The Rise of the Third Reich

"I understand, I understand." Prince Yusupov, who looked much older than a few months ago, smiled bitterly, "Your war only goes to the Urals, and our war will continue eastward. It will be very, very difficult!"

After serving as the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army for a few months, Prince Yusupov has deeply felt how difficult it is to manage Russia.

Empress Olga's "Land Reform Decree" and the European integration policy did win some supporters for the White Russian regime. But this does not mean that the GCist fighters have disappeared... The Bolshevik Party spent 20 years cultivating a generation of new GCists, among whom there are many false believers, but there are also countless Soviets who truly believe in GCism.

Before the German invasion and the restoration of the White Russians, these real GCists were buried among the larger number of false believers and could not flash the red light. When the Soviet motherland was really in trouble, the false believers tore off their masks and defected to the White Russians. It was the time for the real GCists to stand up and defend their ideals.

Therefore, in a sense, the restoration of the White Russians has become the best touchstone for identifying the belief in GCism. Unlike the Soviet-German War in history, Russian nationalism cannot add any strength to the Soviet Bolshevik Party, so those who stand firmly on the side of the Bolsheviks are all true GCist fighters.

Although there are not many such people in the "white areas", they are quite destructive (in fact, there are not many staunch supporters of Queen Olga, and the silent majority is the mainstream). Moreover, the struggle methods of these true GCists have begun to show a trend of diversification. It is not necessarily violent guerrilla warfare, but also non-violent workers' movements and student movements. Some people even use the signs of the Social Democratic Party or the National Socialist Party to confuse the public.

At the same time, Olga's court also encountered many difficulties after it really came to power. The power that Olga relied on during her exile was the White Russian military aristocracy. These people are not the same as the German Junkers. They are all guys with very outdated ideas and knowledge. Their understanding of Russia is still stuck before the October Revolution, and they don't know how to manage the "Soviet people" at all.

The Bolshevik traitors who later surrendered to Olga were all guys with shattered faith. They had no sense of belonging to the Romanov dynasty, and many of them planned to make a fortune and then go to Paris and London to live a comfortable life.

These former GCist fighters who had lost their faith often behaved more corruptly than the "old white male aristocrats" - although Olga and her old white males did not know how to govern the "Soviet people", they knew the truth that "water can overturn a boat" after losing their country once. Now that they have finally turned over, of course they are more cherishing, so they dare not let go and make money.

Therefore, Olga's court now has two major problems: the confusion of the old white males and the corruption of the GCist traitors. Even in the Russian Army composed of the former White Russian exile army and Soviet traitors, there are problems of chaotic management and rampant corruption.

In addition, the two types of people, the old white males and the Bolshevik traitors, have not merged together to become a united Russian royalist party, but have vaguely divided into two bureaucratic groups, each of which regards each other as political competitors.

This series of problems caused a lot of headaches for Empress Olga and Prince Yusupov, and also greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the White Russian regime. Without the full support of Germany and Europe, it would be difficult for the current White Russian group to defeat the Red Russia.

And to change this combination of "confusion" + "corruption", it takes a lot of energy and time to integrate and govern.

Moreover, since most of the White Russian-ruled areas changed hands after a bloody battle. Except for a few places such as Petrograd, they were all devastated and the economy suffered a severe blow, and it was impossible to provide taxes for the White Russian regime and army.

So now the White Russian army and regime rely on subsidies from the European Community to maintain, and with the expansion of the White Russian-ruled areas and the increase in the number of troops, the subsidies that the European Community needs to provide are also increasing!

This huge expenditure has become a burden on France and Germany (the British economy itself is also recovering, so it does not have to bear the responsibility of assisting the Russian Empire in 1944), and it also makes the Hitler government and the Pétain government very headache.

It is not without cost to win the hearts of the Russian people with "good policies"!

"Prince, it's great that you understand." Hersman nodded. Major General Stauffenberg, deputy director of the Operations Bureau of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces and the second operations officer, who arrived in Petrograd with him, took out a thick file bag from a large briefcase and placed it on the conference table.

"This is the draft of the second phase of the 'Typhoon' plan to attack Moscow." Hersman pointed to the file bag and said, "The German and French armies are responsible for solving the periphery of Moscow. After the encirclement is completed, the Russian army will attack the city. If... you feel difficult, you can also siege it."

