The Third Reich: The Return of the King

"Hmph, it's better not to ask too much, Major, remember who you are, you're just a Major!"

Looking at the report submitted by Major Perfect Inz, Field Marshal Hindenburg's face was very unpleasant.

"What? are you not convinced?".

After teaching the other party a lesson, the old marshal found that the young major had never spoken, neither justified his actions nor reacted to the marshal's words, and the old marshal raised his eyebrows, a little angry.

"No, I'm not angry, and I'm not in a position to be angry!".

Major Mainz's tone was so calm that it was impossible to capture his true feelings in his tone.

This surprised Field Marshal Hindenburg, who had seen many people in his life, but not so many people like Mainz, who was so calm at such a young age.

"If only you knew!".

Hearing the words of the other party, Field Marshal Hindenburg breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Perhaps feeling that his tone was too harsh, the old marshal changed his attitude and said to Mainz in a serious tone: "Lewinsky, you are still young, these things are not so simple, I also know that they are going to send someone to demolish the Krupp factory in Essen, but we can't do anything about it, do you understand?".

In the first week of December, the Allied troops from Belgium marched into the Ruhr industrial area, and as soon as they entered the Ruhr industrial area, they began to plunder and plunder, not at all as an army, but like a group of bandits, plundering almost everything they could see.

As a world-famous large military industrial enterprise, the Krupp factory in Essen was not spared, and the factory was violently demolished by 2,000 French soldiers.

What's more, the Gauls were not angry that they had demolished the arsenal, and sent someone to arrest Gustav Krupp, the owner of the Krupp factory, and sent him back to the military court in the city of Eiffel for trial.

Major Mainz really couldn't see it, so he secretly led people to knock out the Gallic soldiers who were escorting the prisoners, and secretly hid Gustav Krupp, and now the Gallic army is searching for suspects all over the city, and has arrested nearly a hundred innocent people.

Of course, Major Mainz did not hide this kind of thing from Field Marshal Hindenburg, not only did he not hide it, but even listed the names of many arms dealers and arms contractors who were very important to the Reich, and asked the old marshal to send people to protect them, so that these people could not be lost in the actions of the Entente troops.

Field Marshal Hindenburg did not know in advance, and when he read the report of Major Mainz, he was immediately shocked!

He was not unaware of the gallic army's rampant behavior in the Ruhr industrial area, for hundreds of men came to him every day to complain to him and ask him to send troops to stop the French army.

However, Marshal Hindenburg remained unmoved by the pleas of these people, which is not to say that he was a soft egg and did not dare to offend the Gauls, but Marshal Hindenburg knew very well in his heart that the Second Reich had been defeated, the Empire no longer existed, they had already surrendered, and although he still had hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, it was simply unrealistic to expect these troops to confront the Entente.

Because they no longer have a country behind them to rely on to guarantee their military operations, even if they can expel or even annihilate these tens of thousands of French troops in the Ruhr industrial area, so what?

Millions of Allied troops would have been expelled from the crowd and would have been slaughtered with great vigour, and Hans would have suffered even greater and more damage.

Since you are a defeated person, you have to suffer the consequences of defeat!

The old marshal knew this better than anyone else, after all, in the Franco-Prussian War 47 years ago, as a battalion commander of the Guards Regiment, he had witnessed what the German army was doing in the city of the Gallic capital, the Tower City.

Field Marshal Hindenburg sighed, he knew that the young man did not have as much experience as he did, and that the young man had a warm heart, a more impulsive personality, and had not yet lost his edges and corners by the years.

He likes bloody soldiers, after all, bloody soldiers often have all the qualities of a good soldier.

However, sometimes, this kind of bloodiness often harms them, and even the country.

The old marshal was very optimistic about the future of Major Mainz, so he couldn't help but want to pass on his valuable experience to the other party, so that the other party could avoid detours and grow as quickly as possible.

Among the veterans of their generation, Moltke Jr. and Schlieffen have long since passed away, Marshal Mackensen is also 69 years old, not much younger than him, and his old partner General Ludendorff cooperated very happily with Field Marshal Hindenburg before 1918, and the two joined forces to defeat the invincible Tsarist Russia on the Eastern Front, which directly led to the outbreak of revolution within Tsarist Russia, thus making Tsarist Russia extinct.

However, on the Western Front, the cooperation between the two men was not pleasant, especially after the setback of the counteroffensive plan after July 1918, which led to a huge disagreement between the two men, and the hard-line General Ludendorff resigned in a fit of rage, and it is said that he had left Hans by ship yesterday and took refuge in the country of Sweden in Northern Europe.

In the First World War, most of the officers of the German army were old-fashioned soldiers during the Kingdom of Prussia, and their common characteristic was that they had experienced many wars in which Prussia had won brilliant victories in the past, such as the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War, so they had extremely rich war experience.

But their biggest weakness is also due to this, these experienced old generals, almost all of them are dying, on the Eastern Front and the Western Front, among the generals above the commander level of the group army, there are only single digits under the age of 40, among which there is also the existence of Crown Prince Wilhelm, the son of Emperor Wilhelm II, it can be said that the senior generals of the entire German army are seriously aging!

The old marshal was worried about this, he knew that the old guys would die sooner or later, and the new generation of strength must be able to replace the old ones before they withered, otherwise, the tradition of the soldiers inherited from the time of the Teutonic knights would probably be destroyed in their hands!

And the house leak happened to rain overnight, and in this case, they also lost a world war, which made the prospects of the entire army confused, and no one knew where the future would go, let alone the smooth progress of the replacement.

In the face of such a difficult task, the old marshal must be as wise as a torch, select the best talents, and rebuild the army, otherwise, this army with a glorious history and outstanding achievements will really be destroyed in the hands of their generation!