The Third Reich: I seized power

Three days later, Manstein, Guderian and Rommel received orders.

Manstein went to work in the War Department as deputy chief of operations.

Guderian became the director of the Panzer Forces, responsible for the formation of the Panzer Forces.

Rommel was promoted to colonel and became deputy chief of the Panzer Forces, commander of the First Panzer Division in preparation.

Because of Hess, the talents of the three were discovered in advance. This will also allow the three of them to move higher in the future and play a greater role in the future.

The generals of the military, although it is not known why Hess values the three of them.

However, after some assessment, they also recognized the talents of the three of them, and naturally they would not set up obstacles for them.

In early August, Admiral Raeder and General Dönitz of the Navy asked Hess to submit the Navy’s shipbuilding development plan, the famous Project Z.

It’s just that when Hess finished reading the content of Plan Z, he couldn’t help but feel a little pale.

This plan is very ambitious.

But it’s also very money-burning. After all, the battleships of the Navy are almost always piled up with money. Especially with the development of technology, the navy’s warships use a large number of new technologies, which are not only becoming more and more powerful, but also soaring construction costs.

“Your Excellency Prime Minister, if we want to defeat the Allies in the future, the Sun Never Sets Empire is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed. In the last war, one of the main reasons why the Second Empire was dragged to death was that the navy could not break the blockade of the Royal Navy of the Empire, so that the sea trade routes were completely cut off and supplies could not be obtained. If we go to war with the Allies again, in order to win, the navy must defeat the Royal Navy of the Empire! General Raeder elaborated his point.

Hess nodded, he was naturally well aware of this.

Whether it is the Second Empire or the Third Reich, no matter how strong the national strength is, it cannot change the shortcomings of lack of resources.

It can be said that they lack almost all resources except coal.

This also greatly restricts the country’s war potential.

Modern warfare is fought with the comprehensive national strength of the country. And resources are undoubtedly a very important link. If this shortcoming cannot be filled, Hess will not be able to change the future outcome of the war even if he tries his best.

“The Navy does have to defeat the Royal Navy. This is our goal! Hess said.

General Raeder and General Dönitz couldn’t help but rejoice, and with Hess’s support, the Navy might be able to start building more warships. The re-emergence of the navy is just around the corner!

But the plan is ambitious, even unrealistic. We simply don’t have that much money to build so many massive warships! Hess said with a straight face.

General Raeder and General Dönitz couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed.

They naturally knew that the plan was too large.

However, they originally had the intention of repaying the money at a sky-high price.

Deliberately made an extremely grand plan, even if Hess cut most of it, they would have a huge gain.

In the Z plan submitted by the Navy, the Navy will build ten battleships with a displacement of more than 56,000 tons and 15 armored ships in the future, including 12 20,000-ton ships and 3 10,000-ton ships. 10 battle cruisers with a displacement of more than 31 thousand tons. 4 aircraft carriers with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons. 5 heavy cruisers with a displacement of more than twelve thousand tons. 16 light cruisers with a displacement of more than seven thousand tons. 22 search cruisers, or destroyer leaders, with a displacement of more than five thousand tons. In addition, there are 68 destroyers and 249 submarines.

It can be said that if this shipbuilding plan is to be implemented, even if the entire country’s fiscal revenue in the next few years is invested, it may not be enough.

What’s more, in Hess’s opinion, many of the warships in this plan are unnecessary.

Armored ships, for example, are completely behind the times. Search cruisers, again there is no need to build. As for the battleships, despite certain needs, it was not at all necessary to build so much.

You know, if a battleship has a displacement of more than 56,000 tons, these steels are used to build tanks, even Panther tanks, which are enough to produce thirteen hundred.

You know, because of the lack of resources, the Panther tanks produced by the Third Reich in the war were only more than 6,000 in total.

Although this tank is powerful, it can easily kill the T-34 medium tank. However, the number of both sides is not at all on a hierarchy. More than 84,000 T-34 units were produced, fourteen times the size of the Panther tank.

Even with a one-to-six battle loss ratio on the battlefield, the hairy bear is enough to drown the Panther tank and the stronger Tiger tank with a sea of tanks.