier Division, SS36 Dirlewanger Division, SS37 Lützow Division, SS38 Nederland Division Bolong? Root Master.
After the announcement, Lin Wei looked at the confused people and said, "Many of the numbers on the list above are from other ethnic groups. This also shows that the SS in the future will no longer be a group composed entirely of Germans. , I hope you will not discriminate against divisions composed of other ethnic groups!"
"Leader, can so many ethnic groups form real combat effectiveness?" Deputy leader Louis, who has been responsible for recruit training and weapons and equipment, raised his own doubts. Although many senior cadres know that Louis is just a vest of leader Lampard. , but in this situation, only he can ask his own question.
"Although it is multi-ethnic, it is good if there is no problem of ethnic mixing!" Lin Wei answered, "For divisions composed of other ethnic groups, we only need to send Germans as senior commanders, and low-level The commanders are chosen by themselves! The first batch of soldiers of the above-mentioned ethnic groups will come from immigrants from the above-mentioned ethnic groups in Germany! Among them, those in Romania and Hungary should not make the Soviets feel sensitive! Volunteers from the three Baltic countries will also They are important members of the new batch of soldiers! But Louis, what I hope most is to recruit qualified soldiers from Belgium, the Netherlands and France!"
"I know what you mean!" Louis replied.
"If there are no more questions, let's move on to the next question!" Lin Wei continued, "As for the newly expanded troop establishment, I will refer to the previous establishment and make analogies!"
That is, the 1st SS Armored Division (Gendarme Division) has jurisdiction over: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4.5th Panzergrenadier Regiments, 1st Armored Corps, 1st Armored Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Air Defense Battalion, 1st Assault Artillery Battalion, 1st Armored Light Infantry Battalion, 1st Rocket Artillery Battalion, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Logistics Battalion. 2nd SS Armored Division (Imperial Division) has jurisdiction over: 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th Panzergrenadier Regiments, 4th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Corps, 2nd Armored Artillery Regiment, 2nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Air Defense Battalion, 2nd Rocket Artillery Battalion, 2nd Armored Light Infantry Battalion, 2nd Engineer Battalion, 2nd Logistics Battalion.
Mussolini finally agreed to William II's proposal and prepared to attack Egypt after the British Battle. This was because Mussolini also agreed with the Germans that if the British mainland fell, it would be The morale of the colonial troops overseas was dealt a devastating blow, so after receiving German guarantees on the Egyptian issue, Mussolini terminated Italy's plan to attack Egypt.
On August 1, Admiral Decortan, commander of the Italian naval fleet, and Admiral Darlan, commander-in-chief of the French navy, came to Berlin at the invitation of German naval marshal Raeder to discuss the issue of landing in Britain. cooperation plans between. On the same day, Wilhelm II personally announced that all German river ships and merchant ships would be mobilized for the future British campaign, and Germany's final preparations for the campaign had begun.
Faced with the aggressive momentum of the Germans, Churchill called on all British people to take up arms to resist a threat that had never been greater in British history.
But in the eyes of William II, the so-called resistance made by the British was nothing more than wishful thinking. Now Germany is in a strong position, and Britain has entered the abyss. As long as Germany adds more strength, the British will never be able to stand up. .
The eyes of the whole world have once again focused on the English Channel. In the past thousand years, Britain has relied on the natural dangers of the English Channel and its strong maritime power to avoid disasters again and again. I wonder if the goddess of luck will favor the British this time.
Wow, the network has been unstable recently. I don’t know when it went offline. I still can’t figure out the pattern, so I can only try my best to write it quickly and upload it first. I’m sorry. There is some water in this chapter, but that was not my intention! Let’s watch the ball first!