The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 685

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“The reason is simple. We are implementing the Neptune Plan. If this plan succeeds, the strength of the Russian Bear will be weakened by half. In order to cooperate with this plan, we should reduce the Russian Bear’s external vigilance as much as possible, so that they can boldly carry out internal cleansing!”

As the leader of the SS, Himmler has the most intelligence in his hands. Although the Neptune Plan was planned and implemented by Heydrich, he participated in the whole process of this plan.

With Starling’s character, when facing a powerful foreign enemy, he will definitely strengthen his centralization!

And the way to strengthen centralization is to eliminate dissidents, clean up the remnants of the Trotskyists in the party and the country, and kill those who he thinks are not very obedient. In this way, no one can challenge his authority in the Russian Bear country!

As long as he can do what he says and make everyone listen to him and act according to his wishes, then he can truly control every bit of power in this country, and then use all these powers. All of them must be devoted to dealing with the invasion of foreign enemies. Only in this way can they win the upcoming war!

The SS had already investigated Starling’s personality traits, so after the plan was formulated, the SS believed that the probability of success was very high!

However, in order for Starling to launch the Great Purge, an opportunity is needed, an internal fuse and an external signal.

The internal fuse is now in place. They have already locked on Starling’s number one confidant, Kirov. If this person is eliminated, Starling may launch a great purge with great fanfare.

But now, they still lack an external opportunity, an opportunity for Starling to put aside her concerns and boldly launch the Great Purge.

“What Starling is worried about is our aggressive expansion in Europe. So as long as we cooperate a little and release some goodwill actions, such as adjusting our strategic focus, placing our main forces in the south, continuing to fight with the British in the British homeland, or even going to North Africa to open up a second battlefield, in short, we must make the bears think that we can’t use force against them in a short time!

In this way, Starling will seize this brief opportunity to launch a purge and get rid of those people in the country who don’t get along with him or who he has long disliked!”

Himmler’s words caused everyone to think. Not many people know about the Neptune plan. The people present naturally heard about it, but they didn’t know much about the details of the plan, how to implement it and the ultimate goal. Mainz didn’t want the plan to be known to everyone. After all, the more people knew about it, the more likely it was to be leaked, and once it was leaked, the plan would not be successful!

“You mean, we put our strategic focus on the West or even North Africa, deliberately make the troops in the East appear weak, and then sell this warship to the bears, showing that we are afraid that the bears will take advantage of the situation and do not want a war to break out in the East?”

Goebbels reacted quickly and understood the real purpose of Himmler’s plan!

“Minister Goebbels is really smart. This is indeed my goal. I can directly tell the Russians that we will not start a war against them. They will definitely not believe it. What we have to do is to leak some information unintentionally and let them think for themselves and draw their own conclusions. They believe what they see with their own eyes, and not what we say!”

“As long as they see that a large number of troops have been involved in Western Europe and the defense of Eastern Europe is empty, they will believe it in their hearts. At this time, we are willing to sell weapons to them, and they will definitely associate it with this matter. As long as they associate it with this matter, our plan has an 80% chance of success!”

Hearing Himmler’s words, everyone looked at each other and began to think.

If selling this warship to the bears can really have such an effect, then it will naturally be more profitable for them than selling it to the native chickens.

As for the native chickens, they can sell the Imperial Power to them. The main gun caliber of this battleship is 381 mm. The German army currently does not have naval guns of this caliber, so the inclusion of this battleship in the German battle sequence will cause a great burden on their own logistics, so the best way is to sell it, earn some foreign exchange or seek some political benefits!

“In that case, I have no objection!”

The little mustache was the first to express his opinion.

As the prime minister, the others followed suit, and basically everyone agreed.

“Well, Ribbentrop, I’ll leave this matter to you. Remember to handle it covertly and don’t let the bears see too big a flaw!”

Mainz gave this task to Ribbentrop. As the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ribbentrop was of course the most suitable person to carry out this task.

“Got it, Führer, don’t worry, I will handle this matter with Yarkov!”

Ribbentrop smiled and nodded. With the help of Yarkov, a senior official who defected to them, he felt that this task should not be difficult!

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In fact, the desire of the Russian bear for the British navy is much more urgent than the Hans themselves think! The Russian bear’s navy was not very outstanding during the First World War. During the civil war, a large number of ships fell to the White Army. There were also rebels who were born as naval generals like Kolchak, so the Red Navy was extremely weak at the beginning!

After experiencing the chaos of the civil war, although they have gradually started to get on the right track in recent years, the noble arms of the navy cannot be developed overnight, unless they have extremely strong industrial strength like Hans, but the Russian bear obviously does not have this ability now.

Therefore, most of the main ships of the Russian bear are small and medium-sized ships, mainly frigates, destroyers and cruisers. There are only a handful of warships with a tonnage of more than 5,000 tons, and they are all antiques from the First World War. Whether it is their own combat effectiveness or the level of equipment and maintenance, they are very worrying. In 1921, Hans eliminated more than a dozen such warships in one go and pulled them all to the open sea to be blown up and sunk!

As a result, on the side of the Russians, such warships are their signature and main force, which shows the weakness of the Red Navy!

It is precisely because the Russian Navy lacks main battleships that the Red Navy is extremely eager for large battleships. When they cannot build large battleships themselves, they very much hope to buy such battleships from other countries!

But after the civil war, the Russians faced blockades from various countries. Except for Hans, it was almost impossible for them to buy weapons and munitions from other countries. In the early years, Hans could only sell the army’s equipment, and the navy itself was not enough, so naturally it would not be sold to them.

Therefore, the Russians have been unable to buy, and this time, when they heard that Hans himself did not want these captured warships hit by the British army, the Russians were like sharks that smelled blood, and immediately found this opportunity, and quickly sent a large number of naval officers to Hans secretly, hoping to negotiate the deal!