Chapter 225: time

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Even to the far-sighted Augustus, the "Siberus Plan" is still too radical. Augustus believes that even after the German Army had won the victory over France, it was simply unable to continue the ocean landing operation against Britain. What's more, Germany's weak navy can't hold back when faced with the Royal Navy.
This conservative estimate made Akado extremely depressed, because no one was optimistic that the German navy with the carrier as the core could win in the naval battle, and even Redell had no confidence in the victory over Britain. Brahich also expressed doubts about the Navy's ability to protect the landing site. These people's doubts made the Plan of Siberus a joke.
Augustus hoped that Akado would exercise restraint and drag the war to 1939 or even 1940. He believed that Germany had already entered a state of war at that time, and the navy had accumulated enough to challenge the British sea power. Is a wise choice. But Augustus himself admitted that Britain and France do not seem to leave Germany so much time.
Yes, time, what Akado lacks is time, a lot of time. If he has time, he can reserve more strategic resources, can form more armored forces, and can produce more aircraft and artillery. If he has time, he can train his million troops and expand the German army to 5 million or even 5.5 million. if there is time……
It is a pity that he has no time now. The British have been extremely cautious about him, and France has even begun to mobilize troops to face the battle. If you wait any longer, it will only make Germany's strategic situation worse. Can't wait for the national conditions, and the army that is not fully prepared. Presumably, Hitler's Germany is constantly choosing between these two depressed areas.
In fact, the situation in Germany is now much better than that in another time and space, because Akado ’s wisdom and experience have helped Germany save a lot of resources that can change the results.
For example, the German Army did not produce hundreds of p-1 tanks, nor did it mass produce p-2 tanks. The tight steel and raw materials are used to produce more advanced new leopard tanks, and it turns out that this leopard tank is sufficient for all current tasks.
In the same way, Germany did not waste steel to make super weapons that look powerful but actually meaningless. Train guns, tiger tanks and other projects have been stopped, and the steel saved by these projects still has production capacity. It has been used in the production of leopard tanks.
The Air Force also crossed the exploration phase under Akkado's plan. The fighter aircraft used by the Air Force are now sufficient for any needs in the early stage of the war, and the subsequent models are also being developed crazy. As a large user of raw materials, it did not produce aircraft such as do-17 and he-111, which also saved the Air Force a lot of materials.
Of course, there are also famous warships such as the Navy, Bismarck, and Tilbitz, which have all become aircraft carriers. In fact, in terms of the use of steel, the steel used by the 10 naval carriers launched by the German Navy cannot keep up with those battleships and heavy Cruisers are much wasted, which also ensures that in future wars, Germany will have the resources to continue to produce their maritime weapons.
But even if there is no detour to go, the resources are still tense, because the Navy Air Force is a big resource user, and they compete for any useful metal: they compete for each ton of steel, each technical engineer, or even Scramble for every coal ball in every boiler.
The Army needs more tanks. In 1937, each German weapon factory newly equipped 1300 Leopard tanks for the troops, and also provided repair parts for 400 tanks, not counting 1100 cars and 1,000 armored reconnaissance vehicles. But the Army still felt pitiful that it had fewer armored tanks.
The actual situation is indeed the same: Germany has expanded 7 armored forces, these troops include 14 tank armored divisions, and 7 armored infantry divisions. Each armored army is roughly equipped with nearly 800 tanks, so in theory, the Germans must equip at least 5,600 tanks-the actual situation is that the Germans currently have only 3,900 tanks, and most armored divisions are not full, at least. The number of tanks is not full.
Take the 1st Armored Army as an example. As the main force of the whole army, in fact, at the beginning of the Battle of Poland, this army only had 479 tanks that could be started, which is a little more than half of its full strength. This figure is still the result of a lot of efforts throughout the army.
In order to meet the needs of the main forces, the 5th and 6th light armored divisions were only equipped with a poor leopard tank battalion, and the remaining tank troops were fully charged with the No. 2 tank and the Czech 38t tank. Even these two armored forces are not satisfied, each army only has 510 tanks.
Under the golden aura that advances 50 kilometers per day in the Polish campaign, it is the status quo that two-thirds of the German team's artillery is dragged by the horses. Nearly half of the infantry did not change much compared to the first world war-the other third of the infantry was slightly better, but it also only had a better rifle.
