Empire in Progress

Chapter 466: Justice surrounded by evil

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When Lin Wei got on the plane and returned to Germany, the entire Moscow battle came to an end. The three surrounded Soviet armies were annihilated without any suspense. Marshal Bock, the commander of Army Group Center, also fulfilled his promise and advanced to Orekhovo, 70 kilometers east of Moscow. In the encirclement, the surrounded Soviet 28th Army, 16th Army, and 26th Army became the last spoils of the German army in 1941. This victory also greatly changed the relationship between Germany and The situation in the Soviet Union due to the fall of Moscow. The situation between the Soviet Red Army and the German Wehrmacht on a front of more than 1,000 kilometers has undergone a huge reversal. In the middle, which is the direction of Moscow, because Army Group Center controls Moscow, it greatly separates the Red Army forces in the south and north of the Soviet Union. connections between. A huge protrusion was formed, from which the Central Army Group had a clear advantage. It is conceivable that after the cold winter passed, in the spring of the next year, the Central Army Group could coordinate on both the north and south sides, whether it was going south or north. The German Army Groups South and North launched an offensive, and the offensive was extremely powerful.

But for the Soviet Union, this may not be so wonderful. The divided Soviet Red Army's northern and southern sides can no longer establish effective connections. If they want to deal with the German Army Group's attack in the second year, they can only bypass Moscow for support. , but the road conditions there are not much better than those in the swamp. However, these things had nothing to do with Lin Wei at this time. Away from the smoke-filled battlefield, Lin Wei seemed very refreshed at this time, or it would be an exaggeration to say that he was arrogant. All in all, when the German land collapsed from the airport, Lin Wei, who was full of excitement, just wanted to yell three times, calm down, calm down... With so many people here, this is not the time to go crazy, Lin Wei secretly thought.

Hess, Goebbels and others who picked him up at the airport were not outsiders, but somehow, so many reporters appeared on such an occasion, which surprised Lin Wei, "Goebbels didn't know that he could already be on camera now." Are there bullets in it? This is obviously irresponsible for my safety!" While cursing Goebbels in his heart, he had to wave with a bright smile. This was an image issue and he couldn't be careless at all.

"General, I heard that you were the first to lead the SS into Moscow?"

"General, I wonder what you thought when you were surrounded by millions of Red Army troops?" Just after getting off the plane, before Lin Wei could say anything, a large group of reporters rushed up to interview Lin Wei. Lin Wei answered these questions with a cold face, and then almost walked out of the airport. Then he glanced at Goebbels coldly. Needless to say, he knew that Goebbels had brought these reporters. But if you ask Lin Wei how he feels, Lin Wei can only say that it feels so damn good.

Returning to Yanger Villa in a hurry, he met Gustav and Berta as expected, "Father, mother, it looks like your bodies are still very strong!" After escaping from the encirclement, Lin Wei became a hero again. The perfect human being in everyone's eyes, all manners came back again when he returned to Germany. Lin Wei has always believed that even if you are really a hypocrite yourself, as long as you can pretend to be a hypocrite for a lifetime, you will be a gentleman in the eyes of others, and it will be the same if you are a German.

Gustav looked at his son with relief, his eyes unable to conceal his admiration from the inside out, and after a long time he said, "Well done, you put victory in the hands of Germany. You are a hero! However, you are a hero!" It’s still too dangerous to enter Moscow!”

"I never do anything I'm not sure about, including entering Moscow!" Lin Wei said confidently.

Berta said, "Forget it, the matter is in the past. Your father and I can't talk about you now, but Linda will not go through that difficult time!" While speaking, Berta & Krupp also pointed to the bedroom on the second floor. , an expression that says you are careful.

"I can handle it!" Seeing that the two old men were ready to see his joke, Lin Wei certainly couldn't admit defeat. He went up to the second floor with a righteous expression. When he opened the door, he saw Linda looking at him steadily. Obviously she already knew that Lin Wei was back. The fixed eyes made all Lin Wei's prepared excuses disappear. In fact, Lin Wei did not need excuses. Lin Wei had considered everything, but the only thing he had not considered was his wife. He felt sorry for Lin in this matter. Well done, and without any refutation.

"Come on, baby, I miss you so much!" Lin Wei couldn't help but hugged his wife immediately. Linda of course resisted and kept landing her pink fists on Lin Wei's body. After a while, she actually started crying. Lin Wei was so embarrassed that he quickly wiped her tears and kept saying, "I am fully prepared for everything I do, but this time I was wrong!" He kept apologizing and finally made Linda burst into tears. After all, her husband It is a very happy thing to return to Germany safely.