The huge city of Moscow has now become a barracks and fortress. The situation there is similar to that of Leningrad before. Most of the residents are supporters of the Bolshevik Party. If they want to attack by force, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses. For the attacker, attacking a fortified city defended by hundreds of thousands of GCist fighters will definitely be a nightmare, and the sacrifice of millions of people is possible!

It is not easy to seize Moscow by siege. Because of the lessons learned from Leningrad, Moscow has already stocked up a huge amount of food. According to intelligence, it is enough to feed 1.5 million GC communist fighters for 2-3 years!

Therefore, Hessmann and Guderian, who made the plan, ruled out the option of using the German army to attack from the beginning. From the beginning of the war in September 1939 to the present, the total number of people who have died in the war in Germany, if the Poles and Ukrainians are not included, , Lithuanians and other "vassal nationalities", the number is less than 300,000.

If the Battle of Moscow cost the German nation 1 million lives, then after defeating the European part of the Soviet Union, the German people would be tired of war. How could they still think about going to the Caribbean to fight against American imperialism?

Therefore, Hessmann and Guderian simply pushed the task of attacking the enemy to the Russians, and the German army was responsible for attacking the outside with Tiger tanks and E-50 tanks.

Based on the experience of the past two years, the advantages of German armored groups in field operations are very strong. Even if the Soviets are equipped with JS-2 heavy tanks, they will definitely lose. After all, the German army now also has a powerful E-50A heavy tank.

If the White Russian army cannot capture Moscow, then it would be more cost-effective to simply besiege Moscow, even if it lasts for two or three years, than to kill 1 million Germans.

Hersman continued: "If Moscow needs to be surrounded and solved, then after completing the siege of Moscow, we will also launch an attack on the Volga-Urals industrial area or the Caucasus oil production area."

In addition to Moscow, the Soviet Union also had another "Achilles' heel" - the Volga-Urals Industrial Zone.

After losing Eastern Ukraine and Leningrad, the Soviet Union roughly still had three industrial areas, namely the area around Moscow; the Volga-Urals Industrial Area and the Siberian Industrial Area.

Among them, Moscow and the Volga-Urals Industrial Zone are far more important than Siberia. In addition, the second Baku, the second oil center of the Soviet Union, is also in the Volga-Urals Industrial Zone. The oil produced in the Caucasus oil-producing areas must also be processed by the refineries in the Volga-Urals Industrial Zone (after the Batumi refinery was bombed in the early days of World War II, Stalin moved the Batumi refinery industry to the second Baku ).

Therefore, once the Volga-Urals Industrial Zone falls into the hands of the Germans and Belarus, the Soviet Union's sustained combat capabilities will be greatly reduced, while Belarus' strength will be greatly enhanced.

Prince Yusupov thought for a while and asked: "Where are we going to attack the Volga-Urals region?"

"The troops will be divided into two groups, marching eastward from the Kharkiv-Donetsk area, first seizing Stalingrad on the lower reaches of the Volga River, and then moving north along the Volga River to seize Central Volga (Kuibyshev) and Uri Yanovsk region.”

"A major detour of more than 1,200 kilometers?" Prince Yusupov did some mental calculations and came up with the approximate distance from Donetsk to Central Volga.

Hessman nodded and added: "The other route goes east from Moscow, takes the Vladimir Oblast-Nizhny Novgorod Oblast-Ulyanovsk Oblast, and joins the Southern Route Army on the banks of the Volga River... This way If we start from the city of Moscow, we need to advance 700-800 kilometers.”

More than 1,200 kilometers all the way, 700-800 kilometers all the way! And instead of riding horses and walking, they are driven in by mechanized swarms, and the fuel consumption alone is an astronomical figure. However, this expenditure is also necessary. If we want to "recover" the European part of Russia, how can we not attack the Volga-Urals?

And after the Volga-Urals were captured, needless to say... the "Slavic master" who gave Comrade Hitler the biggest headache would have to spend tens of millions more!

However, Hessmann is not Prime Minister now and does not have to consider Hitler's difficulties, so he just plans how to capture the west of the Ural Mountains.

He then told Yusupov: "The Volga-Urals Battle is the same as the Moscow Battle. It is mainly a civil war in Russia... The European troops are only here to support the battle, not the main force. Therefore, the field battle is still fought by the German and French troops. How about the occupation and conquest by the Russians themselves?"

"Of course, we have such ability." Prince Yusupov agreed without any hesitation, "After all, what is going on now is a civil war in Russia, and the White Army is of course the main cannon fodder."