The Third Reich in Desperation

"Have you heard that the 10 German armor divisions in our country seem to have received a batch of new German equipment and upgraded their weapons. And our German armor division, I heard that they have also received a batch of German equipment named Weapon addition to the Stalker Tank Destroyer."

A well-informed guard, while standing guard for Franco's military meeting, quietly chatted privately with another tall guard who was also standing guard.

However, his colleague did not show the slightest surprise. Instead, he looked at the guard who thought he was well-informed with contempt: "Your news is out of date. You didn't listen to the announcement issued by German Head of State Reinhardt this morning." ?"

"Announcement on the counterattack against the Soviet Union?" The guard was getting more and more puzzled, and asked in doubt: "I didn't hear it. What's so good about this kind of announcement, isn't it just a lot of long-winded speeches by big men as usual? Moreover, this is not the same as ours. What does it matter if your German mechanic upgrades his equipment?"

Hearing what the guard said, the tall guard continued to preach: "It seems that you don't know why General Franco called this military meeting, do you?"

"I don't know." The well-informed guard's eyes were darkened, and he couldn't say anything.

"Hey, forget it, I'll tell you directly." The tall guard didn't give a shit, and directly explained to him: "The reason why our German engineers can get the new generation of equipment sent by the Germans is not because The Germans need us to continue fighting for them. This morning, the head of state of Germany already mentioned in his announcement that the Allied Powers’ counterattack against the Soviet Union’s army will soon be supported by multinational reinforcements, including Spanish troops.”

"Is there such a thing?!" The guard who thought he was well-informed at the beginning, now his eyes widened, and he looked at the tall guard with disbelief: "Why have I not heard even a little bit of news?" Didn’t you hear? It stands to reason that we in Spain shouldn’t have been ignorant of such a big event!”

Although this time, the news that the guards had was no longer so well-informed.However, he has always been very good at inquiring about news before.Therefore, his news inquiry network was unaware that Spain sent troops to assist Germany in countering the Soviet Union, which was abnormal.

"That's why General Franco called today's meeting..." The tall guard said, a little bit dumbfounded: "Even General Franco himself doesn't know about such a big thing as participating in the war!"

That's right, Franco was completely cheated.Without knowing it, he was also counted as a member of the anti-Soviet army by Reinhardt.

The most ridiculous thing is that Franco still dare not say no to Reinhardt's self-assertion.

In the whole of Europe, even a superpower like the British Empire was beaten by Germany to the point of subjugation.A second-tier country like Spain, which has been decimated by the civil war, has no courage to fight against Germany.

"Crack!" At the same time as the two guards were chatting about dereliction of duty, Franco in the meeting room was furious and smashed the cup in front of him.

"Reinhardt is trying to force us to join the German chariot! And without our own consent, he directly counted Spain into it!" Franco yelled in front of his cronies with some gaffes: "What qualifications does he have to ask us to declare war on the Soviet Union, and to send elite troops of 11 divisions to fight for them!"

Although, Spain, as a member of the Allied Powers, had formed an ally with Germany as early as the Civil War, so it should assume the obligation to fight the Soviet Union, besides.Reinhardt asked Franco to send 10 German-armed Spanish infantry divisions and 1 German-armed Spanish armored division. When he participated in the Spanish Civil War, he had clearly stated that the command belonged to Germany.

However, when he was actually asked to take on this obligation, Franco still felt reluctance in his heart.

Anyway, he was the leader of Spain, the dictator who ruled Spain.Whether or not Spain joins the international war should be decided by him, the leader of Spain, not by Reinhardt, the leader of the Germans.

In Franco's eyes, Reinhardt had clearly crossed the line.

Of course, he also admitted that Spain should indeed bear the military burden within the Allies and contribute to the alliance.Moreover, Spain's performance before this was indeed very unkind, and it was basically in a state of not contributing as much as it could.

As for the 11 German Machinist Expeditionary Forces that Reinhard asked the Spanish government to send, it was indeed the troops that Franco promised to hand over to the German generals in order to win the civil war.

However, because these troops were only commanded by Rommel once during the civil war.Immediately after the victory of the war, it was temporarily handed over to the Spanish Army Command following Rommel's departure. Therefore, Franco gradually almost forgot that the Germans still held the command of these 11 divisions.

4 years, since the end of the Civil War, 4 years have passed.In the past four years, Spain seems to have taken a lot of luck and enjoyed the status of a member of the Allied Powers, but it does not need to send a lot of manpower and material resources to fight against the hostile forces of the Allied Powers like Italy did.

To this day, they have been recalled, and they were directly asked to send a large expeditionary force of 11 divisions to participate in the battle.

Germany, on the other hand, first announced that Spain would participate in the war against the Soviet Union, and then told the Spanish government, "You must come to help."

Just asking for help is enough, the Germans even made regulations for helping pairs, requiring Spain to send 11 German mechanics to participate in helping.