Happy life is always short, the war is not over, Lin Wei's busy life will naturally continue, but this can no longer change Germany's inevitable victory. On the second day after returning to Berlin, Lin Wei once again went to the Supreme Command at No. 10 Bandler Street and voluntarily resigned from the position of Commander-in-Chief of the German Army on the Eastern Front. Lin Wei only wanted to use this move to make the commanders of the Wehrmacht You know, he himself is not a person who is greedy for power, or perhaps only Lin Wei himself understands that it is not the time yet. Lin Wei's life has only passed less than half of the time, so there is no need to pay too much attention to this matter. After the war, Lin Wei's performance will sooner or later be able to sit on the position of German Chancellor, oh, maybe the Prime Minister.

Lin Wei has set the tone for his performance in future wars. Wars cannot be won only by the army. In modern wars, Germany's industrial strength and production capacity are equally important. Within a week, Lin Wei handed over the command of the SS to General Paul Hausser and Dietrich, completely turning him into a man without official status and light body. He concentrated on doing what he was supposed to do, taking control of the Krupp family, the backbone of the German military industry.

Although they have been idle, everyone knows that this is a superficial phenomenon and the SS has never been out of Lin Wei's control. On the other hand, Lin Wei is still waiting for something big enough to shock the world. If history is correct, this should have happened in December.

While constantly trying to find ways to increase Germany's military production, Lin Wei continued to use the Gestapo to inquire about news between Japan and the United States. News came back immediately. As in history, the United States froze economic and trade with Japan, the most important of which was high-octane oil. Without oil, Japanese planes could not fly into the sky, ships could not sail in the sea, and Japan would not be able to continue its external expansion. After learning this news, Lin Wei knew that Japan's action was unavoidable, not to mention that it was now Germany's time to steal the show, and Japan would definitely not have any scruples.

After making a basic judgment, Lin Wei spent the rest of the time waiting for the incident to happen. Sure enough, Japan really did not disappoint Lin Wei. On November 26, the Japanese Navy launched a force consisting of six aircraft carriers as the main force. The fleet left Japan and headed for Pearl Harbor under the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. The fleet maintained complete radio silence during the trip. In addition to these six aircraft carriers, the Japanese fleet also included two battleships, three cruisers, nine destroyers, and three submarines. In addition, eight tankers and two destroyers were waiting in the North Pacific.

The battle began on December 8, and twelve U.S. Navy battleships and other ships were sunk or damaged. One hundred and eighty-eight aircraft were destroyed, one hundred and fifty-five were damaged, and 2,400 Americans were killed. Thousands of people died when the USS Arizona exploded and sank alone.

The success of the attack on Pearl Harbor angered the United States, and the next day the U.S. Congress unanimously passed a bill declaring war on Japan. Now, it’s time to talk about Germany’s performance again. On the second day after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, William III immediately convened a meeting of the National Defense Forces. At this time, Lin Wei remembered that he was the leader of the SS. No one informed him Under the circumstances, he came to the headquarters uninvited.

Facing Marshal Raeder and William III, Lin Wei urged them to let the German Navy attack the Atlantic Ocean and to keep at least half of the U.S. Navy in the Atlantic Ocean. Lin Wei's reason was simple, "Your Majesty, Dear Marshal, I am sure you two are aware of the hostility of the United States towards Germany. In the long run, it will be easy for the United States to mobilize all its strength to deal with the Japanese. It can reverse the situation in the Pacific in half a year at most. Therefore, we must help the Japanese. This is not for Japanese, in fact, I hate Japan very much. This is for Germany. The more balanced the strength of the two sides, the longer the bloody battle, the better for us Germany. It is best to let both countries die together! Now we don’t need to worry about the alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union , with the current situation of the Soviet Union, the empire will be able to achieve a decisive victory in one year. If we help Japan and prolong Japan's resistance, it will definitely cause heavy losses to the United States. By then we have defeated the Soviet Union, and the Americans should We have also firmly achieved absolute advantage. The war is over!"

William III and Marshal Raeder were obviously moved by Lin Wei, especially Marshal Raeder who agreed very much with Lin Wei's suggestion. So when the Japanese navy was still raging in Southeast Asia, the German navy's large-scale deployment, and its obvious hostility, immediately frightened the United States. The damaged U.S. Navy was obviously not the opponent of Germany and Japan combined. You must know that Germany was already close to Settled the Soviet Union. The German Navy simply took no further action, but the U.S. Navy was still wary of the German Navy at all times. After entering the 1930s, the U.S. Navy had not encountered such a thing for a long time.

The war on the Eastern Front fell silent with the arrival of the cold winter, but both Germany and the Soviet Union knew that next year would be the moment when the war determines life and death, and the war then would be a real competition of national strength. In the spring of the next year, after a winter's rest, the two countries began a life-and-death battle again. The Soviet Union, which had lost its general industrial areas and more than half of its population, was no longer Germany's opponent. After a year of development and mobilization, Germany's industrial production capacity reached a new high in 1942. Panther tanks rolled off the production line at a rate of 800 units per month. With the help of German soldiers mobilized from various garrisons, the war had already begun. The suspense of victory or defeat was completely lost. As Germany proved that it could win without the help of any country, Eastern European countries began to prepare to share a piece of meat from the Soviet Union, and each of them used their best efforts to prepare for a piece of cake in the future.