Even such a defense force, which has not completely entered into a motorized transformation, swallowed up one-fifth of the German oil reserves in the battle of Poland. Even such a half of the National Defense Forces who still use the Mauser 98k rifle, using steel shells to consume the total amount of steel that made Akado depressed for a long time.
The cruel reality did not affect the Army ’s vision of the future. In the 1937 White Paper on the Construction of the National Defence Forces, Marshal Brouchich hoped to have 5 million IDF soldiers by 1940. These soldiers will be equipped with 11,200 tanks and 5,600 infantry themselves The assault guns, about 50,000 vehicles, and 33,000 artillery guns of large and small caliber-this is about to triple the current arms production line.
Of course, Air Force Commander Catherine is much more sensible than Marshal Brouchich. He "just" asked to "expand" the existing 2700 fighters. Of course, his deputy Dick was a bit radical, because he was in charge of developing a four-engine bomber project. He believed that Germany should be equipped with at least 1,500 new four-engine long-range strategic bombers in 1941.
5500 fighters, coupled with 2000 Stuka dive bombers, 1500 do-217 medium bombers, and then 1500 large long-range bombers to be put into production, this number is enough for German aviation companies to work overtime for a long time . Of course, if the war is started, in order to maintain the size of the Air Force, the production speed of the aircraft can only be faster.
This is not counting the helicopter project being developed in Germany. The Air Force, Navy and Army are very optimistic about this project, and it is initially expected to be put into use in 1939. As for the number of helicopters produced, the Air Force needs about 750, the Army wants to equip 2,500, and the Navy is the most conservative, and plans to equip 100 first.
Therefore, Germany's existing 30,000 pilot reserves are completely unable to meet the needs of the Air Force. Akado also agreed that the pilot reserve staff should be expanded to more than 50,000. These all require investment, a new flight school, a new trainer, a new fighter production line and countless metal resources.
The navy is even more vomiting blood. Reedell was stimulated by the British Royal Navy to return to Wilhelmshaven, and submitted a plan for the future development of the navy that made Akado cry. Almost every ship model that could be found in Germany was required by this plan: he requested Build two 40,000-ton class battleships, 4 20,000-ton class heavy cruisers, and then build 4 aircraft carriers, 25 cruisers, 40 destroyers, 20 mine-laying ships, and 30 torpedo boats.
He even put forward a point in the plan that made Marshal Brouchich swear: "Since the army has won, it means that the number of weapons is almost enough. The production resources provided to the army should be stopped, and all of them should be allocated to the navy. Used to produce more warships. "
Of course, Dunnitz ’s requirements are not so many. He only asked that the number of submarine construction in 1937 be doubled in 1938, to ensure that when he launched the wolf riding tactics in 1938, about 200 ocean-going submarines can be used. That's it. Of course Akado's reply to him is also very simple: "Unable to do it!"
If there is time, Akado can easily import qualified natural rubber from Myanmar and the Philippines; if there is time, Akado can ship high-quality crude oil from tens of thousands of tons in the Middle East; if there is time, This allows Akado to import Germany's much-needed steel and rare metals from all over the world. Of course Akado is willing to wait a few more years to make his war resource reserves more abundant, but ... time does not allow him to do so.
Britain's vigilance made Germany's maritime trade difficult. The German high seas fleet has vaguely become a thorn in the eyes of the British Royal Navy. The deceptive tricks that have been painstakingly managed will no longer work. The navy fleet with the aircraft carrier can no longer pretend to be a small one to gain British sympathy.
In addition, after a long two-month wait, France and Britain found that the German team still did not launch the promised war against the Soviet Union, but instead sent a large number of troops to the Western Front. Also began to transport a large number of British and French troops to the front. This news has been confirmed by German intelligence personnel, and intelligence shows that these British and French troops are equipped with a large number of heavy weapons.
It's time to make a break, because all intelligence fraud and diplomacy have lost their effectiveness. So in order to ensure victory, Akado felt it was time for a decisive battle with the British and French coalition forces on land and the Royal Navy at sea to determine the future destiny. Because although Germany is not ready for the war now, Britain and France do not. At least in terms of the degree of preparation for war, Germany still has an advantage. And this advantage is quite obvious.