The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 252

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Tower City, the capital of the Gauls.

In the Gaul intelligence agency, the Seventh Bureau, they received a piece of information just sent back from Hans about Hans’ latest tank.

After receiving this information, the director of the Seventh Bureau attached great importance to it and personally took this information to meet with Marshal Foch.

“Are you sure about the authenticity of this information?

Marshal Foch took it very seriously after seeing it. He asked the director of the Seventh Bureau with a serious expression:

“There is no way to confirm it yet, but this information was obtained by our best agents at great risk of their lives. I believe in the ability of our agents!”

Although Marshal Foch asked this question only out of caution.

But his question made the director of the Seventh Bureau feel a little unhappy. He thought it was a humiliation to the Seventh Bureau.

The director of the Seventh Bureau is naturally a protective person. Of course, he can’t say that this information is inaccurate or false, so he naturally stood on the perspective of the agent and safeguarded the interests of the agent and the Seventh Bureau.

“Well, okay, in that case, I will report it to the president and the prime minister!”

Marshal Foch heard the director’s words and felt the unhappiness in the other party’s tone. He didn’t have any good way to deal with it, so he could only believe the information temporarily.

The information sent back by the Gallic agent was something that Marshal Foch had always been very concerned about, that is, after the end of the German-Polish War, what kind of tanks would the German army, which performed well in the war, develop and produce to equip their army?

The failure of the German-Polish War dealt a huge blow to Marshal Foch.

They had superior forces at the time, but they couldn’t even beat a German army group. They could only watch the millions of Polish troops in the encirclement being eaten up by the German army bit by bit!

And the cause of this situation was the German armored force composed of tractor tanks!

Although in the intelligence in 1920, the Allied Arms Control Committee had received a report that Hans was developing tanks, and they did send people to investigate, but the result of the investigation at the time was that Krupp did not produce tanks, but only produced a type of agricultural tractor.

This incident caused quite a stir internationally. In order to investigate the incident, the Gauls blew up most of the Krupp factory, resulting in the casualties of hundreds of innocent civilians, which resulted in a barrage of criticism from countries all over the world.

Marshal Foch felt that something was wrong at the time. Although he knew that the major military factories in Hans had a hard time after the war, they would not produce agricultural machinery and equipment no matter how hard it was, right? It was a bit strange to let the famous Krupp produce tractors.

However, Marshal Foch did not associate these tractors with tanks at all.

After all, the difference between the two was too great, so he was a little caught off guard by the German army’s sudden use of an armored unit in the German-Polish War.

What was even more unexpected to him was that this armored unit, which was only equipped with tractors and tanks, performed surprisingly well in the war, and even opened another window for countries around the world, allowing them to realize for the first time: tanks can be used in this way? Since then, Marshal Foch began to feel that he did not think much of Krupp, and he began to feel that he did not think much of Krupp.

I became interested.

More than 3,500 tanks were produced in Gaul during World War I!

In terms of quantity alone, tanks are the most produced tanks in the world.

Compared with the German army, which could only be equipped with unarmed tractor tanks, the Gauls, who were not restricted by any treaty, had no obstacles in the development of tanks. They could produce as many as they wanted and whatever kind of tanks they wanted.

However, the Gauls lacked planning and in-depth understanding of the tactics of tanks and armored forces. They were completely confused about how to use tanks as weapons and had no idea how to fully tap the potential of these things.

It just so happened that the tractor tanks used by the German army in the war seemed to be a beggar version in the eyes of the Gauls. They killed millions of Bo armies like cutting melons and vegetables. This surprised the Gauls and also made them very interested in the use of the German armored forces.

After returning from Eastern Europe, Marshal Foch had been studying the German armored tactics and planned to promote this tactic in the Gaul army.

However, he himself admitted that he was old and could not keep up with the thinking of young people. Marshal Foch, who was already in his seventies, could not have the wild imagination like the young Mainz.

Therefore, he stared at the actions of the German army to see how the German army used and developed weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles.

Even if he could not keep up with Mainz’s thinking, he could completely copy the other party’s homework. They would follow the way the German army developed armored tactics.

To do this, the first thing they had to do was to spy on the intelligence of the German army’s new tanks, and then try to imitate the German army’s new tanks based on the intelligence they had obtained, and produce their own new tanks. In this way, they could only follow the German army’s tactics and strategies to be effective. It was under such circumstances that the Seventh Bureau accepted the task of Marshal Foch and asked them to spy on the intelligence of Hans’ new tanks.

Now, the information about Hans’ latest tank has been placed in front of Marshal Foch, but he was confused when he saw the information.

“The German army actually developed two tanks at the same time?”

There were two pieces of intelligence in Marshal Foch’s hands.

One was about the German Army’s Type 1 tank.

The intelligence about this tank was not particularly detailed.

It only introduced that the Type 1 tank was a light tank that was not equipped with a gun and was similar to an armored vehicle.

The other piece of intelligence was about the German Army’s heavy tanks.

This heavy tank was very similar to the tractor tank that had performed well in the German-Polish War in terms of appearance and tonnage.

However, there was also a difference. After breaking through the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, the German army equipped this tractor tank with a 45mm tank gun.

In this way, this tractor tank, well, the name of this tank was not mentioned in the intelligence, and Marshal Foch could only continue to call it a tractor tank based on its appearance.

After being equipped with a tank gun, this tractor tank became a heavy tank with very powerful firepower, thick armor, and excellent protection!

Why does it feel a bit like the Mark tank on which the sun never sets?

Marshal Foch immediately thought of the British tanks he had seen on the battlefields of World War I, those extremely slow and bulky tanks. The tanks left a deep impression on him.

It’s not that those tanks are very powerful or something, but the powerful impact he felt when he saw the tanks for the first time left a deep impression.

However, Marshal Foch, who had seen the German army’s strength on the German-Polish battlefield, did not compare the German tanks with the tanks on which the sun never sets. He believed that the German army must have had a profound intention in designing tanks like this.

Since the German army chose this tank as its main force, Gaul must also take action and cannot fall behind in this field!

As for another light tank with a tonnage of only six and a half tons, which is lighter than Gaul’s own Renault tank, Marshal Foch automatically included it in the category of armored vehicles when he heard that this tank was not equipped with artillery, and did not continue to pay attention to this thing!

He believes that the future opponent of the French army will be this heavy tank improved by the German army based on the tractor tank!

In order to prevent the French army from being at a disadvantage on the battlefield, they also need to study this heavy tank!

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