The Third Reich: The Return of the King

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“Rommel made a good start in Africa, especially in winning over the enemy and making him his younger brother!”

The mustache was very happy with Rommel’s performance. He thought that Rommel played very well and established the victory of the empire in Africa in a very short time. Moreover, he did not pay much price. It took only two battles with little loss to eliminate the British stronghold in North Africa!

Such performance is almost the same as the three famous generals!

“His performance is indeed good. After taking over Aiji, our army can go south, north, or west. The initiative is completely in our hands. What to do next is entirely up to us!”

Mainz was also pleased with Rommel’s performance.

Historically, Rommel fought well in North Africa and completely reversed the Italians’ bad situation.

However, due to the lack of sea control in the Mediterranean, the German army’s logistics supply was very difficult.

In addition, he met Montgomery, his nemesis, which led to the deterioration of the war situation in North Africa and eventually he was completely driven out of North Africa.

Rommel was not highly regarded within the German army, and the reason was very simple, because the real strength of the German army was never gained by brushing experience from the Allied forces on the Western Front or in Africa, but was fought through bloody battles on the Soviet-German battlefield on the Eastern Front!

So the three famous Among the generals, whether it is Guderian or Manstein, their actual battle records are much more impressive than Rommel’s.

Needless to say, Manstein is the number one general of the German army and an undisputed figure.

Guderian achieved extremely impressive results in the early stages of the war. Many large-scale annihilation battles were fought because he led the tank army as a pioneer, outflanking and cutting off the Soviet army’s retreat, which led to the subsequent huge results. Moreover, Guderian was dismissed from the battlefield, so he did not make any achievements later. If the mustache had not dismissed him so early, his battle record might not be just that.

As for Model, this guy collapsed in the later stages of the war. At that time, he used his defensive skills to act as a firefighter on the Eastern Front, and his performance was remarkable. Therefore, he frequently appeared in the later period of the war and was very well-known. Rommel had never faced the Soviet army and had never been to the Eastern Front. Even when facing the Allies, he became a sinner of the empire because of the failures in North Africa and Normandy.

If the failure was caused by inferior strength or the limitations of objective conditions, it would be excusable. For example, the Battle of El Alamein in North Africa, the responsibility for this failure was really not on Rommel. It would be difficult for anyone to fight because the Allies had too great an advantage!

But the failure in Normandy was really unimaginable, so at the critical moment , he was not at the front line, not at the headquarters, which led to the German army missing the best time to counterattack. This was also the biggest black pot on Rommel. The mustache chose to kill him, probably to punish him!

Among the three famous generals, Guderian and Mann finally had a good end, but Rommel was killed by the mustache early, which has to be said to be a bit sad.

And this era is also in, but Rommel’s motherland is no longer the same as it used to be. Even without Italy as an ally, the support Hans can provide to Rommel is not comparable to the Third Reich in history, so Rommel’s stage in Africa is infinitely broad, and Mainz is very optimistic about his performance!

“Many of these areas in the Middle East were previously the territory of Turkey. After World War I, Turkey lost control of these areas, and most of these areas fell into the hands of the British Empire!”

Mainz’s gaze passed the Suez Canal and entered the Middle East and West Asia.

This area was just a worthless chicken rib area at that time. It was full of deserts, sparsely populated, and extremely poor. It had no sense of existence in the world, and few people paid attention to it.

However, a few decades later, when the oil here was discovered and mined, its strategic position rose rapidly and it directly became the most strategically important region in the world.

The Middle East has extremely rich oil reserves. It has more than 70% of the world’s oil reserves, with a total reserve of more than 100 billion tons!

Such terrible oil reserves have made these oil-producing countries in the Middle East rich. But the enemy countries have provoked countless wars here around the oil. Since the end of World War II, there have been wars in the Middle East all the time, and there has almost never been peace!

At this time, the oil production in the Middle East is still very low. This is not because there is no oil here, but because the world has not yet completely entered the era of internal combustion engines, so the consumption of fuel is not large. Europe has its own oil fields. The oil production of the United States even exceeds 100 million tons, which is enough to meet its own needs and can even be exported.

The bear also has the Caucasus oil fields that can be mined and exported to Europe. In this case, the oil needs of European countries can be met. , so the external demand is not very large, and naturally there is not much motivation to look for oil all over the world!

However, in the future, that may not be the case!

With the advent of the internal combustion engine era, the world’s oil consumption is increasing day by day. The large amount of oil consumption has made the oil production of existing oil-producing countries increasingly unable to meet consumption, and most of the world’s oil is in the Middle East, so whoever can control it can control the lifeline of countries around the world!

With such important strategic and economic value, how could the Third Reich ignore such a region?

So after Mainz learned of the victory of the Battle of the Suez Canal, the first order was not to let Rommel go south or west, To further attack the British and French troops in Africa, he sent some troops northwards and began to enter the Middle East to expel the British troops here and turn this place into Hans’s territory!

Among them, Mainz focused on the area around the Persian Gulf.

The oil reserves in this area are the richest in the entire Middle East.

No matter how other areas are dealt with, this place must definitely belong to Hans, and it is not a colony or a protectorate, but a complete imperial territory.

It will also become the core territory of the empire in the future.

Anyone who dares to think about this place is against the Third Reich.

Those who think about our oil-producing areas will be punished even if they are far away!