The Third Reich: The Return of the King

After an in-depth conversation with President Hindenburg, Mainz immediately set off for Hamburg.

He did not wait in the capital for President Hindenburg's statement, after all, even if Hindenburg did now, it would not mean much to Mainz.

Mainz knows history, Hindenburg lived until 1934, more than ten years from now!

As long as there are no accidents, such as sudden illness, car accidents, assassinations and other accidents, Hindenburg will most likely continue to sit in the presidency for a long time.

So whether Hindenburg sees Mainz as their successor is of little significance to the current Mainz.

As long as he takes good control of the army in his hands, even if President Hindenburg does not choose him as his heir in the future, Mainz will have a way to snatch the presidential throne!

After all, military power is the real power, and everything else is built on military power, and if you don't have an army in your hands, then don't think about sitting firmly!

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After the Ruhr crisis, the Germans moved westward into the Ruhr industrial area.

After the withdrawal of the French army, Guderian chased him to the Rhine demilitarized zone in one go.

This guy, maybe because he had been strictly ordered not to take the initiative to attack before, was almost suffocated, so this time he came to a prelude, and after sending troops into the Rhine area first, he reported to the top.

By the time Mainz received a telegram from the front, a regiment of troops of the 1st German Division had already entered the Rhine area.

"This Guderian, isn't this nonsense?"

In the General Staff, the newly transferred staff officer Manstein was very dissatisfied with Guderian's approach, and he believed that Guderian's approach was very likely to put the German army at a disadvantage!

Mainz was not so pessimistic: "Don't worry, the French army will not fight back!"

Including Manstein, everyone in the staff looked at their boss curiously, wondering why he was so sure that the French army did not dare to fight back?

"Hehe, there's no special intelligence, it's just an intuition, at least, if I were the commander of the French army, I wouldn't fight back at this time, because it's pointless!"

Mainz's judgment was very accurate, and the French army's broken rear troops actually discovered that the German vanguard was approaching step by step, but after they reported this to their superiors, the superiors did not allow them to attack the German army, but ordered them to speed up and keep up with the large army, and retreat to Gaul as soon as possible.

The French army at the bottom was very confused by this order from their superiors, and they didn't know why their superiors gave such an order, didn't they always look down on the German army before and bullied the German army at will?

Why do you think now that they are very afraid of the Germans?

However, if you don't understand, you don't understand, and the low-level troops of the French army don't dare to disobey the military orders of their superiors.

As a result, there was such a situation on the battlefield: because the German troops did not have the authorization of the Ministry of Defense, they had no confidence in their hearts, and they only dared to advance cautiously in the rear, and while advancing, they were on guard against possible attacks by the French army, and they were nervous!

The French troops received a clear military order, which did not allow them to go to war casually, so they did not dare to fire at the Germans, but they did not dare to fire, it did not mean that they were open, so the French soldiers were also worried in their hearts, on the one hand, they had to keep the same speed as the main force and get from Hans as soon as possible, and on the other hand, they had to be vigilant against the German attack at any time, and the French soldiers were also nervous!

As a result, neither country wants to go to war, and the military of the country is trying to avoid war, and for Mainz, he has already obtained the result he wants by taking advantage of the Ruhr crisis this time, so there is no need to have another incident, and there is no change in the province.

As for the Gauls, they have already been explicitly opposed by Sunset and Eagle Sauce, and if they continue to stay in Hans and engage in a firefight with the Germans, Sunset and Eagle Sauce will probably think that they do not want to leave, and want to continue to invade Hans, in that case, the two countries are likely to take some concrete measures against Gaul!

And these two countries are the existence that Gaul cannot afford to provoke at the moment, so the Gallic government does not dare to take this risk, so they really dare not open fire at will.

As a result, the French army and the German army reached a tacit agreement on this matter, and no one fired the first shot, so there was such a funny scene: the German soldiers, as armed escorts, watched the French soldiers withdraw from their own territory.

Guderian didn't know what to do when he made this decision at the beginning, for fear that Major General Mainz would blame him.

As a result, he did not wait for the order of the Ministry of Defense, but waited for the marching order personally issued by Major General Mainz, asking Guderian's first division to enter the Rhine region and take over the defense of the Rhine region!

After getting this telegram, Guderian was still a little suspicious of his eyes, he felt that he must have hallucinated, how could he feel that the content of this telegram was so unreal?

However, Guderian looked left and right, confirmed it several times, and then made a special phone call to confirm this matter, and after confirming that it was true, he was relieved!

Since there is such an order above, then what else to say, just carry out the order!

Therefore, Guderian personally ordered the troops to advance at full speed, catch up with the French army, and take over all the cities that the French army retreated!

In late September 1920, the army withdrew from the Rhine area, and the Germans officially took over the defense of the Rhine area, and two divisions of troops were stationed here to defend against a possible imperial invasion!

The Rhine Demilitarized Zone, which lasted for a year and a half, has now become history!

This event is known internationally as the March to the Rhine Event!

Compared with the German army's march into the Rhine after the mustache came to power, this time the German army's operation into the Rhine demilitarized zone had a very small international impact, and the Ruhr crisis and the war between Gaul and Hans continued to attract the attention of the international community.

Second, the establishment of the Rhine Demilitarized Zone is not very long, for the vast majority of countries in the world, the existence of the Rhine Demilitarized Zone is meaningless to them, only to the Gauls and Belgians a little meaning, since this kind of thing has little to do with themselves, has no impact, then the vast majority of people in the world will naturally not care about these!

Therefore, the German march into the Rhine, which was submerged under the events of the Great Ruhr crisis, did not have much impact!

Upon learning of this result, Mainz breathed a sigh of relief!

Others don't know what it means to march into the Rhine, but Mainz knows it very well!

Historically, in 1936, three years after the mustache came to power, after taking full control of the Third Reich, in order to take the first step militarily and test the attitude of countries such as the sun never sets and Gaul, he ordered the German army to march into the Rhine!

After giving this order, the mustache was so nervous that he could barely sleep, and for several days he kept an eye on the sun and the reaction of the Gauls, for fear that the two countries would send troops to drive the Germans out, but the final result proved that the two countries did not care about the small movements of the mustache at all.

And after getting this information, the mustache was completely relieved!

The Rhine demilitarized zone was the result of negotiations between the city of Eiffel and the Allies, and although it was mainly a demilitarized zone demanded by the Gauls, it was supported by the other Allies, so it was clearly written in the treaty!

And at this time, the German army entered here and did not greet the Entente in advance, which was a military operation that clearly violated or even trampled on the Treaty of Versailles!

If the Entente were sensitive enough about this, then they should have taken a tough attitude at the first time, stopped the German army's movements, and demanded that the German army withdraw from the Rhine demilitarized zone!

However, the Entente had almost no reaction to this, wondering if they did not realize the seriousness of the matter, or if they simply did not care about the actions of the German army!

They may not realize that today the German army has trampled on the Treaty of Versailles with the march on the Rhine, so in the future, if the German army establishes an air force, launches a battleship, and builds a tank or something, will they continue to oppose it?

I'm afraid not!

Therefore, the mustache who tried out the sunset and the reaction of Gaul immediately began to expand the armament war, and tore the Treaty of Versailles like toilet paper!

Since you don't take it seriously, do I need to take it seriously?

Of course not!_

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