The Third Reich in Desperation

The gift that Reinhardt prepared for Antonescu is very interesting, that is Horia Simma, the leader of the Iron Guard who fled to Germany for refuge.

Hollya Simma's escape trip was actually hosted by Ross.

The reason why Ross received the leader of the Romanian Iron Guard was largely because of the great resonance between the other party and Ross.

First of all, the Iron Guard has a lot in common with the Gestapo in ideology, which makes Ross feel a natural intimacy.

In a way, the Iron Guard is like the German Gestapo's relatives in Romania. Both sides have the same form, the same belief model, and the same emphasis on ideology.

And the most interesting thing is that Horia Sima is actually a very mediocre leader, and he basically has no merits to praise.The only thing that is special is that Horia Sima's thinking is more extreme.

It is precisely because there are no outstanding figures in the entire Iron Guard, Reinhardt can only hope that Antonescu, the only outstanding handsome, will be the future dictator of Romania.

But Ross did not give up. He always believed that Horia Sima was easier to control than Antonescu, and supporting the Iron Guard was more beneficial to Germany's interests.

However, Rose was unwilling to oppose Reinhardt's will, so he did not refute Reinhardt's decision to choose Antonescu, but on the other hand he accepted Horia Simma's request to flee, using the Gestapo to The power of Romania brought Horia Sima to Germany.

"My head of state," Ross asked inconceivably when he heard that Reinhardt had come to find him to hand over Horia Sima, "Maybe we shouldn't hand Horia Sima over to Anton Scu. This is a card in our hand that can be used to threaten Antonescu at any time."

Although Rose tends to be mediocre in ability, his loyalty to Reinhardt is unquestionable.

The reason why he proposes this kind of proposal now is essentially considering the interests of Reinhardt, and is making profits for the empire of the head of state.

However, Reinhardt could not accept Rose's heartfelt suggestion.

He has a different opinion, another one that controls Antonescu.

Reinhard shook his head and sighed, "Threatening Antonescu through Horia Sima is not our best option."

He took out a pen from his pocket meaningfully and handed it to Rose, and asked as an example: "If this is a pen with consciousness, now I want to control him and let him use it when I write."

"Then, instead of using another pen to compete with him and threaten him." Reinhardt paused here, and then continued: "It's better, we hold the ink needed for the pen in our hands, use interests to lure him."

Rose quickly understood the metaphor of Antonescu and Horia Cima as two pens.

"So, my lord. Do you mean that as long as we have enough interests as 'ink' to lure Antonescu, the effect will be better than threatening him?" Ross looked into Reinhardt's eyes asked.

"That's right. The 'ink' we want to give to Antonescu is a large piece of Soviet land." Reinhard saw that his metaphor was quickly understood, so he smiled and said: "To Antonescu Yes, including the two northern provinces of Romania occupied by the Soviet Union. Recovering lost territory is a great honor for any leader of the country."

"In addition, we can also give a large amount of Soviet land east of the Transnistria to the Romanians as war dividends. The premise is that they will help us fight these lands from the Soviets."

"If we talk about recovering the lost land, we can restore Antonescu's previous regrets. Then expanding the original territory and opening up more land for the country is an opportunity for Antonescu to win a great reputation!"

"Then Antonescu has no reason to reject us?" Rose asked excitedly after hearing this.

"That's right!" Reinhardt said with a conceited smile: "Not only will he not refuse, but he will also work harder to help us conquer the city on the southern front. In this way, the Chen army will bear more burdens for us." casualties and consume more Soviet troops."

I saw Reinhardt raised his fingers, stretched out his index finger and middle finger, and made a gesture of two: "One more point, the large area east of the Dniester River needs a lot of troops to occupy. Such a It is obviously not cost-effective for us to spend a sum of troops."

"Let Romania occupy this land, and at the same time let them use the dozen or so third-rate divisions left in the country to help us occupy the rear Soviet-occupied area. Anyway, these third-rate Romanian divisions staying in the country will not be of any use, it is better to lure Antonescu took out these low-strength troops to help us as an occupying force."

After a series of analysis, Rose has fully figured out Reinhardt's method of controlling Romania and mobilizing Antonescu.Compared with coercion, the head of state is obviously more keen on inducing.

"In this case, our head of state, the leaders of the Iron Guards and their 14 senior leaders who fled to us, what should we do? Should we return them to Antonescu?"

"Iron Guards members are not qualified politicians. They will only act on their own rights, plunder, revenge, and massacre Jews, and do whatever they want." Reinhardt said with disgust: "We can't keep these people. Useful. Even if I make an assumption that the empire needs a group of people to establish a Romanian puppet regime, choosing another group of politicians from the Romanian political circle who are willing to cooperate is more useful than these iron guards."

