Chapter 60 Turning (4)
Listening to General Jin's talk, the joint strategy of the three armed forces in the army, navy and air force, and the two-pronged military diplomacy, makes people feel an illusion that it is not the leader of the navy in front of him, but like the joint chief of staff of the three armies, the United States has never had this role. Although General Lee tried his best to play it, it is always thankless.
"I really need 15 divisions?"
"There are at least 10." General Jin calculated by his fingers. "It takes 2 divisions to go to Guyana, at least 3-4 divisions to Brazil, and 2-3 divisions to land on the island of the Cabernets, and 1-2 divisions to reserve teams. This is based on the fact that Germany does not continue to increase its troops."
"The Germans have the ability to continue to increase their troops?"
"1-2 divisions are not difficult. We have calculated that if it is a German armored division plus an infantry division, it will take about 300,000 tons of transportation capacity even if it starts from Europe. Considering that food, fuel and other Argentina can be located on site, the Germans can load more equipment and logistics supplies. This transportation capacity is still squeezed by Hitler." General Jin analyzed, "From Europe to the Cabernet Island, even if it detours the Suez Canal, two months is enough. In fact, the German army does not have to transfer troops from Europe. After the African Battle, they had many troops in Africa. It was only about 2,000 nautical miles more than transporting back to Germany, which would not increase the burden."
Admiral Jin was very accurate in guessing this. Guderian's African Army left about 150,000 troops after the end of the African battle. Maintaining such a huge force was a waste on the one hand, and there was no need for it. According to Hoffman's request, part of the army (about 60,000) and Guderian himself returned to the country. The defense of some parts of Africa was handed over to the Italian Mussolini happily sent troops to receive Ethiopia and part of Sudan. North Sudan was incorporated into Egypt and was defended by its defense force. Other territories such as Uganda and part of Zambia were handed over to the French team. Other undetermined territories allowed European countries such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and others to send expeditionary forces to divide them by themselves.
The German army will fulfill its promise to no longer compete with other African territories, including Rhodesia. In order to reassure all countries that Germany will not fight behind the scenes, the German army happily retreated its troops to German East Africa, including Tanganyika, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti and other places. The senior leaders of the Kuomintang launched open and secret battles to compete for the position of the German East African Governor. Hoffman has not yet decided who will take this position. Although the strategic position of Germany's East Africa is very important, given that the complete colonial and ruling system is not yet sound, Hoffman only considers leaving about 3 divisions and more than 50,000 troops here.
In addition to the construction of Germany and East Africa, according to Hoffman's instruction, the German government released the first batch of about 4,000 Jewish residents who "performed well, contributed positively, and seriously reformed" from the country in advance, and began to build Jewish settlements in Zambia according to the Zambian plan. In the settlements, Jews can not only exercise autonomy, but also have a light armed guard of militia. The German government stated that once more than 20 such large settlements or the total number of Jewish residents exceeded 50,000, the Jewish state could be formally established. Out of gratitude to the head of state and the German government, in addition to the Jewish hexagram flag, the settlements can also see large portraits of the German flag and the head of state.
According to the "official" statement, these Jews completed their atonement through forced labor and began to rebirth. This land with fertile and rich resources is the gift of the head of state to the Jewish nation, and independence and establishment of a state of independence is the desire of the Jewish nation for thousands of years. In order to establish a country in Zambia, the Zion organization itself argues endlessly and is in a state of division.
Although the Jews were timid in front of the head of state's iron fist, they were as pure as lambs, but they were extremely fierce in the face of the black natives. They not only drove away the black people near the settlements, but also tried to establish a segregated country like the Boers.
As for the other 30,000 people, mainly the 7th Armored Division and the 92nd Infantry Division, he arranged a task to go to South America to carry out the second phase of the "Pearl of Peace" project, and formed the South American Expeditionary Force together with the first two marine brigades that had arrived in Argentina and the Cavaliers. In terms of commanders, he rejected many generals and generals, and promoted Major General Mandofir, the commander of the 7th Armored Division, who had outstanding performance in the African battle, and selected him as the commander of the expeditionary force. The entire South American Expeditionary Force is also known as the "Mandofir Battle Cluster". Although Hoffman wanted to send more troops to South America, the long supply line restricted the efforts of the German army. The 30,000 Mandofir cluster and the corresponding air force units were almost at their limit.
After Peron determined the solid regime and signed the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance, the Mandofir cluster began to gather and prepare to set off Peron was not stupid at all. He knew what he was doing. Without the strong support of Germany, how dare he challenged Britain and the United States? How dare he confiscate British and American assets worth billions of dollars? For Argentina, which has a total army of less than 200,000, once there is a 30,000 German troops, especially an elite armored division, which is in power, let alone the strength of Brazil or Chile, even if there is no need to be afraid of 100,000 US troops, he has worked as an officer in Italy, and has witnessed the German army's destruction of Gula on the European battlefield, and is quite superstitious about its strength.
Although General Jin guessed that the German army had subsequent troops, he also estimated that there was a relatively reasonable number of 1 armored division and 1 infantry division. He even estimated that the German army did not need to come from Europe 20,000 miles away, and Africa and Madagascar 10,000 kilometers away had sufficient support, but the judgments were still not accurate. First, the German army did not require 300,000 tons of transportation capacity, and in fact, it was not necessary to have a 20% discount, because the German army was not as delicate as the US army, and its armored division was not as heavy equipment as the US army had; second, the arrival of the German army's subsequent troops was not as two months as he thought, but a faster reinforcement of the fleet could start from Madagascar on October 1.
"How does the Navy plan to deal with this situation? We can't do nothing at the moment, just wait."
"The surface ships are slow and the air force is not enough. The only available submarine forces deployed in South Africa can launch a fatal attack on the German fragile logistics supply lines. However," General Kim added, "I would like to remind you that in the next 3-4 months, South Africa's shipping and material input will be cut off!"
When everyone heard this, their faces suddenly became ugly... (To be continued.)
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Chapter completed!