This process was as dirty as ever. With the victory already determined, Lin Wei began to use the name of the government to influence the strategy of the National Defense Forces. He chose actions to preserve strength several times, and even led the Soviet Red Army to the front line of the Turkish army to let them Rush. The results were very obvious. The Soviet Red Army even invaded Turkey for a time. However, none of this affected the final outcome. In the first half of 1943, Stalin had to pray to Germany for peace, regardless of his unwillingness. The Soviet Union really can no longer fight. During the same period, due to threats from the German and Japanese navies, the United States, which mobilized all its strength, also completely suppressed Japan, leaving only the final step to land in Japan.

In the second half of 1943, the United States, which had fully used its strength to deal with Japan alone, successfully landed without exception. But the Japanese's desperate resistance also cost the Americans a huge price. Likewise, Germany, which had paid millions of lives, was unwilling to continue the war. The two sides began to sit down and negotiate. The treaty was modeled on the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty during World War I. Germany demanded that the Soviet Union cede Belarus and Ukraine plus the territory east to the Diberny River, while the north insisted on Lenin's death. Grad was placed under German territory, requiring the Soviet Union to cede a total of 3.2 million square kilometers of territory, which would account for 90% of the country's coal mining, 73% of its iron ore, 54% of its industry, and 33% of its railways. Legally owned by Germany. The Soviet Union expressed that this was unacceptable, while Germany's attitude was very tough, and it would either cede territory or continue the war. At this time, the Soviet Union had almost exhausted all the people who could join the army. It was impossible to continue the war and could only accept the German proposal.

The Soviet Union lost half of its European territory and almost half of the entire country. What was even worse was that it lost more than half of its population. The population under the control of the Soviet Union had a very short male population due to the war. Even if With industries preserved and no population to mobilize these industries, the Soviet Union has completely lost the capital to compete with the United States and Germany. Time is more precious now. With the development of technology, the gap between the Soviet Union and the United States and Germany will only become wider and wider.

The United States and Germany solved their opponents in the two major battlefields, and the Cold War inevitably began. Germany participated in the war for much longer than the United States and suffered greater losses. Its economy is not a rival to the United States, but it is much stronger than the Soviet Union after World War II in history. If people think that Germany will have the upper hand in the Cold War, they are definitely wrong. For example, who was stronger in 1950, the Soviet Union or the United States? At that time, the United States was in its golden age, and the Soviet Union had just emerged from the huge losses suffered in the Great Patriotic War. The United States was several times the size of the Soviet Union in terms of economy and industry. But twenty years later, the world saw a situation where the Soviet Union was aggressive and the United States was retreating step by step. Although this was due to the United States' defeat in the Vietnam War, it cannot be denied that the Soviet Union itself was enough to challenge the United States after twenty years.

Of course, Germany's situation is much stronger than that of the Soviet Union, and its losses are much smaller than that of the Soviet Union. Moreover, it has enough allies, such as the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, to help Germany draw its strength infinitely closer to the United States. Perhaps economically, Germany It is not an opponent of the United States, but from another aspect, the German military is also a huge pillar force. The Soviet Union's economy has never surpassed that of the United States at any time, but the United States does not dare to underestimate the Soviet Union anytime and anywhere. This is the embodiment of the Soviet Red Army. place of value.

When the Cold War began, Germany actually had the upper hand in the initial confrontation, and Germany's own economy had no problems and was not comparable to the Soviet Union. This also marked that this Cold War would not end in just a few decades. After fifteen years in power, the Socialist Party declared independence in 1960, perhaps as an opposition party. But for a long time, no party has been able to challenge the status of the National Socialist Party. In terms of foreign policy, Germany has always chosen to maintain relations with authoritarian countries. This is because the dictator's country can guarantee policy continuity for a long time. Democratic countries cannot guarantee this. Whether these countries are democracies or not has nothing to do with politics.

What is justice? What is evil? Although Germany later opened up*, it is still a country controlled by Junker landlords. In this country, major companies and Junker landlords are still the dominant ones, and the Germans are far less free than the United States. , although enjoying the election, it has not had any impact on the politics that Germany itself has formed. The United States is much more lenient than Germany. From a democratic perspective, the United States is of course righteous and Germany is evil, but will justice definitely defeat evil? This is not necessarily the case!

During the duration of the Cold War between Germany and the United States, Germany replaced the United States' role of containing the Soviet Union and became Germany's containment of the United States. And Germany has sufficient conditions to do this because many countries in South America have maintained relations with Germany. They have good relations with each other, and these dictators are all friends of Lin Wei. Therefore, with so many advantages, during the Cold War, people were shocked to find that Germany, with half the population and territory of the United States, actually played the role of an attacker. Fortunately, the conditions and industrial comprehensiveness of the United States are very high. Although it is at a disadvantage, it is still able to handle it with ease. Its more balanced strength also greatly extended the Cold War. When the twentieth century passed, the Cold War continued.

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