"Send it to Antonescu, just treat it as a personal gift from us to him." Reinhardt waved his hand and instructed Rose: "Let Antonescu, the Romanian 'chief' It's not bad to take a favor from us, after all, we will use him more in the future."

When Reinhardt called Antonescu, he specially emphasized the word "leader", which is actually a kind of interest resonance.

In today's Europe, Reinhardt, the German leader, prefers to call himself "Führer", while the previous Italian dictator Mussolini preferred to call himself "Leader".

Now that Mussolini's life is hanging by a thread, almost no one calls him "the leader".But Franco, the Spanish dictator, still likes to be called the "leader" as always.

And Romania's newly promoted dictator, Antonescu, liked to be called "the chief".

As for the Finnish military leader, Mannerheim, he likes to be called "Marshal" the most.

From this point of view, every leading figure in the Allied countries has their own habit of addressing them.When these leaders joined forces, their various titles made it easier for reporters to distinguish and report.

For example, the latest report in Romania's official newspaper is "a gift from the head of state to the leader - the Iron Guards fled to high-level officials"

Text Chapter 655 Reinhardt's Purpose

In the frontline headquarters on the Soviet-Finnish border, Mannerheim felt as if he had been tricked.However, he couldn't figure out where he was cheated.

The Germans agreed to dispatch troops to assist them in recovering their lost ground, and then expanded to a larger territory that did not belong to them, thus establishing the Kingdom of Greater Finland.

Whichever way you look at it, it's a good thing.

The only thing Finland needs to pay is to dispatch a large army to keep up with the combat rhythm of the entire camp of the Allied Powers, advance all the way to East Karelia within the specified date issued by the German Command, and then occupy there.

Anyway, this is also Finland's own strategic goal, and sooner or later it needs to be completed.Joining hands with the Germans now means that a deadline has been set.

Perhaps this kind of rapid advance combat plan is too burdensome for the Finnish army, which will lead to a large casualty ratio.

However, Finland does not have the national strength to fight a protracted war. To be able to win a quick battle, of course we have to do our best to fight for it.

"Marshal, our main force has cooperated with the German Allied Forces to defeat the garrison troops deployed by the Soviet Army on the border. The Air Force has also cooperated with the German Air Force to destroy most of the fighter planes in the northern airport of the Soviets."

The report of the Chief of Staff of the Finnish Army gave Mannerheim a reassurance.

In the original Soviet-Finnish War, the Finnish Air Force has always been at a disadvantage.Although the record is impressive, the Finnish Air Force is completely incapable of competing head-on with the Soviet Air Force for air supremacy.

And now, in the previous attack on Germany's eastern defense line, the Soviet Air Force was largely destroyed by the anti-aircraft firepower deployed by the Germans in East Prussia-West Poland-controlled area-Southern Province.

This is not over yet. As the attacking party, the Soviet Air Force was frantically intercepted and killed by more advanced German fighter planes. Often after participating in an air raid, only a small part of the Soviet fighter planes could return to the airport.

This is no unexpected difficulty.

After all, the German Air Force has already achieved overwhelming air supremacy on the British battlefield.

As a result, the entire western part of Germany, including the capital of Berlin, no longer had any need to deploy anti-aircraft firepower.

Reinhardt first ordered that the anti-aircraft artillery seized by Germany in France, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, and other countries over the years will be gradually transferred to the United Kingdom one week before the start of the British campaign. Transported on the Eastern Front and deployed on the Soviet-German border defense line.

Afterwards, when Operation Sea Lion officially started, the Allied Forces of the Three Allied Powers landed on the mainland of Britain smoothly.

So Reinhardt further ordered that the anti-aircraft artillery originally deployed in Germany should be shifted to the east, which almost wiped out the anti-aircraft artillery in the west of Germany, and the supersaturated deployment was in eastern Germany.

In addition, in recent years, through Rossi's network, a large number of anti-aircraft artillery were directly imported from Italy at a low price, and then shipped directly to the Soviet-German border without transit.The anti-aircraft firepower on the Soviet-German border has reached a very sufficient level.

This leaves the Soviet Air Force Alexander.

Originally, most of them were backward in performance. Although there were advanced fighters, most of them had low performance to avoid the weak anti-aircraft firepower of the Soviet Air Force. During the half-month offensive, the losses had reached an unimaginable level.

Of course, there is also the reason why the main force of Germany's own air force is deployed on the eastern front, and it can take off at the nearest airport to strangle with the Soviet air force and shoot down a large number of Soviet aircraft.