The Third Reich in Desperation

The captain glanced at the nine new brothers who came back, turned his head and snorted coldly and said, "Hmph, Lieutenant Colonel Tim, don't be complacent. Today is Saturday, if you have the guts, let's try again next Monday!"

Lieutenant Colonel Tim smiled smugly, shrugged his shoulders and said with an indifferent expression: "Hey, stay with me anytime!"

The captain glanced at Ren and the others, and said with a cold snort with a complicated expression: "Hmph, rookies, today's training is over, go to the hospital to report first, and continue training tomorrow..."

"..." Ren and the others were speechless, wondering what the captain meant?

Do you have the guts to continue the competition next week?They beat nine out of a hundred, and it is nine of us who should really have the courage!

What are you doing, dragging them here every week to seek abuse?

But thinking that the other party was the officer, the nine of them had no choice but to swallow sullenly, left the training ground under the captain's slogan, and walked towards the hospital under the eyes of a group of soldiers with mocking eyes behind them.

Ren and the others did not know that after this training, the captain had already made a rough assessment of their strength in his heart.And, perhaps in the near future, they will be sent to the battlefield as a strategic reserve team and officially begin their missions.

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And further east of the Warsaw training base where Rennes and the others are located is the Soviet Union that already borders Germany.

Recently, as the Third Reich defeated the Anglo-French-Belgian Allied Forces in the west, the Soviet Union's plan has also unfolded in an orderly manner.

On May 5, the Soviet Union sent a note to the Romanian government, demanding that the Bessarabia region be returned to the Soviet Union on the grounds that the policy of the Romanian military dictatorship seriously threatened the security of the southwestern border of the Soviet Union. was demarcated) and "handed over" North Bukovina (in which the Moldovans were the majority) to the Moldovan Confederate States of the USSR.

The Romanian military government naturally resisted strongly, and immediately sent a note to the German ambassador.However, like the Finnish campaign, Reinhardt did not ask the German Foreign Ministry to respond to Romania's request for help in line with the idea of ​​bringing Romania together to deal with the Soviet Union in the future.

After all, if Germany helps Romania today, the benefit it will get is nothing more than the Romanian government providing more and lower-priced oil.For Germany, which owns and develops the oil fields in the north, this kind of return is really uninteresting.

On the contrary, if Romania is occupied by the Soviet Union today.Then, in the battle against the Soviet Union in the future, this country will join the camp of Germany in order to regain its territory and provide a huge number of servants from the two armies.

It is often said that Finland is Germany's best ally.But in Reinhardt's view, the most powerful ally of the Third Reich was not the Finnish army, but the Romanian army.

Although the Finnish army severely damaged the Soviet army in the Soviet-Finnish War, it is obvious to all.But don't forget that Finland's Mannerheim defense line and weather built by favorable terrain are very favorable conditions.

Furthermore, the cooperation between Finland and Germany has always been half-hearted in history. After regaining the lost territory, they are very reluctant to continue to cooperate with the German army.Almost no participation in German-led operations.

Romania, as a servant of Germany in World War II, not only participated in the battle against the Soviet Union.Moreover, after regaining all the territory, he continued to participate in the war against the Soviet Union, tightly tying his own destiny with that of the Third Reich.

More importantly, a large part of Romania's troops are completely handed over to German commanders and completely obey the dispatch of German officers.

What kind of concept is this? Take the initiative to hand over the army of your own country to an allied country, and bear the burden of hard work, and earnestly accept all orders from the commanders of the allied countries.This is simply a selfless, exemplary ally!

You must know that in history, Manstein was promoted to marshal in the Crimean Battle, which was fought by commanding the German 11th Army and a Romanian Army at the same time.In Manstein's memoirs, it is also very clear that he has complete command over the Romanian Army.

The friendly forces provided by Romania were also highly praised by Manstein as the most powerful allies among all German allies (including the Finnish allies).

In the early days of the Eastern Front, the Luo army assisted the German army to encircle a large number of Soviet troops in Kiev.It can be said that there is still a certain fighting power.

Later, the Romanian Fourth Army was the main force, capturing the Soviet Black Sea port city of Odessa alone, cutting off the channel for the Soviet Union to send troops and supplies from the Black Sea to Ukraine through Odessa, and drawing out troops for the German army to invade the Soviet hinterland.

You know, the Odessa defense zone of the Soviet Union is a super large defense zone that governs the Soviet Independent Primorsky Army, the Odessa base of the Black Sea Fleet and the militia.The Soviet army even built three lines of defense around the urban area of ​​Odessa, consisting of trenches, bunkers, and anti-tank artillery positions, and the defenses were heavily guarded.