This is outrageously annoying.Is this asking for help?It is clearly instructing people to act like cows and horses!

The most important thing is that Franco can't object yet.

Because of the limited national strength, and having personally seen the powerful combat capabilities of the German army, Franco now doesn't even have the confidence to use the entire Spanish army to block only 10 German divisions!

Franco still remembers Rommel's record of sweeping over 20 Republicans in and around Madrid with a single German division.

A division is so capable of fighting. If the Germans are not happy, they will send 10 divisions from the army recently transferred back from the United Kingdom, and Spain will be directly occupied.

In that case, Franco would not even be able to mess with his current status, he could only become a prisoner.

"Which one of you has any way to meet the demands of the Germans without letting our fate be completely tied to Germany?" Franco finally had to brainstorm to solve the problem: "After all, what if the Soviet Union ends up People have won, and I hope Spain can find an excuse to seek peace instead of entering into a deadly feud with the Soviet government."

Body 6 Fifty Chapters Spanish Volunteers

"Leader, I do have a suggestion." General Mora, who was sitting next to Franco, said lightly.

Because the Spanish army participated in civil wars before, and in the civil war, no matter how great their generals won, they could not be called famous generals.

The truly recognized famous generals must be generals who win foreign enemies for their own interests in foreign wars.Only by defeating a general of a foreign race can one be called a famous general.

And General Mora is a Spanish general who has achieved outstanding results but cannot be rated as a famous general.

In the civil war, Mora was defeated alone or with his allies, and killed and captured more than 30 soldiers of the Spanish Republican Army in total.

This is a huge achievement, but after all, it is just a family fight, and it is not a result that can be brought to the table.

This time, if he really sends troops according to Germany's request, then Mora, the general who is most likely to become a famous general in Spain, will have the opportunity to truly become the first famous general recognized by the world in modern Spain!

"Why, do you want to join the war?" Franco guessed that Mora wanted to seize the opportunity, and persuaded himself to accept Germany's suggestion to send troops.

Because of this, Mora can naturally become the leading general this time, and then rank among the world famous generals in one fell swoop.

"Yes, we must accept the requirements of the Allied Powers." Mora expressed his views without any concealment.

This point, Franco himself is also clear, they really do not have the confidence to refuse.

However, Franco, who has always been in love with speculation, really didn't want to send all the weight in his hand to the Allied camp at this time.

He originally planned to deal with the two major military blocs centered on Britain and Germany, watch the wind and turn the rudder, and take advantage of the contradictions between Britain, the United States, Germany, and Italy to gain benefits from it.

At the beginning, Spain had just ended its civil war and when Franco initially took power, Britain and France continued to assist Spain economically in order to prevent Franco from approaching the Axis powers, so as to win Spain to remain neutral in the war.

At that time, Franco, who had just gained power by relying on the assistance of Germany and Italy to send troops, turned around and used the wooing of Britain and France to prevent Germany and Italy from controlling themselves after the Spanish Civil War.

For this reason, Franco even deliberately put the name of the deputy commander-in-chief of the German SS, Steve, who was going to attend, behind Petain, who happened to be the French ambassador to Spain at that time, at the grand military parade in Madrid. .

Steve, who has always been easy to talk about, has been thinking about this matter for several years.Later, after Pétain himself surrendered to Germany, Steve also specially asked the Minister of the German Secret Police, Ross, to contact him during the next Paris military parade, inviting him to watch Pétain, and then put his name in front of Pétain .

In addition, after Britain and France declared war on Germany, Franco immediately declared Spain a neutral country.When Germany and Italy urged Spain to join the Axis powers in the war, Franco cautiously refused. He wrote a long letter with roughly the same content to Reinhardt and Mussolini respectively, meaning that if Germany If the head of state and the Italian leader can produce evidence that Germany and Italy will win, Spain will immediately join the war between the German and Italian steel groups.

Regarding this kind of letter, Reinhardt of course replied without hesitation, "I don't know whether Italy will win, but the powerful Third Reich will definitely win under the wise leadership of this head of state."

And Mussolini also maintained a surprisingly similar brain circuit to Reinhardt, replying that "Germany may fail, but Italy under the personal leadership of this leader must be invincible."

As a result, after both leaders presented Franco with "evidence" that they would win, Franco still did not join the war that Germany and Italy expected him to join.

However, at that time, Reinhardt didn't care whether Spain came or not, anyway, he was completely sure to win step by step.

But now, when encountering the Soviet-German war in the original history that eventually led to the collapse of the Third Reich, Reinhardt could no longer just sit back and watch Spain watch the excitement.

At this time, Franco finally stopped wandering between Britain, France and Germany and Italy. After all, Britain and France have been easily defeated by Germany one after another.

But he also wants to be a man in front of the Soviet Union and stay a line, so that we can meet each other in the future.

In Franco's eyes, there is really no definite result for the Soviet Union and the multinational coalition forces of the Allies, which side will win.