The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 1107

The bears’ instincts were very accurate. The Third Reich had indeed begun to prepare for a war against them.

Although the two sides still maintained the Soviet-German non-aggression pact on the surface, the German army did not deploy a large number of troops in the border area.

However, since the German troops who had gone on the expedition to North America returned from North America, several other armies originally stationed in various parts of Europe began to mobilize one after another. Many of them had been deployed to Eastern Europe under the banner of rotation.

For example, the Sixth Army deployed in East Prussia, the Seventh Army in the Warsaw area, and the Eleventh Army in the Pomerania area.

Among these three armies, except for the Sixth Army, which was a normal rotation, the remaining two armies were troops sent here.

The original defense areas of these two armies were taken over by the German troops returning from North America.

Although the strength of the three armies was not particularly large, compared with the millions of Soviet troops gathered on the front line, the millions of German troops did not seem to be an overwhelming number.

However, everything is a gradual process. The German army currently has a total of 15 army groups, of which at least one army group must be stationed in the homeland. There is also a Vichy regime in Gaul that needs to be protected and monitored, so an army group must be stationed in Gaul.

As a region conquered by force, the British Isles also need to leave an army group to suppress the local people.

As for the former Austro-Hungarian territories such as Odili, Czech, and Hungary, as new annexed areas less than five years after the annexation of the empire, an army group must also be stationed here to stabilize the situation.

In this way, at least four army groups of the empire cannot be put into combat, that is to say, at this stage, the empire can mobilize about 11 army groups, about 3.8 million people.

Considering that only three of the four army groups in North America have been withdrawn, and all of them are resting, the empire can actually mobilize only seven army groups at this time.

Three of the seven army groups have been dispatched, which is close to half of the existence. From this point of view, this move by the Third Reich is definitely not small.

Moreover, this is just the beginning. The Empire will definitely not send only such a small number of troops. This action is just to test the reaction of the bears.

If the bears have no reaction to such a troop movement, then the Empire will naturally continue to send more troops without scruples until the requirements of the military action are met.

If the bears notice something and react, the Empire also has other means of response. Whether it is directly tearing up the Soviet-German non-aggression treaty, or directly joining and leading the European coalition as the leader of the European Union, it can naturally get a rational reason to go to war with the bears!

The German army’s actions were soon noticed by the bears. The mobilization of nearly one million troops could not be concealed from their ears and eyes anyway.

Therefore, Moscow sent several telegrams in succession to Yarkov, asking him to immediately investigate the truth of the incident, find out as much intelligence as possible about the Third Reich, and find out their true intentions.

Obviously, the bears have realized the danger, so they want to collect as much intelligence as possible and make full preparations to avoid a devastating blow in the future!

However, it was definitely not a wise choice for them to give this task to Yarkov!

Yarkov had already been instigated by the Third Reich. Giving him such an important task and such a confidential telegram was like laying it directly in front of the head of the Third Reich!

“It seems that the Russian bear has realized something!”

“Führer, should we change the original plan and speed up the transfer of the remaining army groups?”

The news sent by Yarkov made some senior generals in the empire, especially in the military, nervous!

They were originally prepared to launch a surprise attack, using the fast and fierce blow of blitzkrieg to break through the Soviet defense line in one fell swoop, and then completely collapse the Soviet army on the entire front.

However, the news now proves that the enemy seems to have noticed something and even started to prepare, which means that the surprise attack and unexpected results they are pursuing may be difficult to achieve.

Therefore, the military representative proposed to change the plan and make targeted modifications based on the latest intelligence. Mainz thought about it and shook his head:”There is no need to modify it. The Russians are not stupid. Sooner or later they will know our every move, so there is no need to make a fuss!”

Everyone thought about it, and it seemed to be the case. Millions or even tens of millions of troops in the future cannot be hidden anyway.

Unless the other party is mentally retarded, it is impossible for the other party to be unprepared.

“So what should we do?”

Since the plan cannot be modified, should we stick to the original plan?

“Stop the subsequent troop increase plan, give priority to transporting supplies and store them, and announce to the outside world that these are supplies prepared for the front-line troops and civilians to survive the winter!”

The troop increase plan is not very urgent. Anyway, there is only Poland between the Third Reich and the Russian Bear, and Poland has long been conquered by the Third Reich, so if you want to attack the Russian Bear, it is actually quite convenient, as the straight-line distance between the two countries is not far.

In this case, it is actually not necessary to deploy the army on the front line.

They can directly use trains to transport the soldiers via railways, and then quickly launch an attack.

Moreover, this will affect the judgment of the enemy commander. After all, the German army’s main force is still on the mainland, not in front of them, so it is difficult for them to know how large the scale of the German attack will be!

The soldiers can not go first, but the supplies must be transported first!

There is a saying that food and grass must go first before the three armies move.

In ancient times , The army’s reliance on food and supplies has reached this level, not to mention the modern army.

In the era of cold weapons, the ancient army only needed to prepare food and fodder for people and horses.

In modern warfare, combat supplies include not only daily necessities such as food, but also weapons and ammunition, mechanical parts, various fuels, medical supplies and other miscellaneous materials.

The scale of these materials is much larger than that of food, and it takes a long time even if they rely on railway transportation.

And once the battle starts, the consumption of these materials, especially weapons and ammunition, will be very alarming.