In order to defend Osad, part of the Soviet Army's Independent Primorsky Army and the Black Sea Fleet were ordered to stick to Odessa to ensure that its Southern and Southwest Fronts received maritime support and supplies. The Soviets attached great importance to it.

But it was such a powerful Soviet defense zone that was captured by Romanian troops.

With such a record, Romania can be said to be the second main participating country in the German camp, second only to the Third Reich.Among the many Allied armies on the German Eastern Front, the Romanian Army deserves to be the strongest Allied army!

And such the best ally that Germany has ever encountered in history is what the Soviet Union is pushing to Germany now.

Chapter 373 Romania's Choice ([-])

In Bucharest, the capital of Romania, King Carol II of Romania convened Minister of Military Affairs Jan Antonescu and General Pierre Dumitescu and others to conduct an important discussion secretly in his palace .

The atmosphere is oppressive and heavy.In the silence, several high-level Romanian figures who gathered here all cast their eyes on the Prime Minister Antonescu who was holding his hand.

Yes, they saw Minister Antonescu, not King Carol II.

The reason for such a weird situation is not because Antonescu is arbitrarily authoritarian and unreasonably committed to emptying the king's power.

On the contrary, this situation in which the minister's prestige exceeds the king's is a coincidence of your wish.

Let's talk about Military Minister Antonescu first.This person studied military theory in a military academy in France in his early years.He also served in the Romanian Army as a mid-level officer in World War I.After the end of World War I, he followed the army of the Kingdom of Romania to suppress Hungary, the old enemy country.

In peacetime, Antonescu served successively as the military attache of the Romanian government in France and the British embassy.In 1934, he was exceptionally promoted to Chief of Staff of the Romanian Army. In 1939, last year, he was further promoted to Romanian Minister of Military Affairs.

And such an excellent military general is actually highly regarded by the Romanian royal family.

So, why did the highly regarded Antonescu blatantly dare to overshadow King Carol II of Romania?

This has to mention Carol II, the wonderful Romanian king.

As the famous "love the beautiful woman who doesn't love the country" in European history, the Merry King is even more notorious than Edward VIII of England.This guy, Carol II, was wrong to be the king of Romania, and he gave up the throne twice for love and ran away.

Carroll's first elopement was during World War I.

Prince Carol, who was still serving in the army at the time, fell in love with a civilian woman named Ziz Lambolina.Although he knew that according to the Romanian national constitution, marriage between a prince and a commoner would deprive him of the right to heir to the throne, but he still did not hesitate.

In the end, he became a deserter, eloped with the woman named Zizz Lambolina, fled to Russia, and secretly married in Odessa.

Abandoning the throne for a lover, this kind of thing is an extremely nonsense event in any country.

But even more nonsense, Carol was forcibly sent back to the country, and then the Romanian court ruled that his marriage to Lambolina was invalid, and ruled that their son Mercia was an illegitimate child, forcibly restoring Carol's right to the throne.

This is not over yet, the Romanian royal family also thought of a "good way" out of their minds, and introduced the well-matched Greek princess Helen to marry Carol to help him forget his previous lover.

But what the Romanian royal family did not expect was that Carol really quickly forgot about Lamborina, but not long after, he also forgot Helen who had just given birth to his son, and at the same time fell in love with the Jewish slave. Elena.

In the era of widespread anti-Semitism in Europe, Carol had to give up the right to succession to the throne again and eloped with his lover Elena.

This time, he went to Paris.

After Carol eloped, King Ferdinand of Romania at the time was speechless, so he had no choice but to designate Carol and Helen's son Michael as the heir to the throne, and legislated to abolish Carol's right to succession to the throne.

Then, after Ferdinand's death in 1927, Michael, who was only six years old, became king and was regented by his uncle Nicholas, Romanian Orthodox Bishop Christie and Romanian Supreme Court Justice Buzdugen.

Then, the factional struggles in the Romanian Parliament became more and more fierce, and the regent had no influence at all. Romania became more and more turbulent and faced a serious economic crisis.It was against this background that some politicians remembered Carroll on a whim, thinking that his return might be able to quell the strife among various parties and political forces.

As a result, the Romanian Parliament quickly abolished the ban on Carol becoming the heir to the throne and brought Carol back from abroad.

The really weird thing is coming!Carol, who was taken back to the country, officially inherited the throne from his son Michael and became Carol II.

The fact that a father inherits the throne from his son is really awesome.

Therefore, how could a person like Carol, who was neither suitable nor willing to be a king, manage the country well.It was Minister Antonescu who really established the prestige.

At this moment, Antonescu stood with his hands behind his back, standing next to King Carol II with an extremely ugly face.

At this time, the unreliable king could not be counted on.The only one who can lead Romania out of crisis is Antonescu!